So Robert E Lee has fallen out of favor and the battle of Gettysburg was a beautiful thing

[Enquiring_Mind]

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[Charging Triceratops]

1. This illiterate jackass

doesn't know Gettysburg from spaghetti. Seriously, he is the stupidest human on the planet.

[niyad]

2. Sadly, his cult are even stupider.

[Johnny2X2X]

9. What about the airports?

When he gave that speech about ramming the ramparts and seizing the airports during the revolutionary war, he got like 40 different things wrong. And I remember the Freeperville thread on it, they were literally glowing with posts like, "People don't know that Trump is a fantastic historian and knows this stuff backwards and forwards, he's giving a lesson right now" I literally read that as he got the towns the wrong, the generals wrong, claimed there was airports 120 years before flight was invented. They were awestruck and he was giving them a lesson.

That's how stupid his followers are. They don't know the basics of American history nor the Constitution. Just pathetic imeciles.

[Voltaire2]

3. Lee was a shitty general who slaughtered

his own troops at Gettysburg. It was a beautiful day, for freedom, for the Union.

[Charging Triceratops]

4. Lee's prime stupidity

came from his bucket-headed thinking that he needed to win. To establish the CSA as a separate nation, he only needed a tie.

[Johonny]

5. Lee lacked the overall view of the war

Where Grant understood it was a broad conflict across the whole nation.

[anamnua]

6. This won't do Trump much good in the former Confederate states. NT.

[Deep State Witch]

7. How Many Died Needlessly

In those 3 days of battle? Especially in Pickett's Charge?

[struggle4progress]

8. Nothing says "Beautiful" like thousands of corpses

[Ping Tung]

10. Beautiful? Says the Bone Spur General who dodged all that "beauty".

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee

The Confederacy was losing the war despite the victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Vicksburg was about to fall (and did the day after Gettysburg). There were food riots in Richmond because the government was near broke and inflation had made Confederate money worthless.

After Vicksburg and Gettysburg and the tightening noose of the blockade U.S. Grant took over the Union armies. He and Lincoln knew how to use them to not just defeat the Confederacy but crush it with the available brute force.

[maxsolomon]

11. He just says stuff. He might believe it, he might not.

He might stop believing it halfway through the sentence.

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It doesn't matter what he says; he could read the phone book and they'd eat it up. They think he's hilarious. All that matters is that he's a living middle finger to Librulz.

[hatrack]

12. Yes, sepsis and the stench of 6,000 corpses pretty much defines "beautiful", doesn't it?