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electric_blue68

(27,274 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:52 PM Oct 2025

BAH! Confederate Statue. ...

From NPR:
A statue of the Confederate general Albert Pike that was pulled down and set ablaze in Washington, D.C. in June 2020 during the Black Lives Matter movement has been renovated and reinstalled in Judiciary Square. The reinstallation on Saturday was a follow-through of an earlier National Park Service announcement that the federal government intended to restore the statue, which it says had been damaged in "riots."

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He was also thought to be involved in the rise of the KKK. Geeeebbzzz.

"Thanks", alot, effin' drumphf!
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BAH! Confederate Statue. ... (Original Post) electric_blue68 Oct 2025 OP
It will come down again EYESORE 9001 Oct 2025 #1
The sooner the better... electric_blue68 Oct 2025 #4
Tear Down the Government, don't feed the poor, worship another confederate general BOSSHOG Oct 2025 #2
I thinks you're on to something! electric_blue68 Oct 2025 #3
To be clear, Pike lost, committed war atrocities Johonny Oct 2025 #5
A man of "outstanding" character. electric_blue68 Oct 2025 #6
Food bank with our tax dollars, instead of this bs MerryBlooms Oct 2025 #7

EYESORE 9001

(29,882 posts)
1. It will come down again
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:56 PM
Oct 2025

with far less effort than these racists are putting into their loser rehab tour.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
2. Tear Down the Government, don't feed the poor, worship another confederate general
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 01:51 PM
Oct 2025

Today’s Republican Party. HE doesn’t have a heart, THEY don’t have a spine, none of THEM have integrity.

Johonny

(26,593 posts)
5. To be clear, Pike lost, committed war atrocities
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 07:07 PM
Oct 2025

And very likely embezzled money. In other words, a real patriot for the cause.

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