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LeftInTX

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27. A few things happened recently:

Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:05 PM

Jan 2021

The Alamo itself was taken over by the Texas Land Commissioner due to infrastructure issues. (About 5 years ago)
The City of San Antonio along with the Land Commissioner came up with plans for renovating Alamo Plaza.

To open up the space they were going to move this large monument called the cenotaph...the Oath Keepers and all those crazies started to move in around that time to protect the cenotaph.

Then in 2017, came Charlottesville and a confederate statute at a place called Travis Park..(About 2 miles away) The city decided to move the confederate monument. (I know it doesn't have anything to do with the Alamo, but these yahoos think it does and they were already mad about the cenotaph)

Then George Floyd happens, BLM and white nationalists clash on Alamo Plaza. The white nationalists rally around the cenotaph.

In 2020 the state said the cenotaph could not be moved.

The Oath Keepers, White Nationalists are there to protect the cenotaph and not the Alamo.

https://www.tpr.org/2020-09-22/texas-historical-commission-denies-request-to-relocate-alamos-cenotaph-monument

https://texasscorecard.com/local/after-citizen-outcry-state-votes-to-keep-alamo-cenotaph-monument-on-battlefield/

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Mary Trump on why Trump is visiting Alamo, Texas [View all] dalton99a Jan 2021 OP

Maybe he'll speak at the Four Seasons Kitchari Jan 2021 #1

How about Dave in VA Jan 2021 #5

Alamo beer?? Alacritous Crier Jan 2021 #18

What's next? greymattermom Jan 2021 #2

Zounds. DemoTex Jan 2021 #3

Maybe he'll go to Alamo Rent-a-Car klook Jan 2021 #4

Told my wife at dinner gibraltar72 Jan 2021 #6

His cult is not the only ones too lazy to find out. cwydro Jan 2021 #7

Maybe you should write to each and every one of them Bradshaw3 Jan 2021 #32

Or maybe it's so plainly obvious that people felt it wasn't even mysterious Mike 03 Jan 2021 #35

I suspected this. He hits two birds with one stone Quixote1818 Jan 2021 #8

Seriesly!1 --- wants to go out with mocking raucous guffaws at him?111 UTUSN Jan 2021 #9

"happened there" - uh, et tu Ms Mary?! UTUSN Jan 2021 #28

The BATTLE OF THE ALAMO happened at the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas. Not Alamo, Texas. dalton99a Jan 2021 #10

I remember that Texas was stolen from Mexico by Cyrano Jan 2021 #13

I've been to the real Alamo, as many Americans have FakeNoose Jan 2021 #16

It's changed. It's full of oath keeper types now LeftInTX Jan 2021 #20

A mostly empty building when I was there 4 years ago Retrograde Jan 2021 #24

A few things happened recently: LeftInTX Jan 2021 #27

Did you get to see the basement? ironflange Jan 2021 #30

+ FakeNoose Jan 2021 #31

Nixon did this shit in his last days. roamer65 Jan 2021 #11

Bad Axe? Retrograde Jan 2021 #25

Yup that area of MI. roamer65 Jan 2021 #36

Does Trump know everyone at the Alamo died? Dread Pirate Roberts Jan 2021 #12

Trump knows very little. Caliman73 Jan 2021 #23

Ha ha, have been watching F Troop tinymontgomery Jan 2021 #26

He doesn't even know that the Alamo isn't in Alamo. nt. Mariana Jan 2021 #34

Yep! He's speaking in code to "his people", again... kentuck Jan 2021 #14

He's going there to stand in front of a part of his dumb fucking wall. After everything, he wants jpljr77 Jan 2021 #15

LOCK HIM UP NOW! Roisin Ni Fiachra Jan 2021 #17

It isn't random, but it is contrived to deceive. Caliman73 Jan 2021 #19

+1 dalton99a Jan 2021 #21

Some Newsperson need to call Bullshit BlueIdaho Jan 2021 #22

The Four Seasons? Will they spare no expense? nt rgbecker Jan 2021 #29

This may be Trumps chance to run. PurgedVoter Jan 2021 #33

Viva Max! ThoughtCriminal Jan 2021 #37

I'm surprised he never took Ivanka to visit Intercourse, PA. n/t Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #38

Or that little village in Austria dalton99a Jan 2021 #39