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jaxexpat

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3. The US made a big mistake after the civil war.

Reply to grumpyduck (Original post)

Mon Mar 27, 2023, 01:18 PM

Mar 2023

Every political representative and military officer of the Confederacy should have been imprisoned and the most egregious executed. People today do not realize how it was abandonment of the federal policy of Reconstruction which condemned the south to a century of aching poverty and lawlessness.

Also, what's good enough for O. Cromwell's remains should be good enough for R. Reagan's. (Though I'm not sure too many would cherish his head.)

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like it republianmushroom Mar 2023 #1

Probably hundreds of congresspeople, too . lindysalsagal Mar 2023 #2

The US made a big mistake after the civil war. jaxexpat Mar 2023 #3

I have inthewind21 Mar 2023 #7

Might be a good question for reQublican friends, neighbors, coworkers KS Toronado Mar 2023 #4

If Presidents, are able to "get away with murder", then eventually one will. patphil Mar 2023 #5

They wouldn't even be guidelines. AZ8theist Mar 2023 #12

WTF didn't we go after Bush and Cheney for their crimes? OMGWTF Mar 2023 #6

There is NOT a Republican Presidential administration after Eisenhower that is not tainted. Raster Mar 2023 #8

Becasue inthewind21 Mar 2023 #9

There were a lot of people here who were unhappy with the Dems' decision to "keep our powder dry" progressoid Mar 2023 #13

If this was a D POTUS there would not be 1/1,000 of the teeth nashing Cosmocat Mar 2023 #10

Yes indeed BOSSHOG Mar 2023 #15

THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 and Michelle Obama agrees (link) uponit7771 Mar 2023 #18

Amen, it's high time wendyb-NC Mar 2023 #11

k/r!! progressoid Mar 2023 #14

No, what the world has seen angrychair Mar 2023 #16

Hear Hear! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Mar 2023 #17

I put most blame on Gerald Ford. 3Hotdogs Mar 2023 #19