Jeeesus besus...holy molee

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

[ZZenith]

1. Good that the problem is being addressed,

How awful that it even needs to be addressed.

[TrollBuster9090]

51. Only 155 years after the Confederacy was defeated. Better late than never, I guess.

The Marine Corps finally decided to ban a dog-whistle symbol of racism after 155 years. Congratulations to that general, but I think all his predecessors should drop and give me 50.

[Flaleftist]

2. Go ahead, Trump. Overrule that. I dare ya.

[brewens]

27. The first thing I thought. I think he might do it anyway. How much hell are the racists

raising about this?

[Flaleftist]

31. I haven't heard or seen any complaints.

But this must came out and I don't frequent right-wing sites or have many of them on my social media accounts. I suppose one person saying something on Fox or hate-wing radio could trigger a response from Trump.

[SnowCritter]

62. I belong to a couple of Marine Corps veterans groups on Facebook

You should witness the wailing and gnashing of teeth that is being exhibited in those groups. There are a few liberals like me in the groups, but most are brainwashed crayon eaters.

[TrollBuster9090]

53. That wouldn't surprise me, but I think he'll wait until 100 people catch coronavirus at a MAGA rally

before deploying that particular weapon of mass distraction.

This asshole has a talent for only one thing. The ability to sense when it's exactly the right time to shove a stick of dynamite into a septic tank, and cause raining shit storm to distract from his own incompetence and criminal behavior.

[LonePirate]

3. The Confederacy was an enemy of the United States. Its insignia has no place on US military bases.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Bingo!

Why were they allowed to do it in the first place?

[Roy Rolling]

6. It seems so obvious

Doesn’t it? Posting flags of formerly-defeated traitors?

[BigmanPigman]

8. True, true.

[soldierant]

26. Because they were given back their citizenship

if they took an oath of allegiance, and everyone wanted to let bygones be bygones, and so there was never a period when they were truly seen as traitors rather than brothers. And now that is catching up to us - with the realization that we are a nation roughly half-filled with traitors.

[onetexan]

42. You know, i never really looked at it that way..until you mentioned it now

It's been 155 years since the civil war ended. One would think given so much time has passed and so many generations have come and gone, that we as a nation would have healed by now. Apparently not.

[bobbieinok]

57. IIRC many in south still call it the War of Northern Agression!!!

[Cognitive_Resonance]

48. It metastasized out of Dixie to infect the entire country. nt

[juxtaposed]

15. so true, the enemy of our country

[2naSalit]

20. Damn straight!

[PJMcK]

28. Solid!

The Confederate flag is a symbol of treason against the United States.

Period.

[tecelote]

44. In the end, the color of the Confederate flag was...

White.

[BComplex]

61. Confederate flag bumper stickers still grace pickup truck's in the south

and people hang the flags on their barns and front doors.

I've never understood why they are so proud to feature a loser decoration. It was the white flag that really counted in that incursion. Republicans, every one of them.

[AleksS]

64. I've said it before: no army in the world ever

I’ve said it before: no army in the world ever killed as many American military men and women as the confederacy. It’s disgusting that symbols of those traitors were ever allowed on military bases.

[hibbing]

4. This should be interesting

This will infuriate the deplorables.

Peace

[Augiedog]

7. The confederate flag is the American swastika

[iluvtennis]

10. True.

[erlewyne]

9. The Marines belong to the Navy.

The Navy was always Union. There was never a Confederate Navy
therefore there were never Confederate Marines.

[Daddy J]

21. Sorry, I just couldn't let this one go ...

The Confederate States Navy was established by the Confederate Congress in February 1861. The following month they established the Confederate States Marine Corps. Please see Wikipedia & many other sources.

[paleotn]

32. But were powerless against the Federal blockade.

Nor could they deal with Farragut or Porter. They existed, granted, but in the grand scheme had little to show for it.

[Wednesdays]

25. Monitor vs. Merrimac?

[paleotn]

30. The Merrimac was scuttled....

and they CSA never could break that blockade. Verses the Army, a larger percentage of navel officers were from northern states and stayed loyal. And even those who weren't, like Farragut, stayed loyal.

[sarge43]

29. The Confederacy most certainly had a navy.

It was the first navy to have an ironclad ship of the line - The Merrimack.

[JHB]

43. The CSS Virginia

The frigate USS Merrimack had been building in naval shipyard in Virginia when it seceded. At that point, it and other ships were scuttled.

The scuttled Merrimack had enough left intact (including its steam engines) that the CS Navy raised it and extensively altered its design to be rebuilt as an ironclad, predictably named the CSS Virginia.

[sarge43]

46. Thanks

I've wondered why a Confederate ship was always named after a river in NH.

Well, history is written by the victors

[StarryNite]

11. Good!

[NewJeffCT]

12. upcoming breaking story

probably coming any day now

Trump to fire Marine Corps Commandant...

[MyOwnPeace]

17. COKE SPEW!!!!!

Yeah, I'm laughing - but, DAMN, with THAT nut-job, it could happen!

[calimary]

40. Yeah, no kidding!

[mountain grammy]

18. Yes coming soon..

This is a new Commandant installed last July. Hope he holds up. This is a good start.

[Perseus]

13. Hmm, good for him, I am sure the creature will rant against it

At last we see some valor, some courage from the military. I want to see more of that.

[MAMMAG8R]

14. HOORAY! Eom

[Baked Potato]

16. When he moved the USMC Ball out of Mar A Lago,

I knew he meant business. This is significant.

[Sophiegirl]

19. You forgot....

Child molesting rapist.

[Historic NY]

22. I'm tired of people in 2020 trying to rewrite the terms of surrender....

of April 1865. Robert E Lee signed it and said case the colors and go home. Maybe the useless Justice Dept. team looking to cancel US Citizenship should look at these morons. I wonder just how many of their daddies didn't signed an Ironclad oath of allegiance.

[wendyb-NC]

23. Good for them.

[Dave in VA]

24. Confederate statues are the same!

I've always said that these fools who worship these traitors statues are the same people who will complain that the kids sports teams give out a participation trophy.

[BadGimp]

33. We're gonna need a bunch of these now...

[MyOwnPeace]

45. Does Homeland Security or

another agency provide some one to help fill out this ream of paperwork (so oppressive - I'm being denied my rights to bitch!)?
Besides, way too many big works in there.

[Sherman A1]

34. K&R

[Poiuyt]

35. Just drove down and back to Florida

There were a couple of HUGE Confederate flags flying from poles along the major highway. They looked too big to be in a residence.

[trof]

36. Well semper fucking fi

Well done.

[Aussie105]

37. The Confederate flag is a valid historical flag.

But it belongs in museums, alongside photos of African-Americans working as slaves, as a reminder of a bygone time with values we no longer approve of.

If you use it on your bumper, as a mark that you approve of those historic values, or wish to identify yourself to others with equal personal values, you are doing it wrong. Be a rebel in some other way.

Equivalent of driving around in Germany in a VW with a swastika sticker on the rear bumper.

[localroger]

59. Which is literally illegal in Germany

But then, they don't have a First Amendment.

[Karadeniz]

38. It is the flag of a govt that declared war on the US. Doesn't need to be on US gov't sites.

[calimary]

39. Oh EXCELLENT!!!

[Tikki]

41. In the later '60s and into the '70s..PEACE SYMBOLS were prohibited on the military

base where my husband was stationed.


Tikki

[Ferrets are Cool]

47. This is shocking and much appreciated. nt

[SunSeeker]

49. About time we stopped honoring the flag of the traitor army that killed 360k US soldiers.

[pansypoo53219]

50. bout fucking time.

[stonecutter357]

52. Why would the US Marine Corps want a Defeated nations flag in it's ranks ?

[Ziggysmom]

55. Same reason why NASCAR wanted Trump at Daytona

Divide and Conquer,

[stonecutter357]

56. 0% Divide and Conquer in the Marine Corps !

[Faux pas]

54. About time

[ramen]

58. 'bout fucking time..nt

[pandr32]

63. Now if they could only similarly turn off Fox News on bases

[lambchopp59]

65. Oh, snap

[jmowreader]

66. To be followed shortly by another directive from the Commandant

“Possession of a Confederate flag tattoo is grounds for separation from the Marine Corps.”

Do the same thing they did with skinhead tattoos after James Burmeister murdered two black people: “Cover ‘em up or have ‘em lasered off, they have no place in our military.”