He talks about these people and makes up whole stories about them on the fly. It's fucking ridiculous for a President to be acting like that. And I can't help but wonder who is running things. Trump's not doing it, obviously, so who is making the decisions?

seems to be losing his touch.

don't even resemble any theatrical movie. He's clearly writing history from his own weird imagination.

It depends on the category.

Economy -- corporate CEOs and oligarchs

Energy -- oil companies and their investors

Immigration -- Stephen Miller

DOJ -- Trump's vendetta whims and whoever agrees to carry them out

Etc.

Losers love other losers .

when he ventured into Western Virginia. But his star kept rising because he was budies with Jeff Davis.

He could care less about the rest of the Confederacy, and it pretty much showed.
Thing is, when you look at it without all the Lost Cause / Gone With the Wind romanticism, most of the other Confederate Generals pretty much had the same attitude. Their Plantation Home, their Clan, their State.
There were few plantation outsiders in the Confederate military leadership - and they were the few that kept the Confederate military on its feet as long as it was able to...with the help of way too many Union Officers who had pretty much bought their position (through money or politics) rather than actually ever fought or studied strategy before.
So long as he had money behind him, Pete Kegsbreath would have fit in well with most of the "Gentlemen Officer Corps" of the Civil War.

He was a National Guard infantry officer who chose not attend Ranger School (as infantry officers are expected) and he acts like he's Audie Fucking Murphy. He is a repulsive braggart and obvious phony whom soldiers with courage and integrity can see right through.

why the South couldn't secede and become a separate slave owning country? He would prefer that?

I don't think it was bad generalship on Lee's part (they almost out flanked the Union on Little Round Top and Culp's Hill), I think it was an act of desperation. Winning Gettysburg meant they could move towards Washington and sue for peace. Lee knew that the South could not continue the war much longer.

the fall of Vicksburg, which happened at the same time. After that, the South had few options. If Lee had been such a wonderful general, he would've surrendered soon after. People just kept dying and suffering for no damn reason at all. Lee became a symbol of the romanticised, glorious Lost Cause. White people in the South, and some in the North, invented this mythology of an antebellum South with virtuous planters who treated their slaves with dignity and they were hardly slaves, they had so much freedom and were so happy. Lee's biggest mistake was leaving the U.S. Army and taking command of Southern forces. How long would the war have lasted if Lee hadn't switched sides?

Gone With The Wind a big culprit. Hollywood did many more movies about the noble South than the Union side.

And Lee, being an US Army General was a traitor. His loyalties should have been to the country, but he said he would take the side of Virginia. Shows he did not believe in the South, just a man who thought his State was more important.

If he'd been a wonderful general he wouldn't have fought as he did.

Unlike many here, I do think Lee was a very good general -- but he was a good tactical general. Give him some ground and he could generally find the best way to position his troops and figure out way to be successful. Grant knew this, so he used Lee's strategy against him and just bled him to death. Grant was a great strategic general (and a great tactical general).

Lee needed to be more like Washington to win the war. Washington was a great strategic general but an average tactical one (he lost more battles than he won). He realized the most important thing in an insurgency is not to be defeated - not to win. Lee didn't come to that conclusion until much too late (he sort of realized it by the time the war got to Petersburg, but by then he was bottled up in a siege)..

not try to win, but wear your opponent down until they lose the will and the consent of the population to fight anymore.

It would have been nigh unto impossible for the South to overcome their logistical obstacles. Lee couldn't fix that by being a brilliant strategist -- if he even was.

It was all downhill from there.

.... in his brand new bright red Chevy Corvette convertible burning donuts. Instead of getting down to the business of winning the war he was instead out for a joy ride just showing off. This is why he lost the war at Gettysburg.

(So DJ said from the stage the other day.)

Custer would have won at Little Big Horn.

Supreme Kort has returned the country to 1866 and it looks like they're aiming for a return to 1860.

The war was lost by the Confederacy in the West.

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For the most part, Lee was a better general than the Union had in the Eastern theater, but he also had great subordinates like Jackson and Longstreet.

Lee made a terrible mistake at Gettysburg on the 3rd day with his assault on the Union center under General Meade, who had just taken over from Hooker. Subordinate general Warren helped save the Union army on the 2nd day with his actions to reinforce the left flank at Little Roundtop.

under the command of Col. Joshua Chamberlain.

My favorite character was the Irish sargeant, especially when he talked about the "true aristocracy" of the mind.

While we remember the heroics of the 20th Maine, we also should not forget the sacrifice of the 1st Minnesota. General Warren, desperate to buy time while reinforcements were being moved to Little Roundtop, grabbed the commander of the Minnesota regiment as a thousand or more rebel troops approached. Warren said "See those Colors? Take them!"

The 262 Minnesotans plunged in and fought valiantly, buying precious time. In five minutes, 215 of them fell. The 82% casualty rate still stands as the U.S. Army’s largest loss of life of any unit.

So sick of the biggest idiots in this country being pandered to in a way that’s completely obvious to anyone with a brain.

About as bad as his claim, Pickett's charge would have been successful if he weren't attacking uphill.

... and no doubt, all of "the Blacks" who couldn't vote and might still be working fields for nothing to this day.

Cryin my fkn soup.

with massed artillery on the hottest day of the year. Oh, they will also have to cross a couple of fence lines that will slow them down and that have been sighted to the half centimeter by the enemy cannon.

Smart guy, this Lee.

The entire traitor army was high on their own supply.

And he just makes sh*t up.

are coming up to me and saying so!"

....the war might have lasted 2 months.
But, he was a tool & that didn't happen.
Lee screwed up at Gettysburg, so the loss was his fault.
He would have won except HE lost at Gettysburg.

It does a great disservice to the memory of the brave patriotic heroes who defeated the despicable traitors to credit the victory to Lee's supposed mistakes.

Why the one word dismissal? This is an important topic. What exactly is it that you think is silly about my post? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Enough already with the "lost cause" bs and the hero worship of Lee.

The defeat of the slave power was the country's finest moment. Lee was a traitor. His military prowess is vastly over-rated.

it has a relatively recent expression in that appalling piece of schmaltz 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'. I can't understand how a fine liberal like Joan Baez could have touched this with a forty foot bargepole.

A Canadian

The romanticization of the "Old South" is disgusting. The plantation tourism business is another example.

Named because Minnesota was the first state to send troops to fight for the United States in the Civil War. They took a staggering 80% casualty rate in Gettysburg because they were given a suicide mission when the Union line almost broke, but still held it, counterattacked, and took the Confederate battle flag. We still have it here, and refused to return it to Virginia every time they asked.

Someone tell Trump how Minnesota saved the Union, since he hates our state so much.

https://www.civilwarmed.org/1st-minnesota-at-gettysburg/

Reminded me of 'The Man in the High Castle', streaming I believe on Prime. Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick.

I started watching several months ago, it was a 'treadmill' thing, but I switched to something else after the first several episodes of Season 2. I really need to get back to this, it was really different and I need to know how it ends.

but as victims which is what so many do when they don't have moral, ethical or factual grounds to stand on.