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Related: About this forum'Treason!': Michael compares the betrayal of the Confederacy with the attack on January 6th - The Weeknight - MSNBC
The Weeknight hosts discuss how the revisionist history of the Civil War mirrors the rewriting of January 6th as the Pentagon reinstalls a portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at West Point under the Trump administration. - Aired on 08/29/2025.
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'Treason!': Michael compares the betrayal of the Confederacy with the attack on January 6th - The Weeknight - MSNBC (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
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I don't know if you've ever seen the Saratoga Monument at the top of the hill in Schuylerville
Rhiannon12866
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Historic NY
(39,261 posts)1. Who's next Benedict Arnold
Celebrating losers and traitors
Rhiannon12866
(241,941 posts)2. I don't know if you've ever seen the Saratoga Monument at the top of the hill in Schuylerville
My grandmother grew up there and often took us kids to visit, along with other Revolutionary War sites in the region. And when it was built, there are four windows, one on each side, with a statue of a war hero in each one. But the one which was planned to house a statue of Benedict Arnold was left blank. How back does TFG plan to go in rewriting U.S. history??
Historic NY
(39,261 posts)3. There is a boot memorial
https://www.nps.gov/places/boot-monument.htm]
He was another narcissistic a$$hole whose greed and petty resentments against others, made him a sell out. There has been an attempt to renovate his character in recent years. He who would sell out his country to the enemy deserves perpetual scorn. It washes away any of his earlier deeds.
He was another narcissistic a$$hole whose greed and petty resentments against others, made him a sell out. There has been an attempt to renovate his character in recent years. He who would sell out his country to the enemy deserves perpetual scorn. It washes away any of his earlier deeds.