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How Do We Pry the Confederate Monuments Out Of Trump's Tiny Hands?
 Every time in American history there was the possibility of serious movement forward in civil and human rights, there has been a backlash by white racists resulting in new monuments to the Confederacy. The Confederacy, of course, was the police state oligarchy that took over the American South in the 1820s and committed treason against the United States of America, killing hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and civilians in the process. The explosion of monument building coincided with large scale Civil Rights movements around the end of the 19th century, during the rise of the modern Klan in the era around 1920, following the Brown vs Board decision by the Supreme Court, and in response to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Donald Trump has now appointed a "task force" to preserve these monuments to white supremacy, segregation and treason. Just like in 2016, he is basing his 2020 candidacy on a naked appeal to white racism. He's now stepped up his white supremacy campaign, saying that he will veto the defense appropriation bill if it contains an amendment that would rename US military bases that memorize Confederate traitors. Donald Trump is not America's first white supremacist president. Hopefully, he will be our last. -Thom |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Article: " 25th Amendment Section 4" " Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..." Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. " The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause). Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. " No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).
Article: " Juneteenth" (June 19, 1865) by Wikipedia. Article: " 13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
How Do We Pry Confederate Monuments Out Of Trump's Tiny Hands?
Tweet: " I will Veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren (of all people!) Amendment, which will lead to the renaming (plus other bad things!) of Fort Bragg, Fort Robert E. Lee, and many other Military Bases from which we won Two World Wars, is in the Bill!" by Donald J. Trump. Tweet: " Sen. Warren exits Senate SCIF after what appears to be a briefing on Russian bounties -
"There was no one there who had any information about what information was given to the president or when it was given to him."
She added: "That was NOT a briefing."" by Andrew Desiderio. Tweet: " Sen. Manchin -
"We did not get any direct answers and nobody was high-enough level to give us a direct answer."" by Andrew Desiderio.
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