Trump has ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to reinstate Confederate monuments, memorials, statues and markers

[highplainsdem]

taken down since 2020.

The order doesn't use the word "Confederate" but the intent is clear.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/trump-museum-order-jd-vance-6rzkqg68q

Well, at least he hasn't yet ordered monuments honoring the slave trade as supposedly making Amerjcan capitalism great and actually helping the slaves. But I wouldn't be surprised if there are people around him who want that.

[Mossfern]

1. Sombody please make it stop !!!!!

Every day a new attack on the nation's progress.
I'm waiting to see when I lose my voting rights or the ability to have my own bank account.
Not that I would need one considering what they're about to do to SS funds.

[CountAllVotes]

2. dump should have musKKK do it

n/t

& recommend!

[Eugene]

3. What's next? Restoring the "sq**w" name on 600 places?

[tavernier]

4. So that is truly a Russian thing.

When we went to St. Petersburg Russia, over 20 years ago, we saw a headless statue in one of the parks. Our tour guide told us that this was a very Russian thing. Statues were permanent structures, but the heads were removable. Every time there was a change in politics, they would remove the head and put the head of the new guy atop the statue. We all roared in laughter, including the Russians that had joined the tour.

[Biophilic]

5. What happened to "letting the states decide"?

[GreenWave]

9. Or letting the statues decide for themselves.

Just trying to confuse his flock. Sorry.

[louis-t]

6. And the cost? DOGE needs to stop this.

Big fucking waste of money.

[underpants]

7. The ones that were in Richmond are melted down

There may be a couple still intact but the huge concrete bases are gone.

[Frasier Balzov]

8. The slave trade was being monumented in atonement.

Expect those monuments to be obliterated.

[kysrsoze]

10. Cracker

Disgusting pig

[Beringia]

11. Go back to the Good Ole Days

[alarimer]

12. None of them were under federal control, though

Mostly in state and local parks.

[Retrograde]

13. Little things like jurisdiction

does not matter to these people - I can see someone in Congress introducing a bill to require all states - even those admitted well after 1865 - to display monuments to the Confederacy at their expense or lose Federal funding

[alarimer]

15. Then I suggest they make them all really ugly

Just hideously bad public art.

[Paladin]

14. Anything to appeal to his white fascist base. (nt)

[WarGamer]

16. Just to clarify... this doesn't affect most monuments removed in the past decade.

The famous ones in VA were NOT on Federal land...

Most of them are in City squares or something...

So this only applies to National Parks... like battlefields or some museums?