Hegseth is almost assuredly to day drunk to outwit anyone. Someone IN the admin gave him this. And it's so cutesy, right? Oh, isn't he precious! Such a big boy.
Probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to stick it to the Lost Causers with a pantheon dedicated to the incompetence of Confederate generals that helped shorten the war. At least to balance out the lousy generals on the union side that helped prolong it.
That is a surprisingly good solution for Bragg, maybe they count on the unreconstructed not knowing history at all beyond simulacra of when America was “great.” We shall not be so lucky in the future.
Considering the rest of the current horror show, I’ll take it.
Plus, I agree Fort Liberty sounds sterile—there are many worthy people to honor, and finding one who shared the incumbent traitor’s last name makes a certain amount of sense in terms of people keeping track of fort names. I was surprised this solution came from Hegseth.
Thank you for this well-researched history lesson, Stephen. They’re going to try to f*ck with everything possible, no matter how petty. As long as renaming Ft. Bragg signifies excluding a Confederate traitor and instead memorializes an actual war hero, I guess we can call this one a win.
How is any of this different than the grade school taunt, "Nyah, nyah, nah, nah, nah, we can TOO do whatever the fuck we want, cause you can't stop us!"?
As a country, we've given free rein to childish, performative nonsense. Disgustingly, and sadly, it works on a significant portion of the populace.
Gotta say I’m fine with this—if the only goal here is to keep calling it Fort Bragg but instead honor a worthy soldier, what’s the problem? It’s not like the name Bragg is owned forever by the traitorous one.
We still have Fort Lee New Jersey, and it’s not named after the Confederate general but rather one of his ancestors.
All of this renaming stuff just because the magas don't like "woke," which is code for "we don't like it" or "it hurts our tender fee-fees," is costing the country millions. If DOGE really was about finding waste in the federal government and rooting it out, Musk and his Muskateens would be on it and telling Hegseth and trump to cut it out. But that ain't what it's for. It's for revenge, and for the top magas to enrich themselves at taxpayers' expense. The saps who voted for this get nothing, and possibly less than that - their SS and Medicare may be stolen from them.
The worst part - those of us who voted for Harris get less than nothing too.
I bet the surviving troops who served anywhere would prefer the VA beneits they were promised more than naming rights.
Hegseth is almost assuredly to day drunk to outwit anyone. Someone IN the admin gave him this. And it's so cutesy, right? Oh, isn't he precious! Such a big boy.
Probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to stick it to the Lost Causers with a pantheon dedicated to the incompetence of Confederate generals that helped shorten the war. At least to balance out the lousy generals on the union side that helped prolong it.
That is a surprisingly good solution for Bragg, maybe they count on the unreconstructed not knowing history at all beyond simulacra of when America was “great.” We shall not be so lucky in the future.
Considering the rest of the current horror show, I’ll take it.
Plus, I agree Fort Liberty sounds sterile—there are many worthy people to honor, and finding one who shared the incumbent traitor’s last name makes a certain amount of sense in terms of people keeping track of fort names. I was surprised this solution came from Hegseth.
Thank you for this well-researched history lesson, Stephen. They’re going to try to f*ck with everything possible, no matter how petty. As long as renaming Ft. Bragg signifies excluding a Confederate traitor and instead memorializes an actual war hero, I guess we can call this one a win.
How is any of this different than the grade school taunt, "Nyah, nyah, nah, nah, nah, we can TOO do whatever the fuck we want, cause you can't stop us!"?
As a country, we've given free rein to childish, performative nonsense. Disgustingly, and sadly, it works on a significant portion of the populace.
Gotta say I’m fine with this—if the only goal here is to keep calling it Fort Bragg but instead honor a worthy soldier, what’s the problem? It’s not like the name Bragg is owned forever by the traitorous one.
We still have Fort Lee New Jersey, and it’s not named after the Confederate general but rather one of his ancestors.
It's not about hounouring a worthy soldier. It's about playing g cutesy and thinking they've owned the Libs again.
Sounds like a self-own to me.
Yeah—if this “owns” us, then own away.
Hopefully, someone else's bungling ego-driven stupidity will contribute greatly to the New Regime's ultimate defeat.
I am all out of hope.
Things are pretty grim.
All of this renaming stuff just because the magas don't like "woke," which is code for "we don't like it" or "it hurts our tender fee-fees," is costing the country millions. If DOGE really was about finding waste in the federal government and rooting it out, Musk and his Muskateens would be on it and telling Hegseth and trump to cut it out. But that ain't what it's for. It's for revenge, and for the top magas to enrich themselves at taxpayers' expense. The saps who voted for this get nothing, and possibly less than that - their SS and Medicare may be stolen from them.
The worst part - those of us who voted for Harris get less than nothing too.