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erronis

(24,705 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:56 PM 22 hrs ago

That's It

So this really is about Robert E. Lee and the Confederates not having to look at Lincoln's Memorial for eternity?

https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/07/thats-it/



As I'm sure you know, Arlington Cemetery was Lee's plantation. Blocking the Lincoln Memorial is a feature, no doubt about it.

If he builds it, it will have to come down. There's no two ways about it.

Also, it's a hideous monstrosity, aesthetically completely inappropriate.
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underpants

(197,514 posts)
1. I understood that it was off to the Potomac side not blocking it
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:02 PM
22 hrs ago

If you don’t know, Arlington National Cemetery is the plantation land the US took from Lee as punishment after his treason. It was a brutal plantation and he sued to keep his late father-in-laws slaves IN slavery.

He wasn’t a very good General either.

Wednesdays

(23,305 posts)
3. He certainly made a fatal error at Gettysburg
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:12 PM
21 hrs ago

"No fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle could take that position."
-- Lieutenant General James Longstreet warning Lee against ordering Pickett's Charge. Lee went ahead with the offensive anyway.

marble falls

(72,917 posts)
2. His reflecting pool Epstein distraction was not repaired, it was recoated. tic ... tic ... tic ...
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:05 PM
22 hrs ago

We will have a ton of jobs fixing and repairing his cheap assed instincts. His grand father was a draft dodging pimp and saloon keeper, his father was a racist who got caught discriminating in his rental properties and was fined for it Federally and in NYC.

erronis

(24,705 posts)
4. I feel so sorry for Mary Trump for being related to Fred, Donald, and other ejaculates.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:09 PM
20 hrs ago

Once the demon gets into the male seed, it destroys many of the spawn.

marble falls

(72,917 posts)
5. she's begun getting some payback. She actually knows the where closets with a lot of the sleletons are.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:27 AM
6 hrs ago
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