Any reasonable educated American supports removing Confederate monuments that celebrate one of the darkest chapters in our history.  Only bigots support status quo because…you know, heritage; but in 2015, everything changed when the mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston by a white supremacists shook the nation, and the monuments started coming down.  The riots in Charlottesville Virginia this weekend that resulted in the deaths of one counter-protestor and two state troopers were propagated by the announcement of the removal of the statute of Robert E. Lee in a city park.  You know, that statue was really important to our “heritage” and it’s just natural to just start beating and running over people with cars if someone wants to take it down, right?  Of course.

The backlash of this weekend’s  violence has been swift and loud.  White supremacist demonstrators are being outed by activists and some fired by their employers for being racist assholes.  Trump has once again been humiliated for being, you know, a racist asshole.  Frustrated human rights advocates have taken matters into their own hands, and today toppled a confederate statue in Durham North Carolina:

Among some of my circle of friends, though they would like to see monuments like this gone from our city parks and streets, they disagree that they should be toppled by activists.  I’ll admit I’m torn and wonder what others might think about this issue.  Before you answer, look at these images:

The first image was taken in Berlin after it fell to the allies in WWII.  Today, Berlin has been scrubbed clean of all Nazi monuments and even doing the Nazi salute is illegal.  The second image is the famous photo of Saddam’s statue glorifying himself being destroyed after US troops entered Bagdad. I don’t think anyone would disagree with either of these actions.  Why would destruction of monuments that glorify the oppressors of millions of human beings be treated any differently?

It’s not an easy question, and I have to say there was a certain satisfaction in watching that stature being pulled over on its head today by ordinary Americans.  Do you agree?

Yes?  No?

White nationalist speaker Richard Spencer was to speak at Texas A&M on September 11th.

Today it was cancelled.

We suspect that everybody finally realized that Texas college campuses have concealed carry.  One accidental snicker and that place would have been the OK Corral.

So, if I am ever lying in the hospital having just been deliberately run over by a Nazi here in the good ole United Damn States of America, and Louse in the White House tweets “Best Regards” to me, please pitch a fit.  Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!

He couldn’t even do “thoughts and prayers?”  Look, a real president would have picked up the phone and called them expressing his concern for their health.  A real president would have sent flowers or some damn thing.

Best regards to your broken leg?  Why didn’t he just say, “Cheers!”

Oh y’all, someone help me.  I hate this man.  I know I shouldn’t because he’s crazy and can’t help it. But he’s such a jerk.

And I did not take kindly to his reaction to Merck’s CEO, Ken Frazier, resigning from the President’s Council.

But, here’s the questions I have: (1) Why did Frazier, and African American, take the honorary position in the first place?  And (2) if Trump thought Merck was ripping off Americans, why did he appoint the CEO of the company to his ams council?

It’s a world gone mad.

Thanks to Carol for the heads up.

There is a reason the Klan wore hoods.  They did not want their neighbors to know who they were.

These new guys don’t mind.  They figured that since the president supports them, they are safe to hate.

Twitter has gone to work posting who these guys are.

He got fired.

And …

College Republican president?  He might want to update his resume.

And there’s many, many more being outted.

You know, you’d think that doing really stoopid crap in the day of social media would be of concern to people.  But, noooooo … the fumes from the tiki torches fried their brains.

Thelma thinks this is a good thing.  When these dudes grow up and want to run for office, we’ll know who they are and we can stop a future Jeff Sessions or Dan Patrick.

I got fooled by a false meme.  I apologize and I took it down.  My mistake.  Sorry.

This is Peter Cvjetanovic from Reno, Nevada.  He traveled all the way to Charlottesville to help his brothers represent white people.

Peter does not like this picture.

He says he’s not the angry racist this picture makes him look like.

So, please do not post this picture everywhere you can.  Do not download it by putting your cursor on the picture and left clicking.  Do not post the name Peter  Cvjetanovic with the picture.

We wouldn’t want to hurt Peter Cvjetanovic’s feelings.