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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/supreme-court-lgbt-rights-decision-319693
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the key federal law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace protects gay, lesbian or transgender employees from being disciplined, fired or turned down for a job based on their sexual orientation.
Two of the court’s Republican appointees, Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts, joined the court’s Democratic appointees to deliver the surprising, 6-3 victory to LGBT advocates.
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No I did not write this. But there are some good suggestions. But I agree with the author, we should name the bases after Americans.
Fort Carney (Replacing Fort Polk)
Named after SGT William Harvey Carney, who was the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor. On July 18, 1863, the soldiers of Carney's regiment led the charge on Fort Wagner. During the battle, the unit's color guard was shot. Carney, who was just a few feet away, saw the dying man stumble, and he scrambled to catch the falling flag.
Despite suffering several serious gunshot wounds himself, Carney kept the symbol of the Union held high as he crawled up the hill to the walls of Fort Wagner, urging his fellow troops to follow him. He planted the flag in the sand at the base of the fort and held it upright until his near-lifeless body was rescued.
Carney lost a lot of blood and nearly lost his life, but not once did he allow the flag to touch the ground. Carney was promoted to the rank of sergeant for his actions.
For his bravery, Carney was awarded the Medal of Honor on May 23, 1900.Fort Benevidez (Replacing Fort Hood)
Named after MSG Roy Benevidez. On May 2, 1968, a 12-man Special Forces patrol, was surrounded by a NVA infantry battalion of about 1,000 men. Benavidez heard the radio appeal for help and boarded a helicopter to respond. Armed only with a knife, he jumped from the helicopter carrying his medical bag and ran to help the trapped patrol. Benavidez "distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions... and because of his gallant choice to join voluntarily his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least eight men. He loaded the wounded into 2 separate evac helicopters because the first one was shot down. He pulled them out of the wreckage and loaded them onto a second helicopter.
After the battle, he was evacuated to the base camp, examined, and thought to be dead. As he was placed in a body bag among the other dead in body bags, he was suddenly recognized by a friend who called for help. A doctor came and examined him but believed Benavidez was dead. The doctor was about to zip up the body bag when Benavidez managed to spit in his face, alerting the doctor that he was alive. Benavidez had a total of 37 separate bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel wounds from the six-hour fight.” For his actions, he received the Medal of Honor.
Fort Winters (Replacing Fort Bragg)
Named after MAJ Richard “Dick” Winters. He was popularized by HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. D-Day paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his leadership at Brecourt Manor where he and his 12 men took out a battery or German 105 MM Howitzers protected by over 50 Germans.
Fort Rubin (Replacing Fort A.P. Hill)
Named after CPL Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian Jew, who survived the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in WWII. He was so grateful to the Americans who liberated him, he enlisted in the US Army and fought in the Korean War. During one mission, according to the testimonies of his comrades, Rubin secured a needed route of retreat for his rifle company by single-handedly defending a hill for 24 hours against waves of North Korean soldiers. For this and other acts of bravery, Rubin was recommended four times for the Medal of Honor by two of his commanding officers. Rubin, severely wounded, was captured and spent the next 30 months in a Chinese POW camp.
Faced with constant hunger, filth, and disease, most of the GIs simply gave up. "No one wanted to help anyone. Everybody was for himself", wrote Leo A. Cormier Jr., a former sergeant and POW. The exception was Rubin. Almost every evening, Rubin would sneak out of the prison camp to steal food from the Chinese and North Korean supply depots, knowing that he would be shot if caught. "He shared the food evenly among the GIs," Cormier wrote. "He also took care of us, nursed us, carried us to the latrine..., he did many good deeds, which he told us were mitzvahs in the Jewish tradition... he was a very religious Jew and helping his fellow men was the most important thing to him". The survivors of the prison war camp credited Rubin with keeping them alive and saving at least 40 American soldiers.
Fort MacArthur (Replacing Fort Benning)
Named after General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. One of only five men in US Military history to become a 5 star General. He fought in WW1, WW2, and the Korean War. He earned the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Phillippines. MacArthur is most famous for leading the United States to victory in the Pacific theater of World War II. Camp MacArthur (Texas) and Fort MacArthur (California) are named after his father, 3 Star General Arthur MacArthur.
Fort Crandall (Replacing Fort Rucker where Evac pilots are trained)
Named after Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Perry Crandall who received the MOH for his actions as a pilot during the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965, in South Vietnam. During the battle, he flew 22 missions in an unarmed helicopter into enemy fire to evacuate more than 70 wounded and bring ammunition and supplies to US forces. By the end of the Vietnam War, he had flown more than 900 combat missions.
Camp Sherman (replacing Camp Beauregard)
Named after William Tecumseh Sherman. He was the former superintendent to Louisiana State University. He is famous for his march of destruction through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. This will be a constant reminder to the South to remember their true heritage. -
USFK commander Gen. Robert Abrams said the flag, which generally has a red or blue field with two blue or red diagonal lines and white stars, may not be displayed in workplaces, common-access areas and public areas, including clothing and bumper stickers, on its installations.
“The Confederate Battle Flag does not represent the values of U.S. Forces assigned to serve” in South Korea, Abrams said in a memo dated Monday. “While I acknowledge some might view it as a symbol of regional pride, many others in our force see it as a painful reminder of hate, bigotry, treason and devaluation of humanity.”
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1 minute ago, DieHardBrownsFan said:
What, the Air Farce?
No tough guy, I was Army. No, I'm not posting my dd214. I don't give a shit if a worthless POS believes me or not. I'm sure this thread will be moved now, thanks to your crying.
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Just now, DieHardBrownsFan said:
Interact? Give me a fucking break. Have you ever been in the service dick wad? Fuk no.
Yes, I was in the military dumbass.
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9 minutes ago, DieHardBrownsFan said:
I wonder how many of you liberal boys in here have actually lived with African Americans? Read about them in college perhaps? Taken mandatory black study courses in college. But have you actually had to live with blacks and work with them 24 hours a day, seven days a week? Fuk no. You're a bunch of fucking pussy assed white boys.
WTF? Is this the 1960s? If you don't interact with people of multiple races on daily basis, you must live in a small town in Alabama. For some reason, you think you have to be a tough guy to hang out with African Americans.
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1 hour ago, MLD Woody said:
awe, they don't like it so they're spamming things about Joe Biden (which I don't think anyone has attempted to defend in this thread).
You know the Trump supporters are worried when they just jump straight to insulting the opponent/liberals/Biden instead of even attempting to defend Trump.
I was really hoping to get a great explanation for the clearly worrisome way he drank that glass of water. Oh well...
You are going to have to wait for somebody on Fox News to give them some talking points. "Well you see, the deep state put some lubricate on the glass, but Trump is so good he was able to catch it with his other hand. The deep state also lubricated the right side of the ramp, they new he would walk on that side. But Trump has the best balance in the history of the world. No one has ever seen someone who can balance like him before. That's why he was able to run down the ramp without any problem."
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Which is sad by itself. But the snowFlake In Chief couldn't stop from tweeting about it.
Yeah, the ramp wasn't steep, he wasn't running and that wasn't ten feet. I know cult45 members watch the video and see him sprinting.
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Well if it is fake. Congrats to the guy getting all the clicks. Schefter picked it up.
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I can't find the original tweet. I'm thinking this is bullshit. <update>It's from a private account on Instagram, so who knows.
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Not sure how long this will last on the main forum. But let's give it a try.
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Another bites the dust.
A Kentucky state commission voted on Friday to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol's main rotunda.The statue of the former Confederate president, who was born in Kentucky, has stood in the rotunda for 84 years. The 11-1 vote by the state's Historic Properties Advisory Commission was requested last week by Gov. Andy Beshear, who said the statue should be moved elsewhere.
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4 hours ago, Vambo said:
Democrat leader...but statues are offensive.
The statues are honoring traitors the United States, there is no reason they should still be there. But please continue to cry about your hero's monuments being removed. I know you snowflakes really can't stand change.
Adding to that absurdity is that this lot of Confederate commanders were, as retired U.S. Army General and former CIA director David Petraeus wrote in the Atlantic, “undistinguished, if not incompetent, battlefield commanders.” Ambrose Powell Hill Jr., for whom Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia is named, seems best known for a case of gonorrhea he contracted during a furlough at the U.S. Military Academy. George Pickett, for whom Fort Pickett in Virginia is named, was accused of cowardice at a pivotal battle at Gettysburg and fled to Canada to avoid a war crimes prosecution for summarily executing 22 Union soldiers at the end of the war.
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Ah replying with memes, righty's white flag. 👍
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On 6/11/2020 at 6:42 AM, MLD Woody said:
Aaaaaaand now it's locked / move
Well it was fun. I appreciate the level headed responses we got while it lasted.
Well it was interesting for a page. But the right wing nutjobs had to start posting. Oh well.
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I guess you guys are disappointed the kid didn't die. You could have added another dead American to the Confederate's death count.
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27 minutes ago, Vambo said:
So much for your credibility bye now.
Yes, that is what I figured. Even Lincoln's own words don't matter to Cult45.
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1 minute ago, Vambo said:
You do realize it was the Democrats who wanted to keep slavery right they created the KKK, it was the Republicans that fought to end slavery...the real reason they want history erased.
You do realize it was the Conservatives who wanted to keep slavery right they created the KKK, it was the progressives that fought to end slavery. Yet again. You can remember history without celebrating it.
But you say you are conservative—eminently conservative—while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live"; while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided into new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the "gur-reat pur-rinciple" that "if one man would enslave another, no third man should object", fantastically called "Popular Sovereignty"; but never a man among you is in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live". Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated. Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the clearest and stable foundations. - Cooper Union speech Abraham Lincoln
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There is plenty of laughing going right now. Like how the Mayor of Seattle and the Governor of Washington were laughing at Trump's threat. Fucking hilarious. Trump is just one big punchline.
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300,000 apply to go to President Trump's first political rally !
in POLITICAL DISCUSSION
Posted
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktok-challenge-trump-rally/
Fu<king hilarious 😂
A huge number of those registrants are TikTokers doing a challenge in the hopes that no one goes.
A few days ago, Mary Jo Laupp, a grandmother of four who works at a high school, posted a TikTok complaining about both the rally’s original date, Juneteenth, and location, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of what is widely known as the “single worst incident of racial violence in American history.”
Laupp suggested that people register for tickets then not show up as a way to protest.
Laupp’s TikToks have at most a few thousand views. To date, this one has 1.8 million.