Obama simply followed all of Bush's policies and when it came time for re-election 2012 he pivoted and said "I'm for gay marriage"

They like you fighting on issues like abortion. I'm not saying abortion isn't a very important issue, but us fighting about abortion doesn't scare anyone at the Federal Reserve.  It doesn't scare anyone in the CIA.  They don't care if you fight about that issue.  Love you fighting over transgender.  They love you fighting over transgender bathrooms.   -- Dave Smith

You almost feel like the left just controls the broader culture but this was actually not the case immediately following 9/11. The culture had a very right wing mood to it it was very much about like patriotism and hierarchy and military and "Go America," which was a natural response to being attacked.  Highest approval ratings.  The American people gave George Bush a blank check to fight this war on terrorism.  You have whatever war you want, whatever action you want, whatever policy you want . . . if you want to grope us at the airport.  If you want to torture people, you want to open Guantanamo Bay, the PATRIOT Act, you want to create the Department of Homeland Security, whatever you want.  And he spent this blank check on two Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that led to the death of over a million people and what we got for it in return was are bravest Young men blowing their brains out at the tens of thousands at the price tag of trillions of dollars and the region completely destabilized anyway just nocremembr show for it if you look at Washington DC the zip codes with the highest incomes is the city with the most people making over $200,000. And they're all making over $200,000 because they're all kind of some connected to the military industrial complex including New York in LA and Newport Beach Miami DC is number one most.

Just to my point, so this is what we get out of George Bush's blank check.  On top of that, his presidency ends with the worst financial crash in 100 years.  It was so obvious that this is why Barack Obama was elected, because he was the most anti-George W. Bush thing that people could think of.  But then Obama comes in and continues all of the Bush policies after running on "I'm going to repeal all of these policies." Then there was a pivot.  It was right around when Obama was running for re-election in 2012.  What did Obama come out and say for his re-election campaign?  Did he come out and say, "Hey, look, remember I told you I was going to close Guantanamo Bay?  And I did it."  No, he couldn't say that.  Did he say I ended the war in Iraq?  No.  He couldn't say that either.  Did he say we're not torturing people anymore?  Did he say we're not dropping anymore drones over Yemen or Pakistan?  No.  In fact, by this time in 2012, not only had Obama continued the war Did he say I ended the war in Iraq?  No, he couldn't say that either.  Not only had Obama continued the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, he had also launched a stupid regime-change war in Libya.  He was starting to fund a civil war in Syria.  And he had the drone campaigns in Yemen and Pakistan.  So, what did he say?  He's got this base of liberals for whom he hasn't done anything that he promised.  So what did he say?  "I'm for gay marriage.  I'm the first president who's ever been for gay marriage."  And they put the White House up with the pride flag colors.  

This was a concerted effort from the top.  If you go look at these Nexus charts, you can map out words in major publications.  I'm not talking about Mom and Pop news outlets, I'm talking about the New York Times, The Washington Post, like the big dogs.  Go track how many times the word "racism" was mentioned.  Around 2012, it shot up.  "Social Justice" shoots up.  "Transgenderism" shoots up. "White Privilege" shoots up.  This was forced on the American people.  Why are we having these conversations now?  The American people did not wake up one day and decide we want to have a national conversation about chicks with dicks.  It didn't happen.  This wasn't an organic movement.  All of the most powerful people decided this is what we're going to talk about.  And why was that?  Because it's the perfect . . . look when you're failing on policy, you pivot to a culture war.  You pit people against each other so they are fighting each other.  We had in this country, we had an Occupy Wall Street, 2011, we're leftists were standing outside of big Banks screaming we are the 99% right-wingers had a populist movement called the Tea Party they were outraged about bank bailouts, unsustainable debt, unsustainable spending.  They don't like that.  That's not what the powers would be like.  You're getting too close.  They like you fighting on issues like abortion. I'm not saying abortion isn't a very important issue, but us fighting about abortion doesn't scare anyone at the Federal Reserve.  It doesn't scare anyone in the CIA.  They don't care if you fight about that issue.  Love you fighting over transgender.  They love you fighting over transgender bathrooms.  And you can see this everyday.  They are stoking this culture war because they have to distract you from the fact that they've completely failed on everything else in the 20th century.  For America, politically speaking has been a disaster.  Did they distract you with the submarine?  They love stories like that.  CNN loves an airplane crash.  They love stories that get clicks and no powerful people will be upset about it.  If they actually loved real stories that just got clicks, there's a lot of stories that get clicks that they've been passing them up for years.  It's part of the reason why shows like this and Joe Rogan have have taken off, because they can run stories . . . .  Hey, do you think people getting vaccine injured is not a story that would generate a lot of views for CNN, the vaccine that the government just mandated has hurt all these people.  That's a huge story.  And why don't they run it?  Because all their commercials are run by pharmaceutical companies.  They don't want to piss off powerful interests.  So they're not in the game of that.  So they have to create something for you to be afraid of, like, "white supremacist terrorism is everywhere."

Sometimes I go off.  pic.twitter.com/3EKO53u07u

— Dave Smith (@ComicDaveSmith) July 30, 2023

ON OPTICS ALONE, HOW CAN ANYONE THINK BIDEN IS A VIABLE OPTION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES?

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OWEN BENJAMIN: A LUCKY MAN. AND A GOOD MAN

2019 was a great year. They all are.
Nothing is new under the sun but there are infinite possibilities.
As the world called me “insane” this was my home life that I wasn’t allowed to show because I was “canceled”
It’s all nonsense illusion.
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— Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@OwenBenjamin) July 30, 2023

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This was the high point of reconciliation in the United States, and McKinley thought that such a monument would, as Lincoln said in his second inaugural address, "bind up the nation's wounds."

On September 19th, 2022, the Naming Commission issued a final report on the Confederate iconography in the United States military.  Created in 2020 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, the 8-member panel was led by Chair Admiral Michelle Howard and Vice Chair, General Ty Seidule.  Howard is the highest-ranking woman in Naval history.  Seidule gained fame with the publication of an anti-Confederate polemic titled Robert E. Lee and Me and for a widely viewed YouTube video on the Civil War.  He taught history at the United States Military Academy for 16 years and is now a visiting professor of history at Hamilton College in New York.  Democrats established the Naming Commission after the 2020 "Summer of Love" riots in response to the death of George Floyd and in unison with other attempts that year to remove or contextualize Confederate monuments across the United States.  President Donald Trump vetoed the legislation that created the commission, arguing that it included language that will requbae the renaming of certain military installations.  Trump emphasized that he had been clear in "my opposition to politically motivated attempts like this to wash away history and to dishonor the immense progress our country has fought for in realizing our founding principles."  Congress voted to override his veto by crushing the majorities in both the House and the Senate.  Only 5 Senate Republicans and 66 House Republicans voted against overriding Trump's veto.  The commission recommended renaming 9 military installations, 4 naval vessels, and dozens of patches, streets, buildings, and memorials.  While predictable, the most egregious recommendation from the commission centers on the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery.  Ty Seidule argued that the monument should be stripped down to its granite base plate.  Why?  Because Seidule and the other members of the commission thought that the history portrayed on the bronze relief smacked of the Lost Cause myth.  But what is the real history of the monument?  President William McKinley, a Union War veteran, who served with distinction in several battles in the Eastern theater suggested the creation of a monument in Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the over 200,000 Confederate soldiers who died during the war.  This was the high point of reconciliation in the United States, and McKinley thought that such a monument would, as Lincoln said in his second inaugural address, "bind up the nation's wounds."  McKinley said in 1898 that "every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate Civil War is a tribute to American Valor.  A time has now come when in the spirit of fraternity we should share in the care of the graves of Confederate soldiers.  Cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and the South prompts this gracious act and if it needed further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty toward the Union, the flag so conspicuously shown in that year just passed by the sons and grandsons of these heroic dead.

Two years later, the United States Congress followed through on McKinley's suggestion and crafted legislation which ordered the Secretary of War to have reburied in some suitable spot in the National Cemetery at Arlington and to place proper headstones at their graves.  The bodies of about 128 Confederate soldiers now buried in the National Soldiers Home near Washington DC, and the bodies of about 136 Confederate soldiers now buried at the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. Eventually, the remains of over 400 Confederate soldiers will be interred at Arlington.  In 1906, Secretary of War, William H. Taft agreed to allow members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to begin raising funds for a Confederate monument at Arlington.  They eventually commissioned Jewish American Moses Ezekiel to design and sculpt the finished product.  Ezekiel was the first Jewish cadet at the Virginia Military Institute who fought at the Battle of New Market in 1864.  He later studied art and sculpture in Rome and Berlin and became a famous International artist.  His work was admired by International leaders and celebrities featured in both Europe and the United States.  Ezekiel would eventually be buried at the foot of the only would eventually be buried at the foot of the Arlington Confederate monument, making it his literal headstone.  

In 1912, Taft, now president of the United States, presided over the cornerstone dedication ceremony.  Taft described the memorial as "a beautiful monument to the heroic dead of the South" and called the ceremony "the benediction and of all true Americans."  

Two years later, President Woodrow Wilson unveiled the monument as an emblem of a reunited people and argued that such a monument was only possible in a democracy.  He hoped that such a monument would be a symbol of 

our duty and our privilege to be like the country we represent. And speaking no word of malice and no word of criticism even stand shoulder to shoulder to lift the burdens of mankind in the future and show the paths of the freedom to all the world

To these men and to that generation of Americans, the monument represented the best of America, a spirit of reconciliation, democracy, and freedom, of heroism, and patriotism.  And like William McKinley, many of them had been targets of actual Confederate bullets.  If these men can bury the hatchet, what changed decades later?  Not the history of the period nor the meaning of the monument, but the political ideology.  In short, America became a much less tolerant place.  Historians like Ty Seidule argue that the monument displays an incorrect view of the past by sanitizing and glorifying slavery.  The ioage of an enslaved woman holding the baby of a Confederate soldier going off to war while tears stream down her face has been criticized by modernists historians as a distortion of Southern slavery. But is it?  Booker T. Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, had only recently been published when Ezekiel was designing the monument.  Washington was arguably the most respected African American in the United States in 1906.  Washington recounts in  Up From Slavery, 1900, that 

in order to defend and protect the women and children who are left on the plantations when the white males went off to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.  The slave was who was selected to sleep in the big house during the absence of the males was considered to have the place of honor.  Anyone attempting to harm young mistress or old mistress during the night, would have had to cross the dead body of the slave to do so. 

[Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, Eugene D. Genovese, 1976] Until recently, historians studying this often arrived at the same conclusions.  The same can be said for the image of the black Southerner marching off to war with white Confederate soldiers.  For years, Southerners recognized the contribution of blacks, both free and slave, to the war effort.  Many received pensions when the war was over and while the Confederate government did not legally recognize these men as soldiers that did not authorize arming slaves as return for their freedom until 1865, thousands wire Confederate uniforms, provided manual labor, shouldered a rifle, shot at Union soldiers, and even died in Northern prisons and on the battlefield.  That made them black Confederates.  Of course, historians like high school history teacher, Kevin M. Levin and his Searching for Black Confederates argued that none of these men could qualify as soldiers because they were not legally recognized as such.  This is mere semantics.  Black Confederates existed regardless of whether history deniers wished to acknowledge their contributions to the Southern cause for Independence.  This history does not square with the "Take it down" agenda but with the spirit of reconciliation.  Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor who sat down with Barack Obama for the famous Beer Summit in 2009 argues black Confederates existed.

The truth remains that the Arlington Confederate Monument is a work of art, sculpted by a world-renowned Jewish American Artist, and seen by two Northern political leaders one of whom was literally engaged in physical combat with the Confederates and dedicated it to the spirit of fraternity and healing.  Booker T. Washington thought that the monuments erected in the honor of the best of Southern leaders would lead to better race relations in America.  Perhaps it would be better to listen to Washington and McKinley, two men who experience the war first hand than a group of modern historians with a political axe to grind. 

If you agree that the monument should remain contact your representative today at congress.gov/contact-us.  Time is of the essence.