While the Democrat-controlled House often pushes policy challenges to Trump in the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), it is unusual for the Republican Senate to do so. Still, the new revision pushed enough to lead the White House to threaten a veto.
The Senate Armed Services Committee allocated $6 billion to ‘confront China,’ which is new but in keeping with mounting US tension and hostility. The funding is more than requested, and includes missile defense and joint plans with regional nations.
More objectionable for Trump is a Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) amendment forbidding the use of the military against peaceful protesters. Threatening protesters with the military has been Trump’s go-to strategy for protest.
The Senate also wants bases named after Confederate leaders renamed, which is what Trump is saying he’d veto the whole bill over. This too is a topic protesters are pushing.
With these provisions starting in the Senate, its not clear Trump can get his way, and veto threats may not be viable if neither House nor Senate is on his side.
How about we force everyone with the last name “Jefferson,” “Washington,” “Madison,” etc. (anyone who once owned slaves), to change their name. Let’s see how these people like this BS.
The renaming of bases sounds too much like the Taliban in Afghanistan blowing up the thousand year old Buddhist cliff carvings. We can’t change history by trying to hide it.
We’re trying to move forward from history from learning from it and not making the same mistakes over and over. Can you understand this concept?
Both of you are saying same things.
However a name change stops the glorification of their racist and treasonous actions and activities. One does not glorify treason, and be absolutely clear, Every Confederate named base , glorifies a treasonous person. we do not see Fort Arnold anywhere do we, yet he was at one stage a Revolutionary War Colonial general, until he swapped sides to the British!
If secession is treason, then Arnold was not a traitor, Washington was.
Ever experience an empire implode? You are now.
I honestly didn’t even know those bases were named after former confederate leaders. Who cares? Presidents like George W has a library in his name just like all the other killers in chief. How is that worse? Same with aircraft carriers. Stick with issues that matter.
wars,,some A-Holes wanna play games,,so I gave one compromise above. Actually I don’t like the idea of naming things or having statues of people that thought they could own other people and do with them as they felt,,a big F-U to them! 🙂
All monuments have one of two messages: one a message of gratitude to people who benefited mankind, and another of people and events valued AT THE TIME.
There is no issue with the first. The monuments that are time stamped values — are just that. Time stamped.
Most people are capable of knowing the difference between Christopher Columbo, the sailor into unknown, and the era of colonization that he opened. If we need to provide aid to understanding, we could put a bronze plaque in each monument to remind us that we have evolved and are living in era that put the values of colonialism behind. Or create a new monument to reflect our time.
This is a more effective manner of dealing with history.
Or else where does it lead? Taliban destroyed ancient monuments as they offended their current values. Egyptian pyramids are monuments to cruel leaders and millions of slaves worked on it. Monuments of war — they are dire warnings — not a gloating of victory. Monuments are not celebratory— if we know how to look at them. They are for reflection and learning. Getting rid of them is a huge disservice to new generations — we need to learn from the past. We may as well burn books — it has been tried before.
As if these issues are pushed by real people! They are pushed by their pre-selected leaders, many of them with the task of steering protest in the desirable direction, or collecting information on any “influencers” for blackmail purposes.
Abolish police — clearly a convenient way to peddle privatizing one more cash rich and source of power PUBLICLY controlled entities. Smell of money anyone? Destroying monuments, erasing history? Great! What better way for all reasonable people to be on their guard against extremes. And undermine the real cause of the unrest. The countermeasures are well under way.
The changes to NDAA are farcical. As if poor defense budget need MORE money? The Department of Offense has nothing but the money for such purposes. The inly reason to add — there is a contractor or two with just the right program Republicans want to reward. And Democrats with their public minded, human rights higher ground cannot wash away Clinton or Obama. Their boots were no more gentle on the face of humanity as Republicans.
And if the past is any guide, this will be channeled into appropriate rituals, with chosen people at the helm, and the rest marginalized as idiots and extremists.
It’s all optics. Pelosi pushes name changes so she can look like she’s woke while keeping the cops and military armed and dangerous.
Well, if they change the names of the bases sharing name’s of Confederate
officers they must be replaced with the names of Medal Of Honor Winners of the Civil War,,see how that flies??
Or Black medal of Honor Winners, there are more than enough
Union Black Medal of Honor winners to rename every Confederate traitors camp, fort or naval base, in the United States military command,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey_Carney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_B._Hilton
Adriaan,,see I give a compromise and you come back with an all Black list!! LOL! Very racist of you, and that is how U fly. LOL!
Meanwhile, all the same congress people go home to their chinese goods. Wonder how much of that 6 billion goes to buying chinese parts.
Washington was a slave owner so start with him.