Trump Praises General Lee in Minnesota

[Nyvin]

Minnesota has no confederate monuments either, which Trump offered to protect.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1307109326650253320

[Horus]

Robert E. Lee bump incoming

[T'Chenka]

He's always going WAY out of his way to make completely unforced errors in regards to questionable race-related comments. You can't tell me that he's listening to bad advice from his advisors when he does this. He's saying it himself against the wishes of his advisors. Really makes you think...

[ProudModerate2]

He's always going WAY out of his way to make completely unforced errors in regards to questionable race-related comments. You can't tell me that he's listening to bad advice from his advisors when he does this. He's saying it himself against the wishes of his advisors. Really makes you think...

We should all feel lucky that the world has not been destroyed by nuclear war with this Buffoon in office.

[Santander]

I wish I was in the land of cotton...

[Storr]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

[Badger]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

[Indy Texas]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

Have been to rural Indiana/Ohio. Can confirm.

[lfromnj]

Everyone forgetting Confederate Corey was originally from Minnesota

[Santander]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

Sure, but they don't really give a damn about Robert E Lee or Southern heritage, either.

[Bootes Void]

Minnesota has Virginia Confederate battle flag which they will never give back

[DrScholl]

Here where I live in California there was a truck that used to drive around with a confederate flag, but I haven't see it since the shooting in Charleston. There are plenty of people who embrace the confederacy even though they are nowhere near the south and have no connection to it.

[DINGO Joe]

It's just Trump's way of saying that they are all racists here

[GP270watch]

He's going full white supremacist.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

Wrong. Growing up in North Dakota (and this location is basically eastern ND) I think I probably saw like three Confederate flags or bumper stickers ever. Most people's attitudes when it came up in the news over something in the south wasn't so much opposing it for being racist but thinking it was a flag of lovers and it was really pathetic to keep flying a flag of a treasonous rebellion who lost. And I still traveled around rural Minnesota a lot in adulthood and have still yet to see a single house flying a Confederate flag and a number of Confederate bumper stickers I could count on one hand.

Aggressively right-wing bumper stickers in ND/rural Minnesota tend to be more of the fundamentalist Christian message with out of context Bible verses, ones about really loving guns or those "my tax dollars pay for your welfare!" type things.

[Landslide Lyndon]

"There were very fine people on both sides of the Civil War"

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

Wrong.

You can't just say something's wrong because you haven't personally experienced it. I can tell you there are tons of Confederate flags in rural PA, MD, NJ and upstate NY. Nowadays they're more likely to be accompanied by the blue lives matter and the no steppy on snek, but they haven't gone away.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

Wrong.

You can't just say something's wrong because you haven't personally experienced it. I can tell you there are tons of Confederate flags in rural PA, MD, NJ and upstate NY. Nowadays they're more likely to be accompanied by the blue lives matter and the no steppy on snek, but they haven't gone away.

Since PA, MD, NJ and NY =/= ND, I would say that your posts are not mutually exclusive.

[ugabug]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

Wrong.

You can't just say something's wrong because you haven't personally experienced it. I can tell you there are tons of Confederate flags in rural PA, MD, NJ and upstate NY. Nowadays they're more likely to be accompanied by the blue lives matter and the no steppy on snek, but they haven't gone away.

I'm from rural Ohio and and used to live rural Minnesota and BRTD is correct. I'm having trouble remembering if i ever saw someone with the battle flag in the six years i lived in Minnesota. Whereas, whenever i visit family in Ohio i'll usually see the stars and bars all over the place. Quite frankly i don't think you can compare rural Minnesota to rural Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Indiana.

[Beet]

And Trump's approval rating continues to tick up. This speaks for itself.

[Pericles]

And Trump's approval rating continues to tick up. This speaks for itself.

No, not really.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I liked the bit about Gandhi.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Robert E. Lee deserves to have his own statues because he was "beating Lincoln a lot" and "almost" won the war?

WTF??

I guess the GOP has completed its journey from being the party of Lincoln to being the anti-Lincoln party.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.

Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags.  Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.

Wrong.

You can't just say something's wrong because you haven't personally experienced it. I can tell you there are tons of Confederate flags in rural PA, MD, NJ and upstate NY. Nowadays they're more likely to be accompanied by the blue lives matter and the no steppy on snek, but they haven't gone away.

Trump didn't say this in rural PA, MD, NJ or upstate NY. He said it in Minnesota.

[KaiserDave]

Confederate flags up north are a thing. They are not common per say but they're there.