Hegseth on restoring a Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery: "We recognize our history. We don't erase it. We don't follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues ... we're proud of our history."
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The only history i acknowledge about the Confederacy is that they were traitorous losers. That's it.
aug 7, 2025, 8:31 pm • 13 1 • view
Someone needs to tell this pinhead that recognizing is not the same as celebrating. Celebrating- as in, erecting statues in commemoration. This loathsome man is vastly unqualified to hold any office.
aug 8, 2025, 7:44 pm • 2 0 • view
The Tuskegee Airmen would love to have a word with history lover Whiskey Pete.
aug 8, 2025, 12:16 am • 15 3 • view
we should have hanged every officer and member of government in the former Confederacy at minimum
aug 7, 2025, 9:37 pm • 3 0 • view
This would be akin to Germany erecting statues and monuments honoring Hitler, Goering, and Goebbles.
aug 8, 2025, 12:19 am • 53 7 • view
HUNDO!
aug 8, 2025, 6:22 am • 1 0 • view
Or Cambodia erecting statues to honor Pol Pot.
aug 8, 2025, 2:53 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, those are on their way next. No cap. #Draculas
aug 8, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
Or in the future Trump, Miller, and Noem.
aug 8, 2025, 12:25 am • 29 0 • view
🤢🤮😵💫😑
aug 8, 2025, 6:23 am • 1 0 • view
When they’re out of office, we will take it down & it will be melted. 🤬🤬🤬
aug 7, 2025, 9:40 pm • 6 1 • view
Why wait until then?
aug 9, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
The shit that Hegseth says is mind-boggling. I wonder what his favorite kool aid flavor is.
aug 8, 2025, 12:50 am • 2 0 • view
aug 7, 2025, 8:17 pm • 4 1 • view
My history is taking the bayonet to traitors, not honoring them. 🤷♀️
aug 7, 2025, 8:33 pm • 6 1 • view
aug 7, 2025, 8:38 pm • 7 2 • view
When he says "we recognize our history" he's literally talking about them. The tRump regime. They are the racist traitors to the United States. Those confederates are their heroes. He's not saying "we" & "our" as in the U.S. citizens feel this way.
aug 7, 2025, 9:06 pm • 10 2 • view
I just want the person that is in charge of our military to not be an idiot. Is that too much to ask?
aug 7, 2025, 9:53 pm • 11 0 • view
It is in this timeline.
aug 8, 2025, 4:43 am • 1 0 • view
He’s proud of his RACIST SLAVER history of abusing and killing HUMAN BEINGS. NAZI!
aug 8, 2025, 9:37 pm • 6 1 • view
I don't think we'll have any trouble remembering that 11 states tried to leave the Union in order to preserve slavery, then waged a traitorous war just to make the point. It doesn't require us to glorify treason and inhumanity to do so.
aug 8, 2025, 1:51 am • 43 6 • view
There removing any references to LGBT people in history
aug 8, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Who wants to tell Hegseth that Confederates weren’t Americans? They were a splinter nation that seceded from America.
aug 10, 2025, 12:35 am • 29 1 • view
Loser gonna back the losers.
aug 10, 2025, 12:58 am • 3 0 • view
As they scramble through national parks trying to erase history that makes them uncomfortable
aug 8, 2025, 1:07 am • 7 0 • view
Someone needs to tell Drunk Pete about history books.
aug 8, 2025, 1:30 am • 4 0 • view
What exactly is there to be proud of about the Confederacy. Be specific
aug 8, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
He’s from Minnesota ffs 🙄
aug 8, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Our forefathers still beat the hell out of the confederates..erecting statues to losers seems like a sad loser thing to do.
aug 7, 2025, 8:17 pm • 19 7 • view
They don't think it over ... looks like we r headed towards civil war redux
aug 8, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
A job unfinished..so many better ways we could’ve gone.
aug 8, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
There are statues and monuments to Vietnam veterans... Do you consider those "a sad loser thing to do"?
aug 7, 2025, 8:40 pm • 1 0 • view
What could that have to do with defeating a slave society that tried to destroy the nation so they could continue to brutalize people at will? Just asking.
aug 7, 2025, 8:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Why avoid the question? Do you stand behind your original opinion?
aug 7, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely.
aug 7, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I haven’t said anything bothers me. American servicemen who fought in service of our nation aren’t the same as men who chose to fight in a rebellion to protect slavery. I’m unsure how you have conflated those two.
aug 8, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
"erecting statues to losers seems like a sad loser thing to do." This you?
aug 8, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
Thought I sensed whisps of smoke above that sea lion dome. What a trap you’ve sprung! Again, soldiers who risked their lives for our nation-mostly with best of intent-don’t equate to those who fought to protect slavery-not in any universe. Indeed, a sad loser thing to celebrate champions of slavery.
aug 8, 2025, 3:32 am • 2 1 • view
Did you just make a contrasting analogy between Vietnam Vets and Confederate leaders? How dare you? Vietnam Vets were everyday Americans sent to fight a non-winnable war. Confederate leaders were men trying desperately to keep ownership of other humans as a way of living for personal enrichment.
aug 10, 2025, 3:02 am • 2 0 • view
It is. Shows exactly who THEY are.
aug 7, 2025, 8:18 pm • 7 0 • view
💯
aug 7, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump's American history starts in 1905 when his father was born in the Bronx. The only history Trump has in America in one of rape pillage and plunder. Construction. He isn't from the south, his people were shooting at us in WWll. Civil war isn't Trump's history. Our history isn't Trump's history.
aug 7, 2025, 10:10 pm • 15 2 • view
This is an especially relevant part of the Trump family history. That's Trump's father, leading the Fascist Parade into Madison Square Garden. Trump's roots are deep in fascism.
aug 7, 2025, 10:21 pm • 10 2 • view
We tore it down once, and we'll do it again.
aug 8, 2025, 1:24 am • 9 0 • view
Dude followed his leader off the cliff a while ago.
aug 7, 2025, 9:09 pm • 3 2 • view
Hegseth: our history = white history. Got it.
aug 7, 2025, 8:12 pm • 24 0 • view
They aren't hiding it anymore
aug 9, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Hegseth should be history
aug 9, 2025, 10:16 pm • 3 0 • view
If they want to respect history, then all confederate monuments should come down & be replaced with the appropriate union general that whooped their ass (in those cases where the union lost that particular battle it should just be replaced tributes to union soliders who died heroically in battle.)
aug 7, 2025, 10:17 pm • 5 0 • view
If only he was smart enough to understand that you acknowledge history without celebrating it with monuments.
aug 8, 2025, 7:02 pm • 2 0 • view
So you are proud that we enslaved other humans and had to fight a civil war to end it.
aug 7, 2025, 8:17 pm • 10 0 • view
…of our history of White Supremacy. Fixed it for you Mr. #SecDefRacistPieceOfShit
aug 9, 2025, 8:44 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s exactly what it is; it’s a fact of history to be written about in history books, not to be honoured with a monument.
aug 10, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
I’m not proud that this country was built by slave labor. What’s wrong with people who are proud of that???
aug 9, 2025, 9:18 pm • 9 0 • view
Proud of a traitorous insurrection? Proud of people who declared war on the United States? Princeton isn’t sending us their finest.
aug 8, 2025, 12:13 am • 7 0 • view
Trump admin: “We recognize our history. We don’t erase it.” Also Trump admin:
aug 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 205 20 • view
And: bsky.app/profile/davi...
aug 8, 2025, 7:58 am • 6 0 • view
Worst human ever. Honestly, how can anyone be as awful as DJT.
aug 8, 2025, 1:07 am • 42 0 • view
Will go down in history as the worst person ever. #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace
aug 10, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
I think we could make a list and keep the top 10 as “History’s Most Horrible”. Stalin, Hitler, to name 2
aug 8, 2025, 2:40 am • 10 0 • view
See my avatar.
aug 10, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
hey - they don’t understand irony and hypocrisy
aug 8, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 0 • view
What a fucking loser
aug 7, 2025, 8:12 pm • 8 0 • view
But you will remove all remnants of slavery at every chance. Fuck you!!! Constantly removing history!!
aug 7, 2025, 8:15 pm • 81 9 • view
Slavery, Native genocide, Japanese American internment camps, Black, Irish, Italian, Latino, Asian, Jewish, and Muslim discrimination (some fueled by the xenophobic #ConvictedFelon today). If Pete wants to acknowledge history, he should admit the confederacy were traitors. Like today’s GOP.
aug 8, 2025, 2:09 pm • 16 2 • view
It’s an inconvenient truth for southerners that the Confederacy killed more United States soldiers than any other enemy the U.S. has fought. I suppose Hegseth will next erect a monument to the Waffen SS at the American cemetery by Omaha Beach, you know, for heritage purposes.
aug 11, 2025, 7:42 pm • 1 1 • view
“…to recognize the service of Americans of all chapters” Um, no. They didn’t want to be part of the nation idiot. That was the point of the civil war. We need to recognize losers?
aug 8, 2025, 5:07 am • 8 0 • view
Thanks for your input. Oh, BTW, you are covering for a probable pedophile so go fuck yourself.
aug 8, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Proud of confederate losers.
aug 8, 2025, 3:12 am • 4 0 • view
Most of what they've been doing is erasing it. Fuck these assholes. Ultimately this creep will probably fade away while mumbling inanely, gripping a near-empty whiskey bottle in a dark alley, speckled with piss.
aug 7, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, as a white, southern person, I'm not proud of that history.
aug 8, 2025, 12:45 am • 4 0 • view
Smug, personified.
aug 8, 2025, 3:48 am • 5 0 • view
*Offer not good for African American soldiers, impeachment displays, or actual history.
aug 8, 2025, 12:03 pm • 2 0 • view
follow up: what are we celebrating, exactly?
aug 10, 2025, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
aug 7, 2025, 10:49 pm • 130 9 • view
Abolitionists are part of history, but I don’t think he is proud of them. I wonder why
aug 8, 2025, 5:55 pm • 9 1 • view
That would be because of the racism.
aug 10, 2025, 7:06 am • 3 0 • view
The name is a whitewash of the original “Confederate Memorial” created by a Confederate sculptor. Its entire design is nothing but celebration of slavery and the Confederacy - located at Arlington Cemetery of all places! You might as well erect a memorial to the Gestapo at Auschwitz.
aug 7, 2025, 9:47 pm • 6 1 • view
....except Stonewall, Black Wall Street, Suffrage...
aug 8, 2025, 11:43 am • 1 0 • view
We honor the traitors of the past? That’s his position?
aug 7, 2025, 8:20 pm • 49 3 • view
The losers love the losers.
aug 9, 2025, 11:08 pm • 2 0 • view
If you’re so proud of history you wouldn’t be erasing it any time is a female, queer person or person of color
aug 7, 2025, 8:36 pm • 3 1 • view
Everything Hegseth and Trump do is meant to rewrite the history of women, Blacks, Hispanics, racists, seditionists and sex offenders as a way to validate their own pathetic (and often dark) personal failings.
aug 8, 2025, 12:46 pm • 9 0 • view
“We should celebrate the losers of the Civil War with statues of traitors that fought to the death to own people and create a government of white supremacy 70 years before Nazi Germany! What’s NOT to be proud of? Only woke people would be against slavery…” - Hegseth and his white nationalist bros
aug 7, 2025, 8:20 pm • 4 1 • view
If the South had won, do you think they’d be putting up statues of Grant or Sherman? I don’t think so….
aug 8, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
Fuck
aug 8, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
The dude whose statue #Hegseth reerected was a KKK "chief judicial officer" who also worshipped the devil #AlbertPike
aug 9, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 1 • view
so he's anti-woke but repeats the Disney myth about lemmings ooooooooooohkaaaaaaaay
aug 7, 2025, 8:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Says the guy who erases women from history
aug 8, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
The same piece of shit that literally erased Navy Veteran Harvey Milk's name from the USNS Harvey Milk is out there saying "we don't erase" history.
aug 7, 2025, 8:44 pm • 3 2 • view
"Proud" They're not even trying to hide the racism anymore.
aug 7, 2025, 11:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Woke means broke, maga tax $$ paying for this shit to go backwards. Distraction. Maga be happy statue coming. The price of eggs is going up and ppl are still eating dogs. Oh yeah 😎 rump still on the Epstein.. pedophile list.
aug 7, 2025, 9:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Except black history, women’s history and Native American history
aug 7, 2025, 8:54 pm • 16 0 • view
He’s erasing women, anyone who’s gay, or anyone of color from history. But yes let’s bring back the racist confederate who lost!!!! They need to prosecute Nazis in the US and the confederates!! Hateful humans
aug 7, 2025, 8:18 pm • 101 1 • view
Yea the hell with prosecution Nazi lives don’t matter neither do klan lives
aug 8, 2025, 4:10 pm • 2 0 • view
I can't listen to this racist MF!!!
aug 8, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
he's proud of *white people's* racist history www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
aug 8, 2025, 12:02 am • 37 4 • view
Will Cain needs an ass whooping. That’s all….
aug 8, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
What an idiot.
aug 10, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
Epstein
aug 8, 2025, 12:58 am • 3 0 • view
Unlike even the Russians who destroyed Lenin and Stalin’s. Don’t see any Hitler monuments in Germany come to think of it.
aug 7, 2025, 10:24 pm • 2 0 • view
In other words, Pete is a proud racist and traitor.
aug 8, 2025, 12:10 pm • 11 1 • view
One has to ask which part of the Confederacy is he most proud of? Slavery? Insurrection? Treason? Ultimate defeat (although the jury is still out on that one)?
aug 8, 2025, 12:44 pm • 8 0 • view
When you say "Our" history, Mr. Hegseth, what exactly do you mean by "Our?" Because the people honored by those monuments did NOT want to be Americans. They fought viciously AGAINST the USA. Put those monuments on Confederate States soil. Oh... right.
aug 8, 2025, 2:50 am • 7 1 • view
“Straight-Acting”
aug 10, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Didn't you rename a ship because its name sake heroes were gay? Yeah, sure, Lyin' Pete. (In his demo, it's the sick nicknames that get one's attention.)
aug 7, 2025, 8:32 pm • 3 2 • view
Follow up question you should ask you spineless choad “So, to hear you correctly, you want to honor the people who tried to secede from the Union, failed, lost the war & in turn, re-erect statues in honor of their failed insurrection?” Where are the statues of Hitler in Germany? Mussolini in Italy?
aug 9, 2025, 10:00 pm • 10 0 • view
Think about Germans are proud of the Nazi
aug 7, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Not all history is worthy of pride.
aug 7, 2025, 8:17 pm • 7 0 • view
Except black history. Black history they erase every trace of.
aug 7, 2025, 8:15 pm • 255 6 • view
Ahem. Headbreath, been to the Smithsonian lately? How bout this: awesome how your boss took Colin Powell out of the cemetery directory, you trunt.
aug 8, 2025, 6:21 am • 1 0 • view
That would never be erase. How can they erase that is true. That's why I tell parents teach your kids history if you don't know it learn it.
aug 10, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
Not just black history. They erase all history except white, heterosexual, christian history.
aug 8, 2025, 1:11 am • 2 0 • view
youtu.be/b-GxaZP5YNs There are so many unsung Blacks who helped build, teach, and defend this country, that this and subsequent videos will barely scratch the surface. These are names most people don't know, and don't usually study in school, yet we ALL benefit from their hard work and sacrifice.
aug 10, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Much of black and native American history lies beneath blood, dirt, and water. I can no longer walk the land of my ancestors (Chota), it now lies beneath a lake.
aug 7, 2025, 8:33 pm • 115 9 • view
This also happened on the San Carlos Apache reservation, when their vital economic town was wiped out for the Coolidge dam. Apparently this phenomen was nationwide .. genocide by other means iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
aug 8, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Steal their homeland, and it is easier to divide a nation. We see that happening time and again throughout history. It is happening to another country as we watch.
aug 8, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
My people’s homeland was stolen 2k years ago by the Romans. Many were forced into exile. Others stayed. While Jews never forgot their homeland (Yisrael is evoked in daily prayers), Palestinians remained rooted to place. Same homeland, same people? Either way, this war is an unjustifiable horror.
aug 8, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree. I am sickened by what they are doing. It is unfathomable. How could human beings treat other people this way? It is a war crime, plain and simple.
aug 8, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup. Kinzua dam flooded the Cornplanter tract, the only land in the state of Pennsylvania that still belonged to the Seneca.
aug 7, 2025, 10:20 pm • 48 2 • view
I am sorry. It is such a great loss, one that cannot be repaired. 😢
aug 7, 2025, 11:35 pm • 18 1 • view
Says a lot that Hegseth finds it easier to identify with treasonous slavers than he does people with dark skin.
aug 8, 2025, 11:46 am • 2 0 • view
And women leaders. And Stonewall. So, in short, we're proud of our racism.
aug 7, 2025, 11:25 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 9, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Woke 2 needs to be we destroy every confederate monument
aug 8, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m way past the point where I’ll be polite about this. You don’t want to be called Nazis/Confederates/White Supremacists? Stop doing this shit.
aug 8, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
Also, does it really cost 10 million dollars to put it back or are you lining pockets?
aug 7, 2025, 8:36 pm • 14 1 • view
After that zeldin crap this morning, you just knew it’s gonna be a banner day the very very stupid
aug 7, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
That drunk bastard is too stupid to realize that the Confederacy was enemy combatants like his German Nazi Heroes.
aug 8, 2025, 1:03 am • 2 0 • view
Ok it’s time. F.Y.A.T. (F$ck You And Them) Pass it on.
aug 8, 2025, 2:25 am • 5 1 • view
Yes, we're proud that 2% of the U.S. population slaughtered each other as part of an effort to maintain chattel slavery and genocide.
aug 7, 2025, 9:50 pm • 11 0 • view
Actually, Hegseth isn't really erasing the history that feeds on a certain strain of pride....
aug 9, 2025, 10:03 pm • 2 0 • view
We have books for history. Some might call them history books.
aug 7, 2025, 8:11 pm • 111 4 • view
Howard Zinn's book on American history has been added to banned book lists.
aug 8, 2025, 10:27 am • 0 0 • view
*had
aug 7, 2025, 9:24 pm • 58 0 • view
many are saying this
aug 8, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
Have another, alcoholic Pete. You might look even more ridiculous.
aug 7, 2025, 8:46 pm • 1 1 • view
I'd *almost* buy the "history" angle if the statues had gone up in 1864. They didn't. They waited decades after the war to start, with a construction frenzy every time Black Americans won any rights. They've always just been rallying points for racism. As shown.
aug 10, 2025, 8:26 am • 13 0 • view
Except for the history he personally erased.
aug 7, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Sick pig is the one who IS tearing down statues. He is a Christian Nationalist Lemming.
aug 13, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
What’s crazy about this interview is that this is just about the only person Will Cain is smarter than.
aug 7, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s not history to be proud of though…that’s the part they seem to not understand. They’re proud of being traitors???
aug 7, 2025, 8:24 pm • 55 3 • view
Are they proud of fighting to keep four million people from EVER escaping slavery?
aug 8, 2025, 2:52 am • 1 0 • view
Actually they’re Nazis, so yes they’re likely proud of that part. 😒
aug 8, 2025, 10:33 am • 1 0 • view
Just like they're proud of rounding up anybody who's brown or has an accent and subjecting them to torture in concentration camps.
aug 8, 2025, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup. If they have zero issues with this, they have zero issues enslaving black people and we know it.
aug 8, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m proud of Arkansas for lots of reasons. Being part of the Confederacy is not one of them.
aug 7, 2025, 11:09 pm • 31 0 • view
Joseph T. Robinson? Lots of New Deal stuff?
aug 10, 2025, 7:07 am • 0 0 • view
PROUD of the Civil War? PROUD of slavery, Jim Crow, Trail of Tears, Tulsa massacre, Japanese internment camps, That is all history too and we acknowledge it and learn but we don't HONOR those involved.
aug 8, 2025, 2:23 pm • 10 0 • view
And when ya'll are gone they will be taken down again. We'll make sure nothing like this ever happens again. Lemmings 🐁 lmao ya'll just keep following the Pie Eyed Piper We'll wait here.
aug 9, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
Translation "We're proud racists"
aug 7, 2025, 9:45 pm • 5 2 • view
Irony is off the scale right here.
aug 7, 2025, 8:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Hegseth's next round of statues include: Benjamin Lincoln, John Parker Hale, and Ross Perot. He's calling the series "Great Losers In Presidential Elections" and believes it's important we not forget our history. /s
aug 7, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 1 • view
Learning about and from our history is much different than being “proud” of every aspect of it. Yes, America is the sum of all the good and the bad from our history, and we should continue to strive to be a more perfect union. But to be “proud” of our slavery past is another level of depravity.
aug 9, 2025, 9:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Hegseth is begging to be beaten up in near future.
aug 7, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
So proud to be a racist shitstain he needs statues of other racist shitstains to show it
aug 7, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Confederates were literally anti-american. Why would you be proud of the people who tried to destroy our country?
aug 8, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
They seem totally comfortable erasing Black, POC, women, and LGBTQ+ history though…..
aug 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 11 0 • view
It won't work. God only had the mighty power. Not mankind. What do God say in the Bible mankind will destroy the Earth. And Trump is Antichrist.
aug 10, 2025, 12:24 am • 2 0 • view
Is he expecting maga to yell “Sieg Heil!” ?
aug 8, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 1 • view
They are very proud of their hate and they are free to show it because absolutely no one is holding them accountable for it.
aug 7, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re proud of confederates in a devastating civil war? Wot.
aug 7, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Arlington Cemetery is literally built on the confiscated estate of Robert E Lee as a memorial to our fallen Union Soldiers and a reminder that the Confederacy lost.
aug 7, 2025, 8:17 pm • 720 49 • view
Lee managed the estate as executor of his father-in-law's will, for his wife and son, the heirs, but it was never "his" personally.
aug 7, 2025, 8:21 pm • 47 0 • view
It definitely wasn’t his after he got whupped
aug 7, 2025, 9:33 pm • 221 1 • view
I never knew this story - thanks Bluesky for inspiring me to find out more www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
aug 7, 2025, 11:26 pm • 116 11 • view
We should confiscate Trump's golf course, where he buried his ex wife, and turn it into a National Cemetery for women who are victims of domestic violence.
aug 8, 2025, 11:12 am • 2 0 • view
Same! Thanks for posting this link.
aug 8, 2025, 1:06 am • 12 0 • view
Meigs, according to Geoffrey Ward, when asked if the graves should be arranged by state: “No. Mix them up. I’ve had enough of States’ rights.”
aug 8, 2025, 1:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Feel better for that bit of nuance?
aug 8, 2025, 12:17 am • 11 0 • view
Yes.
aug 8, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t seem to make a scintilla of difference, does it?
aug 8, 2025, 12:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Of course it does. Arlington House is named "The Robert E. Lee Memorial." The more it's known that Lee never owned any part of Arlington, and in fact it was built as a memorial to Custis's adoptive father/step-grandfather, George Washington, the easier it will be to change that. Facts always matter.
aug 8, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Bless your heart.
aug 8, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks. If you want to know why things happened in history, you don't just accept misinformation or fake facts handed down through propaganda campaigns, you look for and share real facts. Some people are dismissive or defensive about that sometimes, but the truth is still worth sharing.
aug 8, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Lost Cause propagandists tried and try to create sympathy for Lee over his "stolen land," and build him up by pretending Arlington was a longstanding Lee estate. It wasn't.
aug 8, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Understanding real facts about Arlington is a key to understanding the history of the United States and slavery in America, from the colonial period through the founding and the Civil War.
aug 8, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Many propagandists say Lee believed slavery was a moral and political evil because he said so once in a letter to his wife ARGUING TO CONTINUE SLAVERY at Arlington when his wife and mother-in-law were more opposed to doing so. His statement is actually boilerplate PRO-SLAVERY rhetoric of the time.
aug 8, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
One of the best views of DC is from the porch of the Custis Lee House in the Arlington Cemetery
aug 10, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
Fun fact: Robert E Lee himself didn't want confederate statues because he believed the losing side shouldn't be honored
aug 8, 2025, 1:08 am • 25 1 • view
They shouldn't be.
aug 8, 2025, 4:56 am • 6 0 • view
And we cannot let this be forgotten Trump vulgar photo op at Arlington National Cemetery A photo op He’s smiling and thumbs up??? Where our fallen are buried??? Only a traitor or adversary to the US would be smiling & thumbs up
aug 8, 2025, 1:32 pm • 2 1 • view
Good point
aug 8, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
They are losers, they are keenly aware that they are losers, and they want to make your life hurt as bad as theirs does every morning when they wake up and realize, again, that they are losers. #FUMAGA #DumbFascism
aug 8, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
He only follows the fascist lemmings.
aug 7, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
He would be proud of a group of losers who broke away from the country because they couldn't own people anymore.
aug 7, 2025, 8:29 pm • 1 1 • view
Hegseth is a fascist.
aug 7, 2025, 9:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Imagine being proud of loser, racist seditionists!
aug 8, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
Geezes!!! That’s as bad as if Germany said they are proud of their history and put up statues of Hitler.
aug 7, 2025, 11:50 pm • 3 0 • view
It would be difficult to invent a group of people that were more fundamentally unAmerican than this administration.
aug 9, 2025, 10:58 pm • 6 0 • view
Didn’t he rename the Enola Gay?
aug 8, 2025, 1:16 am • 3 0 • view
That’s not OUR history. That’s the history of those who rebelled against the United States.
aug 8, 2025, 12:29 am • 8 0 • view
It's the history of a nation that no longer exists.
aug 8, 2025, 1:25 am • 4 0 • view
Proud of traitors? Proud of slavery? Seems like an odd stance.
aug 7, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Jackie Robinson would like a word. And the Enolagay.
aug 7, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 1 • view
Oh good, so now we’ll be taking statues down and putting them back up every 4-8 years. In theory
aug 7, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg Monument, now! I mean since we're honoring traitors now.
aug 8, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
They’re proud of starting a civil war with their own country over enslaving an entire race of humans. How nice…
aug 8, 2025, 12:29 am • 7 1 • view
They’re trying to do it again.
aug 10, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The Gulf of Mexico would like a word.
aug 7, 2025, 9:20 pm • 3 0 • view
"We're proud of treason and the deaths of thousands of Americans."
aug 7, 2025, 11:38 pm • 12 4 • view
Amazing how they simultaneously believe that the confederacy worthy of celebration as heritage and also evil democrats (which are the same as modern day democrats) did slavery and republicans (which are the same as modern day republicans) stopped it. Skull collapsing levels of cognitive dissonance
aug 8, 2025, 12:07 am • 3 0 • view
I hope history remembers drunk uncle pete as a confederate apologist who spent his last days as an inmate at Guantanamo.
aug 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 4 0 • view
So… drinking all day can lead to owning your racism 🤔
aug 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 4 2 • view
Except black history, impeachments of your mob boss and any other history you don’t like.
aug 7, 2025, 11:46 pm • 6 0 • view
If one were to point out the "Wide Awakes" I'm guessing they'd get erased. www.nps.gov/articles/000...
aug 7, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Fucknut wants to honor traitors. Traitors who fought to defend SLAVERY.
aug 8, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1 0 • view
“The history that we like, anyway…”
aug 8, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
"Lemmings". That's a real choice of words, seeing that one side consisted of poor boys marching without boots, without rations, without uniforms, all to prop up a regime of well-to-do proto-Nazis.
aug 8, 2025, 12:55 am • 3 0 • view
I've never been so drunk I've asked to restore confederate monuments, and I am a recovering alcoholic.
aug 7, 2025, 8:15 pm • 47 0 • view
I’m practicing and my rants are like “let’s put chefs in schools” - feed the kids and employ more chefs!
aug 7, 2025, 9:09 pm • 7 0 • view
Hey man, chefs gotta eat, too.
aug 7, 2025, 9:44 pm • 4 0 • view
Does he want a re-run of the Civil War?
aug 8, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Gawd he’s an asshole!
aug 8, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
History will have things to say about this person and his tenure at the DoD.
aug 9, 2025, 10:54 pm • 5 0 • view
I'm waiting for him to announce that Arlington National Cemetery is being renamed to Robert E Lee Estate.
aug 8, 2025, 11:44 am • 2 0 • view
Lincoln should have hanged all of the confederate generals and politicians right in front of the White House.
aug 7, 2025, 9:30 pm • 9 2 • view
Exactly! That was a huge mistake, and we all know how Johnson (and eventually Rutherford Hayes) undid everything that Lincoln, General Sherman, and Edwin Stanton started for Reconstruction.
aug 8, 2025, 3:49 am • 1 0 • view
Hegseth is proud of the Civil War??? Unbelievable.
aug 10, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
His racist heritage again?
aug 7, 2025, 9:54 pm • 12 1 • view
Says the guy working for the guy who had the Smithsonian take down his history of impeachment.
aug 7, 2025, 8:21 pm • 20 1 • view
such a good point
aug 8, 2025, 1:17 am • 3 0 • view
Meanwhile, many of us are being erased, at this regime's whim, from both history and the present day.
aug 8, 2025, 2:27 am • 11 0 • view
I’m proud of the Union soldiers that blew this motherfucker’s ancestors away.
aug 8, 2025, 12:23 am • 5 0 • view
Yes, #AlcoholicPete is so proud of our history that, under his leadership, the Pentagon erased every woman, person of color or LGBTQ person from its history portion of the website. Even the Enola Gay was briefly disappeared.
aug 7, 2025, 11:26 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 7, 2025, 8:20 pm • 19 4 • view
Madness!
aug 8, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
He's proud of slavery? Says a lot.
aug 8, 2025, 2:27 pm • 6 0 • view
proud of symbols of oppression and treason? Of course he is.
aug 7, 2025, 9:28 pm • 2 1 • view
All I hear is "we're proud of the Confederacy".
aug 8, 2025, 12:04 am • 12 0 • view
Also, lemmings don't do that. Woke or otherwise.
aug 8, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
We should not be proud of all of our history.
aug 8, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
But we must acknowledge and confront it no matter how painful the truth may be. There is no moving forward toward racial harmony without taking this first step.
aug 10, 2025, 4:14 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, and we can certainly do that without honoring awful people!
aug 10, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
Only idiots are proud of having their ass fucking handed to them.
aug 7, 2025, 8:16 pm • 4 0 • view
Confederate history is not OUR history, it is the history of a failed rebellion that didn't even last as long as the COVID lockdown.
aug 7, 2025, 9:53 pm • 23 0 • view
Unless it's BIPOC American, women or Indigenous people's history.
aug 8, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
It ain’t my history dumbass
aug 7, 2025, 8:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly, it isn't mine because Im a DAR 3x over and we always lived in the NORTH
aug 9, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
If anyone has a legit claim to the United States, it is Native Americans. Us white Europeans came here, killed as many as we could, stole their land, installed them in little parcels called reservations. Oh, and we allow them to run casinos. They conveniently forget we are all immigrants.
aug 7, 2025, 8:18 pm • 3 1 • view
They are ashamed of our history. That's why they have to distort it to death.
aug 7, 2025, 8:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep, Trump supporters belong with the Nazis and the Confederates.
aug 10, 2025, 7:34 am • 0 0 • view
Why are we wasting money on Confederate monuments?
aug 7, 2025, 8:19 pm • 4 0 • view
"we" aren't. 😎😎😎
aug 8, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
And the most vile of these? The first & only time that POS LOSER flag was in the US Capitol Part of the j6 attempted coup That flag should have been banned Burned & every POS confederate icon destroyed Southern pride? FuQ yall!!
aug 8, 2025, 1:26 pm • 9 2 • view
Someone needs to destroy that statue in a really emasculating way.
aug 7, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Coming from the people gutting websites and institutions- eliminating the history of women & blacks in the military, Jackie Robinson, articles of the constitution, Trump from the Smithsonian impeachment exhibit… Hegseth lies and says “We don’t erase” history. America calls bullshit.
aug 8, 2025, 2:30 am • 28 2 • view
History can never be erased. That's like erasing God.
aug 10, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
“We’re proud of” the confederacy? As a soldier does Pete hegseth approve of soldiers taking up arms against the United States?
aug 10, 2025, 12:58 am • 3 0 • view
He means racists. Racists are proud of their history.
aug 10, 2025, 1:04 am • 1 0 • view
As they as making sure the Smithsonian doesn’t include Trump in their impeachment history display….
aug 7, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
But NOT Harvey Milk ?!?!?
aug 8, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I suspect Hegseth is only acting on Trump orders. Just a mouthpiece for Trump
aug 8, 2025, 5:01 am • 1 0 • view
Sounds more like Stephen Miller- there are complete sentences.
aug 8, 2025, 5:12 am • 6 0 • view
😂
aug 8, 2025, 5:50 am • 2 0 • view
You took Harvey Milk's name off a Naval ship
aug 8, 2025, 12:12 am • 575 36 • view
Yea that was stupid and homophobic as hell
aug 8, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Homophobe.... Great leader for United States of America....freedom and justice for all (sarcasm)
aug 8, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
We don’t erase “our” history
aug 8, 2025, 2:22 am • 7 0 • view
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aug 8, 2025, 1:29 am • 127 3 • view
Or black, or brown, or women. Basically everything that is not white male.
aug 8, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Or black stuff. Or women's stuff.
aug 8, 2025, 4:47 am • 137 2 • view
He’s the fucking worst: bsky.app/profile/torr...
aug 8, 2025, 4:49 am • 62 11 • view
Proud of the values of the Confederacy Pete?
aug 7, 2025, 8:12 pm • 13 0 • view
Next up - his Ted Bundy statue
aug 8, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
#1 this is red meat for their dwindling support. #2 he’s a racist. The lack of accountability by the confederate fans was a huge failure. Folks capitalized on slavery 💰. And carved confederate statues, busts and images all over with no pushback. This should be heavily contested.
aug 7, 2025, 9:09 pm • 3 1 • view
This is America. We love 2nd place.
aug 7, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 1 • view
Just so we’re clear, Hegseth wants to honor a general from an army that lost the war who supported slavery and was a KKK member. Got it. 👍
aug 7, 2025, 8:33 pm • 34 8 • view
The perfect choice for these cruel, racist idiots. 😡
aug 8, 2025, 11:38 am • 5 0 • view
Yup. May his comeuppance match his cruelty.
aug 8, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
MAGA agenda
aug 8, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Follow up question: and why do you ban books about slavery?
aug 7, 2025, 10:44 pm • 11 1 • view
Because they hate the fact that's the truth. And that's why it's important that people continue teaching their children about history. They don't go back and make the same mistake ever again. They did the same thing to God think about it.
aug 10, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
One can recognize history without honoring traitors
aug 9, 2025, 1:36 pm • 7 0 • view
Spinning cautionary tales of lemmings …as they literally genuflect at the feet of the Feral Yam. This fucking timeline I swear.
aug 8, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
If you’re on the side of the confederacy then you’re a loser just like they were
aug 7, 2025, 9:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Why have a monument to people who didn't want to be part of the United States? why celebrate traitors? wait, I just remembered what type of people these are.
aug 8, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
They’re proud of our history, but don’t want students to learn about it. Go figure.
aug 10, 2025, 12:07 pm • 7 0 • view
Anti American Loser is proud of his history of anti American losers? Quaint. I guess it goes in step that the rest of the world sees us as losers now too
aug 7, 2025, 8:33 pm • 2 1 • view
Why can't Kegseth say anything in a non-angry, non-condescending tone?
aug 8, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
It's the same MAGA voice they all use; condescending, smug, whiny.
aug 9, 2025, 9:51 pm • 2 0 • view
The booze & drugs don’t help either, am sure 😒
aug 9, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
The Confederacy was a foreign country that attacked the United States with the intention of destroying it. Should we put up a monument to Saddam Hussein?
aug 8, 2025, 4:54 am • 4 0 • view
Remember you lost and you will loose again!
aug 7, 2025, 8:13 pm • 9 0 • view
Except if the history involves a person of color, a woman or a non-Christian
aug 7, 2025, 11:58 pm • 34 2 • view
Let’s throw disabled people on that list. Also immigrants
aug 8, 2025, 2:38 am • 16 0 • view
And Black people and queer people
aug 8, 2025, 3:13 am • 15 0 • view
Blue states and blue voters
aug 8, 2025, 3:56 am • 8 0 • view
True
aug 8, 2025, 4:11 am • 3 0 • view
California and Democrats
aug 8, 2025, 4:17 am • 5 0 • view
West Point Old Chapel should restore the plaque for Benedict Arnold
aug 7, 2025, 11:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Flat out traitor in every definition
aug 7, 2025, 11:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Two Fox morons.
aug 7, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s a breath away from admitting out loud that he’s a proud racist/misogynist/homophobe.
aug 7, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Proud of treason? That tracks.
aug 7, 2025, 11:16 pm • 18 1 • view
The white supremacists are proud of "our history" but they don't mean the United States.
aug 7, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
"We're proud of our history...(even the treason, apparently)." "We...recognize the service of Americans of all chapters." The rebels too? Hmm.
aug 9, 2025, 11:30 am • 0 0 • view
History? Arlington Cemetery was sited on land seized from Robert E. Lee for the internment of the remains of dead Union soldiers. The statue of a traitorous Confederate general was erected fifty years later, a desecration of hallowed ground, by historical revisionists. Should be used as a urinal.
aug 8, 2025, 1:31 am • 4 0 • view
Hypocrisy has been butchered by this administration.
aug 7, 2025, 9:58 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s proud of sedition
aug 8, 2025, 11:07 am • 0 0 • view
We're proud to venerate traitors and failures who attacked and murdered United States soldiers. Good job Hegseth.
aug 7, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
“We’re proud of our history of……treason in defense of human bondage.”
aug 7, 2025, 8:38 pm • 2 0 • view
"Our history" as in our Conferderate history. So he is stating he is a confederate.
aug 8, 2025, 3:08 am • 3 0 • view
The confederacy is a shitstain on our history just like the current lawless illegitimate regime squatting in the White House
aug 8, 2025, 4:12 am • 16 0 • view
aug 10, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
Hegseth can barely remember what happened after his most recent alcoholic binge, much less what happened in history.
aug 8, 2025, 12:10 pm • 2 0 • view
He IS proud of the states that fought a war against our country because they wanted to be able to own other humans.
aug 7, 2025, 8:12 pm • 25 0 • view
From Arlington -- we don't want it.
aug 8, 2025, 12:16 am • 3 0 • view
There's a big difference between recognizing history and celebrating it. Something this chump will never understand.
aug 7, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view