Category: politics
bookmark_borderTrump hopes to change Denali back to Mt. McKinley
Good news: President-Elect Trump plans to change the name of North America’s tallest mountain, currently known as Denali, back to its original name of Mt. McKinley.
At a recent rally in Phoenix, Trump said he wants to return president William McKinley’s name to the Alaskan mountain because “he was a great president” and “I think he deserves it.” (source)
The mountain was given the name Mt McKinley in 1917 but was changed to Denali, the indigenous word for “High One,” in 2015 by the Obama administration. Obama’s Department of the Interior alleged that McKinley lacked any “significant historical connection to the mountain or to Alaska.” The name originated from a gold prospector who, upon learning that McKinley had won the Republican nomination for president, named the mountain in his honor.
In my opinion, this is great news because it signals Trump’s willingness to take the side of historical figures rather than the politically correct bullies who aim to obliterate them from existence. The renaming of Mt. McKinley took place well before the horrific genocide that erupted in the spring of 2020, so Trump’s plan to restore the name can’t really be counted as reversing any part of this genocide. But it’s cool to see an honor (hopefully) being returned to a historical figure who, as Trump points out, didn’t really deserve to have it taken away. Erasing historical figures – whether in the form of names, holidays, statues, plaques, memorials, or other public art – is something that is rarely reversed. Hopefully the plan to return Mt. McKinley to its rightful name is a sign of similar things to come.
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bookmark_borderTrump with Daniel Penny (and more) at Army-Navy game
So cool to see:
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bookmark_borderAmerica to start building monuments to heroes and heroines again?
Donald Trump posted the following yesterday on Truth social:
America is going to start building monuments to our great heroes and heroines again!!! DJT
12/10/24 at 10:58 a.m.
(source here)
This is an encouraging sentiment to hear. Hopefully we start with the heroes and heroines whose monuments were unjustly torn down.
bookmark_borderWise words from Cenk Uygur
I recently saw an interesting quote from Cenk Uygur, host of the radio show “The Young Turks”:
“I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won. I know now. MAGA is not my mortal enemy (and neither is the extreme left). My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!”
Source: Fox News
I feel the exact same way. I consider the establishment to be my enemy, even more than those on the far left. I tend to hold what would be considered far-right positions on most issues, but I feel more warmly towards people who hold far-left positions than I do towards people who hold wishy-washy, moderate positions with no real ideological principles behind them (in other words, the establishment). My opinion of Cenk Uygur has definitely improved after reading this quote. I seem to have a kindred spirit from the opposite side of the political spectrum. Perhaps the far left and the far right have more in common than most people realize.
bookmark_borderTrump to pardon unjustly convicted Capitol protesters
According to Yahoo News, president-elect Trump is planning to pardon people who were unjustly charged and convicted for the crime of participating in a protest whose message the establishment disagrees with. This is fantastic news, as it is appalling that these people were charged with crimes in the first place (or criticized in any way, for that matter). And even better, Trump plans to jail members of the committee that decided to treat a protest that they disagree with, as somehow meriting investigation.
Yahoo’s headline is a bit confusing, as there is no such thing as “Capitol rioters.”
The headline, of course, ought to read “Trump vows to pardon Capitol protesters and jail Jan. 6 committee members.”
Notwithstanding Yahoo’s defamatory and inaccurate headline, this is good news indeed.
bookmark_borderDonald Trump and world leaders are re-opening of Notre Dame
Another cool Trump update: he and other world leaders attended the beautiful ceremony for the re-opening of the Notre Dame cathedral after it was severely damaged in a fire in 2019:
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He also greeted some U.S. marines who are stationed in France as part of his visit:
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bookmark_borderTrump wins Patriot of the Year award from Fox Nation
A cool update: president-elect Donald Trump has won Fox Nation’s Patriot of the Year award and spoke at the award ceremony in New York:
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bookmark_borderWise words from Charlamagne tha God
“I just want Democrats to stop acting like they are on this moral high ground politically when they have shown us that they’re not.”
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Bingo. One of the most angering things about those on the left-hand side of the political spectrum is their stuck-up, sneering, condescending, and contemptuous attitudes. In other words, their belief that they hold the moral high ground. As radio host Charlamagne tha God points out, they most certainly do not.