The Mark of Kaine! Democrats Remain Dedicated to Erasing History
VA Sen. tim kaine trying to weasel a ban on Hegseth changing base names into the military budget
(This and yesterday’s announcement in the New York Times that Charlottesville’s Stonewall Jackson memorial has been ‘beheaded’ and melted shows just how evil these people are. They are they same one’s letting black career criminals free to murder and terrorize our streets. Get ready. Payback’s gonna be a real BITCH! - DD)
VA Sen. tim kaine trying to weasel a ban on Hegseth changing base names into the military budget
Democrat Senator Tim Kaine (Va.) has weaseled an amendment into the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026 that would handcuff Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when it comes to the naming of certain military bases and other Pentagon assets.
Erasure
The Department of Defense took part in the iconoclastic Biden-era sweep of American history that saw graves dug up, statues toppled, animals renamed, busts melted down, and church windows removed.
Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021 — which survived a Dec. 23, 2020, veto by President Donald Trump — former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin established a commission to identify, for the purpose of removal, "names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia to assets of the Department of Defense that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America."
Austin ultimately embraced all of the commission's recommendations.
As a result, nine Army installations took on new names: Fort Bragg in North Carolina became Fort Liberty; Fort Benning in Georgia became Fort Moore; Fort Gordon in Georgia became Fort Eisenhower; Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia became Fort Walker; Fort Hood in Texas became Fort Cavazos; Fort Lee in Virginia became…