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https://www.kltv.com/2020/07/23/rep-gohmert-calls-congress-ban-democrats-due-past-position-slavery/Rep. Louie Gohmert has introduced a resolution calling for Congress to to ban any political organization or party that has ever held a public position supportive of slavery or the Confederacy.
Gohmert specifically pointed at the Democratic Partys position on slavery.
Gohmert released the following statement:
As outlined in the resolution, a great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their partys loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isnt so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan. As the country watches violent leftists burn our cities, tear down our statues and call upon every school, military base and city street to be renamed, it is important to note that past atrocities these radicals claim to be so violently offensive were largely committed by members in good standing of the Democratic Party. Whether it be supporting the most vile forms of racism or actively working against Civil Rights legislation, Democrats in this country perpetuated these abhorrent forms of discrimination and violence practically since their partys inception. To avoid triggering innocent bystanders by the racist past of the Democratic Party, I would suggest they change their name. That is the standard to which they are holding everyone else, so the name change needs to occur.
Gohmerts resolution is co-sponsored by Reps. Andy Biggs, Jody Hice, Randy Weber and Andy Harris.
underpants
(182,904 posts)Nothing better to do?
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)...to make an idiotic point.
This tool wants stuff that happened 160 years ago to matter, during a pandemic & a recession.
Moron!
bluestarone
(17,058 posts)YOUR true colors and RUSSIAN thoughts!!!
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)Go fuck yourself, Louie. You rancid, stupid sack of shit.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)ace3csusm
(969 posts)displayed with his thru out the south...
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)what he wishes for. The GOP of the South used to be Dixiecrats as one recalls.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)and that there were no Republicans back then that did not believe in slavery or were not racists.
Fn idiot
HelpImSurrounded
(441 posts)Let's assume this somehow passed.
Overnight, the Democrat Party would disband and, being a non-profit corporpation it would have to give it's assets to some group. So, the DNC has already formed a new poltical corporation with a new name to receive all those assets.
Voila, the Democratic Party is rebranded as something shiny and new and the cons can no longer make their dumbass arguments about Democrats because this new party is wholly new and innocent of any negativity from the past.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)Doesn't know what a Town Hall is if one fell on him. Coming from here you have to be a tool of the oil companies. He is that and more. I'll just say that he always knows what Trump ate the day before!
hurl
(938 posts)spanone
(135,884 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Specifically: Working with the Russians.
PCIntern
(25,591 posts)Republican sniveling motherfuckers.
imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)This is some mediocre bullsh*t per usual from gohmert. The man is embarrassing to the entire state.
Go take another look at Hank Gilbert - looks like he has genuinely good ideas.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)Associate Gohmert with Gen. Sherman.
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Confederate flag, Party of Lincoln
Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Uncle Billy Sherman, Union man and REPUBLICAN.
Who finally out-general-ed R.E. Lee and took Richmond? U.S. Grant, REPUBLICAN and later, REPUBLICAN president.
Just whose side are you on, Louie?
stillcool
(32,626 posts)drive to D.C., and have a Jimmy Stewart/Mr. Smith experience with a bit of Rambo tossed in.
onethatcares
(16,188 posts)except for Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, and Gym Jordan.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Deported to Russia.
lastlib
(23,303 posts)doesn't play with subatomic particles!
mshasta
(2,108 posts)The snake flags are part of repuklans, KkK are entirely republiklan,
onetexan
(13,062 posts)moondust
(20,006 posts)jmowreader
(50,563 posts)You realize Donald Trump, Your Lord and Savior, supports the Confederacy, correct?
VOX
(22,976 posts)When ALL the racist yahoos scuttled to the Republican Party.
The Democratic Party CHANGED its ideals, became more inclusive and forward-thinking regarding social issues.
The Republican Party has been stuck in reverse since, what? WWII? Post-Eisenhower? To the point now, where theyre completely insane.