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DoBW

(2,799 posts) Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:58 PM Sunday

from Filipkowski // re: Wounded knee

Excerpt from Ron Filipkowsk's
Today in Politics, Bulletin 215. 9/27/25 --

… Hegseth also put out a video making this announcement: “Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.”

… The Atlantic’s James Surowiecki: “We gave 10 Medals of Honor to US troops who landed in Normandy and fought the Germans on D-Day. We gave 20 Medals of Honor - twice as many - to US cavalrymen who killed hundreds of Lakota, most of them women and children, at Wounded Knee. That’s absurd and embarrassing.”

… “Congress awarded a huge number of Medals of Honor to soldiers who fought at Wounded Knee in order to try to change the narrative around the event. But 135 years later, we shouldn’t be pretending that all of those soldiers ‘deserved’ the highest honor the military bestows.”

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from Filipkowski // re: Wounded knee (Original Post) DoBW Sunday OP

That lousy meathead freak is reshaping military history Klarkashton Sunday #1

Hegseth has no business being involved in any of this. Paper Roses Sunday #2

He has no business running a glory hole in a cathouse in Elko, Nevada . . . hatrack Sunday #11

When will he announce a posthumous award of the MoH to William Calley? Ocelot II Sunday #3

HCR provided an historical perspective a few days ago dweller Sunday #4

Did any heroes of the massacre receive purple hearts for bone-spurs or scratched earlobes? Ping Tung Sunday #5

Our country is currently run by people who are racists, hateful and disgusting. spanone Sunday #6

The Republicans shit all over real honor Champp Sunday #7

There was no Battle at Wounded Knee. There was a Massacre at Wounded Knee. Deuxcents Sunday #8

Atrocities. A massacre. Behold. No Medals of Honor for the butchers of Wounded Knee. LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #9

Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful' LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #10

Klarkashton

(4,139 posts)

1. That lousy meathead freak is reshaping military history

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:11 PM

Sunday

To reflect a bogus ultra christian nationalist narrative that was rejected years ago by well reasoned people that had a conscience. We are returning to very dark times.

Paper Roses

(7,562 posts)

2. Hegseth has no business being involved in any of this.

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:13 PM

Sunday

I am disgusted by any comment he and other's in the trump administration who make comment about which they have no real knowledge.
Daily I am upset with the ignorance of this administration.

hatrack

(63,642 posts)

11. He has no business running a glory hole in a cathouse in Elko, Nevada . . .

Reply to Paper Roses (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:23 PM

Sunday

Not that I'd wish him on the good people of Elko.

Ocelot II

(127,487 posts)

3. When will he announce a posthumous award of the MoH to William Calley?

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:14 PM

Sunday

dweller

(27,221 posts)

4. HCR provided an historical perspective a few days ago

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:18 PM

Sunday

snip

The road to Wounded Knee started in 1884, when voters angry that the Republicans had sold out to big business elected Democrat Grover Cleveland to the presidency. The first Democrat to occupy the White House since before the Civil War, he promised to lower the tariffs that squeezed ordinary Americans in order to protect big business. Horrified at the growing opposition to a government that worked for those industrialists who would soon be called “robber barons,” Republicans began to circulate pamphlets as soon as Cleveland was elected, claiming that lowering the tariff would destroy the economy and warning that voters must return Republicans to power or face economic ruin.

In 1888, Cleveland nonetheless won the popular vote by about 100,000 votes, but after an extraordinarily corrupt campaign, Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison won in the Electoral College. This is “A BUSINESS MAN’S ADMINISTRATION,” the editors of a pro-Harrison newspaper boasted. They predicted that “business men will be thoroughly well content with it.”

Knowing that the popular mood had turned against tariffs and the party that protected them, Harrison Republicans looked for ways to cement their control over the government.

Adding to the Union new states they believed would vote Republican would give them two more seats per state in the Senate, as well as a seat per state in the House of Representatives, and thus three more electors in the Electoral College, for each state has a number of electors equal to the number of senators and representatives combined. Between November 1889 and July 1890 the Republicans added five new states to the Union. They added Washington, Idaho, and Montana. They also divided the huge Dakota Territory in two, creating North Dakota and South Dakota. The new states should give the Republicans ten new seats in the Senate, Harrison’s men noted happily.

more at https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2025

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Ping Tung

(3,760 posts)

5. Did any heroes of the massacre receive purple hearts for bone-spurs or scratched earlobes?

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:24 PM

Sunday

spanone

(140,300 posts)

6. Our country is currently run by people who are racists, hateful and disgusting.

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:29 PM

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Hegseth is a prime example.

Champp

(2,198 posts)

7. The Republicans shit all over real honor

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:31 PM

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and glorify sickos who commit treason against America

Deuxcents

(24,223 posts)

8. There was no Battle at Wounded Knee. There was a Massacre at Wounded Knee.

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:33 PM

Sunday

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,462 posts)

9. Atrocities. A massacre. Behold. No Medals of Honor for the butchers of Wounded Knee.

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 05:00 PM

Sunday

These medals should be rescinded

Link to tweet

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,462 posts)

10. Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful'

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:20 PM

Sunday

Attorney General Rayfield and Governor Kotek say Oregon has no rebellion or unrest to justify President Trump's federal order deploying 200 National Guard troops.

Oregon is suing Trump

Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful' Attorney General Rayfield and Governor Kotek say Oregon has no rebellion or unrest to justify President Trump's federal order deploying 200 National Guard troops.
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— Catherine (@docspkfree.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T21:48:09.835Z

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/oregon-sues-trump-administration-national-guard-deployment/283-1ae97006-d7b3-418f-9b8e-979c7deef629

OREGON, USA — Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Sunday that the state has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration alleging that President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered the deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members for federal law enforcement duties.

The lawsuit, which was filed jointly by the State of Oregon and the City of Portland in U.S. District Court, challenges the legal basis of the federal order. It names President Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and their respective departments as defendants.

In a statement, Rayfield said the deployment is not based on any legitimate threat but is instead “about the President flexing political muscle under the guise of law and order.”

“Oregon communities are stable, and our local officials have been clear: we have the capacity to manage public safety without federal interference,” Rayfield said. “Sending in 200 National Guard troops to guard a single building is not normal.”

According to the Oregon Department of Justice, the order was issued earlier in the day in a memo sent to Governor Tina Kotek. It authorized the guard to protect federal property for 60 days in areas “where protests are occurring or likely to occur.”

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