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Wonkette pulls no punches and, unlike recent Dems, they are excellent at messaging. Repub lies should never be met with polite demurs. Fortunately, more and more of the upcoming Dems can fight like junkyard dogs when it's needed.

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Because he's not a black woman and that would anger the Repubs a lot more. Harriet Tubman, maybe.

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Or siblings?

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I still think it was originally part of a merry-go-round.

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The Confederacy may have existed for five years, but its rotting zombie is still with us.

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Judging by the statue above, Tennessee is home to some fine racist sculptors. /s ( except for "racist")

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Sort of like T****’s presidency.

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Yeah, occasionally I feel sorry for those guys (and gals). It’s hard to write parody when the rest of the world has gone bonkers.

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This.

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Unfortunately, this statue, located outside Nashville, is on private property and will be a thing of ugliness and horror for a long time to come. It's right beside the epxressway.

Memphis had a Forrest statue in a public park. It took decades to get rid of it, but we managed.

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"Your generals arе dead and buriedLost to time, thе cause they carriedThe statues that they never earnedWe'll bulldoze as your flags are burned"

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I actually like it. The shitty sculpting job suits its subject perfectly.

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In the Gothic Horror wing.

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what I thought it was at first.

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Nat Forrest was a grade a motherfucker and needs to be forgotten but every time I see that statue of him above, I think Forrest look like a demented puppet. Maybe we should leave that one up because it sure as hell doesn't immortalize NBF in any good way.

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Seeing this is Wonkette, it should be canned with the clams or placed in the trebuchet.

With fyre.

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