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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,698 posts) Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:26 AM Feb 2018

"Not a lot of schools and streets are named after Joe McCarthy"

tweeted James Comey. I wonder how many schools and streets will be ever be named after Dolt 45? The GOPers were eager to name every structure larger than a garden shed after Reagan, but despite all their fawning and groveling over him now, betcha once Jabba the Trump is gone they won't be looking for airports and courthouses and highways to name after him.

How many schools, streets, airports, federal buildings, etc., got named after Nixon?

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"Not a lot of schools and streets are named after Joe McCarthy" (Original Post) The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 OP

How many will be named after Comey? NCTraveler Feb 2018 #1

That really isn't the point, though, is it? The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #4

I believe it is a point. NCTraveler Feb 2018 #5

But nobody has even suggested naming anything after him, The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #8

? Sanity Claws Feb 2018 #7

Because bashing Comey is a thing. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #9

City took down the trump plaza sign in Chicago by his building a long time ago 2016 lunasun Feb 2018 #2

So they're already un-naming things. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #3

It was a plaza dedicated years ago when he built a trump tower here . Had to go lunasun Feb 2018 #10

Nixon got part of a highway named after him... brooklynite Feb 2018 #6

Maybe Yorba Linda figured they should give their local guy a stretch of road. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #11

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)

1. How many will be named after Comey?

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:27 AM

Feb 2018

Maybe "Frying Pan Road" was named after Comey.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,698 posts)

4. That really isn't the point, though, is it?

Reply to NCTraveler (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:32 AM

Feb 2018

I don't think Comey is trying to get a building named after himself.

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)

5. I believe it is a point.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:35 AM

Feb 2018

A Republican who should never have anything named after him talking about another Republican who should never have anything named after him.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,698 posts)

8. But nobody has even suggested naming anything after him,

Reply to NCTraveler (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:43 AM

Feb 2018

nor would it ever have been likely to happen in the first place, even if Comey hadn't screwed up the Clinton email matter. The only FBI director to have a building named after him is J. Edgar Hoover, who founded the agency and was its director for some 40 years. Presidents, a few Senators (Byrd, Russell, Dirksen, Hart) and the occasional federal judge get things named after them. Comey wouldn't be a candidate regardless.