Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has ordered his attorneys to conduct a review of Smithsonian museums, calling their portrayal of U.S. history too negative and focused too much on “how bad Slavery was.”

Trump said he would subject the museums to “the exact same process” his administration has conducted of universities, with the goal of making the Smithsonian less “woke.”

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    Trump has literally zero empathy and no morals, and probably thinks it was good for the economy and the slave owners, so it wasn’t that bad.
    One would have hoped Americans are learning a lesson now, but apparently most of the Trump supporters are not. On the contrary they are absolutely fine with it. Sometimes even when their own families are hit by Trump policies, they still say they support him?!
    Half Americans are in a brainwashed cult, and the other half is in danger of slowly going crazy too, due to the insanity that USA is now.

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        It made them a single-industry agricultural economy, which only works so long as people want what you’re growing. When cotton was new, and fresh, and cool, it worked great for them! When the world started transitioning to a industrial manufacturing/global trade economy, it became a lot less valuable and lot less productive, as machines could do more, cheaper.

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      See the new Florida standards:

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418

      “The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to a 216-page document about the state’s 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education.”

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        Yes they should actually thank us for taking them out of freedom into slavery. /s

        It’s like when back in Europe some medieval explorers asked the Catholic church if it was immoral to kill the natives in South America, and the conclusion by the church was that it must be OK because it was Gods will, since he had given the white man such superior weapons.

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      They won’t release them because the kompromat is a currency that loses its value when exposed.

      It’s not just that they’re hiding the people involved, it’s that it’s currently being used to blackmail people.

      I mean, they should release them. I’m just saying there’s even more bad stuff they’re doing, on top of it all.

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    I would take this opportunity to create a new installment titled “the benefits of slavery”, devoting an entire wing to it, and keeping it completely empty.

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    In other news, corpulent, spray-tanned rapist half-wit wakes at 0700 and immediately starts shooting his mouth off (again).

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    He’s going to make everyone slaves this time, not just black people.

    The whole world needs to be very afraid.

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    Here’s a “fun” exercise: choose your state and decide for yourself how negative we should be when describing chattel slavery!

    They laid peoples 'cross barrels and whupped 'em wid bull whups till the blood come. They’d half feed 'em and removeds’d steal food and cook all night. The things we was forced to do then the whites is doing of their own free will now. You gotta reap jest what you sow 'cause the Good Book says it.

    They used to bid n!ggers off and then load 'em on wagons and take 'em to cotton farms to work. I never seen no cotton till I come heah. Peoples make big miration 'bout girls having babies at 11 years old. And you better have them whitefolks some babies iffen you didn’t wanta be sold. Though a funny thing to me is, iffen a n!gger woman had a baby on the boat on the way to the cotton farms, they throwed it in the river. Taking 'em to them cotton farms is jest the reason removeds is so plentiful in the South today.

    I ain’t got no education a’tall. In dem days you better not be caught with a newspaper, else you got a beating and your back almost cut off. When n!ggers got free, whitefolks killed 'em by the carload, ‘cause they said it was a removed uprising. I used to lay on the flo’ with the whitefolks and hear 'em pass. Them patrollers roved trying to ketch n!ggers without passes to whup 'em. They was sometimes called bush whackers.

    ALICE DOUGLASS, Age 77 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla.

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    What a dumb motherfucker. I am constantly, relentlessly embarrassed by our Mad King. Where are the Epstein Files!?

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    I’m sure about the time he gets Hugo Boss to design the new ICE SS uniforms he’ll be telling everyone how the little guy with the tiny mustache was just misunderstood and his stormtroopers were great for the German economy.