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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      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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      Actually, this is woke - i.e. the seeking out and understanding of systemic oppression in the past, present, and future. Specifically, it originated in regards to being aware of the oppression of African Americans, so this is about as woke as it gets.

      Being woke isn’t a bad thing, at least not for anyone with a brain and a heart. In this case, the slave filled past of the US is essential history to anyone trying to understand how the country got where it is, and how to address it for the future. And that’s why it’s become a target. That’s why the bigots of the country and world have worked so hard (and have largly succeeded) in turning the word and concept into a pejorative. Don’t let them. Stay woke.

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    Atop being so negative about slavery, because we want to bring it back.

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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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    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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    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.

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      hugo boss? na they’ll just be gold polo shirts and golf shoes … and don’t forget a mandatory MAGA cap - no discount

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      I’m sure about the time he gets Hugo Boss to design the new ICE SS uniforms

      They only manufactured, not created the design.

      For whatever that’s worth.

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