Greetings from the Cincinnati airport. Or maybe I’ll be home by the time these post. I’m tired. Been talking to my client base all week, and with all due respect to sales people and recruiters, we are definitely different breeds of dogs. We’re doing training for a system adoption coming in a couple weeks, and the recruiters started cheering and clapping for people doing introductions. I said before mine, “you can skip that for me, loud noises and clapping make me think you’re angry and coming to get me.” They laughed and clapped anyways. So much eye contact during one-on-one conversations. They’re nice people, very enthusiastic. Just not my breed.
The Artic will be American! Still wondering if Trump has mistaken Greenland for Iceland.
We always knew Hillary had balls, but it takes big brass ones to get involved in a fight over use of unauthorized/unsecure communication channels when your history is… as rich as hers.
And this is certainly interesting news. I’m interested in the accounting here. But, Elon made his money back, I guess. Technically.
I guess I’m still on a thrash metal kick.
Hopefully you’re home from the trip by now then — because that sounds like they’re angry and coming to get you!
Morning all.
Europe and to some extent Canada and Mexico ought to be thanking their lucky stars Trump is by no means the dictator they try to paint him as — and that the US is still fundamentally pretty nice (some aspects of Manifest Destiny aside). Most countries given Denmark’s “ability” to defend itself, much less Greenland would be 100% in the Faith the Vampire Slayer mode of things: “Want. Take. Have.”
And as another thought — if these twips really believe in climate change and that the Arctic (:nudges Brett on spelling there:) will be ice free enough for resource extraction and the Northwest Passage… they’d dang well be scrambling to lock it down now too. Heaven knows Russia and China are trying what they can (hmm… is that why Canada’s seen so much CCP “investment” and “policy centers” over the last decade or two?), I think Trump is right on this even if I don’t know if his NYC real estate mode of dealing will bear any fruit.
No one but the dullest of dullards at this point believe in the climate change scam’s narrative. There are still plenty of people repeating the talking points and will swear they are true believers but….well, you know.
That can be remedied.
I am convinced Hillary had no idea that there was a server in her bathroom. It is obvious that her underlings installed it there, as she only pee’d in the corner of the living room, and they thought it would go un-noticed.
“Guest Essay”
I’m trying – and failing – to come up with a torture that I would rather submit myself to that is wretched enough to compare to reading anything that woman has to say.
Brass balls indeed.
Maybe — she strikes me as a definite “know everything everyone is doing so I know who to cut loose, who needs to cut someone else, etc.” type. I think she’s just banking on the JackAss party either being very malleable on positions when it might help them and/or having the attention span of goldfish. Especially the yutes who probably don’t remember the Obama years at this point.
She’s also an evil, lying, murderously conniving cunt, so there’s that.
What actually gets me is the current political class clinging to power desperately up to their last breath or last drop of spittle from their vacant eyed, mouths agape pseudo-corpse.
Bernie hinting at running? He literally could drop dead at any time statistically.
The Turtle? Should have retired at least 4 years ago.
Pelosi? Someone find a bucket of water already.
Hildabeast? Does she not remember that she looked exhausted near the end of the last campaign? If things proceed as they look right now — she’d most likely be going up against Vance… a man who’s what — 40 years younger? (I haven’t bothered to check her age… I’m assuming at least 78 at this point if not 4×20+) And has the vitality and exuberance as well as actual charm?
That must be some set of contracts he got in writing after being fleeced by that hairdresser!
Gonna disagree with you there, SPF. She always struck me as someone who has no idea of what is going on, but wants everyone to think she is on top of it, knowing everything.
She lies about everything, so has no need for facts.
Search says 77 to Vance’s 40.
Zwak — could be… certainly that’s been true of her “areas of responsibility” at State…
I started typing out that she’s certainly been micromanaging details enough to keep her and BillDawg out of prison all these years — but then again, she should have gone to prison for the server in question.. so I’m disproven right off there, aren’t I?
And I’m amused at being referred to as “SPF” (and take this as light ribbing… I probably make more typos and certainly leave unclosed parentetical asides more than most around here!) simply because… if a hyperspace capable starship is what’s blocking the sun for you…. you may be about to have a bad day!
Until this exact moment I had no idea that SDF-7 was some weeb shit.
I actually just bought a Seiko limited edition Naruto & Boruto weeb watch, despite never having watched a single episode, purely because it features my two favorite colors.
The Democrat party is chock full of people who are quietly gleeful about the fall of the current leadership. Clinton sees the current state of the party as the opportunity of a lifetime. She is no doubt telling the Walzs, Newsomes etc that they just didnt go woke enough. When they are beyond hope she will step in and promise to bring the party back to sanity.
whaddup doh
whats goody yo
TALL WEEKEND CANS!
Tall coffee cup from the wrong corner of New York for the next 4 weeks.
Is there a right corner of New York?
lol
I just assumed voice-to-text transcription problems… Rhywun’s in Chinatown on the Wong corner…
In talks to take up a City Wok franchise to sell some City food for a City life!
Nearly as ballsy as spending 4 years claiming Russians hacked voting machines and stole the election from you, and then spending the next 4 years claiming your former opponent was a dictator for not respecting the results of an election.
Hell, I remember “Selected not Elected”.
$80B 🙄🙄
This is either delusional fantasy or Skynet. Not sure which.
I’m not really at all sure of “Why” here… what does X as a platform/service bring to xAI? (I don’t want to play buzzword bingo and trot out ‘synergy’… but that sort of interaction is what I would expect in a buyout..) If Elon wants to data farm X users and foster his AI interface (Grok, I think? I really don’t care much about AI even though my employer certainly thinks I should.) — I would have thought he’d be doing that anyway… doesn’t need to merge the companies.
Whatever… his toys, his toybox. Not my business (literally).
Massive amounts of data to mine. Which at the end of the day is all AI is.
That was my guess based on the synopsis – I don’t twit, and Nitter is down, probably indefinitely. The entire history of every post ever made on Twitter/X is just sitting there in a database ready to train a language or behavioral model.
I thought he was already doing that with (Grok?).
Maybe this is a re-brand.
Yeah — I get the data part… I just don’t get why you want to bother merging the companies to do what you’re already doing with it.
He probably wants to separate GROK from any other, more advanced AI uses.
GROK is kiddy stuff, ask it stupid questions and it is basically a search engine. xAI could be used for things like medical research, deep engineering, and so on.
Given the Twitter user base, it may very well lead to several new chapters in the DSM-6.
Cincinnati airport?? OBE made sure your plane made it in and out safely! 😃👍🛬🛫
Good morning all!
If I knew where my hat was, I’d tip it to you in greetings, GT. Mornin’!
Good morning 🙂
Should one get out of Cinci like the last evacuation from Vietnam?
Cinci itself is fine, but the airport IS actually in Kentucky, so…
But on the bright side all the flights pass directly over my house, so thanks for the noise Brett.
Citation needed on the EU being “democratic”.
What Does MAGA Have Against Europe?
Trump’s contempt for Europe helps take the edge off his massive economic stupidity.
Having contempt for political leaders is not the same as having contempt for the people under the boot heels of those political leaders.
To be fair, I have contempt for both.
The European political class has always hated America, while the average Euro citizen loves Americans.
Having contempt for political leaders who claim to be democratic while arresting people for disagreeing with their policies, who claim to be part of a military alliance while gutting their military and relying on one nation to do all the work and who actively campaign for your political opponents in your national elections also doesn’t seem all that mysterious to me.
But I’m very much at the “Screw the EU” point of my life and want us out of both the UN and NATO anyway.
What ZWAK said.
They’re ungrateful, shit-talking freeloaders meaning the leadership there. How long are you going to let your buddy crash on your couch while complaining constantly about what brand of toilet paper you buy? Eventually that’s going to lead to “Fuck you and get out.”
Yeah, Europe is great. At least it was when I lived there some decades ago.
I think it’s gone to shit and their “leaders” are horrible. Especially the entire layer of unelected ones.
Agreed. Hence my snark on “democratic” given the construction of the EU part.
Yeah, I lived there before that madness started.
I think Europe was just fine without the supranational gargantuan imposed on top of the happy little countries that existed before.
The European Economic Community was a wonderful idea that worked great. Its insane bastard child the EU is a damn disaster, a potentially civilization ending one.
I’d never been to Europe until 2012. Really enjoyed myself every time I’ve been, even with random Norwegians rudely asking if my brother and me, both large bearded at the time, were Taliban. But even by the last time I went, 2018, you could feel the Islamization in Amsterdam. The group I was with had a very rude, unprovoked interaction with the diversity.
I’d like to go back to Europe, but I fear it isn’t really Europe in the same way it was pre-invasion. I was recently interested in looking for some kind of European trip to take, and found myself searching for the countries with the least amount of Islamic “migration.”
“How much money does Denmark provide Greenland?”
https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/how-much-money-does-denmark-provide-greenland/
TLDR: 511 million USD annually. So Greenland is the big ask, this’ll be resolved with us paying Greenland some larger sum for basing rights and freeing the Danes of the financial burden. When it comes to the Arctic and realpolitik they have to choose who they want to be dominated by and it’s either us or the Russians.
I strongly suspect we could relive the EPA of $50 billion and send it to Greenland to out Danegeld the Danes and come out way ahead.
And they’d be nuts to throw in with the Russians — if it really came down to it, they have little to no naval projection that we or the Chinese wouldn’t take out (as the most likely conflict if it came to it would be one of us). China seems more likely to bribe their way in… I’m sure they’re working on it.
From what I’ve seen Russia has a pretty formidible arctic military capability albeit due to their concentration on the area due to their geography. They’d have a hell of a time projecting power to Greenland though if we were deadset against it.
Yeah Russia is already WAY ahead of us in that region.
That’s why Donald wants Greenland.
“We always knew Hillary had balls”
I thought that was Michelle.
“Woman whose MAGA hat meltdown, subway wipeout went viral is an ‘extremely liberal’ luxury-brand specialist
The woman who received “instant karma” after berating a President Trump supporter on the subway — and then face-planting on the platform after trying to grab his “Make America Great Again” hat — is an increasingly “agitated” creative director for several luxury brands, The Post has learned.
Alberta Testanero, a 55-year-old dual Italian-American citizen, went viral for the caught-on-video incident on the 6 train in Midtown last week after branding the MAGA fan “uneducated” and a “racist.””
https://nypost.com/2025/03/29/us-news/maga-hater-whose-subway-fall-went-viral-extremely-liberal-agitated/
AWFLs are not good people. Not good. They’re bad people. Many people are saying this.
LOL when you’ve lost an average New Yorker….
I do think people are getting sick of this shit. 🤞
Not a fan of doxxing people like this. The video is embarrassing enough, people who know her will recognize her, that should be sufficient.
I’m torn. For non violent stuff I agree 100%.
For violent stuff that won’t be prosecuted in PRNYC I’m on the fence.
She tried (and failed) to get physical in her confrontation.
I’m against doxxing people over merely expressing their opinions, but isn’t trying to steal someone’s hat a crime?
Justin Welby says he failed to act on abuse scandal as scale was ‘overwhelming’
I’m sure Saint Stephen can sympathize with the overwhelming problem you faced kicking pedophiles out of your church, you wretched sack of shit.
I wonder if the Law will all but ignore this pedophile scandal like they have another one from a different religion that has been going on for decades.
The Law managed to ignore the kiddy diddlers at BBC for decades. This is a cultural tradition there.
Enough about the public education system.
Yeah, “we just had so many kiddy diddlers that I couldn’t do anything about it” may not be the exculpation he thinks it is.
British boys schools sigh in relief.
Legislators point fingers with utility prices set to increase
The problem is the NJ RINOs, naturally. It’s not that Team Blue controlled the executive and legislative branches for the past 8 years. Nor is it the fact that said government did everything it could to increase electric usage while simultaneously doing everything it could to only increase supply by green methods only not including nuclear.
No way to foresee this.
Which is especially stupid in New Jersey; arguably the one place on the planet where a nuclear accident could only improve the place.
Almost 50% of NJ power is nuclear. They went all in before the leftists wrecked the place in the 70s.
Exact same story in NY except they’ve killed most if not all the nuclear here.
The coming crash is gonna be lit.
Oh and the utilities are threatening big double digit increases here too and the one Party rulers aren’t listening.
Lit by candles? Because there isn’t any electricity in them thar hills.
Candles are hydrocarbons, speeding up global climate warming changes which in turn requires more electrical energy to be used in cooling.
Drill, Baby, Drill
I tried to buy a bag of fertilizer (10-10-10). Not available yet, comes from Manitoba which may add some 25 % tariffs.
/Make Fourscore Great Again
Columbia University President Steps Down Amid Trump Battle
The inmates are running the asylum again. I wonder if they are going to walk away from the deal.
That is amazing & I also expect they will continue full steam ahead with every program, policy, and procedure that has made them the center of Woke for decades.
Stock, Sussex and the tyranny of university bureaucrats
“Lauren Sánchez, who is getting ready to marry billionaire Jeff Bezos, stepped out carrying a $5,750 Balenciaga handbag shaped like a to-go coffee cup.
The purse, cleverly called the 9 AM Clutch, is a replica of the fashion house’s white porcelain coffee cup ($125) designed to resemble those made of paper and plastic.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/03/28/style/lauren-sanchezs-coffee-cup-costs-5750/
I guess everyone forgot about the whole child porn thing.
Sure they were engaging in borderline CP and were certainly exploiting children in a sexual manner if it didn’t quite rise to that but what a handbag!
And now that I’ve actually read the article the only thing that comes to mind is “there’s a sucker born every minute.”
So it’s a purse designed to look like a cup designed to look like a paper cup? I think I will go back to bed now, the world is too silly for me this morning.
I still think she is some sort of alien creature. *shrug*
Bezos should know to steer clear of women who have their lips altered to resemble a sexually engorged vagina. It’s going to be a very expensive divorce eventually but I suppose he can afford it.
In other Spiked news, there may be some hope for Palestinians after all.
That’s just crazy talk.
Probably more accurate.
Hamas rule is akin to the Russian mob taking over and governing a city, they’re ruthless thugs wrapped in false religiosity who’ll take it out on their own people if they don’t show sufficient “support.” The only thing that kept the Palestinians in line was fearing them but now they fear the Israelis more and they’re tired of what they see as the futile harassment of Israel that just ends up getting them killed. If accurate the story’s not surprising.
Yet in Gaza, over three-fourths of the population support a two-state solution and thus the continued existence of Israel, according to a poll from last year.
Of course the other fourth of the population will do their best to keep it from happening.
Impressive lawyering.
TW BI. https://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-javice-fights-wearing-an-ankle-monitor-after-verdict-2025-3
In the category of same word completely different pronunciation.
I was talking with my friend in Japan last night and mentioned “Microsoft”. Her English is stronger than my Japanese, but she had no idea what company I was referring to. I said it again. Still no comprehension.
Funny thing is it’s essentially the same word in Japanese, but just pronounced with their much fewer sounds. マイクロソフト or “maikurosofuto”. As soon as I said it she got it.
It actually happens in the U.S. as well. For example the German chemical company Bayer is pronounced the German way on Wall St., but the aspirin is pronounced the way we all heard it growing up.
Yeah I have seen people miss the relation between Bayer aspirin anobd famous German soccer team Bayer Leverkusen.
I have to wonder how much not understanding “Microsoft” is just being willingly obtuse. I mean, come on. I know the “u”‘s are voiceless and almost silent… there is so little difference in pronunciation.
Anyway the Chinese do that to wypipo, I don’t know about the Japanase.
It’s the first part of the Japanese “Microsoft” that’s confusing for a native speaker.
The first vowel sound is prolonged in Japanese. This prolongation is critical as it makes for different words with totally different meanings.
“Biru” = building.
“Biiru” = beer.
Same sound but elongate the vowel. (Also i is pronounced long “e” or “ee” sound in English. )
“DOE says it is investigating California for violating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act, which it says “gives parents the right to access their children’s educational data.”
“The California Department of Education has allegedly abdicated the responsibilities FERPA imposes due to a new California state law that prohibits school personnel from disclosing a child’s ‘gender identity’ to that child’s parent,” wrote the DOE in its announcement.
“[DOE] has reason to believe that numerous local educational agencies (LEAs) in California may be violating FERPA to socially transition children at school while hiding minors’ ‘gender identity’ from parents,” said DOE. “Given the number of LEAs that appear to be involved, [DOE] is concerned that CDE played a role, either directly or indirectly, in the widespread adoption of these practices, which appear to be required by the recently enacted California Assembly Bill 1955.””
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/feds-investigate-ca-ban-disclosing-childrens-gender-identities-parents
The federal Department of Education is trying to do something good to keep from being eliminated?
And I don’t think transing the kids at school is limited to CA either.
I can’t believe there isn’t enormous uproar over this practice and other “gender” insanity at schools.
It’s interesting how pacified the population in general has become. I always thought that overreach like this would be the straw that broke the violent camel’s back but it just hasn’t happened.
“And I don’t think transing the kids at school is limited to CA either.”
It isn’t. Worse, pharmaceutical companies are helping to fund the school to clinic pipeline.
Right?? It’s really alarming.
I think it has been that straw, but is taking longer to materialize than we think it should.
Like a dam with cracks in it, it takes a while for the water pressure to destroy it. The education industrial complex has been built up over decades, and has a lot of power and inertia behind it. I will take a while but it seems to be slowly happening. Remember Trumps ad: “Kamala is for they/them, Trump is for you”? That was apparently the most effective campaign in the last election, and, well, people are listening, and paying attention to this BS. They are just unsure were to hit back.
I am 54, and don’t really remember what the Regan revolution was like, so I don’t have a good time reference for what structural change looks like, how deep it goes, or how it was fought by the left. So we are seeing this in real time.
There is way more polarization on every issue now than there was even in the 80s, thanks to the march through the institutions.
How this plays out will be “interesting”, to say the least.
At the time, Democrats made a big deal over Regan’s spending cuts (eg. funding the NEA), but there wasn’t much actual cutting. Just like when Clinton had Al Gore look into cutting government waste, the budget just kept getting bigger.
The Reagan “revolution” produced no lasting changes. Like all Democrat rhetoric it was overblown, if not outright lies.
Yes, JI, because prop 13 never happened in California, nor prohibition repealed.
Come on, dude, you need to think positive at least once in your life.
“With the high-profile elections for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and enshrining voter ID in the state constitution just days away, Fair Elections Wisconsin (FEW) challenged 4,878 allegedly illegal voter registrations that had cast ballots in the November election in Milwaukee. The grassroots group’s challenges were unsuccessful, however, as the city election commission declined to investigate them….
After FEW waited for about a half an hour for the commission to conduct its closed session, they were called back in and told by the commission that the challenges wouldn’t be accepted.
When Gavery asked the commission if they were interested in looking into potential voter fraud, he was told, “Meeting adjourned.””
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/nearly-5k-allegedly-illegal-voter-registrations-found-milwaukee-voter
CWABOA
Locals in Greenland expressed concerns about Vance’s visit, with several telling the BBC that his presence threatens the island
He’ll tip it over?
“Several” eh? Among tens of thousands of people you can find several people that think all kinds of things.
Someone might be offended?!? Hold everything!!!!!!
“”If we cannot speak out against our government, against corporations, and if we’re criminalized and penalized for speaking out, then we are living in an authoritarian state and regime, and this is not a free country,” said Costa. “This is not a democracy if we can’t do that.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-activist-organizing-tesla-takedowns-vows-to-continue-protests-against-elon-musk-amid-domestic-terror-attacks-on-company
Setting cars on fire isn’t speech.
It’s sad we have to point this out.
But but but if we’re living in a climate emergency, don’t electric cars take precedence over politics?
It’s the same wink-and-nod bullshit the left has been practicing forever.
“I’m not attacking Jews/burning down cities/threating judges/etc., it’s those nutjobs over there (my friends).”
Repeat for every issue.
today I learned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold
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The Miura fold (ミウラ折り, Miura-ori) is a method of folding a flat surface such as a sheet of paper into a smaller area. The fold is named for its inventor, Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura.[1]
The crease patterns of the Miura fold form a tessellation of the surface by parallelograms.
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For instance, large solar panel arrays for space satellites in the Japanese space program have been Miura folded before launch and then spread out in space.
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Researchers at the University of Fribourg used the Miura fold to stack hydrogel films, generating electricity similarly to electric eels. The Miura fold is used to cause many parts of the stack to contact each other simultaneously.
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elsewhere
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In mechanical engineering, Yoshimura buckling is a triangular mesh buckling pattern found in thin-walled cylinders under compression along the axis of the cylinder,[1][2][3] producing a corrugated shape resembling the Schwarz lantern. The same pattern can be seen on the sleeves of Mona Lisa.
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So it’s a purse designed to look like a cup designed to look like a paper cup? I think I will go back to bed now, the world is too silly for me this morning.
I used to know a girl who carried a ’60s cartoon show lunchbox as a purse. She was cool.
Which cartoon show?
Yeah I knew a few goth chicks who did that.
Which cartoon show?
I can’t remember. I think she had more than one.
Hillary knows pacification. Ask anybody.
If you hold the cloth over their mouths long enough, they stop struggling?
No, she sat on Bills face once
“Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?”
Bro has an Amazon store!
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Firsting/page/9FA7991C-F406-4B1B-BF77-13F2EEF0B8A9
Q didn’t post Silicone Saturday, but at least we know he isn’t dead.
“Staring at boobs may give a boost to male lifespans”
https://nypost.com/2017/03/22/staring-at-boobs-may-give-a-boost-to-male-lifespans/
I clicked for the cover photo, I wasn’t disappointed.
Misunderstood
Columbia scholars have been studying the Middle East since the 18th century, when the university appointed its first professor of “Oriental languages”, as the academy at the time referred to the study of non-western cultures. Two hundred years later, Said’s book Orientalism became a foundational work of postcolonial scholarship. But it was his writing about the Middle East, and Palestine in particular, that established him as an icon for Palestinian scholarship.
In one of his seminal works, The Question of Palestine, Said wrote that discussion of the Arab world, and Palestinians in particular, was “so confused and unfairly slanted in the west that a great effort has to be made to see things as, for better or worse, they actually are”. Elsewhere, he noted that there was no “permission to narrate” the Palestinian experience in western discourse, and that those who tried were punished. In dozens of articles and books, Said forcefully insisted on the need for Palestinians to reclaim dominant narratives of their history, fundamentally reframing what was then a discourse largely echoing the Israeli perspective.
That’s one way to look at it.
I am not as viscerally anti-Palestinian as some people, but they need to pick their fucking heads up and abandon their culture of oppressed victimhood and start building something productive. And stop acting as human shields for the Maoist guerrilla tactics of Hamas.
Yes, that guy at that university is one of the ring-leaders of the “post-colonial” nonsense that got us where we are today.
I’m no expert in this stuff but one of the convincing arguments I’ve read is that the people there are largely being used as pawns by Hamas, the PLO, etc. etc.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/the-week-in-pictures-signals-crossed-edition.php
Following the Columbia Unbecoming controversy, the university convened a panel to investigate the allegations and found no misconduct. But it also reorganized the Mealac department, tacking on south Asian and later African studies and cross-appointing faculty from other disciplines to expand its scope. Now called Mesaas, it remained a cosmopolitan home for critical theory, the academic critique of social structures and systems of power. But it is only one of several venues in which Columbia students are exposed to scholarship on Palestine, which is also hosted by the university’s Middle East Institute and Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies, established in 2010 as the first of its kind at a US university. (The center is also to be placed under receivership.)
Foremost authorities. Scholars of Oppression and Race Hate. How forward-thinking.
I still like the theory that Trump doesn’t understand the Mercator projection and thinks Greenland is the size of Africa.
LOL
More MAGA revisionism
Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders sharply rebuked Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” They argued that his executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is his administration’s latest move to downplay how race, racism and Black Americans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.
“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed, or that Jim Crow laws and segregation and racial violence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.
The Thursday executive order cites the National Museum of African American History and Culture by name and argues that the Smithsonian as a whole is engaging in a “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history.”
Know-Nothing-ism is sweeping the land.
I have a strange feeling that none of that is accurate.
I doubt Trump would erase the history of the Democratic party like that.
Trump’s approach is “a literal attack on Black America itself,” Ibram X. Kendi, the race historian and bestselling author, said. “The Black Smithsonian, as it is affectionately called, is indeed one of the heartbeats of Black America,” Kendi argued, and “also one of the heartbeats” of the nation at large.
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., suggested that Trump wants to distort the national narrative to racist ends.
“We do not run from or erase our history simply because we don’t like it,” she said in a statement. “We embrace the history of our country – the good, the bad, and the ugly.”
Trump will revive the institution of slavery.
An executive order to end black unemployment?
OFFS that fraud?
LOL power ahead Donald. Nothing to be afraid of.
We need a grifter like Kendi to set us straight.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/boston-university-calls-it-quits-on-ibram-x-kendis-center-for-antiracist-research/
Nice of BU to just wave away concerns about the $30 million that was spent with nothing to show for it.
From the EO mentioned above:
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that “hard work,” “individualism,” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.” The forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports. These are just a few examples.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/
the original brouhaha:
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
some characteristics of whiteness, according to them: individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, a belief in progress, a written tradition, politeness, the justice system, respect for authority, delayed gratification and planning for the future
the best part:
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The list is credited to a diversity consultant named Judith H. Katz, who has written about race for many years. In the late 1970s, she wrote White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training.
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https://kjcg.com/judith-h-katz
She looks about the way you’d expect.
I didn’t know the “anti-racism” grift went back that far.
Oh C’mon Rhy….that is as old as mankind.
I first had that realization reading Fredrick Douglass. He complained about them bitterly. Then, like now, he attributed the perpetuation of racism on them. He was right then just as those saying it today are right.
“How do we end racism?” – Mike Wallace
“Stop talking about it.” – Thomas Sowell
My bad, the exhibit and webpage were taken down after complaints:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/17/smithsonian-african-american-museum-remove-whitene/
Distinction worth noting: When the racists use the word whiteness they dont mean people with white skin who value self reliance, hard work and the nuclear family – they mean western culture values such as those are whiteness. Skin color doesnt enter into it.
That little rhetorical subterfuge is important.
They are not pro-black people at all. They dont give a fuck about black people. They are just communist scum.
I know, I know. I already got a letter from The John Birch Society nicely asking me to dial it back a bit.