If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
I just don't want to hear "We can't fight every battle!" from people who take every Friday off.
exactly! and yall don’t each have to fight all of them all at once; each of you pick some to fight and distribute so that they’re all covered! which is what we’re also doing on this end. but you guys (elected dems) can be laser focused plus you have resources we don’t
But, we need to stay focused on the price of eggs! anything else is a distraction!
Also - have that not heard of a thing called delegating? Assign a point person for all the different atrocities.
And endless weeks of vacation away from Capital performing their job duties, on behalf of all American’s.
Also, um, which battles ARE they fighting? People like Jeffries seem more worried about Mamdani than anything else.
Word!
defeating their own party's nominee for mayor of New York is a battle they'll throw everything they have into
Jeffries should probably start worrying about getting primaried: his attempts to undermine Mamdani only make him look bad.
That, and a month-long vacation every other month.
AND ALSO DECLINE TO FIGHT *ANY* BATTLES.
The thing about the American right since 2010 (if not much earlier) is they have literally fought every single battle, to their great success. There are literally hundreds of elected Democrats in DC alone, there are plenty of them to cover every battle.
the other thing is, they've embraced their extreme/fringe to a dangerous degree, while Dems fought anyone to the left of Clinton harder than the Republicans.
You are so right!
There's only 269 of them. What do you want?
They want to HAVE the job. They don't want to DO the job.
Lots o' young'uns running in primaries ...
Listen, everything is dystopian. But if this is the Joe vs. the Volcano reference I hope it is... you made my Tuesday a little bit brighter.
😆😆😆. Perfect. One of my favorite Seinfeld scenes.
And almost all of Monday's off too.
It would certainly boost their credibility if they fought even one battle.
powder so fucking dry you'd swear it was ben shapiro's wife.
1000×THIS
The people will step up.
all you saying "he's never been" are missing the truth: he's literally rewriting the definition of "accomplishment" Just as they've been painting "empathy" as a bad thing, they now want to paint basic American struggle and winning as "downtrodden" They are spitting on all our progress
The Smithsonian Institution Museums are some of the finest in the world; lived in DC at one time ... a revelation of knowledge. Besides Trump's dementia psychiatrists need to add delusion to his psychiatric evaluation. We have no idea if Vance will be worse but he is at least sane. We think.
Dems fight the "semi-fascist"? Please. They're love the chaos are and banking on last year's fatal mistake that voters will return to their fetid fold to "vote blue no matter genocide."
"How bad slavery was" This is Pol Pot 'year zero' stuff. Fuck me
That was the line that got me. Crazy times. Ugggggh.
This is the kind of "woke" information Trump wants to remove from museums. Next you will hear from RFK Jr. that drapetomania is a "legitimate" disorder. allthatsinteresting.com/drapetomania
>>Trump ”where everything discussed is… how bad slavery was…” In the Trump narrative, slavery wasn’t bad? On one hand, he claims the “mantle of Lincoln”, on the other hand, he embraces Jim Crow and the Confederacy. And on the gripping hand… he is senile.
Wish their messaging was more organized and bluntly worded. The Pedo King is out there calling Obama a traitor while bending the knee to Putin in front of the world.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you okay with this? Fight, ffs
hear, hear!
Guess it's a good thing that my household hoards books because the Dems are totally gonna let this happen.
Which Democratic politicians are you talking about? Most of them are consumed by a successful Muslim candidate in NYC and destroying his campaign for their oligarchs to give a fuck about this. Exceptions: AOC, Bernie (ugh), Newsom, Pritzker.
He has been to a museum?
It's like Chuck and Hakeem are frozen. They keep getting offered political gifts, and they just fail to seize the opportunity every time.
I bet a lot of white Democratic politicians support Trump on this. He is doing their dirty work for them.
Can’t tell you how many “Democracts” have voiced some version of “well actually slaves we’re valuable and so they weren’t treated that bad.”
Trump has united racists across all political parties.
The biggest problem with the distractions fascists create is that they are dead serious about them.
Where are Schumer and Jeffries FFS.. get out there every day or get the F outta da way
When you’re funded by one murderous authoritarian regime, it’s unsurprising they don’t have the stomach to fight another one.
Has he seen the inside of a museum?
Also where does get the idea woke museums discuss “how unaccomplished our downtrodden have been” when that’s the EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE of the point of every woke museum?
He is an extraordinarily stupid person.
Agreed! MAGA GOP are doing DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS and we have to fight on ALL FRONTS. Everything they try to take, we FIGHT BACK and also CREATE SOMETHING BIGGER & BETTER. It will take EVERYONE. This is the way.
Seems like there's nobody at the wheel lately and Dem establishment clearly isn't up to the task.
YES: “There are no distractions. Have every fight.” 🫡 #LFG
"how bad slavery was" holy shit did not expect that one.
To be fair, the GOP has emphasized the job training aspect of slavery. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Thanks for the reminder of how big a schmuck DeSantis was (and is). He tried to out-Trump Trump, which only Trump can get away with.
Google PragerU and their video on Christopher Columbus. Then you would not be surprised. Trump and Maga want PragerU to replace PBS shows for children.
Make Slavery Great Again is going to be the next GOP slogan
Somebody please show donald the National Treasure film, just for a giggle...
Have any?
Why do I get the impression that he thinks our country is so hot that he can rape it?
SLAVERY WAS BAD. If you don’t think so we could shackle those people. See what it’s like to be put up for auction.
If Democratic politicians do not fight this they are tacitly endorsing this.
Hottest because of global warming.
They’re so stuck in “We need to pick our battles!” without realizing that they have to fight for every news cycle. That’s how things work now.
I’m convinced they’re complicit and just waiting for their time to be a fascist
they arent picking any battles
Exactly!
How bad slavery ? Jesus
He can shine some of that “brightness” inside the body, right up his own ass! Actually, now I’m thinking he probably meant to type “whiteness.”
Democrats aren't coming to save you
The fact that the US never dealt with reconstruction is a stain that can never be washed away. Every slave owner and confederate officer should have hung
AmeriKKKan history? Killed 6/6 million in Southeast Asia alone. It's nothing to be proud of.
i'm proud of my crew for a few shifts in a few kitchens over my lifetime my friends have amazed me on skateboards there have been a few really great years for music and for movies i hate the hospital but it's rad people work there thank you america
*5/6 million.
He truly scares me. This is unacceptable.
This is the drivel Southern states put out during Reconstruction, known as the Lost Cause narrative.
A history museum with "nothing about the Future"? Amazing.
First, people thought MAGA wanted to go back to the 1950's, then to the 1890's for the tariffs. Trump wants to go back to the 1780's for the peak of the slave trade. "Now that was when America was the world leader in trade," Trump said as he strolled along his newly gifted plantation.
I’m sorry isn’t he the one always talking about how dangerous and crime-riddled our country is?
“how bad slavery was” how horrible. how woke. a museum portraying history.
I wrote this. Everyone should read it. veritenews.org/devils-barga...
Looks like Stephen Miller is now writing the preambles for Trump posts.
Concur!
Agreed.
Have. Every. Fight. 👊
It's a great day to release the Epstein files and the Trump flight logs! And Mikey Johnson's boys are coming back to town, & will Have to vote.
He says things that he clearly knows the Executive Office cannot do and has no authority to do like cancel mail in voting, scrub history, take over Greenland… to distract the media… and look what it does.. it works. So to respond we have to call out his lies and explain why he is lying.
His demands are not a thing. The Executive Office has no governing authority over the Smithsonian. ZERO. The Smithsonian governing board needs to reject Trump’s request in a formal letter reminding him of their governing structure and then post it publicly to educate Americans on their governance.
OK but what if he just does it anyway 🤷🏾♂️
He only does it if we (and tje Smithsonian) give him the permission structure to do so. Resist publicly with the facts and we will win. History will not be erased.
Well, we should be prepared in case he just takes the National Guard and does it anyway
*Whew
He wants everyone to be as ignorant as him.
They won’t. Their plan is to keep their head down and bank on a backlash election. Every single one of them should be facing a robust primary.
Everything else aside the compaint "what about the good things??" is so ridiculous Like does he turn on the news to watch a bunch of stories about how Everything Is Fine?
If that addled motherfucker can fight on multiple fronts - so can they. Divide and conquer dammit.
Agree this IS a culture war as bad as everything happening. They seek control of our past-present-future. But they control House purse-strings. This racist misogynist fascist GOP Coup is decades long in the making. Men like Leonard Leo & Vought's Project 2025=Trump's agenda. 1/
2/ Dems can speak out, but as the minority Party in THIS House & Senate, THEY can't stop it, politically, even if they say WE WON'T ALLOW. Exec Branch controls out Nat'l Museums, Nat'l Archives & now even the Kennedy Center/Honors etc & now NPR & PBS lost funding & FCC won't license "woke" news...
"we can't fight them, they're too strong" you people are the most pathetic wastes of oxygen. Servile fucking trash, go suck Trump's diminutive cock and get out of the goddamn way
so...are they speaking out?
"How bad slavery was"
You talk as if democrats are an opposition party, and not owned by the same people this guy is owned by.
And what are the odds that he has ever stepped foot in one of the Smithsonian museums?
What the fuck is it with this HOTTEST term!!! Is this even a thing?
They won’t though.
Who is this “they” you speak of? The answer is you, my friend. Or at least “we”. It’s is not “happening”. It has “happened”. Why can the people of the USA not see that?
This guy needs to go fuck himself in his own dim witted ass hole 🕳️ 🕳️ hole.
In general, the response from American institutions and the population at large to the undermining and attacks on our systems and values has been pathetically weak and enervated. We have brought a plate of wet noodles to a gunfight.
If MAGA is flooding the zone, then the opposition is abandoning it.
Is he intimating that slavery wasn’t bad?
Clearly shit for brains has never been in a museum
See what Trump does now - imagine what he will do if there is no opposition and powerful resistance.
I have already emailed Bunch from the Smithsonian to share my opinion and ask that he resign instead of doing this crap.
what artefacts would a museum display that were "about the future" (?)
Democratic Leaderhsip....please.....
This GIF could apply to white people.
54%
He’s clearly never been to the Nat’l Museum of African American History and Culture, which has several floors of uplifting achievement, glory, and innovation by black people in this country.
Our Special Boy has certainly never visited, and narcissism does not allow for learning new information anyway, but this is exactly what his admin is seeking to erase with the support of moneyed interests that put them there.
Like he has actually been in a museum.
History is now woke?! But seriously, this tells me he hasn’t been to any DC museum. Air & Space, National History, Art museum all have great American history. My guess, he’s targeting the African American museum and American Indian museum. 🤬
Yeah why don’t more museums focus on the future?!? 🤡🤡🤡🤡
The weird thing about the "fight for our history" that seems to be happening with white supremacists is this --> If you were beat as a child, grew up, realized it was abuse, you would learn and discontinue that abuse with your kids. Trump can't handle self-reflection; enter, continued abuse.
Define "woke".
how exactly does a museum of history predict the future?
It is so ironic that Trump is harshly criticizing EVERYTHING about our country (in this case museums) for “being negative rather than appreciating the GREATNESS of our country” that he himself is trashing in those very words.
Yes we need just one giant “Museum of the Glorious Past and the Promised Golden Future” and won’t that be a wonderful place to take the kids have them learn like 18% of how things actually work
"Have every fight" is a good message for @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social -- who seem to be barely fighting at all.
Just the rantings of a thoroughly stupid crazy person. Breathtakingly ignorant
Yeah people call everything a distraction at this point. The only distraction is people trying to paint real issues as distractions. Guess what? I can pay attention to several things!
OUT OF CONTROL - what, did they move Archie Bunker's chair into the Air and Space museum or sometihng?
Has he actually set foot in the Smithsonian? Like, ever?
Democrats are using the “distraction” excuse to be lazy. What else are they actually fighting right now? Most of them are just vacationing.
Dem politicians don't know how to fight. They just don't.
That might be true after years of practice but they were sure fight for the corporations that sponsors them
History is not presented & preserved to make us feel good. History is presented to highlight the accomplishments, achievements, and most importantly the shortcomings SO THAT THOSE WRONGDOINGS ARE NOT REPEATED!!!
The Pedo Prez is just the front man for the facist Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. They made up the SCROTUS that legalized this crap.
Anyone remember when the Taliban came into power they blew up all the sculptures of Buddha and other antiquities??
I’ve never forgotten about this: Barr responded, “Well, history is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”
don't worry, they'll absolutely let it happen and then tweet about how they'll never stop fighting
Fighting is divisive. They'd rather bring people together, by campaigning and fundraising on all the bad stuff they didn't fight.
Then we convince ourselves that they'll actually fight for real this time. D'oh!
Remember when Obama shut down Guantanamo Bay, defunded ICE before they could set up detention facilities and destroy families, and punished big banks for destroying the housing market?
But wouldn't that take up a lot of time that would be better spent on insider trading, book tours, and fundraising off of the things they can't be bothered to fight against? 🤔
Unfortunately they've made it clear they want this to happen. They want to lose so they can send endless texts begging for $ to "STOP TRUMP" while voting with him to bomb Gaza & against impeachment for striking Iran without Congressional authority. It's a fundraising operation, not a political party
Trump has clearly never even been inside the Udvar-Hazy because there's an entire hangar-full of American success right there. SHAME!
Can we erase this guy from history like he were never here?
If you have an actual robust party of operatives (pre-Trump GOP is a great example), this fun thing happens where you can fight EVERYTHING. Dems haven’t had such a thing or attempted to build such a thing since LBJ.
If they don't fight, you will get that next year. bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Clearly never been to the Smithsonian if his take away is that they don’t celebrate American successes. (And how dare museums focus on the past!)
It’s laughable to think that dude has ever stepped foot in a fucking museum.
Let’s be clear - they two things 1) remove trump impeachment things 2) make the African American history museum talk about how great slavery was and how the kidnapped Africans were thrilled at their 300 year “unpaid internship” so people don’t feel uncomfortable
3) Treat poverty like a character-building exercise (only the “good ones” escape it, everyone else is undeserving and should be relegated to the dustbin of history).
I always tell people it was super convenient that.. A) The Bible says the worse you have it while alive, the better it will be when you die and B) The Bible was exclusively told to wealthy European nobility who wanted to keep the poor peasants under control Amazing how that worked
Highlight every prominent black person's accomplishment doge tried to erase from websites earlier this year but put back after public outcry It will be more of the same
Trump is using mafia boss tactics not politics. Why rely on Democrats to oppose this, they deal in politics. You can’t beat someone who controls the state and ignores the law with impunity via politics or the legal system.
A very slow Reichstag fire.
Hes literally trying to whitewash the country right in plain sight and no one is stopping him. This is the worst timeline!
Every. Fucking. Fight!
Screw this loon
Bro desperately wants to get unbanned from Epcot
So far, crickets from Democrats. As usual.
I'm glad at last someone defined "woke." It's the thing the museums are the last bastions of.
The thing with wars of any kind is that you don't get to choose whether or not you want to fight. If your opponent wants a war because they think they'll win, they will give you one. You won't dissuade them. The way to survive a war is to mobilize the people and prepare. Each battle must be fought.
Chairman Mao destroyed art, literature and music. He painted China grey and black, took away its joy.
Dom Quixote used to fight windmills. Don Cheetovski is hunting a museum. "OUT OF CONTROL" It's freaking BOOKS, documents, plaques... All documenting the mistakes of the past so it doesn't happen again. Instead of worrying about fixing the past, he should worry about what he's doing right NOW.
Trump, Miller to Holocaust Museum: “Tone it down.”
Occupy the fucking museums.
even good democrats like @schatz.bsky.social treat this as "distraction". everyone will wake up on the trains.
You can tell exactly where Stephen Miller grabbed the phone in that post.
They will write a strongly worded letter about how concerned they are and move on
@murray.senate.gov what say you?
Dude should view the basement *and* top floor of the African American History museum. It shows their success, and at times, our failure. It is all America.
Oh no, is the horror of slavery raining on your parade? How inconsiderate 🫤 I fear that this is an attempt to erase the memory so it can be allowed to happen again. How is this reality? WHY IS THIS BEING ALLOWED TO HAPPEN?
Everyone in his administration and that groveling sleaze masquerading as a speaker should just be called "Glump Shitto." Position: Nazi stooge.
Someone in the CIA should get him to star in a remake of a Birth of a Nation that will never be shown. Give him a salary of $50,000,000, hand him his white suit, point cameras at him. Get him a trailer full of hambderbers, put the set on a golf course, and we'll never have to deal with him again.
Better to be woke then being a bigot.
Is this the "success" Chris Pratt wants us to celebrate? =P
"Distraction" doesn't mean ignore other things, it's a call to not lose sight of the crimes they are trying to cover up with scandals. Quite the opposite of how many are reading it. Dem leaders don't fight for different reasons. Mainly because they're co-conspirators beholden to the same interests.
Thing is, Trump WANTS a fight. So how does one handle that?
By the bullshit he’s spewing it’s clear that he’s never stepped foot inside a museum
Turns out he actually did visit this exact museum exhibit in 2017 and he gave it a recorded glowing review at the time.
Id buy the "distraction" argument if they were fighting... well... anything.
Unfortunately, this would require @democrats.org to care.
Isn't this more of him wrecking what Curtis Yarvin calls the Cathedral?
The depths of his evil is bottomless
Those who forget are doomed to repeat.
I think Democrats are the distraction at this point
This should be national news, on every station, every day, until Sweet Potato Hitler backs down. The Smithsonian is one of our proudest institutions. And this country was finally reaching the point of being honest about our own history. We can't and won't go back!
BTW, you know he didn't write this himself, because it's not all in caps and there aren't more spelling errors.
Miller
This! Perfectly said.
"But what about all the GOOD things Adolf Hitler did?" Snowflakes living in a world of fake and unfounded exceptionalism. Disgusting.
Betting that 47 has never even been IN the Smithsonian...much less actually spent enough time to read the displays. This is simply another thing on his list under "Rewrite History so I look good". 🙄
I love how he is upset that “museums” have “nothing about the future”. Maybe someone needs to explain to him exactly what a museum is.
We won’t fight on the beaches, we won’t fight on the landing grounds, we won’t fight in the fields and in the streets, we won’t fight in the hills; we shall surrender preemptively because it’s all a distraction.
Jesus Christ, another mess we’re going to have to undo after The Orange Menace leaves town. I mean even Disney movies have dark times and evil villains. These Republican flowers think that people will just say, “Oh I guess nothing bad happened ever!”
I think it’s long past hoping these elected Democrats will be any sort of deterrence to authoritarians. Persona non grata. A general strike and continuous mass protests are needed.
You'd think "slavery bad" would be the lowest of low bars
Maybe DJT should take the millions he is extorting from colleges and universities to create his own "non-woke" museum and library.
They won't fight at all. Period. They are complacent enablers of fascism and do not deserve anyone's support.
Id hold a press conference and say the moment he’s dead we will dedicate an entire museum to his entirely miserable life showing what a low life loser he was
Haa the party never heard of divvying up tasks? Assign someone to lead the fight against this. Better yet, have someone volunteer. There are lots of Dems to out against lots of issues. Figure. It. Out.
They say everything is a 'distraction' because if its a distraction they don't have to do anything about it.
💯!!!
📌
Who would have thought that the most unrealistic part of 1984 was that Big Brother wasn't a fucking moron?
There are no distractions. It's all one thing: fascism.
"I need the museums to constantly fluff me"
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Alexandra Petri: “these museums are the worst! not a single mention of success or brightness anywhere and there is a horrible whirring fan noise and a loud flushing sometimes and the lights go out if you don’t move in too long and there are no exhibits and someone keeps pounding on the door”
Ngl "This is a distraction" is my most hated phrase to ever hear out of liberals' mouths.
"How much can I troll the left to distract them and my following from the Epstein files? Because as long as I piss the left and media off they'll focus on that rather than whatever they were pissed off at before, and that's what my following will focus on instead as a reaction to their reaction!"
that would require the Dems to have a backbone and that was operationally removed in the 70s
It should be more than the Democratic politicians. It should be EVERY AMERICAN. EVERY. AMERICAN.
This shit is right out of Mao's cultural revolution and "long march" through the institutions...
Tackling the important issues, I see.
This…is “how it happens here.”
They have made it very clear that fighting republicans is something they just don't do.
We do a little historical revisionism
This is much more important than ppl may appreciate. It’s Trumpolini and his authoritarian party’s effort to expunge our collective memory, the strides we’ve made in understanding our true history and replacing it with fascist fiction & propaganda.
There is no point in our nation’s history where we’ve afforded the rights enshrined in our Constitution to every citizen. It’s been a constant uphill battle toward a society that actually lives up to its ideals since the very start. It’s ludicrous to pretend that our past was peachy keen.
People like Trump don’t care to introspect or learn from the past, though. Whether their own, or society’s. Growth is “woke”.
I’m old enough to remember when serious media outlets gave credulous coverage to GOP concerns about free speech.
I see this is going to be yet another day where I wonder how many times I can think, “what the fuck”
Is ending slavery NOT one of the brightest, most future-minded, indeed "hottest" moments in our nation's history?
And a Republican did it! I mean, the GOP of the Civil War bears zero resemblance to its 21st century counterpart, but Trump doesn’t know that
I was just at the African American History museum. There is tons of celebrations and joy there. That it came out of so much horror only makes it more beautiful. Overwhelming to experience all that history. Really needed the reflecting pool at the end. Trump can’t begin to understand.
Answering "no" to that question has been the bulk of the Republican platform for several decades at this point. Trump's just willing to say that more clearly than his predecessors were.
Where are George Bush and Mitt Romney? Their silence in the face Trump's attack on democracy is unforgivable.
That now applies to all Americans. Conservatives have abandoned the pretense of respecting US law, and are now simply seeking conquest and obedience. Anyone waiting for others to do something are simply waiting for their turn to kneel, while the traitors build more concentration camps.
I want Jeffries and Schumer replaced as minority leaders because they don't give a shit about literally ANYTHING other than their own fame and ill-gotten gains.
don't get fooled, focus on the main thing : #releasetheepsteinfiles
I would guess that the dumbass in the White House has never been to the Smithsonian. He is, as he always has been, a vulgar coward who will forever be a stain on this nation’s legacy.
I'd argue that he is a huge stain somewhat camouflaged by the fact that much of "this nation's legacy" is covered in so many stains you can hardly see what the oberall fabric looked like to begin with.
*overall (I really fucking hate you, Autocorrect!)
Nothing scares them more than having to do their job. They will not lift a finger. It's up to the people to stop this
Good Imaginary Reporter: ‘Mr. President, do you want to bring slavery back?’ Bad Real reporter: oh what do you think about the Smithsonian?
where do our artifacts go
he pukes on the truth
Agree. They are saying the quiet part out loud now, and they’re going to make sure the history of slavery is rewritten in museums, our educational system, and everything else they can commandeer or influence. 
Nobody’s talking about how “hot” “slavery” was anymore.
He's talking about how all those data centers are accelerating global warming and localized pollution, I believe.
First he subverts the reality for 1/3 of Americans, now to wipe out history??? Enough.
This is a distraction...from the fundraising I need to do with all the high rollers.
Well, he’s not entirely wrong. Very few of our history museums focus on the future…
This will be devastating. The African American History Museum is the most educational, sobering, and complete museum experiences I've ever had. The educational potential is immense, but obviously they just want to stop teaching black history
So, Jeffrey Epstein's best friend says that slavery needs to be celebrated for being good in museums across the country? 🤔
The key word in Trump's rant is control. He wants it.
Absolutely true but then who says they are not there just to keep us from actually fighting. Probably overkill, it seems the well educated are well taught to stay the course. I am ALL FOR peaceful protest but they know damn well they are meaningless to the right who are happy to see them following .
Truth=woke
Dems in disarray
Amen
How's that 2.7% inflation......Canada which Trump is trying to crush economically is at 1.7% how are those mortgage/insurance rates? Your bank rate is 4.5% and in Canada is 2.75 Trump is costing you your entire economic viability.
Aye, aye!
