President Trump was already scaring the hell out of the leftists, but they’re absolutely terrified now that he’s taking aim at their control of the institutions that manage our history; the skinsuit is coming off, and the castrated commie emperorhas been exposed as having no clothes. They hate America, and they hate our history, and they want to twist it into a garotte to strangle our patriotism. No thanks. Our history is our history, not theirs, and from here on in, we’re going to tell our story, not them.
So, this obviously means that Trump loves slavery, or at least that’s obvious to people who are either stupid or think you are stupid. It’s amusing how the Democrats always make it all about slavery, since the Democrats were the sole cause and perpetrators of American slavery. You wouldn’t know it from the fake history you’ve been fed, but American slavery is but a small footnote in the history of human bondage; however, between America and formerly Great Britain, the actions of those two nations are practically the whole story of eliminating it for the first time since humans walked upright.
But hey, we’ve got to talk about it all the time because Democrats think that helps them. It doesn’t matter that slavery ended 160 years ago; the only thing that matters to them is power, and they think non-stop slave talk gives them moral leverage. But what matters to us is the truth, and the truth is that there is more to American history than that. Infinitely more. But they don’t want to talk about anything else because they hate America, and they hate you.
Donald Trump‘s decision to intervene in how the government-supported Smithsonian Institution portrays America – as a cross between Hannibal Lecter and Democrat icon Robert Byrd back in his Grand Imperial Cyclops days – has drawn the drearily predictable complaints. They’re calling Trump a Nazi again, which is something they haven’t done for almost 15 minutes. He loves slavery because he thinks there’s more to history than slavery.
What scares them is that the left thought it had a monopoly on how we see ourselves, and then President Trump came along and challenged their bogus narrative. Donald Trump noticed something that all of us have noticed going to America’s historic places and museums, which is that these institutions – like almost all institutions – have strayed from their proper roles and become commie conformity factories pumping out anti-American filth of the kind that you’d expect from the liberal white women and the male-identifying capons who run them.
Their version of American history is all about slavery, and everything is all our fault. But that’s a lie. I wasn’t born until about a century after my ancestors helped end slavery by fighting the Democrats during the First (as opposed to the possible Second) Civil War, and I’ve never owned slaves, but I am supposed to bear responsibility for it because of the color of my skin? To which I say, check out the pale color of my rear end when you bend down to kiss it, you Marxist worms.
No, America is more than slavery. It’s also more than fighting Indians, another favorite bugaboo. Here’s some real talk – the Indians lost fair and square. We won our homeland the way every people have won their homeland – through war. And we have nothing to apologize for. The conquest of North America by Europeans was a glorious chapter in human history, one in which Stone Age warring tribes were forced to become peaceful. The conquest stopped the raiding, raping, torture, and murder that characterized life among the Noble Savages. Like everything else about America, we’re supposed to be ashamed of how our ancestors conquered our land from people who had conquered it from someone else, but in fact, we should celebrate it. The settling of this continent was a great achievement and an unequivocal boon to humanity, and the European conquerors were the good guys.
The Smithsonian Institution is currently not about teaching us about who we are, but about teaching us how we suck. That’s unacceptable. We’ve all seen the Smithsonian’s cartoonishly racist handout on the evils of whiteness, which includes such horrible attributes as competence and punctuality. Oh no, the evil people o’ pallor embrace that wicked Protestant work ethic, you know, the one that made America the most prosperous civilization ever! Left unspoken is what work ethic, or lack thereof, is supposed to replace it. This is typical of our garbage ruling class – score points among the hip crowd for trashing the very things that made their lives soft, comfortable, and prosperous. How about a little gratitude for the people who built and defended our country, you creeps?
Their incessant trashing of America and its history is both ridiculous and morally illiterate, and frankly, I’m kind of tired of pointing it out. I don’t want to spend my time explaining such things as why their navel gazing over the righteous nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is bad – both my grandparents were in the Pacific, and the fact that college professors and historians don’t have the testosterone to do what’s necessary to win is no big revelation. Well, we’re past arguing and debating. We now have the political power to force the institutions to do their jobs, and we’re going to use it. We tried doing it the easy way, by talking about our concerns and asking the elite to reconsider, but the elite told us we were stupid racists and that we ought to shut up. Well, now we’re going to do it the hard way, and it’s going to hurt. Just ask the hacks from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
This raises the question of who properly controls our history. The left assumes it does, but why is that? Don’t we citizens get a say on how we tell our own story, since we’re paying for it? Aren’t we citizens supposed to be able to govern ourselves? What happened to Our Democracy? The unspoken premise of the outraged elites is that history belongs to their preferred experts who have been carefully curated by the same institutions that the communists have long-marched through, and that we peasants have some moral obligation to defer to them because of their credentials. But their credentials are trash, and everything they say is a lie. These experts deserve our contempt, not our deference. These are academic hacks and DEI mediocrities trying to make their bones running down the United States of America. Like most other institutions, those that curate our history have been taken over by people who have absolutely no interest in honest history, but who see it as a propaganda cudgel they can use to club Americans into submission. They want Americans to hate America and themselves, because these pinko bastards hate America and Americans.
Somebody’s got to decide how we present our history, and I say it should be the citizens through the guy who got elected by the American people. We decline to cede the ability to define who we are as a nation, and what we’ve done over our comparatively short history, to a bunch of screeching ninnies who would love nothing more than to see us disenfranchised, if not defenestrated.
You don’t manufacture a history of a people that consists entirely of slanders, calumnies, and accusations if you love and respect that people. And no, I’m not going to include the hackneyed qualifier that “Oh my goodness, we have some dark things in our history, and we should be sad about them.” We’ve spent enough time on self-loathing. We’ve done enough self-flagellation. We will spend the foreseeable future talking about the glory of America, and it is glorious. When we walk into an institution that our taxpayers support with our dollars, we should see the historical evidence that conclusively demonstrates the indisputable truth – America is the greatest country in the history of humanity.
There is no meritorious argument to the contrary. I’ve had the questionable opportunity to live on three continents in my life, spending my time overseas helping referee stupid arguments between garbage foreigners who are barely capable of running their own countries. Do I look down on foreigners? Oh yes, because I know them, and I’ve seen what they do, and how they are much, much worse than us. To trash America, as the exhibits in the Smithsonian currently do, is worse than a lie. It’s an attempt to destroy our morale, to undermine who we are as a country, to leverage the ignorance of young people who have been indoctrinated by a leftist public school system and a communist academia into hating what they should be proud of.
No more. You leftist swine will not nag, browbeat, or whine us into giving you our legacy to treat like the prettiest new boy on the cellblock.
America deserves better than the kind of cesspool history foisted upon us by alleged experts. The people making the decisions at the Smithsonian and in other institutions right now are not impressive, accomplished scholars. There are a bunch of pinko twerps who despise the very people who subsidize their pathetic lives.
Enough. The Smithsonian belongs to us, and it’s going to do what we want – not vice versa. Donald Trump must aggressively and ruthlessly reassert the control of the American people over their own past. We’re no longer going to give it away to people who have squandered the trust we placed in them and manufactured a narrative of lies and slanders in an effort to make us hate ourselves. We shouldn’t hate ourselves. We should be proud of ourselves. We should be patriotic. We are the greatest people who have ever existed on Earth. We are smart, brave, courageous, and strong. What we conquered and built here is a testimony to our glory. We’re not going to dwell on errors or mistakes or when we fell short – that’s all been played out, and if you want to hate yourself, the leftists will always be happy to pass you the ammunition. The purpose of our historical institution should be to reaffirm and reassert what is an indisputable truth: America is the best, and the best is yet to come.
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