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Do you ever stop to wonder how they came to think this way? One of the things that brought me into starting my PhD program was finally coming to the realization that we were never really going to be able to tackle white supremacy in the way that we need to without reparations. Our ability to quantify racism, I think, is so critical, and I think we've been missing that and understanding it beyond just the general gap of race. The reparations obsession. From a woman who was born in Ethiopia and whose family was allowed to come here courtesy of America's good will, a diversity visa, Malak Kiroz is a Democrat's great socialist hope in Colorado, is a typical lefty, over-educated and entitled, and anti-American malcontent. But there are countless more like her. Their corrosive world view is shaped by a number of inputs. We've got to get to the bottom of all of it. Of course, the parents in some cases, the schools, social media, and yes, cultural institutions that feed and reinforce their resentment toward all things American. And this week, the Trump administration is blowing the lid off one of the worst, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Now it's a museum led now by this woman, Anthea Hardig, with the help of top staff such as Patti Arteaga. They've taken our nation's most important museum for American history and turned it into a crusade for restorative history. Our new mission statement, empowering people to create a more just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of our past. As we all know in this conference, loving America is very complicated. I'm here representing the Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative, but chronicling the past 20 years of people without citizenship, coming out of the shadows, mobilizing and influencing legislation and becoming their own political force in the 21st century. So the Smithsonian has been woke for years, but now you see this from this hokey video. Now it's just gone a step further by launching its Let's Stand Together to Do Better campaign. Don't you love that title? To train a new generation of activists. If we want to change the biases in our world, we need to face them. We need to stand up together and face the injustices. There is no shame in wanting a better world for all and for our future. And we will not be alone in standing up. Whether we join with our neighbors to paint over symbols of hate, or we come together to peacefully protest police violence, there is a community of allies that we join when we finally choose to stand up. Oh my God, it's just all so tedious. Now sure, there's still the ruby slippers and the first Macintosh computer and the first telephone in the exhibits, but the museum's political undercurrent is part BLM, part anti-ICE, with a little DSA, trans and NEA thrown in for good measure. It's kind of an amalgam of all of it. Now mind you, we the people are funding the Smithsonian about a billion dollars in appropriations. So I gotta say, who voted for this? I didn't. So do the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, do they even know what the museum is being used for? Here's the list of the folks on the Board of Regents. You got the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, J.D. Vance, he's a little busy. Okay. You got Senator John Boosman, he's a Republican, a couple of other Republican congressmen and various other people. Now here's what the report from the Domestic Policy Council found, that the Smithsonian presents the Founders through the lens of slavery rather than their contributions, that Christianity is portrayed as a force of oppression, ditto for the pilgrims, natch, and museum leadership thinks our founding should be problematized, emphasizing America's shortcoming and of course reframing instead of celebrating our founding. Its mission statement is removing references to American history and instead focuses on a quote, more just and compassionate future. And exhibits are directed to focus on modern political issues across nearly every topic. The report also found anti-white and anti-oppression programming for staff. Immigration exhibits highlight activism surrounding illegal immigration. Gender related exhibits present transgender identity as part of women's and children's history. And by the way, youth exhibits contain material the report argues is inappropriate for children. Oh no, that's never going to happen. So look, our tax dollars are funding a museum that fails to provide a balanced view of American history. There's bad stuff but there's a lot of good stuff. And instead it devotes itself to left wing activism. That's obvious the goal. Now it's designed to encourage the dismantling of American norms and culture over time. And now we're onto them. No one, no, I was watching this today, the New York Times, I think they had like five articles on this today. No wonder they're so upset and so many media outlets are out there running interference for the Smithsonian today. Haberman Swan on their book tour had time to write a piece claiming that Trump is the one trying to impose his own view of American history on the museum. All right. Of course that's what they're going to say. It's absurd. Trump didn't politicize the museum. The museum's directors and staff did. Look, here's the bottom line. The liberal establishment believes that the Smithsonian is theirs to use as a vehicle for advancing anti-American agendas. They believe that when Americans come to visit their nation's capital or when foreigners come to visit DC, they should be confronted with evidence that's built on America's racism, xenophobia, and of course overall greed. It's the kind of stuff that shallow celebrities spout to try to sound smart. I think him forcing us and firing and taking the names off boats of important Latino history heroes and history and all that erasure on women and black folk. The museums, the Smithsonian. Yeah. Erasing our history. Completely taking it out. And since that's the real history, right, we should all be ashamed and we should be ready to make amends, meaning they're coming to take your money and maybe even your property and then just give it to a bunch of their friends. That's what they want. And that's what they'll do unless we the people get involved and demand that our congressmen and our senators stop funding this anti-American madness. And that's the angle. Vince Haley is the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and it's been given the task of implementing the president's executive order, restoring truth and sanity to American history. Vince, the media jumped on this really fast and they say you all are the ones who are trying to co-opt history, erase the sins of the past and rewrite it in Trumpian terms. To that you say? Well, Laura, it's great to be with you. I mean, the bottom line is that there's no national story at the National Museum of American History. That's what has happened under the ideology that reigns supreme over there. This was not hard to write in a sense because it's all out in the open. The statements of the leadership, their interpretive guidelines, it's very clearly designed. And the key that opened up to me was this word that you touched upon, problematize. When the director said five years ago in the run up to the 250, we need to problematize the 250 in the Declaration of Independence, I was like, what in the world? Who uses that kind of language? Well, that's academic jargon. You take a received narrative, you poke holes in it and you talk about power relationships, who's oppressed, who's the oppressor and you find fault. And at the end of the day, what you wind up with is no American history at the American History Museum. There's very little on the American founding. There's a little bit on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I was over there recently. So there's a little bit of that, but it's very, very heavy on what's wrong with America. It should be called the What's Wrong with America Museum. But again, they have the ruby slippers and the stuff that everyone goes gaga over. But, but the mess, the under, the undercurrent here is unmistakably political. It's unmistakably political. And it's very clear the way that the mission statement was changed from a focus on the infinite richness of American history to creating a just and compassionate future by exploring our past political party. It is. And it's, it's, it's, the words are very clear. They view the Smithsonian and the words of the director as a prime tool of social justice. And that is the mission. And their mission is to create activists to carry out a political program and an ideological program. You asked me this, the thing that I was most surprised about was how much the focus on illegal immigration and legitimizing illegal immigration comes through again and again in their programming. The effect of this kind of ideological capture is to abolish American identity. And the key vehicle and activism that they have to do that is illegal immigration promotion advocacy. They had a, they had a program looking at illegal immigrants. They went to Mexico City to interview people. They lionized somebody who was involved in a legal immigrant group that was involved in defeating a sheriff in an election in North Carolina for the crime of deporting criminal illegal aliens. So this comes through again and again. We are just using the words and the program that they set forth. And we did reach out to the Smithsonian about the report. A spokesperson told us, "For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public and a nonpartisan and independent scholarship and remain committed to doing so." The fact of the matter is this Anthea Hardig is very clear in her little webinars that she's done. She did one with University of California Riverside, I believe, where she discussed her 15 favorite exhibits in the museum. I'm going to repost this on my Instagram page so everyone can watch it. Overwhelmingly, they were negative portrayals of America. I mean, okay, a couple of things, fine. But it's like the Statue of Liberty with a basket of tomatoes about the illegal immigrants. It was, you know, the internment camps. Very little to make people walk away from that museum thinking, "Thank God I'm in this country and not in a gulag in China, or not in an internment camp somewhere else." But it's very, very, very clear when you're there, especially with young people. A lot of superintendents okay school trips to the Smithsonian. And it's an important school trip for kids. No, it's absolutely important. I mean, look, when President Lyndon Johnson dedicated the museum, he said it should focus on the victory of freedom and the genius of our country. You don't find that today. This is on the shortcomings of the country. This is designed in this way to problematize your understanding of American heroes and Americans founding. The Board of Regents, they're not paying attention? I don't think anybody has quite put together the statements, the LG, the interpretive plan. They actually have a woke mandate in their interpretive plan. They say that everything, whatever the topic, has to be brought back to clear ideological categories, race and gender, sexuality, income inequality, climate change. I could do two hours on this. I'm being wrapped by about five people. Vince, great to see you. Thank you for writing this. Every senator and every congressman has got to read this report, go over to the museum, spend time there. I have. And you'll see exactly what you're talking about. We're staying on this topic. Great. Thank you very much.

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Glad to be here today to support the best president we've ever had very well said what what would be your message to President Donald Trump? keep praying every day because God's with you to give the strength you need every hour and The wisdom to lead this country back to its greatness with Christian values and families That need to have support of for right principles right education that's about our country and get us back on the right path and expose the radical Muslims and Socialists, they're trying to take this over underground very well said you had that all in the chamber And I was very well said they came out. They should have you up. There's one of the speedest speakers today I went to the 16 convention and in Ohio was the finest run Event I've ever been to in my life And I'm so glad that he was elected then and I've seen what he's done. He keeps his promises He doesn't make false promises and he will not quit until he's accomplished his goal with God's help Very well said now you're from Montana half, Texas half here Well, what would you say are some of the issues that are on top of mind for people here during the midterms? well, of course, they want they want the economy to become where they can afford everything but when we're trying to keep Missiles and things that that we know have been paid for by the previous administration in Iran It's important that we stop that ability so that we are safe And then when we're safe, we can all go back to work and and and benefit from some of these Advances that Trump's going to show you pretty soon. We're going to be very surprised when he keeps his promises People will then be glad they voted for him But it takes time to turn things around when billions were given to Iran by the previous Administration to build those bombs underground, so I'm very proud of him doing what he knows he needs to do to protect us Very well said and President Trump had to know the cost that it would be to do what he's doing right now So, you know, he did it with with our best intentions in mind Yes, he can afford to live any way he wanted to and he chose this was his goal was to protect America and use his expertise and money and Influence to make this nation great again And if you want to read about the story that's really the foundation read about Trump's Bible the story where it came from Europe and how the Trump's Bible got on under his hand when he first ran that tells you God's plan for his life And what he's here for it's much more than what people know Very very well said and also to it's it's amazing that his his effort his enthusiasm is stamina to continue to do this He's like on it. It's almost as if he's campaigning for president, but he's doing it to help all these other candidates And he's today he's in Arizona right before he comes here and he's just like a workhorse just like a machine More than a workhorse more like a robot that never gets tired I can't imagine keeping doing what he does just two days in a row Four hours sleep and he's always has to be responsible for remembering to everybody's names Who's what they're doing what he's been his agenda is for that day and to not get upset when things don't go his way But patiently pursue one step at a time because he believes in what he's doing is best for our country and all of our citizens I vote for him. I'll vote for him three times in a row because his his whole agenda is to make America Great again, and we'll hold him to it, and I don't think God is gonna disappoint us

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the violence is gripping the streets of France at some of the largest riots that France has ever seen continues to grow by day to the painter joining us now with the very latest on the unrest morning Chan Lee. >> Hey good morning guys so at least 1200 people were arrested across the country yesterday in what the French government has described as an escalation in violence. More than 550,000 people taking to the streets Saturday to protest education standards and rising cost of living riot police clashing with demonstrators amid widespread looting vandalism and arson police resorting to tear gas and water cannons as protesters became more violent around 150 officers were injured during the clashes and a 140 plus year-old town hall that survived both world wars was also set ablaze. French president Emmanuel Macron posting that there is quote no room for violence in our republic those who have broken attacked the prefectures and as well as businesses looted even our town halls will be prosecuted and punished protests across the country have been ongoing for nearly 5 weeks across schools and universities, the French prime minister pointing to quote the ultra left groups and delinquents as escalating the chaos guys. >> All right channel later. Thank you very much you guys it's just heartbreaking to see that that building that gorgeous town hall. A 145 almost 150 years old. >> So I'm to war wars. And then these people burned to the ground. >> Well, and you know it has nothing to do with a lack of school books or shortage of teachers remember why this all started that was the claim. Yeah, and look at what it's spread into this and it's not just in one town or one area, it's not just in Paris. It was in Limoges that we were watching the town hall being burned down and some spread to other parts of Europe and Italy as well and you know vice president J D Vance had a tweet overnight that that really puts in perspective exactly what we're witnessing right now he writes on X this Western liberals imported the 3rd world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility they were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen. I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn and I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country. >> Of course, he is absolutely right. He's absolutely right about it. And the reason that he's vice president the reason Donald Trump is president is because they are the first people president Trump is the first person to step forward on the global stage and identify this problem and do something about it. And I think it's really interesting if you read the this quote unquote mainstream press about their coverage of this they talk about the school funding they talk about poor people not getting services they talk about they say nothing they had not that you read the BBC you read the New York Times you read the Wall Street. They say nothing about the fact that many of these protesters are immigrants from other countries that were hauled into the country never assimilated they say nothing about the fact that we're looking at a French flag right there. But if in a lot of the shots you don't see French flags you see Palestinian flags and I don't know if the reporters doing these stories are just too old or they're afraid to get down there and do something about the actual coverage where you actually talk to people but they don't tell that part of the story and it takes the vice president United States of America to actually identify the real what is going on here and if and France may not like people like JD Vance or Donald Trump, but there we go with the Palestinians like they're going to wind up with a Marine Le Pen as because of no one else because she's one of the few people in that country was actually willing to identify the problem and talk about it. And there was an organized effort to move those people over to your politicians by politicians and by billionaires like like for the billionaires like exactly like open society George Soros Foundation and other foundations who these NGOs want to destabilize Europe, they hate Europe. They hate the idea of of nationalism and and and that's the same thing that that that happened here of course the other thing I want to bring up is that I is what something that JD Vance talked about which is a simulation, you know there's a lot of consternation on the left, we're fighting ice. We got to stop all these deportations the reason we have to deport people is because they came here with a legal process that would assimilate them into our country, our customs are more our history our culture and that's the kind of thing my mother did she decided she wanted to become an American citizen after she married an American G I and she said I'm going to learn English and then I'm going to go take a course and learn the history of America and then I'm going to pass a test about civics and history in America and through that process she became proud to be an American the people you're seeing here have no love for that country for France, they don't love France, they don't care about its people and all the shop owners right now who are in living in fear, they wish they had a Donald Trump there they only wish there was somebody brave enough to withstand the insults and the and the and the and the insults about being a xenophobe or racist. They wish they had someone that strong but unfortunately they don't they have a crime. >> It's fascinating to when you watch a lot of these violent riots, they're not even protests at this point you do see the Palestinian flag and you under so what does that look like along there. I do want to touch though because Charlie you got me thinking you're talking about the media coverage did you see several people on social media were flagging a CBS report yesterday that said scuffles had broken out in parts of France does that look like a scuffle would you describe that as a scuffle it's hardly a scuffle but listen to I think there's a bunch of Palestinians in France right now doing this. No this is all astroturf remember we had the LM as well. Here these are anti West forces these are anti West NGOs who are we're pushing this up just like BLM their Marxist. We had as a no money she talks about this green red alliance these the the Muslim socialist Marxist alliance. These are people that they're essentially anarchists.

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