Common Sense Concept
contra expertise science, some things you just know without any evidence needed, your own gut, biASES OPINION IS VALID
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AN 8 25
The Wall Street Journal reports the White House will conduct a sweeping review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations to align it with President Donald Trump’s interpretation of American history.
Three top White House officials, said the Journal, sent a letter to Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, claiming they want to ensure the museums’ “unity, progress, and enduring values” reflect President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
The White House intends to inspect and adjust public-facing exhibition text and online content. It also wants to have a say in future exhibition planning, as well as the use of collections and artist grants, say Journal reporters.
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“This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions,” states the Aug. 12 letter.
Critics railed against Trump’s January executive order demanding a Trump-approved version of U.S. history that erases chapters that fail to align with Trump’s vision of American greatness, reports the Guardian.
“He’s ignorant of economic history, he’s ignorant of political history. And his idea for the 250 [anniversary] is to use it as a way to celebrate him,” said Jonathan Alter, a historian and biographer to the Guardian. “We don’t know yet exactly how he’ll hijack that event next year, but he will certainly try to do so.”
The Journal reports Trump singled out the Smithsonian Institution in his executive order, claiming the Smithsonian had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” that promotes “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
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The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents had already agreed to conduct a thorough review of its museum and zoo content to eliminate political influence and bias, according to the Journal.
This may not be the first time the White House has tinkered with museum exhibits. After outcry, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History restored references to Trump after removing them from a presidential impeachment display in late July.
Read the full Wall Street Report at this link.
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05/15/2025
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- Richard Harris claims that the response to the COVID pandemic was "one of the greatest episodes of corruption and human rights abuses the world has ever seen."
- Rep. Buddy Carter says that the Democrats who clashed with ICE officials are "clowns" and should be stripped of their committee assignments.
- Mark Meckler reports that he was "in Washington D.C. meeting with a bunch of folks last week" and is optimistic that "there is an appetite growing" among Republican legislators to support an Article V Convention of States to propose amendments to the Constitution.
- Joshua Haymes wants to see some public executions: "The Bible is pro-public execution. America’s founding fathers were pro-public execution. Good common sense is in favor of public execution as a deterrent. So why are you against public execution?"
- During a recent Right Response Ministries podcast attacking Judaism and the Talmud, co-host Wesley Todd declared that "Jews are our enemy."
- Nick Fuentes wants to get "really rich" so he can "just do some straight up illegal stuff" by having his henchmen kidnap a bunch of women who will then be forced to fight to the death for the "prize" of becoming his wife.
- Finally, it's disturbing to see GOP members of Congress who think that it is the role of Congress to blindly turn every one of President Donald Trump's executive orders into law. Perhaps they should read Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
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MMA 1 24
:{MATT WALSH (HOST): Here we go again. Where they say that temperatures are the hottest, not just in our lifetime, and not just since they started keeping temperature records, and not even just since when they started keeping historical records of anything -- they're saying it's the hottest in 125,000 years, well before the dawn of human civilization. :{That's how far back they're going. And this is pretty simple. Your BS detector needs to be calibrated well enough to at least pick up on this kind of BS. You don't even need a BS detector. OK.}:
This is a dump truck load of BS pulling up right to your front door, and, I mean, you can sniff it out without much trouble. You don't even need to open the door to sniff it. The idea that anybody actually knows the precise global temperatures from 125,000 years ago is laughably ridiculous. OK, I don't care -- you can take any scientist with all the qualifications in the world, I don't care how long their resume is, how many papers they've written, how many schools, how many degrees they have and PhDs -- when they start saying that, you laugh in their face. You laugh in their face. You say, you moron. You're just an idiot is all you are, because it's completely insane.}:
:{Nobody has any freaking idea what the temperature was tens of thousands of years before the pyramids were built, much less when the pyramids were being built. Nobody knows. Nobody. How could they? There wasn't anyone around to keep track. Like, who are we going to ask? :{Now, do you know where they get these figures from? Because without fail, as I'm saying this right now, I'm going to get a bunch of smarmy comments -- you don't know any -- Read a book sometime. }:
You don't know anything about it. They can figure -- they know this. They know this for sure. And these people saying this, they don't know how. They don't know how. If you ask them, you go to the comments right now, and you see all the smarmy comments, and you ask any of them, well, yeah, how do they know? How do they know? Tell me how they know what the temperature was on, like, May 15th in the year 10,041 BC, what -- how do they know that? Well, they just do. It's science, because of science, and science is a magical crystal ball that tells them.}:
And the truth, if you want to know how they really get these numbers, is that they pull them out of their asses. That's how they get them. But a scientist won't tell you that if you ask him. If you ask him, oh, where did you get this? He won't say, why, from my own ass, of course. That's where I got it, even though it's true.
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OK. So they are looking at ice -- they're looking at ice, and they're looking at tree rings. And from that, we're supposed to believe that they have extracted, not just very rough temperature, sort of ,ballpark estimates. But what we're supposed to believe is that they have precise yearly annual records that are accurate down to the last degree. That's what they want to believe. So, it's not like they're saying, OK, from the year 125,000 BC to 75,000 BC, during that global era, temperatures were relatively warm or whatever. You know, they're not saying that because that's a rough, very rough sort of generalized estimate. Instead, they want us to believe that they can identify the temperatures by exact years dating back 125 millennia and give exact temperatures by looking at tree rings.
I mean, this is -- I used this analogy yesterday for something else, but this is really like reading tarot cards. This is -- it's straight up superstition at this point. You might as well believe that someone could look at a tarot card and tell you what your future is going to be. So, it is totally absurd. And that's why, again, the only appropriate response to this is just to laugh at it.
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