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[Irish_Dem]

1. Can the museum hide the art work like during WWII?

When museums tried to hide art from the Nazis?

[Alice B.]

20. Yes, seriously. When I first heard about this, I immediately thought of the "Monuments Men," etc.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Yes same here.

Perhaps Smithsonian can smuggle out some of the art to a safe house.

Our history and culture is worth preserving.

[LuckyLib]

40. I just watched it last night. Hitler was really working it.

Our Trumpster Team is as well.

[Paladin]

2. This country is becoming unrecognizable, at record speed. (nt)

[Irish_Dem]

29. This appears to be the goal. Wipe out everything that made us Americans.

[WestMichRad]

3. Hope they can hide the important historical documents and artifacts

… before the idiocy begins their purge.

[C_U_L8R]

4. It a freakin Cultural Revolution.

Fuck these cro-mag asshats and their pebble-sized intellects.

[Irish_Dem]

30. We are living the Great Purge.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. I hope there's a crowd awaiting him with pitchforks and torches.

[FalloutShelter]

6. Have a little read about "Degenerate Art".

How very Nazi of TSF and his Orcs.

[keep_left]

34. Apropos...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Modern_art_and_architecture#Degenerate_art

[tanyev]

7. Huh. Exact same thing dicatators do when they invade and conquer other countries.

[Bettie]

8. I'm glad we went with our kids

two years ago, because it will be decimated before long.

Sad we ran out of time and couldn't see everything, because a whole lot will be gone before long.

[Alice B.]

21. I haven't been in years and had the same problem (seeing all that there is to see).

I kept thinking, I need to get back to the museums in DC but another year kept passing ... now, here we are.

[Bettie]

22. And you know that the

museums will be irretrievably broken.

But, I bet some billionaires will get to pick priceless artifacts to show off in their homes....because that's where we are now.

[Alice B.]

23. This is just devastating to me. The ability to see all of these wonderful things for *free*...

... being lost to us. I'm also thinking of the National Gallery.

As a former art history student, getting to see all of these things that I had previously only seen as slides in a classroom? I wasn't really prepared for what it was like to see them in-person. Everyone should have that opportunity.

And again, to get to see those things for free? All of these horrible, horrible things are happening and this, along with the ivy from the Oval Office, on top of everything else, just put me over the edge.

[sop]

9. When he's finally and mercifully gone, The Smithsonian will open a new museum dedicated to the damage

done to the United States of America by Donald J. Trump. Much like how the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum documents the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis.

[Oopsie Daisy]

10. I'm reminded of the Taliban and what they did to the Buddhas of Bamiyan

Before and after

[yardwork]

11. I remember that.

This is exactly the same.

[Timeflyer]

12. Just go full 1984 and rename it the Ministry of Truth.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. This is a Swiss Bank Accounts moment

As Nazis plundered Germany and its conquered territories, artwork was absconded with, and the value passed up the political and military chain. Deposited in Switzerland which was in a difficult position being surrounded by combatants.

Maybe open a Greenland Bank Account?

[AloeVera]

14. The whitewashing of American History begins.

Soon the word slavery will be forbidden.

Someone better save these priceless objects quick:

Harriett Tubman’s shawl and hymn book (c. 1876)

Nat Turner’s bible (1830s)

shackles used for an enslaved child
a slave cabin from Edisto Island, S.C.

a pocket copy of the Emancipation Proclamation read from by soldiers bringing news of freedom to the U.S. Colored Troops

freedom papers (c. 1852) carried by a former slave, Joseph Trammell

[brush]

15. More white supremacist crapola. trump is leaving no doubt who he is.

[bif]

16. One more step closer to Nazi Germany!

Get job folks!

[samplegirl]

17. Wow just wow!

This upset me like non other!

[Xavier Breath]

18. Given his beliefs and bigotry, at least we know Archie Bunker's chair will be safe.

[bif]

19. The Orange Turd doesn't even know the meaning of the word "ideology"

Give me a fucking break. He has the intellect of a five-year old. I love the way his handlers are so obviously controlling him and making him sign executive orders. Too funny!

[uponit7771]

24. Some NAZI shit right here

[Ping Tung]

25. The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus

[karynnj]

26. Following in the footsteps of the Taliban destroying statues of Buddah

[Hotler]

27. During the election I thought to myself that if the orange convict wins we should scuttle the White House.

Remove and hide all the antiques, art work etc. first.

[Irish_Dem]

32. Trump probably has already taken most of the artifacts in the WH.

[shanti]

39. Didn't he remove the

Resolute desk from the Oval "for refurbishing". Huh.

[Irish_Dem]

44. When he traveled to overseas embassies, he used to take any art work he wanted.

[Irish_Dem]

31. Which billionaires get to buy the priceless art from Trump?

Cash and Carry only.

[msfiddlestix]

33. Oh. How Shocking.

there are no words to express the breadth of damage these psychopaths intend to do, but it's also so predictable.

Who and what will protect our greatest national assets from these fascists psychopaths?

Only a fantasy novel or film can create the imaginary hero's to save the day.
If only our fearless leaders during the Biden admin would have taken measures from day one of Biden's administration to safeguard the tyranny that surely threatened to assume power in the near future, which is now our present times.
And of course it was predictable. all of this was predictable in early 2021.

[Duncan Grant]

35. Do we need a national museum devoted to White Christianity?

Imagine how boring it will be.

[CTyankee]

37. I get what you mean here, but that description could apply to the religious art in great museums in Europe...

Without the Church we wouldn't have the masterpieces we can see today. Leonardo and Michelangelo come to mind. And Rembrandt for one of the greatest paintings ever made: The Return of the Prodigal Son, IMHO. Rembrandt had good friends in the Jewish community.

[Duncan Grant]

41. I'm a museum docent. I understand completely.

My point is the cultural erasure of POC, LGBTQI, women, etc.

[CTyankee]

43. I have written about Augusta Savage and her contributions to American art and I often see museums with new artists

featured, so many of them POC and women. In my book, I also deal with the art of 78 rpm record covers and there are some wonderful art involved in that era. Would love to see some of them in an art show!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

38. We have one. Never been, so don't know how boring it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Encounter

[Duncan Grant]

42. A laughingstock! (nt)

[Beringia]

36. This reminds me of the book burning by the Nazis, I found a Smitsonian article

But it says the perpetrators feel like victims, which is not the case now

The unifying factor between all types of purposeful book-burners in the 20th century, Rebecca Knuth says, is that the perpetrators feel like victims, even if they’re the ones in power. Perhaps the most infamous book burnings were those staged by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who regularly employed language framing themselves as the victims of Jews. Similarly, when Mao Zedong took power in China and implemented the Cultural Revolution, any book that didn’t conform to party propaganda, like those promoting capitalism or other dangerous ideas, were destroyed.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-book-burning-printing-press-internet-archives-180964697/

Rebecca Knuth, author of Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century