Posted on 01/11/2021 12:02:22 PM PST by a fool in paradise
Curators are gathering posters and banners from the riot and the protests that preceded it to “help future generations remember” Jan. 6, a museum director says.
A sign that reads, “Off with their heads — stop the steal” and a small handwritten poster with the words “Trump won, swamp stole” are among dozens of objects and ephemera from pro-Trump rallies and the Capitol takeover Wednesday that are heading to the National Museum of American History, collected by curators from the division of political and military history.
The museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, announced Friday that it has begun archiving protest signs, posters and banners from protests on the National Mall and from the violent mob that stormed through the Capitol on Wednesday. Only a day after Trump supporters invaded the halls of Congress, Frank Blazich, a curator with the museum, was on the National Mall collecting ephemera from the demonstrations before the winds swept them away.
“As an institution, we are committed to understanding how Americans make change,” the museum’s director, Anthea M. Hartig, said in a statement, explaining that “this election season has offered remarkable instances of the pain and possibility involved in that process of reckoning with the past and shaping the future.”
...“Two hundred and twenty years after Jefferson was sworn in as president, the vulnerability of this legal and historic handover was revealed,” she said. “While shaken, we remain confident that a peaceful transfer of power shall yet again occur Jan. 20.”
Curators at the museum had embarked on a similar collecting expedition over the summer, acquiring signs and banners from Black Lives Matter protests to document the moment in history.
...Friday, they repeated the request for contributions, asking that photos and brief descriptions of objects be sent to 2020ElectionCollection@si.edu.
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Not a head on a pike among ‘em.
I wonder if they have any nooses on display.
Are they cataloging objects from the nationwide Burn, Loot Murder and Auntie Fart riots last year?
Smithsonian doesn’t bother to put this in a display of the nastiness of the Leftist elites in the first decade of the 21st century:
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Do they have any artifacts from when Amy Schumer and others took seige of the Capital during the Kavanaugh hearings?
Defund this Museum.
I know what you mean. The sheer falseness of the media portrayal is astounding. I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that we’re seeing the big lie technique in action.
I heard they’re including the coprolite they picked out of Nancy Pelosi’s office.
It’s an attempt to create a grand narrative for the cultural transformation. In twenty years, reading about it from these people you will get the impression that it was a full blown military assault that was intended to install Trump as dictator for life, narrowly averted by the heroes of the proletariat.
And, how many condoms were found and logged in as ‘evidence’?
Like screw . . . Trump? or Nancy (sorry for the image)? or the US Citizens?
We left things of value rather than burn and loot.
I hope this helps. You can proudly display them all,
for posterity
Hm? Are they gathering the voting machines too to display how honest they were?
I hope no one donates naked pictures of Anthony Wiener's wiener from Nancy Pelosi's laptop.
Looking forward to a bronze statue of the “Pelosi lectern guy”.
Which future generation will rip it down off its pedestal in the courtyard?
That used to work when they controlled the medium. Now memers write the history.
It’s only a matter of time before we see a letter signed by 1,000 “health experts” stating that spreading false claims of election fraud poses an even greater risk to public health than the spread of COVID.
Gaslighting is hazardous to your health
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