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Trump announces Patriot Games, a youth athletic competition celebrating United States 250th birthdayPresident Donald Trump announced Thursday the White House will host the Patriot Games, a competition with young athletes from across the county, as part of the celebration of the United States 250th anniversary next year.
In the fall, we will host the first ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes one young man and one young woman from each state and territory, Trump said.
Democrats have mocked the athletic competition online, comparing it to The Hunger Games, a dystopian young adult novel and popular movie franchise in which children are forced to fight to the death in televised arenas.
The president revealed the plans for the Patriot Games in a video announcement from Freedom 250, which was launched Thursday. It is a a national, non-partisan organization leading the Administrations celebration of Americas 250th birthday, according to a news release.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/patriot-games-announcement-trump
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My daughter told me about it when she got home from work.
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(80,776 posts)This sounds creepy.
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Strelnikov_
(8,089 posts)Like Jesus H Christ on a crutch
No. .
This has to be the Onion? Borowitz? Raw Story?
Divide by zero!!!
Shutdown required . . .
Wiz Imp
(8,661 posts)celebration of Americas 250th birthday,
The only individual named on the website at this point is CEO Keith Krach who served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment in the first Trump Administration. Hardly sounds like a nonpartisan organization to me.
But something else I found on the website is absolutely outrageous and disgusting.
https://freedom250.org/americas-story
In case you need a reminder Hillsdale College is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025.
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/16/salon-investigates-the-on-public-schools-is-being-fought-from-hillsdale-college/
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There are further hints in the BCSI K-12 program guide, which Hillsdale licenses for free to both charters and other schools it considers compatible. In one teaching guide shared online, BCSI offers extensive classroom resources and text recommendations, heavy on Hillsdale professors work, laissez-faire economics and the conviction that progressives have betrayed Americas founding principles. Among the suggested titles are former Hillsdale history professor Burton Folsoms New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDRs Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, Reagan education secretary William Bennetts America: The Last Best Hope (Volumes 1-3), and Hillsdale economist Gary Wolframs A Capitalist Manifesto.
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That effort failed, but these days, she might have better luck. Hillsdales newest K-12 offering, the 1776 Curriculum, has been widely embraced by Republican state and local elected officials. Introduced on Hillsdales website with the declaration that America is an exceptionally good country, the curriculum depicts Americas founding fathers, even those who owned slaves, as closet abolitionists, while the reformers of the late 19th to early 20th century Progressive era who sought to address symptoms of Gilded Age inequality such as sweatshops and child labor were promoters of group rights whose activism was fundamentally anti-American. (Progressivism was a rejection of the principles of the Declaration of Independence as well as the form of the Constitution, the curriculum argues. Young American citizens must understand why and how the government of the country they now live in was changed from what their countrys Founders originally intended.)
The curriculum also suggests that systemic American racism was effectively ended by the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and that the ideals of that movement were almost immediately turned [into] programs that ran counter to the lofty ideals of the Founders. It argues that most diversity policies amount to a regime of formal inequality and asks students to ponder the study question, How are critical race theory and anti-racism discriminatory? As a recent analysis from Phil Williams at Tennessees NewsChannel 5 elaborates, the curriculum further suggests that civil rights sit-ins at Southern lunch counters were an unconstitutional infringement on private property, and falsely implies that Martin Luther King Jr. didnt believe in using the force of law to achieve equality, but only an appeal to individual consciences.
This is who has been tasked with presenting the history of the United States. This "school" is a Christian NAtionalist propaganda outfit which obviously will present absolutely nothing truthful about the history of the United States.
https://freedom250.org/
underpants
(194,525 posts)I know they advertise a lot in talk radio. They are very proud of not taking any government funding
they say.
Thanks. I knew they were in the Liberty, Bob Jones, Regent vein. They appear to be the more literate Religious Right racists.
Great article here
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133