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Posted on 05/19/2026 5:50:31 AM PDT by artichokegrower
While road-tripping out toward the southern Sierra Nevada foothills, it doesn’t take long to arrive at a place where the heat and congestion of the city fade into a tall canopy of native trees and a cool alpine breeze tumbles down the hillsides. Off Highway 58, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Bakersfield, is a place of tranquility and reflection — a national treasure that features a fountain, several seating areas and a walking trail tucked into a manicured rose garden.
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Personally, I would have preferred The House Of Mud.
They need to tear it down and bury it................
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So basically, the point of the story is that no one is coming to the museum. The reporter thinks that the reason is the Chavez association and that the way to increase attendance is to change the name of the museum. Does anyone really think that if the name is changed, people are going to start showing up?
What a disgrace. We sure have a tendency to make some shiddy “national monuments”. Especially building them to people who deface and destroy the national monuments made to celebrate AMERICAN NATIONAL HEROES.
It became blindingly obvious that Chavez couldn’t be assimilated into their narrative: Chavez’s strikes relied on immigration restrictions. Therefore, he would protest endlessly and loudly against massive, unrestricted immigration on behalf of the farmworkers who were already here.
I’m not saying that the accusations against him are false. I honestly have no way of knowing. I’m only saying that whatever he did a long time ago, and what has changed is that Chavez went from useful to harmful to the Democrat agenda.
visitor numbers climbed every year, nearly tripling from 11,585 in 2022 to 31,497 last year,
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Even at the peak, that was not really that many visitors.
For somebody who has dedicated holiday in CA!
E.g. Ronald Reagan pres. library has about ten times as many visitors and even e.g. Benjamin Harrison house in Indianapolis has more visitors every year.
Now it is approaching 0.
If you look at the pictures with the story, you see why no one is showing up at the museum. Its a bunch of second-rate exhibits. Posters, pictures, flags, books. Thinks that no one gives a s___t abut seeing. Its boring. That’s the reason no one is showing up, not the Chavez name.
Blue states build monuments to rapists, consider that.
I live in Bakersfield. No One has ever gone there. People that live here don’t even know where it is, that it’s there, or care.
Did you check UFW union bank account? It could be empty too. 🤔😁👍
“he would protest endlessly and loudly against massive, unrestricted immigration on behalf of the farmworkers”
Which was the same as the rest of the unions at the time and for the previous century.
The current unions - like UAW - still agree with it, which is why they thanked Trump for his tariffs. Meaning that they are now in opposition to the so-called “party of the workers” which is really now just the party of Not Whites.
I’m still waiting for the Obama liebrary to be finished so that I won’t visit.
The Biden liebrary is being built; it’s a 10 x 10 box built of 10 inch thick walls to insure he doesn’t wander off.
Chavez was a rapist, right?
Right?
Then... Why hasn’t this atrocity been torn down and the bulldozed rubble torched?
Pronto.
A Cat D-10 would work................
AND SHOULD RIGHT HAPPEN
Ah, c’mon. You mean to tell me the numerous monuments to the late Saint George Floyd are questionable? Whoa! Next you’re gonna tell me all streets named after Martin L. King are actually in bad parts of the cities and maybe he wasn’t the saint and prophet blax claim!
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