Are You Gynosexual? Here’s What It Means, According to Experts
It isn’t easy being a straight male these days unless maybe you enjoy all the privilege that Hunter Biden does. Everybody else gets their own special color on that increasingly garish flag, gets to bobble their man-boobs on the White House lawn, and has the entire month of June dedicated to whatever naughty thing they’re doing with their private parts — slice it, dice it, even make Julienne fries!
But as a straight white male, I don’t get any of that stuff. I have to make do somehow with my gorgeous wife of 21 years, my two handsome sons, and the rewarding career that I’ve pursued for more than two decades. It’s a daily struggle.
As of today, though, I don’t have to settle for less. Thanks to the experts, I now understand that I’m a total freak with my own special made-up word and everything.
Bite me, normies, because my color just went up on the Pride flag. That’s right: I’m a gynosexual, unlike the rest of you squares.
Stephen Green’s tongue-in-cheek take on the latest development in the dynamic world of ever-evolving sexual freakisms is humorous, but there is something vaguely threatening about it.
Gynosexual, according to sex educator Lilith Fox “refers to being sexually attracted to femininity, irrespective of one’s own gender identity or the gender identity of the femme-presenting person they are attracted to.” In plain English, it means that whether you’re a man or a woman, you are a gynosexual if you’re attracted to femininity in either a male or a female.
It means that you can be a boy and like girls, or you can be a girl and like girls. You can also be a boy and like a girly-boy, or be a girl and like a girly-boy. Up until a minute ago, we’ve known boys who like girls as normal and girls who like girls as “lesbian,” and boys who like boys as “gay” and girls who like boys as normal.
But once the LGBTQWERTY+ mafia began defining every conceivable combination of sexual deviancy, they had to invent labels for the normies.
That’s what I find vaguely threatening. Don’t label me. Don’t add me to your endless list of sex-addled possibilities. Don’t try to force me into some little quadrant of your sexual matrix. Doing that destroys the historic “binary” norm of “men” and “women.”
He was, of course, taken to the woodshed by the TransElites, who told him that he had no choice. He was “cis” and that was that, you “cissy.”
That’s when Elon Musk jumped in.
This is a front in the war on cultural norms. Language is powerful; if the trans-activists can change the language, the terms of the debate, they win the culture. And so far they’ve been very successful.
Chris Clark, an attorney who represented Hunter Biden in a recent criminal investigation, is insisting that prosecutors were thorough and that the case against the Democratic president’s son didn’t end with an overly lenient plea deal.
On Tuesday, Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss notified the U.S. District Court that Biden intended to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts for willful failure to pay his taxes for two years. Weiss said Biden also agreed to enter a pretrial diversion agreement for obtaining a firearm at a time that he was actively using or addicted to a controlled substance, which is illegal.
The tax charges each carry a maximum penalty of 12 months in prison. The firearm charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, but the pretrial diversion agreement could allow him to avoid a criminal conviction and a related criminal punishment.
A couple of thoughts about this development. First, this is merely a slap on the wrist. It’s not even really a slap, more of a light finger tap on his arm saying, “Look, we can’t let you get away with what you’ve done because it’s too obvious that we’re prosecuting Trump on every and any possible charge we can dream up while ignoring the fact that your dad has done most of, if not more, of what we’re accusing Trump of doing. You can help us out by taking a small hit so that we can then say we are even-handed in our application of justice. Waddaya think?”
Tucker Carlson, who is now posting his commentary on Twitter, has thoughts that you should listen to.
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“Above all there was no felony. Hunter Biden, who broke federal gun laws, can still carry a gun. It’s like it all never happened. In fact, the Justice Department just baptized Hunter Biden. A lifetime of sins washed away in an instant. It was a secular miracle.”
Second, these charges don’t even touch Hunter’s deals with the Ukrainians, the Russians, and the Chinese. The younger Biden was selling access to his father, who was vice-president of the United States. He was laundering money on behalf of his family. He was taking bribes on behalf of his father. These are the much more serious crimes that seem to have been committed by Hunter, and it doesn’t take a genius to see that by taking the fall for some misdemeanors, the DOJ can wipe its hands of the whole mess and say, “case closed.”
Speaker Kevin McCarthy thinks the “case closed” position makes the House’s investigation into the Biden’s self-dealings stronger.
Talking to reporters after the news that the president’s son plans to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and one felony gun possession charge, McCarthy said the investigation by the House Oversight Committee wouldn’t be swayed by the “sweetheart deal” Hunter Biden received from the Department of Justice, rather, it might help the investigation gather more information.
The Oversight Committee is investigating unverified information that came from a paid FBI informant through an FBI-generated FD-1023 tip sheet. The document alleges that Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden each took $5 million bribes from an executive at the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma, where Hunter sat on the board.
“This does nothing to our investigation,” McCarthy said. “It actually should enhance our investigation because the DOJ should not be able to withhold any information now saying that there’s a pending investigation. They should be able to provide Chairman Comer with any information that he requires.”
David Weiss, the U.S. attorney leading the Hunter Biden investigation, said: “The investigation is ongoing.” So, it will likely still be difficult for Comer to get the information he requests.
When asked about the DOJ saying the investigation is still ongoing, McCarthy said it was a ploy for them to continue withholding information from the House of Representatives under the pretext of an ongoing investigation.
“How can Hunter Biden plead guilty, no jail time, and the DOJ say there’s still an investigation, try to withhold information to the House? That’s unacceptable and will not stand,” McCarthy said. “You cannot plead guilty, say you’re not going to do jail time, and then say you can’t give papers to the U.S. House of Representatives. That’s not going to stand. That’s not going to work.”
Bless your heart. Of course the DOJ will continue stonewalling. Who’s going to make them give up the information? The FBI?
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) vowed action from her side of the aisle on the matter, saying in a statement: “It’s no coincidence that less than a week after President Trump is arraigned, Hunter Biden is pleading guilty to a sweetheart deal with no jail time. The DOJ is going for the low-hanging fruit by charging Hunter Biden with a gun felony and two tax misdemeanors, after years of slow walking their investigation.”
“For AG Garland to maintain his mantra that there is one standard of justice is pathetic,” she continued. “If the DOJ thinks this dismisses the $5 million alleged bribery scheme or the years of reported Biden family corruption, they are mistaken. We will not allow full accountability to fall by the wayside.”
Maybe. We are watching a two-tiered system of justice being applied in real time.
It’s Tuesday and I’m back from a little bit of R&R. My thanks to Bruce Gust who filled in for me while I was gone. This is the third year in a row that he’s done that pro bono, and I truly appreciate his contributions. I learned a few things from him about the role that our Founders’ faith played in the days leading up to the Revoltionary War and the role that it played in the early days of our nation. I think some of his meditations can be very helpful in considering how God has guided our country even in its earliest forms (maybe especially in its earliest forms). I’m especially impressed that he’s pulling many of the posts he shared into a book called American Devotional Series: Part One: The Revolutionary War. It’s a great concept and it was Bruce’s gift to give us a sneak peek at his work.
Of course, we’re a long, long way from those “earliest days” of our country. Sometimes it feels like we’re a long, long way from any semblance of faith. I think it’s fair to say that while there still exists a Christian presence in our culture, most of our societal institutions, whether they are political, educational, judicial, medical, technological, business related, scientific or economic, Christianity by and large does not have the cultural influence it once did.
Let me give you a couple of examples.
Big Business: Amazon locks a man out of his account and disrupts the function of his entire smart home system that uses Alexa to communicate with Amazon Echo gadgets.
Earlier this month, Amazon locked a man out of his account, disrupting his extensive smart home system. The suspension was driven by a delivery driver who claimed the man used a racial slur through his automated doorbell system. The only problem is that the man captured the entire interaction on his security system — the communication to the worker was an automated greeting of, “Excuse me, can I help you?”
You can read the linked article but I can save you the step by summarizing. The Amazon delivery driver falsely accused the Amazon customer of using a racial slur. Instead of giving both the driver and the customer the benefit of the doubt and thoroughly investigating, Amazon reacted as though the customer was guilty and punished him for it by essentially locking him out of their services.
Not only is that an inversion of our criminal code that protects the rights of the accused—who is presumed innocent until proven guilty—but it completely ignores a biblical principle that undergirds our system of justice.
Any story sounds true until someone tells the other side and sets the record straight. (Proverbs 18:17, LB)
Also, this is one reason I don’t use lots of “smart home” gadgets. Who wants to voluntarily give any unregulated, unelected, unaccountable organization control of their personal environmental systems? I don’t even like that the natural gas companies can read my meter from the comfort of their offices, much less make decisions at their discretion about whether I can continue to use the services I pay for.
What Amazon did borders on leveraging a social credit system in which they are the arbiters of “good” and “bad” social credit. Who gave them this power? They took it unto themselves.
Political: A suspicious raid on a gun seller in Montana by 20 armed IRS agents supported by members of the ATF.
Tom Van Hoose has owned Highwood Creed Outfitters in Great Falls, Montana for 13 years. As he pulled into work Wednesday morning, twenty heavily armed Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division agents swarmed his store. He tells TTAG that the IRS agents, in full battle rattle, had been mustered from as far away as Denver and Idaho to serve a warrant for his financial records.
He told us the IRS claims that he has under-reported and failed to report millions of dollars of income. Mr. Van Hoose denied that categorically and told us that anyone who knows anything about the gun business knows there’s not a lot of extra revenue in running a retail gun store and range.
Highwood Creek Outfitters was closed down Wednesday while the agents rifled through his records. The IRS CID troops took ten hours to copy the information on his computers and download his point of sale software information. But what Van Hoose says really concerns him is the fact that in addition to his accounting and sales records, the agents confiscated 13 years of 4473 forms and copied his firearm acquisition and disposition book.
Later in the article, the reporter writes,
Anyone who’s ever completed a 4473 form knows there’s no revenue or financial data there. That form is a record of a firearm purchase transaction used to facilitate a NICS background check and potentially trace a gun’s ownership down the road if it’s used in a crime. Gun dealers are required to keep those forms for at least 20 years.
The question then is, why would the IRS want customer transaction information? Van Hoose tells us the 4473 forms were not included on the list of financial records specifically listed on the warrant the IRS agents served him during the raid. Yet they took them anyway.
I’m sure I don’t know if Mr. Van Hoose has done anything illegal, but it doesn’t sound like he thinks he has, and we’re well aware that gun laws and tax collection are obsessions with the federal government.
What a coinkydink.
Remember that this administration asked for—and got—funding for 87,000 more IRS agents and that many of them will be armed. What happened in Montanta is exactly what we have to fear from a fully armed IRS; raids on unsuspecting citizens to intimidate and harass them.
You think you’ve seen branches of the government weaponized? I bet we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
There used to be a social contract between we the people and our government. We gave them power and they used that power constitutionally and legally. That contract has been torn up and thrown away by the Marxists because they don’t fear the law anymore and, more to the point, they don’t fear God anymore.
I’m happy to announce that my co-blogger-in-arms, Bruce Gust, will be filling in for me over the next two weeks while I’m traveling. He’s done this for me the past couple of years, and I appreciate the different but like-minded voice contributing to this blog. We’ve talked and he’s got a treat in store for you! I’ll be reading with great interest from afar as I tear myself away for a little R&R.
In response to yesterday’s post, long time reader Dick Campbell asked a great question: “Would it be possible to do a piece identifying strategies to avoid the Vanguards, Blackrocks etc. when it comes to where your 401K’s, IRA, etc. are invested? I’m all for the ban/boycotts but get more nervous if it involves what I live on.”
Isn’t that the rub? How do you resist the entanglements that the world has created around us, much less try to be a counter-revolutionary? He raises a particularly tough point: if you’re retirement account is part of the investment portfolio of one of these multi-trillion dollar companies, and you want to reduce your profile with them or exit altogether, but they’re managing the money you’re using to support yourself — what do you do?
I gave Dick the video link below in response to his comment and thought all of us would be served by listening to it. It’s short, but host Jesse Kelly speaks with James Lindsay, who offers some additional insight into why corporations are willing to destroy themselves on LBGTQWACK promos and how the scheme works. Click the image, watch the video, and I’ll follow with a couple of thoughts.
The key exchange starts at 2:52 with Kelly’s question: How do we stop it? What do we do about that?
James Lindsay: It’s a racketeering hustle, so we bust it the same way you break any other racketeering scam. Some of this might actually be in violation of RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 1970], of racketeering law. So, what you need to do is take people like the executives at Anheuser-Busch, who are now on notice, and take people — and they’ve had this just happen to them — or […] the executives at Target who are flailing around having emergency meetings or, you name the corporation. Any of these big corporations that’s getting put on this boycott notice or even other ones — you haul them in front of a House oversight committee, you hound the House Oversight Committee to start bringing these people in, you hound your senators, you hound your state attorneys general to start pushing, to expose, why is this happening.
Because what you have to do if you want to get a cartel to break or if you want to break a racketeering operation, is that you’ve got to get people in the middle to realize that their best deal is to make a bargain with you and to tell all they know, tell what’s going on and get themselves off the hook for participating in it.
And then what you just do is start chasing it up the chain and eventually you get to the place where you can start doing some prosecutions, lawsuits, etcetera. If I were a stock owner in Disney, I would be very interested, for example, in pushing for fiduciary responsibility violation lawsuits.
The “Normie Norm,” what he does, is he’s got to keep the pressure on, he’s got to keep Bud Light in between a rock and a hard place so that it keeps being shown that there’s a reason that we need to investigate deeply and get the law involved. And then, slowly but surely, we get a couple of corporations to flip, then you’re going to get ten to flip, then you’re going to start breaking up the whole scam.
What I’m taking away from that short conversation is that the average citizen’s contribution is twofold: 1) keep the pressure on these organizations. Keep the boycotts going; refuse to shop at these retailers. As their stock price crashes, they make news. Making news calls attention to the situation. The situation seems like a crisis, and crises demand intervention. 2) Demand that your state Senators in D.C. do something. Demand that the House investigate. Put the pressure on your representatives to act. Call them. Write them. Be persistent. Ask others to join you.
Note that earlier in the conversation Lindsay said, “These mechanisms [ESG scores, loans, etc.] are being run through these gigantic financial institutions, which don’t use their own money, they manage other people’s money, trillions of dollars of people’s retirement funds, and they’re betting them on what’s called ‘impact investing’ — environmental impact, social justice impact, and the ‘G’ stands for governance, how you run your corporation.” If you don’t run your company according to the standards they demand you meet, you can be denied loans.
They’re using YOUR money and MY money to coerce these corporations into compliance. That’s Dick’s question: how do you avoid being part of it?
As far as your investments go, I am definitely not a financial advisor, nor do I play one on TV or on this blog. My suggestion is that, if you have a financial advisor, you talk with them about what companies your money is invested in and how you can reduce the number of “woke” corporations you’re supporting with your funds. Maybe there’s a way to do it, maybe there isn’t.
Trying to take on Vanguard, Blackrock or State Street isn’t something that the average citizen can do; that’s why Lindsay suggests that Congress step in. Which leads me to my final thought. Knowing what we do about Congress, do we really think they’re going to “step in”?
LOL.
Not without a lot of pressure from We the People. But even if we got them to investigate, there’s no guarantee that anything would come of it. Have you seen the Durham Report?
At the end of the day, as I’ve written before, when almost every institution, corporation and public service is infested with Marxist ideology, there’s only so much you can divest yourself from. For sure you can kick some of the larger retailers to the curb and buy from small, local businesses. You can stop watching Faux News when it’s clear they’re just better at hiding their progressive cred than CNN or MSNBC. You can abandon products like Bud Light or Gillette razors. You can make noise on Capitol Hill.
However, there are limits. For instance, living in a mobile, technologically advanced society does require that we use the digital networks available to us, the choices are few (Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Xfinity, etc.) and they are all probably woke. In that case, we don’t really have much of a practical choice.
It reminds me of the situation Naaman the Aramean found himself in after he was healed during his encounter with Elisha. He pledges to only sacrifice to the Lord from then on, but there is one thing he can’t avoid.
“But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”
“Go in peace,” Elisha said.
2 Kings 5:18-19
The Lord knows the heart and knows our circumstances. There may be situations where you can’t avoid “bowing down” and supporting a woke company with your purchases. So be it; let God work out the details. Go in peace.
It’s Pride Month! and that can only mean one thing: at the risk of beating a dead horse, I want to revisit, again, the idea of abandoning Target and any other commercial enterprise that supports the Marxist (read: communist) induced destruction of American culture and history. I’m motivated to stay on the topic not only because of more reading I’ve done, but by the outing of other major brands that have jumped on the sexual deviancy bandwagon, including department store Kohl’s, the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, and Chick-Fil-A (as I mentioned in yesterday’s post).
Carina Benton writes in The American Spectator that conservatives don’t have what it takes to win the culture war. The sub-head of her article reads, “The conservative movement is incapable of fighting, much less winning, an unprecedented revolution against Western civilization.“
We’re in the throes of an unprecedented winner-takes-all revolution against Western civilization. Since the objective of worldwide communism, cunningly rebranded in recent decades as “globalism,” was always the full communization of the United States, this is no surprise. The real shock for many on the right is that the conservative movement is ipso facto incapable of fighting, much less crushing, this rebellion.
This assumes, of course, that the “culture war” is still winnable. If it is, it’s going to be a long climb.
She goes on to say that what we need is not conservatives, but counter-revolutionaries. She explains:
A decade earlier, [Whittaker] Chambers met with Gen. Walter Krivitsky, a former senior Soviet military intelligence officer and a fellow Communist Party fugitive. They shared their perspectives on communism and agreed that the forces of history in the postmodern era “can be grasped only as the interaction of revolution and counterrevolution.” When a totalitarian, pseudo-messianic ideology like communism seeks the radical remaking of governments, societies, economies, history, culture, families, and the individual himself, there is no middle ground.
The problem, as Chambers saw it, is that counterrevolution has little to do with conservatism. The conservative seeks first to conserve what he is and what he has. He wants to be left alone and is largely uninterested in self-sacrifice. This is the head-in-sand strategy: If I ignore it long enough, it will probably just go away.
This statement threw me a little; part of “conserving” your way of life is to fight for it, and we just spent Monday memorializing the ultimate sacrifice that many thousands of Americans made to keep freedom alive here and in other places around the world. However, if you consider what’s happening just within our country, I think it’s accurate to describe conservatives as hoping that if they ignore developments long enough, “it will probably just go away.”
Spoiler alert: No it won’t.
The passive resistance of the conservative movement has been further diluted through its mésalliance with the my way, your way, anyway classical liberals, whose lack of a fixed moral compass is the ideological loophole communists exploited to gain a foothold in this country in the first place. The product of this union is the line-in-sand strategy: don’t force me to abandon my side and I’ll leave you alone on yours.
Both stratagems are futile against the violent and inexorable tides of communism. If he adopts the former, the conservative will be engulfed in the deluge. If he tries the latter, his position will be erased and redrawn to the point that he no longer recalls where he started.
Ms. Benton then goes on to contrast “a conservative” with “a counter-revolutionist,” including these two examples:
The conservative frankly can’t keep track of which companies he’s supposed to boycott. The counter-revolutionist has the names etched in his brain. He’ll happily forgo slave-labor merch from misogynistic brands like Nike and disposable junk designed by satanists for groomer retailers like Target.
The conservative won’t let politics get in the way of sports. The counter-revolutionist won’t offend God and scandalize his children by supporting leagues like the NHL and the MLB that venerate sodomy, adultery, and blasphemy.
Unfortunately, I can see myself in the “conservative” side of the comparison, but I’ve got the growing conviction of the counter-revolutionary side. In other words, she’s saying that those of us who consider ourselves “conservatives” need to take a stronger stand and draw a harder line against the attacks from the Left. I think my call to “abandon” Target moves me to the counter-revolutionary side of the equation.
Target stores, which put “Pride” garishly on display several days ago, got hit hard by a boycott over it. The market value of the company dropped $9 billion last week. As for me, I’ve decided I’m not boycotting them. I’m also not associating with them. At all. For a long time to come. That includes not shopping there.
Sounds like a boycott, you say? Of course it does. And if you’ve decided to boycott them, I support you in it. There’s a big difference in my mind, though. A boycott is an economic power maneuver, meant to force a company to change its mind or at least its policies. Target has already changed its policies, or so I’m told: The display is gone, or at least moved away from the front door. The boycott has already had some effect, in other words.
That’s well and good, as far as it goes. It doesn’t change what they revealed about themselves, though. They sold products designed by a woman appearing as if a man, who also designed a pastel pin with the words “homophobe headrest,” and a drawing of a guillotine. And a sweet little heart to go with it. Maybe she meant it as a joke? Sorry, but no. I can’t view it that charitably. With the kind of anger gay activists routinely aim at conservatives, there’s no room for that kind of “joking.”
In other words, Gilson has abandoned Target as a place to shop because of what they revealed about themselves as a company: they’re evil.
I’ve been shopping at Target forever, but I can’t go in there anymore. The moral hazard has become too great. I won’t tell the kids of the future that I was unwilling to change my shopping habits to stand up for them. I won’t be part of the deranged extremism Target is pushing.
I don’t think anyone should be mollified by little symbolic concessions Target makes in a desperate bid to avoid getting Bud Lighted. The extremists are still in control of the company. No heads have rolled. The company is signaling the fascists that its heart is still with them.
Nothing less than complete de-wokification should be accepted by disgusted consumers: executives named and fired, apologies given, enraged woke boycotts that fizzle because there just aren’t that many of them. You’ll know a company means it when the Woke howl with outrage.
If companies want to be run by tiny bands of extremist lunatics, then let that be their customer base. Let competitors step in to pick up the customer base they’ve chosen to abandon. We’ll compare balance sheets at year-end and see which is the wiser business model.
Whoa, I could’ve written that! In fact, I’ve said the same thing (here): if companies want to cater to the LBGTQWERTY extremists, let that be their customer base. In fact, if you think about it logically, Target and Kohl’s and any other “woke” clothing stores shouldn’t be marketing infant onesies to members of the Alphabet Mob because gays, lesbians and trannies as a whole have very few children. What gives?
You may think those department stores are marketing baby clothes to normal men and women who marry and have children, but those onesies are better explained as part of a peace offering to the religion of woke extremism. Here’s the truth: Target isn’t trying to impress you; they’re trying to impress the woke gods and their financiers — State Street, Vanguard, and Blackrock.
It truly is a cult.
So again, I exhort all of you to join me in being a counter-revolutionary and abandoning those commercial enterprises that are actively destroying our country and, more importantly, mocking the God of creation. Just know that it won’t be easy, as MacAoidh reminds us:
So disentangling yourself from the machine, in an effort not to feed it or ideally to teach it a lesson, is going to be difficult.
It’ll take commitment that the machine is betting you won’t make.
Dumping Major League Baseball, or the NFL, or Target, or Bud Light, or Disney, might very well make your life less fun to lead. It will probably make for more inconvenience. It’s not what you’re likely used to.
Except you’ve got to be as committed to your point of view as the wokesters are to theirs. Either that, or we won’t win this fight.
Buy local, and buy small. Avoid doing business with large corporations altogether, and especially with publicly traded corporations. The publics are the companies yoked to radical agendas like ESG and DEI, and they’re largely under the control of institutional investors like Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street. Those big investment houses will backstop a stock to keep it from collapse, so long as the recipient of such generosity plays ball with the social agenda.
It’s why I’ve been making the point that you can do without a lot of things. As I’ve said, “Here’s the reality: there are only a few things that we really “need.” Food. Water. Clothing. A roof over our heads. Almost everything else is discretionary. Start with those things, then wean yourself off of indiscriminate consumer spending. Then, be very specific about the companies you purchase from.”
Choose to make the sacrifice now or it may be a bigger one you’ll be forced to make later.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Target’s debut of pro-transgender clothing lines aimed at children, it has since been revealed that one of the senior executives in the company’s marketing department also holds a position with a pro-transgender advocacy group.
According to Fox News, the vice president of brand marketing for Target, Carlos Saavedra, is also a treasurer for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN has pushed for schools across the country to enact policies that forbid parents from being made aware of their childrens’ gender identities at school, as well as pushing schools to include explicitly sexual books in their libraries.
GLSEN has written out its preferred policy for schools’ treatment of the parents of students, declaring that “[the local education agency] shall ensure that all personally identifiable and medical information relating to transgender and nonbinary students is kept confidential.”
“Staff or educators shall not disclose any information that may reveal a student’s gender identity to others, including parents or guardian,” the policy continues. “This disclosure must be discussed with the student, prior to any action.”
[…]
“Target donates to GLSEN every year, with the most recent one being roughly $2.1 million.”
So who’s making policy in our state-run schools — education professionals or sexual deviants? The answer is clear: it’s a collaboration with sexual deviants who “prefer” that parents don’t know what’s going on with their children. So grade schools, middle schools and high schools conspire with a Leftist activist organization to cut off children from those directly responsible for their well being — the parents.
Listen, GLSEN, I don’t care what you “prefer.” You have no standing to say what is or isn’t right for my child. You certainly have no right to conspire to keep me from knowing what is happening to my child. Get your filthy hands away from them, you sick perverts.
My friends, if you spend money at Target on the latest thing that has your attention because it is priced just right and is convenient to get to, be aware that you are financially supporting a gay activist organization that seeks to supplant your parental rights. And if you don’t have kids in public schools, have a heart for others and stop shopping there.
As I’ve written many times on this blog, all you NEED is a little air, water, food and maybe some shelter and a change of clothes. You don’t NEED to spend your money at Target. You don’t NEED to get that latest shiny object at Target. If they are going to cater to the gay lobby, then let the gay lobby and their allies shop there.
Target has lost more than $10billion in market capitalization in the span of 10 days – as it continues to face backlash for Pride-themed merchandise.
Prior to the controversy – which stems over a LGBTQ-geared clothing campaign that touts ‘tuck-friendly’ bathing suits and pro-trans T-shirts for kids – Target shares were trading at $160.96, giving the retailer a market valuation of roughly $74.3billion.
By the time The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) closed Friday, the blue-chip stock was trading at $138.93 – marking a market valuation of 64,2billion, and loss of $10.1billion.
The sum, moreover, stands as the superstore’s lowest market value in an entire year – all achieved in a matter of days as customers swear off its products in response.
Of course, if you do that, you’ll be labeled a literal “terrorist.”
If you’re boycotting Target you’re a literal terrorist, says talking head on MSNBC.
I don’t think the answer is to “boycott” Target. A “boycott” sounds temporary. The answer is to ABANDON Target. Forget they exist. Walk away. As Jesus said about the Pharisees, “Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit” (Matthew 15:14).
If you want to know how to participate in the “culture wars”, ABANDON those companies that cater to the Left. Let them know by your ABSENCE that you won’t give them money to ruin your children and our society by promoting men who pretend to be women or that if they have such contempt for you that they’d rather cut the top-rated cable host in all of television than cater to your interests that you’ll go find your news somewhere else.
(See my recommendation for an alternative news source at the end of this post.)
“We have a problem,” wrote Joey Mannarino, a conservative host in highlighting Chick-fil-A’s prior announcement, on Twitter Tuesday morning. “Chick-Fil-A just hired a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This is bad. Very bad. I don’t want to have to boycott. Are we going to have to boycott?”
He also wrote: “The Left is going crazy again over the Chick-fil-A boycott that conservatives are considering. They’re mad because we’ve FINALLY gotten effective at boycotts. Any company that is pushing the trans stuff on our kids or the DEI stuff, we are going to pick the worst offenders.”
“So Chick-fil-A has a diversity, equity and inclusion division,” added columnist Todd Starnes on Tuesday. “Well, that explains the fried cauliflower sandwiches and kale salad.”
Chick-Fil-A has apparently had a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion since 2020, but conservatives have just discovered the fact. I’m not sure I want to boycott the fast-food chain, especially since they’re not actively promoting the indoctrination of children or celebrating Pride Month by pushing rainbow chicken in our faces. But the fact that they have a DIE officer means the fox is in the hen house and it might be only a matter of time.
In the last book he wrote before he died, “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals” Saul Alinsky lays out 13 “rules” on how to successfully run a movement for change. The last of these rules is, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”
When we talk about boycotts, we’re talking about institutions, not people. It’s harder to bring down an institution because an institution is impervious to personal attacks. And conservatives, especially conservative Christians, are loathe to engage in the politics of personal destruction.
However, there’s an interesting angle here. Robby Starbuck makes the observation that what made the Bud Light boycott work is the personal side of associating with the brand.
"The success of the Bud Light boycott is built around the fact that men like us made it socially unacceptable for other men to be seen with a Bud Light." @robbystarbuck#Targetpic.twitter.com/AS5BMXbQRa
“Men like us made it socially unacceptable for other men to be seen with a Bud Light.” He says that women are doing the same thing with Target right now. Perhaps we’ve stumbled on a way to apply Alinsky’s rule to the Left.
Regardless, don’t allow these companies to influence you with their cheap prices and even cheaper products. It’s a way to take a stand against the Marxists who’ve infiltrated every institution at almost every level across the country.
It will be a long term effort.
I subscribe to and highly recommend The Epoch Times as an alternative news source to Fox News, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or any other online or cable outlet.
I have zero confidence in the Republican party to represent conservative Americans or to do what is right for the country. I no longer expect them to put up a fight against bigger government interests nor to ignore the howls from the Left should they try reversing our careening headlong mad dash into economic disaster.
They’re the opposition failure party.
After getting our hopes up, just a little, with the fight of Kevin McCarthy’s election as House Leader, we now see just what the man is made of and it’s just as we feared. He’s a lot of talk and little action to back up what matters. Remember this?
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), speaking in Pittsburgh on Friday to promote the House Republicans’ legislative agenda, said a GOP-controlled House would introduce legislation that would block the IRS from receiving funds from the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in August.
“On that very first day that we’re sworn in, you’ll see that it all changes. Because on our very first bill, we’re going to repeal 87,000 IRS agents. Our job is to work for you, not go after you,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy’s election pledge marks the latest in a series of commitments made by congressional Republicans to eliminate the multi-year IRS funding that passed by the slimmest of margins.
They couldn’t get the bill passed because the Senate refused it.
But when again presented with an opportunity to back Democrats into a corner and demand that the IRS funding get cut, here’s what we got.
CUTS TO IRS FUNDING BUT 87,000 NEW AGENTS WILL STAY
Republicans are not happy with the spending bill passed last year to massively increase the money for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – and mainly the part allocated for the hiring of tens of thousands of more agents to audit Americans’ taxes and crack down on tax fraud.
In the debt ceiling deal, McCarthy targeted money that the IRS was allotted by cutting $21 billion of the $80 billion.
Many members of McCarthy’s party, however, say that the bill doesn’t go far enough and had urged all funding to the IRS be rescinded, especially the provision to hire more agents.
Sen. Cruz complained that the package will still allow for the hiring of 87,000 more agents.
‘There’s not ‘one thing’ for Dems,’ Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted, claiming Speaker McCarthy was ‘right’ to say so. ‘There are $4 trillion things—a blank check—for Democrats.’
‘Plus 87,000 things: new IRS agents to harass Americans,’ he added. ‘All in exchange for eliminating virtually ALL of the House’s spending cuts.’
Instead of playing hard ball like the Left does, and wielding the levers of power to squeeze concessions out of Democrats, McCarthy and other Republican squishes caved on almost everything.
The cornerstone of the deal includes a two-year suspension of the debt limit until January 2025 after the next presidential election.
Republicans are taking issue with the $4 trillion ceiling increase, saying there could be virtually unlimited spending for the last two years of Biden’s first term.
The GOP had backed a deal in which the debt ceiling was only raised by $1.5 trillion – which was not agreed to.
Not agreed to … by the Democrats. We went from a $1.5 TRILLION deal to a $4 TRILLION “””deal.””” Which means that McCarthy caved to Democrats. Why? How? What do Democrats hold over the GOP?
The Leviathan grows and consumes more of our resources every time there’s a budget “””deal””” and pushes us ever closer to a global catastrophe. Our current debt is more than $31 TRILLION. The Democrats are hell bent on bankrupting us and the GOP goes right along with them.
The agreement also limits spending by keeping all non-defense appropriations roughly flat in Fiscal Year 2024 and increasing it by only one percent the following year – a point that conservatives are taking issue with since they urged a freeze on all federal spending for 10 years.
Congress is also required under the new bill to approve 12 annual spending bills or face a snapback to spending limits from the previous year.
The White House predicts the plan would reduce government spending by $1 trillion, but Republicans are calling them ‘fake’ spending cuts.
‘Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts,’ Sen. Paul tweeted. ‘Deal will increase mandatory spending ~5%, increase military spending ~3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels.’
‘No real cuts to see here.’
Rep. Norman of South Carolina called the deal ‘insanity’ said he won’t ‘vote to bankrupt our country.’
Kevin McCarthy trumpeted a debt-ceiling deal Sunday, but increasing debt another $4 trillion with minimal concessions is nothing to boast about.
To be fair, the House speaker has a razor slim majority and Republicans don’t control the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his sidekick Lindsey Graham have announced that the only thing they care about is Ukraine.
But McCarthy’s one dealbreaker should have been his promise to defund President Biden’s massive $80 billion to turbocharge an already weaponized IRS.
This was the totemic centerpiece of his pitch to become speaker.
It was the most memorable promise of the Republicans’ midterm campaign to win back the House.
It struck a chord with voters, wary of funding a new “army” of armed IRS agents to harass middle-class families and small business owners and abuse their powers to target political dissidents, Soviet-style.
“Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents,” McCarthy vowed.
“You see, we believe government should be to help you, not go after you.”
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In the debt-ceiling deal outlined Sunday and due to be inked later this week, McCarthy has allowed the lion’s share of that extra IRS funding to remain unmolested: preserving $78.1 billion of the $80 billion.
As rebel GOP Rep Dan Bishop put it: “So there will be 85,260 more IRS agents rather than 87,000 to eat you alive. Big win.”
Overpromising and underdelivering is what turns voters off the GOP.
We effectively have only one ruling party in government: Democrats and their side-kick, Democrat Light, aka Republicans. True, there are some actual conservatives in the party, but not enough to pull the majority to the right. Here’s what they said.
When will conservatives wake up and realize we have no effective representation in Congress?
I often find myself mourning the death of historical, traditional America. I sit in my middle class home in my middle class neighborhood, enjoying the fruit of my labor, watching my children take their next steps into adulthood, thanking God for His grace and goodness, and it seems so … normal. It’s more or less what I grew up with and it’s what I want to leave to the generations who come after me.
Yet pull out to 50,000 feet and it’s anything but “normal.” Victor Davis Hanson, or VDH as he’s known, put his finger on it in his most recent column: “The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.”
He goes on to catalogue the catastrophe that the Left has wrought on the country, starting with the damning Durham report.
The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.
Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges.
The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign—while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.
The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely “Russian disinformation.” That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.
Note that not one of the offenders have been called to account for their malfeasance.
Not. One.
This is not only the most egregious political crime in the history of the United States — yes, much greater than Watergate — it’s an outrageous betrayal of the social contract binding our country together. It’s a massive corruption of our legal and political system, which effectively demolishes the Constitutional order and makes us, what?
It’s not the United States of America.
VDH goes on to list the Black Grievance Grift that’s splitting us apart while the lead agitators enrich themselves; the political persecution of a young Marine who restrained a man threatening passengers on the subway — a hero in any other age now mortified as a vigilante with the perpetrator lauded as a victim of racism and oppression; and the degradation of athletic competition as biological males routinely beat female competitors in women’s sports. And then:
Under pressure from the LGBTQ activists, the Los Angeles Dodgers reinvited the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to celebrate Pride night at Dodger Stadium.
Catholics and Christians had objected to the invitation because the group’s notoriety hinges on its sexualized and often pornographic mockery of Catholic ritual, the Holy Trinity, and Christian faith.
The supposedly courageous group would never dare extend its street-theater blasphemy to other religious groups such as Muslims or Hindus.
As goes baseball, so goes the country. America’s pastime may be much diminished from its golden age, but in a culturally fractured moment nostalgia makes it all the more important as a symbol. So it is worth noting, suggesting something of catacombs, when the Los Angeles Dodgers would rather offend Christians and sitting U.S. senators than risk the wrath of the homosexual lobby.
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A decade, then, at least for one professional baseball organization, is how long it takes for pro-gay to become anti-Christian. This is baseball, recall; the team needn’t really have ever taken a public position on the sexual revolution, let alone prostrate, but here it is, and it says much more about American culture as a whole than about the Dodgers in particular. There was a culture war, once, and you lost.
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But think for a moment about what has happened here. A large-market baseball team—an avatar of American culture and big business—was pressured by religious groups and a sitting U.S. senator to maintain a recently expected standard of public decorum. They did not protest a Pride Night and the Dodgers’ celebration of sexual expressivism, only an obviously anti-Catholic and even anti-Christian demonstration. This was a request for toleration from a position of weakness. And now there is no hesitation to trample.
I encourage you to read the whole thing (both VDH and Meadowcroft). They don’t even touch on the open border with hundreds of thousands of foreigners being allowed to violate our sovereignty, the ramifications of which we can’t even imagine; the coordinated lawsuits against parents and schools for not allowing their children to be sexualized; the profound revelation that elections in swing states are in fact rigged (and there’s no strategy adopted for fixing it); the lawlessness allowed to go unchallenged in Democrat-led cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Austin, Portland and any number of hellholes in between; and much more evidence that this is not your father’s America.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ apology letter re-inviting the anti-Catholic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night reads like the unwinding of a grueling struggle session. And it ends in a predictably pitiful way, with the reactionaries promising “to better educate” themselves in the future.
In contemporary parlance, to “educate” oneself means allowing intellectually and morally stunted clowns — literally, in this case — to bully you. Because LGBT activists, like BLM activists, never need to be “educated” about anything. They have achieved enlightenment.
No, it’s the slack-jawed yokels who cling to thousands of years of intellectual and theological tradition who need lessons from the geniuses who spend Easter Sunday dressed in Virgin Mary drag, passing out condoms on a 13-stop bar crawl mocking the Stations of the Cross. The Dodgers are merely celebrating diversity by sponsoring a group that simulates sex scenes on crucifixes. Why are you fanatics starting another culture war?
Ron DeSantis (pronounced, by Ron himself, as “DeeSantis”, not “DehSantis”) has officially joined the presidential race. As I wrote yesterday, I’d vote for him or Trump if either were the Republican nominee. Anyone other than Resident Flounder, or whomever the Democrats shove to the front.
Meanwhile, after the Bud Light fiasco, which is still ongoing, it’s come to light in rapid succession that a number of other brands across other categories are also diving deeply into LBGTQ+ promotions. Nike, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, Mattel, Delta, Ben & Jerry’s, Converse, Coors, Google, NFL, Pepsi, Patagonia, Gillette, and now, Target — and many, many others — have embraced the LBGTQ+ agenda as proud supporters.
The latest, Target, is facing strong backlash for selling women’s bathing suits with “tuckable” space for men who pretend to be women.
Target has recently come under fire for its efforts to pander to the transgender community. Target stores nationwide recently unveiled their “Pride collection,” featuring a range of merchandise and clothing with trans-friendly slogans and books pushing radical leftist gender ideology. What makes this particularly troubling is the clothes, merchandise, and books are not exclusively aimed at adults but also young children and babies. They aren’t tucked away in a hard to find section either; these displays are prominently showcased at the front of Target stores.
Target, you may know already, has been pandering to the LGBTQ community for years. However, in the aftermath of the Bud Light controversy, Target started receiving enough backlash that the company held an emergency meeting last week. Several store locations, primarily in rural southern areas, have now been instructed to relocate and downsize their Pride sections—specifically to avoid a “Bud Light situation.”
“I think given the current situation with Bud Light, the company is terrified of a Bud Light situation,” a Target insider told Fox News Digital.
They should be terrified. But the truth is that a lot of these companies think this is a good business stratetgy, including Target’s CEO, Brian Cornell.
“I think those are just good business decisions, and it’s the right thing for society, and it’s the great thing for our brand,” Cornell said. “The things we’ve done from a DE&I [diversity, equity, and inclusion] standpoint, it’s adding value.”
He added, “It’s helping us drive sales, it’s building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests, and those are just the right things for our business today.”
That it’s a “great thing for [the] brand” is debatable and I can tell you that it is not “the right thing for society.” I’m with John Hinderaker over at Power Line who is also puzzled by the enthusastic embrace of radical sexual politics by our corporate class.
But “trans” clothing is not exactly the path to mass market success. How many women’s swimsuits with extra crotch room is Target going to sell? Six or seven?
More recently, leaks from Target indicate that the company is scrambling to contain the tsunami of disgust that its “Pride” campaign has generated.
More broadly, Hinderaker asks the question I’ve been asking: Why?
So, what is going on here? I don’t get it. We obviously are not dealing with traditional assumptions about corporate behavior. These companies are not appealing to a substantial customer segment. They evidently don’t mind incurring the puzzlement, if not wrath, of much of their customer base. They can’t possibly be profit maximizing, as economists tell us they do, and ought to do.
Some say that companies are being dominated by left-leaning HR and marketing departments. Maybe so. But HR departments don’t make decisions of this sort, and the normal assumption is that marketing departments are trying to market. That is, to maximize sales. These days, that doesn’t seem to be the case. And the worst offenders are often CEOs who have been hired as PR face men, not nuts and bolts managers.
He doesn’t get it, and neither do I. But something I recently read (and I can’t find it) said that big business needs loans, and loans come from banks. Banks are owned by larger entities that are big enough to withhold loans from companies that are not sufficiently “woke.” I have no idea if it’s true, but it sounds plausible.
So the suggestion is that companies prove their woke cred so they will be eligible for bank loans when they need them. Of course, many companies don’t need bank loans and are self-sufficient, which leaves the question, again: why?
With the number of big brand names embracing radical leftist gender nonsense, it may be difficult to boycott them all. Difficult, but not impossible. I’ve said it before, but we live with such abundance that we’ve been lulled into thinking that many of our “wants” are somehow “needs.” The truth is that we have very few non-negotiable needs. All we need is a little food, water, air and shelter. Maybe some clothes and transportation. Everything else is discretionary.
But living in a consumer culture, we are in the habit of mistaking wants for needs. Once we get that straightened out, it should be a no brainer to boycott Target and its merchandise. It shouldn’t be hard to ignore Bud Light. You really can do without a daily Starbucks.
Am I suggesting that you boycott them all? Yes — but I’m a realist. It will be hard to avoid conducting monetary transactions with companies that support woke ideologies in some form or another. Perhaps you simply be selective when you have the opportunity. I no longer buy Gillette razors, even though I had no complaints about the blades themselves (other than the cost!). But when they led with their “Toxic Masculinity” ad in 2019, thousands of men stopped buying their blades and it hurt their bottom line.
As Hinderaker says, leaving the gigantic companies presents an opportunity to support the little guys.
It is noteworthy that it is big business–Budweiser, Target, Nike and so on–that goes off the deep end. It is highly unlikely that the small businesses in your town are jumping on the “trans” bandwagon, or other leftist fads. They still care about their customers, and their owners are not so rich as to scorn profit.
Sorry for the radio silence over the last few days. I traveled this past weekend and didn’t have anyone to cover for me. Anybody got a spare $300k so I can take the next three years to write and build on current readership? Hit the tip jar and email me at info@daveolsson.com.
Okay, barring a miraculous $300k, we’ll just have to keep plodding along with what we can do in our off hours, right? Today you should be looking for Ron DeSantis to announce his 2024 candidacy for president of the United States during a discussion with Elon Musk on Twitter.
I’m intrigued with DeSantis. Unlike Trump, he seems to have a genuine (Catholic) Christian faith. He recently shared the stage with Franklin Graham at the International Christian Media Convention hosted by the National Religious Broadcasters in Orlando, Florida, where he said, “Make no mistake, weaponized government is one faction of society turning the reins of power against those people they don’t like. And the people that are in power now do not like people of faith.”
Great chatting with Franklin Graham about fighting against the woke culture and the importance of family and faith. pic.twitter.com/0SyQ1IljbZ
He’s racking up victories in Florida, including these from this report:
When Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), one of Florida’s biggest employers, opposed the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law that limited discussion of LGBTQ issues in schools, DeSantis moved to strip the company of its self-governing status.
Disney has since filed a federal lawsuit against the governor, accusing him of weaponizing state government to retaliate against the company.
When an elected Democratic state attorney said he would not prosecute anyone for defying DeSantis-backed limits on abortion, DeSantis removed him from his position.
He has made crusading against what Republicans call “woke” education policies a centerpiece of his politics while supporting conservative candidates for local school boards.
He backed a legislative measure that prohibits the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” – an academic doctrine that views U.S. history through the lens of oppression – in state public schools despite little evidence it was being taught.
Republican lawmakers in Florida handed DeSantis a bevy of conservative victories in its recent session: They expanded the state’s school voucher program, prohibited the use of public money in sustainable investing, scrapped diversity programs at public universities, allowed for permitless carry of concealed weapons and, perhaps most notably, banned almost all abortions in the state.
DeSantis declared that, “At the end of the day, we’re not going to let this state be overrun by woke ideology,” he said. “We will fight the woke in the businesses, we will fight the woke in government agencies, we will fight the woke in our schools. We will never, ever surrender to the woke agenda. Florida is the state where woke goes to die.”
Perhaps as president DeSantis could make the whole country a giant chemo bath for woke ideology.
He also seems completely unfazed by Trump’s attacks on him, using the nickname “Ron DeSanctimonious.” In fact, when asked about Trump facing arrest over payments to Stormy Daniels, DeSantis said, “Look, I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” a subtle shot at Trump’s alleged crime now being prosecuted by the Soros-bought prosecutor Alvin Bragg. So DeSantis can handle himself just fine when it comes to Trump.
There are some broader questions about how in debt DeSantis is with the GOPe — the establishment Republicans. Is he an independent thinker, or is he beholden to the spineless elites who merely want to hold on to the power and money they control? Rght now I don’t see it, but time will tell.
I welcome him to the race, even though our elections are now shot through with “fortifying” them — in favor of the Democrats. DeSantis is a refreshing choice in as we begin to size up the 2024 election. He seems to have Trump-sized brass without all the self-inflicted wounds that Trump’s lack of verbal discipline costs him.
Truth be told — right now, if either Trump or DeSantis were the Republican nominee, I’d vote for either one of them. Anybody but Brandon or whoever they stick in front of us.
