Credentialed Media Is Losing Minds After Target Removes LGBT Material

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 10:30 am

And they are pretty much getting it wrong

Target is being held hostage by an anti-LGBTQ campaign

During every Pride Month in June for the past decade, Target has sold merchandise for LGBTQ customers, employees and allies. But this year, Target faced an anti-LGBTQ campaign that went viral on social media.

Fueled by far-right personalities and on social media platforms, the anti-trans campaign spread misleading information about the company’s Pride Month products and its business practices.

Hurting brands’ sales and reputations was the stated goal of the campaign: “The goal is to make ‘pride’ toxic for brands,” said right-wing commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter. “If they decide to shove this garbage in our face, they should know that they’ll pay a price. It won’t be worth whatever they think they’ll gain.”

The campaign became hostile, with threats levied against Target employees and instances of damaged products and displays in stores.

That effectively held Target hostage: The company was forced to make an impossible choice to either safeguard its employees and stores or continue to support customers who wanted to buy the products it was selling.

Weirdly, no one really can state specific instances of threats of violence or damage. Where are the videos? Anyhow, that’s how most of the articles go, when the whole issue came to light when someone noticed all the trans material, especially “tuck friendly” swimwear for children, which the media is now claiming was only for adults.

There are also lots of trans clothing, including ones with slogans, for children. The displays aren’t really about celebrating gays and lesbians for pride month (I noticed a similar display for black history month at the Knightdale Target the other month, didn’t think much of it), but, the gender confused. I must have missed the same type of displays for Latino and Asian months.

The media is also complaining this is most just the South. If so, then why

Target shares hit amid Pride merchandising controversy

Target shareholders are feeling the backlash underway at the retailer as controversy swirls over its Pride merchandising plans, as first reported by Fox News Digital.

Shares slipped 2.7% on Wednesday and have dropped more than 9% this month, with 6% of that decline this week alone, as tracked by Dow Jones Market Data Group. That amounts to $4.2 billon in market value.

Over the same time frame, the S&P 500 has dropped just over 1%.

Adding fuel to the fire, the retailer’s Gay Pride collection has been linked to a controversial designer: Abprallen’s Erik Carnell, who is an outspoken Satanist whose brand features occult imagery and messages like “Satan respects pronouns” on brand apparel, Fox News Digital reported separately.

These companies which go Woke never seem to pay attention to what happened to others. Patronizing a group, then turning the amp up to 11, never helps, especially when you’re annoying the rest of your target (sic) audience. Target would have been fine with the lesbian and gay stuff (do they really wear different stuff?), but, the gender confused, especially for kids, was just too far.

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Climate Cult Is Looking For $23.2 Trillion From Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 7:00 am

Of course, the Warmists who have been using fossil fuels and are mostly refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels are exempt

The fossil fuel industry owes at least $23.2 trillion in reparations for climate change

A new study by the environmental research group One Earth estimates the world’s top fossil fuel companies have emitted around 36% of all global emissions since 1988. That amounts to 403,092 metric tons of CO2 emissions, based on the group’s 2023 analysis that builds on the Carbon Majors 2018 data set.

Have they emitted it themselves or just provided the fuel that runs the world that has created it?

The aim of the study is to provide, for the first time, a methodology to quantify the economic impacts of individual companies’ damage to the climate. Estimates for the reparations are conservative, as they do not take into account factors including lives and livelihoods lost, species extinction, and biodiversity loss.

The impacts disproportionately affect poorer regions: Oxfam estimates that carbon emissions of the world’s richest 1% is more than double the emissions of the poorest half of the world.

Global economic damages resulting from the climate crisis are projected to be $99 trillion between 2025 and 2050, and fossil fuel emissions are responsible for $69.6 trillion of that. Around one-third of that number rests on fossil fuel companies, amounting to $23.2 trillion, or $893 billion annually.

So, it’s basically a money grab. A shakedown. One that uses those poor folks as human shields, and, you know they wouldn’t really get the money. It would be siphoned off by government, lawyers, warlords in those 3rd world shitholes, and ‘climate change’ groups.

The top 21 fossil fuel-emitting companies owe $5.4 trillion, or $209 billion annually in reparations (excluding some companies such as those in Venezuela, which the study considers to be in too poor an economic situation to pay). Liability was also halved for producers in Russia, China, Mexico, Brazil and Iraq according to One Earth’s methodology.

Companies in countries that can afford to pay reparations include Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil and gas producer Saudi Aramco, which would owe the most at $43 billion annually, or about a quarter of its $161.1 billion profits in 2022.

In the US, ExxonMobil and Chevron would annually owe $18.4 billion and $12.8 billion respectively. ExxonMobil’s profits in 2022 alone were $56 billion, while Chevron made $35.5 billion in profits.

Yeah, well, good luck getting it. I’d believe this is real if the Warmists gave up their own use of fossil fuels.

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Biden Renews Call For Banning Scary Rifles From Peasant Hands

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 6:45 am

He made this pronouncement at 330pm Wednesday. What was he doing the rest of the day? He schedule doesn’t say. I guess it takes a while for the meds to kick in

Biden renews call for assault weapons ban a year after Uvalde massacre

President Joe Biden renewed his call for a ban on assault weapons as he and his wife Jill held a White House event on Wednesday to mourn the 21 victims shot dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, one year ago.

The May 24, 2022, massacre, in which an 18-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle inside Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers, marked the deadliest U.S. school shooting in almost a decade.

The assault ended when police officers who had waited more than an hour to storm in and directly confront the gunman – even as children hiding inside repeatedly called emergency-911 for help – finally charged into the classroom and shot the suspect dead.

Law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school attack has been widely viewed as disastrous.

Many people, including myself, are still wondering where he obtained the thousands and thousands of dollars needed for all that he purchased, and wonder why the ATF did nothing when alerted to all the quick purchases.

But, I’ll tell you what: let’s ban the Secret Service and all law enforcement and military who are tasked with protecting Biden, Harris, the White House, Congress, all the federal buildings, and all the appointed Executive Office leaders from carrying any of the weapons Biden wants banned, along with all the actual military grade ones which are automatic. They can only carry rifles with no pistol grips, no flash suppressors, no extendable stocks, no foregrips, and the magazines can only hold 5 rounds. That’s fair, right? If they can do this for 4 years, that we can try a 10 year ban for citizens, which would sunset.

It’s also weird that Biden has really had nothing to say about the wackjob who rammed the fence. You’d think, after all the yammering Biden has done about “white supremacy”, that he’d mention a guy with a Nazi flag

Driver of U-Haul that rammed White House gate is not a U.S. citizen, prosecutors say

The man accused of ramming a U-Haul truck into barriers near the White House earlier this week isn’t a U.S. citizen, authorities said Wednesday.

Sai Varshith Kandula, a 19-year-old from suburban St. Louis, wore an orange jail-issued jumpsuit in his brief courtroom appearance — his first since the Monday incident — when prosecutors requested pre-trial detention.

A government prosecutor told the court that Kandula is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident.

But later on Wednesday, a Department of Justice official clarified the open-court remarks and said Kandula does hold a green card for lawful, permanent U.S. residency.

And, suddenly, the government is clamming up about him. It’s thought that he is most likely from the nation of India, based on his links to that community. Some are wondering if part of any plea deal will be simply deportation. What’s the Vegas odds that he’ll be deported before he even goes to court? Heck, quietly deported by the end of Monday, being a holiday weekend? If so, we’ll know the fix is in.

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Teen Vogue Wonders What Americans Will Give Up To Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach May 24, 2023 – 3:00 pm

I have a few ideas for the kiddies that supposedly read this loony tunes outlet

Will Americans Change Their Daily Lives to Acknowledge Climate Change?
This op-ed asks when Americans will be willing to make personal sacrifices for the climate.

What are you willing to give up to offset the impacts of climate change? It’s a question that should keep us all up at night, and it’s one that could depend as much on our nationality as our individual personality.

I’m not willing to give up anything, nor are most people in practice. I don’t lose a minute of sleep

In many ways, the European Union, where I currently live, has taken a leading role on answering this question — in stark contrast to how the United States has reacted. Last month, the European Commission approved what could be a precedent-setting decision from France. The country opted to ban flights between cities that could be reached by train in less than two and a half hours. In the US, that might eliminate plane journeys between major cities like Philadelphia and Washington, DC. The move was actually first proposed by a citizen assembly looking for ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

You live in Europe, so, mind your own f’ing business. Also, remember that private jets for the Elite in France are OK, but, not commercial for the peasants. Perhaps Elizabeth Djinis should ask Biden when he will stop taking fossil fueled flights from D.C. to Delaware. He could drive there in an hour and a half.

Still, the idea of actually forcing consumers’ hand on transit might strike Americans as a regulation that would never work in our country. After all, this is a country that bailed out airlines almost immediately during the pandemic to the tune of more than $50 billion. When it comes to saving corporations, we move fast. When it comes to saving the planet, not so much. While Europe was cementing its Green New Deal plan last summer, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court was issuing a ruling that hampered the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Pray tell, who would be doing the forcing? I love when the Cult of Climastrology shows their hand.

So, it’s not that we don’t care. One major impediment is the way the United States views climate as a partisan issue. In fact, in a survey of 13 countries on 5 continents, the United States had the biggest ideological divide when it came to climate action, according to a 2022 Politico Morning Consult Global Sustainability poll. About 97% of left-leaning voters were concerned about climate change compared to only 51% of those on the right. About 64% of Democrats said the US government was doing too little on climate change, according to the same poll, whereas only 26% of Republicans agreed with that statement.

In other words, you aren’t allowed to have an opinion, you must conform to the climate cult’s dogma and demands. Even though almost no Warmist practices what they preach.

There’s also the fact that America has another value that runs contrary to acting on climate at all — that of personal liberty. Just think of the protests and disputes that broke out across the country when masks were mandated in schools and certain public areas throughout the pandemic. A study of various countries, including Australia, Canada, China, India, and France, showed that the United States was the country second most likely—after Japan—to be unwilling to sacrifice their own rights for public health.

Yes, personal liberty is anathema to the climate cult.

When it comes to climate, Americans seem a little more amenable to the idea of changing their daily lives. A 2021 CBS News poll showed that 58% of Americans said people should do things to shape and change the climate crisis rather than simply learn to adapt and make the best of it. Then again, when asked whether they would pay higher taxes to help stop climate change, 65% said no.

Yet, Warmists do not change their lives. Because saying they’re willing to do so is theoretical, not in practice. I say I should give up bread and ice cream to lose weight. In practice, that ain’t happening.

Our approach to the climate crisis has to be a combination of everything, and there’s no question that corporations must be held accountable. But we live on a planet that needs saving from the very beings who inhabit it. The time has passed to put our own comforts above the mortality of the place we call home.

Or, and I write this respectfully, you can go fuck yourself and mind your own business, Adolph.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 24, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a giant pipe meant to direct the massive floods from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Biden considering an anti-Semite for ambassador to Israel.

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Guy Who Slowly Drove Into White House Barrier Wanted To Kill Biden, Seize Power

By William Teach May 24, 2023 – 10:30 am

Hey, listen, I’m am really not a conspiracy theory guy. If you start talking 9/11 Truth, I’m walking away or blocking you. Afghanistan and Iraq were not about stealing the oil. Jews do not control the world. Roswell was not aliens. Some things, though, make you think

So the guy slow crashed, got caught immediately, just happened to have a Nazi flag back there, which investigators then spread out in contradiction of the way you handle a crime scene, and we’re supposed to think this is all above board? And within minutes we’re getting every bit of information?

Driver who crashed near White House told officials he was prepared to kill Biden and ‘seize power’

The 19-year-old Missouri man accused of deliberately driving a rented box truck into a White House barrier allegedly told authorities that he admires Nazis and wanted to “seize power” and “kill the president,” court documents released Tuesday show.

Sai Varshith Kandula, of Chesterfield, Missouri, rented the U-Haul truck Monday night immediately after flying from St. Louis to Dulles International Airport on a one-way ticket, a Secret Service agent said in a statement of facts filed in federal district court in Washington D.C.

The statement was included with a criminal complaint charging Kandula with depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000.

Around 9:35 p.m., he drove the vehicle onto a sidewalk outside the White House and into a metal barrier just north of the White House, according to the document.

Kandula put the truck in reverse and crashed into the barrier a second time before United States Park Police officers took him into custody, the documents state.

And, this guy who is definitely not white is a big supporter of Hitler

When Secret Service agents asked Kandula about a flag with a swastika he removed from a backpack, he allegedly said he’d bought it online because Nazis “have a great history,” according to the court document.

He allegedly said he “admires their ‘authoritarian nature, Eugenics, and their one world order,'” the document states, adding that Kandula identified Hitler as a “strong leader” he admires.

Kandula allegedly told authorities he had been planning the attack for six months and detailed the plans in a “green book,” the document states.

He “stated his goal was to ‘get into the White House, seize power, and be put in charge of the nation,'” the document states. “When agents asked how KANDULA would seize power, he stated he would ‘Kill the President if that’s what I have to do and would hurt anyone that would stand in my way.'”

Planning for 6 months to kill Biden and seize power, barely took the paint off the barriers, got jammed on curb, surrendered quietly, and mostly just had a Nazi flag in the back? Really? We’re supposed to believe this garbage?

Let’s see that green book. Meanwhile, we still do not know what the manifesto for the Nashville shooter says. Weirdly, the authorities do not want to release it.

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Totally Not A Cult Members Pour Mud On Selves To Highlight Flooding Or Something

By William Teach May 24, 2023 – 7:15 am

Mental illness abounds

From the link

A pair of bare-chested protesters smeared themselves with mud outside the Senate building in Rome on Tuesday to protest fossil fuel use and remind people of the dangers of flooding linked to climate change.

Police quickly removed the two. Since last year, an activist group called Last Generation has staged numerous attention-grabbing events in Italy, including pouring black liquid in the Trevi Fountain in Rome and gluing themselves to the glass protecting the Botticelli masterpiece “Spring” in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, to highlight the harm that fossil fuels cause to the environment and its role in global warming.

The activists used mud to remind people of last week’s severe flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, where 21 rivers overran their banks and hundreds of mudslides were triggered by a heavy concentration of downpours on rain-parched land.

Italy has a history of floods, being that it’s a rather mountainous nation, especially the north, and receives rain. Said rain runs down. Fast. There’s no need to invoke witchcraft. But, some people are simply indoctrinated and nuts. And, really, lots of these youts are looking for something to protest, a Cause, but, it’s fashionable, they do not really have to do something difficult nor change their lives.

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Tampa Pride Cancels Drag Show As It Might Expose Children To Sexually Explicit Material

By William Teach May 24, 2023 – 7:00 am

Why would they have to cancel the show if all they’re doing is providing some family entertainment?

Tampa Pride Festival Canceled After Florida Cuts Off Access to Children

The Tampa Pride on the River event has been canceled due to the series of anti-groomer bills passed by the Florida legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), which in part imposes penalties on establishments that expose children to sexually explicit drag shows and similar adult performances.

DeSantis recently signed a series of anti-groomer legislation designed to protect children from the radical left’s woke gender agenda, which includes pushing transgender ideology and gender confusion on minors. One of the pieces of legislation signed is titled the “Protection of Children,” or HB 1438, which imposes fines on establishments that allow children to attend sexually explicit adult shows, such as drag shows.

“We’re going to hold you accountable. … When you have adult entertainment, you have these sexually explicit performances, there should not be any of these kids there. And this is going to make sure that that’s the case,” DeSantis said ahead of signing the bill into law.

As a result, Tampa Pride President Carrie West recently told outlets that their festival has been canceled, apologizing for the series of events that led to that decision, as there would be drag queens performing at the public event, which children would be easily exposed to as last year’s event occurred along the river walk. As a result, participating businesses could face penalties.

“Lot of famous Ru Paul drag queens that come in for the event,” West said, according to WFLA. “People come flying in for that event just to see the famous drag queens.”

From that WFLA link we see

Unlike Tampa Pride’s parade in March, West said drag queens perform in the open at the festival, which could be a violation of the new law.

“Very sad,” said West. “Because this was a very fun event. People already, they’ve been talking about it, they’ve been making plans to come to Tampa, fly to Tampa, drive to Tampa.”

If there were no problems, then why cancel? If the kids are not going to be subjected to what one sees at a strip club, why cancel? That they did shows the lie in their propaganda, that this is a sleazy, adult show rife with nudity and filth. Which is fine if it’s in a private venue with no minors allow.

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Climate Today: Concerts, Private Jets, $8 Million Grants

By William Teach May 23, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Who’s excited for yet another “global concert” to spread awareness about ‘climate change’?

Lenny Kravitz, Billie Eilish set for Global Citizen’s ‘Power Our Planet’ show for climate financing

Music superstars Lenny Kravitz, Billie Eilish and H.E.R. will team with advocacy nonprofit Global Citizen for a free concert in front of the Eiffel Tower designed to convince world leaders to take further action against climate change.

“Power Our Planet: Live in Paris” is set for June 22 to coincide with the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, a gathering of the world’s political and business leaders to help developing nations finance sustainability projects.

Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans says the summit is an opportunity for governments and global banks to collaborate to jump start climate projects stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic. He hopes “Power Our Planet” will encourage leaders to take advantage of that opportunity and provide the $16.7 billion in outstanding climate financing promised in 2009 to lower-income countries. He is also seeking to advance reforms at the World Bank to make up to $1 trillion in additional financing available.

If these projects are so great then why aren’t banks dumping their own money into them? Why is it necessary for “superstars” to take long fossil fueled trips to participate in concerts where people take lots of fossil fueled travel to attend?

France Bans Short-Haul Flights: Decrees Travelers Must Catch a Train Instead

The French government published a decree Tuesday banning domestic commercial airline flights for journeys possible in less than two-and-a-half hours by train.

AFP reports although the move was first included in a 2021 climate law and applied in practice, the Union of French Airports (UAF) as well as the European branch of the Airports Council International (ACI Europe) sought European Commission action to investigate whether it was legal.

It has now been passed into law.

The legislation does specify train services on the same route must be frequent, timely and well-connected enough to meet the needs of passengers who would otherwise travel by air — and able to absorb the increase in passenger numbers, according to AFP.

Here’s where it gets fun

No comparable decree for elite private jet travel on the same routes has yet been issued.

In other words, the Elites, including those passing the laws, can still take their private flights. Funny how this always only applies to the peasants.

Explosion of AP climate change stories following $8 million environmental grant

In the year following a grant of more than $8 million to the Associated Press from key climate change advocates, the news service has poured out at least 64 stories warning of environmental calamity, according to a new media study.

Media Research Center Business charted the stories and language used following the multimillion-dollar grant and found that AP also used over 500 environmental extremism buzzwords in the stories. (snip)

The MRC Business study authors wrote, “The so-called ‘journalism’ AP has been doing on climate involves behaving like the de facto mouthpiece for its major left-wing donors who have an obsession with pushing apocalyptic climate narratives on the internet.”

Funny how journalism is part of the climate cult. For a bunch of cash.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 23, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is the ground drying up from too much carbon pollution drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on how well Biden’s doing at the G7.

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