Thread: The financial censorship of political enemies is something we’re used to seeing under authoritarian regimes. No one was surprised when Russia froze more than 100 bank accounts tied to opposition leader Alexei Navalny. But Canada did it too…
Go Woke, Go Broke
Sales of Bud Light have been plunging since the company enlisted the help of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in a marketing campaign a month ago.
In the week that ended April 22, the brand’s in-store sales plummeted more than 26%, according to figures reported by Bump Williams Consulting, a Connecticut-based firm that specializes in the alcoholic beverage industry.
And the decline is only accelerating. The week before, sales dropped by 21%. The week before that, it was 11%.
@Cernovich – Sheer brutality. Conservatives finally pull off a massively successful boycott. I’ve never seen it happen and didn’t think it would work. Shout out to Matt Walsh and others who made it happen.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
@RealJamesWoods – Notoriously liberal West Hollywood had the brilliant idea of replacing police officers with unarmed “safety ambassadors.” Let’s take a peek at how that’s worked out during an assault in progress…
Down The Primrose Path
Worth Asking: why is Tucker the only TV host (at least not on Fox) whom senior military leaders wanted off the air?
Tucker Up, Buttercup
In important ways, Carlson is extending Orwell’s famous maxim that “during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” And as others — including very recently myself — have done, he’s putting to words and voice his refusal to surrender to those very “new new things, poisonous things, silly things” that we’re being told, without hesitation, that we must and will conform to.
If It Weren’t For Fake Hate
A criminology professor at Florida State University suddenly left his lucrative position after it was discovered that he skewed statistical data to make racism seem more prevalent than it actually is.
Eric Stewart, who left his $190,000-a-year job, has had five of his six studies taken down after allegations that he fabricated information by altering sample sizes. Though Stewart has denied these allegations, his sixth study, conducted in 2020, drew the attention of an FSU committee, who gathered to discuss Stewart’s findings, per the Daily Mail.
Stewart has not shown up to work in the last months, which could mark the end of his 16-year career at the institution and his long history of academic malpractice. Additionally, it is curious why Stewart would feel the need to fabricate data if racism was truly as prevalent as he made it out to be in his so-called study.
Harm Promotion
Now wrecking Red Deer;
The Fabricland store has announced they will be leaving their Railyards location this summer, in search of a new location.[…]
Proulx says the store has faced numerous challenges since the opening of the Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) across the street in 2018 and the temporary shelter in their connecting unit during the pandemic.
She says the store initially moved to the Railyards as their previous location in the south end was too small.
However, she says the store has lost many customers since then due to discomfort from daily incidences.
“All of the homeless roaming around and harassing our customers and things; it’s been a rough 10 years here because of this and it just got worse and worse over the years. We have hired a security service and that is helping them not come in the store but still they’re out in our parking lot and such; just makes life a little difficult,” she said.
Proulx says customers, ranging from high school students to older individuals, are consistently panhandled in the parking lot and at the front entrance, requiring their security guard to escort customers back to their vehicles. She says they have also experienced increased thefts within the store and needled-drug use on their entrance staircase.
More: DES Fire Safety Codes Officer Andrew Towers said in December 2022 that it was unclear whether the person who started the fire “was simply trying to keep warm” and added that businesses should try to keep building exteriors well-lit to deter such activity.
Trudeau and His Totalitarian Apparatchiks Have Destroyed Canada
Hug a Thug
How It Started
How it’s going…
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Two years ago, a colleague entered a prestigious graduate program. When I asked how the opening days of classes had gone, she described something akin to a dreary Maoist struggle session. Discussion focused on tedious strategies for avoiding the barely discernible microaggressions that would cause fragile classmates and others to crumple into apoplexy. Students dutifully climbed to their particular rungs on the intersectional ladder and admitted the sins that indelibly stain those on their particular rungs. Conversations signaled which sorts of viewpoints would be unwelcome. The best strategy, she thought, was to remain quiet and nod reflexively when absolutely necessary. I wondered how this particular department could have sunk so far, but in the following months, I realized that the problem had suddenly metastasized in universities of every type across America.
Go Woke, Go Broke
In a new segment of the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, we learn about Alissa Heinerscheid, a hyper-woke executive, who appears to be behind one of the worst marketing decisions in the history of American business. Incidentally, there’s a Wilfrid-Laurier connection too!
Incidentally, in case you missed it last November, this op-ed about Head Girls explains why they are so incredibly dangerous, to society and to beer companies.
Update: Matt Walsh chimes in about Head Girl Heinerscheid. Is anyone surprised that a Harvard & Wharton grad HATES typical Bud Light customers?! Asking for a friend.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
As if Mrs. O’Leary’s cow just happened to bump over a kerosene lamp and “poof,” up went Minneapolis.
The Audacity Of Woke
Whether it’s a country music drag act, a trans-identified light beer, or a march for willing subjugation and a surrender of natural rights to the State, the memetics of cultural Marxism are performative — phony Maoist struggle sessions delivered in swarms to project strength and to dispirit opponents by displaying the inevitability of the mob and its power. It’s a cultural troll. It’s their way of telling you that they are in charge, and that you are helpless. You will conform. You must. What else is there?
“Mayor Jyoti Gondek” Is Not A Character In A Tim Burton Movie
But it should be.
@TheRealKeean asks the most fucking based question I have ever heard pic.twitter.com/BIrx2RqGon
— Bushels Per Acre (@BushelsPerAcre) April 4, 2023
Breaking!
Representative Zaza-Demon (D-NY)
They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum
Human rights tribunal says the quiet part out loud
In June 2021, an Ontario high school student tried to sign up for a summer program. He was rejected because he was white. The “SummerUp” program, sponsored by the Ontario government, was open only to Black students. His father filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal alleging racial discrimination. Last November, the Tribunal dismissed the complaint, saying the quiet part out loud. White people, wrote the Tribunal, cannot claim discrimination.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Three years ago, San Francisco mayor London Breed announced a plan to defund the police. Let’s check back in to find out how that’s been working.
Go Woke
Last week, NPR laid off 84 people and stopped production on four seasonal podcasts, including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot and Rough Translation. The company warned in February those cuts would be coming after it projected a $30 million sponsorship shortfall this year.
Thirteen roles in the organization’s digital team are also planned to be cut, but that group unionized through a separate union for broadcast employees and technicians and haven’t yet agreed on a contract with NPR, despite the organization voluntarily recognizing them. This means they cannot be laid off until a contract or separate lay-off agreement is met.
While layoffs often mark the abrupt end of an era at an organization, NPR’s story has stretched into this week, spilling over into multiple, tense all-hands meetings in which impacted employees grilled executives about their decisions. […]
A group of executives, including president and CEO John Lansing, presented various financial metrics and updates on the diversity levels at the organization following the layoffs. As of March 24th, for example, NPR had booked $28.9 million in sponsorship revenue for the first quarter, compared to $41 million the year prior. The team highlighted that diversity levels remained roughly consistent before and after the cuts, though trans people in the programming department dropped, going from 2.5% of the workforce to 1.2%.
It gets better.