“Why have you disturbed our sleep; awakened us from our ancient slumber?” – The Evil Dead
Yesterday I had a nightmare that my Facebook® account was deleted. When I woke up, for just a second, I was really scared that I had a Facebook™ account.
It’s happening.
Despite the Left fully holding the levers of most of the power in the country, the one thing they didn’t seem to count on was a people that they pushed too far. Historically, they’ve always pushed too far and outpaced the populace, at least in European or Western nations. It’s like The Mrs. trying to get me to do chores. Don’t push, I told you last year I’d get those socks picked up.
In France after the Revolution, it ended with Napoleon – a strong man to push back the insanity of the Terror. In Germany, after the public revolted after the (failed) communist revolution, the economic destruction of the 1920s and the unbridled degeneracy of the Weimar Republic, to, well, you know what happened.
Stalin managed to take a gun after taking power and shoot everyone to the left of him, setting himself up as the single source of communist thought (well, after also taking an icepick to a rival living in Mexico), which I’ve heard referred to as the Leftist Singularity. It’s like the old joke, “Robespierre and Trotsky walk into a bar. There are no survivors.”
An example of the Leftist Singularity in action. All memes (from here on, including this one) are “as-found.”
Leftism is inherently unstable since it nearly invariably ends up feeding on itself. The college Leftist poets are despised by the “real” Leftists. Real communism has been tried, and every single time the results are the same. But this time, will it be different?
The grounds for a bit of optimism is that the American consooomer seems to have started voting with their wallets and is refusing to consooom the Woke products.
- Disney™ has lost nearly a decade of growth in stock price, and has lost half of its value since 2021.
Disney© is the source of endless corporate cultural rot. Brought about as a child and American friendly company, it now openly panders to people who want to push sex-change surgery to kids. The result is oddly predictable – the people who have kids don’t want to take their kids to a movie to have their values subverted. Bud Lightyear™ was a character that everyone loved. Disney™ solution? Inject LGBTQIABIPOC+ into the movie. Result? Parents avoided it, and it was a huge money loser.
I’m thinking this might be the secret Disney™ corporate strategy?
Inject values about woke female empowerment? Everyone stops going to their movies because their movies are now boring because it would disrupt The Narrative if a woman had to learn something, if a woman had to struggle, if a woman ever had to be saved by a man, and if a woman wasn’t the best one ever at whatever she chose to do, the first time out. Huh. I’m thinking my ex-wife might be a big Disney™ fan.
Seriously, Disney® managed to make Star Wars™ boring and devoid of wonder, all in the name of Woke.
Oops.
I’m thinking some prankster changed the numbers on the sign, but if you notice, all that Bud® is still sitting there.
- Bud Light® is now down over 25% in sales.
That’s devastating to the bottom line, and I won’t go into the story in too much depth because it’s pretty fresh in everyone’s mind. But what’s not fresh is the beer, since it’s rotting on the shelf and I heard today Bud™ is now having to buy it back, and corporate is having to buy dusty, expired cases back. To make it even more amusing, now the LGBTWTF groups have disavowed Bud™, making them about as popular as polio or monkey pox, depending on the group.
Ooops.
- Target® sold “tuck-friendly” female bathing suits, plus a line of “pride” clothing for kids.
Why is Target™ in the business of sexualizing our kids? In the “how could it get worse?” files, it turns out that one of the clothing designers for Target’s™ “Pride” line is featured in a shirt noting that “Satan respects pronouns.” Plus, well, look at him – nothing about him says, “safe to leave kids with,” and a lot that says, “voted most likely in high school to be found to own a house with a crawlspace filled with bodies.”
Target® is feeling the heat. They’ve reportedly (in at least some stores, crunched all the “pride” material into the back of the store into smaller sections. Apparently, this is mainly in the South, though stories are conflicting. Since Gavin Newsom has solved all of California’s problems and successfully revitalized San Francisco and stopped street pooping, he has taken the time to show great concern that one store stopped, under public pressure, selling propaganda materials.
Ooops.
It’s afraid.
I think this is what scares the Left. The idea that people will rise up without ever even talking to each other and destroy the companies that force-feed the populace a diet of propaganda and Woke. It starts small, with a beer. Now, at least some companies are backing off the idea of Woke.
Will this stop the Left?
No. I think they’re filled with hubris, and can’t see the real danger that they’re provoking, and the inevitable backlash as children become the targets of sexual predators is going to be stronger than all the Diversity Inclusion and Equity that BlackRock™ can extort. The backlash will end up in a predictable place . . . with a predictable reaction if we don’t stop it before it goes too far.
Now this is the kind of transitioning I can support.
Do we win? Yes I, I’m sure we will. This month? No. Next month? No. But people are awakening, learning that this is money we don’t have to pay to them, that this is a game we don’t have to play, that we don’t have to give them the minds and souls of our children, which in the end is what will end Woke.
FYI, friend in from out of town, might not have a post on Friday.
Bullies need a good kick in the teeth every now and then after too much it cries out as it strikes you.
As a lil’ shaver the recess bully got his when I organized all the others to bum rush his ass into the slide.
We were never bothered again.
People have had it and Chimpy the Kenyan with the Big Mike freak show are not nearly as popular as they imagine it to be.
Thought of a good name for Brandon and the Cackler-Ratman and Bobbin.
Honk, honk!
Ratman and Bobbin. Ha!
Sniffman and Drunken?
Couple ‘o things.
First, a screengrab I made of a clever line I liked…
https://imgur.com/a/5ukfZvz
Second, an interesting commentary. WW&W runs monthly Civil War overviews discussing just when CW2 kicks off. Um, the ongoing Culture Wars ARE CW2…
https://consentfactory.org/2023/05/22/the-war-on-reality-revisited/
“The War on Reality is a civil war, but it is much more than just a civil war. It is an asymmetrical, polymorphous, metastatic, multiplicitous war. An ontological free-for-all. It has no conventions or rules of engagement. There are no battle lines. The battle is everywhere. Alliances shift from day to day. It is chaos, unrelenting, inescapable chaos. An omnipresent, immaterial, omnipotent organism attacking itself. It is continual, and completely unwinnable. It is unwinnable because it has already been won. It ended in victory the moment it began, and now we’re doomed to go on fighting it forever, or until some less ethereal leviathan is born, or reborn, out of its ashes.”
Digression: The guy with top billing in the article above is Dr. John Stapp, as he plunges headlong into a dangerous future only moments ahead, where the ultimate crushing outcome and whether or not he withstands it is unknown. An apt metaphor for today.
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-stapp-human-crash-test-dummy-usaf-2016-5
Great links. Reality is our friend, because it always wins in the end.
Back in March 1991 (1992?) Charlotte friends of mine flew up to Minneapolis to watch Dook win the NCAAs. They were ridiculed everywhere by locals as being Southern Racist Rednecks. When the Sunday paper’s main headline up there came out with “U Minn Has The Most Violent Racial Incidents”, they had the last laugh.
Hypocrites. It’s the same today. Et Tu, Target.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/target-holds-emergency-meeting-lgbtq-pride-merchandise-stores-avoid-bud-light-situation.amp
I think that location would now be, what, NYC?
Do not Comply
Indeed.
From _Hearts in Atlantis_ (channeling Bertolt Brecht):
“Just quit, in other words. Quit doing what they say, quit doing what they want, quit playing their game. It’s an old game, and in this one The Bitch is hunting you.”
Damn. Ole Bertolt was way based.
And people will, but humans are herd animals, and need to see others doing it.
The Bud Lite number of a 25 percent decline perplexes me. If you are doing the ordering for a store and your sales of Bud Lite are down 25 or 30 percent, you simply extend the time between orders, perhaps a pallet every 10 days is now a pallet every 13 days. One wonders if it is really much more than a 25 percent decline. (Sure, there are places in the country not boycotting significantly.)
Cheap “beer” like that is made in Factories by Mass-Production Methods that are hard to shut down without a lot of work. So it is still being “pushed” to the Distributors, who can’t Sell it fast enough. There is an A-B Distributor’s Warehouse nearby, and they are now stacking Pallets of Qweerbeer(tm) in the Parking Lots, covered with Tarps. A Retailer that I frequent (Corner Store/Gas Station) has it stacked in the Aisle and said that the Distributor (same one with Pallets in the Parking Lot) is pressing him HARD to buy that swill at the same rate he did before. Offering a 30% Discount from the already-ridiculous wholesale price. The Boycott IS having an Effect.
p.s. the Meme of the Horse – Mine comes to the Fence that’s about 8 Feet from my bedroom Window, and Bangs the Steel Gate and makes Noise at 0330. I yell, “Shutup Hobbes!” out the Window, and he snorts and goes away.
Corporate has also agreed to buy back any expired beer
I think it might be, and I think that here in Modern Mayberry there hasn’t been a can sold in a week. But in NYC?
Woke and Feminism are funded and directed by Western intel, international banksters and related entities. Go Woke Go Broke isn’t true, but still is a worthwhile expression of resistance.
You can’t stop a fully funded global religion by dollar starvation, but sometimes you can get a fembot or wokie fired here and there. It ain’t much.
Ray, more than that, the important part is that we all know we’re not alone. And that is progress, since the aim of the Left is to make us think we’re alone and demoralize us all.
I’ve noticed an uptick on roadside thrown Bud Light 12 pack containers around our locale. I thought about it and realized it is likely the consumer got rid of it rather than putting in their trash can. Their neighbors might see it and associate it with being WOKE. For the record, our region is a solid Blue, about 80% voting Democrat Left. Though Progressives are viewed with suspicion – a lot of Hispanics still have traditional family values.
On the recent gun ban bashing going on by the Left, they aren’t getting the word out. Never seen a home sign expressing ‘This House Is Gun Free’.
Now that might be the cottage industry, putting those down next to every Lefty politician sign?
Wow, Newsom accidentally got one thing right. They are next, because that’s what’s necessary for civilization to be saved and then restored.
And? It will be. That’s the fun part.