Conservatives Finally Find Yet Another Reason to Cancel Netflix

Netflix Discovers That Mocking a Murdered Conservative on the Anniversary of His Assassination Is Apparently Not Great for Customer Retention

Conservatives' latest Netflix boycott didn't exactly come out of leftist field [pardon the pun]. It's the result of years of cultural grievances, political battles, questionable children's programming, and now a social-media post that somehow managed to combine a much-loved murdered conservative activist, a neck wound, and a promotional campaign for a British gangster show.

What could possibly go wrong?

On September 10, 2026, the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Netflix's UK & Ireland account decided it was the perfect time to promote The Gentlemen Season 2 with the caption:

“Nearly did himself a neck injury.”

Charlie [I cannot bring myself to formally calling him Kirk], of course, was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.

Conservatives on social media responded with the traditional consumer feedback mechanism of the modern age: canceling their subscriptions and posting screenshots to prove they had done it.

Figures including Libs of TikTok, Jack Posobiec, and Rudy Giuliani called for a boycott. I didn't because I was oblivious of the situation at the time since I have a life and don't live on social media.

Netflix, apparently realizing that this was not going to be one of those promotional campaigns where everyone simply shrugs and watches the show, insisted conservatives had gotten the joke completely wrong. Both sides of the aisle apparently have their own scolds who scour the internet to find the latest offense.

Anyway, the company called the interpretation “inaccurate and ludicrous,” explaining that the caption referred to a scene in which a character whips his head around at a wedding.

Which is certainly one explanation.

The post was not taken down.

And while Netflix may have been technically correct about what the caption referred to, the timing turned out to be about as strategically brilliant as announcing a half-price fireworks sale outside a gasoline station. What a pile of dolt bags.

For Charlie's supporters, September 10 was already a painful anniversary. Seeing Netflix use the phrase “neck injury” in a promotional post that landed on that exact date understandably struck many conservatives as another example of a company that simply does not understand why people are angry.

And Then There's the Rest of the Netflix Problem

The funny thing is that conservatives didn't need Netflix to post the “neck injury” line.

They already had a pretty substantial file folder labeled Reasons We Don't Like Netflix.

For years, conservatives have complained about the company's approach to children's programming and LGBTQ themes, in the spirit of a grooming maneuver. 

Critics, including Elon Musk in 2025, pointed to shows such as Dead End: Paranormal Park, The Baby-Sitters Club, and certain CoComelon episodes that include transgender or non-binary characters or themes. One can imagine Veggie Tales' Larry The Cucumber transitioning into a female cucumber named Loretta as this woke nonsense continues.

Loretta [formerly Larry] the Cucumber

Conservative reports have claimed that a significant share of Netflix's G- and Y7-rated programming contains LGBTQ content. 

And so the plot sickens.

Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt brought similar complaints to a February 2026 Senate hearing, describing Netflix's children's programming as “woke” and accusing the company of promoting a “transgender ideology.”

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has rejected the idea that the company has a political agenda, arguing that its enormous catalog simply reflects a wide range of stories.

Because apparently the solution to a culture war is to make approximately 7,000 television shows and then insist nobody should notice any patterns.

Netflix also has a multi-year production deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, originally signed in 2018.

Susan Rice, a former Obama administration official, sits on Netflix's board of mind controllers.

Conservatives became even more suspicious during the proposed 2025-2026 Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, with some MAGA influencers portraying the deal as “the Obamas taking over media.”

The bid ultimately failed amid political pressure and a competing offer.

But by then, conservatives had already filed the transaction under Things That Somehow Make Netflix Even More Netflixish--say that three times fast on helium.

The Politics Don't Help

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has donated heavily to Democratic causes and candidates.

Critics have also pointed to Netflix's statements following former thug and drug addict George Floyd's death and what they regard as a catalog heavily tilted toward progressive positions on race, gender, family, and other cultural issues.

From the conservative perspective, the problem isn't simply that Netflix has left-wing programming. It's that conservatives believe Netflix has spent years behaving as though there is only one acceptable political worldview and that anyone who disagrees can simply go watch something else. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what millions of people can now do with the press of a button.

Remember Cuties? The 2020 French film generated a massive boycott campaign over its sexualized depiction of young girls. That controversy never completely disappeared from conservative memory.

Apparently Netflix has discovered that people on the internet possess something remarkably dangerous: Screenshots.

Adding another layer to the situation, a Florida attorney general lawsuit filed around the same time as the Kirk anniversary controversy alleges deceptive data collection involving minors.

That case is focused primarily on privacy and advertising rather than the culture-war programming dispute, but it gives conservatives yet another reason to look at Netflix and wonder whether perhaps they would rather spend their $20 somewhere else.

At this point, Netflix may want to consider changing its corporate slogan from “Watch What You Want” to “Please Stop Canceling.” The “neck injury” post didn't create conservative anger toward Netflix, it merely poured gasoline onto a fire that had been burning for years.

For many conservatives, Netflix represents something much larger than a streaming service. It represents a culturally progressive institution that they believe has used entertainment, children's programming, political relationships, and corporate influence to push ideas they reject.

Netflix's response remains essentially the same: We're an entertainment company, not a political organization, and our library contains lots of different stories. 

So cut out the damn wokeness. Every hero in every movie doesn't need to be a person of color, or a woman who, in spite of weighing 100 pounds can beat the snot out of guys twice her size.

Conservatives' response is also essentially the same: That's nice. Here's the unsubscribe button. Buh-byeee.

The only question now is whether Netflix can survive the horrifying consequences of its latest promotional campaign.

Namely, conservatives discovering that canceling a streaming service is considerably easier than canceling cable and that dinner date at your in-laws. [Just kidding.]

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Cracker Barrel Finds CEO Who Promises To Leave The Rocking Chairs Alone

Cracker Barrel announced Monday that CEO Julie Masino will step down on Aug. 10, ending a tenure best remembered for proving that when Americans stop at Cracker Barrel, they are not secretly hoping it turns into an upscale airport lounge.

Masino will remain with the company in an advisory role until Oct. 9, presumably to point out which antiques are actually nailed to the walls before quietly heading toward the gift shop exit.

The restaurant chain said David Deno will take over as CEO after what executives described as an exhaustive search for someone who understands the revolutionary business concept of letting Cracker Barrel be Cracker Barrel.

"Following a robust and thoughtful search process, we are pleased to welcome David as Cracker Barrel's next CEO," independent Chairman Carl Berquist said. "He brings decades of experience across the restaurant and retail industries, with a strong track record of leading businesses through growth and a demonstrated commitment to operational excellence, guest experience, and team member engagement."

"We are confident David is the right leader to continue building on the Cracker Barrel legacy, drive further positive momentum operationally and financially, and create sustainable value for our shareholders," Berquist continued.

Translation: please do not remove any more rocking chairs. 

Berquist also thanked Masino for "her leadership and commitment to Cracker Barrel," adding that the company appreciates "her partnership to ensure a smooth leadership transition as we remain focused on the work underway to continue to serve our guests, support our employees, and execute our strategic priorities."

Incoming CEO David Deno praised Cracker Barrel as "a truly iconic American brand, defined by its unique combination of warm country hospitality, timeless appeal, and deep connection with guests across generations."

He added that he looks forward to "unlocking the full potential of this remarkable brand," with a focus on "delivering delicious food and exceptional experiences for our guests, while driving profitable growth."

Industry insiders say this ambitious strategy may also involve keeping biscuits on the menu and resisting the urge to replace the country store with a minimalist espresso bar selling artisanal kale.

Masino's departure follows last year's infamous rebranding effort that somehow concluded the biggest problem facing Cracker Barrel was looking too much like Cracker Barrel. The makeover removed the familiar "old timer" from the logo, rearranged the interiors, and polished away enough rustic charm to make longtime customers wonder if they had accidentally wandered into a furniture showroom.

The overhaul was part of a $700 million modernization effort across more than 660 restaurants. Apparently someone believed customers came for an updated aesthetic instead of chicken fried steak, hash brown casserole, and the comforting certainty that every wall would contain at least three mysterious farm tools.

After a wave of customer backlash, the company quickly reversed course. Masino admitted the makeover had missed the mark, proving once again that Americans are surprisingly protective of restaurants where the décor looks like Grandpa's attic and the peg game quietly humiliates people while they wait for meatloaf.

Financial results failed to brighten the mood. The company reported weaker than expected earnings in December, with Masino acknowledging there were "unique and ongoing headwinds." Those headwinds appeared to consist largely of customers asking, "Why did you change the place we already liked?"

Sales continued to slide into the new year, although March results still managed to beat Wall Street expectations. Investors were relieved to learn there remains one timeless business model that never goes out of style: serve comfort food, leave the rocking chairs where they are, and never underestimate the fury of Americans who discover someone has tried to modernize nostalgia.

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Joshua Kerry Charged With Brutally Murdering Ann Widdecombe; Leftists Already Blaming Society Instead Of The Monster Who Did It

"If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death." Immanuel Kant [The Metaphysics of Morals, 1797]

British prosecutors charged a leftist cretin, Joshua Kerry, 28, with the murder of ex-politician and reality TV contestant Ann Widdecombe. I don't often write about UK news, but this one is no different than the incidents we are seeing in the United States and all over Western nations.

"We have charged Joshua Kerry, a 28-year-old British national, of Burley Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire," officials announced after the former lift company [they call elevators 'lifts' in merry old England] worker drove more than 260 miles to the elderly conservative icon's home in Devon, drooling into his crotch the entire journey.

Court details revealed Kerry allegedly arrived in a red Vauxhall Corsa on July 8 and proceeded to attack Widdecombe while she ate lunch. Prosecutors told the court she was hit on the head repeatedly with a hammer, with reports specifying as many as 21 strikes.

The suspect, described as a white British national [which is incredibly more accurate in description than UK news describes Muslim perpetrators as "Asians"] living alone in a council house in Rotherham, was initially held on suspicion of murder before additional charges related to the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism were considered.

Counter-terrorism police confirmed the investigation into his motivations continues, but he is, after all, a leftist and we all know how violent they've become when people have different opinions.

The real outrage is not just the crime but the predictable circus that follows. Here is a man who apparently could not build a life worth living, so he chose to destroy one instead.

A 78-year-old woman, a former government minister known for her unapologetic conservative views and plain speaking, targeted in her own kitchen. Kerry did not debate her because he doesn't have the capacity to do so. He did not write a strongly worded letter because writing is for losers. Instead, he picked up a hammer and used it like a coward who had run out of arguments and ideas if he even ever had one of those things.

Progressive voices will no doubt rush to blame "toxic masculinity," "austerity," "Brexit trauma," or whatever flavor of societal excuse is trending this week in the UK. They will demand we "understand his pain" and "address root causes."

Meanwhile, the actual root cause sits in custody: a grown man who traveled across England specifically to cave in the skull of a defenseless grandmother because he could not handle the fact that she existed and disagreed with him.

Ann Widdecombe spent decades fighting for traditional values, exposing nonsense, and refusing to bow to the cultural mob. Joshua Kerry spent his time likely picking his nose while apparently plotting the perfect hammer-based solution to political disagreement. One built a career. The other destroyed a life and now faces the consequences.

Sadly, there is no death sentence in the UK as it has been totally abolished.

The quotes remain unchanged because the facts do not need softening. Kerry is charged with murder. The victim was hit repeatedly with a hammer as she ate lunch. No amount of hand-wringing about "mental health" or "systemic failures" erases the simple truth that one man chose evil and acted on it.May justice be swift.

And may the rest of the left stop pretending every act of barbarism is society's fault instead of the fault of the barbarian who committed it.

Woke/leftism, is a mental illness.


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Gavin Newsom's wife says pro-lifers are "pulling us back as a country"

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, is attacking pro-life Christians. She has criticized pro-life Christians and evangelicals as living in an “evangelical, conservative silo” that is “pulling us back as a country.”

What's the problem, Jenny, not enough dead babies?

Meanwhile, Newsom is arguing that the term “pro-life” should be redefined to mean government-funded social programs rather than protecting unborn children from abortion.

In a 2022 interview with journalist Elex Michaelson of a local Los Angeles station, Siebel Newsom promoted her documentary “Fair Play” on gender roles in the home and praised progressives for redefining the meaning of “pro-life.”

“I appreciate that so many people, so many progressives, are leaning into redefining what pro-life is really about, and that’s what we’re doing in California,” the unelected wife of Gavin Newsom said. “You know, pro-life is about prenatal care and universal preschool and universal after-school and universal healthcare and taking care of foster kids and feeding, you know, universal meals and childcare. Like, that’s pro-life. It’s not conception.”

She went on to criticize those she described as being on the far right, which includes anyone who didn't vote Democrat, and especially not for her husband.

“They’re living in this silo, this evangelical, conservative silo that, ultimately, is just pulling us back as a country to a time and a place where we don’t deserve to be, and we’re not going to be,” she said. “Because honestly, young women and fathers of daughters are awake now, and they’re woke, and they’re not going to let us go back.”

Siebel Newsom added that she has “so much hope because of that, and obviously California has a huge responsibility to lead.”

The clip resurfaced this week and drew fresh attention online as California continues to position itself as a leader in expanding abortion access through taxpayer funding. The state is also a leader in exfiltration of its wealthier residents who refuse to allow the state to steal their money.

Last month, at a bill-signing ceremony for Senate Bill 106, which provides $90 million in one-time emergency funds to Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses to kill more babies, Newsom scolded reporters for focusing questions on topics such as the state’s failed high-speed rail project and the governor’s planned trip to Munich rather than the legislation.

“We just find it incredulous that we have Planned Parenthood here, and women are 51% of the population,” she said. “And the majority of the questions, all of these questions, have really been about other issues. So, it’s just fascinating.”

Pro-life advocates have condemned the $90 million allocation as an effort to celebrate and subsidize abortion at a time when many Americans support greater protections for unborn children. 

Not every woman views the expansion of abortions as advancing women’s interests. Many women actually want to be a mother and see abortion as a legal right to murder the babies.

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Woke woman Alex Taylor Fontenot faces stiff prison sentence for threatening to kill ICE agents: "just a joke"

Alex Taylor Fontenot, a woke 27-year-old woman from Lake Charles, Louisiana, has been federally indicted on charges of making threats in interstate commerce. Prosecutors allege she posted a social media video threatening U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, stating that if they entered her home, they would leave "in a body bag" and be "dropped like flies." 

She reportedly described herself as "crazy" and expressed eagerness to confront what she called a "tyrannical government uprising."

Well she may be crazy, but not so crazy as to now claim that she was simply joking about the killing/body bag thingy. She evidently FAed and now is about to FO.

The indictment was issued on February 4, 2026, following an FBI investigation prompted by the video seen in part above. 

If convicted, she faces up to 5 years in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release. However, my guess is she'll be given a pat on the hand and maybe some supervision, but I don't think there will be any hard time for her to face.

Recent coverage describes her as now claiming the statements were "just a joke" and expressing concern about her life being ruined, though federal authorities treated the statements as credible threats rather than humor.

This case has circulated widely on social media, often highlighted by accounts critical of left-leaning or anti-ICE views, with some framing it as an example of "leftist extremists." 

The ordeal of having to go to court and face possible incarceration may be enough to keep other cretinous-like leftists/anarchists from copying her example. These people tend to be more like keyboard warriors rather than actual ones.

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Illinois justice system leaks like a sieve

Here's your daily dose of "sanctuary city" insanity, brought to you by the People's Republic of Illinois. 

While the rest of the country is trying to get dangerous illegal aliens off the streets, Governor Jabba the Hutt (D-IL) and Chicago's own Brandon "Let's Defund Everything But Illegal Aliens" Johnson have apparently decided that child rapists and murderers deserve a second, or third, or fourth chance to roam free. ICE just dropped a letter that ought to make every law-abiding Illinois resident's blood boil. 

Since January 2025, the Land of Lincoln has released a jaw-dropping 1,768 criminal illegal aliens who had active ICE detainers. You know, the little piece of paper that says, "Hey, local jail, hold this guy so we can deport him." But no, Illinois said "catch and release" is their new state fish., and these aren't jaywalkers or litterbugs. We're talking:

Attempted murder
Aggravated sexual assault
Aggravated kidnapping
Predatory criminal sexual assault of a child (yes, you read that right)
Child abduction
Multiple homicides

Todd Lyons, the acting ICE director, was blunt about the problem: "These offenders should be swiftly removed from the United States … and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens."

Instead, Illinois Democrats are basically rolling out the red carpet: "Welcome back to the neighborhood, here's your get-out-of-jail-free card!" It's suicidal for everyone except those who run this s**t show. 

There are still another 4,015 criminal aliens sitting in state and local custody with pending detainers, including 51 tied to homicides and over 800 sexual-predatory offenses, who could be sprung any day thanks to Governor "Pass the Gravy" Pritzker and Johnson's open contempt for federal law.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem showed up in Illinois on August 8 and torched the dynamic duo to their faces. Good for her. Someone had to say it out loud, but what effect it will have is probably nil. 

Lyons closed his letter with the question every taxpayer in Illinois deserves an answer to: Is the state going to "change course or continue releasing violent offenders who may otherwise walk the streets of Illinois again?"

It's time the Illinois government stop treating ICE detainers like they're suggestions on a Chinese takeout menu and instead put public safety ahead of their woke virtue-signaling. But don't hold your breath hoping Pritzker is suddenly going to grow a spine underneath all that adipose tissue. The bulbous billionaire heir and his light-on-crime mayor would rather let another child get assaulted than admit Trump-era immigration enforcement had a point because it's actually working in places other than Illinois.

Illinois taxpayers, enjoy the "sanctuary" you voted for. The rest of us will be over here praying we don't end up on the wrong side of one of these monsters the state just set loose.

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Chicago Principal Plays Victim Card for Teacher Who 'Bang-Bang Mocked' Charlie Kirk's Murder

Oh, the irony is thicker than a leftist's skull: A public school principal in the crime ridden Windy City is bending over backward to shield a large teacher who turned a protest into a grotesque pantomime of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk's assassination like, literally finger-gunning her own neck while hollering "bang, bang." 

But sure, let's frame her as the poor, persecuted soul amid the "threats." 

Enter Lucy Martinez, the woke Nathan Hale Elementary School educator who's now starring in her own episode of Leftist Teacher Gone Wild. 

Captured on video over the weekend at a "No Kings" rally, because apparently protesting monarchy is code for reenacting bullet-through-the-throat fantasies, Martinez decided to channel her inner sociopath. The clip, exploding across social media with tens of millions of views, shows her mimicking the exact wound that took Kirk's life last month: finger to the jugular, imaginary trigger pull, and those oh-so-charming sound effects. Subtle as a sledgehammer to the funny bone, if your idea of funny is desecrating a fresh grave of a descent human being.

And what does Principal Dawn Iles-Gomez do when the backlash hits like a Twitter storm? She fires off a letter to parents that reads like a masterclass in bullcrap bureaucratic deflection. No mea culpas for the teacher, no hints of consequences, just a vague nod to shadowy online bogeymen supposedly gunning for Martinez. 

Because in the upside-down world of Chicago Public Schools, the real crime isn't mocking a murdered man's final moments; it's the peasants daring to notice.

"Dear Hale Parents and Staff, safety continues to be my top priority, which is why I am writing to notify you of a situation involving our school," the letter states. "We were recently made aware of social media posts with language that resembles a potential threat to a staff member. We take all potential threats extremely seriously to ensure the safety of our school community."

"The Chicago Police Department and the CPS Office of Safety and Security have been notified, and CPD is currently investigating this situation further," the letter continued.

Translation: "Move along, folks--nothing to see here except maybe some mean tweets that totally justify ignoring the elephant in the room (or the finger-gun at the protest)." 

Calls for Martinez's firing are mounting faster than the views on that video, and rightly so. But in a system where principals polish turds into trophies, don't hold your breath for actual accountability. After all, if you're teaching kids at an elementary school named after a guy who famously regretted getting hanged, you'd think irony would be the last lesson skipped. Yet here we are.

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Country Crooner Zach Bryan: From Navy Vet to Woke Whiner, Dodging the Bud Light Buzzsaw After ICE-Bashing Ballad Blowup

Oh, sweet land of liberty, where even the twangy troubadours gotta tiptoe around the thin blue line lest they end up crooning for crickets. Enter Zach Bryan, the Oklahoma-raised, Grammy-grabbing country sensation who's now sweating bullets faster than a steer at a branding iron, all because he dipped his cowboy boots into the anti-ICE swamp with a song snippet that's got his red-state fans fixing to rope, throw, and drag him into irrelevance.

Earlier this week over at RedState, Bryan teased fans with a gritty minute of his upcoming ditty "Bad News." And folks, in that hot second, he didn't just step in it, he belly-flopped. Picture this: lines slamming cops as "cocky motherf**k***s" while he wails about the "fading of the red, white and blue."

Fading? Listen up Bryan, with Trump back in the saddle nine months strong, Old Glory's shining brighter than a Fourth of July bottle rocket show. But no, his beef wasn't with the flag, it's the feds at ICE who got his panties in a twist.

Cue the chorus that's got conservatives (you know, the backbone of his beer-swillin' audience) hollerin' for a refund: "ICE gonna bust down your door / Try to build a house no one builds no more / But I got a telephone / Kids are all scared and all alone."

Talk about a tone-deaf hoedown. 

Now the only one's spooked is Bryan himself, scrambling to outrun the stampede of backlash before it turns him into the next Dixie Chicks footnote or Bud Light punchline. Dropping an Instagram Story plea headlined "pls f***n read this," our hero confesses he's "embarrassed" and straight-up "scared" over the uproar. But let's call this what it is: the classic "sorry you got your panties in a bunch" non-apology, where he points fingers at the pitchfork mob instead of his own half-baked haymakers.

"This song is about how much I love this country and everyone in it more than anything. When you hear the rest of the song, you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle," Bryan wrote. "Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are. We need to find our way back."

Yeah, Zach, maybe start that trail back by not demonizing the badge-wearin' good guys who are yanking kids out of cartel clutches and human-trafficker hellholes. Pot, meet kettle; you're the one slinging sob stories that paint ICE as the big bad wolf instead of the sheepdog. "I served this country, I love this country and the song itself is about all of us coming out of this divided space," Bryan said.

"I wasn't speaking as a politician or some greater-than-thou ahole, just a 29-year-old man who is just as confused as everyone else," he continued. "To see how much s* *t stirred up makes me not only embarrassed but kind of scared."

"Left wing or right wing, we're all one bird and American. To be clear, I'm on neither of these radical sides. To all those disappointed in me on either side of whatever you believe in, just know I'm trying my best too, and we all say things that are misconstrued sometimes."

Fair play, Chief, Bryan did put in his time, logging Navy stints in Bahrain and Djibouti before getting that honorable send-off to chase the honky-tonk dream. And credit where it's due: last year's Nebraska twisters had him out there with a shovel, no cameras crashing the cleanup party. The man's got a heart bigger than his hits sometimes.

Heck, who's to say the full track doesn't flip the script with a pro-ICE bridge, all kumbaya and balanced like a seesaw in a windstorm? Maybe that's the magic in the unreleased reel, bridging the chasm he’s so poetically pining over.

But spare us the "misconstrued" balderdash when your rap sheet reads like a greatest-hits of grievance. Remember that 2023 dust-up where he jawed back at the cops during an obstruction beef? Or how he wagged his finger at fans for "insulting transgender people" right as Bud Light was busy boycotting itself into the bargain bin? And don't forget the show-stopping scold on slinging F-bombs at Sleepy Joe: "I told people if I heard it, I would stop it immediately," Bryan told the New York Times. "Don’t come to my shows and start it."

So no cussin' the commander-in-misery at your gigs, but go ahead and belt out ballads about "cocky motherf*****s" in uniform. That isn't confusion, Zach; that's chasin' the coastal cachet while your heartland herd heads for the exits. Sing your truths, but don't cry foul when the echo bites back.

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President Trump orders end to gender 'wokeness'

During the 2024 election campaign, Donald Trump highlighted his differences from Kamala Harris by focusing on her support for transgender issues. His campaign aired an ad where Harris was shown boasting about providing taxpayer-funded sex-change therapies for prisoners. “Kamala Harris is for they/them,” the ad stated, concluding with, “Donald Trump is for you."

Trump promised to tackle what he calls "gender wokeness" immediately upon taking office. Late last night, The Free Press reported that Trump would indeed enact this promise through a Day One executive order:

Gender Dysphoria on display

President Trump has addressed all this and more in an expansive executive order he will sign tomorrow afternoon called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

Here's what the order outlines:

The Executive Order establishes that there are only two sexes, male and female, across all government operations. 

All forms of radical gender ideology in policy, communication, and forms are being eliminated. 

Agencies will no longer treat men as women or vice versa when enforcing laws against sex discrimination. 

“Woman” means an “adult human female.” 

Government IDs, like passports, will now reflect biological sex, not self-identified gender. 

Men will no longer be housed in women's prisons, and taxpayer money won't fund gender transitions for male prisoners. 

The practice of mandating the use of "preferred pronouns" ends, protecting First Amendment rights to acknowledge biological sex.

This order is meant to bring what Trump supporters see as sanity back to federal policy. According to Emily Yoffe, a reporter, "This is far from mere symbolism," and she anticipates legal challenges. However, this might be precisely what Trump and his team are aiming for. While the Dobbs decision was a contentious issue that Democrats leveraged in 2022, there's less division when it comes to the transgender agenda. A recent NYT and Ipsos poll showed:

79% oppose biological males in women's sports. 

71% are against pediatric sex changes, with 90% opposing for those under 15. 

49% feel the government has overreached in accommodating transgender individuals; only 21% believe more should be done, and 28% think a balance has been achieved.

Men pretending to be women

Trump's team believes they're on the side of most Americans on these matters. If Democrats are ready to battle over pronoun use, males in female spaces, and what they describe as the mutilation of children for elite agendas, then Trump and his administration are prepared to challenge them. They see this as a battle against an out-of-touch elite, which they think resonates with the public's frustrations.

This, among other issues, is why the Democrats lost and Trump won, and if they refuse to change their woke ideology, the Democrats will continue losing . . . and that's a good thing.

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed has another brilliant idea to deal with the homeless

The streets of San Francisco

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is a woman with ideas. Unfortunately her ideas are generally idiotic. For example, she had the idea that paying the homeless drug using population a hundred dollars a week to stay off drugs was a brilliant idea. Anyone with a brain knows how that would work out for drug users with money in their pockets. 

But it's the taxpayers footing the expense, so what, she worry?

Now her latest stroke of genius is to offer bus tickets to the homeless and hope they "get out of Dodge." She is having city workers and cops who are conducting sweeps to get the homeless out of their tent villages, offer them bus tickets out of town in place of a shelter bed.

This is a cry of desperation by a failing mayor in a failing city.

Don't believe everything you read

“We’re reverting to enforcement,” said Wayman Young, a police officer overseeing the sweep in San Francisco. “Now we don’t have to offer shelter, even though we still do.” They just offer a bribe and hope it works.

There are roughly 3,600 beds for 8,300 homeless folks. Even if they double-up it won't be enough bed. However, only about 350 take up the offer during sweeps this week. 

“Unfortunately, San Francisco does not have enough shelter or housing for every person experiencing homelessness, but we do have some beds available each day to support the work of the outreach teams, and we continue to grow our system,” Emily Cohen, the department’s spokesperson, wrote in an email.

In recent years the number of homeless from out of town has spiked. According to Bloomberg, "[T]he percentage of unhoused people in San Francisco who are from other California counties or different states has increased to 40%, up from 28% in 2019, according to data provided by the mayor’s office."

Breed lost a court case that prevented her from forcing the homeless off the streets. Those federal orders prevented both San Francisco and Los Angeles from clearing encampments and removing the homeless because there weren't enough shelter beds, which never occurred to the Democrat mayors, London Breed and Karen Bass. 

With the city possessing less than half the number of shelter beds that were needed, there was little that city officials were able to do until the Supreme Court decision, Grants Pass v. Johnson made laws preventing outdoor camping easier to enforce.

Woke enough yet?

Rather than looking for the obvious solution to San Francisco's homeless problem, Breed, concerned over the upcoming election, tried strategies other than increasing the number of shelter beds. 

On Thursday, Breed put her substantial weight behind a different approach. She issued an executive directive requiring outreach workers to offer homeless people who aren’t from San Francisco free transportation out of town, maybe to places where they have friends or family who are willing to take them in. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statewide directive to clear homeless encampments. But Los Angeles County, which is dealing with 75,000 homeless people, has decided to defy the governor's directive and continue to same failed policies. They call it "care first." Others call it "keep your bedbugs out on the streets."

It's clear that these Democrats don't care at all for these Los Angeles County residents who are exposed to the risks posed by this mentally ill population, mostly drug addicts desperate to do whatever they must for their next fix.

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Google wokebots stage sit-in until it ends business deal with Israel

Google, like the rest of the hi-tech companies, swings so far to the left that even New York gets sucked up in the vacuum it makes. The company targets, intimidates and demonetizes conservatives and conservative media that questions election integrity, or questions if Donald Trump is in bed with Adolf Hitler, who, by the way, celebrates his 135th birthday in hell today.

Google employees staged a sit-in a few days ago in which they occupied the California office of Google Cloud in Sunnydale, until the CEO, Thomas Kurian would stop allowing the company to do business with Israel and those, you know, Jews.

It is believed that the sit-in anti-Semites used the "Hey, hey, ho, ho" cheer because it's a go-to cheer for morons who are clueless about the situation and who wear Keffiyehs because they look cool in their minds. A simultaneous ant-Israel rally took place in Google's New York City office. Protesters shouted chants asking Kurian “How many kids did you kill today?”

Fun Fact: Kurian killed zero kids and zero adults. The protesters support Hamas who killed and kidnapped kids from Israel, and they are the useful idiots who don't even realize that they too would be killed by Hamas and a majority of Palestinians if they came waltzing into the country. This is especially true for the blue/pink-haired gay protesters who wouldn't last longer than it takes to shoot them, hang them, behead them, or drop them from a high place as Islamic scripture prescribes--just ask the attendees of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. For more on this subject and the so-called "horse's mouth," go here. 

Anyway, Google finally had enough and fired 28 of these employees. Let's hope this becomes a trend.

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Google fires 28 employees after growing a pair

It's beginning to look a lot like companies across America are getting fed up with the "kids" calling the shots or simply acting out, as if they own the company. An example of how the adults took charge was with Google's response to the way Hamasshole supporters are disrupting everything they can.

Although Google has historically supported such woke ideology like DEI and BLM, it finally grew a set of balls, primarily because it had to for its own sake.

It might have been the final straw when a clique of terror-loving Googlers staged a mega-tantrum in the company’s New York and California offices over work their employer does for you know, the Jews of Israel. Google wasted no time to respond and terminate 28 Hamas-supporting racists involved in the disruptions.

“They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened,” the company’s vice president of global security said.

Good for Google.

The “protest” consisted of infantile actions such as office sit-ins and childish demands on a top exec’s whiteboard. 

Overall, their behavior was akin to the Hamassholes blocking the Golden Gate Bridge last Monday, blocking access to vehicles and fortunately nobody was being transported by ambulance for emergency medical intervention. The useful idiots, many of whom would not survive a full minute if they were doing this in Gaza, were allegedly funded by Iran. [H/T The Geller Report.]

The Daily Wire also reported on Google's internal anti-Semitism including the words "kill all Jews" written on a bathroom wall inside one of their offices. A Jewish employee was also assaulted by pro-Hamas protesters on one of their campuses.

In Manhattan, the Hamas-supporters occupied the tenth floor of Google's offices in Chelsea as part of support for the Seattle office for what they called "No Tech for Genocide Day of Action." These were obviously computer geeks and not English majors or minors as they don't understand the definition of the word 'genocide.'

The protesters demanded [LOL] that Google pull out of a 41.2 billion "Project Nimbus" contract with Israel in which Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services provide AI and cloud-computing services for the Israeli government and the IDF.

If it were up to these infants at Google, Israel would be defenseless and they would have their genocide, except to the people it was tried on once before by a turd named Hitler.

Am Yisrael Chai.

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Comedy News Network (CNN) will be chopping off top names as ratings go down the toilet

CNN staff whose names are not on the tip of tongues

Long ago in a country far, far away from where it is now, a cable tv network was considered the go-to station for news you could trust. But things have changed and most people know that the cable network in question, CNN, is no longer a trusted name in news and seems to be going the way of another once upon a time news outlet, The New York Times. 

Big changes are down the road over at CNN, as the ratings have gone down deeper than Lia Thomas diving for his pearls. The company can't even compete with Fox News or even the execrable MSNBC.

What happened, you ask. Well, when CNN went ballistic on conservatives to the extent they recently have, especially when Trump was President, the decline began.

They initially blamed CEO Chris Licht for the circling of the bowl. It's like a sports team that was once great and now sucks--they blame the coach even though he had brought them to a championship in the past. The coach didn't suddenly become suckworthy--it's the players who did. 

With Licht gone, the new guy on board is known for cutting the fat off the cash cow. That could mean the big budget personnel, like pretentious Anderson Cooper, who rakes in $20,000,000 annually, could become CNN history, like Donald Le'mon and Brian Stelter.

According to a new report, many of the network's big "stars" as mentioned, could face large pay cuts or the chopping block.

The new CEO Mark Thompson is the guy with the butcher knife and is likely to use it before it's too late to salvage the network. Other names like Chris Wallace, Jake Tapper, and Wolf "take-a-breath" Blitzer may become CNN history, according to a source who will remain anonymous, so you don't need to trust what he or she says.

“Anderson knows he’s on the chopping block because he makes a whopping $20 million a year. He’s already started looking for a new gig!” a network insider exclusively tells In Touch. “Chris Wallace takes $8 million and figures he’s a likely target, too!” Wallace, you may recall, worked for Fox News and was quite job secure in spite of his left-leanings. But he went to CNN for a new show but it failed faster than Al Sharpton yells 'racist,' and the network gave him another spot.

Insiders say other network favorites — including $15 million man Blitzer and $8 million gent Tapper – are also bracing for the boot!

The network's ratings have fallen below Hallmark and History. I suspect that with the way things are going for them, The Daily Wire's "Bentkey" series for kids is going to outpace them.

Don't believe for a minute, however, that CNN is going to shuffle over to the right anytime soon. They might, but it's doubtful. But people are getting fed up with woke "wisdom" because a) it's anti-reality; b) it's anti-capitalism, which means those who subscribe to the woke philosophy will indeed go broke.

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Staff a LA Times being dramatically cut: now they'll have to take their own advice

The woke go broke is a true prediction and the LA Times is no exception. There downfall has been going on for quite some time and so too has the Washington Post. 

As with any company, if you're not making money you're not long for this world. And the way for the news media to make money is to appeal to the general public, and not simply the small percentage of woke folk who apparently never nursed properly or have serious problems with reality.

The LA Times has customer numbers in the proverbial dumpster and had to lay off 115 employees on Tuesday. They made the announcement that they were laying off about 20 percent of the newsroom of the 142-year-old tabloid.

This comes amid projections that the newspaper, if you can still call it that, will face yet another year of heavy losses to the tune of around $35 million a year and zero readership growth, according to the paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.

So Dr. Soon-Shiong will possibly be Soon Gone as advertisers don't want to waste money on a no win situation for themselves.

But let's take a walk down Memory Lane and remember how the woke targeted non-college educated folks, particularly the miners whose jobs were lost due to woke policies starting with Obama whose plan was to destroy the coal industry altogether.

The left suggested the coal miners "learn to code," and anyone who loses their job because they didn't go to college should do the same.

I hope the staff takes their own advice now that they are in the same position.

And you know what--I don't have any tears to shed for them.

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Sports Illustrated went woke; now must lay off staff

As Sports Illustrated, a former sports magazine, has continued to go further and further left, people who used to subscribe to it, primarily men, have decided to forgo their subscriptions. The once celebrated magazine, particularly for the famous "Swimsuit Edition," has laid off most of its staff on Friday. 

It's doubtful SI will make a big comeback, if any comeback at all, proving the "go woke, go broke" adage.

Most of the staff, and possibly all the remaining editors and writers, got layoff notices Friday. Without writers and editors it's difficult to put out a magazine that depends on not only on photos, but on words. It's called journalism. 

The union of the staff tweeted Friday that it would continue to fight for the publication of the magazine but that its future is now in the hands of the magazine’s owner, Authentic Brands Group.

“This is another difficult day in what has been a difficult four years for Sports Illustrated under Arena Group (previously The Maven) stewardship," the union said in a statement. "We are calling on ABG to ensure the continued publication of SI and allow it to serve our audience in the way it has for nearly 70 years.”

Sorry, the union doesn't get to dictate that a company that's going belly up to continue losing money so they can get paid. 

The overwhelming audience of SI has always been men who identify as men. There was a time when the SI Swimsuit edition was in practically every guy's bedroom or office drawer. However, since the magazine has gone woke, and began using obese women for their Swimsuit Edition, men who identify as men, have refused to indulge in the magazine's beefed-up edition or to buy the issue with the "transgender model," after they decided to showcase that in their 2020 issue.

In 2023, SI went even further, putting another [transgender] man, who calls himself Kim Petras, and who was dressed as a woman, on the cover.

Sports Illustrated magazine features Transgender singer Kim Petras on the cover of the Swimsuit 2023 edition 👙 pic.twitter.com/eMy53FcOJV— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 16, 2023

Less than a year after the transgender push, the mag rag is facing a possible financial ruin.

Screw them for their wokeness and their attempts to shove their bizarre mores in our face.

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Woke NFL team gets Bud Light treatment: can't even sell $1 tickets

You cannot give away garbage for free and expect people to take it. 

So the NFL's Carolina Panthers shouldn't think they can sell tickets to their woke, 1-13 season games, even for as little as 45 cents, and think people will go to their games. Go woke, go freaking broke.

American sports teams have stepped over the line from entertainment to politics and woke ideology, like when Colin Kaepernick refused to stand during the National Anthem and progressives [mostly those who don't know what a quarterback does on the 'football field'] creamed in their Brunello Cucinelli Slim-Fit Tapered Logo-Embroidered Distressed Jeans.

Beside their abysmal season, wokeness also played a part in the team's anemic attempt to get asses into the seats. 

Justine Lindsay, hair by John Fetterman

Seriously, they sold tickets as low as 45 cents. The Bank of America Stadium in North Carolina, offered tickets anywhere from $5 to less than 50 cents, depending on the seats. 

But at least the Panthers made history by being the first NFL team to have a man with gender dysphoria, dressed as a woman cheerleader, on the squad. That takes balls . . . literally.

Last year a man who goes by the name Justine Lindsay, joined the team and was referred to as "the face of possible." Others say he really represents "the face of the delusional," and normal fans have lost interest in supporting a team whose cheerleader needs a jock support for the high kick he does.

We have Veterans Day, Presidents Day, and now Transgender Awareness Day, as if we aren't aware of people dressing up as the opposite sex but in cartoonish fashion quite often. And they gave the LGBTQI1+WAP^~49/8 an entire month to shove their garbage in our faces. Yes, they give away their mental illness for free as long as we pay the price for pretending it's normal.

But then they came for our kids and that was the last straw.

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3 US military personnel injured by Kataib Hezbollah--one critically

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin [they, them, he, haw]

Three U.S. military personnel were injured, in an attack by Iranian-affiliated Kataib Hezbollah terrorists in Iraq on Christmas Day. One of the wounded is in critical condition and may not make it, so let's pray for him.

The attack occurred Christmas Day in what is only the latest attack on our troops in the Middle East by terrorist proxies of Iran.

The White House reported that kamikaze drones were launched by Kataib Hezbollah and other terrorist groups and Erbil Air Base in Iraq was targeted early on Christmas morning. The Commander in Chief, Joseph Robinette Biden was awakened from his Christmas sleep by his urinary urgency and later upon awakening was told of the drone attack.

After Biden was briefed he asked for options in response, because he didn’t know what to do and someone, possibly former President Barack Hussein Obama, told him to strike on facilities used by the terrorists for their drone operations that were used to target Americans.

So by Sunday evening, CENTCOM forces conducted “necessary and proportionate strikes” on three facilities used by the scummy Kataib Hezbolla and affiliated groups.

Proportionate is like when someone who wants to kill you starts by punching you in the shoulder and you know he also has other weapons in which to carry out his intentions. But you respond proportionately by punching him back on his shoulder just as hard. He grabs a gun and shoots you in the same shoulder that he punched you and you respond proportionately by shooting him in the shoulder that you had punched him. Then he shoots you in the face and you die. That’s why a proportional response is stupid. 

When you’re attacked by an enemy who you know hates you and wants you dead, you respond with shock and awe and beat him to where he decides to leave you alone and go out and find another enemy who he can bully, because you aren’t that person. 

The Biden administration is seen as weak and our enemies are constantly testing it.

Anyway, our proportionate “precision strikes” were “intended to disrupt and degrade capabilities of the Iran-aligned militia groups directly responsible” for the attacks that wounded our service members. In other words, we punched them back in the shoulder.

"These strikes are intended to hold accountable those elements directly responsible for attacks on coalition forces in Iraq and Syria and degrade their ability to continue attacks. We will always protect our forces," said General Michael Erik Kurilla, U.S. Central Command Commander.

They are quaking in their Nikes.

But not really because Iran doesn’t care how many Kataib Hezbollah dudes are killed—it’s no skin off their butts.

U.S. so called Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin [pronouns: they, them, he, haw] made a statement: "Today’s attack led to three injuries to U.S. personnel, leaving one service member in critical condition. My prayers are with the brave Americans who were injured.”

Then he got on his knees and began praying, asking all who would read his written statement to do the same, and he asked the god of Woke to please make it all go away.

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