Mollie is cute, shapiro is still a paid dork
Trump won the debate and wasn’t there, how does that happen?
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1661543112496365570?s=20
24 May, 2023 18:46
US senator condemns Target over partnership with ‘satanist’
Republican Tom Cotton has accused the retailer of promoting a transgender agenda to children
US retailer Target is facing public backlash, including criticism from Senator Tom Cotton, over an LGBTQ+ merchandising campaign that allegedly targets children and features a “satanist” brand.
“Even by the standards of woke corporations, Target’s partnership with a satanist to push the trans agenda on children is remarkable,” the Republican Arkansas senator said on Tuesday in a Twitter post. “The next time Target comes begging for help, Republicans should respond, ‘Best of luck.’”
The Minneapolis-based retailer has removed some of its most controversial ‘Pride Month’merchandise, citing “confrontational behavior”that allegedly put its employees at risk of harm. Target claimed that customers knocked down Pride displays at some stores and posted threatening videos on social media.
“Since introducing this year's collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work,” the company said on Wednesday in a statement. “Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.Our focus now is on moving forward with our continuing commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community and standing with them as we celebrate Pride Month and throughout the year.”
Target held an emergency meeting on Friday to deal with the backlash, reportedly to address safety concerns and avoid a devastating boycott like the one targeting Bud Light beer over a promotion featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. The company ordered some managers to move Pride merchandise away from the front of their stores and remove large signage.
An unidentified Target “insider” told Fox Newsthat the items were moved to the back of the store and given two-thirds less space.“I think given the current situation with Bud Light, the company is terrified of a Bud Light situation,”the longtime employee said.
Cotton’s rebuke was made in reference to =Target’s partnership with UK apparel brand Abprallen, which features such slogans as “Satan respects pronouns” and “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” Some of its designs feature Baphomet, a goat-headed idol worshiped by satanists.==
Abprallen founder Erik-James Carnell, who reportedly identifies as a transgender gay man, said last week in a Facebook post that his deal to design several items for Target’s Pride collection was “incredibly exciting.” He added, “I’m especially happy that young, closeted people will see it, and I hope that in some way, they’ll feel a bit more comfortable in themselves.”
None of the Abprallen items sold at Target were specifically geared toward children. The collection included a “Too Queer for Here” tote bag and a sweatshirt captioned, “Cure transphobia, not trans people.” As of Wednesday afternoon, none of the items were available on Target’s website.
Some of Target’s Pride Month collection is geared toward children, ranging from a baby romper to a rainbow tutu skirt. Critics accused the retailer of selling “tuck-friendly” swimming suits for children, but the company said those items were only available in adult sizes.
Shares of Target have dropped about 8% this week in New York Stock Exchange trading, wiping out over $5 billion in market value
https://www.rt.com/news/576854-target-faces-pride-month-backlash/
25 May, 2023 00:36
Crimea referendum result was ‘legitimate’ – Le Pen
Leader of France’s National Rally stood by the position that got her blacklisted by Ukraine
The 2014 referendum accurately reflected the will of the people living in Crimea to join Russia, Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday, addressing an inquiry before the French National Assembly.
“I fully support the referendum,” Le Pen toldthe lawmakers.“I think that Crimea's residents expressed their will freely by a vote, in order to reunite with Russia. I think that it was absolutely legitimate.”
Le Pen explained that her position on the peninsula has consistently remained that it was Russian long before it was “given away”to Ukraine “at the whim of a dictator” for sixty years, in reference to the decision of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to redraw internal borders in 1954.The Russian Empire had acquired Crimea from the Ottomans in the 18th century.
She also pointed out that there were no refugees from Crimea after the referendum, that Crimean residents themselves freely told her their preference when she visited, and that the West never offered to organize another plebiscite to verify the result of the one they challenged.
Crimeans organized a referendum in March 2014, shortly after a US-backed coup installed a government of Ukrainian nationalist in Kiev. The result showed overwhelming support for rejoining Russia, which Moscow accepted. Meanwhile, the Kiev government violently crushed dissent in Odessa and Kharkov regions, and sent troops against Donetsk and Lugansk.
The National Rally leader appeared before a parliamentary commission investigating “Russian influence” in France, to address accusations that her party took two loans from a Russian bank.Le Pen explained that she turned to Russian banks because no French or EU banks wanted to work with her party, and that the purely business arrangement did not make her an agent of Moscow.
President Emmanuel Macron brought up the loans to attack Le Pen during the 2022 re-election campaign. She lost the runoff by a 17-point margin, butlast month’s polls showed her 10 points ahead of Macron in a hypothetical rematch.
Le Pen’s insistence that the Crimean return to Russia was not an “illegal annexation,”expressed in January 2017 to France’s BFMTV and in February to CNN, earned her a ban on entering Ukraine by the government in Kiev.
The current government has vowed to ban the Russian language and expel anyone suspected of “collaboration” with Moscow once it seizes Crimea, which Kiev has announced as one of its war aims.
“As soon as we enter, we must eradicate everything Russian in Crimea,” Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, told the US government-controlled RFE/RL last month.
(This is the problem with Ukraine, they don’t have free will, more sectors will vote to accede from Ukraine. They’ll be left with a small Nazi state)
https://www.rt.com/news/576863-crimea-referendum-legitimate-le-pen/
Oh man, the one video will tank him, a 1000x worse than Tucker’s strange laugh
Rich said if a candidate is consistently over 50% he’s already won. Trump has been over 50% for close to 4 weeks. There ain’t nothing that DS can say or do that will change the support for Trump. DS should have got in earlier than pretending.
Doesnt has to be in notables, but funny as hell, and I can see this happening. Kek
https://realrawnews.com/2023/05/desantis-tries-to-bribe-white-hats-for-endorsements/
Can anyone imagine Xi meeting with DeSanctass?
We have their backs, John Rich is the go between it seems
Kek, I guess I’m a nobody, no one assigned to me. Unless it that guard at my building that gives me a hug every once in a while. Hmmm? I might be too trusting.