Author name: Alec Johnson

Left-wing extremism, Media

Oh, the Humanity! WaPo Columnist Jen Rubin’s Crackpot History

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Oh, Jennifer.

Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post columnist, has managed the neat trick that a faction of politicians have. Despite spilling almost all of her ink on how terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad Donald Trump is, she’s still referred to as a “conservative.” Of course, it’s perfectly possible to be a conservative who doesn’t like Donald Trump. But when one appears to make a full-time job out of it, it’s fair to ask which side of the bread the butter is really on.

Rubin really put her foot in it on Twitter/X recently, but let’s start with her branding and presentation.

“Dissenting” seems to be a trend among American women this past decade. They’re dissenting in pussy hats against “patriarchy,” they dissent while beatifying the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Ginsberg, they put on Dutch maid costumes and dissent against abortion laws, as depicted here in a scene from the Texas statehouse this week.

This week, Jennifer is dissenting about the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity by lifting the histrionic line from Justice Sotomayor’s minority opinion.

Again, Rubin presents herself as a conservative for reasons unknown, but she’s plumping for the Biden-Harris ticket.

Ah, “our democracy.” The 2024 mating cry of middle-aged female leftists.

In one blast from the past, she got completely destroyed during an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor when she was pressed for evidence of her arguments by O’Reilly, leading to her flipping through pages of notes only to realize she had nothing of substance.

But this contribution on the Biden age issue takes the cake, where she attempts to make a Nazi analogy (how original) that backfired instantly due to people actually understanding history.

One almost feels bad for her (almost). Rubin is trying to mock those voting for Trump by making an analogy to the 1932 elections in Germany. But she has it backward—Germans voted for Hindenburg, not for Hitler, in 1932. She got “Community-noted” on Twitter—that’s when a number of people correct a misstatement. The correction appears along with the original tweet.

The fun is in the reactions.

You just knew someone would do this.

User KH wonders if Jennifer has had a tipple.

Economics

Shark Tank’s “Mr. Wonderful” Says DEI is Deadly for Biz

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Investor and sometime reality TV Star Kevin O’Leary has had it with companies drifting ever-leftward. “Mr. Wonderful,” famous for his appearances on the reality show Shark Tank, spoke to NBC News about the farm-supply chain Tractor Supply’s recent decision to axe all spending on “woke” causes.

The company recently said it would stop cooperating with LGBTQ pressure group Human Rights Campaign, it’s getting rid of all positions having to do with Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and it won’t be spending on any social issues outside of its mission to serve rural Americans.

During an appearance on NBC, O’Leary said Tractor Supply’s recent move was a case study he’s going to add to his teaching practice at Harvard business school. Anheuser-Busch, O’Leary noted, is still “losing market share” over its disastrous partnership with a crossdressing man for a publicity campaign.

He asks students one question: “Who do you serve when you start a business?” O’Leary says the order of priority for any business should be: 1. customers 2. employees 3. investors.  Why would a business focused on rural farm supplies be catering to an urban, leftist agenda?

“I think this company is looking at it saying, are we really responsible for climate change? A social agenda? Gender identity? Are these the things that we should actually be investing in or should we take care of our customers?,” he asked.

It seems like a simple, obvious question, but it also seems like few American corporations have asked it of themselves. According to business researchers at Harvard, American companies spend about $8 billion annually on DEI initiatives that likely have nothing at all to do with their bottom line.

O’Leary had a good time sending up the lecturing tone of the woke hucksters when he jokingly asked if the “hog community” on a farm really cares about the social justice spending done by the farm feed store. You can watch the whole segment below.

“The pendulum is swinging back to normalcy,” O’Leary said. “American is saying enough already, this stuff is too crazy, it doesn’t work, it’s not the core of what a business is about.”

It’s a biased sample, of course, but those who read O’Leary’s Twitter/X feed seem to agree.

Some wish O’Leary had gone even farther.

Does a company’s spending on political or social issues influence your decision about whether to patronize them? Tell us in the comments.

Economics

Tractor Supply Says “No More Woke”

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Conservatives love to use the phrase, “Go woke, go broke,” but too often it’s been more of a wish than a reality.

That may be changing.

For years—since at least 2015—corporations have eagerly adopted every leftist demand for “cultural change.” Environmental and Social Governance (ESG)? Check. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)? Check. Let men who claim to be women use the ladies’ room at the office? Check.

Despite protest from customers, companies have barreled ahead aiming at a spot to the left of Karl Marx. Any patron who didn’t like it was either ignored, or blamed for being insufficiently enthusiastic about the sexualization of children. Disney is famous, for example, for blaming the poor box office receipts for its offerings on “sexist” and bigoted audience members.

But in 2024, “go woke, go broke” is starting get closer to reality. Anheuser-Busch destroyed the Bud Light brand overnight when a former executive decided to team up with a crossdressing gay man to “celebrate” “diversity.” The company lost $27 billion in market value.

It looks like rural farm-supply chain Tractor Supply knows which way the wind is blowing and wants to stay out of the storm. Filmmaker Robbie Starbuck has been after the company for weeks for its spending on woke causes such as anything labeled “LGBTQ+”.

Tractor Supply’s customers were none too pleased to know their dollars were going to organizations that wanted to teach schoolchildren about “alternative” sexualities.

In a surprisingly frank turn-around, Tractor Supply just announced it’s dropping Woke. All of it. You can read the whole statement here.

The highlights? Tractor Supply won’t be cooperating with the LGBTQ pressure group Human Rights Campaign any longer, they won’t be sponsoring any pride festivals, and they’re not going to be spending on any more “non-business activities” unless those focus on farming, agriculture, animals, and veterans’ issues.

Reaction on social media has been overwhelmingly positive. Antiwoke muckraking account LibsofTikTok showed right up:

People appreciate the honest and candid approach the company took.

They’ve won back some customers who walked away, too.

But there’s always one or two die-hard activists making a sour face.

What do you think of Tractor Supply’s decision? Tell us in the comments.

Big Cities

San Francisco Punishes Small Business for Having the Nerve to Be Crime Victims

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Blue state governments hate you more than you know if you’re a taxpaying, revenue-generating citizen or small business. No, it doesn’t make any sense that governments would work to make everything harder for the very people who fund their overreach, but they do.

British business professor Stafford Beer coined the phrase, “the purpose of a system is what it does.” It explains why systems like governments, bureaucracies, and policies so often produce outcomes that have nothing to do with their stated purpose.

Beer’s formula is perfectly illustrated by the San Francisco code department’s persecutory actions against small businesses. Everyone knows the city by the bay has turned into a city-sized outdoor bathroom and 21st century opium den. Crazed drug addicts, the homeless with their tents, and thieving criminals have made the streets unwalkable and the city unlivable.

They’ve also made it almost impossible to run a business. But the city itself is the biggest villain. When the eyecare practice Pacific Vision Foundation discovered they were losing business because patrons could not get past the homeless tents on the front sidewalk, PVF found a solution. They installed beautiful flower planters on the sidewalk. It worked; the tents went away. But then the city’s department of public works, the same city that refuses to clear out the vagrants, sent PVF a code violation citation for not getting a planter permit.

The city continues to punish small businesses for the actions of criminals. Check out this news clip about a corner store that’s thinking of closing shop. After criminals busted their glass doors, the city came down on the store for the code violation of not fixing the damage fast enough.

California used to be the golden land of dreams and opportunities, but those days are gone and people are noticing. Here’s some online reaction.

“Anarcho-tyranny” is a great way to describe how states like California are run.

We like the way Aphealia thinks.

Suppose you have to laugh!

Big Cities

“Seattle Is Lost”: Cameraman Encounters Prostitutes and Drug Overdoses

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At one point in the video below, the man filming says, “Seattle is lost.”

The same could be said for so many major American cities. Once bustling and beautiful, Democrat-run cities have declined into open-air prostitution markets, drug dens, and places to lie down and die for the addicted and destitute.

This short video from Johnathan Choe at the Discovery Institute starts out looking like it will be funny.

And to be fair, the beginning does give a chuckle. The nearly naked woman in the beginning could be metaphor for the modern American mind. She asks the videographer, “What you recording for?”, as if it were the most natural thing in the world to dress as a budget-grade working girl in broad daylight in front of the self-serve coffee bar at a mini-mart.

Because it is normal, now, isn’t it, in too much of America? In just 10 to 15 years behavior that would have had someone arrested for public indecency or lewdness is not only tolerated, but defended and “celebrated.” Employers are telling survey-takers that young people, recent college graduates, are the hires they most regret. Companies say Gen Z graduates can’t manage the basics like making eye contact or dressing appropriately for work. It is no surprise that the woman depicted in the video believes her “professional” attire is suitable for a public store with children present.

But when we go outside with the camera, the picture gets darker. A woman standing in the parking lot appears to be bent over awkwardly in a way that indicates hard-drug use. Behind the chain link fence next door a man is kneeling with his head on the ground while the camera man asks if he’s all right, and if he needs help. It’s sadly pointless; he’s completely incoherent and does not appear to know who he is or where he is.

Senator John Thune pointed out three years ago that a big part of the problem is the Black Lives Matter-inspired “defund the police” movement. “American communities are less safe today than they were a year ago. Crime rates have surged since ‘defund the police’ became a rallying cry,” he wrote.

In the intervening years, little seems to have improved. Drug overdose deaths have quadrupled between 2002 and 2022. This writer can confirm that the New England city where he lives—often depicted in tourist post cards—now has no-go zones filled with drug users, prostitutes, hypodermic needles, and human feces on the ground in areas that used to be middle-class neighborhoods.

The left insists that it has a bigger heart and cares more for the downtrodden than anyone. If that is true, why are so many people literally dying in the streets?

Left-wing extremism, LGBTQ+, Media

Children’s Television: Unsafe At Any Age

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Things we never dreamed could even be imagined as satire are now part of “normal” in 21st century Western culture. We are to affirm that we believe men can be women. We are supposed to see the chemical and physical mutilation of children as “care.”

These are the most extreme expressions of our out-of-control narcissistic culture, but how did we get here? Slowly, drip by drip, so slowly that we barely noticed it as each step was taken.

Many of us remember watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood when they were new shows in the 70s. The brands became synonymous with the concept of wholesome, child-focused entertainment. And then came woke. Sesame Street introduced its first “non-binary” character (so-called “non-binary” people claim they are neither men nor women) and got glowing coverage for its efforts to confuse children.

Children’s show Blues Clues jumped on the woke train too, introducing the highly sexual ideas of “LGBTQ” to toddlers with a cartoon drag queen urging the kids to go march in parades.

It is no surprise, then, that children’s channel Nickelodeon is no longer safe for under 18s to watch – watch below to see it for yourself.

It’s now normal for a grossly obese man to put on Disney villainess makeup and croon to preschoolers about having “pride” about what “you are on the inside.” It shouldn’t be normal, but it is. And it’s no good saying, “Hey, I don’t think it’s normal!” Enough of society believes that blatant sexualized grooming of children on trusted children’s television is normal that that’s what we have every day.

Thankfully, a number of X/Twitter users don’t think it’s OK.

Paul asks a good question about the children’s network that has long been tainted by scandal.

Juanita shouldn’t have to say this, but thank goodness she did.

Adam reminds us that the worst thing that used to happen to kids on Nickelodeon was a bucket of green slime over the head on game shows.

Redwave Press thinks it’s about time Nickelodeon got the same comeuppance that Disney (another child grooming outlet) is starting to experience.

May Leisha’s prediction come true sooner rather than later.

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ “Leader” Busted for Allegedly Trying to Meet 14-Year-Old

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We try for a lighthearted tone on Wokespy, but some of the things we cover just aren’t funny, and this is one of them. If you don’t know journalist Andy Ngo, we recommend you follow his work. Formerly based in Portland where he covered the destruction and violence of Antifa, Ngo had to flee the U.S. for Britain after he was nearly killed—he’s been assaulted multiple times, once leading to a brain injury. The Portland police cannot or will not protect him.

He’s brave, though, and he brings news the mainstream doesn’t want you to see, like this story of an “LGBTQ” leader caught trying to hook up with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy. Michael Knaapen led the LGBTQ Diversity Council under the auspices of the Maryland Democratic Party, that is until this news came out.


Be warned—the language in the video, which was filmed by Alex Rosen, who produces content exposing child predators, describes graphic and disturbing sexual content, with themes of violence. Details are not yet fully available, but it appears that the two men depicted in this video posed online as a teen boy in order to lure pedophiles into revealing themselves. According to what we can see, it appears Knaapen was talking to who he thought was a teen boy, and then agreed to meet “him” in the real world.

Take a watch:

It always seems to surprise people when they find that those who advertise themselves as caregivers, or as activists for a cause, turn out to be predatory. But it shouldn’t. Where else would predators go but the places and positions that give them an air of respectability, and ready access to their targets?

Knaapen described himself online as an advocate for patients and the disabled.

Wolves in sheep’s clothing have been popping up all over the LGBTQ world. There’s been a rash of stories recently about schools and libraries naively mounting “drag queen story hour” presentations without adequately vetting the presenters. Then surprise, surprise, the “queens” turn out to be sex offenders. The Houston Public Library admitted to hosting “Tatiana Mala Nina” (mala nina means “bad girl”), a convicted pedophile.

The public is getting fed up with it, judging from the reaction on Twitter/X.

They’re also noticing how it’s so often leftists and Democrats caught up in this sexual improprieties.

Patrick wonders if anyone with the Maryland Democrats will care.

We hope “Winters” isn’t right, but we suspect he is.

What do you think? Will this constant stream of exposed perversion and child predation ever catch up with the left?

Congress

O’Keefe Media Group: Biden State Department Admits the “Great Replacement” Is Real

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Americans have been told by our “betters” in government and media that it’s paranoid to talk about “the Great Replacement.” They call it a “conspiracy theory” in order to make normal, rational questions about our government’s open borders immigration policy sound like the ravings of insane people.

CNN’s Don Lemon is a good example. In this exchange with billionaire inventor Elon Musk, Lemon feigns ignorance (maybe he’s not pretending) of how allowing millions of illegal aliens to pour in will get Democrats more votes. Since illegal immigrants can’t vote (technically), he asks how it’s “possible” that they’ll get more votes for the blue side, ignoring the obvious countless pushes from amnesty by Democrats.

Musk explained that the Census, taken every 10 years, counts every person, not just legal citizens. Many of these aliens end up clustering around Democrat-run area. When Congressional districts are redrawn to account for the increase in population, the Democrats will disproportionately get bigger districts and more voters.

Now Project Veritas has released new undercover video with staffers at the State Department. Take a listen and see if you still think the Great Replacement is just a “conspiracy theory.”

Veritas has an officer of the U.S. Consulate on camera saying, “Latin Americans are all leftists. This is just to try and change the demographics of the United States.”

Still a conspiracy theory?

That same Consular officer told the Project Veritas investigator, “I wish people knew we’re letting in criminals daily.” He continued, saying that ordinary hardworking Mexicans stay in their country, but the criminal element, the “garbage,” waltzes right over the border. The Mexican government has no incentive to stop this outward migration because they don’t want this quality of people there any more than the U.S. does.

People on Twitter/X are not surprised.

“BlindFaithBook” sees a connection between U.S. policy and the UK. It seems that the left everywhere has in common a hatred of their own citizens and a preference for outsiders.

“Redacted” puts his/her finger on how this policy is reflected in popular culture:

If an alien from outer space tried to learn about the U.S. from TV commercials, they would conclude that most Americans are black, mixed-race, or Latino, and that every family had a bi-racial couple and mixed children. They would conclude that caucasians are a small minority.

“Balam” isn’t very hopeful:

As others have noted, Democrats themselves have openly promoted the “Great Replacement” theory themselves for years.

After the 2012 election Reuters ran an article headlined “Obama win shows demographic shifts working against Republicans.”

In 2020, Politico ran an article opening with the line “For years, the Democratic Party has operated under one immutable assumption: Long-term demographic trends would give the party something like a permanent majority as the country as a whole grows less white and more urban.”

Elsewhere, former Democrat San Antonio Mayor and Obama Cabinet member Julian Castro commented that “in a couple of presidential cycles, you’ll be on Election Night, you’ll be announcing that we’re calling the 38 electoral votes of Texas for the Democratic nominee for president. It’s changing. It’s going to become a purple state and then a blue state because of the demographics, because of the population growth of folks from outside of Texas.”

What about you readers? Are you surprised or not? What do you think the future holds for immigration in America?

Celebrities, LGBTQ+, Media

Yes, LGBT(Whatever) is Coming For Your Children

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Yes, they are coming for your children.

Thanks to LibsofTikTok for unearthing the above video – see if you can make sense of what’s going on in this video. Apparently, it’s a man dressing up as a woman who dresses up as a kid to sing “songs for littles” to children—while indoctrinating them with lunatic ideas about how they can choose to be a boy or a girl.

Let’s see if we can sort this out. The man pictured below recorded a one-minute video pretending to be a popular children’s Youtuber known as “Miss Rachel.” Miss Rachel, an actual woman, runs a wildly successful Youtube channel called “Songs for Littles.” But what looks wholesome on the surface has darkness underneath; Miss Rachel’s on-show sidekick “Jules”—also an actual woman—pretends to be “non-binary.” As with most such women, we think Jules looks like a typical young lesbian, but apparently she’s neither man nor woman, so who can say?

To the anger of many parents, Miss Rachel has been shilling gender ideology on her show for kids. The performer uses “they/them” pronouns on the show to refer to her co-cast member, who can often be seen wearing clothes featuring the “trans colors” (have you ever wondered why those colors are baby pink and baby blue?). Speaking in a high-pitched voice reminiscent of a manic kindergarten teacher, Miss Rachel sings songs to children accompanied by her very-much-not-a-lesbian-and-definitely-not-a-boy-or-a-girl friend Jules.

Back to the new video. This obvious man donned his best Miss Rachel costume and talks to the children presumably watching him about something “super important—what it means to be transgender.” With his deep male voice, he instructs the audience that children can be a boy, or a girl, or “a little bit of both.”

Everyday Americans are finally waking up to the Trojan Horse that is transgenderism, and they have no intention of letting their children be led into madness and sex changes by modern day crossdressing pied pipers. And thanks to Elon Musk’s free speech policy on X/Twitter, they can say so without fear of being banned and called bigots.

User Glenda points out something most of us know:

We’re with user Duncan on this one. What possesses parents to allow their kids to take in this media brainwashing?

Go back up and listen to the video, and you’ll probably agree with Steve Baker. That voice and cadence from Mister Miss Rachel gives us the creeping willies.



This comment hits the bullseye. The most astonishing and disturbing part of the trans onslaught is how many American adults suddenly stopped being able to detect the most obvious perverted and predatory interest.

When did you notice that Americans lost the ability to see obvious child predators? Tell us about it in the comments!

Congress, Economics

A Cool $5 Million-Does Pelosi Know Something We Don’t?

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It’s not hard to see why some politicians are calling for a ban on lawmakers trading stocks. The problems of senators and House reps getting filthy rich and generating conflicts of interest have been with us for a long time. But the loot amassed by former California Democrat and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is raising eyebrows afresh.

According to the widely followed X account “Unusual Whales,” which tracks suspicious trades, Pelosi has made $5 million recently from her stock in the company Nvidia, which is now the most valuable company in the world (albeit with a much higher price to earnings ratio than second and third place, Microsoft and Apple). The company is best-known for its computer graphics cards powering popular high resolution video games, but like all such companies, it’s branching out into Artificial Intelligence (AI).

For reference, this is 20 times her annual salary.

An earlier story from a few weeks ago reported that Pelosi’s husband Paul made stock moves with Nvidia that netted the couple almost $4 million at that point.

What are the odds that their percent returns exceed that of investment legends like Warren Buffet?

It will probably be difficult or impossible to round up enough lawmakers to get a ban on congressional stock trading; too many people are feeding at that trough. Past legislation that claimed to ban the practice have done anything but. Politicians have always sought to enrich themselves above the “plebs” they pretend to serve, but the extremity of Pelosi’s wealth generation has really gotten under the skin of ordinary Americans.

Politicians are able to insulate themselves from much contact with real people, but the feelings of ordinary citizens flow freely on Elon Musk’s X.

Bruce is not alone. Like many others,  “FrankChronicles” believes Pelosi is engaged in insider trading. These are just suspicions and allegations, but they’re widely shared.

Then again, so is skepticism about accusations of insider trading:

But on the other-other hand, Pelosi’s return on investment has some people questioning how it is that a congresswoman seems to be outperforming top investment advisors.

We’re unlikely to find out for sure whether Pelosi or any other politician is getting inside tips because the system is set up to protect corruption for the powerful – but it’s safe to assume that’s exactly what’s happening.

Are you a casual or professional investor? What’s your take on Pelosi’s Nvidia windfall? Let us know in the comments.


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