THE MOST OFFENSIVE THING ABOUT THIS IDIOT IS HIS GRAMMAR: ‘Harpy Daniels’ Update – Navy Disavows Endorsement of Social Media by Its Own Drag Queen “Digital Ambassador”.
Is this really the image the Navy wants?
Archive for 2023
May 7, 2023
DOES ANYONE ELSE GET THAT THIS IS AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Fox News Finds Hundreds of Migrants Crossing Into Texas Overnight.
Unlike all the things they do, defending the borders is their constitutional duty.
IF WE COULD MAKE SURE ONLY THE “SANCTUARY CITIES” ARE INVADED: Biden Border Crisis: Illegal Migrants in Chicago Being Housed in Police Stations.
And that we can set up a checkpoint to get out of them, I wouldn’t mind as much.
THEY DON’T LIKE EATING: EU Approves Dutch Government’s Plan to Shutter Farms, ‘Forced Sales’ Not Ruled Out.
HOW ABOUT CLEAN ELECTIONS? YOU F*CK UP, WE VOTE YOU OUT: Hillary Clinton Wants “Enforceable Code Of Ethics” For Supreme Court.
WE ARE BEING INVADED: Mayorkas gives illegal border crossers a stern warning.
ON THE CONTRARY, IN MY CIRCLES, I’VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT IT: Nefarious — The most interestingly subversive anti-woke movie you haven’t seen or heard about.
SPIT OUT THE BLACK PILL: Cosplaying Decay.
Yes, the situation is dire. We’re being invaded. But Americans are okay, and the result is not pre-destined.
May 6, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy your Saturday Night.
IT’S OUR ANTIPERSPIRANT, ISN’T IT? Why Have We Never Detected Aliens? Scientist Proposes a New Explanation.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE for music production.
Related (From Ed):
LIFE IN OUR BANANA REPUBLIC:
When they said hiring more IRS agents was about making "billionaires" pay their fair share, they meant you ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/YDuMBgfhPy
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 6, 2023
RUNAWAY POPULARITY: Drugmaker Norvo Nordisk limits obesity drug Wegovy in U.S. “Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said it will limit distribution of its low-dose versions of the wildly popular weight-loss drug Wegovy, to ensure that people already taking the drug will have enough supply. The medication is one of three drugs from a class known as GLP-1 agonists. These medications have been shown in studies to be effective for weight loss but have faced shortages amid a boom in sales triggered by celebrity endorsements, the company said in a statement Thursday.”
I WOULDN’T WORRY ABOUT IT; IT’S NOT LIKE TEXAS HAS A BIG GUN CULTURE: Ted Cruz challenger said it would’ve been ‘better’ if Second Amendment ‘had not been written.’
(Classical allusion in headline.)
A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER! The Left and Right agree: Boycott Bud.
If so, it won’t work, because the problem here isn’t so much Mulvaney as it is Alissa Heinerscheid and the execs at Bud and A-B. If not for her derogatory comments about Bud Light’s consumer base, the one-off can for Mulvaney may have passed with only a mild and short-lived impact. Other brands have gone farther in choosing trans endorsers; David wrote yesterday about Smirnoff and its massive parent Diageo, for instance, and Nike actually paid Mulvaney to endorse its line of sports bras with a ridiculous video that all but mocked the athleticism and skills of legitimate female athletes. Why didn’t those brands take the same kind of damage, at least thus far?
Because their execs didn’t go out of their way to insult the people who buy their product. This one-minute clip will likely get at least five lectures in the Death of Bud Light Harvard Business case study. In sixty-four seconds, Heinerscheid demolishes her career at A-B as well as any impression that the beermaker knows or cares anything about the people who buy its industrial-level lagers:
This is what happens when corporations take sides in social debates — especially when their executives either don’t know their customer base, don’t like their customer base — or in Heinerscheid’s case, both. The ignorance in this is breathtaking, and on a core level. People buy and drink beer for fun, at least aspirationally (it can’t be for the taste). They’re not buying it to get lectures on “representation,” they’re not buying it for the “equity,” and they’re certainly not drinking it to toast Mulvaney’s “womanhood.”
That’s why all of the marketing campaigns that preceded Heinerscheid worked. That “fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor” appealed to consumers’ desire for fun, and the opportunity for social connections that fun presents. Those ad campaigns got designed by people who not just understood the consumer base for industrial-scale beer but actually kinda liked the people buying it. Or at least liked their money enough to refrain from pushing lectures on “representation” as a rebuke to their “out of touch humor” and their desire for fun over political battles.
Anheuser-Busch (which one wag in Ed Morrissey’s comments section called “Tranheuser-Busch,”) whose parent company AB InBev brews or distributes a whopping 600(!) brands of beer worldwide will weather this storm as a whole, but Heinerscheid has done a fine job as a one woman wrecking crew making her former brand toxic across the aisle.
I WILL SHOW YOU FEAR IN A HANDFUL OF DUST: Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97.
Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday. He was 97.
Minow, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, died Saturday at home, surrounded by loved ones, said his daughter, Nell Minow.
“He wanted to be at home,” she told The Associated Press. “He had a good life.”
Though Minow remained in the FCC post just two years, he left a permanent stamp on the broadcasting industry through government steps to foster satellite communications, the passage of a law mandating UHF reception on TV sets and his outspoken advocacy for quality in television.
Sherwood Schwartz named the SS Minnow in Gilligan’s Island after Minow; and as the above AP obit notes, Minow’s 1961 speech “‘caused a sensation. ‘Vast wasteland’ became a catch phrase. Jimmy Durante opened an NBC special by saying, ‘Da next hour will be dedicated to upliftin’ da quality of television. … At least, Newt, we’re tryin’.’”
(Classical reference in headline.)
SINCE IT’S IN A BENTLEY, I DON’T THINK THE ANSWER MATTERS TO ME: Is This the Most Comfortable Seat in any Car, Ever?
But if I were advertising comfort, I don’t think I’d call it “the Airline Seat.”
READER FAVORITE: BULLIANT Belt for Men 2Pack. #CommissionEarned
THE CURIOUS CASE OF RACIAL SHIFTING (Or, When Being White Isn’t Enough):
The Native American population in the United States has experienced an astonishing 86.5% growth between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Census. Demographers argue that such a rate of increase is impossible to achieve through natural birth rates alone, leading to the conclusion that individuals who previously identified as white are now claiming to be Native American.
This phenomenon, referred to as “racial shifting” or “pretendian,” reflects a growing movement where people are fleeing their white identities rather than facing political or social persecution. In essence, a significant number of white folks have begun identifying as Native Americans over the past few decades largely as a way to abandon their white identity and identify with a marginalized group.
As Elizabeth Price Foley asked here in 2015, “If gender is merely a matter of self-identification, should not race be also? I have always thought that, given the affirmative action-laden higher education admissions process, applicants should self-identify as ‘black’ or ‘Native American’ whenever they so desire. I mean, why not? If they feel black or Native American, should not they be able to claim such an identity, as Rachel Dolezal has done? Doing so would quickly cause affirmative action to collapse of its own ridiculous weight.”
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FLORIDA PASSES BILL INTENDED TO IMPROVE CAMPUS DEBATES AND BAN FLAGRANTLY IDEOLOGICAL HIRING. I think there is good reason to be cautious about such bills. But you know what would stop them in their tracks without any concerns about legislative bigfooting? Campuses could improve debates and stop the flagrantly ideological hiring.