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Ed McMahon and Publishers Clearing House
However, there is a recent revelation that has been making the rounds, and it has absolutely thrown me off my game: Ed McMahon was never affiliated with Publishers Clearing House, much less going around and handing out their million-dollar checks to people.
Via Snopes:
Many of you, like me, are undoubtedly now questioning reality itself. And you are right to. You are now living in a reality where the Golden Girls lied to you.
Snopes did the digging and has come to the conclusion that, once again, this is all a mass hysteria event. Ed McMahon has never even been affiliated with Publishers Clearing House. Instead, he was a spokesperson for, and had his face on the envelopes of, American Family Publishers and their clearing house sweepstakes.
However, I have a more compelling theory: Ed McMahon was affiliated with Publishers Clearing House and the so-called “Mandela Effect” is actually a CIA operation meant to test their ability to confuse and gaslight an entire nation. And it’s working. I don’t know what to believe anymore. I am confused and scared and I just want to go home now.
Barbie Goes Transgender
On NBC’s TODAY show Wednesday, the morning staple welcomed Laverne Cox, transgender star of Orange is the New Black.
Cox was all dolled up, which might not have been coincidental. Today.com delivers the news:
TODAY Parents got in on the action:
The Plot to Out Ronald Reagan
It was 3:15 on the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the congressional gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team of highly trained right-wing homosexual assassins working on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him.
To the extent that the Louisiana Republican is remembered today, it’s for the brief but sensational role he played in America’s most infamous political sex scandal. On the same day in December 1998 that Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about his affair with a White House intern, Livingston, then the House speaker-designate, shocked the nation with his own admission of adultery. Preempting a journalistic exposé that had dredged up evidence of his past relationships with women not his wife, he not only refused the speakership but announced his resignation from Congress altogether.
It was 3:15 on the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the congressional gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team of highly trained right-wing homosexual assassins working on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him.
To the extent that the Louisiana Republican is remembered today, it’s for the brief but sensational role he played in America’s most infamous political sex scandal. On the same day in December 1998 that Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about his affair with a White House intern, Livingston, then the House speaker-designate, shocked the nation with his own admission of adultery. Preempting a journalistic exposé that had dredged up evidence of his past relationships with women not his wife, he not only refused the speakership but announced his resignation from Congress altogether.
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Plots are everywhere, happen all the time, many to full execution and completion. We just don't hear about them in a way to think that a plot was involved. Those are the successful ones. You know, along the lines of good "conspiracy theories" that take decades to be proven true?
Queer-owned business shut down by employees for not being woke enough
Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt. The cafe was owned by Kate Egghart and Sonam Parikh, two queer activists who started Mina’s in an effort to create an inclusive coffee shop. However, their employees have claimed Egghart and Parikh are anti-black and “gentrifiers.” Gentrifier is a woke term used to describe those who purposely contribute to the displacement of low-income families. Mina’s World was located just around the corner from Malcolm X Park in Philadelphia and employed mostly minority workers.
Ironically— prior to the allegations from employees—Parikh spoke to Bon Appetit about the opening of Mina’s World and said when she worked at different coffee shops, “white ownership neglected to protect their Black and trans employees. I knew there needed to be a space where you could have an amazingly made cup of coffee that’s not whitewashed.”
Fast forward two years and employees of Mina’s World have put out a public statement where they claimed they were suffering from a plethora of “systemic” woes as a result of the alleged gentrification including “employer opposition” and “anti-blackness.”
Employees expanded on these woes in their public “List of Grievances" which is basically a bunch of empty buzzwords to generate outrage and included no substantial evidence to back up their claims.
As if it couldn’t get any worse, the employees also demanded that the owners “redistribute the business” to them.
Egghart and Parikh responded to their employees’ demands in a hostage-style video in which they repeatedly apologized for being gentrifiers. Egghart spoke next to Parikh saying, “We’re going live as part of a radical accountability process. We’re complicit in the gentrification and anti-blackness on 52nd Street. We put our community at risk with our presence as well as our workers.”
The two owners agreed to attempt to hand over ownership of Mina’s saying, “With the guidance of the workers and Black and Brown Workers Collective, we’re trying to raise funds to buy the business and turn it over to our staff.”
The hostile takeover quickly backfired on the woke employees as the owner of the building where Mina’s World is housed listed the property for sale.
Despite the owners of Mina’s World being radically progressive, with Philly Eats even calling the cafe a “queer haven,” Egghart and Parikh were still cannibalized by the woke mob and Mina’s World has officially closed its doors for good this week.
Egghart and Parikh’s surrender to the outrage shows a point proven again and again— no matter how many times you bend the knee to the mob, you will never be able to adhere to their insatiable standards for progressive enlightenment. No matter how much of an “ally” you are, you will never be safe from becoming just another trophy head on the wall of wokeism.
“Catherine II is a controversial historical figure whose actions caused great damage to Ukrainian statehood and culture,” the petition states. “The very fact of erecting this monument was a terrible mistake, and every day of its continued existence signals that Odesa is in the zone of Russian cultural influence. It’s time to change that.” The petition argues that the statue should be taken down as a renunciation of “infamous” Russian heritage and a “loud statement that Odessa is not some provincial town of the Russian Empire.” Furthermore, it states, the statue should be replaced as a “clear signal that Ukraine supports the LGBT community.”
The petition adds further that erecting the statue of the porn actor would be “fun and funny,” and says that “all students of Odesa universities will be able to drink beer with Billy Herrington after receiving their diploma.” The petition also claims that “the figure of Billy Herrington has a great cultural influence on the Internet and the appearance of such a monument will become a very popular tourist attraction.” The statue would be ripe for “memes,” the petition concludes.
The Ukrainian constitution protects the right of citizens to petition the local and national government. Article 40 of the Constitution states:
The petition adds further that erecting the statue of the porn actor would be “fun and funny,” and says that “all students of Odesa universities will be able to drink beer with Billy Herrington after receiving their diploma.” The petition also claims that “the figure of Billy Herrington has a great cultural influence on the Internet and the appearance of such a monument will become a very popular tourist attraction.” The statue would be ripe for “memes,” the petition concludes.
The Ukrainian constitution protects the right of citizens to petition the local and national government. Article 40 of the Constitution states:
What exactly is going on here and why is the left so upset? A recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal perfectly diagnosed what’s afflicting progressives:
In other words, Ocasio-Cortez isn’t upset with the court’s stance on the legal doctrine of stare decisis or even its interpretation of substantive due process. Given her public statements, it’s doubtful she’s even read Dobbs. What she’s upset about — what so many like her are upset about — is the idea of living with an outcome she dislikes.
This remarkably dishonest NBC opinion article, titled “The Supreme Court’s originalism is white supremacy,” attempts to justify the left’s outrage at the high court by claiming “originalist judges express a belief that we should interpret the U.S. Constitution according to the legal opinions of 18th century white men.”
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But Dobbs isn’t the only decision progressives seem incapable of parsing. In the aftermath of the court ruling that Maine cannot exclude private religious schools from receiving funds from a state tuition assistance program, leftist Wajahat Ali thoroughly beclowned himself by claiming the 6-3 ruling was part of a “white Christian nationalist project” and that it wouldn’t apply to private Islamic or Jewish schools.
In fact — as National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke so delightfully pointed out — both the Council of Islamic Schools in North America and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners.
Ali clearly didn’t bother to read the opinion, but the court held: “A neutral benefit program in which public funds flow to religious organizations through the independent choices of private benefit recipients does not offend the Establishment Clause.” This most certainly applies to Islamic and Jewish schools too. Claiming otherwise is nothing short of an outright lie meant to sow racial division and delegitimize the high court.
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In other words, Ocasio-Cortez isn’t upset with the court’s stance on the legal doctrine of stare decisis or even its interpretation of substantive due process. Given her public statements, it’s doubtful she’s even read Dobbs. What she’s upset about — what so many like her are upset about — is the idea of living with an outcome she dislikes.
This remarkably dishonest NBC opinion article, titled “The Supreme Court’s originalism is white supremacy,” attempts to justify the left’s outrage at the high court by claiming “originalist judges express a belief that we should interpret the U.S. Constitution according to the legal opinions of 18th century white men.”
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But Dobbs isn’t the only decision progressives seem incapable of parsing. In the aftermath of the court ruling that Maine cannot exclude private religious schools from receiving funds from a state tuition assistance program, leftist Wajahat Ali thoroughly beclowned himself by claiming the 6-3 ruling was part of a “white Christian nationalist project” and that it wouldn’t apply to private Islamic or Jewish schools.
In fact — as National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke so delightfully pointed out — both the Council of Islamic Schools in North America and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners.
Ali clearly didn’t bother to read the opinion, but the court held: “A neutral benefit program in which public funds flow to religious organizations through the independent choices of private benefit recipients does not offend the Establishment Clause.” This most certainly applies to Islamic and Jewish schools too. Claiming otherwise is nothing short of an outright lie meant to sow racial division and delegitimize the high court.
The Left Launches Unhinged Attacks On SCOTUS Because They're Losing
Democrats' calls for defiance and mob violence against the Supreme Court are not based on legal arguments but outcomes they dislike.
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Canada’s ‘expert’ panel recommends the mentally ill be candidates for euthanasia
Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law is already the most permissive euthanasia and assisted-suicide legislation in the world.
Understandably controversial in itself, there are many horror stories surrounding its implementation. For example, as lifesitenews.com recently reported,
Oops. Sorry.
First, do no harm? Respect for life? Canadian nice?
Nonetheless, the Great White North’s federal “expert” panel on MAiD has recommended mental illness be added to the list of maladies making one eligible for MAiD……apparently without any legislative changes. How nice, euthanasia by administrative fiat. What could go wrong?
To some degree, mental illness is in the eye of the beholder. It can be quite subjective and has historically been used as a tool to advance totalitarian political agendas. Hence, the gulags and “re-education camps.” Don’t believe in global warming? Are you an anti-vaxxer? Trump supporter?! Didn’t vote for
Well California could cure the homeless problem if they were all euthanized
'Non-woke' comic book a hit with readers, rakes in $2 million: 'This is what they were always afraid of'
New comic book publisher Rippaverse is bringing non-woke audiences the superhero entertainment they have craved in the cancel culture age, inviting a new fleet of heroes to the entertainment realm without the "woke" makeovers recently witnessed from Marvel and DC Comics.
Rippaverse founder Eric July and comic book artist Gabe Abdul Eltaeb joined "Fox & Friends" Thursday, offering insight into their mission and how their first issue, ISOM #1, brought in more than $2 million in presales.
"What I wanted to do was be a part of the solution instead of griping about the problem, so I had the idea, it made sense financially, and it was the perfect time to do it," July told host Brian Kilmeade.
Last week, my 14-year-old son launched a video game that forces players to discriminate based on skin color, use exact pronouns, and profess that America was founded on hatred and racism in order to keep their jobs.
I’ve never been prouder.
This is the hard truth: America’s workplaces are so corrupted by CRT, gender theory, and feminist ideologies that even my 14-year-old can riff on the absurdity of working in them.
His game, called Pronoun Landmine (which you can play here) opens with a silly-sounding backstory:
“Once, there was a happy family. Each night, the father would come home from work and tell his children, ‘Daddy makes a lot of money, but remember: any day now, Daddy could step on a Pronoun Landmine, and that will be that.’”
Silly as it is, the backstory is true. My family and I had that conversation countless times, and families across America are having similar conversations on a regular basis.
Earlier this year, I quit my job at GE Healthcare to work for a pro-freedom job board called RedBalloon.work. Prior to my exit, my experiences at GE Healthcare were so on-the-nose they would have caused an 80’s-era SNL writer to be fired for stereotyping: co-workers suggesting accountability measures for anyone using the word “guys”; 20 minutes of an all-division meeting spent on a Cuban immigrant’s coming out story; a mandatory DEI meeting chat-pocalypse over the Diversity deck’s opening slide (it wasn’t age-diverse enough, brown enough, or queer enough — never mind that the deck would only ever be seen by the employees discussing it).
Other situations were more serious: The president and CEO of GE Healthcare US broadcasted that the Jacob Blake shooting exemplified “long-standing systemic racism and injustice that plagues our country” to tens of thousands of employees before any investigation had been conducted or any evidence weighed.
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I’ve never been prouder.
This is the hard truth: America’s workplaces are so corrupted by CRT, gender theory, and feminist ideologies that even my 14-year-old can riff on the absurdity of working in them.
His game, called Pronoun Landmine (which you can play here) opens with a silly-sounding backstory:
“Once, there was a happy family. Each night, the father would come home from work and tell his children, ‘Daddy makes a lot of money, but remember: any day now, Daddy could step on a Pronoun Landmine, and that will be that.’”
Silly as it is, the backstory is true. My family and I had that conversation countless times, and families across America are having similar conversations on a regular basis.
Earlier this year, I quit my job at GE Healthcare to work for a pro-freedom job board called RedBalloon.work. Prior to my exit, my experiences at GE Healthcare were so on-the-nose they would have caused an 80’s-era SNL writer to be fired for stereotyping: co-workers suggesting accountability measures for anyone using the word “guys”; 20 minutes of an all-division meeting spent on a Cuban immigrant’s coming out story; a mandatory DEI meeting chat-pocalypse over the Diversity deck’s opening slide (it wasn’t age-diverse enough, brown enough, or queer enough — never mind that the deck would only ever be seen by the employees discussing it).
Other situations were more serious: The president and CEO of GE Healthcare US broadcasted that the Jacob Blake shooting exemplified “long-standing systemic racism and injustice that plagues our country” to tens of thousands of employees before any investigation had been conducted or any evidence weighed.
Game over for corrupt corporate workplaces
Workplaces are so corrupted by gender theory, and feminist ideologies that even my 14-year-old can riff on the absurdity of working in them.
Baltimore family files a $25 million federal civil rights lawsuit against Sesame Place claiming racial discrimination
Recently I wrote about a Black mom who took her young daughters to Sesame Place in Philadelphia to celebrate the fourth birthday of one of the girls. During a parade of characters, the character Rosita appeared to snub the two little girls when they reached out to her. The White kids standing next to them received high fives from Rosita. The story quickly went viral, aided in no small part by the mother who is a digital strategist. Her initial post on Instagram received millions of views. The mother got an attorney and is looking at suing the theme park. That incident happened on July 17. Since then other lawyers and public figures have weighed in and the story has grown to include other Black families who now claim to have been racially discriminated against.
On Wednesday, Quinton Burns from Baltimore filed a $25 million federal civil rights lawsuit. His complaint goes back to June 18. He hopes to make it a class-action lawsuit.
If the name Tamika Mallory sounds familiar it is because she was one of the organizers of the 2017 Women’s March and she is a Black Lives Matter activist.
Mr. Burns also has video of the slight shown to this daughter and it was played yesterday during a press conference conducted by his lawyer. The lawsuit says since the Burns family and others paid admission, they entered into a contract with SeaWorld. They say they are entitled to all of the entertainment offered at Sesame Place, including the Meet and Greets with the costumed characters, including the four listed in the lawsuit – Elmo, Ernie, Telly Monster, and Abby Cadabby. The employees wearing the costumes are referred to as John Does. The lawsuit claims the characters “intentionally, wantonly, and publicly discriminated” against the Burns family and others based on race. The lawsuit even claims that” SeaWorld had actual knowledge of their “personal beliefs of racial bias toward Black people” and their “propensity to discriminate against Black people based on their race or color.”
Psychological Screening
Simple hire all black employees to be characters
OOPS! Copyright Page of Tim Scott’s Memoir Says He’s Preparing a Presidential Bid, Publisher Calls it an ‘Error’
The publisher of Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) memoir had to issue an awkward mea culpa for a single sentence on the copyright page that suggested the South Carolina Republican was preparing to launch a presidential campaign.
It hardly needs to be explained that announcing you’re running for President of the United States is a really big deal. Throwing your hat in this particular ring invites an enhanced level of media scrutiny into every aspect of your political, professional, and personal life and imposes a staggering host of federal campaign finance law requirements. Normally, such announcements are done with a lot of fanfare, in carefully-orchestrated events at rallies packed with enthusiastic supporters and coordinated social media messaging.
It’s not usually done via small print on the copyright page of a memoir.
But Scott’s new book, America, a Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity, seemed to do just that with the following two sentences:
The Post and Courier first reported the unusual copyright page comment on Friday, pondering if it was “a mistake or a foreshadowing of things to come.”
Instead Of Praising Death Of Roe v. Wade, Russell Moore Breaks Silence To Trash Trump And His Voters
Russell Moore, one of the biggest names in modern evangelicalism, broke his silence on the overturning of Roe v. Wade during a panel at a recent Ethics and Public Policy Center event, a video of which was posted online in early July.
As I noted last month, Moore’s public muteness on the matter might have seemed odd to some, not only because the religious leader has both “public” and “theology” in his current title at Christianity Today, but because he’s been a longtime voice in the pro-life movement. But it made sense to anyone who’s followed Moore’s trajectory. After years of dragging down Trump-supporting evangelicals — voters who made a careful calculation and helped install the president who confirmed three conservative Supreme Court justices that made up the Dobbs majority — there wasn’t much Moore could have said but mea culpa.
Oh, but never underestimate the hubris of an ear-tickled right-wing defector, especially one with a track record like Moore. In his social media absence, he came up with something to say that didn’t include admitting error: Nope, overturning a deadly precedent that ruled for half a century and resulted in more than 63 million lives lost doesn’t vindicate conservative Trump voters.
Verizon Drops OAN from TV Product
Conservative network One America News (Right bias) has been dropped from Verizon's television product after its contract with the network expired.
A Verizon spokesperson said "negotiations were focused on economics" and that "OAN failed to agree to fair terms." Verizon was the largest pay-TV provider carrying OAN after DirecTV didn't renew its contract earlier this year. Some on the right accuse lawmakers of conspiring to silence OAN, citing a letter from several House Democrats to major TV providers expressing concerns over the role they play "in disseminating misinformation to millions."
OAN host Pearson Sharp said on July 6 that "not only are private companies now determining what information you are allowed to see, but there are members of our own government who are using their power to shut down anyone they disagree with." OAN posted a message to its website in mid-July asking Comcast and Charter Spectrum customers to tell the networks "that you want OAN added to your channel lineup." Former President Donald Trump praised OAN and accused Verizon of making the move "for purely political reasons."
Few right-rated sources covered Verizon dropping OAN. A Breitbart article framed the move as Democrats "blacklisting" pro-Trump perspectives, saying it represented "a rapidly escalating trend in the deplatforming of conservative media." Left- and center-rated sources covered the news more frequently. Many on the left framed it as a rebuke of Trump's false election claims and OAN's purportedly unsustainable business model, and painted lawsuits involving OAN as justification for Verizon's decision.
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Yep, all those places are just full of evil white supremacy and discrimination. Bad bad places.Baltimore family files a $25 million federal civil rights lawsuit against Sesame Place claiming racial discrimination
Recently I wrote about a Black mom who took her young daughters to Sesame Place in Philadelphia to celebrate the fourth birthday of one of the girls. During a parade of characters, the character Rosita appeared to snub the two little girls when they reached out to her. The White kids standing next to them received high fives from Rosita. The story quickly went viral, aided in no small part by the mother who is a digital strategist. Her initial post on Instagram received millions of views. The mother got an attorney and is looking at suing the theme park. That incident happened on July 17. Since then other lawyers and public figures have weighed in and the story has grown to include other Black families who now claim to have been racially discriminated against.
On Wednesday, Quinton Burns from Baltimore filed a $25 million federal civil rights lawsuit. His complaint goes back to June 18. He hopes to make it a class-action lawsuit.
If the name Tamika Mallory sounds familiar it is because she was one of the organizers of the 2017 Women’s March and she is a Black Lives Matter activist.
Mr. Burns also has video of the slight shown to this daughter and it was played yesterday during a press conference conducted by his lawyer. The lawsuit says since the Burns family and others paid admission, they entered into a contract with SeaWorld. They say they are entitled to all of the entertainment offered at Sesame Place, including the Meet and Greets with the costumed characters, including the four listed in the lawsuit – Elmo, Ernie, Telly Monster, and Abby Cadabby. The employees wearing the costumes are referred to as John Does. The lawsuit claims the characters “intentionally, wantonly, and publicly discriminated” against the Burns family and others based on race. The lawsuit even claims that” SeaWorld had actual knowledge of their “personal beliefs of racial bias toward Black people” and their “propensity to discriminate against Black people based on their race or color.”
Psychological Screening
Simple hire all black employees to be characters
I have a suggestion:
Instead of trying to re-vamp those old entertainment venues, just leave them to those icky white and white-aligned , ick phew, hetero-normative, double phew ick hiss, law-abiding (triple phew hiss yuck) people. Let them stew in their own evilness.
All the rainbow people, POCs, and justice-optional people should go to the new, totally awesome super fun mega cool woke places, where they will be free of the micro, nano and zeto aggressions, determine places in line by the oppression point score cards, and have a personal social services agent attached to their party at all times to ensure their experience is free of any kind of discrimination.
In the end, it would be cheaper for everyone.
Chuck E. Cheese character now accused of ignoring black child: ‘Infuriating’
Multiple users agreed that the person in the suit might not have seen the child, but another user posted a video where Chuck E. Cheese interacts with kids of her similar stature.
“This video completely says otherwise,” user @JanasiaZolanski disputed. “This other chuck e. cheese mascot saw that little boy who is probably shorter than her clear as day.
The Fall of the 'Grand Theft Auto' Franchise to Woke Culture Is Absolutely Tragic
I tell you all of this because I wanted you, dear reader, to understand what GTA actually was without interference from the media, politicians, and pearl-clutching Karens. These games are definitely not for kids. They’re immoral and no one in these games is a model citizen worthy of being imitated…but they’re fun. They don’t adhere to modern “morality,” in fact, the games constantly spit in its face and that’s a good thing. It demolished sacred cows and mocked the self-important shallowness our society continues to obsess itself with.
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Which makes the fact that the news that it’s going woke all the more terrible.
As reported by Bounding Into Comics, Rockstar’s rockstars have more or less left the company and now it’s being run by the same people that Rockstar games used to make fun of:
It gets worse as Bounding Into Comics reported:
The company that made a name off of demolishing sacred cows has now begun to embrace them, ceding one more cultural goliath to the woke.
You might not be a gamer, but you probably know this story by now as you’ve watched something you loved get devoured by woke culture. Whether it’s football, NASCAR, your favorite genre of music, movie franchises, or something else, you’ve experienced the fall of it to social justice radicalism.
But Rockstar Games was supposed to be one of those fortresses that stood against this stuff. It was a juggernaut of anti-political correctness that could always be relied upon to say the things we couldn’t say in polite society. It used absurd caricatures to point out very real absurdities about people and groups.
Now, we can probably kiss all that goodbye.
It’s a sad thing to see, but it’s just one more reason to hate woke culture and despise the people who push it on us.