Jan242022

Episode 478 – Debunked!

We get some more virtue signaling from an odd source.

The Sweet Baby Gang cult leader lights up the trans argument.

And the worst song since the “I Love You, You Love Me” Barney song has broken a new record. I’ll let you guess what the song is.

 

God Help Our Youth

According to the IndiaPress:

In a first, a YouTube video breached the 10 million views mark, and no points for guessing it’s none other than ‘Baby Shark’! Yes, the catchy children’s song that even made an entry on Billboard’s coveted Hot 100 chart, managed to create another rare milestone on Thursday (January 13), making it the most-viewed video in the platform’s history.

That’s right! One of the most annoying songs that has ever been written has gotten 10 billion (with a “b”) views on YouTube. It blew by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee’s ‘Despacito’, which only has 7.7 billion views.

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/baby-shark-becomes-first-youtube-video-to-get-10-billion-views-7722624/#:~:text=The%20children’s%20song%20by%20the,other%20than%20’Baby%20Shark’!

 

Some News

Here’s some news that I’m not going to expand upon today. We will in the coming days but I think we’re going to get more information later:

  • As of right now, the Dow Jones has fallen nearly a thousand points. Many economist point to a few things for this:
    • We could be going through a correction. The Nasdaq has fallen too and moth markets have fallen since the beginning of the year.
    • The issues between Ukraine and Russia heating up.
    • China threatening Taiwan is becoming an issue. Taiwan makes a lot of our technology like processor.
    • The Biden administration throwing up their hands with inflation and throwing it to the Federal Reserve which is going to raise interest rates.
  • Russia could invade Ukraine at any moment.
    • Biden has given Putin permission for a “minor incursion” which was a real f-up.
    • The President has not ruled out sending troops and has put 8.5 thousand troops on high alert.
    • 40,000 NATO troops have been put on alert though NATO seems a little stand-offish with fighting with Russia.
    • Lethal weapons have been sent to Ukraine from the U.S. government.
  • China has sent a sortie of planes over Taiwan again. It was bad enough that Taiwan scrambled their fighter jets. China is being emboldened by Russia.
  • The TSA has announced that they are using the arrest warrants that illegal aliens get when crossing illegally as identification to board airplanes.

 

I Thought You Ate Them

In an attempt to become woke, Mars Inc., the makers of M&Ms, has decided to make their mascots, which are the little colored candies that are trying to eat each other all the time, more inclusive.

According to The Daily Beast:

What qualities are the most important for a modern, progressive woman to possess? On Thursday, Mars provided its customers with an exciting new answer: her shoes, of course. Alongside an announcement of its “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong,” the candy company behind M&M’s rolled out a redesign of their beloved mascots. Preparing their “lentils” for a “more dynamic, progressive world,” the characters are now being spotlighted for their “personalities, rather than their gender.” Apparently, that translates to gifting each with a fresh set of new kicks. Green is swapping her white, heeled go-go boots for a “cool, laid-back pair of sneakers,” according to Mars, while Brown (formerly Ms. Brown) will sport kitten heels instead of stilettos. The two female members of the cast, Green and Brown will also be trading in their traditionally competitive relationship to start “throwing sunshine and not shade,” Mars said.

Changes will include:

  • The green M&M will be even tennis shoes instead of the retroactive go-go boots.
  • The brown M&M, which has been a bossier character, will sport shorter heels and actually be the boss. They are also going to drop the Ms. title for something else.
  • The red M&M, who has been kind of a bully, will be kinder to the other M&Ms.
  • And the orange M&M, who is so neurotic that he can’t even tie his shoes, will come to grip with his mental disorders and will have his shoes tied from now on.

Cathryn Sleight, Mars Wrigley’s chief growth officer (there’s a title for you) said:

“M&M’s has long been committed to creating colorful fun for all, and this purpose serves as a more concrete commitment to what we’ve always believed as a brand: that everyone has the right to enjoy moments of happiness, and fun is the most powerful way to help people feel that they belong.”

All the world’s problems are solved.

Even the mainstream media is chuckling at this obvious attempted virtue signal. The Washington Post released one article that questioned the purpose of doing this. He said this was an obvious attempt to make the company look woke and would have no impact on anything. Another Washington Post op-ed spent a thousand words asking another simple questions: Can we still eat them or have M&Ms become so inclusive as to deserve the same rights as we do? I don’t think that’s a bad question. It’s stupid but not a bad one.

These companies don’t get it. They are solving nothing with these little (very little) contributions. They are just targeting, what they think, is towards a niche market that’s going to make them more money. That’s what this whole thing is about. Money. It’s not about changing the world. The cartoon green M&M wearing tennis shoes instead of go-go boots in not going to solve all our ills. Or any of them. It’s stupid.

Let’s not piss on Mars Wrigley Inc. All companies do it. Coke was telling us to be less white. Gillette told men they were toxically masculine. Just last week, Audi said some woke crap that got a laugh on social media. The problem these companies have that jump in the woke pool so late is we all see it and get what they’re doing. They look stupid and conformist, even to woke outlets.

They’re not accomplishing what they set out to do, which is make money. They’re just pissing off customers like me that won’t buy their products.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mm-characters-are-becoming-inclusiveC

 

This Is What’s Needed

Last week, I missed the Dr. Phil Show. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise because I do not watch a lot of day time television. But this show was different. One of my favorite talk show hosts, Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire, was on to debate transgender issues with a couple of transgender folks.

I missed it because I was wasting braincells watching the Bide press conference and just forgot about it but the highlights were posted and they were delicious.

At first a trans couple, one a trans man and the other a trans woman, discussed their lives, their efforts as consultants to companies to trans acceptance and their philosophy on the trans lifestyle. I do want to point out that since one is a biological woman and the other is a biological man, the two are actually a heterosexual couple. Weird.

Anyway, here are the clips.

In this clip, Matt Walsh blows the crap out of the entire trans argument.

Some things:

  • This is a disastrous argument for the trans community. They are trying to convince all of civilization that being trans is, not just normal, but natural.
  • Normal is subjective and changes with time. Nature is absolute and cannot be changed, no matter what people think.
  • If these two cannot answer what a woman is, then there really is nothing to transition to.
  • Womanhood is not a subjective thing. It actually exists. We’ve proven it. We’ve mapped it all the way to the DNA and no one can change that.
  • Walsh does a good job shooting the guy down with the science.
  • The person goes into the “what if she can’t have children” argument, which is a dodge and Walsh doesn’t buy it. He’s already scientifically defined a woman. His turn.
  • Here is the big problem with the trans ideology: It is all based on individual subjectivity. That’s how the Left argues on everything. It’s about how I feel and I manipulate science to reflect my feelings.

Here is another great argument about the idiocy of pronouns:

Some things:

  • Again, women are objective beings and language, including pronouns, are objectively used.
  • People can’t just change language based on their feelings.
  • Again this is all about objectifying subjectivity.
  • By the way, for telling your child, you can serve prison time in Canada for conversion therapy.

On the show comes a college professor (of course). She asks Matt a question he has answered hundreds of times before:

Some things:

  • This is a stupid question because it is the trans community that wants us to care. They are pushing this crap on us on a daily basis.
  • They are pushing this crap on our kids. They believe kids should be able to go on hormone therapy and have sex change surgeries without parental consent.
  • This crap is being taught in schools with no dissenting views.
  • And this whole things goes against nature and I refuse to be part of it.

But one of the more disturbing trends from the trans community is how men are encroaching on the women’s world, places where women should feel safe. That includes women’s sports, restrooms and locker rooms. In Louden County, Virginia, a girl was raped by a boy dressed in a dress in the girls’ restroom because he was allowed to use it. The school district covered it up and the kid was moved to another school where he did the same thing. Parents fear for their children’s safety and privacy.

A man who thinks she’s a woman joined the women’s swim team and has broken all the women’s records. Opportunities for women in sports is disappearing. And the trans community is using Title IX to get what they want. The same rule that gave the opportunity to have sports.

Well, sharing restrooms became a topic. Joining the show were a couple of parents that had a daughter that was assaulted in a restroom by a trans girl, who is actually a boy. Listen:

That’s what it comes down to: The feelings of the trans community is more important than the feelings of anybody else. That’s because the trans community is highest on the victim list. Doesn’t matter the tragedies that occur or the feelings of the majority of people, just that the minority feels good. This is the poison that is identity politics.

So, who won the debate? We can tell easily by the response to the debate:

Matt Walsh is being called a transphobe. But it is Dr. Phil that got the crap-end of the stick. Here are some responses:

“Truly f*** Dr. Phil for this. Why would you invite a nonbinary person onto national television just to be humiliated by an outspoken transphobe? Who is this for? Who does this help? Man f*** you.”

This is a great response because the writer is admitting Walsh destroyed the trans activists.

“Dr. Phil you’re a scumbag for even giving this guy a platform to spread his bigotry. Your show needs to end if y’all are so desperate for ratings that you’ll stir the pot for drama while knowing it’s wrong.”

Another said:

“Of course Dr. Phil would invite Matt Walsh onto his show…they are both white males who think they know entirely more than they really do.”

There’s that identity politics again. It’s not just that Matt Walsh is wrong and this is why. It’s because he’s a straight, white male. These people don’t understand, two things can be right at once: Matt Walsh is a straight, white male and he’s right. The fact that nobody had a response to his questions shows that there is no argument.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-issues-scathing-response-to-lgbt-activists-traumatized-given-nightmares-by-his-dr-phil-appearance
https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-dr-phil-leftists-freak-out-about-matt-walsh-appearing-on-dr-phil-to-discuss-radical-gender-theory

 

Rest in Peace, Meatloaf

The rock singer Meatloaf died last week. He was 74. He is most famous for his song I Will Do Anything for Love, But I Won’t Do That from his Bat Out of Hell album.

A little more about him:

  • He was born in 1947 in Dallas, Texas.
  • When his singing career started he toured with The Who and the Grateful Dead.
  • He also did stage performances. In the early 1970s, he starred in the musicals Hair and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • In the late 1970s he released Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II, which both went platinum.
  • He was also on screen in movies such as Wayne’s World, Formula 51 and Fight Club.

He was a very talented singer.

Here he is, singing the National Anthem at one of the MLB All Star games:

Rest in peace.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/rock-legend-meat-loaf-dead-at-74