California implements a new law that has pissed off toy retailers right before Christmas.
A spooky trend is happening along the beaches of Texas.
And Donald Trump says things. When people begin to accept that, their blood pressure will stabilize.
Dumbasses of the Day
And They Wonder Why Everyone is Leaving
According to the Daily Mail:
California retailers that refuse to have a gender-neutral section for children will be fined up to $500 under Gavin Newsom‘s new bill.
The ultra-woke governor signed legislation in 2021 that would require some retail stores in the Golden State to have a gender-neutral section for children.
Retailers would have to do this ‘regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys,’ the bill said.
The legislation, Assembly Bill No. 10584, will be enacted on January 1, 2024, and if retail department stores choose not to comply, they will have to dish out a civil penalty of $250 or $500.
Department stores that are subject to the new laws will have to have a total of 500 or more employees, be physically located in California and sell ‘childcare items or toys’.
According to the bill, ‘childcare items’ refer to any product that is designed to facilitate sleep, feeding children, relaxation, or ‘to help children with sucking or teething’.
The age range of the ‘children’ that the legislation refers to is 12 years of age and under.
‘Toys’ were defined as a product designed or intended to be used by children by the manufacturer.
Spooky!
According to Fox News:
Superstitious beachcombers who spot glass glinting along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico ought to exercise caution – “witch bottles” intended to entomb malevolent spirits are popping up along the coast, one researcher said.
On a 60-mile stretch of beach near Corpus Christi, Texas, monitored by the Harte Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, eight of the curious artifacts have washed up onshore since 2017, per researcher Jace Tunnell.
Tunnell pulled the most recent bottle, filled with vegetation, on Nov. 15 – gooseneck barnacles that had clustered on the green glass indicated that the bottle had been floating for quite a while, the researcher said.
“I don’t get creeped out by them, but I’m also not going to open them,” Tunnell told Fox News Digital. “I mean, they’re supposed to have spells and stuff in them – why take the chance?”
Instead, the researcher has reserved a sunlit section of his back fence to display his occult finds – “my wife says I can bring shells inside, but no spell bottles.”
The bottles – which may be filled with a variety of items, including hair, herbs, local plants, nails or even bodily fluids – have traditionally been observed in the modern-day United Kingdom.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/eerie-witch-bottles-found-along-gulf-mexico-even-researchers-creeped-out
Much Ado About Nothing
According to The Alternate (a far Left rag), the Supreme Court could stop Trump from being a dictator. Here’s what they said:
During a recent town hall in Iowa hosted by Fox News’ Sean Hannity, former President Donald Trump said he would govern as a dictator, “but only on day one” of his presidency if elected to a second term in the White House.
While the remark has caused alarm, Bloomberg opinion columnist Francis Wilkinson wrote that Trump’s quest of becoming a dictator would likely come to a screeching halt if the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) had its way. Wilkinson clarified that SCOTUS wouldn’t stop Trump out of any obligation to uphold the rule of law, but simply because Trump’s authoritarian ambitions would disrupt the “collective kingship” of the nation’s highest court.
“In its current polarized state, the US is governed by unelected right-wing activists working in concert with six unelected jurists on the high court,” Wilkinson wrote. “All that power vested in a handful of Republican judges is a pretty dodgy matter. But it’s also pretty heady… The fastest way for Chief Justice John Roberts and company to become irrelevant is for their quasi-kingship to be supplanted by a MAGA dictatorship.”
Wilkinson wrote that “there isn’t much in it for the justices” to uphold Trump’s stated plans to consolidate executive power, circumvent traditional checks and balances and flout the rule of law. He argued that because SCOTUS holds a considerable amount of power with the ability to override both the presidency and Congress if it chooses to, it isn’t likely to cede that power to an executive wishing to govern unilaterally.
“Here’s how a bill becomes law in 2023: A right-wing activist, or a MAGA state office holder, files a lawsuit — often in Texas, where judge-shopping has become as common among conservatives as a trip to Hobby Lobby. After the ruling is handed down, the loser appeals to the far-right 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. From there, it’s just a skip and a jump to the Supreme Court in Washington, where six judges craft the conservative legislation that will bind the entire nation,” Wilkinson wrote. “Does the federal government, under the direction of the Democratic president, really have the power to enforce its own rules? The conservative justices will decide.”
“After all, what use would Trump, unleashed in a second term, have for a Supreme Court? No longer constrained by rule-of-law RINOs, the unfettered MAGA king would be the ultimate decider,” he continued. “The conservative court would become a MAGA appendix. The court would only be noticed if it caused a problem — and the problem, or problems, could be removed (with the help of allies such as [Speaker of the House Mike] Johnson).”
What’s ironic about all this is the Left is admitting that the Conservative Supreme Court will not allow anyone to become a tyrant, Left or Right. This Supreme Court does not run by ideology, they run by the law of the Constitution. This suddenly makes the Dobbs decision more valid, right?
Just Kick Him Out
According to The Messenger:
A Texas teenager who was taken out of school and sent to an off-campus disciplinary program earlier this year for wearing locs that his school says violates its dress code was given 13 days of in-school suspension just hours after returning to the classroom Tuesday.
Since the beginning of the school year, Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, about a 40 minute drive outside of Houston, has repeatedly assigned Darryl George, who is Black, to in-school suspension, where he has spent weeks completing coursework in a cubicle away from his classmates.
When he continued to protest the school’s hair policy, the school sent him to an alternative education program. In total, he has spent only 20% of the school year inside the classroom, according to NBC.
The 18-year-old’s family sued the school district, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and the state’s attorney general in September, arguing they had violated the CROWN Act, a law signed by Abbott in May that forbids race-based hair discrimination.
They say the school’s dress code disproportionately affects Black students, adding that such stringent hair policies have no bearing on students’ learning or safety outcomes.
The school’s policy states that boys are not allowed to wear hair styles “that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down.”
We’re Not Using The Phrases and Look At What’s Happening
This is from Fatherly:
- You’re too sensative.
- Boys don’t cry.
- Those are for girls.
- Why can’t you be more like…
- You play like a girl.
- You must win.
- Boys will be boys.