Beat me to it. I think a lot of people are thinking the same thing.
I knew a stunning black girl several years back - engineering student, and not just pretty, but brilliant. She asked my advice about trying to date another (white) college student. Considerably older and more experienced than she, I told her that she was opening up a whole can of misery for herself; I had seen it many times.
"The black guys don't like me."
"God, why not? You're not only beautiful, you're really smart!"
"I'm too skinny. I don't have a big enough butt."
God. Stupidity. That's why men don't live as long as women. Stupidity.
It doesn't - and shouldn't - matter to the couple, but like it or not they live in a world filled with Other People.
It's hard enough for a couple to make it as it is, without loading themselves with more burdens. As a group, I'd say do whatever your heart desires. Advising an individual, a friend and colleague, I'd say Think About It Carefully.
Good point. Thankfully, I live in a sheltered environment.🎵 A land of Bluebirds and fountains, no wrath to incur. And cling to an Angel that looks like her.🙏
Sorry, your proportions are way off. 1 in 5 is 20%. There is no way on earth that 20% of men are gay. Studies always place the number around 4-5%, TOPS. Don't give the gay mafia more ammunition than they deserve.
MH's comment is pointing out the overrepresentation of gays in advertisements and programming on TV--not the actual numbers, as you've denoted. Cheers.
Indeed! Jane Austin had not finished her novel, Sanditon when death overtook her. As a fan I was interested to see how hired writers would complete it for TV. I guarantee that Jane would never have had two of her male characters end the story coming out, declaring their love for one another. PBS (or the BBC?) thought otherwise. It ruined an otherwise enjoyable story, true to the manners, etiquette, fashion and culture of the era. Oh, and there was a black heiress which didn’t make any difference to the plot so not a biggie except for the PC necessity.
09/03/25: Wise Black Man/Woman, Dumb White Man/Woman. Repeat 1,000 times for 1,000 worthless products. Is it any wonder than I stopped watching TV about 25 years ago?
Why I mute all commercials and go into the kitchen to see what I can eat or drink. Also my corporate boycott list is getting longer by the day IF by chance I spot one of those asinine commercials. Bring back Ozzie and Harriet, or even Dagwood and Blondie. Even Phil Harris and Alice Faye, how many of you are old enough to know them? lol
harris and faye were giants....i was born in 1948 but i remember them well because my mom and dad were late buying our first tv (1953 i think) so the radio was always on in the evenings.
I must be blessed ; my ability to ignore ( to my mother's chagrin ) is ten feet tall and bulletproof. Once in a while I look up from my dose of Surber and exclaim " What in the h*ll am I watching ? " .
and sitcoms, really all types of comedies and cops shows (although the white guys get the angry and women hating boss rolls too. home burglary, dumb teachers, all rapists, bad drivers, dropouts and dimwits.
In films and TV Series too there must be one or more POC to justify the production. Better yet is a mixed (2nd marriages) family with a happily mixed race couple. My mute button is almost worn out and tolerance for this stupidity is nil. The most odious for me though was the black cast of Hamilton. Yes, actors of all colors can be persuasive but perverting history is not necessary. The leftist audiences swooning over the ‘masterpiece’ was gag inducing for me. Naturally the jokes came with it…”What’s next a black Jackie?” Whoops, already happened…they claimed that title for Michelle the Mooch. Whatever happened to ‘Black is Beautiful’?
Electing a mixed race President obviously didn’t work to elevate POC bc it became clear right away that it was fraud perpetuated by the deep state to destroy the Republic.
Though it did take a while for some to catch up, now you don’t hear anything about Barack being the greatest anything.
All dogs (I imagine) can smell. Only dogs properly trained can sniff out cocaine. Only racialized dogs (trained in critical race theory) can hear racial dog whistles.
Our former church was of the Evangelical Covenant Church (hdqtrs Minneapolis). Several years before George Floyd they created/staffed a Ministry of Racial Reconciliation. (Never saw any evidence we were racially unreconciled).
2 days after George Floyd the ECC put out a proclamation faulting racism in general and police racism in particular.
Let's just ignore David French, the conscienceless excremental human being who resembles a bipedal circumsized penis.
And yes, Dylan Mulvaney doesn't look anything like a girl. He looks like a character from a grotesque nightmare. Consider that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi opens the Ark, and a beautiful ghostly woman emerges, but then the woman turns into a macabre monstrous demon who proceeds to kill everyone in the room who looks at her.
In similar fashion, in this grotesque nightmare, lovely woman Audrey Hepburn morphs into horrid tranny Dylan Mulvaney, who cackles and vamps to our collective horror and disgust. We grope blindly for the eyebleach.
Ignore French & the rest of the "conservative gatekeepers (as Rush liked to call them) that were or still are at National Review. Lucianne Goldberg would be doing backflips if she saw what her son Jonah has turned into. Trump truly broke these folks,
Yeah--Jonah is the most puzzling. I used to really enjoy his writing. He kind of did a Howard Stern. Stern is even harder to understand, bc he was very wealthy and didn't need to become a throne-sniffer.
We can never know another man's heart, but I suspect Jonah decided that he preferred the security of a throne-sniffing posture, figuring that was a niche that would assure him of a secure position in media.
If so, that's the height of cynicism and cowardice.
09/03/25: At some point in Stern's life, money was no longer money because he had so much of it --- it became merely "pieces of paper." Meanwhile, he had no morals at the start, and he has none at the end, which is the perfect playbook for becoming one of the cloned and corrupt b*stards that, earlier in his life, he had made millions of dollars viciously mocking.
09/03/25: I had had, at one time, a very good reason. I got fired from NBC in 1984. When he got fired from NBC Radio in 1985, about a week later, he had a new job and in the fall of 1985, it was a delight to hear him curse out our former employer. Of course, that was 40 years ago, long before his wit evaporated and he turned into the Deep State Snake of New York State.
They should label TDS an epidemic except it only strikes in blue areas populated by parasitic lemming like creatures. The virus is most notable for the extreme insanity it inflicts upon AWFLS and alphabet/pronoun non-thinkers.
lucianne goldberg was a feminist to the bone. we had a conversation once and as i left the discussion my eyeballs started to bleed. jonah was raised by his mother joe.
Maybe she woke up later in life. I only started reading her commentary on her site a few years before she died she came across as a conservative. I wasn't aware of her prior history.
French, whose mind and concepts are utterly pedestrian, is also WRONG when he trivializes stories such as Sydney Sweeney and Cracker Barrel. Both show that the culture is healing, towards normalcy, thanks be to God
Meanwhile, French opines with a bizarre take--far from the serious Christian one he claims he represents.
My mother had a great saying about fools...the last line was "he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him".
I've come to the conclusion that trannies are only gay guys that like to think they're women. Eventually they will get tired of the acting, shaving, boob jobs etc. and revert to only their gayness or worse ... mental stability problems.
My theory is gay people won the war when they got the ability to marry. Then activists, never content to take the win, came up with a new idea, trans! Viola! Years of outrage, which was always the point.
Same as with feminism. A whole layer of people had made their living off early feminism; when it succeeded in the most important areas, they had to drum up other "pseudo-feminist" issues in order to give themselves a salary.
May have been the same with "environmentalism". You never even heard the word until the 70's. But once the overall population became generally appreciative of basic environmental ideas, that whole cadre of activists had to keep the money flowing by branching out into further, fringe areas, like global cooling, then global warming, now, "climate change".
One might say the scourge of America today is the legions of "professional activists".
And don't even get me started on the gigantic number of people currently making their living from "combating racism'. This has been very lucrative for them, and very destructive to their work ethic, because it has been a job that requires really nothing but a big mouth and a propensity for pontificating.
Amen to that and what is worse than a brassy, loud black woman who I guess hates herself or her imagine "lot" in life. As with the Crockett thing, no matter how educated she may be, she has no class and still comes off as ghetto. Lipstick on a pig?
Outage or Outrage? Although it would be natural for power outages to lurk in shadows, the history of the last 50 years or so has been the Left's promotion of one outrage after another, with the sales pitch always being "Human Rights".
I remember when my first husband and I took my mom & stepdad to the My Oh My club in SFO. They were fascinated seeing the "beautiful women" perform. I also remember my stepdad wondering what a homosexual was. My, how times have changed!
What was once "the love that dare not speak its name" turned into the one that refuses to shut up! As an aside, though, Dear Cookie, what in the world were you doing taking your mother and her husband to that particular nightclub? Wait; never mind. Perhaps I don't want to know. Cheers.
a few years ago i took some friends to my old neighborhood where i grew up in the north end of flint,mi. as we passed my old house a teenage kid on the sidewalk started yelling and pointing at our car: "white folk in da neighborhood. white folk in da neighborhood". we scooted along with haste.
After the divorce, in which he took my side, my former and younger BIL, took me on the Gray Line Bus tour of Broadway in SF. Still closeted living with his mom in the San Joaquin Valley at the time he could safely count on me to go to movies (Auntie Mama, Some Like it Hot), Phyllis Diller performances, etc. After I moved with children to the East Bay to live at home until I could get my financial bearings he would drive over from the valley and we’d go to The City. The Gray Line Bus tour also had a stop at Finicchio’s the famous cross dressing nightclub (since the 30’s) where the MC was ‘Lucian, the last of the Red Hot Papa’s’, a Sophie Tucker impersonator…The performers were extremely sophisticated and talented and it was hard to believe they were men. SF was a lot of fun with up and coming stand up clubs, The Hungary Eye, The Purple Onion and where comics like Phyllis, The Smother’s Brothers, Mort Sahl, and Shelly Berman became well known. But then topless came in with peep shows and feigned sex on stage and the fun was over. A few years later my ex MIL was killed in a tragic car accident and of course I went to console my friend who then took the opportunity to ‘come out’ to me by introducing his new BF. I said “Well, Duh. Do you really think I have been oblivious all this time?” But in the late 50’s and early 60’s you didn’t talk abt those things. Just pretended. Years later I was there again for his memorial. No details but a very ignoble ending.
In my high school days, being a "queer" was only speculated or as one of my classmates told me when we were adults and was very ashamed: his son was a limp wrist. Well kids, all that is now in the open and there is nothing gay about it to me. Have you ever seen a man in a dress with a purse and lipstick but still sporting a mustache? Go to major homo cities and your will see things you can't believe. How about the ads for hiv meds with men kissing on commercials? Yeeks! Why do people feel they need to advertise everything about themselves? I wasn't raised that way so find it a bit uncomfortable. Keep your private life private.
Precisely! These "men" who want to become "women" are merely homosexual who don't want to admit it. Being sexually penetrated by a man is a woman's function as part of the reproductive cycle, so when a homosexual adopts the female role, it is only a short step to "becoming" a woman. Voila! Problem solved; no more shame.
My college roommate declared he was a woman trapped in a man's body. However, he took full advantage of his illness, knowing everything a woman wanted. Don Juan, before Donald Juan.
One of the most astounding occurrences about the arrival of DJT onto the political scene in 2015 and since, was - and is still - the unmasking of the faux “conservatives” who all had held sway over the Republican Party for decades.
Throughout all those years they had positioned themselves as the “opposition” to the Democrats policies and made endless promises to fight against those policies regarding energy, school choice, reckless spending, nationalized healthcare, etc. etc. and yet- never, ever managed to accomplish any of it. But they would “fight on!” they always promised!
Trump exposed every last one of them, the David French’s, the whole National Review gang, like Goldberg and Lowry, the Paul Ryan’s and Kevin McCarthy’s, the John McCain’s and Lyndsey Graham’s. They have all been frauds, liars, opportunists of the most vile order, fleecing their constituency and selling their souls for a seat at the table with the wealthy and powerful.
They only ever had pride instead of principles, and they are now revealed to be the lying, phony and corrupt hypocrites they always were.
Certainly the brand name of Bud Light rightfully took the hit it received, but it was the corporate entity Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), who purchased the Budweiser brand in 2008, behind the ad campaign. It is based in Belgium. I'm not sure the Busch family (St. Louis, MO) had much influence over the Mulvaney failure. Not that it matters, except to remind all that it was another EU leftist management vision that enabled it. The Busch's got their money and will suffer the adverse reaction to the branding mistake.
From GROK: "The Busch family's response: Billy Busch, an heir to the original Busch brewing family, publicly criticized Anheuser-Busch InBev (the parent company) for the partnership. He stated that he wanted to "make Bud Light great again" and even offered to buy the brand back, criticizing the parent company's handling of the situation."
Makes you wonder. That said, I see Ice-T on those Carshield ads (and Vivica Fox also). Not much to talk about, but they do a good "read" for the TV ads.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Love and best wishes to Mrs! You can buy frozen Bob Evans' products (I'm from Ohio, down on the farm territory) and it's delicious, reasonably priced and easy to fix. Buy at your local grocery.
Obey or else? I have heard that "you will be made to care" crap for far too long. Time to show some spine and let the leftys jnow that you Just. Don't. Care.
What I learned from the Cracker Barrel ordeal is that I have come to despise large brands and their influence on our lives. Endless advertisements bombard us every minute of the day on the technology that we keep near to inflict that attack on ourselves. Most of it - 90+% - is all fake and overstated crap. If it is a food item, it is full of chemicals that will hurt your health.
The ordeal made me long for living in the country with only a general store (like the one I had as a kid in rural PA) offering many fewer choices but all made fresher and more naturally.
No aisle length freezers packed with a half dozen brands of ice cream in every manufactured dream "flavor" one could imagine - but if left at room temperature too long wouldn't melt into a puddle of cream. It would still be standing tall looking like it was ready to the scooped out due to the stabilizers and emulsifiers added to the other chemicals.
A good summer night when I was a kid was when my mom and dad said, "Let's get an ice cream cone at the Dairy Bar". And, if you didn't lick it fast enough, it melted and ran down your arm. It didn't stay in the cone like some of the brands today.
Once upon a time the government gave civil service tests. So did companies. The tests screened potential hires for competence and personality fit with the organization. The organizations promoted from within so the guy or gal at entry level dealing with the public at the counter or selling the company's products to its users could rise to Director or VP of Marketing or even company President if they worked hard and performed well.
But a certain group was not passing the civil service tests in the same number as everyone else. This meant, of course, that the government had to get rid of the screening tests. Companies read the writing on the Equal Opportunity Office wall and got rid of the competency tests, too.
What to do? For companies, the easy answer to get the most competent people was hire from the Ivy League schools that did the screening for them with SAT minimum scores.
But these Ivies with expensive MBA's and no real world experience were not about to start at entry level dealing with customers who used the company products. Instead, they entered management where their decisions could carried the most weight and they didn't have to listen to customer complaints.
For a while, things went smoothly. MBA's from Harvard Business School shrunk packages while maintaining the price, outsourced manufacturing to China and replaced ingredients like milk and sugar with multisyllabic compounds that extended the shelf life of white bread beyond the average person's lifetime. Profits were good.
Then, one day the Ivies started teaching that "the customer is always right" means the customer is a right leaning MAGA Nazi Trump supporting homophobe racist.
…so, they decided to totally ignore the customer entirely and do whatever the hell they wanted, when they wanted, the way they wanted, and doled out out billions and billions of taxpayer dollars in the process to all their like-minded friends around the world to aid in the process. Great job if you could get it.
The ivy league schools' "customers" were/are the far left, liberal Democratic party supported, new world order believers - assholes who have tried to destroy this country.
In a nutshell, that's how degreed liberal women were put in charge of Bud Light, Cracker Barrel and more clueless enterprises that are now trying to pick up the pieces -- with little success.
As the second term of PDJT gets rolling we are witnessing the damage wreaked by DEI be it in corporate boards or school systems but the worst of the worst appear to be in government. I have come to the conclusion Otto Penn had an EXTREMEly busy Whitehouse position leaving no time for press conferences. As for the judicial clowns,werent they all confirmed by vote in the Senate ?? Fun poll following good dive into garbage media so thank you again for doing a dirty job !
I remember telling a friend, as soon as BHO got elected, that we had entered a new era; virtually if not literally EVERY AD, be it print or tv, HAD to have at least one black person in it, if not entirely black.
NOTE: The U.S. racial demographics in 2025 is 12.36% BLACK or AFRICAN AMERICAN, per Al Gore's Amazing Internet. Huh.
Thank you for citing that 12.36% figure, Gail. We all know that alot of media focus on a group makes everyone think they are a larger portion of the population than they really are. Like, alot of people think 25-30% of the American population is gay/LBGTQ, whereas I think the actual population has never been more than 5-10%, if that.
So I thought I was savvy enough to not fall into that trap, but I actually am very surprised to hear than the current figure is only 12.36% black. Historically, I know the figure has hovered around 10%, but I had started to feel that in recent decades there had been a shift, and it was at least 15% if not 20%.
Geesh--all this twisting ourselves into pretzels over 12.36% of the population. Can't we all just settle down and be PEOPLE and put all this flesh-based identity crap behind us?
Yes, I like going to the cold hard facts whenever possible! (To the extent anyone can believe any stats on anything any more!! I said at the START of the ‘plandemic’ that the demise of trust was going to be the biggest threat to humanity)
Only speculation, but certain groups seem to cluster in the larger metropolitan areas, and those areas drive the mainstream media. My guess is that would tend to amplify the voices of the marginalised deranged among others.
Echo chamber stuff. They probably really believe that these groups are far larger and more influential than they are.
Back in 1992 worthless Willie was pandering to the perverts. At the time, they were claiming a10% share whereas while 89% of Americans identified as Christians, only about 8% regularly attended church and could answer basic questions about the Christian faith. Simple things like who Job is, who Absolom and Bathsheba were, and which new testament authors were disciples.
They saw that winning the LGBT vote was a greater gain than the loss of Bible believing Christians, most of whom were already republican, would be to the party.
How I wish that could be true. I am tired of dancing around words and things instead of just adhering to the Golden Rule and the 10 Commandments and trying to live my life. So much fakery and BS.
I have no and will never call a black person, aka Negro and opposed to Caucasian (proper names) and AF and many I know do NOT want to be called that as they were never in Africa much less born there. More fancy fakery attempts. So much fakery in this world and so much lack of integrity and honesty.
where is the edit marks ( I have AMD and can't see too well) I meant I have NOT and I see other edits I would like to make but I guess you all get the gist of my comment.
There are three little dots (and it could be faint on your screen) just to the upper right of your comment that you would like to edit. If you click on those dots, one of the options that immediately comes up in the dialog box is "Edit". Click on that, and it puts your entire Comment into an Edit box and you can change things, then Save the revised Comment.
PS--if you are reading Don's column on a phone instead of a laptop or tablet, the three little dots might not be visible, or might not work.
Don’t you just love the rate at which large companies are experiencing FAFO and are thinking twice before choosing ‘or else’?
Having spent decades in the bowels of the first billion dollar company (known as X on the NYSE); I am overcome with waves of Schadenfreude as the cycle of hubris and nemesis is replayed.
My friend spent some time in Germany teaching English to school children. He told them there was no equivalent in English to "Schadenfreude." What a delicious word!
I couldn't get through the entire writing without making a comment. I will go back and read it all, Don, I promise, but few things get me riled up more than 'stupidity'. Does no one in American actually read the ad, or just the people with brains? "Jeans" is a play on words. "Genes" the corresponding homophone (that makes me laugh) has to do with our make up. Please send the following to every ignorant liberal you know - 'jeans' are what you wear, 'genes' are who you are. Sidney Sweeney has good 'jeans', American Eagle jeans. Great ad. The fact she is a beautiful desirable young woman is in her 'genes', and if you interpret 'jeans' to mean 'genes', you're are right on both counts. She looks good in jeans, but she is a beautiful woman - period. AND, I don't care if she is white. There is nothing wrong in being a beautiful white woman. 50 years ago, I could see them everywhere I looked, especially in Buenos Aires. But that's another story. There was a day Halle Berry could have knocked this ad out of the park. I am too far out of the loop anymore to name a new young and beautiful black actress/model, or an Indian one, or a Greek one, or (fill in the nationality here). The ad isn't about race. It's about beautiful women looking wonderful in jeans, plain old, been around forever, blue jeans. These happen to be American Eagle brand, and I hope the ad agency who came up with this makes a fortune helping other brands 'see the light'. Now, back to reading Don's fine writing.
For a while, I thought that caucasians weren’t allowed in commercials.
They are now. But they must be dating or married to a different race.
Beat me to it. I think a lot of people are thinking the same thing.
I knew a stunning black girl several years back - engineering student, and not just pretty, but brilliant. She asked my advice about trying to date another (white) college student. Considerably older and more experienced than she, I told her that she was opening up a whole can of misery for herself; I had seen it many times.
"The black guys don't like me."
"God, why not? You're not only beautiful, you're really smart!"
"I'm too skinny. I don't have a big enough butt."
God. Stupidity. That's why men don't live as long as women. Stupidity.
Not sure about the misery. 🎵 If you're gonna be my baby, it don't matter if you're black or white.💗. Content of character, doncha know?
It doesn't - and shouldn't - matter to the couple, but like it or not they live in a world filled with Other People.
It's hard enough for a couple to make it as it is, without loading themselves with more burdens. As a group, I'd say do whatever your heart desires. Advising an individual, a friend and colleague, I'd say Think About It Carefully.
Good point. Thankfully, I live in a sheltered environment.🎵 A land of Bluebirds and fountains, no wrath to incur. And cling to an Angel that looks like her.🙏
How true and in many if there are more than 5 one or two must be gay .
Sorry, your proportions are way off. 1 in 5 is 20%. There is no way on earth that 20% of men are gay. Studies always place the number around 4-5%, TOPS. Don't give the gay mafia more ammunition than they deserve.
MH's comment is pointing out the overrepresentation of gays in advertisements and programming on TV--not the actual numbers, as you've denoted. Cheers.
Indeed! Jane Austin had not finished her novel, Sanditon when death overtook her. As a fan I was interested to see how hired writers would complete it for TV. I guarantee that Jane would never have had two of her male characters end the story coming out, declaring their love for one another. PBS (or the BBC?) thought otherwise. It ruined an otherwise enjoyable story, true to the manners, etiquette, fashion and culture of the era. Oh, and there was a black heiress which didn’t make any difference to the plot so not a biggie except for the PC necessity.
..and be willing to exclusively play the bad guy. that's an important construct that sometimes gets left out of the discussion.
respects.
Playing the stupid incompetent fool is the most common role for white males in commercials.
09/03/25: Wise Black Man/Woman, Dumb White Man/Woman. Repeat 1,000 times for 1,000 worthless products. Is it any wonder than I stopped watching TV about 25 years ago?
Why I mute all commercials and go into the kitchen to see what I can eat or drink. Also my corporate boycott list is getting longer by the day IF by chance I spot one of those asinine commercials. Bring back Ozzie and Harriet, or even Dagwood and Blondie. Even Phil Harris and Alice Faye, how many of you are old enough to know them? lol
harris and faye were giants....i was born in 1948 but i remember them well because my mom and dad were late buying our first tv (1953 i think) so the radio was always on in the evenings.
thanks for reminding me of that vicki.
I must be blessed ; my ability to ignore ( to my mother's chagrin ) is ten feet tall and bulletproof. Once in a while I look up from my dose of Surber and exclaim " What in the h*ll am I watching ? " .
and sitcoms, really all types of comedies and cops shows (although the white guys get the angry and women hating boss rolls too. home burglary, dumb teachers, all rapists, bad drivers, dropouts and dimwits.
In films and TV Series too there must be one or more POC to justify the production. Better yet is a mixed (2nd marriages) family with a happily mixed race couple. My mute button is almost worn out and tolerance for this stupidity is nil. The most odious for me though was the black cast of Hamilton. Yes, actors of all colors can be persuasive but perverting history is not necessary. The leftist audiences swooning over the ‘masterpiece’ was gag inducing for me. Naturally the jokes came with it…”What’s next a black Jackie?” Whoops, already happened…they claimed that title for Michelle the Mooch. Whatever happened to ‘Black is Beautiful’?
Electing a mixed race President obviously didn’t work to elevate POC bc it became clear right away that it was fraud perpetuated by the deep state to destroy the Republic.
Though it did take a while for some to catch up, now you don’t hear anything about Barack being the greatest anything.
They are, but they have to play the role of stupid ignorant dummies.
They are, but only as part of a mixed-race couple.
We are in the commercial, but on the non-viewing side of the camera.
We're the ones who pick up the bill for it all to enrage white guilt and build a consumer segment for the brand.
My son took an econ class in high school. He tried to explain supply and demand to me. Bless his heart.
We all have to learn that lesson at some point. Hopefully earlier rather than later, and in a classroom setting, not by real life economic problems.
Only token white males that can't count to ten on their fingers, constantly saved by strong aggressive women.
09/03/25: I saw one last night on Channel Minus Seven. I think he was D.B. Cooper.
Only the last twenty years or so
Or married with children
All dogs (I imagine) can smell. Only dogs properly trained can sniff out cocaine. Only racialized dogs (trained in critical race theory) can hear racial dog whistles.
As an example-
Our former church was of the Evangelical Covenant Church (hdqtrs Minneapolis). Several years before George Floyd they created/staffed a Ministry of Racial Reconciliation. (Never saw any evidence we were racially unreconciled).
2 days after George Floyd the ECC put out a proclamation faulting racism in general and police racism in particular.
2 days!!! You get what you subsidize!
09/03/25: Smells like a front for a criminal cartel.
As usual, I smell a bunch of reverse racial BS that really stinks!
I didn't know that dogs could whistle.
Let's just ignore David French, the conscienceless excremental human being who resembles a bipedal circumsized penis.
And yes, Dylan Mulvaney doesn't look anything like a girl. He looks like a character from a grotesque nightmare. Consider that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi opens the Ark, and a beautiful ghostly woman emerges, but then the woman turns into a macabre monstrous demon who proceeds to kill everyone in the room who looks at her.
In similar fashion, in this grotesque nightmare, lovely woman Audrey Hepburn morphs into horrid tranny Dylan Mulvaney, who cackles and vamps to our collective horror and disgust. We grope blindly for the eyebleach.
The horror.
Ignore French & the rest of the "conservative gatekeepers (as Rush liked to call them) that were or still are at National Review. Lucianne Goldberg would be doing backflips if she saw what her son Jonah has turned into. Trump truly broke these folks,
Yeah--Jonah is the most puzzling. I used to really enjoy his writing. He kind of did a Howard Stern. Stern is even harder to understand, bc he was very wealthy and didn't need to become a throne-sniffer.
We can never know another man's heart, but I suspect Jonah decided that he preferred the security of a throne-sniffing posture, figuring that was a niche that would assure him of a secure position in media.
If so, that's the height of cynicism and cowardice.
09/03/25: At some point in Stern's life, money was no longer money because he had so much of it --- it became merely "pieces of paper." Meanwhile, he had no morals at the start, and he has none at the end, which is the perfect playbook for becoming one of the cloned and corrupt b*stards that, earlier in his life, he had made millions of dollars viciously mocking.
I have never understood why any person would ever want to watch or listen to Howard Stern.
09/03/25: I had had, at one time, a very good reason. I got fired from NBC in 1984. When he got fired from NBC Radio in 1985, about a week later, he had a new job and in the fall of 1985, it was a delight to hear him curse out our former employer. Of course, that was 40 years ago, long before his wit evaporated and he turned into the Deep State Snake of New York State.
I totally agree; he's such a jerk. Supposedly his father told him "Sit down and shut up, you Moron" and it hurt his psyche or whatever drives him.
They should label TDS an epidemic except it only strikes in blue areas populated by parasitic lemming like creatures. The virus is most notable for the extreme insanity it inflicts upon AWFLS and alphabet/pronoun non-thinkers.
Agree , although shame on me . I think being afflicted with TDS is quite entertaining 😅 .
As well William Buckley, to see his magazine so sullied.
I cancelled my subscription long ago. Who thought it would turn woke?
lucianne goldberg was a feminist to the bone. we had a conversation once and as i left the discussion my eyeballs started to bleed. jonah was raised by his mother joe.
Maybe she woke up later in life. I only started reading her commentary on her site a few years before she died she came across as a conservative. I wasn't aware of her prior history.
“ And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
~ 2Corinthians 11:14
Yes, but...
French, whose mind and concepts are utterly pedestrian, is also WRONG when he trivializes stories such as Sydney Sweeney and Cracker Barrel. Both show that the culture is healing, towards normalcy, thanks be to God
Meanwhile, French opines with a bizarre take--far from the serious Christian one he claims he represents.
My mother had a great saying about fools...the last line was "he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him".
Your Mom was a wise woman.
09/03/25: Excellent analogy (Hepburn blazing into Mulvaney). Thank you.
"Raiders" was my all time favorite moom picher.
My #2, behind "Airplane!"
Sounding like what was the side shows in the circuses of old.
Wut?!
Well, dang .. I wake up to learn I’m a white nationalist with eugenic fantasies .. I thought my fantasies about Sydney were “something else”
Been sayin' for 75-plus yrs, "When I stop lookin', I'll be dead".
Hear hear !
I've come to the conclusion that trannies are only gay guys that like to think they're women. Eventually they will get tired of the acting, shaving, boob jobs etc. and revert to only their gayness or worse ... mental stability problems.
My theory is gay people won the war when they got the ability to marry. Then activists, never content to take the win, came up with a new idea, trans! Viola! Years of outrage, which was always the point.
Same as with feminism. A whole layer of people had made their living off early feminism; when it succeeded in the most important areas, they had to drum up other "pseudo-feminist" issues in order to give themselves a salary.
May have been the same with "environmentalism". You never even heard the word until the 70's. But once the overall population became generally appreciative of basic environmental ideas, that whole cadre of activists had to keep the money flowing by branching out into further, fringe areas, like global cooling, then global warming, now, "climate change".
One might say the scourge of America today is the legions of "professional activists".
And don't even get me started on the gigantic number of people currently making their living from "combating racism'. This has been very lucrative for them, and very destructive to their work ethic, because it has been a job that requires really nothing but a big mouth and a propensity for pontificating.
The only way to make a living from "combating racism" is to ensure that racism is perpetuated forever.
See Rev. Al and the Jacksons,3 generations ??
See all of the diversity offices in governments and large companies all over the US. Usually six figure salaries, too.
Amen to that and what is worse than a brassy, loud black woman who I guess hates herself or her imagine "lot" in life. As with the Crockett thing, no matter how educated she may be, she has no class and still comes off as ghetto. Lipstick on a pig?
True. Amateurs can't afford to be perpetually outraged.
There’s always a new outage lurking in the shadows.
Outage or Outrage? Although it would be natural for power outages to lurk in shadows, the history of the last 50 years or so has been the Left's promotion of one outrage after another, with the sales pitch always being "Human Rights".
We have to give thanks to former justice Kennedy for that idiotic ruling.
I think it was inevitable. Sadly
Yes. The Left will always take whatever wins they get and run them farther to the Left, no matter what the issue is.
And years of back sliding sand losing their point
I remember when my first husband and I took my mom & stepdad to the My Oh My club in SFO. They were fascinated seeing the "beautiful women" perform. I also remember my stepdad wondering what a homosexual was. My, how times have changed!
What was once "the love that dare not speak its name" turned into the one that refuses to shut up! As an aside, though, Dear Cookie, what in the world were you doing taking your mother and her husband to that particular nightclub? Wait; never mind. Perhaps I don't want to know. Cheers.
My sister took our mother on a driving tour through the gay district in Denver.
I think it meant to assure mom that she could have done worse in the husband department.
Thanks for the first out-loud cackle of the day. Just barely missed a coffee spurt.
a few years ago i took some friends to my old neighborhood where i grew up in the north end of flint,mi. as we passed my old house a teenage kid on the sidewalk started yelling and pointing at our car: "white folk in da neighborhood. white folk in da neighborhood". we scooted along with haste.
After the divorce, in which he took my side, my former and younger BIL, took me on the Gray Line Bus tour of Broadway in SF. Still closeted living with his mom in the San Joaquin Valley at the time he could safely count on me to go to movies (Auntie Mama, Some Like it Hot), Phyllis Diller performances, etc. After I moved with children to the East Bay to live at home until I could get my financial bearings he would drive over from the valley and we’d go to The City. The Gray Line Bus tour also had a stop at Finicchio’s the famous cross dressing nightclub (since the 30’s) where the MC was ‘Lucian, the last of the Red Hot Papa’s’, a Sophie Tucker impersonator…The performers were extremely sophisticated and talented and it was hard to believe they were men. SF was a lot of fun with up and coming stand up clubs, The Hungary Eye, The Purple Onion and where comics like Phyllis, The Smother’s Brothers, Mort Sahl, and Shelly Berman became well known. But then topless came in with peep shows and feigned sex on stage and the fun was over. A few years later my ex MIL was killed in a tragic car accident and of course I went to console my friend who then took the opportunity to ‘come out’ to me by introducing his new BF. I said “Well, Duh. Do you really think I have been oblivious all this time?” But in the late 50’s and early 60’s you didn’t talk abt those things. Just pretended. Years later I was there again for his memorial. No details but a very ignoble ending.
In my high school days, being a "queer" was only speculated or as one of my classmates told me when we were adults and was very ashamed: his son was a limp wrist. Well kids, all that is now in the open and there is nothing gay about it to me. Have you ever seen a man in a dress with a purse and lipstick but still sporting a mustache? Go to major homo cities and your will see things you can't believe. How about the ads for hiv meds with men kissing on commercials? Yeeks! Why do people feel they need to advertise everything about themselves? I wasn't raised that way so find it a bit uncomfortable. Keep your private life private.
Good one, Steve. About never shutting up.
That is the exact phrase my mother used when speaking of the 2 ladies who lived on our block back in the late 40's, early 50's.
remember when we all said that a tv channel created for gays would never make it?
Precisely! These "men" who want to become "women" are merely homosexual who don't want to admit it. Being sexually penetrated by a man is a woman's function as part of the reproductive cycle, so when a homosexual adopts the female role, it is only a short step to "becoming" a woman. Voila! Problem solved; no more shame.
They still feel shame so they project it on us claiming it is because we are intolerant of the behavior GOD calls intolerable.
According to Megyn Kelly they often suffer from being "undersized" as well.
My college roommate declared he was a woman trapped in a man's body. However, he took full advantage of his illness, knowing everything a woman wanted. Don Juan, before Donald Juan.
i am 77. i saw it pretty much the same back in 1960 at the age of 12. it still makes sense.
One of the most astounding occurrences about the arrival of DJT onto the political scene in 2015 and since, was - and is still - the unmasking of the faux “conservatives” who all had held sway over the Republican Party for decades.
Throughout all those years they had positioned themselves as the “opposition” to the Democrats policies and made endless promises to fight against those policies regarding energy, school choice, reckless spending, nationalized healthcare, etc. etc. and yet- never, ever managed to accomplish any of it. But they would “fight on!” they always promised!
Trump exposed every last one of them, the David French’s, the whole National Review gang, like Goldberg and Lowry, the Paul Ryan’s and Kevin McCarthy’s, the John McCain’s and Lyndsey Graham’s. They have all been frauds, liars, opportunists of the most vile order, fleecing their constituency and selling their souls for a seat at the table with the wealthy and powerful.
They only ever had pride instead of principles, and they are now revealed to be the lying, phony and corrupt hypocrites they always were.
Don’t forget McConnell and Cornyn, and Thune isn’t getting the appointments through, either.
Tragically too many to name.
They’ve all got to go.
collins, murkowski!
Indeed. That was clever of PDJT to get Thune an actual job, sit back, and watch him fail in slow motion.
I have said for the past 50 years the politician wants you to re-elect them by promising to fix all the problems they created . jus mho
With regards to the poll ... I don't think anything Bud Light does will regain it's market share. They FAFO real good!
Certainly the brand name of Bud Light rightfully took the hit it received, but it was the corporate entity Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), who purchased the Budweiser brand in 2008, behind the ad campaign. It is based in Belgium. I'm not sure the Busch family (St. Louis, MO) had much influence over the Mulvaney failure. Not that it matters, except to remind all that it was another EU leftist management vision that enabled it. The Busch's got their money and will suffer the adverse reaction to the branding mistake.
From GROK: "The Busch family's response: Billy Busch, an heir to the original Busch brewing family, publicly criticized Anheuser-Busch InBev (the parent company) for the partnership. He stated that he wanted to "make Bud Light great again" and even offered to buy the brand back, criticizing the parent company's handling of the situation."
they'll be fine. drinkers don't worry about the other stuff.
How is it that the Beyoncé ad hasn’t been discussed as much? Equally if not more suggestive
Because the ad would’ve penetrated less than 13% of the market. So nobody cared.
I was trying to be rhetorical
The Rhetorical salute you. 😉
U R raaaaccisssssssst for even mentioning this . ////sarc C.K..
F.A.T.I.G.U.E… it’s a thing.
the silent killer!
Makes you wonder. That said, I see Ice-T on those Carshield ads (and Vivica Fox also). Not much to talk about, but they do a good "read" for the TV ads.
Talking about ripoffs .
Who ?
On a much more important note, I'm sorry to hear your wife is battling an illness Don. I hope she has a full recovery soon. 🙏
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Love and best wishes to Mrs! You can buy frozen Bob Evans' products (I'm from Ohio, down on the farm territory) and it's delicious, reasonably priced and easy to fix. Buy at your local grocery.
Obey or else? I have heard that "you will be made to care" crap for far too long. Time to show some spine and let the leftys jnow that you Just. Don't. Care.
"some animals were more equal than others."
Cue the music: "Oh how I wish again I was in Michigan down on the farm."
What I learned from the Cracker Barrel ordeal is that I have come to despise large brands and their influence on our lives. Endless advertisements bombard us every minute of the day on the technology that we keep near to inflict that attack on ourselves. Most of it - 90+% - is all fake and overstated crap. If it is a food item, it is full of chemicals that will hurt your health.
The ordeal made me long for living in the country with only a general store (like the one I had as a kid in rural PA) offering many fewer choices but all made fresher and more naturally.
No aisle length freezers packed with a half dozen brands of ice cream in every manufactured dream "flavor" one could imagine - but if left at room temperature too long wouldn't melt into a puddle of cream. It would still be standing tall looking like it was ready to the scooped out due to the stabilizers and emulsifiers added to the other chemicals.
A good summer night when I was a kid was when my mom and dad said, "Let's get an ice cream cone at the Dairy Bar". And, if you didn't lick it fast enough, it melted and ran down your arm. It didn't stay in the cone like some of the brands today.
I long for those days.
Once upon a time the government gave civil service tests. So did companies. The tests screened potential hires for competence and personality fit with the organization. The organizations promoted from within so the guy or gal at entry level dealing with the public at the counter or selling the company's products to its users could rise to Director or VP of Marketing or even company President if they worked hard and performed well.
But a certain group was not passing the civil service tests in the same number as everyone else. This meant, of course, that the government had to get rid of the screening tests. Companies read the writing on the Equal Opportunity Office wall and got rid of the competency tests, too.
What to do? For companies, the easy answer to get the most competent people was hire from the Ivy League schools that did the screening for them with SAT minimum scores.
But these Ivies with expensive MBA's and no real world experience were not about to start at entry level dealing with customers who used the company products. Instead, they entered management where their decisions could carried the most weight and they didn't have to listen to customer complaints.
For a while, things went smoothly. MBA's from Harvard Business School shrunk packages while maintaining the price, outsourced manufacturing to China and replaced ingredients like milk and sugar with multisyllabic compounds that extended the shelf life of white bread beyond the average person's lifetime. Profits were good.
Then, one day the Ivies started teaching that "the customer is always right" means the customer is a right leaning MAGA Nazi Trump supporting homophobe racist.
And they still do.
The end.
…so, they decided to totally ignore the customer entirely and do whatever the hell they wanted, when they wanted, the way they wanted, and doled out out billions and billions of taxpayer dollars in the process to all their like-minded friends around the world to aid in the process. Great job if you could get it.
Yep , said businesses are dying daily . Forget your market and pay the piper . Breaks my heart .
The ivy league schools' "customers" were/are the far left, liberal Democratic party supported, new world order believers - assholes who have tried to destroy this country.
In a nutshell, that's how degreed liberal women were put in charge of Bud Light, Cracker Barrel and more clueless enterprises that are now trying to pick up the pieces -- with little success.
God help you if you wound up working for one of them. Mostly crazy biache’s
As the second term of PDJT gets rolling we are witnessing the damage wreaked by DEI be it in corporate boards or school systems but the worst of the worst appear to be in government. I have come to the conclusion Otto Penn had an EXTREMEly busy Whitehouse position leaving no time for press conferences. As for the judicial clowns,werent they all confirmed by vote in the Senate ?? Fun poll following good dive into garbage media so thank you again for doing a dirty job !
About 250 (!) were rushed through by the Schumer just between the election and the inauguration.
And our feckless Republican representatives did little to nothing to stop or even stall it.
And now they’re having trouble getting Trump’s nominees confirmed while holding the majority, albeit a slim one.
That Capitol building needs a massive fumigation to clean out the cockroaches!!
Yes, Freezeframe McTurtle and John Cronyism did America lasting damage playing GOP leaders.
2 wings of the same party? Hell will freeze over before 25 are rushed through by Thune.
DEI means Didn't Earn It.
I remember telling a friend, as soon as BHO got elected, that we had entered a new era; virtually if not literally EVERY AD, be it print or tv, HAD to have at least one black person in it, if not entirely black.
NOTE: The U.S. racial demographics in 2025 is 12.36% BLACK or AFRICAN AMERICAN, per Al Gore's Amazing Internet. Huh.
Thank you for citing that 12.36% figure, Gail. We all know that alot of media focus on a group makes everyone think they are a larger portion of the population than they really are. Like, alot of people think 25-30% of the American population is gay/LBGTQ, whereas I think the actual population has never been more than 5-10%, if that.
So I thought I was savvy enough to not fall into that trap, but I actually am very surprised to hear than the current figure is only 12.36% black. Historically, I know the figure has hovered around 10%, but I had started to feel that in recent decades there had been a shift, and it was at least 15% if not 20%.
Geesh--all this twisting ourselves into pretzels over 12.36% of the population. Can't we all just settle down and be PEOPLE and put all this flesh-based identity crap behind us?
You’re most welcome.
Yes, I like going to the cold hard facts whenever possible! (To the extent anyone can believe any stats on anything any more!! I said at the START of the ‘plandemic’ that the demise of trust was going to be the biggest threat to humanity)
Unrestricted abortion may have played a part.
Only speculation, but certain groups seem to cluster in the larger metropolitan areas, and those areas drive the mainstream media. My guess is that would tend to amplify the voices of the marginalised deranged among others.
Echo chamber stuff. They probably really believe that these groups are far larger and more influential than they are.
Back in 1992 worthless Willie was pandering to the perverts. At the time, they were claiming a10% share whereas while 89% of Americans identified as Christians, only about 8% regularly attended church and could answer basic questions about the Christian faith. Simple things like who Job is, who Absolom and Bathsheba were, and which new testament authors were disciples.
They saw that winning the LGBT vote was a greater gain than the loss of Bible believing Christians, most of whom were already republican, would be to the party.
GOD has given them over to their perversity.
How I wish that could be true. I am tired of dancing around words and things instead of just adhering to the Golden Rule and the 10 Commandments and trying to live my life. So much fakery and BS.
Planned Parenthood has destroyed the black population although nobody on the left wants to own it .
12.35% after the weekend Chiraq had.
I have no and will never call a black person, aka Negro and opposed to Caucasian (proper names) and AF and many I know do NOT want to be called that as they were never in Africa much less born there. More fancy fakery attempts. So much fakery in this world and so much lack of integrity and honesty.
where is the edit marks ( I have AMD and can't see too well) I meant I have NOT and I see other edits I would like to make but I guess you all get the gist of my comment.
There are three little dots (and it could be faint on your screen) just to the upper right of your comment that you would like to edit. If you click on those dots, one of the options that immediately comes up in the dialog box is "Edit". Click on that, and it puts your entire Comment into an Edit box and you can change things, then Save the revised Comment.
PS--if you are reading Don's column on a phone instead of a laptop or tablet, the three little dots might not be visible, or might not work.
Don’t you just love the rate at which large companies are experiencing FAFO and are thinking twice before choosing ‘or else’?
Having spent decades in the bowels of the first billion dollar company (known as X on the NYSE); I am overcome with waves of Schadenfreude as the cycle of hubris and nemesis is replayed.
Isn’t Schadenfreude one of the best words ever!
My friend spent some time in Germany teaching English to school children. He told them there was no equivalent in English to "Schadenfreude." What a delicious word!
"Joy over misfortune" would be too long. "Delicious Dilemma" wouldn't be quite true to the original, but it has a ring to it.
right up there with serendipity.
Personally ,I prefer Supercalifragilisticexpialidosis.
How about "Salacious Sympathy"? That comes closer to Schadenfreude.
I couldn't get through the entire writing without making a comment. I will go back and read it all, Don, I promise, but few things get me riled up more than 'stupidity'. Does no one in American actually read the ad, or just the people with brains? "Jeans" is a play on words. "Genes" the corresponding homophone (that makes me laugh) has to do with our make up. Please send the following to every ignorant liberal you know - 'jeans' are what you wear, 'genes' are who you are. Sidney Sweeney has good 'jeans', American Eagle jeans. Great ad. The fact she is a beautiful desirable young woman is in her 'genes', and if you interpret 'jeans' to mean 'genes', you're are right on both counts. She looks good in jeans, but she is a beautiful woman - period. AND, I don't care if she is white. There is nothing wrong in being a beautiful white woman. 50 years ago, I could see them everywhere I looked, especially in Buenos Aires. But that's another story. There was a day Halle Berry could have knocked this ad out of the park. I am too far out of the loop anymore to name a new young and beautiful black actress/model, or an Indian one, or a Greek one, or (fill in the nationality here). The ad isn't about race. It's about beautiful women looking wonderful in jeans, plain old, been around forever, blue jeans. These happen to be American Eagle brand, and I hope the ad agency who came up with this makes a fortune helping other brands 'see the light'. Now, back to reading Don's fine writing.
Well said John , I agree totally .