I must be some kind of trogolydite because, for all the time I spend on the internet, I have never heard of or seen "Cocomelon." To assuage my curiosity, I went there and to my horror, I saw... WHITE PEOPLE! Worse than that, these WHITE PEOPLE WERE A IN A TRADITIONAL FAMILY UNIT! The ultimate insult was they were portrayed as being NORMAL! Where are the queers, trannies, blacks, hispanics, palestinian victims of jooish oppression, militant vegans and the rest of THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE GROUPS OF THE WORLD??????? The horror!
"Jonathan Turley pointed out over the weekend, Disney is being forced to reconsider its direction — because the free market is working as it should.”
Liberal Turley keeps saying things I agree with (?) and I think he's right on this one as several here at Don's Substack have recently said the leftists are losing their grip and Nationalism is slowly and quietly gaining ground. I hope so. I long for an election ambush in 2024 a la 2016. It might finally do Hillary in for good. Throw her in the SUV for the last time . .
My only concern is we are raising a generation (Gen Z) that has lost much of its acceptance of the free market concept. These are kids who expect their college debt to be paid because they deserve it. Kids who are shocked after 4 years of college that a job requires them to go to work everyday and work for at least 8 hours. Kids who by a slight majority prefer socialism to our representative republic. In 80 years, our country has gone from hosting "the greatest generation" to their offspring raising Gen Z who can't balance a checkbook. Kids who use Reddit and Tik Tok as their interpretation of reality. I can only hope and pray that if we are gaining ground and prevail, we can hold on to what we get long enough to make it sink in. When this generation moves up the ladder to replace millennials, Gen X, etc, will the free market concept survive or will Wikipedia use its liberal BS to define it as something evil and hateful?
Don, I found you on Substack (don't use Google) so thank you for standing on principle and moving your business here. Otherwise, I'd have less to do each morning, and it is much more fun to be here.
Since Oregon have removed reading, and math from the graduation requirements... that could be a serious issue. Mostly this generation is taught they are all princesses and princes and their expectation is that they should start at CEO pay while playing with their phones all day. Which is of course not how real life works. They have no conflict resolution skills, and no coping skills. We were taught to take disappoint in stride and get up and try again. If Z runs into a problem, they claim they are being oppressed, call everyone racist and take their toys and go home. There are exceptions but in general, I think we need to get schools back to the basics, and take the stupid participation ribbons out of everything but special ed.
Or. is a very sorry excuse for statehood.We are a socialist left coast abomination hell bent on destroying Christianity and nuclear families first while shredding the constitution with in-your-face laws rammed through dem controlled government and courts.
Yeah, a 12 yr olds mom sued the school because homework was taking her a hr = 90 min. It was tooo haaaarrrrd. She won. Stupid is as stupid does. I want to say Chicago but it was yr or 18 months ago.
What’s rarely discussed is whether there is any actual education going on in any/some/many colleges/universities. Thousands of people receive credentials every year, but go on to perform activities that in fact don’t produce anything. (Many are proud they don’t work hard at al.) Much of so-called STEM doesn’t create anything new or even necessary. A lot of coding (making “apps”) seems more like cut and paste than creating new. What’s the new basic science discovery anyone can think of? Is there a Bell Labs I don’t know about? I know the radical environmentalists would have you believe nothing new has been learned in nuclear physics since 1945, but that’s not true -that and a lot of real science is suppressed.
So - what purpose do these hedge fund money laundering institutions serve? It’s been said before - propaganda, not education, at all ages. So - knock them All down. First off - tax the endowments. Then fire all the admins. And while you’re at it, they aren’t politically “correct” - they are just political.
Good points. Believe it or not I am a Trump conservative in higher education. I have intentionally wedged in lessons when possible on the amazing industrial revolution, free market economies, and the necessity of freedom to enable a free market to thrive and produce.
It is nothing less than a miracle of free markets that this country in just a few decades (from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s) invented a functional automobile using internal combustion (which gave birth to the oil industry) and the world’s first airplane by a couple of bicycle mechanics. This industrial revolution obsoleted the horse for transportation and (eventually) the railroad for personal travel - and opened the planet to easier travel. The icing on this cake of this brief period was Ford’s moving assembly line that dramatically reduced production costs so a newly emerging middle class could afford to buy these luxuries. This was a huge leap forward in our quality of life, the basis of which we gave away starting in the '80s and '90s.
I fear that STEM education will be subsumed by AI and "thinking" computers and "work" in today's world is mostly remote and mostly involving the tech world. Their product is more service based than producing goods. Hence, my rant above as a sad reminder of what we have lost.
As for hedge funds, let's remove the tax-free, public institution status from all of higher education. Make them live and die by their balance sheet. Their public service is dong a lot to destroy what made us free and happy.
I fear that very few HS students are graduating with any skills, let alone the skills for STEM. Most of our STEM is being outsourced by our 'politicians' to accommodate big tech and other businesses. It creates a self fulling prophecy. They claim wrongly that we dont have the skills but our college graduates cant get jobs in their fields at least paying ones. So fewer and fewer go into it. Not including the fact the HS are no longer teaching reading, and math. India and China on the other hand are still pushing the hard math and reading skills.
I hope your are right. You obviously know more about it than I do. This evil deep state has attacked, and is eroding, every sacred institution that holds our society together. The minority paying attention can see it crumbling.
Just as the deep state has sucked the life out of society's structures that hold it together, I fear that AI will suck the soul out of humans, leaving a society of zombies ambling through the rubble that will be left.
I am hopeful a broader group of voters are waking up to the woke fraud.
You and I may see it as a tool, but others see it as “science.” They pretend that it’s just more coding by humans to follow a set(s) of instructions, based on the intent of the humans. Photoshop is a good example I think, but promoters wouldn’t use it - not sexy enough. Code doesn’t think for itself, altho the “intelligence” designation suggests it. It can do some things really fast - faster than humans - but it can only do what it’s been instructed to do. Those instructions must inevitably reflect the humans that gave them.
The common denominator here is DEI. The lack of meritocracy has created a number of these problems. In the days that Mr. Zuckerberg went to Harvard, even though he didn’t graduate, he was admitted because he was smart. The admission criteria doesn’t look at if you’re evil too, however, with that said, he was smart enough to create a multi billion dollar company. Today the admissions to Harvard and the other Ivy League schools is based on some sob story that you write on your personal statement. The individual who has the most hard knocked life gets in. Harvard and the other schools admit these individuals through a special admissions committee and they don’t report their true GPA. This was how Nobel laureate Barack Obama was admitted. His GPA is a more closely guarded secret than the Manhattan project. By the way, the Russians figured that out rather quickly after World War II. Another way that numbskulls are admitted to Ivy League school is in the spring semester. Harvard and the other colleges tell these geniuses to go to a community college in the fall semester take basket, weaving, or some other similar course so that they can get straight A’s and then apply for the spring semester. Then they are admitted. Their high school GPA disappears along with their SAT or ACT scores and those numbers are not reportable. Therefore, it looks like these schools are elite but in fact, the numbers have been rigged more than the numbers from the Fed. In my days at one of these schools, I found there was a number of bright individuals, but most of them were as mediocre as the rest. Many were the devil’s spawn from other well-known names in this country and abroad. They paid their tuition in cash and added to the endowment. It’s no wonder that the endowment’s values are dropping. These companies are failing because of these DEI graduates have huge egos but no substance . These companies will be the dodo birds of the economic strata soon. Our only hope is that they all take a plane altogether somewhere and the air traffic controller is another DEI hire.
‘F’ University…get a Trade. If you’re really hot on something, pick a few courses at a local or State College. No muss, No fuss and no soul sucking debt to turn your life into a living breathing hell.
See Easy Peasy Lemon Squeasy…and you’ll have as much ‘$’ as your ‘I’m a Professional’ buddies with more job satisfaction and way less agro.
When I think of all the truly wondrous history of Disney “magic”, creating places and movies and shows that the whole family could love and enjoy together, it is heartbreaking to see the depths to which it has fallen, having been taken over by the soul-killing ideologies of the wicked left. That in itself could be a once-upon-a-time Disney storyline: a once happy and glorious kingdom now covered with thorns, and brambles and spider webs.
And once revered universities now reduced to militarized factories pumping out wooden soldiers with no brains, just plenty of fear, angst and false hopes.
The infiltration of these once great sources of inspiration and learning by Leftist doctrines that crush all goodness and suffocate the truth, pushing divisive and destructive lies is heart wrenching, robbing young minds of beauty and truth, and turning them into miserable, fearful and hate-filled people.
Thank you, Sir Don, for introducing us to Cocomelon. A real MAGA story for that woman.
I voted against Harvard in the cat poll (or is it polecat) because they have a whole raft of sins, i.e. alumni preferences, excluding Asians, exorbitant tuition compared to their endowment, leftist fomenting, etc etc. Turley accused them of easy A's too.
A correction: As you noted they didn't sell all of the FB/Goog stock. They just sold a significant percentage, i.e. took some profits off the table.
I voted Harvard as well. They have had the largest and broadest effect on the leftist ideology infecting our personal liberties. Harvard grads of several generations are deeply set in senior business, government, and education roles that have had powerful anti-constitutional influences on this country.
I read their selling the stock as logical profit taking, with a side dish of knowing we’re headed to a market crash far worse than Nov 2008. They have the insider knowledge. They are a bell weather.
I voted Google because it is downright evil. I read a report many years ago which said that Google maps can track your movements even when your devices are turned off. The guy who wrote it turned off his phone and then traveled all over DC using various forms of public transportation and walking. Then he turned his phone back on and Google had tracked him the entire journey. Ever since, the first thing I do when I buy a new device is to delete everything Google. I use Brave as my search engine.
I can see that the GrandPa Surber has been doing his homework on what TV Shows are available to kids. CoCoMelon is wonderful, singable soothing and almost hypnotic.
Apparently Paw Patrol has added a tranny character, so avoid that.
Enjoy, Don…they don’t stay little for all that long!
"Harvard beats the S&P 500 routinely like a man on a girl’s swim team." - great line sir!
IMO Disney has been pushing bad ideas for over eighty years, i.e. a great many environmentalists and gun-grabbers got their ideas from Bambi and consider how common it is for Disney to have portrayed single-parent families as opposed to the intact variety. granted, those aren't as bad as what it's pushing now, but they've been pushing the envelope for a few generations.
there is one way in which substack itself is evil: one cannot simultaneously view the comments and the full main post.
We banned Disney from our home in 1995 with their Pocahontas movie. The theme song, “Colors of the Wind” was a big hit and had a nice melody but the words were pure woke long before woke became a thing - anti-American, anti-European and anti-white.
Doesn't break my heart to see things happening to some folks. I am disgusted by the lack of pushback by the weak-sauce administrations of Harvard etc. against the little children supporting Hamas and hating on the Jewish people for being Jewish. Let them all go bankrupt. I fear seeing this country become another Weimar Republic, and I know the rest of you do, too.
I am a big fan of Karma; at one point in my life not so long ago, I prayed for a sign that I could become an instrument of Karma to deal with some folks who had brought grievous harm to my family. To this day, many years later, the sign has not been received. Apparently my HPs know what's best for me(and, I actually listen.)
I remember Disneyland as a great place to go in the 60s.(Yeah, older guy. Shaddup.) As an official Sensitive Biker, I have enjoyed many films from Disney and their affiliates. These days you couldn't drag me in chains to any Disney offerings. When they decided to enter the fray against Gov. DeSantis and the parents of Florida, that was the last straw. Protecting and advocating for pedophiles and/or sexually mutilating mentally ill kids is a straight NO from me, and likely to elicit much nastier verbiage, including explicatives deleted. I am very protective of kids, whether mine or anyone else's; this is something that, if I encounter it personally, will end badly for the violator. I am very passionate about this issue.
There is a way to deal with these people. It's called NO COMPROMISE. Pull financial support. Castigate them publicly. Don't back down. Ignore the haters, at least until they try to harm your family - then, show them in no uncertain terms that All Bets Are Off. I am NOT advocating violence, but self-defense for family or other innocents.
Only by action will we prevail. Have a great day, friends.
Don Surber's offerings introduced me to Substack. I will be forever grateful not only to Don but to Surber readers who react to my comments. Thank you, one and all. Ditto to those who subscribe to my Defiant Jester columns. I have great fun spinning yarns about characters I've met over the past 88 years. I wish I could meet you all, face-to-face. That would be a hoot!
I must be some kind of trogolydite because, for all the time I spend on the internet, I have never heard of or seen "Cocomelon." To assuage my curiosity, I went there and to my horror, I saw... WHITE PEOPLE! Worse than that, these WHITE PEOPLE WERE A IN A TRADITIONAL FAMILY UNIT! The ultimate insult was they were portrayed as being NORMAL! Where are the queers, trannies, blacks, hispanics, palestinian victims of jooish oppression, militant vegans and the rest of THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE GROUPS OF THE WORLD??????? The horror!
Chuckles...
I can imagine you slapping both sides of your face like the kid in Home Alone...... Glad I remembered to put the coffee down.
Oh, the humanity!
Bravo!
OMG are you in recovery?
I had not heard of this either so I went to see. You are correct it is absolutely homophobic!
In fact I am astonished that YouTube/Google allows it.
Lots of wonderful content.
The best? Another month. Another Disney disaster.
Such good news to start the day.
May these evil entities go swiftly into oblivion!
Yup!
Dang, fella. And I thought I got up early. ;)
"Jonathan Turley pointed out over the weekend, Disney is being forced to reconsider its direction — because the free market is working as it should.”
Liberal Turley keeps saying things I agree with (?) and I think he's right on this one as several here at Don's Substack have recently said the leftists are losing their grip and Nationalism is slowly and quietly gaining ground. I hope so. I long for an election ambush in 2024 a la 2016. It might finally do Hillary in for good. Throw her in the SUV for the last time . .
My only concern is we are raising a generation (Gen Z) that has lost much of its acceptance of the free market concept. These are kids who expect their college debt to be paid because they deserve it. Kids who are shocked after 4 years of college that a job requires them to go to work everyday and work for at least 8 hours. Kids who by a slight majority prefer socialism to our representative republic. In 80 years, our country has gone from hosting "the greatest generation" to their offspring raising Gen Z who can't balance a checkbook. Kids who use Reddit and Tik Tok as their interpretation of reality. I can only hope and pray that if we are gaining ground and prevail, we can hold on to what we get long enough to make it sink in. When this generation moves up the ladder to replace millennials, Gen X, etc, will the free market concept survive or will Wikipedia use its liberal BS to define it as something evil and hateful?
Don, I found you on Substack (don't use Google) so thank you for standing on principle and moving your business here. Otherwise, I'd have less to do each morning, and it is much more fun to be here.
Since Oregon have removed reading, and math from the graduation requirements... that could be a serious issue. Mostly this generation is taught they are all princesses and princes and their expectation is that they should start at CEO pay while playing with their phones all day. Which is of course not how real life works. They have no conflict resolution skills, and no coping skills. We were taught to take disappoint in stride and get up and try again. If Z runs into a problem, they claim they are being oppressed, call everyone racist and take their toys and go home. There are exceptions but in general, I think we need to get schools back to the basics, and take the stupid participation ribbons out of everything but special ed.
Or. is a very sorry excuse for statehood.We are a socialist left coast abomination hell bent on destroying Christianity and nuclear families first while shredding the constitution with in-your-face laws rammed through dem controlled government and courts.
Don’t get sick - it’s not just Oregon. Those under about 32 don’t know much of anything.
Yeah, a 12 yr olds mom sued the school because homework was taking her a hr = 90 min. It was tooo haaaarrrrd. She won. Stupid is as stupid does. I want to say Chicago but it was yr or 18 months ago.
"I long for an election ambush in 2024 a la 2016."
As do I, but we'd do well to manage our expectations.
The left learns from ITS mistakes, and doesn't repeat them.
And ours keeps snatching defeat from the jaws of winning.
And our party’s neocons help them. Good to keep our powder dry.
What’s rarely discussed is whether there is any actual education going on in any/some/many colleges/universities. Thousands of people receive credentials every year, but go on to perform activities that in fact don’t produce anything. (Many are proud they don’t work hard at al.) Much of so-called STEM doesn’t create anything new or even necessary. A lot of coding (making “apps”) seems more like cut and paste than creating new. What’s the new basic science discovery anyone can think of? Is there a Bell Labs I don’t know about? I know the radical environmentalists would have you believe nothing new has been learned in nuclear physics since 1945, but that’s not true -that and a lot of real science is suppressed.
So - what purpose do these hedge fund money laundering institutions serve? It’s been said before - propaganda, not education, at all ages. So - knock them All down. First off - tax the endowments. Then fire all the admins. And while you’re at it, they aren’t politically “correct” - they are just political.
Feeling cranky.
Good points. Believe it or not I am a Trump conservative in higher education. I have intentionally wedged in lessons when possible on the amazing industrial revolution, free market economies, and the necessity of freedom to enable a free market to thrive and produce.
It is nothing less than a miracle of free markets that this country in just a few decades (from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s) invented a functional automobile using internal combustion (which gave birth to the oil industry) and the world’s first airplane by a couple of bicycle mechanics. This industrial revolution obsoleted the horse for transportation and (eventually) the railroad for personal travel - and opened the planet to easier travel. The icing on this cake of this brief period was Ford’s moving assembly line that dramatically reduced production costs so a newly emerging middle class could afford to buy these luxuries. This was a huge leap forward in our quality of life, the basis of which we gave away starting in the '80s and '90s.
I fear that STEM education will be subsumed by AI and "thinking" computers and "work" in today's world is mostly remote and mostly involving the tech world. Their product is more service based than producing goods. Hence, my rant above as a sad reminder of what we have lost.
As for hedge funds, let's remove the tax-free, public institution status from all of higher education. Make them live and die by their balance sheet. Their public service is dong a lot to destroy what made us free and happy.
I fear that very few HS students are graduating with any skills, let alone the skills for STEM. Most of our STEM is being outsourced by our 'politicians' to accommodate big tech and other businesses. It creates a self fulling prophecy. They claim wrongly that we dont have the skills but our college graduates cant get jobs in their fields at least paying ones. So fewer and fewer go into it. Not including the fact the HS are no longer teaching reading, and math. India and China on the other hand are still pushing the hard math and reading skills.
Don't fear AI.
As one in the tech field, and being required to learn a number of AI-based tools to service my firm's clients, it is very much like any other tool.
Its potential for damage through its abuse is no more than that of say, Photoshop, or highly skillful video editing.
Sheep ought to fear it - critically-thinking humans need not.
The problem isn't the technology, it's who controls it.
AI has been around for generations, but until now it was just liberals idiots who thought they were smart.
I hope your are right. You obviously know more about it than I do. This evil deep state has attacked, and is eroding, every sacred institution that holds our society together. The minority paying attention can see it crumbling.
Just as the deep state has sucked the life out of society's structures that hold it together, I fear that AI will suck the soul out of humans, leaving a society of zombies ambling through the rubble that will be left.
I am hopeful a broader group of voters are waking up to the woke fraud.
You and I may see it as a tool, but others see it as “science.” They pretend that it’s just more coding by humans to follow a set(s) of instructions, based on the intent of the humans. Photoshop is a good example I think, but promoters wouldn’t use it - not sexy enough. Code doesn’t think for itself, altho the “intelligence” designation suggests it. It can do some things really fast - faster than humans - but it can only do what it’s been instructed to do. Those instructions must inevitably reflect the humans that gave them.
Someone needs to unfreeze old Uncle Walt and let him run Disney again.
The common denominator here is DEI. The lack of meritocracy has created a number of these problems. In the days that Mr. Zuckerberg went to Harvard, even though he didn’t graduate, he was admitted because he was smart. The admission criteria doesn’t look at if you’re evil too, however, with that said, he was smart enough to create a multi billion dollar company. Today the admissions to Harvard and the other Ivy League schools is based on some sob story that you write on your personal statement. The individual who has the most hard knocked life gets in. Harvard and the other schools admit these individuals through a special admissions committee and they don’t report their true GPA. This was how Nobel laureate Barack Obama was admitted. His GPA is a more closely guarded secret than the Manhattan project. By the way, the Russians figured that out rather quickly after World War II. Another way that numbskulls are admitted to Ivy League school is in the spring semester. Harvard and the other colleges tell these geniuses to go to a community college in the fall semester take basket, weaving, or some other similar course so that they can get straight A’s and then apply for the spring semester. Then they are admitted. Their high school GPA disappears along with their SAT or ACT scores and those numbers are not reportable. Therefore, it looks like these schools are elite but in fact, the numbers have been rigged more than the numbers from the Fed. In my days at one of these schools, I found there was a number of bright individuals, but most of them were as mediocre as the rest. Many were the devil’s spawn from other well-known names in this country and abroad. They paid their tuition in cash and added to the endowment. It’s no wonder that the endowment’s values are dropping. These companies are failing because of these DEI graduates have huge egos but no substance . These companies will be the dodo birds of the economic strata soon. Our only hope is that they all take a plane altogether somewhere and the air traffic controller is another DEI hire.
Thank you again for another great essay.
‘F’ University…get a Trade. If you’re really hot on something, pick a few courses at a local or State College. No muss, No fuss and no soul sucking debt to turn your life into a living breathing hell.
See Easy Peasy Lemon Squeasy…and you’ll have as much ‘$’ as your ‘I’m a Professional’ buddies with more job satisfaction and way less agro.
Sadly State colleges are getting pretty weird too. But you are right it's cheap weird.
Woke as Coke™️
I voted for half a donut. The others are merely mundane evil. Leaving half a donut is in your face evil.
Surber understands
So does Dr Cat.
When I think of all the truly wondrous history of Disney “magic”, creating places and movies and shows that the whole family could love and enjoy together, it is heartbreaking to see the depths to which it has fallen, having been taken over by the soul-killing ideologies of the wicked left. That in itself could be a once-upon-a-time Disney storyline: a once happy and glorious kingdom now covered with thorns, and brambles and spider webs.
And once revered universities now reduced to militarized factories pumping out wooden soldiers with no brains, just plenty of fear, angst and false hopes.
The infiltration of these once great sources of inspiration and learning by Leftist doctrines that crush all goodness and suffocate the truth, pushing divisive and destructive lies is heart wrenching, robbing young minds of beauty and truth, and turning them into miserable, fearful and hate-filled people.
It is beyond tragic.
We need to take them back.
We have our work cut out for us.
Very well said.
Thank you, Sir Don, for introducing us to Cocomelon. A real MAGA story for that woman.
I voted against Harvard in the cat poll (or is it polecat) because they have a whole raft of sins, i.e. alumni preferences, excluding Asians, exorbitant tuition compared to their endowment, leftist fomenting, etc etc. Turley accused them of easy A's too.
A correction: As you noted they didn't sell all of the FB/Goog stock. They just sold a significant percentage, i.e. took some profits off the table.
I voted Harvard as well. They have had the largest and broadest effect on the leftist ideology infecting our personal liberties. Harvard grads of several generations are deeply set in senior business, government, and education roles that have had powerful anti-constitutional influences on this country.
I read their selling the stock as logical profit taking, with a side dish of knowing we’re headed to a market crash far worse than Nov 2008. They have the insider knowledge. They are a bell weather.
I voted Google because it is downright evil. I read a report many years ago which said that Google maps can track your movements even when your devices are turned off. The guy who wrote it turned off his phone and then traveled all over DC using various forms of public transportation and walking. Then he turned his phone back on and Google had tracked him the entire journey. Ever since, the first thing I do when I buy a new device is to delete everything Google. I use Brave as my search engine.
Thanks for the morning smile Don.
All the above would have been a better choice if offered.
A half eaten donut is a unicorn to me. It does not exist.
I can see that the GrandPa Surber has been doing his homework on what TV Shows are available to kids. CoCoMelon is wonderful, singable soothing and almost hypnotic.
Apparently Paw Patrol has added a tranny character, so avoid that.
Enjoy, Don…they don’t stay little for all that long!
"Harvard beats the S&P 500 routinely like a man on a girl’s swim team." - great line sir!
IMO Disney has been pushing bad ideas for over eighty years, i.e. a great many environmentalists and gun-grabbers got their ideas from Bambi and consider how common it is for Disney to have portrayed single-parent families as opposed to the intact variety. granted, those aren't as bad as what it's pushing now, but they've been pushing the envelope for a few generations.
there is one way in which substack itself is evil: one cannot simultaneously view the comments and the full main post.
We banned Disney from our home in 1995 with their Pocahontas movie. The theme song, “Colors of the Wind” was a big hit and had a nice melody but the words were pure woke long before woke became a thing - anti-American, anti-European and anti-white.
I quit about that time too. I was really sad.
Insider trading that is ignored - like in Congress
Good morning, all.
Doesn't break my heart to see things happening to some folks. I am disgusted by the lack of pushback by the weak-sauce administrations of Harvard etc. against the little children supporting Hamas and hating on the Jewish people for being Jewish. Let them all go bankrupt. I fear seeing this country become another Weimar Republic, and I know the rest of you do, too.
I am a big fan of Karma; at one point in my life not so long ago, I prayed for a sign that I could become an instrument of Karma to deal with some folks who had brought grievous harm to my family. To this day, many years later, the sign has not been received. Apparently my HPs know what's best for me(and, I actually listen.)
I remember Disneyland as a great place to go in the 60s.(Yeah, older guy. Shaddup.) As an official Sensitive Biker, I have enjoyed many films from Disney and their affiliates. These days you couldn't drag me in chains to any Disney offerings. When they decided to enter the fray against Gov. DeSantis and the parents of Florida, that was the last straw. Protecting and advocating for pedophiles and/or sexually mutilating mentally ill kids is a straight NO from me, and likely to elicit much nastier verbiage, including explicatives deleted. I am very protective of kids, whether mine or anyone else's; this is something that, if I encounter it personally, will end badly for the violator. I am very passionate about this issue.
There is a way to deal with these people. It's called NO COMPROMISE. Pull financial support. Castigate them publicly. Don't back down. Ignore the haters, at least until they try to harm your family - then, show them in no uncertain terms that All Bets Are Off. I am NOT advocating violence, but self-defense for family or other innocents.
Only by action will we prevail. Have a great day, friends.
One more thing - thanks Don for the heads-up about that kids show! I have recommended it to the DIL.
Don Surber's offerings introduced me to Substack. I will be forever grateful not only to Don but to Surber readers who react to my comments. Thank you, one and all. Ditto to those who subscribe to my Defiant Jester columns. I have great fun spinning yarns about characters I've met over the past 88 years. I wish I could meet you all, face-to-face. That would be a hoot!