The fact that a majority of Democrats aren’t just ceding that “wokeness” is a problem in the abstract, but that it’s directly responsible for one of the defining issues of the 2022 election — crime and public safety — is bad news for the Left.
“Peak Woke”
Makeup Giant Ulta Goes Woke Highlighting ‘Trans Girl’ Dylan Mulvaney, Customer Base of Real Women Revolts
Ulta may be regretting whatever marketing “genius” came up with this idea. In a recent post on Twitter, Ulta highlighted a podcast with two grown men in makeup and wigs chatting about what it’s like to be a “girl.” The makeup giant’s target audience is obviously women. It’s probably a safe bet that over 90% of Ulta’s customers are women. The choice to put men in drag in the marketing material for a company geared toward women is backfiring big time.
To understand the woke, you have to understand The Culture of Narcissism
The nature of the Left in 2022 is rooted more in psychology than political science. Specifically, liberalism is suffering from narcissism.
To understand how, it’s essential to grasp the true meaning of narcissism. In its clinical definition, narcissism is not self-love — it’s the opposite. The narcissist isn’t full of ego. Rather, he has no real sense of self. Where the self would be is emptiness, which results in a mad effort to fill the psyche with meaning. Lacking a stable and confident sense of identity, the narcissist hunts for meaning in therapy, self-help, sex, or radical politics. None of these can give meaning to empty lives.
Defence chief calls on Canadians to rally behind military during personnel crisis
The commander of the Canadian Armed Forces is calling on the country to rally behind its military as it faces an unprecedented personnel crisis that he says is threatening its ability to protect and defend Canada.
“We’re here to defend our way of life, now and into the future,” Gen. Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff, said.
“So we need a whole-of-society effort to help us bring the Armed Forces back to where it needs to be for the dangerous world ahead.”
“Woke” is not our way of life.
French city accused of ‘idiotic wokeism’ for limiting sale of crucifixes at famed Christmas market
There are 350 products facing restrictions at the popular market, including crucifixes which must be referred to as ‘JC crosses’
Strasbourg’s Greens have been accused of mounting an “idiotic wokeist” bid to airbrush Jesus out of its famed 500-year old Christmas market by limiting the sale of crucifixes and insisting they be called “JC crosses”.
The “dogmatic” restrictions have been imposed by a “special selection committee” from the Town Hall created to maintain the “authenticity” of the market dubbed France’s Christmas capital, which attracts 2 million visitors per year.
Jesse Kline: Armed Forces admit there’s no one left to use its rusted out gear
In case anyone hadn’t noticed, our military is in crisis. For years, we’ve heard stories about how Ottawa’s chronic neglect of the Canadian Armed Forces has left it with outdated hardware — sidearms that belong in a history museum, Cold War-era fighter jets, second-hand subs that even the most unscrupulous of used car salesmen wouldn’t try to hock — but a recruitment deficit exacerbated by the pandemic and a series of sexual assault scandals has exposed an even bigger problem: even if we had state-of-the-art equipment, there’s no one there to use it.
Canada is not the First Post-National state as Trudeau once claimed rather Canada is the First Fifth Columnist State – a low trust society destroyed by multiculturalism and identity politics.
White males, previously the armed forces largest recruitment pool, no longer volunteer at the rate seen in previous years. Small wonder, no one is going to sign up for a woke army that takes its marching orders from a hateful Liberal government that despises them as racists, denigrates their heritage and brazenly discriminates against them.
Good luck with the lesbian trannies Bananada.
Orchestra that refused to play national anthem accused of ‘woke nonsense’
The Chineke! Orchestra did not play God Save the King at a performance in Switzerland during the period of mourning for the Queen, at the direction of its founder and artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku.
In an email seen by the Mail on Sunday Ms Nwanoku, 66, wrote “The Chineke! Orchestra is full of musicians who are not from the UK and many who are the direct result of their ancestors being enslaved. We will not be playing the National Anthem in Lucerne.”
It has previously played at the Proms and has received hundreds of thousands of pounds in funding from Arts Council England.
OFFS, Just Stop It.
Mi’kmaw astonomer says we should acknowledge we live under Indigenous skies
As we mark Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we can consider how science as an institution has the same duty to participate in reconciliation as the rest of society does.
For science, reconciliation can mean, among others things, acknowledging the history of racism and exploitation of Indigenous people and their lands that science perpetuated. But another important part is understanding and incorporating Indigenous perspectives in research.
h/t DM
The Army of the Woke
The Army fell approximately 15,000 (25%) people short of meeting its recruiting goals this year, and some Pentagon officials focused on the tight job market as the culprit. Though access to civilian jobs and higher pay is a factor, the truth is broader and ignored at our peril. Rather than confront the reality of what is occurring in the military and the consequences of these actions, these same officials have decided to make blaming anything but the truth an Olympic-level sport and our nation’s readiness to defeat our adversaries is running in last place.
How Turbo-Wokism broke America
Oligarchs and activists are playing for the same team
American history can best be understood not as a single continuum but as a series of Republics, each arising from the ashes of its predecessor. The First Republic, born of the American Revolution, ended with Andrew Jackson’s Trumpian assault on the genteel elites of his day. Jackson’s Republic in turn collapsed into the fratricidal bloodshed of the Civil War, which gave birth to a Third Republic, ruled by an incredibly wealthy class of Northern-based industrial capitalists, which collapsed in the face of the Great Depression. The Fourth Republic, Franklin Roosevelt’s, was centred around the strong Federal state that won the Second World War, sent men to the moon, and overcame the rival Soviet empire.
Only baker in Colorado fighting ruling over gender transition cake
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple’s wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday urged Colorado’s appeals court — largely on procedural grounds — to overturn last year’s ruling in a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman.
Diverse Fat Activist Gets Paid to Lie to Children About Nutrition for Corporate Profit
Talk about intersectionality!
This one intersects a pair of fundamental corporate state interests: woke cultural arson and biomedical profiteering.
The LA Public School District (LAUSD), purportedly for the sake of promoting children’s welfare, published a “food neutrality” propaganda video in which it claimed the “diet culture” is “oppressive.”
Indoctrinating the Military’s Kids
Even schools on U.S. bases are not immune from gender ideology.
Gender studies aims to upset a stable sexual identity—either by sowing confusion about whether a student is a boy, a girl, or something else, or by actively encouraging kids to reconsider their sexual orientation. No longer limited to alternative-learning schools in major cities or wealthy suburbs, gender studies, an offshoot of the broader ideology of “queer theory,” is making its way into K-12 schools on American military bases.
Unparliamentary language alert! Rempel tells Liberals to cut the “woke s—t”
The s-word made a rare appearance in the House of Commons on Tuesday after Conservative MP Michelle Rempel implored the Trudeau government to cut out the “woke s—t.”
Rempel is woke herself. What a fucking Conservative fraud. https://t.co/zYfXOIoZsU
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) October 4, 2022
Yup.
From Superpower to Paper Tiger: Part Two
This is a recipe for losing the next big war.
Last week, I illuminated how President Joe Biden is forcing “wokeness” on our military and explained its inevitable effect, which is to lower both the lethality and readiness of our forces.
This is worse than the social experimentation of the Clinton and Obama days. Biden’s policies are changing the culture of the military, perhaps irreparably.
The other half of the equation is how we are — and aren’t — planning our military budgets to meet the threats we face from China, Russia, Iran, and other adversary nations.