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pride flag
August 31, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

‘Hate Crime’ Charge for Man Who Put LGBT Flags on Ground.

A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a ‘hate crime’ after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City’s West Village neighborhood in June.

Patrick Murphy is alleged to have engaged in a “criminal mischief pattern” alongside two other men by the city’s authorities after pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument were vandalized. Despite the months-long effort to locate and charge Murphy, the damage saw around only a dozen small LGBTQI+ and trans flags thrown onto the floor and several flag sticks broken.

New York City Councilor Erik Bottcher posted a number of photos of the small mess on X (formerly Twitter), stating, “If anyone thinks this is going to intimidate us or weaken our resolve, they’re mistaken.”

Murphy disputes the claims and has pleaded not guilty, according to court records. His attorney, Robert Gottlieb, argued: “It is preposterous to conclude that Patrick was involved in any hate crime.”

“The evidence will clearly show that whatever happened that night involving Patrick was not intended to attack gays or their symbol, the gay pride flag,” Gottlieb added.

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A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a 'hate crime' after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City's West Village neighborhood in June. show more
mcdonalds gay
August 31, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

WATCH: McDonald’s Goes Gay, Gets Dragged.

McDonald’s has embraced LGBT “pride” in its latest ad campaign featuring an interracial gay couple bickering over food alongside the subheading “couple goals.” The campaign was posted on X (formerly Twitter) with the description, “if that’s not love idk [I don’t know] what is,” and shows two middle-aged men fighting over fries and play fighting.

Social media observers noted how the commercial is similar to an old meme which parodies corporates for shoehorning homosexuality into their otherwise unrelated businesses:

The campaign has already flopped, with just 44 reposts and under 850 likes, despite receiving over 3.6 million views. Comments, too, were quick to criticize the post, with one reading, “It seems like gayness has seeped into every type of advertisement. #LGBT make up 7% of the population….but they still try and jam it in everyone’s face. Buy @Whataburger.”

Another response simply read: “Gross.”

McDonald’s is not alone in pushing the LGBT agenda; Chipotle began promoting its commitment to gay pride earlier this year after it launched ‘The Pride Edit’ featuring rainbow-colored T-shirts and other LGBT merchandise.

WATCH:

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McDonald's has embraced LGBT "pride" in its latest ad campaign featuring an interracial gay couple bickering over food alongside the subheading "couple goals." The campaign was posted on X (formerly Twitter) with the description, "if that's not love idk [I don't know] what is," and shows two middle-aged men fighting over fries and play fighting. show more
obama
August 31, 2023
William Upton
Culture
Media
News

TUCKER: Media Ignored Gay Obama Smoking Crack in 2008.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed in a recent interview that, “In 2008 it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men and smoking crack. And a guy came forward, Larry Sinclair, and said ‘I’ll sign an affidavit’ – and he did – ‘I’ll take a lie detector’ – and he did, [saying] ‘I smoked crack with Barack Obama and had sex with him.'”

Tucker explained the corporate media refused to report the story, adding: “Not because they were squeamish about sex or drugs, but because the Obama campaign said, ‘Anyone who reports on this gets no access to the Obama campaign.'”

Carlson blasted the corporate press’s bias, “…the media is reporting on government, but it’s also dependent on government.”

He added that the quid-pro-quo style trade-offs he witnessed between the corporate press and the 2008 Obama presidential campaign “…happens all of the time with lots of different issues… You think you’re holding government accountable but actually they’re controlling you.”

The National Pulse has previously reported on Obama’s biographer David Garrow obtaining a letter the 44th President had written to a former girlfriend detailing fantasies about having sex with other men. Garrow later released the letter to the public, the relevant passage from Obama reading:

“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.”

– Barack Hussein Obama, 1982.

The former Democrat President goes on to describe his mind as “…androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men.”

In July, Malik Obama, the former President’s half-brother, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Barack Obama was “definitely gay.”

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed in a recent interview that, "In 2008 it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men and smoking crack. And a guy came forward, Larry Sinclair, and said 'I'll sign an affidavit' – and he did – 'I'll take a lie detector' – and he did, [saying] 'I smoked crack with Barack Obama and had sex with him.'" show more
covid joke
August 30, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
Media
News

Louisiana Man Finally Cleared After Making 2020 COVID Joke on Facebook.

A man from Louisiana who was arrested for making a joke at the beginning of the pandemic has only just seen the charges dropped by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Waylon Bailey was arrested by a SWAT team with weapons and bulletproof vests on March 20, 2020, after he posted a joke on Facebook, reading “JUST IN: RAPIDES PARISH SHERIFFERS OFFICE HAVE ISSUED THE ORDER, IF DEPUTIES COME INTO CONTACT WITH ‘THE INFECTED’ SHOOT ON SIGHT…Lord have mercy on us all. #Covid9teen #weneedyoubradpitt.”

Local authorities suggested that his post amounted to a “terrorist threat.”

Now, over three years later, judges have found that his post was neither a threat nor an incitement to violence. Instead, the court said Bailey’s First Amendment rights were violated and that there was no legitimate purpose for his arrest. One judge stated:

“The post did not direct any person or group to take any unlawful action immediately or in the near future… at worst, his post was a joke in poor taste, but it cannot be read as intentionally directed to incitement.”

Bailey subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Rapides County Sheriff’s Office in September 2020. The case was, however, dismissed in July last year on the grounds of qualified immunity, used to protect government officials from civil liability unless they violate a constitutional right.

Bailey has since appealed the decision and is awaiting a verdict next month.

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A man from Louisiana who was arrested for making a joke at the beginning of the pandemic has only just seen the charges dropped by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. show more
assassinating trump
August 30, 2023
William Upton
Culture
News
Politics

Tucker: Democrats Are ‘Speeding Towards Assassinating’ Trump.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the escalating partisan attacks on former President Trump have left him believing that Democrats are “speeding towards assassination” as a final resort to stop the Republican presidential frontrunner from retaking the White House.

Carlson laid out, during an interview with Adam Carolla, his logic regarding the escalating political conflict between Democrats and Trump:

They protested him. They called him names. He won anyway. They impeached him, twice, on ridiculous pretenses. They fabricated a lot about what happened on January 6th in order to impeach him again. It didn’t work. He came back, then they indicted him. It didn’t work, he became more popular. Then they indicted him three more times. And every single time his popularity rose. So if you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment – and none of them work, what’s next? I mean, graph it out man. We’re speeding towards assassination, obviously. And no one will say that but I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion.

This isn’t the first time that Carlson has broached the possibility that Democrats might foment violence against former President Trump. While the other 2024 Republican presidential candidates debated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 23rd, Trump sat down for an interview with Carlson.

The former Fox News host pointedly asked Trump about the possibility of Left-wing inspired assassination plot against him, “Are you worried they’re going to try and kill you? Why wouldn’t they try and kill you?” Trump responded calling his persecutors “…savage animals, they’re people that are sick…” adding, “I’ve seen the lengths that they go to… I think they hate our country.”

Trump brushed off the concern for his life – emphasizing that not all of his partisan opponents are bad people – telling Tucker: “You have great people in the Democrat Party, you have great people that are Democrats. Most of the people in our country are fantastic and I’m representing everybody. Not just Republicans or conservatives. I represent everybody, I’m the president of everybody.

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the escalating partisan attacks on former President Trump have left him believing that Democrats are "speeding towards assassination" as a final resort to stop the Republican presidential frontrunner from retaking the White House. show more

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canada
August 30, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News
World

Canada Issues U.S. Travel Warning for ‘2SLGBTQI+’ People.

The Canadian government has warned gay and trans pride activists as well as the ridiculously monikered ‘2SLGBTQI+’ people to be cautious when visiting the United States after a number of states, suggesting “gay rights” in America are on par with countries such as Uganda, Russia, and Egypt.

Global Affairs Canada’s U.S. tourist advice page warns those traveling to the U.S.: “Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local law.” “2SLGBTQ+” stands for two-spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and anything else that can be thought of.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, was quick to come out in defense of the advice, arguing, “Every Canadian government…needs to put at the centre of everything we do the interest and the safety of every single Canadian and every single group of Canadians. That’s what we’re doing now.”

Freelance, subsequently asked whether this could strain diplomatic ties between the two countries, went on to explain “I think our government has shown that that’s a priority . . . that we’re able to manage that relationship, regardless of the choices that the people of the United States make.”

Canada is one of the strongest proponents of Pride, with two provinces warning that it may be illegal not to celebrate Pride Months in schools earlier this summer.

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The Canadian government has warned gay and trans pride activists as well as the ridiculously monikered '2SLGBTQI+' people to be cautious when visiting the United States after a number of states, suggesting "gay rights" in America are on par with countries such as Uganda, Russia, and Egypt. show more
August 30, 2023
William Upton
Culture
News

Judge: Sorority Must Allow Male ‘Sister’ Who Gets ‘Hard On’ While Watching Them Undress.

Wyoming University’s Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority is admitting a transgender student as a member after a judge rejected a lawsuit brought by six female sorority sisters. The six female students told U.S. District Court judge, Alan B. Johnson, that the presence of Artemis Langford – a 6’2″ biological male – made them uncomfortable and that Langford was not in fact a transgender woman.

Several female sorority members told the judge that Artemis Lanford would watch them undress, and in the course of doing so the biological male exhibited sexual arousal in the form of an erection.

Judge Johnson dismissed the lawsuit brought against the KKG national sorority organization and its leadership, stating:

The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today. The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman’, otherwise undefined in the non-profit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.

The judge acknowledged that while the KKG by-laws limited membership to only women, the same by-laws did not actually define what constitutes a “woman.”

Following the vote to admit Langford as a sister last year, female members of the KKG chapter spoke to the press saying they felt pressured by sorority leadership to admit the biological male.

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Wyoming University's Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority is admitting a transgender student as a member after a judge rejected a lawsuit brought by six female sorority sisters. The six female students told U.S. District Court judge, Alan B. Johnson, that the presence of Artemis Langford – a 6'2" biological male – made them uncomfortable and that Langford was not in fact a transgender woman. show more

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disney drag
August 29, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

Disney Now Employs Men in Drag to Greet Kids.

Disney is employing men dressed in full drag to interact with children and toddlers at its amusement parks. Photographs taken by disgusted visitors show two adult men standing at the entrances to some of the park’s attractions wearing dresses and feminine accessories.

One of the men is seen talking enthusiastically to a very young child – clearly maintaining his distance from the man – and blocking the entrance to one of the park’s amusements while wearing a bright red skirt and shin-high yellow boots.

The other is clad in a bright purple dress and hair band, despite having a fully grown beard, outside the “Bibbidi Bobbidi” boutique, which claims to offer “magical makeovers for royalty-in-training ages 3 to 12.” Disney came under fire for similarly hiring a dress-wearing man with a mustache to conduct children around the same Bibbidi Bobbidi boutique in May.

Earlier this summer, Pride and transgender activists marched in unison singing, “We’re coming for your children.”

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Disney is employing men dressed in full drag to interact with children and toddlers at its amusement parks. Photographs taken by disgusted visitors show two adult men standing at the entrances to some of the park's attractions wearing dresses and feminine accessories. show more
bryan metzger
August 29, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News
Politics

Blacks Who Back Trump Are Racist Against Themselves, Says Lefty ‘Journo’.

A senior political reporter for Insider has suggested that black voters are being racist against themselves for increasing their support for Donald J. Trump after the former President’s mugshot was released last week.

Bryan Metzger – a former Democrat political staffer turned Capitol Hill hack – posted on Monday, “[I]’m sorry but the argument that The Mugshot will increasing [sic] Black voters’ support for Trump is so insanely racist that i can’t believe people are saying it out loud.”

The post was viewed just under 600,000 times on X yet received just 284 reposts and under 3,500 likes. Metzger swiftly locked the replies to his post after being ratioed by just about everyone.

The Washington D.C. Young Republicans responded to the post with a video of a black voter declaring his support for the 45th President, arguing, “Ya’ll know what time it is, ya’ll know who were rocking with, man.”

Another black Donald Trump supporter, wearing a “N*ggas for Trump” T-shirt outside the Fulton County jail last week, told the media last week, “You wanna know why I’m here to support President Trump? Because they done did a black man like this for decades. Making up charges. I know Trump is innocent.”

Metzger’s comments echo those made by Joe Biden, who told Charlemagne Tha God, “You ain’t black,” if you don’t vote Democrat.

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A senior political reporter for Insider has suggested that black voters are being racist against themselves for increasing their support for Donald J. Trump after the former President's mugshot was released last week. show more
kfc
August 29, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
Media
News

Black Activists Are Mad at the EXCLUSION of White People from This KFC Ad.

Black activists on social media are apparently furious that the latest Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) billboard advertisements feature an all ethnic minority cast without any white people licking their fingers.

The campaign, known as “Sorry Utensils, It’s Finger Lickin’ Good,” was shared by KFC’s Canadian director of marketing, Azim Akhtar, and shows cutlery reflecting the image of three people eating KFC chicken with their hands

This was seemingly too much for one activist, who took to X (formerly Twitter) to vent her frustrations: “So yt [white] people don’t lick their fingers? 2. We still not eating this (in this country). 3. I just know it’s a Black person on the creative team like “I knew this wasn’t a good idea but they don’t listen to me so I just clock in…do my work…n go home.”

“This is why it’s important for marketers/advertisers to study art history and historic ad campaigns..the print ad vs the video came across as a caricature display of Black people..a picture is worth a thousand words….nahhhh this was a miss,” another stated.

Akhtar, in response to the backlash, begged those online for forgiveness with another ad featuring a video “more representative of Canada’s diversity.”

https://twitter.com/AzimAkhtar_/status/1695236090863493363

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Black activists on social media are apparently furious that the latest Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) billboard advertisements feature an all ethnic minority cast without any white people licking their fingers. show more