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Vol.XVII • No.XLIX

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Night Cap: Victoria’s Secret Apologizes to Predator for Trying to Protect Women’s Privacy (Chaos Ensues)

Tue, 2023-12-05 02:30 +0000

We’re on a rollercoaster when it comes to the global brand doing business as Victoria’s Secret. First, they got caught up trying to appease the #woke folk, lost a fortune, and reversed course. But now they’ve apologized to a man who wanted to try on a bra at one of their stores.

The crime? They made him wait until all the women were out of the dressing room before letting him in, and it got his panties in a twist.

 

All hell broke loose this week when a biological male who goes by @Microdragons1 claimed on social media that Victoria’s Secret better change its dressing room rules — or else!

“I went through a thoroughly dehumanizing experience at Victoria’s Secret today due to my status as a trans woman,” @Microdragons1 wrote on Twitter.

“I was trying to find a cute bra at Victoria’s Secret, and they made me wait until every cis woman left the dressing rooms before I could go into just one of them. They even made other cis women wait until I’d had my turn so no cis women would be in any of the 5 other rooms.”

 

Vic tried to apologize and even asked for a little one-on-one chat, but that social share appears to have outraged more than a few people.

 

 

The issue continues to be one this site embraced more than a decade ago with someone nicknamed Bob “Bathroom Bill” Perry. Early efforts to pass bathroom bills that would allow either sex to use either restroom with either sex present (based on how they felt about their sexuality at that moment) were met with the appropriate amount of derision and outrage. For what it’s worth, almost everything Bob ran on has come to pass without him. Republican Governor Chris Sununu even signed his bathroom bill wishes into law a few years later.

So, we’ve come a long way, baby. From a Democrat party that trumpeted women’s privacy rights to one that can’t wait to violate them!

Corporations are downright bipolar about it all – Over the summer (missed this one), Vic Secrets had hired Megan Rapinoe to help them take the brand in a new direction, which might have been what inspired @Microdragons1 to try a cute bra on in one of their stores, presumably not one already on a woman in the dressing room.

 

 

 

It is a world where creeps, voyeurs, and sexual predators have been given a golden ticket to get their freak on. When a business tries to protect its customers, someone at corporate feels the need to reach out and touch them ever so gently to prevent the Social Justice Gaystapo from crapping all over their brand.

Then, the normal people take them to the woodshed.

To whom should they listen?

The 1.6 Billion in sales declines after they went from runway angels to hefty chicks and travesties might provide a clue.

 

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Senator Angus King Has an Idea on How to Prevent Another Lewiston ME But It’s the Wrong One

Tue, 2023-12-05 01:00 +0000

US Senator Angus King, appalled by the bloodshed from the shooting in Lewiston, Maine (and who isn’t), has co-sponsored a different sort of gun regulation bill. He thinks it could survive constitutional scrutiny, but he’s looking in the wrong direction.

 

The bill would limit the number of rounds in a gun magazine and require gas-operated, semi-automatic firearms to have permanent or fixed magazines to prevent shooters from rapidly reloading.

Unlike other proposed assault weapons bans that he opposed, King said their bill focuses on the mechanisms that can make some semi-automatic guns so deadly rather than their appearance or model numbers.

The bill would also make it illegal to make certain modifications to semi-automatic guns. But it would exempt certain types of common gun used by hunters and for self-defense, such as semi-automatic shotguns and handguns that operate with a recoil mechanism.

During a video press conference, King and Heinrich said they have studied the constitutional concerns raised about past gun control measures and they are confident their bill will pass the test.

 

This slightly narrowed red-headed step-child of a gun-grabbing bill is, to borrow from Hamlet, sound and fury, signifying nothing. Democrats want more, Republicans want less, and it won’t stop mass shootings, certainly not like the one in Lewiston. Even a quasi-capable shooter with a ten-round magazine could cause significant injury and death in a barrel full of disarmed fish with just one weapon. (Related: Lessons from Lewiston, Maine.)

As with almost every other shooting to which the media and gun-grabbin’ pols append the word “mass,” the problem was -and always is – the lack of return fire. Robert Card’s targets were in a gun-free zone, and they did as asked. They disarmed themselves and were shot or killed. Angus figures that this must be the natural state of human beings because,

 

“The key here is in the midst of a mass shooting, it’s when the shooter needs to re-load that there’s an opportunity either for people to escape or for first responders or for people in the room to disarm the shooter,” King said during the press conference. “But if there’s not lapse in the firing, that can’t happen.”

 

Or, and here’s a crazy idea: you could stop disarming the “people.” Something that undoubtedly passes constitutional muster.

Ask proprietors to stop disarming them. This increases the likelihood of one or more law-abiding, armed “first responders” who can immediately return fire.

A strange thing happens when people are shooting at you. You have to find them and shoot back, or that plan to take a bunch of people with you goes sideways. If armed citizens spend any time at the range, the shooter may already be leaking precious fluid. They might be dead. A thing that is nearly impossible in a gun-free zone.

So far, that’s not been the case with successful gun-free-zone mass shootings.

State Rep Jim White has proposed legislation in Maine that actually makes sense. His bill would make proprietors of gun-free zones responsible for the safety of the people they disarmed by holding them fiscally liable for harm as a result of the restriction. It has no chance of passing Maine’s Democrat majority legislature or Democrat governor, and as luck would have it, congress won’t be passing the bill proposed by Angus King.

The question of constitutionality is moot. But the problem of disarming law-abiding citizens continues, and it is more nuanced than you’d like. A commenter on a past Lewiston post noted (and I’m paraphrasing) that by entering businesses that are gun-free zones, you enable them, support them, and disarm yourself. That doesn’t mean you deserve to get shot, but if armed citizens took their business elsewhere, and many do, you’d solve two problems. They wouldn’t get your business, and you wouldn’t be disarmed.

 

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Volcanos and Earthquakes and Flooding… Oh My!

Mon, 2023-12-04 23:30 +0000

As I see yet another volcano erupting – this time in Indonesia – it suddenly occurred to me: The Globalists want to dim the sunlight hitting the earth to, theoretically, fight climate change.  They’ve openly talked about it.

Stratospheric aerosol injection – Wikipedia

Let me don my foil hat for a moment and ASSUME that artificial induction of volcanos is possible. Note – ASSUME. But what a master stroke if true. They dim the sun – to cull us through food shortages and colder weather globally – and in a way that 99% of people will simply not believe. Remember, it was ONE eruption, albeit huge, that caused the “Year without a summer” that created food shortages and other effects.  (Bolding added.)

What was the “Year Without a Summer”? (history.com)

In the summer of 1816, the Northern Hemisphere was plagued by a weather disruption of seemingly biblical proportions. Following a relatively ordinary early spring, temperatures in the eastern United States plunged back below freezing, and communities from New England to Virginia experienced heavy snowfalls and crop-killing frost during June, July and August. Europe also found itself in the grip of an unseasonable chill. Winter snows refused to melt, and between April and September, some parts of the Continent were drenched by as many as many as 130 days of rain. The unrelenting gloom inspired author Mary Shelley to write her famous novel “Frankenstein,” but it also wreaked havoc on farmers. Crops failed across Europe and China, spawning deadly famines and outbreaks of typhus and other diseases. In India, the disturbances gave rise to a virulent new strain of cholera that eventually killed millions. The suffering in the United States was less pronounced, but many still felt the squeeze of soaring grain prices. Some poorer Americans were even reduced to eating hedgehogs and scrounging for wild turnips.

So what about all these volcanos popping up? Indonesia? Iceland? Kamchatka? Japan? Ecuador? Mount Etna in Italy?  Others I’ve missed?  All just in 2023. In searching, there was an article on under-ice volcanos in Antarctica possibly heating up and erupting, which would not just throw even more tons of dust into the atmosphere but, in melting the ice, cause calamities from water racing off the rocky continent into the sea – raising sea levels for real.  And let us not forget that the Yellowstone super-caldera is overdue, at least by some estimates, not so by others… regardless, it popping off would be double-plus ungood.

How will these cumulative dust clouds affect the sunlight hitting the earth?  Whatever impact they have, it will not be in a “good” direction.

But let’s assume they are induced. That’s a master-stroke. And I find the timing of the multiple volcanos all going off in one year mighty suspicious.  Again, I’m not saying that I am convinced they’re being artificially induced. And I’ll include the possibility that such a frequency of eruptions is completely normal in history and now, thanks to the internet, I’m merely seeing them rather than being blissfully unaware.

Global Volcanism Program | Current Eruptions (si.edu)

And it’s not just volcanos.  Earthquakes too seem to be “popping” a lot more than normal.  Not only do earthquakes do damage and kill people, potentially lots of people, but they can cause tsunamis which – pardon the term – can create ripple effects doing widespread damage.  Same caution again about whether this is a true uptick or just the magic of the information age making me aware of them now.

But it does fit in with the depopulation agenda.  Blocked sunlight leading to cold – and cold, not heat, kills in a widespread fashion.  Blocked sunlight leads to crop failures – hunger, starvation, and panic over dwindling food supplies.  Earthquakes kill, can create tsunamis, and a melting Antarctic ice shelf can flood coastal areas.  The image below is Gab’s AI to the request of “Map of US if the sea level went up five feet”:

 

 

So not precisely scientific and accurate, but it does show coastline disruptions.  Significant ones.  And while I don’t doubt this is alarmist, the number of feet is about right for my off-the-cuff guess.  But this would not a slow rise over years and years, but in a massive months-only pulse.

Here’s what rising sea levels mean for Boston, according to a new report

And all serve the purpose: create chaos, fear, and uncertainty.  Fear.  So while I do have strong skepticism about artificially-induced volcanos and earthquakes… and am deeply reticent to grant to the Globalists a credibility for more power than I’d want to give them… it does fit into a pattern.

One more thing, which I’ve said before.  Consider the tens of thousands of scientists that had to be involved in the development of the virus, and then the Jab.  Ever-so-carefully crafted and calibrated to create systemic damage to the human system.  Possibly editing the human genome.  Creating infertility.  And in such a “perfectly” calibrated rate and speed that few, even when faced with evidence, can wrap their minds around it.  Scientists.  Even more technicians.  Untold millions of experiments.  Now assume that the volcanos and earthquakes are, similarly, artificial.

Is there NOBODY of conscience willing to speak up?  What kind of hold over people is possible on this scale?  Across not just the virus, or the Jab, but literal manipulation of the earth itself.  Or is it simply a matter of this:

 

 

Because, even now, having made the case for how this would help the Globalists… I do not want to wrap my mind around their ability to do this.  For imagine if I’m right… the sheer hubris to think they can plan and control things this finely is just begging for Nemesis on bended knee for unforeseen consequences for all life on earth, not just human civilization.

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