Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.
I’ve gone old school this Sunday, but you must try these fresh-baked cinnamon rolls. There’s something completely sublime about the yeasty goodness and nostalgia over the cinnamon and sugar icing. Mmmmmmm. Of course, my ulterior motive is to give you a sugar rush to endure our tour of last week’s Woke weirdness. Let me pour the champagne, hot coffee on order and let’s get to it.
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‘Save women’s sports’ bill passes House with zero votes from Dems, who call it transgender ‘bullying’ https://t.co/DwzfzR6GWY
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 20, 2023
“Zero votes from Dems”. Though this can’t be surprising. Democrats have used women for decades and supported the rights of only their kind of woman. How ironic when it has been women of the blue persuasion pointing a finger at Conservative women as submissive Handmaids.
They failed to consider the three fingers they pointed right back at themselves.
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This thing that never happens, happens again.
the statue has now been placed outside of The Gender Museum (KØN) in Aarhus, Denmark, which was previously known as the Women’s Museum (Kvindemuseet).
The facility was originally founded in 1982 to educate the public about women’s history, but in 2021 was renamed to reflect a shift in focus towards topics of gender and sexuality.
The Gender Museum justified the decision to change its name by claiming that gender roles had “changed significantly,” and that the emphasis of the museum would be focused to shift towards “freer expression” of all genders.
No, Trans Ideology isn’t out to erase women, don’t believe your lyin’ eyes. How un-inclusive of you!
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Here at Victory Girls’ we’ve discussed before the insanity of denigrating normative values and morality as white supremacy. Bad enough to be lectured on how personal success has nothing to do with working hard, now we have Creepy Joe making sure to punish the responsible and reward the profligate
Homebuyers with good credit scores will soon encounter a costly surprise: a new federal rule forcing them to pay higher mortgage rates and fees to subsidize people with riskier credit ratings who are also in the market to buy houses.
The fee changes will go into effect May 1 as part of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s push for affordable housing, and they will affect mortgages originating at private banks across the country. (snip)
Mortgage industry specialists say homebuyers with credit scores of 680 or higher will pay, for example, about $40 per month more on a home loan of $400,000. Homebuyers who make down payments of 15% to 20% will get socked with the largest fees.
Isn’t that just swell? Do well and get Creepy Joe to reach in your pocket each month to help your ne’er-do-well neighbor who always has too much month left at the end of the money.
And don’t look now, California is right there, too, with the redistribution your earnings scams.
Three major utility companies in California are looking to restructure customer billing, and part of that means customers could be charged based on how much money they make.
Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric filed a joint proposal this week for a flat-rate charge based on income.
Income-based pricing! What could go wrong?
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Somewhere, Sam Walton is exceeding 78 rpm in his casket.
“We want people to feel welcomed, comfortable, and safe living here” in Northwest Arkansas, Candice Jones, Walmart’s head of diversity, emailed district leaders, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. To that end, the company was offering to arrange teacher training sessions with a North Carolina-based consultancy known as the Racial Equity Institute, a group “devoted to creating racially equitable organizations and systems.”
Walmart goes woke? And then figures it just has to shove it down the throats of the great unwashed?
By August, teachers were learning that “perfectionism” is “white supremacy” and that “all our systems, institutions, and outcomes emanate from the racial hierarchy on which the United States was built.”
Bentonville—the site of Walmart’s corporate headquarters—wasn’t alone.
In nearby Fayetteville, the district’s public schools embarked on a five-year “equity plan” funded and designed by Walmart-funded groups, including a DEI “research institute” at the University of Arkansas. School leaders attended trainings on the “six tenets of critical race theory,” learned that “systemic inequality = trauma,” were drilled on the harmful effects of “microaggressions,” and sat through PowerPoints on “intersectionality.”
Do read the whole thing, dears, on how Walton’s descendants have gone the way of Abigail Disney, the heiress demanding moar wokeness from the company her grandpa built.
How the heck does this happen? That the children of such immense wealth and real privilege descend into a system of beliefs so radical one wonders if they were all dropped on their heads at birth. Consider then, since many of the old ways to conspicuously flaunt one’s status — fancy homes, cars, closets full of clothes, aren’t quite the head-turners of the past. The way to status in today’s society is the conspicuous flaunting of luxury beliefs.
Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class. (snip)
The affluent have decoupled social status from goods, and re-attached it to beliefs. (snip)
top universities are also crucial for induction into the luxury belief class. Take vocabulary. Your typical middle-class American could not tell you what “heteronormative” or “cisgender” means. But if you visit Harvard, you’ll find plenty of rich 19-year-olds who will eagerly explain them to you. When someone uses the phrase “cultural appropriation,” what they are really saying is “I was educated at a top college.” (snip)
The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education. Only academics educated at elite institutions could have conjured up a coherent and reasonable-sounding argument for why parents should not be allowed to raise their kids, and should hold baby lotteries instead. When an affluent person advocates for drug legalization, or anti-vaccination policies, or open borders, or loose sexual norms, or uses the term “white privilege,” they are engaging in a status display. They are trying to tell you, “I am a member of the upper class.”
As George Orwell once opined, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
And dears, I, for one, am tired of living in the world according to 1984.
Let’s switch to martinis, yes?
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A member of the Greatest Generation is celebrated.
A World War II veteran with no surviving relatives turned 105 years old on Friday, April 21, 2023 – and received more than 3,000 cards from well-wishers.
Ernest Horsfall, 105, of Preston, Lancashire, England, served as a staff sergeant with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers during the WWII, reported SWNS, the news agency.
“I say thank you to you all,” he told SWNS, adding, “I’m utterly surprised and amazed at the number of greeting cards that came my way.” (snip)
During World War II, Horsfall served both in London during the blitz and with the Allied forces in North Africa.
Thank you for your service, sir. And I hope your birthday was one to remember.
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Dear friends, I hope your enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Hug your family, call your friends. More than ever, we need to hang together or else we shall surely all hang separately. Until next Sunday, Cheers!
featured image original graphic by Darleen Click
Carol Marks says: That statue. Gross. Humanity is done.
Darleen Click says: It’s the man-bun, right? 😉
NTSOG says: I have a hammer and chisel. Now all I need is a plane ticket to Denmark.
Anna A says: I’m solidly middle class with an advanced degree from a public university (UNC-CH). I know what “hetero-normative”, “cisgender” and “cultural appropriation” are. My only use would be to eliminate folks I might vote for, though.
And I appreciate some of the foods that came from Africa and became part of standard Southern US fare, such as greens, okra, etc. I am also very good at using Filipino sauce mixes with standard US stew ingredients.
Cameron says: That the children of such immense wealth and real privilege descend into a system of beliefs so radical one wonders if they were all dropped on their heads at birth.
They are raised to belive that they are wrong and should feel guilt over having a nice life and that the only solution is making everyone equally miserable.
When someone uses the phrase “cultural appropriation,” what they are really saying is “I was educated at a top college.”
I love having fun at those peoples’ expense. I start out asking “How genetically pure does someone have to be in order to do anything from a culture? Are you saying we should bring back the One Drop Rule that Democrats loved so much?”
GWB says: Throw in “antebellum” at the end of that last question. It should really make their heads explode.
NTSOG says: “The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education. ”
In Australia we call such people ‘wankers’.
GWB says: Democrats kick women to the curb … again
You totally missed the inversion in the last bit of that tweet: who call it transgender ‘bullying’.
Yep. This whole thing is bullying from the transgender movement.
gender roles had “changed significantly,”
But that’s not really what you’re talking about here, is it? This is about erasing the concept of gender, in order to prove humanity is ascendant over nature and to prove yourselves gods.
I don’t see it happening.
Federal Housing Finance Agency
There’s the first and biggest problem. I know of nothing in the Constitution that authorizes this, at all.
will affect mortgages originating at private banks
Hmmm, seems to me they really aren’t private banks, are they? Otherwise they wouldn’t have to collect these fees on the loans made with their money. There’s a word for when the gov’t tells private businesses how they can conduct their affairs to further the purposes of the gov’t. It starts with an ‘f’….
a flat-rate charge based on income
And, how would they know how much you make? Only if the state gov’t gives them information that is not supposed to be used for anything other than state income taxes. Gee, sure looks like more of that F-word going on….
“We want people to feel welcomed, comfortable, and safe living here”
Then stop promoting perversion and racist animosity. See how easy that is?
That the children of such immense wealth and real privilege descend into a system of beliefs so radical one wonders if they were all dropped on their heads at birth.
They no longer have real battles to fight. Poverty has even been mostly solved in our country (when your prime health problem among the ‘poor’ is obesity…). So they need to advance the more fundamentalist versions of Progressivism: even more hedonism, transhumanism, socialism. Very much “luxury beliefs”.
And to all those living good lives – like Staff Sergeant Horsfall – saaaaalute!
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