Those employees may want a black Little Mermaid, or an all-female Avengers alternative, or for Indiana Jones to be replaced by an anti-capitalist woman, but they are a very small, very whiny minority. The overwhelming majority of people, at best, couldn’t care less, or at worst, are really tired of ham-fisted woke messaging in their media. Particularly when it’s being added to beloved franchises.

Even the like-minded leftists on social media praising the added wokeness and lambasting those who speak against it don’t actually want it. It’s all for show and you can see that in the box office. Disney has been releasing flop after flop this year and it’s caused them to lose the top spot to Universal for the first time since 2015.

According to Variety:

Disney slid to second place in terms of market share as its 17 new films, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “The Little Mermaid” among them, raked in $4.827 billion globally. In a note to press, the studio partially attributed the $80 million difference to the fact that Disney released seven fewer movies than Universal in 2023. It also went on to stress that Disney had the most titles of any studio in the top 10 this year, with four of the highest-grossing global releases and three of the biggest domestic releases.

Although Disney may claim their smaller roster of movies in 2023 is the cause of their dethronement, none of the movies they did release even crossed the billion-dollar mark. Keep in mind, back in 2019, they had seven movies cross the billion-dollar mark. One of those movies, Avengers: Endgame, nearly crossed the three billion-dollar mark and became the highest-grossing film of all time.

No Disney film even made it into the top three highest-grossing movies of just 2023.

The fact that Hale was a deranged and violent bigot is a big story, but the bigger story is the coverup. Now that we know she was loaded with hate, the measures undertaken by our own government, including multiple city, state, and federal agencies, to hide the manifesto should be considered criminal.

Here’s what the manifesto and Hale’s history demonstrate. Hale was mentally ill with gender dysphoria. She received “gender affirming care” to help her “transition.” Whether during this transition or after, she was indoctrinated into a radical leftist perspective of anti-White hatred that permeates across society today as a direct result of “wokeness” that drives both “white guilt” and anti-White actions.

The hideous mass murder she perpetrated against children was a result of this indoctrination. That’s not surprising and this won’t be the last incident because the “woke mind virus” will certainly lead to more violence. Unfortunately, it’s also not surprising that the woke powers-that-be were able to keep this damning manifesto under wraps for so long despite exposure through multiple levels of government and law enforcement.

They don’t want the truth about the trans-supremacy agenda exposed and if it weren’t for one brave leaker amongst a sea of cowards in government and law enforcement, the truth would have never come out. THAT, my friends, is the bigger story here. Children were sacrificed on the altar of wokeness and we almost never knew the truth.

I’m going to leave it at that to open up discussion in the comments on my Substack.

After revealing the extent to which Russia is currently winning the war in Ukraine, as well as unpacking how the global deep state has pretty much decimated the United States military, which used to be a force to be reckoned with, Prather spoke about the cartel invasion taking place at entry points in Texas, Arizona, and California.

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, asked Prather what he thinks about rumors that the U.S. military might end up waging war on the Mexican drug cartels. Prather’s response, in essence, is that the U.S. military is no longer a viable force to stop the drug cartels from taking over (this segment begins around the 16:05 mark in the video below).

“Our military has been infiltrated by espionage, and it has been sabotaged and interdicted as well,” Prather explained. “We can’t even have Border Patrol do their job. Under Trump there were, allegedly, special operations and special forces units operating in Mexico.”

“But to simply think that you can somehow put tanks and armed troops on the border at this point – the cartels are in all the major cities. The cartels are really running the Border Patrol at this point. Waging war in Mexico is way beyond our capabilities at this point.”

(Related: Americans are becoming so fat and degenerate that the “woke” U.S. military is having trouble recruiting anyone who actually wants to join its ranks anymore.)

The low-level drug cartels have become “corporate” cartels, i.e., pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Moderna that peddle the most dangerous drugs on Americans

There was a time, Prather revealed, when the U.S. military and law enforcement had some degree of force in Mexico and all throughout Central and South America where the drug rings operate. But after all those people were sent to either Afghanistan or Iraq to fight new wars, that presence disappeared.

As a result, the low-level cartels are now freely working with what Prather calls the “corporate” cartels, i.e., pharmaceutical drug companies like Moderna and Pfizer that now control the U.S. government right in plain sight – and most Americans seemingly could not care less.

“If Mexico is largely a narco state, then the United States is a pharma state,” stated the Health Ranger during the interview, illustrating this point in simple terms.

These same corporate drug cartels also now have a presence in communist China and are continuing to make their way eastward to end the emerging markets that are slated to overtake the Western markets, which are in decline and soon to reach freefall collapse.

Running all these corporate cartels and the deadly bioweapons they are manufacturing in order to also manufacture and sell the “cure” is none other than the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other three-letter intelligence agencies, which are working along with the infiltrated and compromised U.S. military to keep the racket going.

“It is the international intelligence community that is the praetorian guard of the world today,” Prather explained.

The ultimate, long-term strategic goal behind the intelligence community’s weakening of the U.S. at the same time that it enters China and other eastern markets seems to be to erase all national borders for the purpose of creating regional markets for their drugs.

“Moderna is DoD, which is CIA, which is DARPA, BARDA, and IARPA,” Prather further stated.

America is on the fast road to destruction. Learn more at Collapse.news.

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• Brighteon.com
• NaturalNews.com

(Article cross-posted from Natural News)

You can see it in the “crazy plane lady” video (TMFINR), in the “flash mob” shoplifting footage caught on camera, in the suicide numbers and mental illness episodes that increasingly flicker across our screens. From the mom who thinks her son identifies as a cat (and therefore should be medically seen by a veterinarian) to the outrageous indictment of Donald J. Trump for the “felony crime” of tweeting, it’s clear to anyone paying attention that America is suffering a psychic breakdown that’s unprecedented in the nation’s rich history.

What follows are ten examples of things happening in America that indicate a breaking point has been reached, beyond which we can only expect chaos and insanity to prevail. Perhaps that’s the plan, in fact, so that the illegitimate (election-rigging) tyrants in charge can declare yet another emergency and use their “emergency powers” to suppress dissent and shore up their illegitimate power. But they may end up dealing with far more than they bargained for, as an increasing number of Americans are being driven to the point of having nothing left to lose.

Historically, that’s when nations veer toward revolutions, revolts or even civil war.

Ten signs that the American people have reached a breaking point

#1) The lawless Democrats are drunk with power and are making a mockery of the rule of law in their desperate attempts to stop Trump by charging him with absurd, made up “crimes” while ignoring rampant bribery of the Biden crime family

Never mind that fact that Democrats denied election results more than 150 times — all without being criminally charged — before Trump was indicted for the very same thing.

Newt Gingrich summarized the current political situation rather aptly, stating:

“This is going to be a horrendous period. And we just need to understand: The people who want to control America and want to dictate to America break any law, lie about any topic, and manipulate the system any way they can, and that includes a lot of the elite news media,” said Gingrich.

#2) America’s cities are collapsing into violence, mental illness, shoplifting and ruin

Things are so bad in America’s collapsing cities that one enterprising individual is now selling “doom loop walking tours” in San Francisco. According to the promotional material, when you join the tour: “We will view the open-air drug markets, the abandoned tech offices, the outposts of the non-profit industrial complex, and the deserted department stores.”

Perhaps this is the future revenue model for America’s collapsed, democrat-run cities: Sell tickets to tourists who marvel at the shock and awe of the demise of once-great cities that have now collapsed into ruin and despair under the incompetent leadership of Democrats.

See also: Blue cities are getting it good and hard. An eye-opening read.

#3) The corporations are going insane with virtue signaling, like Skittles candy promoting “Black Trans Lives Matter” propaganda or Target promoting genital-mutilation swimsuits for children

Skittles now has a new line of diabetes-promoting candies for blacks, pandering the trans blacks in a lame attempt at double-layered virtue signaling.

Target is being punished for its runaway virtue signaling failure, after pushing mutilated genital-fitting swimwear for children and enduring a boycott backlash from people who are fed up with the LGBT vomit being pushed by globalist corporations like Target.

#4) More and more Americans are waking up to the “theft by inflation” caused by Biden’s never-ending money printing, and they are angry

The following video, posted by Wall Street Silver on Twitter (X) and covered on InfoWars, shows people who appear to be oblivious and shocked that the purchasing power of their dollars is rapidly vanishing as the criminal Biden regime prints endless trillions in fake fiat currency. What did these people expect would happen? How can inflation be a surprise at all?

The cost of living crisis is astronomical everywhere. It feels like we're just working to barely survive

Compilation of videos with people talking about the struggle going on.

This is a must watch video.

pic.twitter.com/29AZExlnwX

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) August 15, 2023

#5) It’s now obvious that the 2020 election was stolen, and that the Biden regime completely ignores whatever court rulings it doesn’t like

For example, the Biden regime has just announced it will ignore the US Supreme Court’s ruling on student loans and will proceed to pay off $39 billion student loans using taxpayer money. The rule of law means nothing to the Biden regime. They do whatever they want, and they will continue to do so until they are removed from power.

#6) False flag operations being run against the American people are getting sloppy and obvious (such as the Maui fires)

Have you noticed how sloppy the Lahaina fire operation was? It’s almost like they no longer care that people are aware it was all staged: The warning sirens were turned off, the fire department was ordered to stand down, the roads were blocked, and now we learn that the local water supply was turned off to make sure no one could fight the fires themselves.

Right after hundreds of children were burned alive, Hawaii’s governor swoops in and declares that he can’t wait to have the government of Hawaii seize that land and take it away from those whose children died there.

This is the tyranny you get when you vote for Democrats.

#7) Pedophilia is fully embraced by Democrats and the Left, who now oppose films and articles that expose rampant pedophilia and child trafficking

The Democrat party in America is the pro-pedo party. They worship pedophiles and child groomers / mutilators. They pretend child sex trafficking doesn’t exist, even as they routinely engage in it. In Germany, a public radio station even promotes “sympathy” for pedophiles. Because, you know, it’s mean to criticize them… or something.

#8) The climate cult has expanded into a globally shared mental illness where brainwashed people imagine the planet being destroyed unless they exterminate billions of humans to stop their activity

The level of mass mental illness that has been inflicted upon the people is unprecedented. Quite literally, America’s children live in terror, thinking their cities will be inundated with 40 feet of ocean water at any moment, or that they will boil alive if people don’t stop driving SUVs. They’ve been terrorized into believing that carbon dioxide is a poison, and that eliminating CO2 would somehow “green” the Earth even though the very term “green” comes from photosynthesis, which requires CO2 to function.

Those who believe the climate cult are truly some of the most psyop-inflicted cognitive victims spanning all of human history. And like all cult members, they fail to see they’re in a cult. (But they demand you join them…)

#9) The development of depopulation bioweapons continues to be funded by the U.S. government, with near-zero effort by any member of Congress to de-fund the mad science experiments

The DoD is still building biological weapons. The CDC and FDA keep pushing them. And oblivious people keep lining up to be injected with them. Vaccine-assisted suicide is the new euthanasia.

#10) It’s finally becoming undeniable that the USA, NATO and Ukraine have lost the war with Russia

This was bound to happen sooner or later, but it has now become undeniable that NATO, the USA and Ukraine have lost the war with Russia. The heavily-touted “counteroffensive” has fizzled. Ukraine has run out of men, and the West has run out of ammunition.

The Criminal-In-Chief Joe Biden thinks he can just print more money and promise more weapons to somehow beat Russia on the ground in Eastern Ukraine, but it turns out that counterfeiting more currency doesn’t stop Russian artillery shells and kamikaze drones from devastating their intended targets.

If you want to see a huge collection of videos of Russian drones, tanks and artillery devastating Western equipment in Ukraine, take a peek at the Intel Slava Z channel on Telegram.

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This is what you see in almost every Barnes & Noble store. When they say “We’re coming for your kids,” they’re not kidding.

This is what you see in almost every Barnes & Noble store.

When they say “We’re coming for your kids,” they’re not kidding. pic.twitter.com/Vrqa3dc5nS

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 7, 2023

The presence of an child indoctrination book at a bookstore is nothing new. Any major book retailer that has a children’s section will have these types of brainwashing books mixed in. But Barnes & Noble has made it a priority to not only display these books in their own section, but to make it prominent in just about every store in America.

We cannot stop the radicals who take their kids to drag shows or push them to switch genders before Kindergarten, but we can strive to classify both pervert freak shows and genital mutilation as activities or adults only. In the same vein, we cannot prevent retailers from carrying indoctrination materials, but we can punish them by withholding our money when they actively and aggressively promote the brainwashing.

It’s time to buy books from companies that aren’t trying to confuse children or empower woke parents with brainwashing materials. Boycott Barnes & Noble.

Instead of focusing on building the best fighting force in the world, the Biden administration is promoting officers based on racial and cultural “equity.” They have launched a full-court press to root out alleged “white supremacy” in the military. The administration’s “extremism stand-down day” in 2021 and diversity, equity, and inclusion training requirements reportedly used up nearly 5.9 million man-hours across the service branches. And the Navy issued training materials stating that conservative views of “marriage, abortion, and LGBTQ rights” are “not considered mainstream.”

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking Republican member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, says that by the end of this year, “there will be 30,000 fewer active-duty soldiers than the day President Biden took the oath of office. Public trust in the military is also plummeting. The Reagan Institute found that under 50% of Americans trust the military, down from 70% a few years ago.”

In trying to shift blame for the mess he has created, Biden is demonizing Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., because he is holding up military nominations and promotions to protest the Defense Department’s policy of paying for abortion-related expenses of service members and their dependents. Longstanding congressional policy strictly limits taxpayer funding of abortions in the military and other federal programs. Biden supported such funding limits for decades as a senator but suddenly flipped on the policy as a candidate for president in 2019.

The House of Representatives has approved a national defense authorization bill that reins in Biden’s radical cultural policies, but his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, claims that the bill will never make it to Biden’s desk. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” program, Sullivan disingenuously blamed the amendments in the defense bill on “a small group of Republicans” who “created a trap we don’t need to find ourselves in.”

Sullivan went on to denounce Tuberville for placing a hold on the military nominations and promotions, claiming his protest of Biden’s abortion policy “is making America less safe” and that Tuberville’s action is an “attempt to score domestic, political points.”

Never mind that Biden initiated the legally suspect funding for abortion-related expenses and other divisive cultural policies. The commander-in-chief seems more determined to push his radical cultural agenda in the military than to address the dangerous decline in military readiness and recruitment on his watch.

More than 5,000 veterans have stepped up to support Tuberville’s principled stand and to urge Biden’s Department of Defense to reverse course. In a letter to Senate leaders Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the veterans say Biden’s policy “is not just illegal, it shamefully politicizes the military, circumvents the authority of Congress, and exceeds the authority of the Department of Defense.”

They argue that Biden’s policies have caused “an unprecedented crisis of recruitment” and that the focus of our military “must be on keeping the American people safe, not advancing the left-wing social agenda.”

The veterans go on to say that the mission of the U.S. military “is to defend and protect all American lives—not subsidize the practice of destroying innocent and vulnerable American children via abortion with taxpayer dollars.” They conclude by commending Tuberville for “doing a great service for the American people—including its service members.”

Political correspondent Byron York has pointed out that Senate Democrats held up a much larger number of military promotions in 2020 to protect the status of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who played a key role in bringing a whistleblower complaint against then-President Donald Trump. It is time for Biden to recognize that his core responsibility as commander-in-chief is to protect the American people, not impose a radical cultural agenda on those who risk their lives to protect our freedoms.

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“We do not seek to liberate blacks at the price of the humiliation of the whites.” -Martin Luther King

Unbiased civil liberties and rights is the most fundamental value for Americans. Yet sixty years ago, American citizens of all races, ages, sexes, colors, and religions were not entitled to harvest these benefits equally. In a republican nation where the majority could not disenfranchise the minority, it took average white and Black citizens to mitigate and rectify these heretical societal incongruities.

Martin Luther King united people of all colors to crusade against the Democrats’ segregation in the South, which powered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the evils of segregation died with the Civil Rights Movement, The Civil Rights Act outlawed all discrimination against Americans based upon gender, race, color, age, nationality, religion and political beliefs. Unfortunately, too few realize this.

Former segregationist Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. But by the end of his first term in office, riots had broken out around our nation. His efforts to compensate for years of segregation and discrimination failed miserably.

“A leopard cannot change his stripes.” – Al Gore

Woke history does not reveal that Richard Nixon shaped the civil-rights landscape of today. He desegregated schools and nationalized the Voting Rights Act. He gave billions to Black colleges. He created affirmative action hiring and education goals for government colleges and business.

From Nixon’s friendship with Martin Luther King, to his last days in office shadowed by Watergate, Nixon made time to meet with Black college presidents to see how he could best execute the Civil Rights Act. Black business leader Robert Brown, Nixon’s head of the civil rights commission, said, “Richard Nixon did more for middle class Black America than any president in American history.”

Since Richard Nixon left office, we’ve had affirmative action programs and federal mandates to “fill quotas” for corporations, college admissions and hiring. Although The Civil Rights Act protects the rights of all Americans equally, progressives tell identity groups it did nothing for them. If you dare to challenge a progressive about their lies, deception and disinformation, they claim you are racist.

Wokes purposely wrote Richard Nixon’s civil rights accomplishments out of history. If they didn’t, they could never accuse white people and the GOP of racism against Blacks: Yet they benefited most from them.

“A good job and a good education are important civil rights.” – Richard Nixon

Progressives say the Civil Rights Act is racist since it protects everyone equally. Their new social formula is “DEI.” Since “quotas” are unconstitutional, to appeal to identity groups, they call quotas “diversity.” They equate “equality” as more “ethnic groups” than whites. The newest twist in their portfolio is “inclusion.” All identity groups should feel happy and cared for in school and on the job.

Since most colleges are breeding grounds for new progressives, they have no problems with DEI requirements. Although DEI provisions are unconstitutional, they flaunt them proudly. And it’s also contagious. Since the election of Barack Obama, corporations now have DEI requirements also.

You can’t force a job applicant to say they will engage in social engineering. Yet DEI testaments are part of applications for college admission and for academic jobs. DEI testaments say you will cohere to the tenets of DEI. You are judged on how you will adhere to a companies enforcement of Critical Race Theory. They are read and judged before work experience and academic credentials are ever assessed.

“We hire the best people for the job and never think of their race.” – Steve Jobs.

If you don’t meet the companies social philosophy for DEI, your job application will be trashed. No applicant who says they “will treat all people equally” will be hired. You dare not repeat what Dr. King said: “People should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.”

Companies designate specific jobs for ethnic applicants, which is against the law. They know it is illegal but do it to appease wokes and not fall in disfavor with government and liberal media.

“We seek to liberate American society and to help all people liberate themselves.” – Martin Luther King

It isn’t surprising that most diversity programs aren’t increasing diversity. Despite a few new bells whistles and buzz words used by big tech data firms, companies are basically doubling down on the same approaches they’ve used since the 1960s. DEI testaments are just for widow dressing.

Harvard business school analyzed three decades of data from over 800 U.S. firms and consulted with hundreds of HR managers. The majority said DEI doesn’t work. They believe they get better results without control tactics. It’s more effective for managers to solve problems with on-the-job contact with female and minority workers. This promotes fair and unbiased social accountability.

HR managers claimed that’s why interventions, such as targeted college recruitment, mentoring programs, self-managed teams, and task forces have boosted diversity in businesses. The most effective solutions aren’t designed with diversity in mind. They work because they don’t have to meet ethnic or gender quotas. Neither the interviewer nor applicant is intimidated or pressured.

Freethinker Robert Ingersoll once said, “An opportunity given to one is taken from another.” The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to protect the rights of all Americans equally. Richard Nixon created programs to address concerns about enforcing it. The quota systems of the 60s and 70s worked for some and deprived others of opportunities and that is why they were declared illegal.

Major league sports is dominated by minority athletes, especially professional basketball. Should an owner of an NBA franchise be forced to have an equal number of white and Black players on his team? During the next NFL draft, will they make team owners choose players by race or ethnicity?

According to Census data, white men make up 31% of the population while Black men make up 8%. Since white males have all but disappeared from TV commercials, does DEI mean that we must reverse this lopsided trend and start giving acting jobs to more white male Americans again?

Employers should focus recruitment efforts on sources that are likely to provide a diverse pool of candidates. But they cannot legally state a preference for candidates of any race or gender. Ideally, targeted recruitment will increase the diversity of the candidate pools from which an employer is selecting. Through a neutral selection process, the workforce will naturally become more diverse. Besides being unconstitutional, there is no need to implement arbitrary hiring goals or use race in any way in the hiring process. Any hiring practice that looks like a quota is a quota.

“Please forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.” – Robert Frost

Article cross-posted from The Center Square.

The framework, outlined in a 1,000-page guidance document, underwent four years of revision and three drafts based on public feedback.

The critics claim that the framework incorporates concepts of social justice, political activism, and environmental justice into the math curriculum. They argue that the emphasis on these topics detracts from the mastery of math skills.

On the other hand, proponents, such as Mary Nicely, the state’s chief deputy superintendent of public instruction, believe that the framework provides equitable access to math instruction.

“The framework has struck a great balance in new ways to engage students in developing a love for math while supporting those on an accelerated path,” Ms. Nicely said in a statement. “Our State Superintendent is a champion of equity and excellence, and it is our core mission that every child—regardless of race, ZIP code, or background—has access to a quality education.”

The guidance outlines key strategies such as structuring math instruction around integrated “big ideas,” emphasizing problem-solving and critical thinking, connecting math to real-world applications, incorporating culturally relevant content, fostering inquiry-based learning, and promoting fluency in math concepts and algorithms.

Opponents of the framework, represented by SaveMath.net, founded by private math tutor and former teacher Michael Malione, raise concerns about the lack of vetting for the concept of “big ideas” and the limited involvement of individuals with advanced math degrees in its development.

Mr. Malione argues on his website that the framework’s focus on “social justice” will harm students and that it devotes too little attention to math content standards.

“Typically, a curriculum framework would orient around the content standards regarding when and how they should be taught—to provide guidance to educators, parents, and textbook publishers. The SFR draft framework does not,” he states on his website.

Mr. Malione points out that the framework promotes the use of math to explore concepts of fairness in relation to various social issues and encourages student political activism. It also emphasizes racial justice, equity, gender inclusivity, and trauma-informed pedagogy in math education.

“One would think the proposed math framework would focus on describing how to convey the required math subject content in detail, but unfortunately, it does not,” his website states. The state’s framework from 2013, by contrast, devotes 66 percent “of its total text (approximately 7,200/10,900 lines of text) to implementing math content standards.”

The California State Board of Education states that the framework aims to align math concepts across grade levels, ensure equal access to high school math pathways, provide multiple approaches to support student progress, expand course options, and develop data literacy skills.

Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the California State Board of Education, praised the framework for its focus on excellence with equity. Change is imperative, she believes, as the United States has been ineffective and inequitable in teaching math.

“We are one of the lower-achieving countries—and California is below the national average in its achievement in mathematics,” Ms. Darling-Hammon said, adding that this is an “area of great need, and change is imperative.”

“The same old, same old will not get us to a new place,” Ms. Darling-Hammond added.

On July 13, 2021, more than 1,000 people, including math and science professors, business professionals, and venture capitalists, signed an open letter from the Independent Institute to Gov. Gavin Newsom expressing concerns about certain elements of an earlier version of the framework. That letter appeared to force revisions to parts of the framework.

Although revisions have been made to the framework, critics argue that it still maintains an emphasis on social justice principles, which they believe introduces political agendas into math teaching and may have detrimental effects. They claim that the framework replaces the traditional focus on math with a politicized approach.

“It replaces a focus on ‘math class’ with something more akin to a sociology class, adopting a politicized stance of learning and applying math in a one-sided interpretation,” Mr. Malione states on his website.

According to Bill Evers, director of the Center on Educational Excellence at the Independent Institute, the framework remained highly politicized after an earlier version was revised.

In a previous statement to The Epoch Times, Mr. Evers said he believes that the curriculum emphasizes political and teaching dogma, with math problems still framed within social and environmental contexts.

“They still want the teachers to be social justice warriors themselves, and they want them to turn out new social justice warriors and environmental activists,” he said.

Brad Jones contributed to this report. Article cross-posted from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.

As more and more Americans found out about this merchandise, a boycott of Target began. Twitter joined the boycott and helped spread the message. It was also spread by rap singers Forgiato Blow and Jimmy Levy, whose song “Boycott Target” rose to the number-one spot in the iTunes hip hop chart. The opening line states: “Attention all shoppers, there’s a cleanup on every aisle. Target is targeting your kids.”

The boycott worked. Starting in March, the stock began plummeting. Target’s stock price hit its lowest level since the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. Shares hit a low of $133.42 on May 31 in early trading and dropped for eight consecutive sessions, its longest losing streak since November 2018, according to the New York Post. As of June 2, according to Newsmax, the stock showed a $12.7 billion loss.

Then there’s Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch chose to go woke last March for the NCAA March Madness tournament, using a picture of transgender Dylan Mulvaney, an actress and pro-Biden social media influencer, to help sell its fourth big-selling beer, Bud Light. They chose Mr. Mulvaney, who identifies as female, to celebrate that he had just passed a year, a personal milestone, in his transition to becoming a female; a transition that he had shared almost every day on social media.

However, this woke decision led to an amazing backlash and boycott against the brewer, which it appears they will not be able to overcome. Anheuser-Busch’s share price fell $13.63 from when the market closed at $66.57 on March 31, just a day before Mulvaney appeared on Twitter to brag about the personalized Bud Light cans and partnership.

The New York Post reported on May 13 that Bud Light sales had fallen for the sixth consecutive week and retailers had slashed prices. One store charged $3.49 for a 24-pack, it reported.

By June 2, Anheuser-Busch had lost a whopping $27 billion in market value in the wake of its partnership with Mr. Mulvaney.

Here are some of the statements sent out on Twitter about the boycott—of not just Bud Light, but all of Anheuser-Busch’s beers, including Budweiser:

• “Maybe Anheuser-Busch will get the picture…. that some people are not on board with their decisions! Why can’t beer makers…JUST MAKE BEER!”
• “I want to know how stupid you have to be to not realize who your customers are. Trying to appease maybe 1% of the populace they gave the middle finger to everyone else.”
• “As we have seen with each and every company/industry that panders to the woke brigade. The woke mob does not support or buy the products that you promote to them. All you are doing is turning away your existing supporters. Movies, music, comics, sports, food, drinks, clothing…”

According to Investor Business Daily, by May 23, the boycott had boosted the sales of the other major publicly traded global beer brands, which added $3.2 billion in market value during the same time. The biggest winner from the Bud Light situation is Molson Coors Beverage (TAP). Shares are up more than 20 percent from April 1. That’s added more than $2.2 billion in market value to the stock.

By mid-July, Costco gave Bud Light the death star. According to the Washington Examiner, Costco, the third largest wholesale retail warehouse store in the world, announced on July 13 that it will no longer be carrying Bud Light. Once all the beer is sold, it will no longer restock its shelves with the brand.

On Newsmax on May 29, stockbroker Thomas Philipson, referring to the big loss in stocks of both Target and Anheuser-Busch, stated: “This is a good lesson that companies should focus on their profits, not on politics. Whether those politics are conservative or liberal, they should stay away from them.”

ESG May Be Behind Companies’ Wokeness

In case the reader is not familiar with “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG), it has become much more influential over the past few years, exercising more control over businesses and even banks—coercing them to go along with the progressive woke agenda to be able to stay in business.

ESG means that a company or business or even a bank will be judged according to how well it is adhering to woke standards of environmental guidelines concerning climate change, energy use, and other “sustainable” policies; how well the business goes along with “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) and whether their employees meet certain quotas for race, gender, ethnic backgrounds, disabilities, etc. (that’s the “social” part); and how politically involved it is in supporting the right kind of politics—progressive and liberal, of course (that’s the “governance” part).

In March 2021, Justin Haskins, editor-in-chief of the Heartland Institute, said on the Glenn Beck show that ESG has a metrics system, a numerical score, for evaluating a company based on how “green” and “socially just” it is.

There is a large amount of money—trillions of dollars—set aside to use to reward the “woke” high-ESG-scoring companies. Thus, companies that don’t make a lot of money selling their products (because they may have been boycotted by their upset customers like Target and Anheuser-Busch) but are very woke with a high ESG score, can still stay in business due to the awards coming to them.

Those awarding the money also state that they will only invest in certain types of businesses. So if you want that money, you must jump through the political correctness hoops to get it.

Glenn Beck asked who makes the judgment calls. Mr. Haskins told him it is the World Economic Forum (WEF) International Business Council, led by the CEO of Bank of America, Brian Monihan. They created a report in September 2020 with an elaborate ESG system that they think all the major companies in the world should adopt.

The list includes things such as percentage of employees by gender as well as how many ethnic groups are included. For example, if you don’t have the right ratio of Asians to Hispanics, you get a lower score. It also helps to have a certain percentage of employees who belong to a labor union.

Mr. Haskins gave the example of Coke: It actually lists its ESG score in its annual report. It has an ESG auditor who gives it its ratings.

ESG was started by the United Nations in 2006 when the U.N. was promoting its Agenda 21 Sustainable Development Goals, now called Agenda 2030. Those U.N. schemers were saying, how can we get businesses to go along with our agenda when we can’t get government to impose it?

Their agenda is really a communist one of total control of every aspect of our lives—“how man interacts with the environment.” They wanted to somehow get that idea into the bloodstream of the corporate universe. The way they figured out how to do that was to get investors, central banks, the IMF, the WEF, and the U.N. behind this and say, we will only support you if you agree to adopt and live by these ESG standards. If you do, then we will take care of you and make sure the money keeps flowing in your direction.

They have been building this whole ESG infrastructure for almost 15 years. No one really noticed it or knew what was happening until now. All of the major corporations that we can think of already have this system in place.

They also call it “Stakeholder Capitalism.” Glenn Beck gave examples of how it is affecting our private lives: GoFundMe yanked a fundraiser that parents were holding against critical race theory, and Home Depot cosponsored a website citing the Southern Poverty Law Center and the 1619 Project. So Home Depot is helping to fund what Beck calls the “poison” coming from the distorted American history of the 1619 Project.

Beck stated: “The insidious part of ESG is that it doesn’t just affect the company. It affects everyone in the chain of that company. So every company that drives a truck for that company, who makes a widget for that company, etc., will be adopting the EU’s ESG policy.”

And every company in the chain of command has to have a good ESG “social credit” score, just like in communist China, or they could be blacklisted and not be allowed to be part of the supply chain.

Banks and PayPal are included in the supply chain. According to the website esgagainstus.com, banks and PayPal are already using ESG to punish conservatives, as shown in the following six examples:

• The largest U.S. bank cut ties to a conservative group, canceling a Donald Trump Jr. event.
• In 2019, JP Morgan Chase closed bank accounts associated with several political activists and commentators.
• Wells Fargo suspiciously closed a bank account belonging to Lauren Witske, a 2020 Republican candidate for the Delaware Senate.
• Citibank and other large banks rolled out restrictions for gun manufacturers and retailers.
• PayPal admitted to closing accounts flagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
• Tina Descovich, cofounder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, said her organization and some members have had accounts frozen by PayPal in Florida.

Europe is adopting ESG standards and making them mandatory. Even the potato farmer who supplies potatoes to McDonalds for French fries has to go along with ESG. They are already adopting it throughout the EU and adopting it through the entire chain of command, including the banks.

What Can We Do?

Glenn Beck suggests that we get our state legislators to write bills against ESG in our own local states. He was instrumental in getting one passed in Utah. Five other states have passed similar laws: Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, Montana, and Florida.

According to the Daily Signal, for the year 2023, there are 12 other states that have similar bills going through their state legislators. Beck believes we need to return the power to the hands of the people. He suggests bills with the following provisions:

• No state contracts awarded to businesses for ESG
• Prohibit state pension funds being used under ESG
• Pass a fair access to financial services act that gives protection for you—the individual
• Local banks will be required to tell you about your ESG score when you are applying for a loan (right now they don’t have to tell you anything)

Beck tells us to do our part to try to turn the tide against ESG in our own states. Remember, for many companies, “going woke means going broke” and “ESG means you are no longer free!”

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. Article cross-posted from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.

But they never blamed wokeness.

Lately, they’ve at least started mentioning it in some corporate media reviews and movie postmortems. They never come out and say that wokeness is bad, but at least they’re acknowledging that many films by companies like Disney are “controversial,” and the controversy “contributed” to their box office failures.

Admittedly, this was not the trend I expected. If you asked me in March or April how corporate media would report on Hollywood’s growing list of woke bombs, I would have said they would continue to try to hide the fact and blame “bigots” on the right for not being inclusive enough to let their kids be indoctrinated by LGBT propaganda or Critical Race Theory injected into plotlines.

Is the truth becoming too blatant for even corporate media to ignore? If so, now is the time to strike. And by strike, I mean ramp up efforts to inform our friends and relatives about two things. First, we need to continue to lambast woke movies. Lightyear suffered from such warnings, not just in media but through word of mouth. Second, we may need to support movies that are not woke… if you are among those who still watch movies. I personally do not, though I will make rare exceptions for movies that are on target.

Sound of Freedom is such a movie, from what I’ve heard. We will be watching it as soon as possible.

Between proving to them that woke movies are unsuccessful while rewarding unwoke movies with success, we can actually make them change. But here’s the thing. A large part of me hopes they don’t change. The only reason I’d like to see a change at all is because I’m aware of the influence they have over many Americans. However, that may not be enough for me to hope they improve.

That large part of me that doesn’t want them to change really wants them to completely fail. Would America be better off if Hollywood learned its lesson or if Hollywood failed to oblivion? I’m leaning toward the latter. An irrelevant Hollywood is, in my humble opinion, better for America than one that reluctantly starts making better business decisions. This is why I believe we should go for the jugular and stop watching anything they put out at all. Sound of Freedom may be the last Hollywood movie I ever watch.

Even if we push them to take notice of their dwindling bank accounts, they won’t stop promoting demonic ideas. They’ll just be more subtle. Perhaps we won’t get anything overtly woke like the recent Velma debacle, but the evil in Hollywood is so pervasive that they’ll simply sink back into the shadows a bit with less obvious indoctrination messages. They’ll still squeeze “inclusivity” into kids’ shows. They’ll still dishonor American patriotism, Christians, and straight white men as much as possible. It’s baked into who they are. The only way to truly “fix” Hollywood is to put them out of business. Incremental changes won’t do the trick.

With that said, here’s an article by Tyler Durden from Zero Hedge that details their current trajectory toward irrelevance.

Woke Hollywood Sinks Into Irrelevance After Multiple Box Office Failures

The formula for box office success these days seems rather simple – Produce a solid story with relatable and likable characters, and tell that story in a setting that makes sense with as few distractions and tangents as possible.  In other words, make a normal movie without the intent to manipulate your audience with propaganda.

Most movies that follow this basic formula will rake in the cash.  Any movie that insists on browbeating the audience will bomb; get woke, go broke.  The problem is that Hollywood elitists just can’t help themselves.  They think they’re smarter than the audience and smarter than the box office, and they would rather lose their entire business and fade into obscurity than admit the truth:  The market dictates the success or failure of popular media, the media does not dictate the market.

To be fair, the media culture we live in today is far different from what it was even 10 years ago.  The entertainment industry is no longer interested in keeping the public happy or distracted, they’re only interested in “platforms.”  They see every movie and every popular franchise as a vehicle to deliver their gospel, the gospel of woke.  It is likely that they believe if they saturate the market long enough and thoroughly enough with their messaging that one day the public will just give up and accept woke as the new normal.

This isn’t happening.  There’s been a flurry of film flops in the past year which have made it obvious that Hollywood is imploding instead of gaining influence.

Disney is probably the best place to start as a window into woke failure, because the company strategically targets children with far-left concepts from feminism to gay and trans ideology.  The company was on a downward spiral well before they tried to go to war with the state of Florida, declaring that they would do everything in their power to overturn anti-child grooming laws.  But that little incident didn’t help, either.

Disney’s slate of failed films over the past year has included:

• Turning Red, a metaphorical animated film exploring female puberty and menstruation.  The movie lost  $168 million.
• Lightyear, which featured a lesbian relationship and was released right after their fight with Florida.  Disney was also accused of removing Tim Allen as the voice actor for the popular Buzz Lightyear character because of his conservative leanings.  The movie lost at least $106 million.
• Strange World, another animated children’s film featuring thinly veiled climate change propaganda as well as a prominent LGBT relationship involving teen boys.  One of the biggest flops in Disney history with a loss of $197 million.
• Peter Pan And Wendy, a live action adaptation of the classic, was offloaded quickly to Disney’s streaming service and received dismal audience reviews.  The movie boasted a race swapped Peter Pan, race swapped Tinkerbell,  gender swapped “lost boys,” and a Mary Sue-like Wendy that battles 200 pound pirates with her sword fighting skills.
• The Little Mermaid, a live action adaptation, race swapped the classic Dutch fairy tale character and changed the message of the story from a mermaid seeking the love of a prince to “she don’t need no man to save her.”  The movie lost at least $20 million.
• Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, a film which attempts to undermine and deconstruct its title character and replace him with an anti-capitalist feminist activist, has been met with thumbs down from audiences and critics that have seen it so far, along with general disdain by fans of the franchise.  It is expected to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for Disney due to its massive budget.
• Elemental, a ham-fisted commentary about racism with Disney’s first animated “non-binary” character, is crashing at theaters and is expected to lose tens of millions of dollars.  The movie also had the 2nd worst box office debut in Pixar history, a company that was once seen as a sure thing.

Disney isn’t the only leftist media company in the gutter these days, it’s merely the most notorious.  Multiple woke movie calamities have struck in the past year from the horrendous ‘Bros,’ to the vapid ‘Fauci’ documentary, to AOC’s climate change documentary which went down in flames, to Amazon’s attempt to hijack Lord of the Rings with their woke ‘Rings Of Power’ series.  The list goes on and on, with production losses in the billions for 2022-2023.

What Hollywood doesn’t seem to realize is that audiences have options and nothing is going to force people to consume leftist ideology as a recreational product; they greatly overestimated their influence.  They might as well get rid of the box office altogether and come out of the closet as the defacto propaganda wing for governments and globalists.  Then they can abandon the facade and start making their own woke versions of ‘Triumph Of The Will.’

In the meantime, it appears that the game is over.  Western consumers are beginning to realize the scale of their boycotting power and they are using it aggressively this year.  And though woke companies are doubling down and insisting that social justice, feminism and trans cultism are the wave of the future, the reality is that (for now) propaganda cannot be made without profits.  The money is running out.