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Reality: I am going to tear down your safe space, brick by brick I shall smash it with glee.
Cartman: What? Who is that?
Reality: You cannot stop me from getting inside, I am cold and I am hard and my name … is Reality.

South Park Song In my safe space from the episode Safe Space 2015

In a rough economy it’s not unusual for a chain to close stores, but it IS unusual for them to close ones that are still showing a profit.

“There are gonna be many more [store closures].”

The leaked video of Schultz shows him addressing Starbucks employees. He told them that the company was “beginning to close stores that are not unprofitable.”

Schultz said he was “shocked” to hear from employees that “one of the primary concerns that our retail partners [baristas] have is their own personal safety.”

“And then we heard about the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms,” Schultz said.

Of course what goes on in their bathrooms is due to a woke policy implemented to show the world how wonderful they are.

It seems the liberal owner of Starbucks has had a revelation: Realty doesn’t care how woke you are. This revelation came with a policy tweak:

I also suspect he is smart enough to realize that it is only a matter of time before an employee will be killed or maimed in one of those locations and the company’s national policy blamed and them sued.

I suspect that has a lot more to do with his sudden dawning of knowledge and wisdom than anything else.

I’m old enough to remember when a place like the Babylon Bee would not be considered a platform for a guy like John Cleese

but he was.

I thought it was interesting at the end that they never considered that Cleese might have wanted to meet Jesus even though he declined their kind offer of conversion.

As of the latest Uvalde revelation the left has decided on their talking point:

If 400 trained, coordinated, and fully armed police officers can't get their acts together enough to stop a mass shooting in time, what makes anyone think that arming teachers is the answer?

— Dr. DaShanne Stokes (@DaShanneStokes) July 18, 2022

You can find this tweet or a variation of it repeated all over the blue check world as the talking point which is essentially: 400 police with guns didn’t act to protect teachers therefore only police should have guns.

Idiots

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Of course one of the reasons why the police might not have gone in at Uvalde can be illustrated by the reaction over the shooting of Tekle Sunberg who was pumping rounds into an apartment with a single mother and little kids:

Anything that can be exploited by the left is to be celebrated and kids being in danger? Meh!

Things boiled over during Saturday’s rally and march for Tekle Sundberg, when the 24 year old woman who says he was shooting into her apt. showed up voicing her frustration with those gathering in front of her building on Sundberg’s behalf. @kare11 * video contains profanity * pic.twitter.com/qdi1vbgO7k

— Deevon Rahming (@DeevonRahming) July 16, 2022

If Sundberg had killed her and/or her kids it wouldn’t have been news, just a statistic to the BLM grifter crowd.

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David French is shocked SHOCKED that when you import a large group of people who are religious into the country they tend to vote with the only political party that views belief in God as a positive thing:

A party that’s culturally disconnected from (or perhaps even scornful of) traditional religious faith is going to alienate itself from tens of millions of voters it could otherwise reach.

You would think a so called “conservative” would be thrilled with conservatives gaining votes from Spanish Speakers but they aren’t paying his bills anymore.

If this keeps up the Biden Admin will have a wall up by lunchtime.

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Bill Clinton, take a victory lap:

In the documentary, Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss, Sharlene Azam, a Canadian filmmaker, says, “If you talk to teens [about oral sex], they’ll tell you it’s not a big deal. In fact, they don’t consider it sex. They don’t consider a lot of things sex.” In the documentary, teenage girls talk casually about their sexual experiences and even their forays into prostitution. One girl sums up the new attitudes: “Five minutes and I got $100. If I’m going to sleep with them anyway because they’re good-looking, might as well get paid for it, right?”

This is how the phony feminist movement empowered women. More like enslaved women. Those men-hating parasites have ruined the glorious exaltation of women in 20th-century America.

My wife would disagree, with their definition of what is sex and what is not.

All I could think of was positive reaction to the Belle Knox story. I suspect that the day will come when college women are encouraged to service Booster and administrators to pay their way and nobody will blink at it.

Don’t tell me that men didn’t win the sexual revolution.

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Finally Shot and chaser

You can always leave

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) July 15, 2022

Real Old Lady Ground Controller: This is ground control, you don’t appear to have flight clearance.

Cat: [expecting young hot GC from the CGI] You’re the ground controller?

Real Old Lady Ground Controller: Please state your name and clearance code.

Cat: Reality Sucks!

Red Dwarf Back in the Red Part 3 1999

For quite a while we have seen the phenom of “virtue signaling” whereby a person rather than practicing virtues like temperance, generosity, charity which involve effort, will, time, inconvenience and occasionally expense simply exhibits a ribbon, or a tag on a twitter account or a list of “pronouns” thus signaling to the “right” people that one has “virtue” without all the messy effort of having to practice any such inconvenient things.

We have now seen an increasing amount of another phenom which I like to call “victim envy”.

One of the things about modern life is how, even during a time of hardship, EASY it is.

The dishwasher, clothes washing and the AC alone broke the bonds of heat and water that enslaved millions prior to the 1900, the computer, the ability to work remotely and the common delivery of food and almost any product that we might want in as little as two days means that all the comforts that people spent centuries sweating for and dreaming of are a button push away.

Furthermore higher education which was once the province of the elite (I don’t comment on the quality) is available as is quality medicine ( I don’t comment on the vaccine madness here) is common and regular.

Even more amazing a degree of protections for races creeds and various groups enforced by laws rigorously enforced removes many of the roadblocks that as recently as 50 years ago were in some places were only overcome by the most determined people out there.

Yet even in all of this prosperity and ease we see people, particularly people with every possible advantage considering themselves “oppressed” and “victimized” over things as slight as “pronouns” or “misgendering”, we even have people of color who fifty years ago were fighting for integration demanding “safe spaces” and “segregation” and suggesting that the lack of such conditions is a cause for at best distraction and at worst failure.

In short, we have a generation of people who are more determined to be victims then their forebears were to avoid such indignities.

But the question is why? Why would someone wish to be a “victim”? Why would anyone want to feel oppressed.

The answer is quite simple: Victimhood provides a perfect excuse for failure.

Given all the advantages I had outlined and all the successes that our forebears had managed in the face of real hardship there is little excuse for failure. But after a generation of trophies for showing up and informing people how special they are, the realities of the world where effort must be exerted to achieve goals proves to be too much for those so coddled their failures need to be justified, particularly in a world comparably as easy as ours.

But if one is a “victim” it all changes.

• Suddenly it’s not YOUR fault if you didn’t become a movie, or music or artistic star
• Suddenly it’s not YOUR fault if you have tens of thousands of college debt and no job prospects
• Suddenly it’s not YOUR fault that you’re still living with your parents and unable to make it on your own
• Suddenly its not YOUR fault if you don’t have the aptitude for work that an employer needs.

None of your problems are YOUR fault, you’re a victim so every failure in your life can be the province of someone or something else.

There are few things more dangerous than an excuse, and the excuse for failure that victimhood provides is the most dangerous of all, both for society and for those who claim its mantle and cling to it for dear life.