The perverts running the once-iconic fast food chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) have evidently become so triggered by the White Christian Male symbol of the late Colonel Harlan Sanders that they've decided to replace him with a female. Lesbian has-been singer Reba McEntire---whose career has plummeted to doing commercials---was chosen to be the newest KFC 'spokesperson'.
KFC went down the drain a long time ago. No doubt someone at Corporate HQ decided a good sociopolitical controversy would generate some free advertising. It certainly no longer is the quality of their food that attracts consumers. This is a fast-food chain which really should give away free Alka-Seltzer with purchase.
It's really sad in a way. Harlan Sanders was a man who got off to a bad start in life. He later converted to Christianity and settled down; opening a fried chicken-stand in Kentucky. He employed the fast-food model to chicken dinners---which 'experts' in the 1960s said couldn't be done. Sanders did it; and built a business empire that ranked with products like Coca-Cola and Hershey's Chocolate as symbolically American. Throughout the rest of his life, he maintained strict quality controls---often by paying surprise on-the-spot visits to his franchisees. And his conversion to Christianity was genuine. He often gave testimonies and speeches at various churches and youth camps free-of-charge.
But in Postmodern America, men like Colonel Sanders have gone the way of things like chicken dinners with real meat and potatoes. Today KFC is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands. Open Secrets shows Yum! to be a heavy political contributor to pro-Corporate RINOs like Mitch McConnell and Jeff Flake (top contributor to both Senators).
Yum! also runs Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Wing Street chains. KFC is headed by a foreign national, Australian Roger Eaton. Eaton is the COO at Yum! and Director of the Molson-Coors brewery conglomerate. Both beers used to be good, too, by the way.
The effete cultural Elites are naturally giddy with excitement over KFC's bold decision. The sleazy tabloid Salon even went so far as to call KFC's critics 'trolls'.
In reality, KFC is going down the same road as the NFL. They're desperately trying to stay culturally relevant by making flamboyant politically-correct statements like these to attract the kinds of customers who think that eating at a PC diner is making some grand political statement. Another reason to avoid KFC---besides the bad and overpriced food---is having to put up with the kinds of people who think that gender-bending company mascots is a noble act.
But don't despair. There's always Chick-Fil-A and they have better chicken anyhow.
The annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is underway this week. President Trump became the first sitting US President to attend since the Clinton Administration. Thus, all eyes were upon him to see his vision of America in the global economy.
For the past few years, China has completely dominated the WEF. Last year's forum was a major political and triumph for Chinese President Xi; although the news was largely overshadowed after George Soros suffered a shameful attack of Trump Derangement Syndrome in front of key global leaders.
Trump's decision to attend Davos at all is a sign that his judgment is maturing on Foreign Policy. Actually meeting with foreign leaders instead of listening to RINO advisers and Alt-RINO pundits has shown Trump that the world is not a bitterly anti-American place. Most countries are willing to do business with the United States; but much of the resentment has come from the quasi-Imperialist arrogance of the past Deep-State leaders.
"America First does not mean America Alone" Trump told the cheering crowd. Such a statement reflects the solid evolution in his attitude. The President has come a long way from only a few months ago when he was expanding Obama's disastrous Syria Policy as well as provoking China. "A prosperous America benefits the world, and fair economic competition is essential to that prosperity."
This statement shows that Trump has largely embraced the policy of bilateralism, which he seems to have adopted since his first meeting with Xi Jinping. Xi really pioneered the model; and it's been the driving force behind China's global economic expansion. Under this global trade model, individual countries meet as equals and conduct mutually beneficial agreements apart from the Globalist Infrastructure. Trump has successfully employed that model in recent trade-deals with China, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and Argentina.
At this year's meeting, Trump has met so far with the leaders of Britain, Israel, Switzerland, and African Union head Paul Kagame, of Rwanda.
Trump also stressed at this meeting the need for 'Swamp Draining' in global economic organizations, saying that America's goal was to fight against corruption and make the system "efficient and accountable". That statement drew praise from some of the world's leaders while some noticeable wincing from EU representatives. The EU has felt quite a bit of the Trump Administration's accountability during the last year, to say the least. In fact, in spite of the anti-China and anti-Russia rhetoric from the Beltway Swamp, the EU and Japan have been the countries mostly caught cheating and punished by American authorities.
The WEF concludes tonight. It will be interesting to discover what effect American re-entry into the world market will be. As Trump said, "America is again open for business." But we won't hear it from the Corporate Media. The perverts running American news outlets have noted that Melania did not attend are spreading seedy rumors speculating on the Trumps' marriage. Actually, Mrs. Trump had a scheduling conflict: she was representing the US at a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. Her native country of Slovenia was impacted severely by Nazi atrocities.
At some point, hopefully, foreign news outlets will invest in America and provide us with some decent news services for a change.
A point we've made often at this site is that Conservatives---and others who identify as the political Right ought to be held to higher standards of word and deed than those on the Liberal Left. The reasons for this are twofold:
1. Our philosophy is based upon a traditional code of morality. Or, in plain English---we must practice what we preach.
2. As our Founding Fathers pointed out, human rights are inalienable and this is premise is a self-evident truth. In other words, we must respect the inalienable rights of those with whom we disagree. And, since this is self-evident, we don't resort to the contemptible thuggery that those who despise human rights commit.
Now, Vox Day and a clique of pulp-writers who are among his disciples are at it again. This time they've stooped to a new low---even by their nihilistic standards of behavior. Evidently enraged by their continued rebuffs from their more talented peers---people who refuse to bow to the Red Pills' self-purported Alpha Superiority---they've started a smear campaign against the Meadows Family of Queensland, Australia.
Toby Meadows is a Professor of Philosophy specializing in Mathematical Logic. His wife Foz Meadows is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy author. Vox' henchmen---notably Brad Torgersen, Dave Freer, Lou Antonelli and Vox himself---have falsely accused Toby Meadows of being blogger Camestros Felapton. Camestros has been a foe of Vox and his band of literary pygmies and their attempts to co-opt the whole literary genre. And they haven't stopped there: they've gone on to accuse the Meadows Family of paedophila and other crimes.
So much for the Red Pills' supposed opposition to false accusations. Because they've set things up to where Toby Meadows is forced to defend himself against things he's never done; while Camestros can't defend himself without self-doxxing. Doesn't this sound much like the false rape accusations that people like Vox denounce?
Foz Meadows wrote a rebuttal today which was a fairly dignified response. Though evidently quite to the Left politically, Mrs. Meadows appears to be quite commendably a wife genuinely devoted to her husband. And she defends him quite ably. I would add to what she's already said. Just reading some of Toby Meadows' writing online, it evinces a different writing style than Camestros'. While it's possible to assume a different writing style for a singular purpose, it's not easy to do on a regular basis. One would suppose that such superior Alpha literary geniuses like Vox, Antonelli, Torgersen, and Freer imagine themselves to be would have noticed something this basic.
Vox Day is a living example of why the Church lists Pride and Envy among the Seven Deadly Sins. He's not only destroyed his own credibility in literary circles by practicing both vices on a regular basis; he's dragged down his circle of flatterers and lickspittles along with him. And caused much grief across the board for innocent people from John Scalzi to Toby Meadows.
As Conservatives we must stand for civility and denounce all forms of the kind of thuggish tactics that Vox and his gang promote. These extremists are not our allies. They are not of the Right and never have been, and have criticized us as 'Cuckservatives' and 'Churchians' while they promote the anarchistic theories of Game/PUA and the fascistic theories of racial purity. This while pretending that they are social libertarians and Christian reformers.
An Anonymous commenter asked for some further clarification on our recent discussion about the latest Red Pill meme 'Soy Boys'. He pointed out that there's been some controversy over soy's effects on men and masculinity for some time.
At the time the alleged damaging effects of soy were announced, I didn't really much of it. China, the country which consumes most soy also has the world's highest population. As for its supposed feminizing effects; it always seemed that the country who gave us the term Tiger Moms seemed to suggest the opposite. I doubt that many WW2 veterans believe, after going to hand-to-hand with the Japanese Army that eating soy effected Japanese men very much.
Besides that, I've known Asian Martial Artists who were vegetarians (i.e. ate soybean curd, or tofu), regularly. Bodybuilders often take a supplement called Soy Protein Isolate, which doesn't seem to effect them much either.
So, looking into the science, we're told by various sources that soy contains Phyto-Estrogens that both block and stimulate Estrogen receptors. These molecular compounds---while structurally similar to Estrogen---do not produce, but instead activate or block estrogenic receptors according to their chemical properties. German medical researcher Sergei Jargin wrote a very comprehensive treatise on this subject in 2014.
"Apart from singular reports" that is, individual case-studies as opposed to meta-research, "No data on modification of gender-related characteristics or feminization of humans after soy consumption can be found." Jargin stated.
An earlier study, done in 2001, contained a random sample of the population who were tested specifically with Phyto-Estrogens and concluded that "the Phyto-Estrogen dose consumed had no effect on semen quality."
Thus there really isn't any evidence that soy consumption is connected to the decline of masculinity in the West; though the scientific jury is still out on whether over-consumption of soy in childhood has effects on puberty. Actually, we would assert that the main cause of declining masculinity is social: being egged on the perverts in our public schools; our mass-media; and our government officials. Which brings us to the issue of our earlier post.
The Red Pills had not only been arguing against soy, they claim that masculinity is linked to wanton violence and ruthless aggression---which is a feminist argument. But consuming the Red Pill inclines men to these things: eating red meat, drinking raw milk, and avoiding soy does not.
Finally, we should point out that soy's had no effect on the Leader of the Free World's masculinity:
Masculinity has a lot less to do with diet, and a lot more to do with attitude.
We hadn't really intended a sequel to the last post, but the thugs who slavishly follow Vox Day have taken to some nasty tactics in retaliation for the literary community not bowing to their over-inflated egos. In a Facebook post that his since been deleted for violating policy, some Red Pill claimed to have exposed Science-Fiction blogger Camestros Felapton as an Australian philosophy professor named Meadows.
It has been reported on good authority that the instigator of this rumor---like many other Red Pill/Game Cultists---has a fairly extensive police record. This includes multiple charges of Filing False Police Reports and Criminal Harassment. In other words, he's a crank. Camestros himself has denied that he is Meadows; but that hasn't stopped the Alpha Bully-Boys from harassing both him and the unfortunate professor.
Even though the doxxing attempt on Camestros is based on an obvious and transparent lie, a pulp-writer named Brad Torgersen (who is a disciple of Vox Day's) repeated the falsehood at his blog, Mad Genius Club. Not only repeated it, but embellished it considerably. And Torgersen's ravings were repeated and expanded on further at Vox Populi.
The problem here is that the innocent Professor Meadows has become the target of Vox' vindictiveness. Vox---ever the hypocrite---plays the Victim Card, accusing Camestros of harassing him. And, Vox includes in his article the name of Meadows' university and its anti-harassment policy. Hint, hint, winky-winky nod-nod, Minions: flood the university with demands that Meadows be fired. Because we all know that, unlike Cultural Marxists, the Red Pills never would enforce Political Correctness in the workplace, right?
And then this disgusting Torgersen on top of it gripes that Camestros attacks "Libertarian and Conservatives". Our answer to that is that it's Red Pill fanatics like Vox, Torgersen, and Jon Del Arroz who give all Conservatives a bad name. The Red Pills/Alt-RINO Manosphere piggybacks on the Conservative Movement; but they are no more a part of it than LaRouche's whackos represent the Democratic Party.
Think of it this way: many of the top people writing Science Fiction today lean politically Liberal, although Libertarians and Conservatives make up a large plurality. How do we bring more Conservative values back into literature when fools like these Alt-RINOs are the image of Conservatism that people like Camestros sees? Better they see genteel and intelligent images like that of the late author Robert Heinlein, a Conservative politically and also regarded as "the dean of Science Fiction writers." Heinlein was an advocate of self-reliance and self-improvement, and despised those who blamed 'society' for their failures. Vox and his disciples would do well to follow that example themselves.
2018 has already been a rough year for Red Pill cult-guru Vox Day. Not only did his attempts to import his Game Ideology into comics get laughed out of public discourse, but now we learn that another of his endeavors to infiltrate legitimate Science Fiction organizations has failed too.
Jon Del Arroz, one of Vox' disciples, is a third-rate writer and a first-rate Internet troll. Only a week after being told he was persona non grata at the Worldcon Convention, Del Arroz found his application for membership in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Predictably, this stirred up a lot of outrage among the Gamers---who never miss an opportunity to play the victim card. Del Arroz, whose name means corn extract in Spanish purports to be "America's Leading Hispanic Science Fiction Writer". And he's playing the race card just as he has with every other rejection he's ever experienced. Vox Day---himself the only SFWA member to be expelled since its founding in 1965---took up the same meme. That's somewhat ironic given the reasons for Vox' own downfall in the organization.
And, too, we're treated to the same tripe that SFWA is a 'converged' organization discriminating against people on the basis of their politics. Again, this is without any foundation in fact. Conservatives make up a huge percentage of Science Fiction fans. But let us look at SFWA's own statement:
"We did not take this step lightly and are sensitive to suggestions that this action is due to the writer's political opinions. It is not. SFWA does not, and will not, impose a political test or a political standard for membership."
Then, in a follow-up letter published by Del Arroz himself, the SFWA leadership gets a little more explicit:
"Based on online statements and your behavior during the past year, the Membership Credentials Committee believes that it has good and sufficient cause to deny your membership in order to keep SFWA virtual and physical spaces harassment-free and have done so."
The inclusion of the term 'physical spaces' is telling. This was, in part, a decision based upon members' fears for their personal safety. And in case anybody suspects that this is hyperbole, SFWA gives the following examples of Del Arroz' conduct:
"Threatening to film people without their consent at SFWA private functions; soliciting people on social media (including Facebook, Gab, and Twitter) to troll and harass other professional authors---including SFWA members and board officers; and SFWA officials of doxxing your children, supporting pedophiles, and racism, among other attacks."
Stripped of all the diplomatic language, SFWA is essential saying that Del Arroz---like his leader, Vox---is a nutcase and only hopes to foment trouble within the organization at his Master's bidding.
Del Arroz was ejected from WorldCon for many of the same reasons. Their statement banning him read: "We made this decision simply because he has made it clear that he fully intends to break our Code of Conduct. We take those threats seriously. WorldCon 76 strives to be an inclusive place, as difficult as that can be; and racist and bullying behavior is not acceptable at our WorldCon. This expulsion is one step towards eliminating such behavior and was not taken lightly."
After exhausting his vocabulary of canards to throw at SFWA, Vox tries to slough off his latest defeat by claiming that membership in SFWA is irrelevant to a writer's success. Must be why he's run for SFWA President, tries to infiltrate it with his disciples, and cheats at every Hugo Awards ceremony to gain their recognition.
SFWA's decision has been roundly applauded by most in the literary world; and we too support their decision. Organizations have every right to set their own criteria for membership and deny those who blatantly go against their rules. This is why we say that the Red Pills are really little different than the Cultural Marxists---another group who infiltrates organizations and imposes political correctness.
It's been a busy week for the US Department of Justice. Despite the Corporate Media and the phony 'Resistance' planning mayhem in DC this weekend, the FBI and the Italian Carabinieri announced today a joint crushing of a major Opioid ring. The organization was run in the US, but financed by Italian mobsters Luca Sartini and Luigi 'Jim Boy' Palma, both of Rome. Both are in custody awaiting extradition to the U.S..
As we've seen throughout the last year of the Trump Administration, many of these drug rings were piggybacking on Obamacare, and this case was no different. The scheme ran the entire length of the Obama Administration. Essentially, the mob funded an American gangster Benjamin Rodriguez of Florida to set up fake pain clinics run by corrupt practitioners to gain access to Opioids. They were mostly set up in Knoxville, one of the national epicenters of the Opioid Epidemic.
The scheme was particularly vicious in that it deliberately targeted legitimate patients suffering from pain. The patients were prescribed Oxycodone, Oxymorphone, and Morphine with the deliberate intention of addicting them. According to the indictment, the clinics laundered the profits through front-groups run by Rodriguez to the tune of at least $21 million.
According to The Knox County News, the gang distributed "billions" of Opioid drugs throughout Tennessee and that their organization has been linked to over 700 overdose deaths. The FBI itself has identified nine patients of the fake clinics whose deaths were directly tied to malpractice.
Others charged in the indictment were Sylvia Hofstetter who ran the pain clinic central to the scheme; along with Clyde Tipton and Maynard Alvarez who ran the money-laundering front-companies. This group actually got away with billing Obamacare to purchase the narcotics through fraudulent documents. Seven medical providers have also been indicted.
The Defendants are variously charged with Criminal Conspiracy, Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering, Narcotic Distribution Resulting in Death, Illegal Kickbacks and Defrauding Medicare.
US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions thanked all persons and agencies involved in suppressing this nest of vipers. He also added that, as a result of this investigation alone, 30 other drug traffickers have been apprehended; along with "approximately 80-90 smaller Opioid distributors". Sessions said that there are currently 35 pending indictments involving 140 people---including medical practitioners---who were also exposed during the investigation.
This case unraveled one of the worst Opioid trafficking schemes discovered so far: and it was probably the main culprit behind the severe Opioid Epidemic in East Tennessee. Keep that in mind tomorrow when we watch idiots in pink hats and black masks protesting in DC.
