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Aug 09 2021

Subway Gets Blowback From Megan Rapinoe Ads

Corporations have gone all-in for ultraleft politics. This has entailed not only shoveling mountains of money at Marxist rioters and relentlessly pushing woke social engineering through commercials, but also choosing conspicuously vile anti-Americans as the faces of their products. Nike may get away with it with Colin Kaepernick. That doesn’t mean Subway will with Megan Rapinoe.

Not all franchisees are overjoyed to see Rapinoe in commercials for the chain, behaving with characteristic obnoxiousness by kicking a ball so that it knocks a burrito out of a Hispanic-looking guy’s hand while he’s trying to eat it.

From the New York Post:

Late last month on a discussion forum hosted by the North American Association of Subway Franchisees, a Wisconsin store operator posted a picture of a hand-scrawled note from an irate customer taped to the front door of his shop. …

“The ad should be pulled and done with,” the franchisee wrote of the Rapinoe spot. “It gets tiring apologizing.”

The note likely speaks for many former customers:

The consensus of the ruling class is that only moonbats matter. However, outside of the media propaganda bubble, moonbattery is widely regarded with the contempt and revulsion it deserves, especially in red states.

“Spending our money to make a political statement is completely and totally out of bounds,” an Arizona franchisee said on the NAASF blog about the corporate parent.

Franchisees own their stores, but have to kick in a percentage of revenue, which pays for advertising.

Another Midwest-based franchisee said Subway should have seen this coming before signing Rapinoe. In July 2019, she took heat for allegedly stomping on the American flag. Weeks earlier, she created headlines when she said she was not going to the “f**king White House” if invited to visit President Trump.

Apart from politics, there is Rapinoe’s personality, which is unappealing even by moonbat standards:

Nonetheless, woke corporate decisionmakers pay this horrid woman to alienate their customers:

Rapinoe this year has inked other endorsement deals besides Subway, including a tie-up with Victoria’s Secret in June.

It is doubtful that the far from pulchritudinous Rapinoe modeling skimpy underwear would appeal even to her fellow lesbians. As always in advertising, pushing moonbattery comes first, selling the product afterward. Nothing else could explain plunging from Adriana Lima to Megan Rapinoe.

On tips from Varla and Bluto.

Jun 18 2021

Megan Rapinoe to Model Victoria’s Secret

It is because of moonbattery that we can’t have nice things — or even look at anything nice. Liberal social engineers are so vicious, they would force people to look instead at Megan Rapinoe in her underwear:

Victoria’s Secret has sent its angels packing in a monumental rebranding that replaces the supermodels with a group of seven “women famous for their achievements,” including U.S. soccer star and activist Megan Rapinoe.

Rapinoe is best known for her belligerent lesbianism and extreme left-wing views. The seven or eight people who watch women’s soccer may know her from that. She is not known for her pulchritude. But of course, beauty is an oppressive construct of the sexist patriarchy:

Martin Waters, former head of Victoria’s Secret’s international business and its new CEO as of February, explained to The Times of the company’s rebranding, “When the world was changing, we were too slow to respond. We needed to stop being about what men want and to be about what women want.”

A guy with Waters’ job ought to know that a lot of women want to look attractive. Only those twisted by moonbattery would want to look like a harpy from hell.

Whereas Rapinhoe shrieks about her sexual perversion, former Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima is a devout Catholic who attends Mass every Sunday, does charitable work, opposes abortion, and holds that “Sex is for after marriage.”

To let liberals win the Culture War is to trade Adriana Lima for Megan Rapinoe.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket and Jester.

Oct 19 2023

Get Woke Go Broke: Victoria’s Secret

Turns out moonbattery doesn’t apply to lingerie marketing. Victoria’s Secret has had enough of declining sales and will go back to featuring attractive women:

Cathaleen Chen reported that the brand’s efforts to promote inclusivity – which included making LGBTQ pro women’s soccer player and outspoken leftist Megan Rapinoe, as well as a transgender woman, brand spokesmodels and getting rid of its famous “Angels” supermodels – gained “favorable reviews from online critics [but] never translated into sales.”

As we know from movie reviews, if critics tell us to like something, that means it stinks but we are supposed to pretend to like it in order to be woke.

According to the numbers, the lingerie brand’s projected revenue for 2023 is $6.2 billion, which is 5% lower than it was last year, and even lower than 2020, when the brand’s revenue was $7.5 billion.

They should look at the bright side. They’re still doing better than Bud Light.

The drop in Victoria’s Secret’s sales also followed the company’s move to make its board of directors mostly female.

Choosing personnel by identity group doesn’t work any better in the corporate world than it does on the Supreme Court.

In 2021, Rapinoe called out what the brand had been before the revamp, claiming it had sent out a “really harmful” message that was “patriarchal, sexist, viewing not just what it meant to be sexy but what the clothes were trying to accomplish through a male lens and through what men desired.”

Instead, Victoria’s Secret tried marketing to what Women’s Studies professors desire. Nobody is buying.

The point of lingerie is to be sexy. Choosing Rapinoe to represent the brand was like picking Dylan Mulvaney to market weight-lifting equipment.

For now they are trying to have it both ways:

Chen noted that the lingerie company’s attempt to stop the financial drain body-positive marketing was causing was to bring back its runway show format, and blend the sexiness the brand had become famous for with some of its more inclusive initiatives.

Bring a barf bag to the fashion show, in case this means every other model struts out looking like Lizzo.

Compromise doesn’t work with moonbats. Feminists and anti-fatphobia activists will probably call for a boycott.

On tips from Ed McAninch and KirklesWorth.

Aug 08 2023

Why USA Was Right to Cheer Women’s Soccer Loss

It was sad to see America cheer that its own team had lost the World Cup in women’s soccer. Jason Whitlock explains why it was right to cheer:

On Sunday, with a chance to off Sweden with a penalty kick, Rapinoe missed the entire net wide right. She smirked and laughed in embarrassment. Two other U.S. women missed their kicks as well. But those women earned their spots on the roster. Rapinoe was on the team and on the field because of social pressure and a never-ending marketing campaign. She hadn’t earned the right to fail. The opportunity was bestowed on her.

Did the ultrapoliticized sports establishment learn from this? Doubtful:

When it was over, when the No. 1-ranked team in the world completed its epic collapse, supporters of “The Great Gay Hope” refused to pivot. ESPN aired a three-minute feature story on Rapinoe narrated by her “fiancee,” WNBA player Sue Bird.

ESPN is not about sports. It is about moonbattery. The same goes for all institutions that have been infiltrated, subverted, and subordinated to their agenda by leftists.

Rapinoe confirmed that she is less an athlete than a left-wing activist:

When asked for her greatest memory of her “legendary” career, she pointed to the lawsuit she and her teammates filed against the U.S. Soccer Federation over alleged pay inequality. Gender pay inequality is a myth and a lie, no different from other popular corporate media narratives like climate change and the alleged genocidal homicide of unarmed black men.

But the truth is irrelevant in the making of an Alphabet Mafia icon. Megan Rapinoe is the George Floyd of soccer.

Her narcissistic, anti-American pose corroded the team’s morale, resulting in the historic loss.

Could you imagine Joe Montana or Michael Jordan summarizing their careers by referencing a contract dispute?

Rapinoe is a fraud. She’s the Colin Kaepernick of soccer. Her attitude poisoned the women’s national soccer team. Let’s hope her side effects don’t linger.

Unfortunately, the side effects might. Leftists who find success pull the ladder up after them so that others can’t follow. The George Floyd/Colin Kaepernick of soccer pulls up the ladder by calling for men to be allowed to play on women’s teams. If this insanity prevails, the sport she exploited by using it to convert sexual perversion into fame and fortune will be destroyed for other women.

Or maybe the loss will help inspire us to finally reject the vile mentality Rapinoe personifies. We can hope. Also, we can laugh:

On a tip from Varla.

Jul 05 2022

Presidential Medal of Freedom Becomes a Dishonor

Honors mean less than nothing when they are bestowed by the dishonorable. Who would want a Pulitzer Prize in light of Walter Duranty receiving one for telling lies in the New York Times to facilitate Stalin’s genocide? The Presidential Medal of Freedom was once the highest honor an American civilian could receive. With Biden in power, it looks about as impressive on your record as a felony conviction.

The obnoxiously homosexual Megan Rapinoe plays a game no one watches. She managed to become famous by indulging in a theatrical display of disrespect when the American national anthem is played, and bullying her teammates to do the same. This so endeared her to her fellow moonbats in the corporate world that Subway made her the face of the franchise — with predictable consequences that had franchisees howling. Victoria’s Secret tried using the painfully homely woman as a model. Obscenely, Biden has bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon her, reducing it to mockery, just as he has done with the presidency:

“Megan Rapinoe is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup champion,” the White House states. “She also captains OL Reign in the National Women’s Soccer League. She is a prominent advocate for gender pay equality, racial justice, and LGBTQI+ rights.”

This advocacy of moonbattery has included sneering at the unimportance of girls’ sports that have been destroyed by interloping transsexuals:

[Rapinoe] told Time magazine she is “100% supportive” of “trans inclusion” in girls sports, dismissing concerns about fairness while emphasizing that people “need to understand that sports is not the most important thing in life.”

What is the most important thing in life? Ramming moonbattery down our throats. That’s how she became famous and got her medal.

Scoffs Rapinoe,

“I’m sorry, your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important.”

Denouncing the USA while pushing the LGBT agenda isn’t the only way to win a Presidential Medal of Freedom. You can also get one by quitting on your teammates because you have mental problems. As noted earlier,

When Olympic gymnast Simone Biles quit on her team and her country because dealing with the stress of competition wasn’t “fun,” instead of shaking their heads in sadness, liberal opinion-shapers praised her for it.

That praise has now been escalated to a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Liberalism is the inversion of moral values. Since quitting is contemptible, liberals reward it. If Biles had behaved nobly, she would not have received the medal.

It would be better for a pigeon flying overhead to bestow you with a medal than to get one from a Democrat president.

On a tip from Franco.

May 03 2022

Get Woke Go Broke: Subway

Subway chose one of the most obnoxious moonbats in America to represent the franchise. There was some initial blowback. Let’s see how Megan Rapinoe is turning out for them in the long run:

Subway has struggled in the year since it hired soccer star and left-wing activist Megan Rapinoe as a national spokeswoman, with hundreds of stores closing across the nation. …

In 2021, 1,043 Subway locations closed, the New York Post reported Thursday. …

Rapinoe’s left-wing political activism, especially her kneeling in protest during the national anthem, made some franchise owners and customers very unhappy with the chain’s decision to make her the face of the brand.

Rapinoe is not known so much for playing soccer, since no one watches women’s soccer, as for proclaiming her devotion to sexual deviance and indulging in Colin Kaepernick antics to demonstrate her hatred of America. Even by moonbat standards, she is unappealing in the extreme:

Regarding her public displays of disrespect for Old Glory, Rapinoe barks:

“Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.”

The more special privileges they acquire through crybullying, the more oppressed they claim to be.

Ludicrously, Victoria’s Secret proclaimed its wokeness by signing her up as a model. To put it mildly, Rapinoe is no Adriana Lima:

All that matters to our ruling class is identity politics, not the bottom line. Liberals are too foolish to stay in power indefinitely.

On a tip from Chuck A.

Aug 06 2021

Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Sydney McLaughlin

Moonbat losers like Megan Rapinoe and Gwen Berry get the media coverage, but Tamyra Mensah-Stock isn’t the only class act to compete on Team USA in the Olympics this year. Sydney McLaughlin set a record in the 400-meter hurdle while qualifying for the games in June. That record has been broken already — by her.

Does she take the opportunity to denounce her country? No. She is grateful for the opportunity to represent it. Does she brandish her gold medal and smugly proclaim, “I deserve this”? No again.

She credits her success to her faith:

“As long as I put the hard work in, He’s going to carry me through. And I really cannot do anything more but give the glory to Him at this point.”

Some buckle under the stress of competition, then are fawned over by the media for quitting. Not Sydney McLaughlin:

“[T]he amount of weight the Lord took off my shoulders, is the reason I could run so freely yesterday. My faith was being tested all week. From bad practices, to 3 false start delays, to a meet delay. I just kept hearing God say, ‘Just focus on me.’ It was the best race plan I could have ever assembled,” she explained.

“I no longer run for self recognition, but to reflect His perfect will that is already set in stone. I don’t deserve anything. But by grace, through faith, Jesus has given me everything. Records come and go. The glory of God is eternal.”

While narcissists lose, Sydney McLaughlin wins. In the end, people get what they really do deserve.

On a tip from Eddie_Valiant.

Aug 03 2021

Anti-American Gwen Berry Bombs

Not that I recommend wasting your time by watching, but the Olympics are going well this summer. The odious Megan Rapinoe and her kneeling band of America-denouncers were knocked out of gold medal contention by the Canadian women’s soccer team. The flabby middle-aged man from New Zealand who was absurdly allowed to compete as a woman floundered in weightlifting. Now Gwen Berry, best known for her public display of contempt for the US flag and anthem, performed poorly and will miss her chance to “represent the oppressed” on the podium.

The New York Post reports:

Gwen Berry failed to medal during the women’s hammer throw finals on Tuesday. Berry finished in eleventh place out of twelve competitors…

She needn’t worry. After stumbling out of the gate and then quitting on her team because she wasn’t having “fun,” Simone Biles is expected to actually gain endorsement deals. Surely woke corporations won’t neglect Gwen Berry, who makes a pageant of her correct politics and at least didn’t quit.

Things have come to a pretty pass when you find yourself rooting for Americans to lose. But then, if Megan Rapinhoe and Gwen Berry are Americans, the word has no meaning. More accurately, they are anti-Americans. They do not represent the USA any more than the leftist termites who run the government/media do.

On a tip from MAS.

Jun 22 2021

Underwear Inspired by George Floyd

With liberals ascendant, every aspect of the world around you will be politicized, right down to your underwear. If the repellent Megan Rapinoe replacing Adriana Lima at Victoria’s Secret doesn’t convince recalcitrant countermoonbats that resistance is futile, maybe Marks and Spencer underwear inspired by George Floyd will do the job:

The chain has expanded its collection of neutral or nude-coloured underwear so it comes in five shades designed for different skin tones instead of focusing on lighter hues.

M&S – the UK’s biggest bra and knickers retailer – said the range was partly inspired by ‘the global conversation on racial inequality following the horrific death’ of Mr Floyd in Minneapolis, US, last year.

They don’t make horrific deaths like they did back in the days of crucifixion, impalement, drawing and quartering, et cetera. If Floyd’s demise was so nightmarish, why do his fellow lowlifes keep taking fentanyl?

M&S’s political correctness goes beyond the Black Lives Matter pandering we have come to expect from virtually every corporation:

The retailer is also trying to improve its lingerie range with a collection of post-surgery bras for women who have had a mastectomy and by using ‘representative models’.

By “representative,” they mean “physically unappealing.” At least we no longer have to worry about adolescent boys thinking impure thoughts as they leer at ads for ladies’ underwear. More likely, they will become horrified into a life of abstinence.

Paul Joseph Watson weighs in on this latest “cynical marketing ploy to attract free media advertising by pandering to woke imbeciles”:

On tips from Wiggins and KirklesWorth.

Jun 21 2021

Juneteenth Traditions Already Take Root

Our new holiday enshrining critical race theory as the national religion to reward black supremacists and their allies for hundreds of riots that injured thousands of police officers and caused $billions in damages is so important that the CDC postponed an emergency meeting on postvaccination heart inflammation in its honor. Each of the old deprecated holidays waiting to be canceled was celebrated in its own traditional way. Likewise, Juneteenth will be celebrated with traditions that are already taking shape.

Unsurprisingly, Juneteenth will not be the favorite holiday of law enforcement officers. In Michigan:

A man in a car allegedly drove up to a police officer in Michigan who was working a Juneteenth parade and opened fire on the officer.

“Upon investigation, the Flint Police Officer was working a traffic point at the Juneteenth Champions Parade when an individual in a vehicle drove up and shot at the officer,” NBC 25 reported.

The Black Lives Matter agenda isn’t only about waging war on the police. It is also about wallowing in the anarchy that results when the police have been defunded, hamstrung, marginalized, and demoralized. In California:

A fatal shooting at Lake Merritt, Oakland, left a 22-year-old man dead and five others injured on Saturday during an event to mark Juneteenth.

In North Carolina:

An emergency responder was shot while on duty during a Juneteenth event at Roberts Park in Raleigh. …

The EMS worker was assisting with a medical call for a child who was at Roberts Park.

While the responder was walking back to his vehicle, multiple shots were fired across the park. Those bullets hit the ambulance and the emergency responder, according to officials.

In New Jersey:

A celebration gave way to rioting in Long Branch, New Jersey. Hundreds of people took to the streets in a Juneteenth celebration that quickly turned violent, the Lakewood Scoop reported.

Police in full riot gear had to be dispatched to the area in order to quell the unrest. The reasoning for the riot is unknown at this time.

Unknown? It was Juneteenth!

In Pennsylvania:

Police are investigating a triple shooting in West Philadelphia that left two men dead and a 3-year-old child injured.

At last word, no arrests had been made in Philadelphia. However, there is a silver lining. The aptly named Danielle Outlaw is Philadelphia Police Commissioner. Her qualifications consist mainly of being a black woman, but in addition, she used to be Chief of Police in infamously anarchic Portland. Ms. Outlaw was able to promote progress by shoehorning the violence into a politically correct context:

“As many of us began the day celebrating Juneteenth for the first time as a Federally recognized holiday, we again found ourselves lamenting as an otherwise beautiful afternoon had been sullied with gun violence. …

Every act of gun violence is tragic. …

While holiday celebrations will continue throughout the city, our investigators will work tirelessly to bring justice to all of those affected by the scourge of gun violence.”

The guns did it, not the criminal lowlifes police are no longer allowed to keep under control. After the same Democrats who unleashed this chaos by siding with rioters against the police confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens, all will be well.

I hope you enjoy violence, chaos, and moonbattery more than the barbecues, fireworks, and patriotism that have traditionally marked the Fourth of July, because that is the holiday Juneteenth was fabricated to displace from the calendar. Evanston is a half-step ahead of the rest of the country in this regard. From Illinois:

Celebrate every Fourth of July as if it were the last one to be officially acknowledged, because unless there is a dramatic reversal, it will soon be canceled. Just as losing the Culture War to liberals means trading Adriana Lima for Megan Rapinoe, it means trading the Fourth of July for Juneteenth.

On tips from SafeSpace47, MAS, Bluto, Chris Neilson, Chuck A, JackisBack, and KirklesWorth.

Jun 20 2021

You Made the Rules

Say it’s not so. Belligerent wokester Megan Rapinoe, Victoria Secret’s new standard of beauty, has been revealed as having once said something harmless that would now be construed as racist. Will the torch-wielding mob of her fellow moonbats now cancel her?

No it will not, despite it having canceled Ollie Robinson for a virtually identical thought infraction. But she deserves cancelation if anyone does — as Paul Joseph Watson explains:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

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