It is not enough to drain the meaning out of Christmas, or to suppress it as offensive and replace it with hollow “happy winter” vapidity. Before leftists consign something precious to oblivion, first they desecrate it:

On December 3, Steven Llanusa, who was then the president of the Claremont [California] Unified School District Board of Education and who reportedly remains a CUSD teacher, hosted a Christmas party at his residence and invited members of the Claremont High School choir to perform at the event…

According to reports, scantily-clad men — performers who may actually be male strippers, one outlet noted — were scattered about and interacted with all guests, including the students. One angry father, Gabriel Lozano, claimed that a “dirty Santa” at the party made “disgusting comments” to the students, including his daughter.

According to another parent, Sabrina Ho,

students were surrounded by “inappropriately dressed” adult entertainers and “offered alcohol” by other party attendees.

‘Tis this season for progressives to insult all that is holy by corrupting children:

Independent journalist Tayler Hansen documented a highly disturbing drag show event held in Austin, Texas on Wednesday where children were subjected to extreme sexual content.

The event featured routines that ridiculed Christmas and innocence.

“Crystal Methyd” danced to a song called “S&M” and afterwords had a creepy conversation with children in the audience.

“Oh! A child. Hi! How are you? Oh, it’s another one,” he said as he collected dollar bills from the kids.

The drag queen continued, “Are you having fun, are you enjoying it, are you confused yet?”

Moving on, “Crystal Methyd” talked to a 10-year-old boy who said he’d been to more drag shows than he could count and watched Ru Paul with his family.

Having been indoctrinated and purged of decency, parents become conduits for liberal establishment culture, like the schools and the media.

Those with strong stomachs can click through to see Christmas through the lens of leftism:

On tips from Mr. Freemarket, Ed McAninch, DCGere, and Anonymous.

Because leftist grinches have not yet extirpated Christmas, the war on it continues. Earlier this month, Dedham, Massachusetts (pop. 25,492) librarian Lisa Desmond posted:

I found out today that my beautiful library will not have it’s Christmas tree this year. Zero explanation. When I asked, I was told “people “ were made uncomfortable last year looking at it. I’m sorry WHAT? In my 28 years at the Dedham Public Library, I have never heard a negative comment.

It only takes one squeaky wheel to get traditions greased.

The librarian’s lament drew a response from aptly named Dedham Human Rights Committee member Diane Loud, which read in part (asterisks added):

Lisa Desmond: F**K YOU. You knew what you were doing. You spent days batting aside the people who asked you to ratchet this back. “Everyone will tell you I’m the most inclusive person ever!” Everyone will tell me that you are a selfish f**king b**** who does not care about anyone but herself. For a tree? For a motherf***ing TREE? You have put people’s lives in a lot of danger. A LOT of danger. For a motherf***ing Christmas tree…

Anything liberals associate with Christianity puts lives in danger by threatening the very existence of LGBT people, according to their dogma.

I hope this is worth it. All. I hope the fact that you— who claim to believe in Christ and Christmas or whatever happy horsesh*t you’re trying to hide behind— are the least gracious, most hateful, most disgusting trash in the world. Is this what you think your magic sky daddy wants? Where in the Bible was this again?

In closing I would like to add a final round of F**K YOU, YOU PIECES OF TRASH. I hate each and every one of you and I do wish great suffering on you. You are terrible, terrible people.

Bad as things have gotten under the uniting hand of Joe Biden, this was considered over the top even in liberal Massachusetts. Ms Loud appears to be off the Dedham Human Rights Committee, and the Dedham Library reversed its Christmas tree ban — for now:

Moving forward, we will continue to review decorations and displays to ensure they are welcoming, enriching, and reflective of our entire community.

To the extent “hate” does not mean “resistance to leftism,” progressives are right to denounce it. But as always, they are projecting. Their ideology consists of sophomoric propaganda constructed upon a foundation of tribalistic hatred. This hatred is directed at those they have designated as enemies, prominently including Christians. Thanks go to Ms Loud for reminding us to hate the moonbattery but not the moonbat. We don’t want to degenerate into festering viciousness, as her example reminds us.

On a tip from TCS III.

As a traditional gift to Moonbattery’s treasured readers, presenting Messiah by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1741, recorded at the Große Musikvereinssaal in Vienna as performed by Concentus Musicus Wien in 2004:

Quite a lot is worth preserving from the ravages of moonbattery.

Biden’s 2020 campaign consisted mainly of blaming Trump for Covid (even demagoguing that Trump was culpable for every single American Covid death) and promising to “shut down the virus.” However, more Americans died of Covid in 2021 under Biden (despite the vaccines developed under Trump) than in 2020 while Trump was in office.

You might be wondering what if anything the Biden Regime is doing to confront Covid, other than issuing tyrannical decrees that get blocked by judges. Here’s your answer:

If only they would invent a vaccine to end the pandemic of dancing nurses.

On a tip from Wiggins.

You probably already guessed what would become of Craig Tamanaha, the derelict with a lengthy rap sheet who captured the progressive spirit by setting fire to the patriotically themed 50-foot Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters in New York early Wednesday morning. That’s right; released without bail:

[Tamanaha] was freed after his arraignment Wednesday night because his charges were not eligible for bail under new liberal reform laws.

Moonbats whooped with delight to see the tree go up in dense black smoke in front of the building that houses not only Fox News but also the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.

Arson, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and criminal trespass are among the charges faced by Tamanaha, assuming he ever shows up in court to face them. None of these crimes are considered serious enough in New York to warrant keeping him off the street.

Arson only counts as a big deal if the intent is to harm someone physically or if it is a “hate crime” — i.e., if the victim is a member of an identity group favored by the ruling class. Hatred of Christmas, Christians, and Fox News does not count as hate, because our liberal overlords hate them too.

Two open warrants for desk appearance tickets were also vacated by the judge.

Looks like Tamanaha will have to go full Darrell Brooks before authorities will put him in a cage where he belongs.

Last week, Tamanaha also allegedly exposed himself to a group of reporters outside the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in Manhattan, a photographer told The Post.

He was captured on camera moments after pulling down his pants to show his privates on the first day of the high-profile trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, said Jeenah Moon, a freelance journalist.

Ms Moon reports on a guy pulling his pants down. Welcome to clown world.

Anarchotyranny (a.k.a. liberalism) is a lousy system for decent, law-abiding citizens forced to subsist under the thumb of Big Government. New York is so repressive that a vaccine mandate has been announced for all private workers as of December 27; 5-year-olds will have to be vaxxed to go in a restaurant. But anarchotyranny works great for sociopaths, who can do as they please without hindrance or consequence.

On a tip from Varla.

The moonbat establishment has more effective means of waging War on Christmas than setting fire to Christmas trees.

Via The Hill:

Jimmy Fallon is giving a boost to COVID-19 vaccine boosters, teaming up with Ariana Grande and Megan Thee Stallion for an offbeat, Christmas-themed music video encouraging Americans to get “in line” for the shots.

See how many seconds of this you can endure:

If Christmas can survive this, it can survive anything.

Unless they are just trying to annoy us, the video did not have the intended effect on Paul Joseph Watson:

On a tip from KirklesWorth. Hat tip: Not the Bee.

Combine progressives’ perennial War on Christmas and hatred of Fox News for deviating from the Democrat party line with the normalization of political violence during the Black Lives Matter riots and you are bound to see incidents like this:

The massive All-American Christmas Tree outside Fox News’ New York City headquarters was seriously damaged in a fire early Wednesday…

Unlike most Black Lives Matter violence, this has resulted in an arrest.

Fox News security spotted the suspect, later identified as Craig Tamanaha, climbing the 50-foot-tall tree at the center of Fox Square just after midnight. The Sixth Avenue and 48th Street location is in the heart of Midtown.

Tamanaha’s résumé features homelessness and arrests for drug possession and public intoxication.

The red, white and blue-themed tree was 50 feet high, decorated with 10,000 glass ornaments and 100,000 lights. It took workers 21 hours to assemble the decorations.

No matter how much time and effort it takes decent people to create something, lowlifes can usually destroy it easily.

The Fox News tree isn’t alone:

An arson investigation has been launched after the Christmas tree at Oakland’s Jack London Square was partially damaged in a fire early Monday morning.

The flames did more damage to the lighting than to the 55-foot tree itself. It is unclear whether the official tree lighting will still take place Saturday as scheduled. A potential suspect fled the scene on a bicycle.

After the liberal establishment spent most of 2020 egging on rioting, which is now socially acceptable if associated with a left-wing cause, it would be naive not to expect a surge in arson and vandalism by the dregs of society.

On tips from seaoh and Brian Brandt.

Moonbats can turn anything toxic by injecting their ideological poison into it — even Christmas. What else would you expect of a Christmas series featuring lefty idiot Seth Rogan if not unwatchable sludge like Santa Inc?

Paul Joseph Watson sums it up:

“His new HBO show Santa Inc portrays Father Christmas as a cynical bigoted fraud who weaponizes his white privilege to exploit women and people of color.”

Be sure to tune in if you want to wallow in the woke alternative to Christmas cheer.

The liberal establishment can serve up this slop and tell us it’s our culture, but they can’t make us like it.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Thanksgiving is over; the Christmas season has begun. Keep up to date in your yuletide festivities with a soundtrack suitable for the times. Jason Siler introduces the 2021 White House Christmas Album:

On a tip from seaoh.

Liberal policy is to let criminals out of jail with minimal or low bail, so as to impose “equity.” By now you have learned the consequence of this lunacy in Waukesha:

Five people were killed and 48 others were injured, including two children in critical condition, when a 39-year-old man driving a maroon SUV plowed into a crowd at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday.

The suspect, Darrell Brooks, will be charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide and other offenses, according to police chief Dan Thompson.

The dead include members of the Dancing Grannies.

More on Darrell Brooks:

Brooks’ social media accounts and online court records show that he is an aspiring rap singer with a lengthy criminal history and two open felony cases in which he was released on $500 and $1,000 bail, the latter just days before the parade deaths.

Sounds like exactly the kind of guy the liberal establishment would deify while demonizing the police for trying to defend us from him. Like liberal hero Jacob Blake, he “may have been involved in a possibly domestic abuse-related incident earlier that day.”

Brooks’ “extremely long criminal history” includes:

[O]pen charges filed November 5, 2021, in Milwaukee courts for resisting an officer (misdemeanor), felony bail jumping, second degree recklessly endangering safety (felony) with domestic abuse assessments, disorderly conduct and battery (both misdemeanors, also with domestic abuse assessments.)

He posted $1,000 cash bail on November 19, 2021.

For perspective, Kyle Rittenhouse — whose innocence was obvious from the beginning, who was arrested only for political reasons, and who had not just jumped bail — had his cash bail set at $2 million. Yet the media tells us that the judicial system is racist not in favor of blacks but against them.

Brooks has denounced the Rittenhouse verdict. He is a Black Lives Matter supporter who spews antipolice and black nationalist rhetoric and openly advocates violence against whites. He is an admitted child sex trafficker:

Not an easy fellow to paint as the good guy — not even for a media establishment that managed to lionize George Floyd and Jacob Blake.

Too bad for the media that he didn’t use a gun. They could have made the story about the need to deny us our right of self-defense. As it is, the liberal establishment has a choice between trying to somehow blame the police for this and just letting the story sink without a trace. Paul Joseph Watson is probably right that it will opt for the latter:

Every society has sociopaths capable of deliberately driving through a Christmas parade. A sane society keeps them in prison before they can amass anywhere near the rap sheet Brooks did. A society controlled by liberals lets them run amok and wreak havoc.

On tips from Bluto, 100Bravo, DM, KirklesWorth, and Varla.

Leftists’ annual War on Christmas is off to an early start this year. Hyperwoke Disney has already fired the first cannon blast of 2021:

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, an extremely popular yuletide tradition, is going to be rebranded. Instead, the Magic Kingdom will host a night time show.

The new “don’t call it Christmas” event is called ‘Disney Very Merriest After Hours’ – a generic, holiday-themed celebration.

The word “merry” may be all that survives of Christmas tradition if moonbattery prevails.

Like every other facet of our cultural heritage, Christmas has been deemed “noninclusive” and therefore “offensive.” Those who find generic winter scenes too drab are allowed to celebrate one of our proliferating black supremacist holidays, Kwanzaa.

More purging at Disney World:

Among the “offensive rides” that have been updated are Pirates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain – a ride inspired by Song of the South. They also plan to update the Jungle Cruise over concerns about the depictions of natives.

Only that which woke scolds have not gotten around to declaring to be offensive is allowed in the public square. What remains of American culture becomes ever narrower as it shrinks away to nothing.

Disney also eliminated the words “ladies and gentlemen” and “boys and girls” from recorded greetings at its theme parks.

What is the point of an amusement park for children when even the concepts of boys and girls have been canceled?

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

As Marx and Lenin recognized, Christianity is incompatible with communism. So as communism is incrementally imposed on America, Christmas will be increasingly less about Christ and more about doing what you’re told:

On tips from seaoh and Lyle.

Like the perpetual progressive campaign against liberty, the War on Christmas has become more forceful thanks to exploitation of COVID-19. Boris Johnson said it would be “frankly inhuman” to cancel Christmas. Then he canceled it. Paul Joseph Watson brings us up to date on Airstrip One’s coronavirus-enabled yuletide lunacy:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Until traditions can be erased completely, they must be repurposed. On behalf of the Nanny State, Michigan Gauleiter Gretchen Whitmer exploits Christmas to indoctrinate children with ChiCom virus hysteria, which she laid upon Christmas like a wet blanket by telling kids to avoid celebrating with relatives.

The spectacle was produced as a Zoom call. Via Summit News:

Whitmer introduced Santa Claus to the 6 groups of children before inviting them to ask Santa questions, almost all of which were about COVID-19 rules and had obviously been scripted for them.

Santa told the kids that he and his elves wear masks and remain 6 feet apart from each other, and urged them to wear masks whenever they leave home.

The health benefits of children wearing masks as they play in the snow are doubtful. But who wants to risk getting a lump of coal by disobeying Santa?

Whitmer then said that families should “stay home” and not visit each other and instead, “call your grandparents and your cousins and your family and it’s the safest way to tell the people you love how much you care about them.”

Next time Whitmer does a yuletide Zoom call, she ought to team up with the Grinch instead.

On a tip from Lyle.