Ben & Jerry’s Becomes Next Target of Anti-Woke Boycotts; Uni Get Sued Over Affirmative Action 2023-07-06 14:07

Good morning, everyone, and happy no nuclear Holocaust Day. It turns out Zelensky looks like he was lying to us yet again, other than a Russia back down, but one of the two. I want to go into some other stuff today talking about what's happening with Ben and Jerry's, because the ice cream company we used to know and love as children, which went very, very woke, is finally being called out for going very, very woke, and especially for ridiculing the United States on Independence Day. And people are very unhappy about this. Briefly, before I go into that, on the rumors that the nuclear power plant in Ukraine was going to be struck by attacks from Russia or Ukraine, neither happened. The nuclear power plant is still standing. It's not to say they might not do something still. My current take on this, Zelensky was lying about it. Personally, I think that's what happened. And I think he's doing it because he's trying to get support ahead of the NATO conference next week, in fact. And I think he's trying to make it appear that Russia is a threat to all of Europe and that they're going to do drastic, insane things, unless NATO either allows Ukraine into NATO or unless NATO steps up to defend Ukraine against Russia. I understand Zelensky is a man trying to defend his country. I get it, right? I mean, a person tasked with defending their country and fighting a war against a much larger power, you'd expect them to be asking for help. But I think dishonesty is not the way to win support, especially from Americans. My personal case. We'll see what happens with it. I'm glad we don't have nuclear fallout throughout all of Europe. That's a great thing. But regardless, I do think that he's increasingly damaging his credibility as he does these types of things. That said, let's talk about Antti Wouk and Ben and Jerry's, folks. Let me show you here. Epoch Times has this story. First, it was Anheuser-Busch was just laid off like 900 employees and they're closing their bottling facilities. They're not doing so hot. Bud Light associating themselves with transvestites is not a winning proposition. And they've sent a message throughout the entire media industry. Associate yourself with transvestites and people are going to boycott your product unless they like that kind of thing. And it turns out that middle America, you know, drinking beer with barbecues, they seem to not like that kind of thing. And the company is going belly up pretty quickly. Target is also still suffering from their tuck friendly swimwear and other things of the sort. And associating themselves with an openly satanic trans designer. And now Ben and Jerry's appears to be next laying their heads on the chopping block of social justice and saying, come at me as I will. Let me show you, folks. It says here Ben and Jerry's faces growing boycott calls over July 4th message. Let me show you what they said. It says ice cream maker Ben and Jerry's received significant backlash on social media after it denigrated the United States during the 4th of July weekend. And claimed it only exists on stolen land with some calling for a Bud Light style boycott. They say this 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the U.S. exists on stolen indigenous land and commit to returning it. Ben and Jerry's said on its Twitter account before linking to an article on the topic. People were very unhappy about this. Let me briefly show you what people are saying that will jump into my take on it. They say make Ben and Jerry's Bud Light again. That's country singer, songwriter John Rich writing in response. And you also have Jenna Ellis, former Trump attorney, saying long overdue for the Bud Light treatment. You hate the country? Fine. We won't buy your product. All good. And they also say when is Ben and Jerry's giving up their land? My personal take on it, I've actually been boycotting Ben and Jerry's for a while. Personally, as is my wife. Because they were associating themselves with Planned Parenthood. I do not support abortion. I think it is horrible. I regard it as human sacrifice. I absolutely oppose it. And Ben and Jerry's supporting it will automatically get me to boycott the product. I don't want anything to do with that. And I've already been on that bandwagon of not supporting Ben and Jerry's because of their position on abortion. But it's interesting because the timing with this latest one is so bad. It's actually finally getting Ben and Jerry's maybe boycotted. We'll see. Briefly on that, one thing we're seeing with the boycotts is that when companies associate themselves with woke policies, with woke images, it actually does tend to work if that is their audience. We've seen Nike, for example, associating themselves with Black Lives Matter and the whole reparations type narratives. When they're doing that kind of thing, it works with their audience. Their buyers seem to believe in that kind of thing. And they don't seem to understand the discrepancy that they're supporting a company that claims to oppose the history of racism while ironically using child slavery and slavery in China and stuff like that. They don't seem to realize the hypocrisy of using slavery to create a product that brands itself on opposing a history of slavery. Regardless, though, it works for Nike. It does not work for Anheuser-Busch. It does not apparently work for Target. And we'll see with Ben and Jerry's because Ben and Jerry's has kind of associated itself with this hippie image. They've long kind of branded themselves as being the more progressive ice cream brand. And they'll do things like Cherry Garcia and so on like that, where they associate themselves with hippie music icon, that kind of thing. This is the image they have created for themselves. We'll see, though, because typically I would wonder who eats ice cream. Maybe they want to go like the vegan route and start making vegan ice cream and start marketing towards more of the far left. Maybe it's going to work. I don't know. That being said, I do think that they are digging themselves into a hole with this. And let me briefly talk about what they're talking about with this. Ben and Jerry's is saying that America exists on stolen land. It's hypocritical because right now you have millions of illegal aliens flooding the United States. And we've become the indigenous people on this land. Would you say that illegal aliens are stealing the land? That they are getting free health care or whatever like that on stolen land? How do you define indigenous people? The other thing is, of course, it's absolute nonsense. The founding fathers, well, earlier on, the pilgrims and so on, were purchasing their land from the Native Americans. Many of the Native Americans demanded the early settlers pay multiple times. They had contracts signed with the Indians purchasing land. And the problem that came about was they'd buy land from one Indian tribe. And yes, they did buy their land. And yes, those contracts actually still exist as historical records. They would buy the land from one Indian tribe. And then another Indian tribe would roll up and say, hey, you have to pay us because those Indians, those Native Americans stole that land from us. And then another Native American group would roll up and say, no, you have to pay us again because the guy you just paid stole the land that was also stolen from the other guy. And they had to pay multiple Indian tribes for the same tract of land because the Indians had been stealing the land from each other. And how do you define ownership when it gets to that level? The other side of it is, of course, that a lot of the narratives and a lot of the Native American stuff is just plain old false anyways. That being said, you know, you can't have it both ways where you claim that diversity and inclusion and mass immigration is OK now, but was not in the past. And, of course, just ridiculous narratives like this where it's more about politics than it is about history. Ben and Jerry's is putting themselves behind this whole idea. Yeah. Anyways, I'm saying this as someone who is, you know, part Native Hawaiian, by the way, who don't get any land because they say that they're Maori and that they migrated to Hawaii. Which is, I think, is honestly better off for Native Hawaiians. Personally, I think that the system of free land and free money is toxic. And I think that you find a lot of people don't do so well with it. That being said, I do have some very good Native American friends. In fact, I was a personal assistant for a while to one of the Cherokee elders, Gwendoly Cooper, actually, a good friend of mine and good family friend as well as Seminole Indian, actually. In fact, my grandpa, last I talked to him, was actually on the Indian. They don't have a reservation for the Seminoles because they made a peace agreement. They didn't actually agree to have a reservation. And they're very proud of that, by the way. Some of the most patriotic people I know, by the way, really, really fantastic people. That being said, Ben and Jerry's is next on the chopping block. And I don't think it's going to work out so well for them. That says, jump over to Epoch TV and I want to go into universities facing lawsuits for what? For racially discriminating. Because guess what? It turns out affirmative action does not work. Affirmative action is a losing policy. And affirmative action is now a history of racism that people have been discriminated against. And because they're discriminated against, they're going to run into some pretty big issues now. Let me show you, folks. That says, jump over to Epoch TV for this. And I will post it on YouTube. I'll see you over there.