Reminder: "chain migration" is a made up term by the hardline anti-immigration crowd. Its purpose is to dehumanize immigrants. If you're using that word, you're declaring a side.

— Chris Murphy ? (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 27, 2018

I would like to thank Chris Murphy, the Minister of Truth, for letting us proles know through the Twitter prolefeed, that “chain migration” is now crimethink.  I will upsub and rectify to the appropriate newspeak to crimestop.

According to LBGTG Nation:

Less than half of Americans now accept LGBT people in a dangerous reversal of progress

According to The Daily Beast:

It’s Official: America Suddenly Isn’t Comfortable With LGBT People

For the first time in four years, GLAAD found that fewer non-LGBT adults are comfortable with their LGBT peers. The organization says Trump’s anti-LGBT agenda is partly to blame.

Both articles reference the same GLAAD study, and come to the same conclusion: TRUMP!

“This change can be seen as a dangerous repercussion in the tenor of discourse and experience over the last year,” Ellis wrote. “2017 brought heightened rhetoric toward marginalized communities to the forefront of American culture.”

In particular, Ellis cited President Trump’s attempt to ban transgender troops from the military via Twitter, Mississippi’s anti-LGBT law HB 1523, and the fatal violence against transgender people across the country as evidence that anti-LGBT rhetoric and sentiment was on the rise in 2017.

I have twice covered the fact that the transgender homicide issue is significantly overblown and the statistics do not indicate there is a unique problem of trans people being targeted for murder.

The popular wisdom was that 2017 was a uniquely awful year for LGBT Americans; the Accelerating Acceptance report is one of the first tangible signs of how bad it has been.

Unfortunately, the GLAAD survey also found that non-LGBT Americans may not have supported LGBT people as vigorously as they did in previous years—although they still technically support equal rights for LGBT people by a wide margin.

Why was 2017 such a bad year for LGBT?  Well, first there was Trump rounding up all the gay and trans people and having Reichsführer Pence electrocute the gay out of them.

Wait, no, that never happened.

I think this shift in opinion is not so much caused by Trump but caused by the same thing that created Trump.

In no particular chronological order:

The LGBT community has shot past bankrupting bakers who refuse to bake gay wedding cakes and is now destroying the livelihood of small business owners who answer hypotehetical questions abotu gay weddings.

The LGBT community has put a lot of effort into white washing the Pulse shooting.  The entire “Disarm Hate” movement and pop culture remembrance of Pulse is a collective delusion where a white, Christian, toxic male, shot a bunch of gays because he was asked to bake them a wedding cake, rather than a radicalized Muslim, inspired by ISIS.  These people go along with groups like Queers for Palestine and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, standing up for gay executing terrorists against gay friendly Israel.

The side effect of aligning with the Muslims is the growing radical anti-Antisemitism in the LGBT community, exemplified by the Chicago Dyke March kicking out Jewish supporters.

The LBGT community, which once fought the association of gay men and pedophiles is now going after the sexualization of children with gusto.    They have satanic drag queens reading to children at a public library.  They have made a 10 year old drag queen their hero.

The trans movement is having teachers read about transgenderism to children in kindergarten.  Then the Boy Scouts was forced to accept trans boys into scouts.

The trans movement has decided its bigoted for a straight person not to be sexually attracted to a trans person, because “genital preference” is transphobic.  The rapper Ginuwine resisted an unwanted kiss from a transwoman on Big Brother UK and suffered internet backlash because of it.  Opining that not wanting to kiss a transwoman is not bigoted cost at least one comic book artist his job.

In general, the trans bathroom issue has made the entire national uncomfortable at addressing real problems, like what to do about creepy men in women’s bathrooms.

Then, there was the decriminalization of deliberately infecting people with HIV in California, in a measure pushed by a gay California representative.

It’s not that the LGBT community is under attack because of Trump, as much as it is that the LGBT community is now inseparable from radical, far Left leaning, progressivism.    Many Americans can’t stand politically correct, Liberal fascism.  they voted for Trump because he seemed to fight against that.  When the LGBT community seems to be on a seek and destroy mission against Middle American businesses, children, and honored institutions like Scouts, there will be push back.  If Trump had anything to do with this, it is that he has shown he’s not afraid to stand up to the PC fascism.

GLAAD is putting the car before the horse.

I don’t think Americans are more concerned about what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home as much as the defacto symbol of the LGBT community has become this.

Some businesses are more political than others.  Generally gun stores swing a certain way politically, but that is because the gun store clientele does too.  When your business is quite often the target of politicians, some political activism is warranted.  That said, there are gun stores that I have walked in and out of because they went over the top.  They have more bumper stickers than guns.  The staff looks like they just got done raiding a meth lab.

I remember one time going into a gun store and all the guy had for handguns were Glocks.  I asked if he had anything else and then got an angry lecture about how the ONLY handguns worth owning were Glocks and everything else would get me killed in a firefight, and what was my malfunction for not liking Glocks.  Needless to say, I didn’t buy anything from him.

When I think about micro-breweries and restaurants, I think of business that are apolitical.  Generally, people don’t want a heaping dose of partisan politics when the go out for a good time.  The steep decline in NFL viewership proves that.

The owners of Black Star Line Brewery didn’t get that lesson.

This is how they describe their business.

Black Star Line Brewing Co. is the FIRST Black, family, & woman owned brewery in Beer City, USA.  We don’t just make great beers, we believe in collective economics and the liberation of all people.  And we’re just crazy enough to believe that can happen, one brewsky at a time.

From the get go they focus more on they are a black, woman owned business than the beer.  This doesn’t bode well.

Black Star Line Brewery was featured in Vice.

This Craft Beer Forces You to Confront White Supremacy

At Black Star Line Brewing, racial uplift and intersectionality are entwined with every beer they brew, right down to their queer-farmed hops.

Oh shit.  I pint of beer and side order of white guilt.  That’s going to be bitter an unpalatable.

From the people who own craft breweries to those who frequent them, the craft beer scene is interminably, undeniably white. Which is why the North Carolina-based Black Star Line Brewing Company—one of the first black, queer and female-owned and operated craft breweries in America—is such a breath of fresh air.

I can’t enjoy a brewpup now because they are too white.

Named after legendary black nationalist and Pan-Africanist writer Marcus Garvey’s historic shipping line, designed to enable the flow of both money and people back to and through Africa, Black Star Line Brewing is a craft brewery that’s unmistakably political in an industry that’s all too often not. And that’s nearly as refreshing as the queer-farmed, proprietary blend of hops they use for their brews.

Fantastic.  They are named in honor of a black nationalist, black separatist, and his shipping line which was the basis of his conviction for fraud.

Do I now have to be concerned about the sexual orientation of the farmers who grow my food?  That’s going to get mighty tedious if my bacon and eggs are not sourced from sufficiently deserve growers.

Also, is there something special about gay hops?  I thought those are what was used to make Zima.

“Each of our beers has a story,” explained McCrae, and are named in the spirit of the black community—names that become “an act of resistance, an act of reclamation. We educate about our history with the names.” With brews like Assata Ale, Stokely Stout, Afro Pop Porter, The Lorde, and more, the goal is to spark dialogue as one imbibes.

Oooo… an ale named after a cop killer.  I’m never going to order that.  A stout named after a leader of the Black Panthers.  I’m not going to order that, either.  They want you to so they can beat you over the head with it.

“We are in a unique position to have a conversation that most likely wouldn’t take place in most other breweries,” they said. “It’s like this, when people say: ‘What’s a Stokely?’ Well, let me tell y’all about Stokely Carmichael. Let’s talk about why he’s important to Black history. Let’s talk about why there’s an entire brewing industry out there designed for the palette of white folks.”

That sounds exactly like the sort of welcoming attitude you want in a brewpub.  Order a beer and get a lecture.

As someone with a dramatic student loan debt to income ratio, McCrae said they’ve yet to qualify for traditional loans. So they do what excluded folks have always done: be resourceful. That means that L.A. and their team frequently travel to local and regional beer and food festivals to hawk their wares and build community. And to date, Black Star Line’s capital is completely donation-based, from what McCrae calls their “#grassrootsreparations initiative.”

Oh for fuck’s sake.  It’s not a business loan, it’s “reparations.”  Now I’m definitely not going to give a penny.  I’m happy to support a small business.  I hope one day to start my own and I’d like support.  But calling it reparations, that’s a massive turn-off because it’s supported to guilt me out of my money.

It should come as no surprise as to what came next.

Owner of Queer, Black-Owned Brewery Says ‘White Supremacy’ Led to Its Closure

During its six-month tenure, Black Star Line Brewery faced death threats, numerous break-ins, and complicated financial woes.

Really?  I mean I get the closure and financial woes, but the excuse seems far fetched.

“Less than 72 hrs after celebrating King Day with a group of radical POC queers and community members, #BSLB was shut down and police were called to a community space that center [sic] being and liberation for all people. White loan officers called the police on a group of 8 POC Downtown Hendersonville. Why?”

In its own words, Black Star Line Brewing Company fought for social justice for “marginalized, disenfranchised people… through collective economics” (which was, in the brewery’s case, beer). 

“Collective economics” is the the death of everything it touches.  Back in 2016 a Marxist, vegan sandwich shop folded after sucking in customer service.  Before that, the tech startup that decided everyone was worth a minimum wage of $70,000, flopped.

Almost immediately after opening its doors in Hendersonville, a small community (with a population that is more than 80 percent white) in the western region of the state, the brewery started receiving threats. McCrae (who uses they/them pronouns) shared screenshots of profanity-laced emails with the public.    

Seems that when you business exists to guilt 8/10 locals, it’s not going to do so well.

I spoke with McCrae a few days after the brewery’s eviction. They recounted the numerous struggles they faced from day one, describing their shutdown as “intentional” and “systematic.” It started with an inability to secure traditional funding, forcing them to turn to a community development financial institution called Mountain BizWorks, from whom they procured a $50,000 loan, which McCrae says was insufficient from the start, as the brewery had requested a loan of at least $100,000 to get up and running.

According to its website, Mountain BizWorks’ mission is “to build a vibrant and inclusive entrepreneurial community in Western North Carolina by helping small businesses start, grow, and thrive… We have a particular focus on working with businesses unable to access financing from banks and other traditional sources, as well as low-income, minority, women, and immigrant entrepreneurs, and businesses that operate within the local food system.” McCrae describes a much different experience than the one Mountain BizWorks promotes.

So the progressive business incubator wasn’t sufficiently progressives for the queer, gender nonconforming, black, intersectional business founder.

 Between the hateful messages, numerous break-ins (“we stopped reporting the break-ins because the police didn’t care,” McCrae says), accusations of illegal operations (which were deemed false), an overdraft fee with the brewery’s supplier, and what McCrae describes as an inability to get in touch with Mountain BizWorks despite repeated attempts, McCrae reached a point wherein their landlord told Black Star Line that “our mission no longer matches their vision for the building.” MUNCHIES has reached out to Mountain BizWorks for comment, but has not yet received a response.

The cops were out to get them too.  It’s  damn conspiracy I tell you.

McCrae believes that Black Star Line wasn’t just another small business failure statistic. They point to a larger conspiracy, naming it “externalized cultural effects of white supremacy.” In their eyes, it was a setup from the very beginning. Hope for the future of Black Star Line Brewery still exists among its founders and fans, but morale is another story.

“They’ve criminalized us. Dehumanized us,” says McCrae. “Even the detective assigned to the investigation of another break-in after we were unlawfully evicted was quoted saying that he’s 90 percent sure that we did this to ourselves for sympathy on our way out. How can we trust him?

Holy shit, I was being facetious, “they” are being serious.

Even Google was in the hate.

Making weak beer and then calling customers racist is a surefire way to make it rich and successful.

Welcome to progressive economics.  They go with ideas that have failed every time they have been tried before, but when they try them again and fail, it’s because the “white supremacy” was out to get them.

I could care less about the Super Bowl, and most of the ads are shit.

This one from Budweiser hits it out of the park.

It is a true story.  Budweiser regularly shuts down beer production to produce canned drinking water.  Budweiser uses its network of trucks and distributors to ship that water to emergencies.

Budweiser shipped over 155,000 cans of water to the Gulf after Hurricane Harvey.

Truth is, I didn’t know about this until I looked it up for the Super Bowl ad.  I really glad they did this.  It’s stories like that that show just how much America is the opposite of a shithole.

Politicians are happy to shit down the goverment and hurt people to get their way.  They are happy to use an emergency to line the pockets of their donors.

Then they get in front of the cameras and proclaim loudly just how altruistic they are.

A private company, much maligned by the same politicians, quietly goes about using their resources to help people.

I’ve been covering the Democrat response to the popularity of the tax cuts.  It is a glorious mix of condescension and elitism.

Nancy Pelosi is just not stopping.

She sent out, what is quite possibly, the worst economic Tweet of the year.

Pretty obnoxious the GOP thinks workers should be weak-kneed with gratitude for corporations giving them pennies while pocketing a multi-billion dollar tax break stolen from the future of the middle class. #GOPTaxScam pic.twitter.com/ulLIexUf4q

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 26, 2018

Holy shit!

It’s clear that this is what they actually believe.  That rich Republicans are hording the money and tax breaks and bonuses are just crumbs dolled out to weak and stupid people who are powerless to help themselves.

One of the fastest ways to prove how economically stupid you are is to talk about “corporations” or “the corporations” like they are sentient and malevolent entities.

Pelosi and Democrats like her are trying to sell the message that people should HATE THE EXTRA MONEY IN THEIR PAYCHECK because… envy.

This is, first of all, a Communist mentality.  That is not an exaggeration on my part.

More than that, other than in the most impenetrable ideologues, it’s a horrible selling point.

The way most Americans seem to be seeing this is:

“The economy took a shit in 2008.  I voted for Obama.  For eight years I didn’t get a raise or a bonus, but the executives who ran the banks that had to be bailed out by Obama did. 

I didn’t vote for Trump but after one year of Trump in office, I got a raise/bonus, and am not afraid of coming into work and being downsized.

Maybe Trump was right.“

This is fucking horrifying for Democrats, and they are going to try and crush it.  I just don’t think they are going to be able to.

The elites got bonuses under Obama, the Middle Class didn’t.  Both did under Trump.  The Democrats can’t wave that away all that easily and the people

So they are going to try and make them hate money.

Former Democrat presidential candidate and Secretory of State, John Kerry is, allegedly, undermining the interests of the United States in the Middle East.

Maariv reported that former US secretary of state John Kerry met in London with a close associate of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Hussein Agha, for a long and open conversation about a variety of topics. Agha apparently reported details of the conversation to senior PA officials in Ramallah. A senior PA official confirmed to Maariv that the meeting took place.

During the conversation, according to the report, Kerry asked Agha to convey a message to Abbas and ask him to “hold on and be strong.” Tell him, he told Agha, “that he should stay strong in his spirit and play for time, that he will not break and will not yield to President [Donald] Trump’s demands.”

According to Kerry, Trump will not remain in office for a long time. It was reported that Kerry said that within a year there was a good chance that Trump would not be in the White House.

Kerry offered his help to the Palestinians in an effort to advance the peace process and recommended that Abbas present his own peace plan. “Maybe it is time for the Palestinians to define their peace principles and present a positive plan,” Kerry suggested.

First of all, we know what the Palestinian “peace principles” are, Hamas defined them, “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”  Exterminate the Jews is not a reasonable peace principle.

In the bigger scheme of things, we see the former Secretory of State, and potential 2020 Democrat candidate, telling Mahmoud Abbas, who is the head of the PLO, that the President of the United States is going to be out of office soon.

Does anybody realize hoe destabilizing that is to US foreign policy if our enemies believe that Trump will be out in a year?

Kerry is continuing Obama’s anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-Islamic terrorism, policies, as a civilian, in complete defiance of the current US President.

IF Trump really wants to make America great again, Kerry needs to be in handcuffs when he lands in the US.

This lawlessness has got to stop.  The Democrats can’t lose an election then still have it their way by ignoring the laws they don’t like.

It is clear that the Democrats believe that the law is nothing but a cudgel they can beat opponents with but do not have to follow themselves.

This is the very definition of tyranny.

It’s time that Trump starts having major Democrat players who break the law arrested.  Nobody is above the law, he should remind them of that.