Blake Backs Down & World Boxing Is Standing Up for Women | Episode 37

So Taylor Swift and Haley Bieber are thriving despite their run-ins, their multiple run-ins with Scooter Braun, Blake Lively is backing down and ironically in a crazy turn of events, the NFL is the only company that is keeping Pride Month alive.

So on Monday, before we got into our story, we had a little bit of breaking news involving Scooter Braun and his company Hybe getting investigated by the feds.

I told you guys we would be back with some updates and I have a lot more context about that story now.

We also have updates about Taylor Swift and Haley Bieber and that entire universe and what is going on.

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So just to jog your memories, as I said on Monday, Scooter Braun's company or a part of his company got raided by the feds in Korea.

And so obviously this is connected to Scooter Braun, but this isn't like Scooter Braun got raided at his house, like his office is getting raided, at least not yet, who knows where this will go.

There is just a lot of stuff happening with this company.

Now, what happened last week is that there was another Hybe Corporation executive who is also being investigated.

Now, one article on this reads that the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor's Office recently searched Hybes headquarters in central Seoul to investigate allegations that an executive gained illicit profits worth worth 240 million won through stock trading using insider information.

So obviously the allegations are kind of similar here based on what we're seeing.

The executive whose identity was withheld is suspected of purchasing shares of YG Plus, an affiliate of another K-pop powerhouse, YG Entertainment, after learning of Hybe's plan to invest in the company.

So a lot of sticky, nefarious things happening with Hybe, at least in Korea.

And obviously there are allegations of some interesting dealings over here in Hybe America with Scooter Braun.

That is not confirmed.

That is is all alleged, but it's just suspect and interesting that all of this is happening at once.

So between this and the fact that all of his clients are leaving him and the fact that we know that he is in legal litigation with Justin Bieber and there is this alleged PR war that's going on, like Scooter Braun's PR team must be working overtime to change public opinion of him.

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Now, speaking of needing caffeine, Scooter Braun's problems do not just end with Justin Bieber and Hive America being investigated because Taylor Swift is back on the scene.

Now, we haven't heard much from Taylor Swift over the last year or so because she ended her tour.

She has been holed up in Kansas City with Travis Kelsey doing the whole wag, the wives and girlfriends.

of the NFL, doing that whole thing.

She has barely been seen at all.

And also, as we've talked about, she has been incredibly quiet when it comes to the whole Baldoni Blake Lively situation, which is so weird because that is allegedly her best friend, but we talked about that.

Anyway, Taylor, it seems like she's been dealing with a lot of stuff behind the scenes, one of which is buying back her masters.

So the brief context of that is that Taylor Swift always wanted to be able to own her own work.

That was incredibly important to her.

She talked about that consistently.

And even though she had signed contracts from a very young age where, you know, she didn't own her work, she made it very clear to the people that she was working with that she wanted the opportunity to buy her masters, to buy buy her entire catalog and push really came to shove when the owner of big machine records turned around and sold it to the one person that she never wanted it to be sold to which was scooter braun and his company then scooter braun behind her back went and kept it for a couple of years profited off of her music and then sold it to somebody else so she has watched her entire life's work just be passed around by person to person when she is standing there with a billion taylor swift bucks being like, I want to own my work.

And she's never even been given the opportunity to buy it because it's been sold out run her, which again, all of this is legal in the music industry.

It's legal based on the contracts that she signed when she was young, but it definitely is not the most above board or honest way to do business, especially when she is standing there saying, I want to own this.

And so this is why over the last six years, you have watched Taylor Swift re-record all of her albums.

Why when you go on Spotify and you want to listen to Fearless or whatever it is, you see Taylor's version, because she was able to go back and re-record everything so that these versions of her songs and her albums, she actually owns.

And over the last six years, she has had this whole feud with Scooter Braun because she said that he treated her so poorly, even going back to the Kanye and the Kim stuff.

They have had this whole feud.

They are not friends at all.

She's angry at him for a myriad of reasons.

And this week, the reason why I'm telling you all of this, this week, she basically gave him the biggest middle finger and she bought back her master.

So she bought them back for a reported $360 million,

which is $60 million over what Scooter sold them for back in 2020.

Now, over the past couple of weeks, rumors started percolating about this, saying that, you know, her records might be for sale.

she might be able to buy them, and Scooter Braun's name has been all over this entire thing.

Like this, like her masters being up for sale was like the best PR thing that could have been handed to him, and he immediately jumped on that.

And the press kind of went with it and made it seem like he was somebody who was brokering the deal.

For instance, a source told page six that interestingly enough, one of the individuals who was encouraging this deal to take place is Scooter, who was at the center of the deal the first time around alongside Big Machine.

However, it seems like that might have not actually been the case.

And as the news broke that the sale went through, I think it was on Thursday of last week, Scooter made sure to let the world know how happy he was for Taylor.

He's trying to have water under the bridge.

He is trying to jump on this PR opportunity.

He gave a statement to us weekly saying he's very happy for her.

And despite his best efforts to ride this positive PR wave, sources close to Taylor seem to be setting the record straight and they said he had no part in this whatsoever.

Contrary to a previous false report, there was no outside party who encouraged this sale.

All All rightful credit for this opportunity should go to the partners at Shamrock Capital, who is who Taylor bought the music back from, and Taylor's Nashville-based management team only.

Taylor now owns all of her music and this moment finally happened in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him.

And basically, a statement like that is a death sentence because the Taylor Swift fans, the Swifties, they are powerful.

They are passionate.

And if Taylor Swift says something happened or didn't happen, they are going to ride at Dawn behind her.

They are going to support her.

So Scooter Braun might have tried to make this a positive thing for himself, but obviously it did not work.

Now, the last thing that I want to say on this point about Taylor Swift is I saw so many comments from people basically being like, this is such a disrespectful use of money, especially with the economy being the way it is.

She could have done so many other things with her $360 million.

Why on earth would she want to buy back her music when she's just re-recording it?

Now she owns her own masters.

But this kind of goes back to everything that we've been talking about with Justin Bieber.

Like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift, their art, their lyrics, everything that they've done over their 15 plus years of being professionals in this industry, that is who they are.

They are artists.

That is their humanity.

And Taylor Swift wants to be able to own all of that, everything that she's done from the time that she was 15 years old, and she's in a financial position where she can own it.

Yes, she has re-recorded all of her music.

Now she has two streams of income.

She can license either of those songs.

But I think it's less about the financial ramifications of owning all of that and more about the emotional side.

Because I mean, like, think about it.

Who wouldn't want to own the things that they create if given the opportunity?

Like, I think about the work that I've done over the last, you know, three to five years.

Had I had the opportunity to buy that, even if I was doing nothing with it, even if I never published anything, never made any money off of it, but if I was able to control it and say, no, this is mine, I put, you know, blood, sweat, and tears into this every single day, and I was able to purchase that, obviously I would have done that.

And I know so many other people that are in similar situations, whether they are creators or artists or musicians who have been in these situations, and they just want to be able to own the things that are so personal to them.

In my mind, it makes complete sense that Taylor bought this back and it makes it even more fun for me because I'm just getting to watch this PR spiral unfold.

And what makes this even better, guys, is that Taylor Swift was not the only woman connected to Scooter Braun that had an amazing week because Justin Bieber's wife, Haley Bieber, just sold her makeup company for a whopping $1 billion.

Now she sold this company to ELF.

It was a record-breaking beauty sale.

And guys, what makes this even crazier is that Hailey Bieber built this company in less than five years.

And what makes it even crazier on top of that is that all of this happened in spite of everything that we know is going on in their personal life.

The PR wars, the legal litigation, the fact that Justin felt that he had to sell his entire life's work, what we were just talking about with Taylor Swift in order to pay off his debt.

The fact that people are saying, you're getting divorced, you are broke, your marriage is terrible.

All of this is happening.

The fact that she just became a mother, that she had an incredibly traumatic birth, that she almost died in childbirth, that she was able to build a company worth $1 billion and sell it while all of that was happening.

Like that is incredible.

And it's just laughable to see all of these hit pieces and these tablet articles come out saying she's draining him of money.

She's the reason why he's broke.

I think they're fine.

Like they are not just relying on Justin and his music.

Like she has something really great that she loves that she has built.

Obviously he is in support of her.

They're working on their creative endeavors.

They're trying to get out of this mess.

And this seems like an amazing path forward.

And I'm sure that this sale will give them a lot of stability and even more freedom to continue fighting the fight that Justin is going through.

So all of this is just incredibly positive.

I had an amazing time watching all of this news come out over the last couple of weeks because Justin and Haley truly do not deserve the PR storm that they have been fighting against.

However.

Somebody else certainly does and that would be Blake Lively.

She certainly asked for it.

And guys, I don't think it's going to get better anytime soon because she came out this week and said that she is dropping two of the claims in her original lawsuit.

And these are not just minute, small claims.

No, she is dropping her claims of emotional distress, which if you remember, were the basis of her first lawsuit.

So she is dropping intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

That is what she was alleging that Justin Baldoni and his company did to her.

Now, the way that all of this transpired is that obviously Justin Baldoni and his team, Brian Friedman, greatest lawyer in the world, except my lawyer who I love, they asked to see her private medical records, i.e.

her therapy notes to defend these claims, which is totally reasonable.

Like, if you are going to allege that somebody emotionally distressed you to the point that you need millions and millions of dollars in damages, the other side is going to want to see, okay, well, how did that actually play out?

Did you have to go to therapy?

Were you on meds?

Were you hospitalized?

What happened?

Do you have texts showing that you were distressed?

Like, what is going on here?

Now, Blake Lively.

She did not want to hand any of that over.

I don't know why.

I'm not going to speculate, but she said,

actually, I would rather dismiss these claims.

I would rather withdraw them than have to hand over my medical records.

However, of course, her legal team did not really say it in that way.

They instead said that this was to streamline and focus her case, which is just incredibly ironic because I thought the entire case was about emotional distress.

I guess it's not.

I guess it's about something completely different.

So now they're streamlining it.

They're moving on.

That was not a big deal.

We want to focus on other things.

We're going to drop the emotional distress.

I know we said that that was the whole thing.

I know we talked to the New York Times about it, but that's actually not a big deal.

We're just streamlining it, which objectively is a very, very strange thing to do.

I mean, even the writers over at Variety had no other option to point out how weird and unconventional this is.

In a recent article, they said that the court will now need to decide whether to compel Lively to turn over the information on her mental health, which she has sought to avoid, or dismiss the two claims with or without prejudice.

It is standard procedure in cases alleging physical or emotional injury for the defense to access the plaintiff's medical records that would shine a light on the root and scope of alleged distress.

What is unusual is for a plaintiff to abandon the claims midstream, given that it is well known heading into such a lawsuit, the medical records will be an unpleasant but inevitable part of the discovery process.

Yeah, unusual.

Unconventional is putting it mildly, guys.

So again, to reiterate, Baldoni and his lawyers obviously wanted these records released.

They were going to be released in Discovery.

Blake Lively said, no, never mind, actually, we're just going to withdraw them.

That, you know, sent up alarm signals on Justin Baldoni's team.

They're like, no, actually, we're going to compel you to release them.

On Monday, both sides came together.

They met with the judge.

Both sides kind of like duped it out, and the judge had to make a decision.

And guys, it is the most savage decision I have ever heard.

And he said that, no, Blake Lively will not be compelled to release these records because he is now forcing her to withdraw them.

But the kicker is that with saying this, he also said that because you already put withdrawing them on the table, you actually have to do this and you will not be allowed to bring up any claims of any emotional distress.

in the rest of the case as evidence for any of the other claims.

Nothing.

Because you're playing these games, because you said, okay, never mind, we'll just withdraw them, you can't touch that.

Whatever she's suing him for that he did to her, it cannot be connected to emotional distress because you would rather withdraw that than prove that you were emotionally distressed.

So that was a huge win for Jessica Baldoni.

And the exact words from the judge were this.

For avoidance of doubt, if the claims are not dismissed, so if she just lets them dangle, the court will preclude Lively from offering any evidence of emotional distress.

So she can choose not to withdraw them, but she can't use them.

She cannot bring it up once.

So obviously, what this says to me is that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, they are flailing.

They are stressed.

She has gotten herself into obviously a little bit of a pickle, both in terms of these lawsuits and in terms of the PR firestorm.

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Now, getting back to Blake Lively, the one positive thing that I will say about this woman right now is that at least she kind of knows when she's been beat.

At least she knows that she needs to quit while she's semi-ahead, unlike Sex in the City, because Sex in the City, I don't know, know, man, they should have quit years ago.

When the show ended the first time, we did not need the extra movies, and we certainly did not need their most recent series called And Just Like That.

I mean, like, this is the perfect example of just Hollywood lunacy.

Like, has Hollywood not learned anything over the last couple of years?

Like, is creativity so dead that the only thing you can think of doing is remaking Disney films and remaking Sex in the City?

Like, Sarah Jessica Parker, just let her go and wear her crazy high heels somewhere else.

I do not need to see her on my television.

I especially do not need to see the Sex in the City spin-off.

And fans certainly did not want to see Rosie O'Donnell in the premiere of season three of this show.

And guys, I do not have the time nor do I have the interest to give you all of the backstory on Sex in the City.

Basically in the original show, it's a bunch of women in their 30s sleeping around, having fun, being liberated girl boss women.

Many people say that it was like the breaking point for a men.

It was like what broke millennial women, basically.

And they are still going and they are still doing incredibly strange, terrible things on our televisions, including sleeping with Rosie O'Donnell.

So Rosie O'Donnell in the spin-off of Sex in the City is playing a nun named Mary, very original.

Thank you, Sex in the City, that loses her virginity to one of the lead characters.

So guys, imagine this.

It is, I don't actually don't want you to imagine it.

I'm so sorry that I just told you that.

It's two like 50 to 60 year old women having sex.

One of whom is a nun.

Like that is a, don't, I do not want to envision that in the slightest.

And yet that is what was on people's televisions when they logged on to watch this spin-off.

Now, the original Sex in the City, like I said, it was already raunchy and crazy and very progressive.

But for years now, since it was canceled, the original show has been criticized for not being woke enough because it was too white, it was too straight, it was too privileged, all of the two, two, two, whatever.

And so in this spin-off, they have basically been trying to fix all of that and appease the mob.

So the whole premise of this new show is just to fix that reputation.

It's to check every single far-left talking point, every intersectional talking point to appease the mob.

And unsurprisingly, everyone has hated it.

And having Rosie O'Donnell be a nun that is losing her virginity and finding herself as a lesbian was just the icing on the cake for so many people who were finally like, okay, I'm turning off the TV.

This went too far.

Because that's not...

creativity.

That's not genuine storytelling.

That is horrifying, to say the least.

That is basically jamming in as many social justice talking points as you possibly can into a show to fix its reputation.

Obviously, audiences are not going to respond well to that.

We have told you time and time again that we're over it.

Like, this, what we're seeing on our televisions, all of those intersectional boxes that you're trying to check, the brownie points that you're trying to collect, that is not empowerment.

That is not progress.

And neither is letting a biological man beat up women for the sake of equality.

And that is literally what the Olympics allowed to happen last summer.

And the reason why I am bringing this up again is because Algerian boxer Iman Khalif's gender is apparently somehow still up for debate debate per recent information and hysteria that dropped on Twitter this week.

Now, despite guys, I mean, I feel like we've talked about this so many times since last summer, but despite the multiple test results that have been leaked confirming that this individual is a biological man, Iman Khalif and the Olympic committee and activists around the world are all doubling down that Iman is a female and will be competing at the 2028 Olympics.

And as we talked about last fall, Iman is even going so far as to take legal action against these claims, saying I'm going to sue everybody who said that I am a biological man.

But guys, the cards just keep getting stacked against Iman with yet another result being leaked this week.

Now, to give you guys some more context, if you don't remember, prior to the Olympics in 2024, there were multiple instances involving Iman Khalif in which Iman failed the gender eligibility requirements for certain tournaments leading up to the Olympics.

But when the 2024 Olympics came around, the IOC, the International Olympic Committee, dismissed these claims.

They basically turned a blind eye, they ignored them, and they said that these results were not legitimate, and they let Iman Khalif compete in the Paris Olympics, which obviously caused a firestorm.

We all saw everything that happened back in the summer.

And of course, as they were evaluating these eligibility requirements, the IOC had to blame it on the world's most convenient scapegoat, which of course is always Russia.

I mean, you literally cannot make this stuff up.

One article reads, leaders of the Olympic committee went a step further and even suggested that the test could be misinformation planted by Russia, where world boxing.

boxing is based to prevent the dominant athlete from competing on the world title.

It's always Russia.

It's always Russia.

Khalif went on to win the gold in Paris and left the sport mirrored in controversy while competitors expressed fears about facing her in the ring.

Italy's Angela Carini said that she feared for her life during an Olympic bout against Khalif that lasted just 46 seconds.

And so that is basically how it all ended after the Olympics.

However, in November, just a couple of months after the Olympics, some of these test results from Russia were leaked.

And these found that in fact, Iman Khalif is a biological man with a sexual developmental condition called 5-alpha reductase deficiency.

A condition that only impacts biological men.

One article reads, the genetic abnormality influences the normal development of a child's sexual organs.

At birth, male babies impacted by 5-alpha are often incorrectly assigned female due to the presence of deformed genitalia that sometimes takes on the appearance of a blind vaginal pouch.

This disordered development typically becomes apparent by puberty when 5-alpha adolescents begin to experience signs of masculization, such as muscle growth, hair growth, and an absence of breast tissue development or menstruation.

Without access to a proper clinical examination, males with 5-alpha may be incorrectly believed that they are female into adulthood.

So in a country like Algeria that might not be as advanced as some other Western countries, somebody like Aman might have never known that they had this condition.

So going back to Amman, what does this all actually mean?

Well, this article goes on and they said that the clinical report reveals that an MRI determined that Khalif had no uterus, but instead had internal testicles and a micropenis resembling an enlarged clitoris.

A chromosomal test further confirmed that Khalif has XY karyotype, while the hormonal test found that Khalif had a testosterone level typical of males.

They also noted that doctors suggested that Khalif's parents may have been blood relatives.

So what this is all saying is that this individual is a man.

Now, as I said earlier, there is a possibility that, you know, Iman was raised as a girl because Amon's testicles never dropped.

And from the reports, it seems common that people with 5-alpha will be raised to believe that they are female because either that is like a cultural choice, it's easy, or because they just never learned that they had this condition.

And if all of that is true, then I obviously have empathy for Amon and Amon's family in the situation because this is probably all very confusing if your entire identity was just flipped over one day after a medical examination.

But also, this was probably confusing back in 2023 when you first got these test results.

These test results did not happen last November.

They happened in 2023.

Like, facts are facts.

Why are you still lying and trying to hold up this charade?

Like, we have all the information.

The fact that you want to compete against women and that you were raised as a woman does not change the fact that this individual has a micropenis, has undescended testicles, and has the same amount of testosterone as a man.

That is a fact.

And again, guys, we learned all this information back in November.

And this apparently has still been up for debate.

I did an episode about this back in November and I was like, great, signed, sealed, and delivered.

We all know now this person is a man.

But apparently I was wrong.

Apparently people were still plugging their ears.

They were trying to ignore it or just speak over the facts.

Amon filed that lawsuit against everyone that said that Amon was a female, that questioned their sex.

However, it's getting a lot harder to keep up that charade because this week, why I'm talking about it in this episode, this week yet another test was leaked confirming again that this individual is not a woman.

Like, how many times do we have to go through this painful discovery of something that we already know?

This New York Post headline reads: Olympic boxer Iman Khalif's leaked lab results offer new evidence about her biological sex.

And the article reads: Khalif, a 26-year-old who has long maintained that she is female, was found to have male XY chromosomes chromosomes in a 2023 test carried out by an accredited Indian doctor.

Quote, chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype, referring to male chromosomes, which left Khalif barred from the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championship in India.

And I know that this all might be confusing because the test results that I was talking about just a few minutes ago that we learned about in November also happened in 2023.

But guys, these are from two separate medical bodies.

The results we learned about in November were from a hospital in Algeria and a hospital in Paris.

This is from a hospital in India.

So we now have triple the confirmation that this individual is a biological male.

And guys, these are the results that the Olympic committee saw in 2024 and they chose to ignore.

They had all of this information and instead decided to put this individual into the ring with biological women.

And then pointed the finger on all of us and said, no, no, no, actually, no, this individual is a woman.

You guys were all the bigots.

You don't know what you were talking about when they had this information.

I don't even have the word.

That's sinister.

It is incredibly dangerous.

It is appalling that they would do something like this.

And now we have all of the evidence that they knew.

And they lied to our faces for almost a year now.

They basically laughed and scoffed at us when we brought it up when the female boxers in the ring were saying, this is so dangerous, I cannot even fight.

And they took this person's side.

Why?

Because of social justice?

Like, this isn't a trans person.

This is somebody with a sexual developmental condition that we need to address because this is not safe for the other biological women in the ring.

And you decided to put social justice and winning brownie points of the culture war over women's safety.

Now, the one good thing that has come from all of this is that despite previous eligibility, World Boxing, who is now overseeing boxing at the 2028 Olympic Games, is doubling down on protecting their female athletes after all of this has transpired.

And just a few days ago, kind of in light of these new test results coming out and being leaked, they announced that all athletes participating will be doing genetic tests to identify their sex at birth.

I don't know why it took this long to put that into play.

This seems very common sense.

It seems very easy.

And And they also said that Khalif will not be allowed to compete until Amon has undergone this test, just like everyone else.

And of course, people online are outraged.

They are freaking out.

They cannot believe the atrocity that is being done against people like Aman Khalif.

For example, one person responded and said, do all the TERFs and J.K.

Rowlings of the world not realize how awful this new policy is for women?

In order to compete in world boxing events, all women must undergo invasive physical examinations, not just Olympic boxer Amon Khalif.

How exactly is this a win for women?

It is is a win for women because it is protecting them, because it is keeping the baseline requirement secure.

It's not allowing things to be bent or lied about for the sake of social justice.

And guys, here's the kicker that just made me laugh hysterically about this tweet.

This was put in a community notes underneath this response.

That invasive medical examination that this person is talking about is a cheek swab.

They're not asking you to strip down so they can check if you have a micropenis or if you actually have boobs.

No, they are swabbing your your cheek.

So I'm sorry, spare me the outrage, swab the cheek, go ahead, go ahead, confirm I'm a woman right now.

I do not think those female boxers will care either.

Another point that I want to make is that this is not just some trans rights issue or people not liking trans people and wanting to keep them out of sports.

That's not what this is about.

Iman Khalif is not a trans woman at all.

This is about the baseline.

Like I said, this is about protecting women in a highly dangerous combative sport, a hand-on-hand combat sport where they need to be protected.

This is about protecting common sense and biological reality, which should be the bare minimum.

And after everything that we witnessed over the last year with Amon Khalif, with the outrage, with the lies, with everything,

I am so glad that at least one athletic body is doing something.

I mean, every single female boxer that has gone up against Amon Khalif talks about how they have never experienced punches like that.

Angela Carini, the Italian who went up against Amon in the Olympics, only lasted 46 seconds before calling off the fight.

Just watch.

She's saying she's done.

And that was it.

46 seconds.

And in the interviews that took place after the match, Karini kept saying, like, I have never experienced anything like this.

I couldn't fight back.

And interestingly, one of the things that she said to her coach in Italian was that this was disgraceful, that she couldn't even imagine how this actually happened.

The fact that she was put in the ring with this biological male, it was disgraceful.

And I think that's the perfect way to put it because there's no excuse for this.

When you had all of the information, when you had these test results from 2023, multiple of them, and you still chose to lie and you still chose to put women like Angela Karini, biological women at risk for the sake of what?

Talking points?

Again, brownie points, whatever it may be.

It is disgusting.

She's absolutely right.

It is disgraceful.

Now, obviously, we have a couple of years until the 2028 Olympics, so it'll be interesting to see how all of this unfolds, if they change their policies, where they draw their line in the sand, if they learn from this, hopefully.

But it does seem like American consumers have drawn their own line in the sand, and so have companies this Pride season.

Because, guys, Pride Month in 2024 seems to have lost its gusto.

People are tired, or they're just straight up scared.

They do not want to be involved anymore.

Because, guys, we are officially in June.

I'm recording this on June 3rd.

You would normally be seeing rainbow flags galore up the wazoo.

And yet, this year, something has changed.

And the first hint of this happened in none other than Boise, Idaho, where they had to cancel their June Pride kickoff party because nobody was registering to attend.

Boise Pride cancels June kickoff event due to low attendance, despite strong online support.

And my favorite is the graphic that they posted.

So Boise Pride's biggest pride party of the year, the kickoff event canceled.

The biggest party of the year and you couldn't get enough people to show.

Yeah, well, it's Idaho.

You've lost them.

Granted, Boise is an incredibly, incredibly gay and liberal city within Idaho.

I lived there for a very short time, but still, it's not happening.

People are not having it in 2025.

And I am happy to inform you guys that it did not stop in Boise because June 1st came around this weekend.

That is the official holiday for companies to change their logos to rainbow flags to prove that they're all allies.

And it was notably less pervasive than in previous years, enough so that it started pissing people off.

They were posting photos of people, not changing their logos of all these companies, being like, how could you?

In 2021, you were doing all of this in 2025.

There's nothing.

And guys, it's not just the logos.

On a whole, these big corporations, they are massively scaling back their support for Pride.

And I mean, who could have guessed?

I guess years of supporting naked dancing in the street and sexual deviancy and transing the kids and alienating half the country.

was not a great business strategy after all.

It seems like years have gone by and they finally learned their damn lesson.

Now, ironically, the organization that has done the most for pride this year thus far has been the NFL, which is just, oh my God, it's so embarrassing, but it's also so classic.

They have been blasting out the logos and the rainbow posts, announcing events.

The official NFL account has been slamming retweet on every single one of those posts.

But, guys, who's really surprised here?

Because this is the same organization that released this advertisement back in 2021.

Like on the scale of social justice, left-wing, insane videos, this might take the cake.

If you haven't seen it, take a watch.

Football's gay.

There's the logo.

I mean, that just perfectly encapsulates everything on the left.

I mean, I talk about this all the time with feminism, where I feel like feminism has been diluted and manipulated to basically mean nothing anymore.

It can mean everything.

It is malleable for whatever social justice cause is the current thing that all the women want to attach it to.

And that's kind of what they're doing with football.

Football is everything.

And it's for everyone.

It's just, it can be whatever.

It's lesbian, it's gay, it's queer, it's whatever.

Man, maybe football is just football.

Football doesn't have to be everything for everyone.

Like, it's just guys catching balls and slamming into each other.

And that doesn't have to be gay.

It doesn't have to be.

You don't need to say that it is.

And again, that video came out in 2021.

So the fact that four years later, nothing has been done even close to, like, yes, they are slamming retweet on all of those, you know, rainbow flag logos, but they didn't do a video like this.

So obviously that is a positive sign.

Just like it's incredibly positive that Target has completely redirected and changed their tune.

Now, if you guys remember, a few years ago, Target made major waves online with their insane, I mean, truly insane pride collection that included tucking underwear and tucking swimsuits for children.

That all came out from a viral video from TPUSA.

It created a huge two-year boycott that massively impacted the company.

And last year, after after facing a year of half the country not wanting to shop at their stores, they announced in 2024 that they were scaling back.

This headline reads, Target is dialing back on Pride merchandise after right-wing backlash.

And so guys, I am happy to inform you that this year, in 2025, they have gone even a step further.

And instead of having the Pride Collection just dialed back, but still, you know, front and center, they replaced it with this.

This person posted this on X this week.

It is Pride Month, and this is the largest, most prominent display at Target.

America is healing.

And guess what it is it is the Memorial Day and 4th of July collection that is at the front of Targets around the country and yes before you ask it is in fact royally pissing off white liberal women just take a watch happy pride month in my Target that used to have the Pride section it's now all USA

yay

it's it's an American summer except for tourism because tourism's down because no one wants to come here USA woo and honestly my dad served in the military and I'd love to be really proud of this nation, but it's hard to be proud of it under Donald Trump.

Of course, yeah, it all goes back to Trump, the big bad orange man.

You can't be happy, you can't live your life fully under Donald Trump.

Thank you very much.

It's always them.

It's the white women and the boomers.

We've looked at the demographics.

We know the voting records.

That is who is running the show.

You can count on them to hold up the Democratic Party for as long as possible because, based on what we've been talking about over the last couple of weeks, you know, the young men are not coming to save them.

And actress Jennifer Gardner is a perfect example of this because, as everyone else is toning down their pride celebrations this year, don't worry.

Do not worry.

She is out to save everyone.

This is just such a brave, incredible thing that she is doing this pride season.

She's pride wrapping all of her trees.

Thank God for Jennifer Gardner.

She's really saving the world.

And now, thanks to this video, we all know where Jennifer Gardner lives because you can walk around and see the huge pride trees and know exactly who lives there.

I mean, all in in all, guys, and I think you know this about me, like, I really don't care who you sleep with or what you do in your private time, but like, enough was enough.

We had to reach a breaking point.

Like, the pendulum needed to shift because it stopped being about gay marriage and gay rights years ago, just like feminism stopped being about equality years ago and instead started to become about hating men and wanting to dominate men.

And in turn, pride in the entire month of June basically just became a celebration of deviancy and intersectional politics that I want nothing to do with, that half the country wants nothing to do do with.

And unsurprisingly, shoving all of that down our throats for years was far from a winning strategy.

Have a great weekend, guys.

I will see you on Monday.

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