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We start with some really good news about poll numbers.

If you want Donald Trump to win,

really good news shows that he is way ahead in Iowa, almost 20 points ahead.

Remember, in 2016, I think he was only ahead by 12.

So it could be a historic election, as CNN is now even reporting.

And they are a little terrified by that.

But we have to have the right people in.

That's why we talked to Dr.

Sherry O'Donnell.

She's running for the Senate as the grassroots Republican for the Senate in Michigan.

It's an important conversation with her.

We also give you an exclusive inside look at what is happening inside of Target with their employees over what's happening with Pride Month and the one and only Jack Carr, who is always fascinating.

His new book, Red Sky Morning, number seven of the Terminal List series, is out today.

We talk about that, AI, and also Wargame a little bit about what's happening in our world today, all on today's podcast.

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Well, there is another new poll out or prediction.

This one from The Economist showing that Donald Trump has a 75% chance of winning the next election.

If things continue the way they are, this could be a stunning, stunning election and victory for the GOP.

Now, it is really important that we also have not just Republicans in the House and Senate, but the right Republicans in the House and Senate.

I don't endorse people, but

the people I know that live in Michigan, they have all said, Glenn, you have to endorse this woman.

I don't endorse anybody, but I wanted to have her on because she's the real

grassroots candidate for the Senate, and she's from Michigan, and Michigan could determine party control if she could pull this off.

Dr.

Sherry O'Donnell is the U.S.

Senate candidate for the Republican Party.

She's a physician, an author, mission leader, speaker.

She was also the Michigan state chair, or is actually the state chair for U.S.

Term Limits.

Amen on that.

She has taken her own time and her own money, and

she led a medical mission to Ukraine funded entirely by her.

She's won all kinds of awards.

She's honored to be recognized by Michigan's prestigious She Leads, which is a strong Christian organization that has based its members' professional lives and work ethics on Christian conservative values.

She is the grassroots candidate for the U.S.

Senate.

She is particularly insightful on COVID, the lockdowns, and medical freedom.

She was a physician at the time, obviously, of COVID, and she went and volunteered to go into New York City to help people in New York City.

So she's got a few things to say about that.

Also, border security.

We'd like to welcome her to the program, Dr.

Sherry O'Donnell.

How are you, Sherry?

I'm very well, Glenn.

Thank you so much.

I've watched your show for years and I love it and I appreciate that.

And I know that Don Peter is a personal friend, so thank you so much.

Yes, yes.

So you are quite impressive.

Let's start with medical security.

I don't think we've learned the lesson.

from COVID, and now with this bird flu thing going around,

I'm afraid we're up for round two.

You want to talk about medical freedom?

I do.

So, as you said, Glenn, I was in New York City during COVID.

Because of my disaster relief experience, I got a phone call on a Friday afternoon asking if I'd serve in New York City.

I served 93 days, and I knew something went awry when I was asked to sign death certificates of patients that did not die of COVID.

And then, when I refused to, they grabbed them for me and said, That's okay, we'll get somebody else to.

Never in my career of almost 25 years have I been forbidden to write medications that have been safe and effective in all categories of drug distribution: the pediatric patient, the elderly, the pregnant, and the lactating mom.

And something was just terribly awry.

I've recently been asked to join the Geneva Project to tell the World Health Organization we are disassociating with them and actually coming up with a creative plan.

The World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization were meeting in Geneva.

We were going to follow that up.

There was a group, and I was asked to be one of 80 worldwide leaders because of my disaster relief experience and international medical because of the fact that I am running and because I stood up during COVID.

Our nation can never, never experience what they did during COVID and repeat that.

COVID was real, but how we responded was surreal.

And yes, I do think that they are planning on the H5N1, the avian bird flu, to take place again and try in an attempt to lock us down.

We can't tolerate that.

So tell me about, I mean, didn't we again, weren't we messing with the bird flu?

And haven't we made it much, much more virulent and lethal?

Glenn, we have, and that's what the gain of function is all about.

And yes, there's been evidence that once again we're doing gain of function, which I think needs to be banned internationally.

But the gain of function is making certain that a virus is more virulent and making certain that it can go from species to species.

And yes, there's been some gain of function study done on the avian flu with an attempt to make it more virulent and go from species to species.

So they've made everything in science and medicine

so unbelievable.

I mean, I know a lot of people that no matter what they say this time, they won't do it.

And because they didn't correct the mistakes that they made during COVID and even admit to the mistakes, they've lost all credibility.

So what do we do if we were hit by an avian flu?

We stand up for our constitutional rights, which do not include mandates and does not include shutting down.

And we tell those governors and our state, Governor Whitmer here in our state, we're shutting our state down, all except for her.

And this two-tiered judicial system, we saw it glaringly then.

We can't allow that to happen again either.

But we need to understand that what they're doing, they're going by the playbook, Lynn, and we cannot allow that to happen.

We need to exercise our constitutional rights, and we need to get people in office that understand the Constitution and will stand with we the people.

Yeah, are we a democracy or a republic?

We're a republic.

And what's the difference?

Why is that important?

Well, that is important.

Our constitutional writers and our forefathers understood the difference, and we need to understand that is we the people, by the people, for the people.

And as a republic, we need to stand for those rights and understand that that's what our forefathers intended.

All right.

Your 21-point border security plan.

Tell me about that.

So, Glenn, I wrote this, and after doing some research and understanding that we are letting in millions of people, I met Tom Holman, who's a former director of ICE, and it's at ACPAC.

And when I met Tom, I said, Tom, I've got this.

Would you do me a favor?

If you have any time, would you please look at it?

He said, you know what, Dr.

O'Donnell, I'll look at it.

You send it to me.

If I like it, I'll endorse you.

If I don't,

I will educate you.

And Glenn, he's done both.

But the 21-point plan is to understand, first off, these people coming in seeking asylum, they are not all truly asylum seekers.

Asylum is that they've been displaced and that they're coming into the country to seek international protection.

Not all of them are seeking asylum legitimately.

So the asylum seekers remain in Mexico, empowering the Border Patrol to do their job, unclogging the court system that is allowing that to happen.

My plan is on my website, docsherry2024.com, and I am the candidate that's been down there, five points of entry, seeing that firsthand, and I'm here to tell you it looks a lot like a refugee camp that I've seen so many times overseas.

What is our biggest problem that we have to tackle?

I mean, there are so many things that could destroy us.

What's the one thing that keeps you up at night?

The border.

And primarily, Glenn, because that has such a rippling effect downstream.

It is affecting national security.

It is

affecting our inflation.

When we're giving illegal immigrants $5,000

at the border and then allowing them to go where they want, that is affecting you know, we've seen it here in Michigan now, a couple murders by the illegal immigrants, and they're walking our streets free.

As a physician, I'm seeing and understand that T B is coming back in.

Sexually transmitted diseases are coming back in, and of course, spent all is coming in by the hundreds of pounds.

So, number one, the border, but then I think the thing that affects every American right now is the inflation.

And as a business owner, I feel the chokehold of the over-regulations, the over-tyranny, the over-taxation that the government is doing.

I have signed the no-new tax form and pledge, and I'll continue to fight for us when I'm in the Senate.

So, do you have any

ideas on

how to

because inflation is not being caused by the American people.

They say the economy is so hot.

Well, people aren't spending money because they don't have the money.

So it's not the people, it's the government.

How do you rein this in with two parties that don't seem serious on it?

Well, first off, I think a lot goes with transparency.

I think our salaries of the senators in Congress need to be well made known.

But I think we stop the frivolous spending.

I'm not okay with sending billions of dollars to Ukraine when our border is open.

I'm also not okay with printing of monopoly money, is what I call it, because we're spending money that we don't have.

We also have to stop some of the entitlement programs that are continuing to spend our money.

We need to understand the difference between our wants and our needs.

And right now, we are frivolously spending.

We cannot continue to do that.

Who would you most like to align yourself with in the Senate?

I'd love to hear from

And Rand Paul are my heroes in the Senate.

I love that they stand up.

They're kind of a no-nonsense people.

When, you know, they've gone after my orcas.

They've stood up during COVID.

They certainly are my heroes in the Senate.

Yeah.

I will tell you, I think Rand Paul is single-handedly going to be responsible for any punishment that

Fauci may receive.

I'm afraid that they're going to throw Fauci's assistant who was doing bad things himself.

But I think they're going to make him the fall guy and Fauci's going to walk away.

Any thoughts on that?

I hope that's not the case.

Fauci has caused and done, committed 26 felons, Glenn.

26 felons, and a felon needs to be behind bars.

Instead, what they're doing to Trump is ridiculous.

And I'm sorry, as far as I'm concerned, Anthony Fauci has the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on his hands when he had the audacity to say, follow the science, and then to say, I am the science.

And his ridiculum caused hundreds of thousands of people to die.

Real quick, are you concerned at all about this march to death,

especially in Canada?

But our doctors, you know, our universities now, if you're not in on all of this woke bullcrap, you're not going to make it as a doctor.

And that kind of stuff is, we've seen that in the past happen with medical medical science, and it's extraordinarily dangerous.

Glenn, it is dangerous.

And, you know, during COVID, I kept wondering, where were my colleagues and why are my colleagues silenced?

And why were they not willing to stand up?

I feel like John the Baptist in the wilderness saying, hello, and just hearing it echo back at me.

But we've got to have people in office that will stand up and have the backbone to stand up.

Right now, even the transgender surgeries that are being taught at medical schools and residencies, we've got to get back to the physicians being empowered, the physicians having the relationship with their patients without the government telling us what to do.

And I'm the one that sits with my patients 20 or 30 minutes, hear their story and understand what the medications and so on should be that's best for them.

And together we design that program, not allowing the government to have their finger and their

oppressive thumb on us, but we, the physicians and the medical organizations, need to stand up and say, no, we've had enough.

We're going to protect our patients.

We took a Hippocratic oath, and that means something to me.

The primary in Michigan, even though it's in August,

there's 45 days of early absentee voting.

So the ballots drop in mid-June.

I don't know if they've already, but they will be in a few days.

And you've been listening to Dr.

Sherry O'Donnell, U.S.

Senate candidate.

She is running for the Republican U.S.

Senate race in Michigan.

Michigan is so important.

It could determine party control.

She's the grassroots leader.

And

Sherry, it is great.

If I did endorse somebody, you would be the kind of candidate I would endorse.

Thank you so much.

Clint, thank you so much.

Again, the webpage is docsher2024.com.

Glenn, thank you for having me on your show.

Continue the great work you're doing.

Thank you.

You can follow her on Twitter at Sherry4Senate.

And again, you can get involved and help her campaign.

Doc Sherry2024.

We have got to have the right kind of people in Congress and in the Senate.

We can't just have Republicans.

We have to have the ones that understand the Constitution and will fight for the Constitution.

And she seems like one of those fighters.

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A storm is on the horizon.

America's days are numbered.

Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking distance of the West Coast.

A rising Silicon Valley tech mogul with unknown allegiances is at the forefront of a revolution in quantum computing and artificial intelligence.

And a politician controlled by a foreign government is a power and breath away from the power in the Oval Office.

Three seemingly disconnected events are on a collision course to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has ever seen.

And the country's only hope is a quantum computer that has gone dark, retreating to the deepest levels of the internet, learning at a rate inconceivable at her inception.

But during her time in hiding, she has done more than learn.

She has now become a weapon.

She's now positioned to act as either the country's greatest savior or its worst enemy.

She's known as Alice, and her only connection to the outside world is to a former Navy SEAL sniper named James Rees, who has left the violence of his past behind.

Will there be blood?

Count on it.

Book number seven of the Terminal List series and its author, Jack Carr, is with us now.

Hi, Jack.

Hey, how's it going?

Thanks so much for having me on.

It's It's great.

This is a tremendous book that

hits all of the things that I think are happening now.

And I saw your list of books that you had to read to get up to speed, and it's very telling.

What led you to this scenario?

Well, two books ago, I did some research into quantum computing, artificial intelligence.

This is before ChatGPT became part of the lexicon, before Apple started updating all our devices, unbeknownst to us, with things that we can't opt out of.

So I started talking to people in the intelligence community, the military that focused on quantum computing and AI and found it was very interesting that all our next generation weapons platforms are all, if they're not being controlled that way now, which they're probably not yet, but they're being built.

to have that capability.

And so I thought that was very interesting.

So I talked to all these guys.

And when you talk to people in those spaces, they're all very tight-lipped, of course, and understandably.

But they'll give you a little hint of something.

so if you talk to enough of them like a reporter may do uh you can put this hint and that hint together because they're different and build this mosaic so i would be shocked if the uh quantum computer that i described two books ago isn't exact almost exactly the way i describe her and then the next book i wanted i wanted to make sure that i didn't use her capabilities as a crutch so i sidelined her for the last book because I didn't want it to be like Michael Knight in the 80s talking into his watch and the kit car shows up.

So I wanted to make sure that I wasn't doing that.

And so, this one, she's back, because once you introduce a character like that to this universe, you can't sideline her forever.

And going deep down the rabbit hole on this for this particular book, I focus mostly on naval assets, but a few others as well.

And also, what China is doing.

And if your enemy is doing something that is going to speed up their decision-making process, that means that you, in turn, have to do something that allows you to get within that decision-making process or do it faster.

So, we're on this path to really having these platforms autonomously controlled.

Because if enemies doing it, there's not much of an option.

Otherwise, there'll be missiles landing on the United States before our generals and anyone in the executive branch is even out of bed.

So how far are we from this actually happening?

I think that, well, most people that I talked to said they could tell me more, but it would put my book in the science fiction category.

So that tells me we're a lot closer than we may think.

And if we look back over the last 20 years and

look at the rate with which we have progressed technologically, then think about the next 10 years and how much faster things are going to move in the direction of AI, and especially when you add quantum computing to the mix.

Well, even if you say what's happening with ChatGPT-4 today, if you would have said that five years ago, well, I did, and it was science fiction.

You know, everybody's, oh, that's not going to happen.

And now some of the biggest experts are saying that ASI

could happen before 2030, 2030, which no one thought would happen.

What's ASI?

At least, you know.

What's the S?

Oh,

artificial super intelligence.

Super intelligence.

So, yeah, so there is AI, which we have now, artificial intelligence, and it's not general.

We're general intelligence beings.

We are good at many things,

and we could master one, but we're good at many things.

That's artificial general intelligence, which we are now approaching.

And that is

one system that can do many, many things.

Once that happens and it is connected,

like she is in your book,

connected to the internet in real time, they're afraid that there will be no stopping it becoming ASI, artificial superintelligence that is more powerful in its capabilities than every brain on earth combined.

And they now think that ASI is

a real possibility by 2030 or before.

Oh, interesting.

Well, unbeknownst to me, I think I described ASI in the book rather than just

AI.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But interestingly enough, this quantum computer has attached herself to my protagonist, James Rees, and has modeled her behavior to a certain extent after his.

And if anyone has read the books up to this point, they'll know that if certain things happen to my main character, he is one to put the law aside and go make things right.

And perhaps this quantum computer does that in this book as well to point out one of the dangers of what may happen in the future.

So one more question on the AI part of the book.

But

how concerned are you

personally about being able to control AI or ASI?

Oh,

I got more and more concerned the more research that I did, the more people that I talked to, because seemingly that next step is one of these things, becoming essentially sentient for all practical purposes and being able to make decisions without a human there to say yes or no.

I'm going to break my last rule.

One more question.

Why did you call her her because, or a she or Alice?

Because

that's a big debate on whether they'll become conscious and what that even means.

And once you start referring to it as a she or a him, it changes your relationship.

Why did you decide to do that?

It was Alice.

Her name is Alice in the book.

And I chose her to be her, having it be her decision because she needs to make a connection with James Reese, who is,

hey, he prefers the female type.

So

in order to, all right,

that connection.

All right, all right.

I got it.

I got it.

I got it.

All right.

The other thing you talk about is the politician that is just, you know, a breath away from the oval.

And I noticed in your book of

research, your stack of book of research, there were a couple of things.

One, the Google

ago, Archipelago.

Yeah.

By Michael Rechtenwald, who is a friend, and that's a tremendous book.

But also, Peter Sweiser, who is a dear friend.

you read Red Handed.

Certainly did.

That's all about

Biden.

Is it not?

Or is that the one that's about all of them?

Yeah, I think it's about all of them.

It's about all of them.

He's on the cover of that book.

Yeah, but it is about all of them

more generally and just how that system works and how

whether this one is specifically focused on China, but it could be other countries as well and just how they control our politicians through multiple different means.

And so so

I did take a lot from there and also may have modeled that character you're referring to.

Let's just put it this way.

I think if someone is just vaguely familiar with politics, they will know perhaps who that may have been modeled after.

Inspired by.

How about that?

Inspired by.

Okay.

All right.

Inspired by.

Yeah.

But definitely fictional.

Fictional.

Just an inspiration.

It's all coincidental.

Yes, an inspiration.

That's right.

And anybody who spent any time in California will like those first.

I think it's chapter two and three.

It was so much fun to write those chapters where you have politicians going over to China, shaking those hands, doing those photo ops, and just kind of weave some of that into the book as well.

Because, I mean, some of these things that happened are so outrageous.

How unnaï do you have to be to think that

you know, they're giving you, you're a politician, they're giving you special access and they're, you know, just all behind you.

And hey, coincidentally, some hot babe shows up and, you know, God, you got to be just dumb as a box of rocks or you don't care about America.

Yeah, I've heard it described this way in like a Thailand CD bar.

Hey, these girls really like me.

Wow.

It's shocking.

I don't normally score so well.

Yeah, it's remarkable.

Yeah, it's remarkable.

Yeah.

So.

So outline the story a little bit about how, what, what you think the real danger is that we are supposed to take from this book.

Well, at its baseline, it is a story of loyalty, really.

But I explore that through the lens of the geopolitical relationship between China, the United States, with Taiwan really in the middle of it.

And a race for China to take Taiwan because through their assets in the United States, they know that we're about to essentially greenlight this autonomous control of most of our naval assets in the Pacific, which would essentially prevent them from being able to take Taiwan by force.

They're on the clock.

What does that mean?

Explain to the average person, what does it mean to

surrender our naval assets to AI?

So what does that look like?

It looks like our generals, our admirals, are the civilians who control our military and the executive branch in particular,

being removed from that process out of necessity because China is close to being able to do that same thing.

So

getting inside of that decision-making process on the other side essentially becomes impossible if they're doing that and we're not.

So they take a huge leap forward.

But if we have that advantage before they do, then they know that they have to do this.

They have to take Taiwan now or they can never take.

Taiwan.

I also weave in a few things in there about their birth rate, the one-child policy, the impact that has had and what that means for their future.

So when you look at the real world and, you know, I hear from my friends who are in intelligence, they say, don't worry, we're ahead of China.

And I'm like, you know, that doesn't take away all my worry.

I'm just as worried about the United States having this capability as anybody else.

But I'm glad we would have it before they would, but I don't know how long that happiness party lasts.

In reality, are you hearing that we are way ahead or just ahead or where are we with China?

Research indicates, and who

actually knows, this is my best assessment from the people that I talked to and all the research that I did, is that

we still have a bit of an edge.

How long that will last, I don't know, but that we still have a bit of an edge right now.

And so for the book, I think about what would happen if they take that edge away by having somebody inside a tech company here that has a technology that the government, the NSA, does not.

So with all those platforms being built, if we have a private company that does something on that side that is actually controlled by this foreign entity and is in turn funding this politician who's a breath away from the White House and how all those things are connected.

Okay.

Hang on just a second.

More with Jack Carr.

His new book, Red Sky Morning,

is out today.

It's released today, and we're thrilled to have him on the program today to talk about it.

You can get it wherever your books are sold.

You can also follow him at official JackCarr.com or his Twitter handle is JackCarrusa.

That's C-A-R-R in case you have forgotten.

And Terminal List Series number seven is out again today with Jack Carr.

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So

you're the first to hear this exclusive leak that we received from a source inside Target headquarters who thought the public needed to know how some of Target's employees responded to last year's boycott.

First, let me speak directly to the people that made all this possible.

Women.

I know it was hard to boycott Target.

We were there.

We, as husbands and men, saw you like you weren't busy enough.

We saw you drive past that bright red sign and go from store to store to be able to boycott.

And with us, with Bud Light, I mean, it's beer.

We'll just reach in the fridge for another kind of beer.

Victory, real victory, is yours with Target.

But it's Pride Month again, which means it's been one year since Target rolled out a collection of Pride onesies, tuck-friendly bathing suits, chest binders for girls, and apparel made by some kind of transgender Satan apologist.

Not today, Jesus, says Satan.

This year,

Pride Month, Target has a much more toned-down collection.

Like, for instance, let me show you their new Pride Month charcuterie board that says it's giving charcuterie.

Has no rainbows or pride symbols on it at all.

It's just a wooden board.

I guess maybe Target thinks charcuterie is gay enough on its own.

I'm not really sure.

But it's a tame collection of rainbow wine bottles and clothes and nothing like last year.

Also, unlike last year, there is nothing for kids.

So, victory.

Now, some Target locations won't have any Pride merchandise this year.

It'll only be sold online in the stores where Target says they've

seen historically the strongest sales demand.

Okay, that makes sense as a business.

To be clear, Target, I don't think is doing this because corporate had some road to Damascus moment and decided, you know what, we should depoliticize this company and maybe just sell things people want.

Remember, this is the same company that in 2016, when most didn't even know, you know, that there were 96 genders, they said, put a statement out that said, we welcome, I'm quoting, transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity well that makes me comfortable when my kids want to go in and try something out

their 2023 sustainability and governance report this Target is one of them that does ESG on their own

says their goal is to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

The Target website says Target is an inclusive and anti-racist organization.

That's key.

It's not non-racist.

It has to be, you have to have a little racism to combat racism, you see.

So the way I see it, there's only one reason Target has pulled back on their pride collection, and that is you.

But now Target is in a really, really tricky position.

And that's because, on one hand, they can't afford another boycott.

The New York Post reported that after last year's boycott, Target lost $10 billion in market valuation in 10 days.

That's a lot.

On the other hand, they have created a brand around being basically woke.

And just like Disney, the inmates are now in charge of the asylum.

And employees at Target, many, are very woke and militant.

Now, to make matters really complicated, that radical staff they have to deal with was not happy last year.

Last year, our team was given exclusive access to internal messages that took place on Target's Slack channel for their Pride Plus business council.

We found culture wars that are taking place because Target

is taking a stand and saying, wait, we're going to slow down on this.

And the people were not just boycotting.

Internally, the employees started a little revolt.

And let me show you what we were sent and found.

Last year, when you were deciding to boycott Target for their choice to sell chest binders to children, package underwear, Target hosted a town hall to discuss the move to pull back on some of their more controversial merchandise.

The people of the Pride Plus Business Council were not pleased inside of Target.

One said, quote, it feels like leadership wants to keep support for LGBTQ causes on the down low.

Like they want to be able to point it out to people, you know, make a fuss, but they don't want to advertise it for people who might disagree.

Senior management for

Philanthropic Operations agreed, saying, quote, reasoning with the down low piece for real.

See, what they're saying is,

Target,

while we were saying Target went too far, the employees were upset that they hadn't gone far enough and now they were pulling back.

One employee said, see,

we need to cater to the bigots to get our sales up.

Okay.

But it wasn't just the town hall announcement that started the internal firestorm at Target.

It was the comments in the community chat while it happened.

The leaked messages were given to us in backward order, so as we went through them, we saw the Pride Plus Business Council's reaction to the comments before we saw the comments themselves.

Remember, we weren't given access to the actual

conversation, just the comments.

So we don't know what was said by the Target leadership during the meeting, but we were given snapshots and screenshots of what happened in the chat.

So we don't know what they said at the leadership of Target, but it must have been pretty horrible.

Based on just the reactions, the comments must have been awful from Target leadership.

Here are a few examples of what the chat said during it, how the Pride Plus Business Council was reacting.

JPEG 22 here, I've been through a lot in my life.

I have PTSD to show for it, and I got to say that was the most gaslighty, dystopian thing I've ever witnessed in a while.

Here's another one, JPEG 24.

We need to protect ourselves.

There are consequences for

hateful statements and displays.

So now what did Target say that made their employees say we got to protect ourselves from these hateful statements and displays?

Number 27, a few more.

I'm still in shock and disgusted.

I'm sure a lot of people are examining whether they even want to continue being a team member after all of this.

Kind of hard to get back to work after that one, huh?

So at this point, we are assuming something truly terrible had happened in that community chat.

The acronym HR was repeated over and over again in the chat and people were talking about filing ethics complaints.

One woman put the name and email of an intern who she said was advocating for discrimination.

Wow, another intern was exposed for basically putting thumbs down on a comment, which prompted one of the lead buyers for Target's Pride Collection to say, each person should be submitted to ethics.

An intern who gave a thumbs down on a comment should be submitted to ethics.

So, what horrible things were these people saying to elicit such an extreme reaction?

Surely they had to be sexist, racist tirades that started this chaos.

Well, here's what we found, and you may

want to sit down for this one because it's pretty darn shocking.

Here's one of the comments that we found.

A woman who

was a Christian,

hang on just a second, that wrote this, I'm a Christian and I don't support violence against guests or team members.

Okay.

I also don't hate people who view differently than myself.

However, for some to say my biblical views are disgusting, that's not inclusive.

Wow.

Now it gets worse.

The people in the chat need to take a look at past year's pride assortment and compare it to this year's assortment.

The backlash this year has been specific to gender plus children.

To imply leadership is now bowing down to bigots is highly offensive.

Then this.

A lead designer who had been at Target for 25 years defended the people who felt a little weird about Target partnering with a designer who currently produces products that say Satan respects pronouns.

This lead designer at Target said, so someone who doesn't think a partnership with an artist who glorifies Satan in their products is a bigot?

Would Target partner with a similar individual who had a racist theme product?

Or would you have the same feeling towards those partnerships?

Maybe quit calling names because their beliefs are different than yours.

The most inflammatory comment that we could find was made by a woman who started working at Target in the early 2000s.

She said, quote,

not all people agree that giving hormones to kids, which only provides long-term health issues, is a good thing.

So inclusivity means ignoring 95% of the population to make sure 5% are able to keep grooming kids, end quote.

Read about some of the stories, I'm still quoting now, of the young girls who have had a masectomy at 13 and are now in their 20s and have horrible health issues from the hormones that they've taken.

I don't care what an adult does, but kids should be left alone.

Is that unreasonable?

My favorite comment was this one, JPEG 45.

Our leadership team has a difficult decision to make.

They answer to something called shareholders.

We are also responsible for thousands of team member jobs.

Please don't attack your leadership or your fellow team members when you don't know their heart.

We are a business and this is capitalism.

Good day now, end quote.

Well, Target needed to send out a company-wide letter addressing the comments before the end of the day.

And here's what they said.

Several comments made during the town hall violated Target's policies.

Those incidences are being direct addressed directly.

Target does not tolerate discrimination or hate speech of any kind.

Wait, the ones who just said don't attack the leadership, that's hate speech?

That wasn't enough for some of the members of the Pride Plus Business Council.

The idea was floated in their chat on the day of the town hall that they needed more organized response.

That response came about a month later in the form of a list of demands sent to Target leadership, which we were also given access, exclusive access to.

In the memo, they said they wanted from Target, quote, an acknowledgement of harm, a sincere apology, and a clear statement of unwavering support for the LGBTQ plus community.

They wrote, we have always regarded Target as an inclusive and progressive company.

However, these recent events have called into question the company's commitment to these values.

They said the removal of some of the Pride collection was disappointing and distressing.

So for the company to atone, they needed Target to acknowledge in writing the harm done to the LGBTQ plus community, explicitly the trans and

non-binary members of the community, forge partnerships with prominent LGBTQ advocacy groups, and immediately reinstate the pride collection in full, which we know didn't happen, donate to LGBTQ causes and implement sensitivity training for employees and cease all contributions to politicians and organizations that do not support the LGBTQ community.

This is so crazy because here is a company that supports LGBTQ

way beyond what other companies do.

And they're not woke enough.

Even after all that pressure from within the company and all the pressure outside the company from people like Governor Newsom accusing Target CEO of selling out the LGBTQ plus community to extremists, we're the extremists.

Target still toned down its pride collection this year, and they did it because of you.

This is a testament of what you can do when we come together which brings me to the point of this whole story what is this story really all about because I'm not showing you all of this stuff you know saying the target has issues we know that already it's why you staged a boycott

I want you to see a couple of things here first of all

We do have the power to make a difference.

We have more power than you think you do.

That's why they need to shut people up using fear.

Okay?

The second thing is, is a little bit of hope and sadness as well.

Wokeness will always destroy itself.

This is,

it's like the plant in a little shop of horror.

You give it a little bit of blood and it will eventually eat you.

And that's what's happening to companies like Target.

They created a monster and they planted it inside their own company and it's eating them alive.

It's as if all of Target's virtue signaling came to life in the form of some of their employees, and now it's the battle to the death.

It's the same in higher education.

There are those professors who have been teaching revolutionary theories for years, but are now being run out by the revolutionaries they created.

Same thing in the Democratic Party.

The new generation of progressives is threatening the Democratic establishment who used to be the radicals for not being radical enough.

Wokeness always eats its own, and it's because the entire ideology is fueled by deconstruction and critical theories that rage against the hierarchy or the establishment.

And you know what happens when you're in a movement for a while?

You, the radical, become the establishment.

If you climb your way to the top of the woke ladder, you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the movement eventually, and the new revolutionaries always destroy the old ones.

The ending of the story for places like Target and Disney is inevitable.

And I think most of us understand that innately, which is why we watch these stories unfold like it's the end of the Daytona 500.

We know someone's going to crash.

It's just a matter of time.

So what do we do?

Do we sit back, point, and laugh?

Now that would be tempting and fun a little bit, but not useful.

Because in the short term, whatever crash is coming is going to affect all of us.

There are plenty of sane people, normal people that work at Target,

like the ones that we saw trying to be reasonable in their community chat.

All of us are going to be caught in the crossfire of these woke institutions as they employed.

We just need to be ready to fill the vacuum that it's going to create.

In the long term, we have to focus on creating an alternative, alternative business, movies, media, everything.

That's what we need.

Alternatives.

Kind, gracious, decent alternatives.

You build it.

They destroy, but you build.

You restore.

Wokeness is a destructive force.

We just have to hold on to our values and be ready to rebuild.

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