The Woke Street Journal
What a day. You had the Tucker interview with Putin and the Special Counsel report on Joe Biden and classified documents. Here’s a quote from the report:
"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during out interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory….Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."
Biden then held a press conference to dispute his memory problems where he said the leader of Egypt was the leader of Mexico and forgot the church where he got his rosary. This sounds like something out of Babylon Bee.
As far as Tucker, I think RFK jr. said it best:
@RobertKennedyJr Tucker Carlson has been smeared for days. The legacy media and Democrat establishment are upset at him for simply doing his job. Americans can handle thought-provoking conversations. We can handle dangerous thoughts or contrary ideas that don’t fit the MSM narrative. Let us decide for ourselves.
I found the interview fascinating. Interesting to see the difference in memory between him and Biden also :). Of particular interest to me was his assertion he wasn’t going into Poland and didn’t want a broader war. Yes, I know Hitler said the same thing, but comforting nonetheless.
If all that wasn’t enough you had the Trump/Colorado case in the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas Corners Attorney In Trump Ballot Case By Asking For Disqualification Examples-Daily Wire
Zoom laid off its DEI team—and it’s not the only company making cuts-Fast Money
Zoom’s decision is in line with a broader trend across the tech industry—and other sectors—that has led companies to disinvest from the commitments they made in 2020.
Bill would stop universities from imposing DEI pledges on students, staff-The College Fix
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, introduced the legislation in December to remove federal funding from universities that require students or applicants write DEI statements.
Crenshaw said DEI bureaucracy is “directly responsible” for a “toxic campus culture,” and his bill will protect freedom of thought on campuses.
Disney+ Mocked Over Subscriber Loss-Newsweek
Disney has been plagued by more drama, after its streaming platform, Disney+, lost more than a million subscribers—and social media users are saying that it's due to the company going "woke."
The poor numbers were the latest blow to the entertainment giant. Its Lucasfilm unit is facing a lawsuit by former The Mandalorian star Gina Carano, while a long-running battle with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over its right to self-govern Orlando's Disney World continues. The company may also be planning layoffs at its Pixar business, it has faced boycott calls after a dispute with X, formerly Twitter, and many customers have been criticizing its lack of original content and high prices.
Florida’s evolving war on ‘woke’-Politico
Controversial legislation to protect Confederate monuments is on thin ice following a racially charged hearing. A bill to ban flags from government buildings that represent a “political viewpoint” has stalled. A measure that would affect how government employees can use pronouns in the workplace hasn’t even gotten a hearing.
This isn’t what the war on “woke” looked like in Florida during the last couple of years, but it’s where the session is now.
Shame. I loved all of these shows. 'Friends', 'Seinfeld' and other TV shows unfit for today's woke culture What is woke culture? Revisit 8 TV shows that grapple with complexities of societal sensitivity-Fox News
Here's a list of TV shows that could be perceived as problematic in the current cultural landscape:
"The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979–1985)
"The Benny Hill Show" (1955–1991)
New Zealand Hits Reverse On Woke Socialist Revolution-Amac
Just over two months into his tenure, new conservative New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has ushered through a series of dramatic policy reversals from the prior liberal government in yet another sign of the declining power of the global left.
Britain’s Labour Party Moves Right on Climate-WSJ
But Mr. Starmer and cooler heads in the party realized many more swing voters would be turned off by a spending pledge in support of policies that threaten jobs in manufacturing and the North Sea oil patch. They also seem to suspect that British taxpayers, already paying a postwar high of 36% of GDP in taxes, wouldn’t tolerate higher levies for climate action.
Turns out SATs are actually a good predictor of performance. Dartmouth Brings Back SAT Requirement-Daily Wire
“Nearly four years later, having studied the role of testing in our admissions process as well as its value as a predictor of student success at Dartmouth, we are removing the extended pause and reactivating the standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admission, effective with the Class of 2029,” Dartmouth said.
In case you weren’t sure. Senator Murphy On Democrats’ Priorities: ‘People We Care About Most’ Are ‘Undocumented Americans’-Daily Wire
Got a point. Stephen A. Smith Rips Democrats For Prioritizing Illegal Aliens Over Americans-Daily Wire
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