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Apple hired THIS famous actress for the WORST climate change commercial yet



Octavia Spencer may just have played her worst role yet.

The actress starred in a bizarre five-minute Apple ad showing CEO Tim Cook and staff being scolded over their green credentials by her character: Mother Nature.

Cook later posted on X (formerly Twitter) to say: “At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part.”

Stu Burguiere is not a fan.

“Cringey is a good word for it, but it does not describe how awful this actually is,” he says, before tearing into the climate change-inspired spot.

The ad begins with Octavia Spencer being welcomed as Mother Nature by Tim Cook, who asks “How was the weather getting in?”

The weather then changes, and Spencer rolls her eyes, looks at Cook, and says, “However I wanted it to be.”

“Ah, see, she could change the weather, wherever she wants. And here’s the thing, then just change it so global warming's not happening. Right? Couldn’t you just stop all the catastrophes?” Stu asks, adding, “Well, I guess that’s not going to be answered by this stupid Apple ad.”

While he believes the ad itself is awful, he sees right through it — to the actual point. “This is really just a piece of corporate propaganda to try to make you believe that they are the greenest, most nice company in the entire universe.”

The ad continues with Spencer questioning the steps Apple has taken to stop climate change.

“You promised to bring Apple’s entire carbon footprint to zero. By 2030. Henry David Thoreau over here said we have a profound opportunity to build a more sustainable future for the planet we share,” she says, referring to Cook as Thoreau.

Again, Stu recognizes the scene for what it is.

While Spencer’s character is Mother Nature that’s scolding Apple employees, she represents a very real person.

“Instead of Mother Nature coming into these corporate boards and demanding they change the way they make their products and judging them like Mother Nature is judging Apple, there’s just some paid activist who comes in and has some, you know, corporate initiative to spread to stockholders and ESG people and try to make it look like they actually care about the environment,” Stu says.


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Megyn Kelly says she was brought to tears by this 'unabashedly PRO-AMERICAN' speech



Megyn Kelly pulled her kids out of their New York City private schools last year after learning that the schools were teaching third-graders — that's eight and nine-year-olds — about puberty blockers and genital mutilation as part of an "experimental transgender education program."

"This is indoctrination. It’s deeply confusing to the children, and it’s wrong," Megyn said of what's happening in our nation's schools.

Megyn joined BlazeTV host Dave Rubin on “The Rubin Report” Monday to give an update on her experience with her kids' new schools, why American education seems more focused on critical race theory and gender ideology than math and history, and what parents can do if they are concerned about woke teachers and equity in schools.

"We've talked about the awfulness of the New York City private schools before and how hardcore-left they went — and I mean hardcore — asking my boys in their all-boys school regularly if they were sure they were still boys. That school no longer refers to boys as 'boys;' they call them 'your student' ... and this was one of the more traditional schools in the city. That's why we chose it ... but it went hardcore. The thing about, you know, 'race essentialism' and 'in every classroom where white children learn there's a future killer cop.' I mean they went far left," Megyn told Dave.

But things are looking up, Megyn said, and she and her husband were able to find a school in Connecticut that is so "unabashedly pro-American" it brought her to tears — or at least to one "single tear."

"We went to the annual dinner ... and the head of the school stood up there and said 'we are unabashedly pro-American here, and we do not believe in equity of outcome, we believe in equality of opportunity. And we don't believe in teaching these boys what to think, we want to teach them how to think,'" Megyn said. "Like, Dave, you or I could have written this as the ideal ethos for our school. And so, I was, I mean a single tear was running, and I thought, 'thank God, thank God!'"

Megyn went on to talk about how she’s changed politically, or more accurately, how she has not really changed but "the ground shifted beneath" her.

"I didn't radically change my own positions, but they've started to mean different things," she explained. "I feel like the world has shifted, and my opinions have changed accordingly, but I remain non-ideological."

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