Companies are pulling back on ‘Pride’ — is it an election-time conspiracy?
As Pride Month nears its end, Allie Beth Stuckey has made an interesting observation.
“None of the businesses I frequent have Pride stuff out this year. Most of them did last year. One in particular had a whole rainbow apparel display — this year, nothing. Anyone else see the same thing?” Stuckey wrote in a post on X.
Even Target has stopped selling Pride apparel in many of its stores. Stuckey received a photo from one of her followers of patriotic red, white, and, blue merchandise for sale at the retail giant instead of the rainbow-slogan-adorned T-shirts and children's clothes they were pushing last year.
“It actually had a sign instead that was a patriotic, red, white, and blue sign that said, you know, ‘Thank you for your service.’ It was a message to veterans, which I think is incredible,” Stuckey explains.
“I think that is really interesting,” she adds, noting that it could be a sign of something bigger and better.
“Some people are saying, well, it’s an election year, and so they’re trying to not scare people away because it is just so in your face to the point where even centrists are like, ‘Ok, can we not, does everything have to be gay in June, can’t something just, like, be neutral?’” Stuckey says.
"And so some people are saying, ‘Oh, you know it’s a conspiracy or it’s an organized effort to try to tone it down this year so people don’t freak out before the election,’” she adds.
However, she doesn’t buy it.
“That may be true, but I doubt that all of these local businesses and some of the businesses that I’ve been in, that they’re all part of some grand organized effort to tone down Pride in an election year,” she says, noting that she has her own theory as to why companies have toned it down.
“I really think it’s because of the push back and the backlash, I really do, and I think that’s a great thing,” she says.
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Archbishop makes disturbing connections between the Olympic opening ceremony and the Obamas – 'the take everyone needs to be talking about'
Global outrage has ensued following the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, which featured a blatant mockery of Leonardo da Vinci’s renowned painting “The Last Supper.” The grotesque parody included drag queens, an obese lesbian in the role of Jesus, and satanic imagery, among other offensive elements.
Sara Gonzales calls it “the most shocking and disgusting opening ceremony” in existence and proof that “we have been taken over by wokeism and a radical leftist agenda.”
While many criticized the performance for mocking Christianity, one individual – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò – took his analysis to a deeper and rather peculiar place.
According to Sara, Viganò’s evaluation is “the take that everyone needs to be talking about.”
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In his letter, Viganò deemed the performance “a dystopian dance macabre.”
“In this provocative spectacle, Satan knows how to do nothing except ruin God’s creative perfection, showing himself as the envious author of every counterfeit. Satan creates nothing; he only ruins everything. He does not invent; he tampers. And his followers are no different,” he wrote.
But then Viganò took his analysis to an unexpected place – Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, and what he deems the American equivalent: the Obamas.
“It is no coincidence that the one sponsoring this revolting carnival is an emissary of the World Economic Forum, Emmanuel Macron, who passes off a transvestite as his own wife with impunity, just as Barack Obama is accompanied by a muscular man in a wig. It is the reign of mystification, of falsehood, of fiction erected as a totem, in which man is disfigured precisely because he was created in the image and likeness of God,” Viganò said.
To hear Sara's take on Viganò's bold statements, watch the video above.
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