WILD theory about why LSU ditched national anthem in game against Iowa



In one of the most viewed women’s college basketball games in history, the Iowa Hawkeyes beat the LSU Tigers in a 94-87 victory, which will advance them to the Final Four.

But Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese weren’t the only subjects of conversation.

LSU made a point to leave the court before the national anthem — as is their habit — while the Hawkeyes “stood holding hands.”

“LSU coach, Kim Mulkey, said that it wasn’t intentional” and that “they have a routine of leaving the court at a certain time,” according to reports.

However, LSU’s heartbreaking loss is what Sara Gonzales calls “karma.”

“That loss couldn’t have happened to a more deserving team,” she says.

While Kim Mulkey certainly has her critics, she also is known as “an antichrist to the left,” says Grant Stinchfield. “She dresses like a female; she doesn’t want dating between girls on the team; she is literally hated by [liberals].”

“I actually believe [Mulkey] when she says they went in before [the song],” he says, but regardless, “you should know when the national anthem is, especially in the political climate we live in.”

“I guess, then, my question would just be why is the routine time always coinciding with the national anthem?” asks Sara.

Grant may just have a theory that answers Sara’s question.

“Is this a setup job on her because she’s so despised?” he asks, noting that “there’s something fishy going on between Iowa and LSU.”

“Conspiracy theories in this day and age end up always being true, so that's a fascinating one,” says Sara.


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This is why it's PATRIOTIC to root against Megan Rapinoe and the USWNT



T.J. Moe joins Jason Whitlock to discuss the controversies surrounding the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, currently in the throes of the World Cup.

Jason is frank: “I want them to lose.”

He’s disappointed the match against Portugal didn’t “[end] the American Nightmare – the band of Megan Rapinoe-led entitled women who struggle to respect our national anthem and lie about pay inequality.”

Fox Sports even blasted the team for preening, dancing, and celebrating after they tied Portugal – which only happened because the opponent missed a kick.

“These are not the images we should be expecting to see from a team that survived Portugal,” says a Fox Sports broadcaster, adding, “Carli Lloyd’s butt would be back in the locker room kicking things, throwing things.”

“Their collective sense of entitlement and lack of gratitude created a delusion that only failure and embarrassment can correct,” says Jason, who reveled in Fox’s criticism of the team.

“If they lose on Sunday to Sweden, I’m sure Rapinoe will figure out a way to blame it on sexism, systemic racism, or homophobia,” he continues.

“A 38-year-old, blue-haired, androgynous loser should not be the face of anything American,” says T.J. in reference to Megan Rapinoe, who has long been the face of the team.

“It’s like, do I care more about the success of America, or do I care more about our conduct and how we present ourselves on an international stage?” he continues, adding, “it’s certainly the second one.”

“America’s values have slid so far back out of the way that no one should aspire to have our values today – certainly not our cultural values … and certainly not what Megan Rapinoe would want us to do,” he continues.

For those reasons among many, Jason and T.J. plan to root against the success of the USWNT in the World Cup.

To listen to their full conversation, watch the video below.


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Customers want to give Ben & Jerry's the 'Bud Light' treatment for scorning America on Independence Day and telling it to return 'stolen indigenous land'



The woke ice cream company Ben & Jerry's accosted Americans celebrating the nation's 247th birthday online, telling them their country "exists on stolen Indigenous land" and to return it.

Patriots and other critics rejected the Vermont-headquartered company's recommended action plan and came up with a plan of their own: Give the confectioners the "Bud Light" treatment.

More sourness from the sweets company

In a July 4 social media post, Ben & Jerry's wrote, "This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it."

The corresponding action plan on the company's website claimed that "a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display" in celebration of American independence from Great Britain were altogether problematic.

Instead of lauding the nation that gave so much to co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield and the company's current C-suite, Ben & Jerry's urged that the U.S. surrender Mount Rushmore to the Lakota Sioux.

The company reduced the personages carved into the rock — U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt — to "colonizers, four white men—two of whom enslaved people and all of whom were hostile to Indigenous people and values. ... The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights."

According to Ben & Jerry's, to surrender vast swaths of American territory now would serve to help dismantle "white supremacy and systems of oppression."

This sour note from the sweets company is hardly the first put out in recent days and years.

The company recently bemoaned the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision — which restored state rights and the power of the people as it pertains to their ability to make regional decisions about whether or not to permit the legal slaughter of the unborn — calling on activists to fight abortion bans, even those imposed at 24 weeks.

The company, which a New York Times exposé revealed used child migrant labor to process milk, often in violation of labor laws, has also taken hard anti-Israel stances, forbidding the sale of its sugary sludge in territories belonging to the Jewish state.

Besides its anti-American, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian activism and resistance to a "post-racial era," Ben & Jerry's has previously been called out for peddling lies, in particular about Kyle Rittenhouse. The ice cream brand suggested online in 2021 that the then-17-year-old who killed a violent pedophile and another radical in self-defense during a riot was a racist, incorrectly intimating his victims were black.

While Ben & Jerry's leftist activism has heretofore served to agitate, its attack on America on its birthday appeared to be the last straw for many.

Time for a 'Bud Light' treatment

Billboard Chris, the gender ideology critic whose real name is Chris Elston, tweeted in response to the company's anti-American post, "The only right thing to do is donate all of your assets and retained earnings. Shareholders will understand."

Musician Brad Skistimas of Five Times August suggested something similar, writing, "Sounds like it’s time for Ben and Jerry to donate 100% of their profits to indigenous people."

Angela McArdle, the current chair of the Libertarian National Committee, wrote, "I thought you sold ice cream. You want to evict all of your customers?"

"U stole the milk from cows to make ur ice cream checkmate," quipped Ashley St. Clair of the Babylon Bee.

Retired infantry colonel and Town Hall columnist Kurt Schlichter wrote, "My land acknowledgment is this: 'We won. Too bad.'"

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah tweeted, "@BenandJerry’s are awfully smug and lippy for a sub-brand of the massive Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever. I’m not sure they fully understand the legacy of the respective Dutch and British colonial powers."

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Lee went on to say, "Your once-good ice cream now sucks. ... You just guaranteed that I (a once-loyal customer) will never consume a single pint of it. ... When you suggest 'returning' the land on which our country has been built for centuries, what exactly do you imagine? Expungement of property rights? Repatriation of most Americans to Europe?"

After leaving the company with some penetrating questions to mull over, Lee noted, "There is such thing as a real ice cream made by true American patriots. I highly recommend it," linking to Brooker's Founding Flavors Ice Cream.

Some recognized that the company might understand a market correction better than pointed language online and reminders that the Ben & Jerry's factory is located on allegedly "stolen" land.
Country music singer John Rich suggested, "Make @Benndjerrys Bud Light again."
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Rich was referencing the overwhelming successful boycott of the Anheuser-Busch brand over its partnership with transvestic activist Dylan Mulvaney. Bud Light lost nearly a quarter of its business as a result, and according to former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks, the relationship with Mulvaney cost the company $20 billion in lost marketing, reported Al.com.

Dr. Jordan Peterson similarly observed, "Looks like someone is looking hard for a @budweiser moment."

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Colorado conservatives lay waste to leftist status quo and transform mountain school district into patriotic oasis



Conservatives in the small Colorado mountain town of Woodland Park took over its school board little over a year ago. Rather than rest on their laurels, the board and its supporters have in the intervening months laid waste to the leftist status quo and turned the district into a patriotic microcosm inside the Democrat-run state.

A slate of conservative candidates — David Rusterholtz, Gary Grovetto, David Illingworth, and Suzanne Patterson — ran for election to the five-member board of education in Woodland Park School District RE-2 in November 2021.

The Pikes Peak Courirer reported that Rusterholtz vowed ahead of the election, "We will listen to what parents and students have to say, review all school board policies and not have a one-size-fits-all approach," adding that there "is definitely a sentiment, not just here but around the nation, that parents want their kids to be educated to their virtues and values, and school districts need to listen to them."

Evidently parents and community members agreed.

The conservatives were democratically selected to join incumbent Chris Austin to seize control of the board and the district's destiny on behalf of the community.

Illingworth, the board's vice president, indicated in a December 9, 2021, email that he reckoned the board should emulate former President Donald Trump's "first 100 days" strategy of flooding the zone whereby "you advance on many fronts at the same time, then the enemy cannot fortify, defend, effectively counter-attack in any one front. Divide, scatter, conquer," reported the Courier.

Although there was some debate about Illingworth's wording, there is no debating whether the tactic worked.

NBC News reported that since the election, the Colorado conservatives successfully took various steps to transform the district, such as:

  • hiring an unwoke superintendent, Ken Witt, who prioritizes academic achievement over students' feelings and discounts student protesters as "pawns" of the teachers' union;
  • adopting a patriotic social studies program called "American Birthright" whereby students learn "the structure of our self-governing republic, the functions of government at all levels, and how our key institutions work" free of leftist propaganda;
  • approving the community's first charter school; and
  • ousting obstructionist, leftist staff members and driving nearly 40% of the high school's professional staff to threaten to quit.

Unlike other school officials across the country, Illingworth indicated the measure of the board members' success is not whether they "please the teacher's union and their psycho agenda against academic rigor, family values, and even capitalism itself," but whether they "bring a parent's voice and a little common sense to the school district."

That common sense comes, in part, packaged as the new social studies standard, American Birthright.

The national conservative coalition behind American Birthright, the Civics Alliance, notes on its website, "We oppose all racism and support traditional American pluralism, e pluribus unum—out of many, one. These beliefs are not those of the radical New Civics activists, which espouse identity politics with overlapping ideologies of critical race theory, multiculturalism, and so-called 'antiracism.'"

"The New Civics has already advanced in America’s education system to a far greater extent than most people realize. It has succeeded partly because it has received unwitting support from those who fail to see the many wolves in sheep’s clothing," wrote the Civics Alliance. "Well-intentioned reformers must not collaborate with those promoting an ideology that would destroy America."

The district adopted the social studies standards earlier this year after the state board rejected them, calling them "too extreme" for the state, reported Colorado Public Radio.

David Graf, an English teacher who couldn't hack it under the new leadership, created a class called "Civil Disobedience" in 2015 to hype the BLM movement and other leftist uprisings. After the adoption of American Birthright, a community member complained to the superintendent about Graf's use of a book by an identitarian leftist, calling it an "indoctrination tool."

Witt determined the book was impermissible, ruffling some feathers.

Graf quit in April, telling NBC News, "This is an active case study on what will happen if we allow extremist policies to start to take over our public education system. ... And the scariest part about it, they knew that this community would bite on it."

Despite the best efforts of leftist educators, students in the Woodland Park School District may now have a better chance of graduating with an appreciation for the nation entrusted to their care.

Since recent recall efforts by leftists in the district have failed miserably, the conservative board remains in place until November, when three members will stand for re-election.

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Leftists are losing it after Ontario township axes 'Pride Month' and rules non-governmental flags, including pride flags, cannot be flown on city property



A community in the Canadian province of Ontario has decided it's going to hang up the vain effort to please everybody and take down all non-governmental flags on municipal property.

Leftists are fuming since this successful motion means that LGBT activists' pride colors can no longer be flown above the Township of Norwich, a community of roughly 11,000.

The Norwich Township council voted on two motions: one banning non-governmental flags, such that only federal, provincial, and municipal flags can be flown on township property, including street light poles, and another recognizing June as "Pride Month."

Canadian state media reported that the councilor who proposed the bylaw, John Scholten, was of the mind that further accommodation of particular flags, particularly activists' flags, would only inspire other groups to request their own flags.

Scholten reasoned, "I simply need to look at our federal, provincial and municipal flags to see everything we need to maintain the unity that is already there," reported the London Free Press.

"By flying these flags alone on township property, we can coexist in peace and harmony no matter who we are or what we believe. To open the door to flying flags that represent any particular group or organization or ideology will only divide rather than unite," added Scholten.
Despite a multitude of activists crowding the council chambers on Tuesday, both inside and out, the pressure exerted on the councilmen wasn't enough ultimately to sway them. The first motion passed with a 3-2 vote.

Calvi Leon of the London Free Press reported that Tami Murray, the head of Oxford County Pride, couldn't handle the democratic result and stormed out of the chambers. Murray later called the result "disgusting," adding that "it sets us back. It's regression."

After Murray's exit, the council voted 4-1 not to declare June "Pride Month."

"As the mayor, I have to support the people in my township. There are far, far more people on that side than on the other side," said Norwich Mayor Jim Palmer. "I’m sure there's going be people who talk to me, people are going to call me bad names. ... It's not my intention. But that's just the way things go."

Councilor Alisha Stubbs, who voted against the flag ban and in favor of making the community complicit in LGBT activism during the month of June, said, "This entire situation right now is sneaky. It’s demeaning. It’s non-transparent. It’s unethical. It goes further beyond our code of conduct as councillors."

Stubbs went so far as to claim that the exclusion of all non-governmental flags was "directly, specifically, and horrifyingly discrimination (and) it's a clear violation of the Human Rights Code."

LGBT activist Jordan Kent of Oxford County Pride said, "The council here should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for choosing to take the wrong side of this issue."

Kent later claimed on Twitter that the council's decision to only fly the Canadian and Ontario flags was "genuinely unCanadian."

Some activists are seeking to circumnavigate the democratic process with an appeal to the human rights tribunal in hopes of coercing the Township of Norwich into flying their colors.

Global News reported that LGBT activist Tami Murray will be filing a human rights complaint.

"We are going to continue to be the voice for those who continue to be marginalized in Norwich and we will be moving forward with the legal process that we have every right to do," said Murray.

Mayor Palmer said of the possibility of a legal challenge: "If we are challenged we will have to defend ourselves."

While leftists bemoaned the township's resistance to activist pressure, some lauded it on online.

Twitter user Billboard Chris, a critic of gender ideology and the mutilation of children, wrote, "Well done, Norwich. We don't need a month or a flag that celebrates the maiming and sterilization of children."

The Canadian Christian Heritage Party suggested, "All government buildings should follow suit."

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Ted Cruz asks FBI Director why AMERICAN symbols are identified as 'militia violent extremism'

Ted Cruz asks FBI Director why AMERICAN symbols are identified as 'militia violent extremism'



Brace yourselves, this one is a doozy. Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray about a recent Project Veritas report that could potentially identify historic American symbols as "Militia Violent Extremism." The document leaked by an alleged whistleblower suggests that FBI guidelines for identifying “Militia Violent Extremists" are broad.

In the leaked document, the Betsy Ross Flag, Gadsden Flag, and other typical American symbols could land American citizens on the Department of Defense's naughty "extremist" list. References to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution using the abbreviation "2A" is also included on the list.

CRUZ: I regularly hear from FBI agents and the Department of Justice professionals. They are dismayed that our law enforcement has been weaponized and politicized rather than remaining apolitical, as it has been for the history of our country. Yesterday, it was reported that Project Veritas had obtained a copy of an FBI training material, which listed various symbols and themes, in the FBI’s estimation, were indicative of, quote, “Militia Violent Extremism.” These symbols weren’t things like the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi Party, which naturally would be symbols of that. Still, instead, they include rather astonishingly patriotic symbols of our nation and history. Included on this list is the Betsy Ross flag. Now, that is fairly remarkable that the Betsy Ross flag, in the FBI’s indication, is indicative of Militia Violent Extremism because, among the public and other people, alongside the Betsy Ross flag, we have President Barack Obama, who was sworn in directly underneath the Betsy Ross flags. But, it’s not just President Obama. We also have President Biden sworn in under Betsy Ross flags. It’s not just the Betsy Ross flag. Also on this list is the Gadsden flag symbolizing violent extremism. Like many other states, the State of Virginia has a license plate for the Gadsden flag. I think people would be astonished to find that the FBI indicates that you’re a violent extremist with that license plate.

FBI DIRECTOR WRAY: Well, Senator, I’m not familiar with the particular document that you have behind you, and I’m not in the practice of trying to comment on documents I haven’t recognized, but I will tell you that when we put out intelligence products, including ones that reference symbols, which we do across a wide variety of contexts, we usually make great pains- take great pains to put caveats and warnings in the document that make clear that a symbol alone is not considered evidence of violent extremism.

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IN RED AMERICA ("Back in America" Parody) | Louder With Crowder

IN RED AMERICA ("Back in America" Parody) | Louder With Crowder

Crowder's first LIVE show of 2022 aired on Tuesday, and he pulled no punches



If you think 2021 was a challenging year, you might want to brace yourself for 2022.

Steven Crowder and the crew returned on Tuesday with the first episode of "Louder with Crowder" in 2022. Of the many topics covered, a couple of standouts included a man who raised vaccine awareness with sheep and a "Back in America" parody, an ode to rural America in the style of the end credits for "National Lampoon's European Vacation."

In the first clip, Crowder discussed what a German man, Hanspeter Etzold, told Reuters about his campaign to increase the vaccination rate. "Sheep are popular with people and carry positive emotional connotations. So perhaps they can reach many people emotionally when logic and scientific reasoning doesn't do the job," Etzold told Reuters.

Etzold arranged the sheep in the shape of a syringe to raise vaccine awareness. But Crowder, in rare form, challenged Etzold's premise that sheep are "very popular among the people."

In the second clip, Crowder parodied the credit song for "National Lampoon's European Vacation." In "Red America," an ode to rural America, Crowder rewrote the lyrics from "Back in America." Here is a sample of the Crowder's lyrics:

"In red America,
I'm back with reckless abandon.
In red America,
Where the bumpers read Let's Go, Brandon.
In red America,
I can save up to retire.
In red America,
Where Walgreens is never on fire."

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No, The American Flag Isn’t Racist. It’s A Symbol Of Unity We Need Now More Than Ever

Our flag still means unity today. It stands for the union of our now 50 states into one nation, and every American who is a part of it.