Robby Starbuck on Jack Daniel's exposé: We're 'winning our country back'



Conservative filmmaker turned consumer advocate Robby Starbuck was three for three — but he wasn't about to rest on his laurels.

On Monday his social media-fueled boycott of Harley-Davidson convinced the iconic American motorcycle company to walk back various leftist initiatives, including mandatory "LBGTQ+ ally" training for employees and DEI-focused hiring policies.

That same day, he informed Align that he was already working on another big target.

The victory against Harley-Davidson followed similarly effective campaigns against Tractor Supply and John Deere.

Brands like these are so much a part of our history that we can't just let them "go woke, go broke." We owe it to ourselves to preserve them.

The woke desecration of Harley-Davidson has been especially insulting. As Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck puts it:

Harley is one of the brands that helped win World War II. The Harley-Davidson WLA carried American GIs to war against the Nazis. The WLA was brought back to the United States, and a new era of motorcycles was born after the veterans began chopping them up for civilians to use. The “chopper” was born.

Veterans returning from war from the 1940s through today have ridden Harleys as both a therapeutic mechanism to deal with what they saw on the battlefield and as an homage to experience the openness of American freedom. And that legacy has been taught and handed down to Harley-Davidson riders from father to son enthusiastically since 1903.

Thanks to Starbuck's efforts, that legacy has been preserved — for now.

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Shortly after Harley-Davidson's capitulation, Starbuck told Align that he and his small team were already at work on the next target.

While he declined to name the company — "We have someone in the field filming and can’t take any risk something accidentally gets out" — Starbuck promised "a powerful takedown" in the near future.

Word did get out. Less than twelve hours later, Starbuck revealed that his intended target — Jack Daniel's — had gotten wise to his plan. Incredibly, the mere threat of exposure was enough to make the company pre-emptively change its DEI-motivated policies.

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"We are winning and one by one we will bring sanity back to corporate America," posted Starbuck.

It's nothing Starbuck takes credit for personally. "We’re just a megaphone for the anger Americans have towards this divisive ideology," he said.

What started as a grassroots movement has encountered some growing pains as it expands, admits Starbuck: "To be perfectly candid, right now our biggest issue is scaling this. We have well over 1,000 whistleblowers and need to hire some trusted people to get the tips and evidence coming in. To appropriately organize the stories and put them out takes a lot of manpower hours."

Those who want to help with funding Starbuck's work holding companies accountable can subscribe to his X page (@robbystarbuck) for $5 a month.

But your time and attention can also make a difference. "Stay engaged with what we’re posting and take the five minutes to email or call the companies we expose," urged Starbuck. "That time investment is winning our country back."

'Shame on those who advocate this!' Elon Musk says he will push 'to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent'



Elon Musk has indicated that he will actively push to criminalize the performing permanent gender-transition measures on children who have not reached the age of consent.

"This is a major problem. I will be actively lobbying to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent. Shame on those who advocate this! It is utterly contemptible," Musk wrote in a tweet on Thursday.

\u201c@TheRabbitHole84 @jimjimmiejames This is a major problem. I will be actively lobbying to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent. \n\nShame on those who advocate this! It is utterly contemptible.\u201d
— The Rabbit Hole (@The Rabbit Hole) 1685661825

In an April tweet, Musk had noted, "My position is simply that we should wait until an individual is mature enough to make their own decisions before other adults make permanent, serious physical changes to them."

Musk, who owns Twitter, has said that he uses people's preferred pronouns, just like he uses preferred names, as a matter of "good manners."

\u201c@JeremyDBoreing @realDailyWire This was a mistake by many people at Twitter. It is definitely allowed. \n\nWhether or not you agree with using someone\u2019s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws. \n\nI should note that I do personally use someone\u2019s preferred pronouns, just as I\u2026\u201d
— Jeremy Boreing (@Jeremy Boreing) 1685624363

The Daily Wire's Jeremy Boreing published a tweet thread on Thursday detailing the company's experience planning to share and promote Matt Walsh's "What Is a Woman?" documentary on Twitter.

Boreing said that the social media platform offered the chance "to buy a package to host the movie on a dedicated event page and to promote the event to every Twitter user over the first 10 hours."

The conservative company signed an agreement, Boreing said, but after Twitter reviewed the documentary, the social media platform not only rescinded the advertising opportunity but also said it would limit the movie's reach.

"After reviewing the film, though, Twitter let us know that not only could we no longer purchase the package they offered, they would no longer provide us any support and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it as 'hateful conduct' because of 'misgendering,'" Boreing tweeted. "When we asked how much they would limit the visibility if we posted the film anyway, Twitter replied that our own followers would not be able to see it in their feeds. This, they said, is part of their 'speech not reach' policy," he noted.

Boreing noted that the company planned to post the film on Thursday evening anyway.

The Daily Wire's tweet containing the movie currently carries a "Visibility Limited" label that says the tweet might breach the platform's "rules against Hateful Conduct." Comments, retweets, and likes are all currently disabled on the post.

"We're updating the system tomorrow so that those who follow @realDailyWire will see this in their feed, but it won’t be recommended to non-followers (nor will any advertising be associated with it)," Musk said of the Daily Wire's post. "Commenting & deliberate sharing will be allowed. Sensitive content just won't be pushed to people unless they ask for it or a friend sends it to them," Musk tweeted.

\u201c@robbystarbuck @realDailyWire @MattWalshBlog @Twitter @JeremyDBoreing We\u2019re updating the system tomorrow so that those who follow @realDailyWire will see this in their feed, but it won\u2019t be recommended to non-followers (nor will any advertising be associated with it)\u201d
— Robby Starbuck (@Robby Starbuck) 1685666102
\u201c@stillgray @robbystarbuck @realDailyWire @MattWalshBlog @Twitter @JeremyDBoreing Commenting & deliberate sharing will be allowed. Sensitive content just won\u2019t be pushed to people unless they ask for it or a friend sends it to them.\u201d
— Robby Starbuck (@Robby Starbuck) 1685666102

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VIDEO: Mother of 2-year-old with asthma says they were kicked off flight after crying boy struggled to keep mask on



A mother and her 2-year-old son were allegedly removed from an American Airlines flight after the boy was unable to keep his mask on. The video of the alleged incident shows the toddler, who is said to have asthma, crying while his mother attempts to keep his face mask on. The airline claims the child violated the federal mask mandate.

Amanda Pendarvis was flying on American Airlines Flight 1284 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Colorado on Sept. 13 with her son and her mother. Her 2-year-old son Waylon had a difficult time wearing a face mask, which was said to be the first time he wore a face covering. The toddler allegedly suffers from asthma. The mother claimed that she showed the flight crew a negative COVID-19 test for her son, but they said he still needed to wear a face covering.

Pendarvis posted an Instagram story on Monday detailing the incident, which she described as "the most humiliating/traumatizing experience."

"He got on the intercom and to say to the entire plane, 'I'm sorry for the delay but we are dealing with a non-compliant traveler,'" the mother said in the video, which shows the boy crying with a mask on his face.

"I was not refusing a mask. Nor did I even say I wouldn't try to keep a mask on my son," Pendarvis continued. "We were escorted off the plane as I was holding a mask over his little face. I genuinely don't have words."

Pendarvis, who appears to be wearing a mask in the video, is seen attempting to keep the mask on her toddler as he wriggles around.

"He won't even let it near his face," the mother says of the boy and the mask.

The plane purportedly returned to the gate to remove the family from the flight. The footage then shows the mother and boy being escorted by three police officers.

Pendarvis claims that a flight attendant named "Carl" was the one who "took a stance" to kick off the family from the flight. She called him "truly evil" and "power-tripping."

"He had the plane turned around and had us escorted off to be met by police officers. Why? Wait for it ... because my 2-year-old was not properly wearing a mask," she said.

"Mind you, Way is asthmatic. We had showed [the flight attendant] a negative Covid test Way had yesterday," Pendarvis wrote on the since-deleted Instagram story. "Told him he has asthma and has never worn a mask before. He did not care that this asthmatic child was literally hyperventilating."

Wow. American Airlines kicked a 2 year old boy with asthma off a plane and had police waiting for him + his mom bec… https://t.co/pNlSGJA6IX

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) 1631749672.0

American Airlines confirmed that there was an incident on Flight 1284.

"Initial reports indicate the party refused to comply with crew member instructions to remain seated and wear a face mask securely over their nose and mouth," American Airlines told National File. "After agreeing to adhere to federal face covering requirements, all individuals were rebooked for travel on the next flight to Colorado Springs (COS)."

The Biden administration implemented a mask mandate on Feb. 1, which requires travelers 2 years of age or older wear face coverings while on public transportation conveyances, including airplanes, ships, ferries, trains, subways, buses, taxis, and ride-shares.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that people with asthma don't generally qualify for a disability exemption on public transportation.

"A person with a condition that causes intermittent respiratory distress, such as asthma, likely does not qualify for this exemption because people with asthma, or other similar conditions, can generally wear a mask safely," the CDC website states.

John Kirby grilled over why US officials did not protect American forces if they knew ISIS-K attack was coming — but he refused to answer



Pentagon spokesman John Kirby refused to answer a question Monday inquiring why American officials did not take action to protect American forces at the Kabul airport last week if they knew an ISIS-K attack was imminent.

What is the background?

Politico reported Monday that top U.S. commanders knew approximately when and where the ISIS-K attack would occur.

In fact, about an hour and a half before the attack, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reportedly held a meeting and told top Pentagon officials to prepare for a forthcoming "mass casualty event." Politico based its report on classified notes obtained from that meeting.

Politico reported:

During the meeting, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of "significant" intelligence indicating that the Islamic State's Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, was planning a "complex attack," the notes quoted him as saying.

Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, where American citizens had been told to gather in order to gain entrance to the airport, was "highest risk," and detailed their plans to protect the airport. "I don't believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground," Austin said, according to the classified notes.

What did Kirby say?

"I have a question, and it's difficult, but I hope you can entertain it," the reporter began. "According to Politico, the U.S. knew where the attack would — or roughly where the attack would take place on Thursday, and when it would attack, or when it would take place. Why were there U.S. troops at that gate at that time?"

Kirby, however, did not address the question. Instead, he chided the Politico report for being based on "the unlawful disclosure of classified information."

"What I can tell you is that we have been monitoring as close as we can intelligence that led us to believe that we are in a very dynamic, and in some cases, specific threat environment, number one," Kirby began. "Number two, as Gen. McKenzie said, we're going to investigate. We're going to get to the bottom of what happened last Thursday. Thirteen precious lives were lost. We're going to take that seriously, and we're not going to investigate it in public."

"Number three, I am absolutely not going to speak to a — a — a press story that was informed by the unlawful disclosure of classified information and sensitive deliberations here in the Pentagon," Kirby continued. "Just not going to do it."

“The US knew roughly where and when the attack would take place on Thursday. Why were There US troops at that gate… https://t.co/aqb2sxpwer

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) 1630368956.0

American officials almost certainly knew more about the ISIS-K attack than they have admitted. Not only were they warned for days about ISIS-K before the attack, but American officials reportedly intercepted more ISIS-K suicide bombers over the weekend before they could act.

The U.S. intelligence was so precise, in fact, that officials launched a drone strike from the United Arab Emirates, which took hours to reach Afghanistan.

CNN reported, however, that the U.S. drone strike also killed civilians. The Pentagon said those deaths may have occurred as the result of secondary explosions triggered by the drone strike.

Black father and daughter go viral with video denouncing critical race theory



A video posted on social media by a black father and his young daughter dismissing critical race theory and encouraging others to respect one another regardless of their race has garnered more than 1 million views online.

The viral video, first posted by Kory Yeshua on his TikTok channel, has drawn viral interest for its lighthearted yet pointed rebuke of critical race theory, an ideology which re-examines society through a racial lens and presumes that race is a constructed concept used primarily to exploit people of color. Proponents of the ideology largely espouse that America and its foundational institutions are inherently racist.

In the video, Yeshua is seen sitting with his daughter and telling her that she "can be anything in this world" that she wants to be.

"Yeah, and it doesn't matter if you're black or white or any color," his daughter responds with a smile.

"How we treat people is based on who they are and not what color they are," Yeshua goes on to say, his daughter adding, "and if they're nice and smart."

"See, this is how children think right here," Yeshua says with a smile before noting, "Critical race theory wants to end that, [but] not with my children, it's not gonna happen."

"My baby is going to know that no matter what she wants to be in life, all she has to do is work hard and she can become that," he goes on to say.

His daughter then jumps in, exclaiming: "Work hard! Even if you don't know anyone, you can make a friend."

After smiling and laughing at his daughter's comment, Yeshua adds, "Yeah, you can make friends no matter what color they are. So we need to stop CRT point-blank. Period. Children do not see skin color, man, they love everybody."

One of the best videos opposing Critical Race Theory that you’ll ever see. 👏🏼🇺🇸 https://t.co/cXOfheV0kJ

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) 1622573455.0

The video was posted on Yeshua's TikTok account on May 19 and has garnered more than 20,000 views on the platform. Yeshua's channel, which boasts over 270,000 followers, features hundreds of videos of the commentator promoting conservative values and criticizing leftist movements such as Black Lives Matter.

Then on Tuesday, conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck posted the video on Twitter with the caption, "One of the best videos opposing Critical Race Theory that you'll ever see." The video caught fire shortly after Starbuck's posting and is now rapidly circulating on the internet.

Critical race theory has become a hot-button political issue in America in recent months as school boards and educational institutions across the country have moved to implement the ideology into curricula.

That movement has prompted dozens of Republican legislatures to advance measures banning critical race theory and other similar teachings from public school classrooms.

CIA mocked online over woke recruitment video: 'Our enemies are laughing at us'



A woke recruitment video posted online by the Central Intelligence Agency last week sparked immediate backlash from critics online, who argued the prestigious intelligence service risks becoming a national embarrassment.

What are the details?

The video featured a 36-year-old Latina agent who describes herself as a "cisgender Millennial" who has been "diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder."

"I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise," she says in the video, adding, "I am a walking declaration, a woman whose inflection does not rise at the end of her sentences, suggesting that a question has been asked."

"I used to struggle with impostor syndrome," she admits shortly after, though adding that she now "refuse[s] to internalize misguided, patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be."

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"I am tired of feeling like I am supposed to apologize for the space I occupy," she continues.

"I am unapologetically me. I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are. Whether you work at CIA, or anywhere else in the world. Command your space. Mija, you are worth it," she says as the video concludes.

What has been the response?

The video was originally posted on YouTube on March 25, but later promoted by the intelligence agency on Twitter on April 28. Following the Twitter post, a barrage of attacks against the agency poured in.

Former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright blasted the video, saying, "The CIA used to be about mission to country. (I speak from experience). Now it's now about demanding — and getting — accommodation to fix an emotional wound or advance a personal agenda. America is less safe with this new CIA, and dangerously more political."

The CIA used to be about mission to country. (I speak from experience)Now it’s now about demanding — and getting… https://t.co/JTU6pZjtgn

— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) 1619996949.0

Meghan McCain, co-host of ABC's "The View," added, "This CIA recruitment video is a joke and truly embarrassing for our entire country. China, Russia and our enemies are laughing at us."

This CIA recruitment video is a joke and truly embarrassing for our entire country. China, Russia and our enemies are laughing at us.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) 1620070160.0

Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra commented: "Biden is turning every U.S. institution into an embarrassing freak show. The world is laughing at us."

Another Twitter critic joked that the CIA's hiring of "fail brain millennials with debilitating anxiety" could pan out with a field agent being "captured and tortured because the analyst working on his mission is hyperventilating due to being quote tweeted."

Filmmaker Robby Starbuck added: "Every institution is being destroyed by the woke left. If we don't stop this, [America] will fall. I bet instead of waterboarding, they'll unleash real torture on terrorists: Listening to 'progressives' talk for hours about every social issue."

This is a real video released by the CIA. Every institution is being destroyed by the woke left. If we don’t stop t… https://t.co/lE8HOO74Q6

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) 1620010348.0

"Woke Latina CIA agent in recruitment video lists all her identities (intersectional, cis gender, millennial woman of color with anxiety disorder) EXCEPT American," Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy tweeted. "God help us."

Anything else?

The CIA's woke new recruitment video comes as several major U.S. institutions undergo what appear to be progressive makeovers.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation appointed its first chief diversity officer, Scott McMillion, last month. As well, several branches of the military have taken steps to promote "diversity and inclusion" within their workspaces.

The U.S. Special Operations Command, a Defense Department division that oversees special operations components of the U.S. armed forces, appointed its first-ever diversity and inclusion chief this year.

Late last year, the U.S. Navy created a special task force, called Task Force Navy One, to "combat discrimination in the Navy" and require sailors to "advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy."