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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Concept creep.

Also, I notice that Rockefeller Center is flying the *old* rainbow-only flags without the black and brown and blue and pink and plaid and polka dot, so that means the WHITE SUPREMACISTS in charge there HATE BLACK PEOPLE and WANT TRANS PEOPLE TO DIE.

I await the howling mobs.

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I received this email a couple of days ago:

The Criterion Channel <newsletter@news.criterion.com>

Wed, Jun 7, 1:10 PM

THE CRITERION CHANNEL

JUNE 7, 2023

Queer Classics and Discoveries

Celebrate Pride Month with our latest queer-focused programs!

My response:

Humdee Dee <humdeedee@gmail.com>

Jun 7, 2023, 2:33 PM

to newsletter

I don't celebrate pride month and I don't want the companies with whom I do business to hound me about it. Keep your politics to yourself. If I get another email expressing anything political I will cancel my subscription.

And I mean it. If I have to cancel every single entity with whom I do business as a result of their sycophantic, cowardly, pandering to this cultural sickness, I will.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

By the way, from pride arises all sin.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Chris, I'm laughing, I'm crying, I'm screaming... don't know whether to pass out, throw up, or both. You've got to get a grip man, you need to get out of CA ASAP! Literally this is one of your funniest, snarkiest pieces ever, so wait, no, better stay where you are. Just hope you are homeschooling your kids. What a toxic rainbow of forced compliance. Batten down the hatches for the next couple of weeks. Feel free to flee to Florida for a break from the Canadian smoke and the mayhem.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

A wise man recently said: “June has been Dairy Month since 1937.”

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Jun 10, 2023·edited Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Personally I can't wait for Sloth Month. I plan to sleep on a beach for thirty days, the sands slowly blanketing me until my human form looks like just another dune.

And when I awaken to Wrath Month, I'll stalk the shores in search of castles to stomp, and old ladies to berate, and ice cream cones to steal. Because what else has God made me for?

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

I’m so glad my parents and I did not live in a time when my wearing to first grade every day for two weeks a fringed cowboy jacket, cowboy boots and my plastic gun belt replete with a silver-painted plastic six-shooter qualified me to have my six-year-old breasts surgically removed.

Ah, the good old days.

Now, we have become monsters. 💔

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

It really is all that stupid. I have seen one pride thing so far this month even mentioned here in red coastal/rural NC, and that was just an announcement for an event that I suspect will have a dozen or so grifters and that’s it. I can’t comprehend how anything thinks the majority of the country (and let’s not talk about the non-hallucinogenic countries) is buying any of this. They do not seem to have any idea that a 13%+ swing to the right over the last year, people fleeing to red states, parents yanking kids out of public schools, Target (TARGET) being boycotted by parents who formerly lived at the bullseye store, and the normies vs Karen/Antifa throw downs in leftist cities means they’re not winning.

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Jun 10, 2023·edited Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Wow, Chris, I really like this piece. PRIDE is nauseating. Sooo nauseating. I have received 3 Pride emails at work so far this month encouraging me to become an "ALLY!" Mind you we have a corporate code of conduct that all religions, creeds, etc will be respected but somehow the Alphabet Mafia ist uber alles. The pride flags fly proudly all over Baltimore while the city crumbles and the new Police Commissioner has sworn to be the SJW mayor's bitch. Thanks for exposing the insanity!

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For a group that so wants to be treated like everyone else, they sure as hell need a shit ton of unending constant validation.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

I get the feeling that you think it's abnormal (or at least in poor taste) for someone to not only stick their sexual preferences in everyone's faces, but to run it up the flagpole. Are you one of those haters?

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

1. The Department of Tautology would like to offer you the Pride! professorship in Pride! Studies because Pride!, generously endowed by Budweiser, which stands with whoever we tell them to. Also, Pride!

2. Go to your liquor cabinet, pull out a bottle of your favored single malt, pour three fingers in a snifter, put in one decent size ice cube, sit down in a club chair with some jazz on, and take a load off.

3. https://twitter.com/ScottLoBaido/status/1666969031146872832?s=20

( Watch this tomorrow, after the fever has broken.)

3.

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I find myself tuning out from all of this nonsense more and more. Like complete numbness about the Pride idiocy, and possibly more disturbing, complete numbness about what is happening to Trump. Is it just because it's so overwhelmingly stupid? Or is it that I feel helpless to do anything to right this ship? Or is just we must all turn away from this noise and focus on building something new? Does anyone else find their eyes glazing over about this stuff when it used to be a daily obsession?

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This is the most ridiculous truth. Laughing and crying at the same time. (Side note: My brother was gay, got AIDS and IMO was killed by Fauci and AZT back in ‘93, but that’s a story for another day). So idc if you’re gay. Great! JUST STOP SHOVING IT DOWN MY THROAT! Oops! Did I just say that? 🫣

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"Similarly, flying just one Pride flag is LITERALLY INVADING POLAND, because YOU NEED HUNDREDS."

Transgenderism is now a major concern of parent in Israel.

https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/little-miss-trouble

The U.S. is now the world's largest exporter of Marxist Wokeism.

https://michael796.substack.com/p/how-the-us-became-the-worlds-biggest

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