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Dec. 31, 2023 - Where There's Woke - Thomas Smith
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WTW29: Christmas's Last Stand
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What's so scary about the woke mob?
How often you just don't see them coming.
Anywhere you see diversity, equity, and inclusion, you see Marxism and you see woke principles being pushed.
Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic hands down.
The woke monster is here and it's coming for everything.
Instead of go-go boots, the seductress green M&M will now wear sneakers.
Hello, and welcome to Where There's Woke.
I'm Thomas Smith, and this is the final installment of The War on Christmas so far.
And we'll pick up right where we left off.
I believe Lydia was getting us somewhere into the 2017-2018 era of the war, of the conflict, of the great conflict.
So we'll pick right up with that.
All right.
We're starting to get closer and closer to present day.
So I sent you our next video.
Just a quick note on 2017.
We don't have any videos to play from there, but I do have just Lou Dobbs.
This was when the tax reform bill was going through and they were talking about how great it was for the economy.
And then Lou Dobbs says that Trump helped bring Christmas back.
There's so much obvious joy.
He's never seen his neighborhood so decorated in the entire 30 years he's lived there.
Jesus Christ.
Just, like, worshiping, right?
So that, I didn't—I could not stomach it, and it's boring.
So we're going to move on to 2018 and hang out with Jesse Watters for a little bit.
And he has none other than Jerry Falwell Jr.
guesting with him.
That upstanding citizen?
Yes, that upstanding citizen.
Yeah, what is it?
Was he found with the, you know, pool boys or something?
Who's, what's the?
We don't have time to go into it, but someday, someday we should.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Do a deep dive on him.
So much fun.
Yeah.
When I want my wholesome conservative commentary, I go to Jerry Falwell Jr.
Someone who, I guess his wife was caught with the pool boy and then he was caught with the having fun watching it or something.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Interesting.
And then hearing their version of it is even funnier.
Like when they try to clean it up and be like, all right, here's how we explain it.
It's the best.
Amazing.
But anyway, so he's our guest today.
Yeah, and we have to hear some real serious Christmas thoughts from Jerry Falwell Jr.
and Jesse Watters, because this is real life.
And so we need to talk about Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.
Oh, so it's not going to be like, look, Santa Claus is a white man who bangs my wife while I watch.
That's bring back mama's kissing Santa.
Was that something?
Yeah, I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus.
Bring back, I saw my wife banging Santa Claus.
Oh man, that'll be the next front on The War on Christmas.
Look, Santa Claus is supposed to come in and bang your wife while you watch, and that's how the holiday has always been.
You can't just change it.
Just when we thought that they'd run out of people, classes of people to name as victims, they come up with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the newest victim class.
Listen to this Rudolph attack, the Huffington Post Stopped once he was slightly useful.
That's the point.
It exhibits racism and hobophobia.
Hobophobia.
And they called Santa Claus abusive and bigoted.
And they said it promotes bullying or something like that.
You know, from my recollection of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and I haven't seen it in a while, but the point was the people that were bullying Rudolph were bad.
Stopped once he was slightly useful.
That's the point.
So it's not pro-bullying.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, this is where I have to go off on Rudolph for an hour.
Just look at the lyrics of that song.
So this poor reindeer, who could be a stand-in for maybe he's gay, maybe he's a marginalized identity, whatever, he's different.
He's got a red nose.
That's different than every other reindeer.
And then he gets bullied for that.
Like he's literally, like it's a racist attack on that reindeer because he has a different color thing.
And everybody, the song itself is like, yeah, they hate it.
They fucking did hate crimes against him.
Where was Santa during all that?
We don't know.
We don't know if he cared.
We don't know if Santa has HR, no one, you know, like we don't know what the situation is there.
But then, then he becomes useful.
For a minute, like then it's all of a sudden, oh wait, we can use this thing.
We can actually make use of this, you know, marginalized identity and take advantage of it.
And then they all loved him.
And then it was great.
And Santa was like, yeah, you know what?
You're amazing.
What is the moral that my kid is supposed to get from this?
Oh, hon, it gets even worse than the song.
Have you ever watched the 1964 movie?
Yeah, but not for a long time.
So that's what this is originally coming from.
The song is concerning, and I have some more information about the original Rudolph story, too, but the Huffington Post piece was specifically about the Burl Ives Oh, here we go.
Sure.
Yeah, doesn't he try to like paint over his nose?
- A person wrote about this, but honestly, they're right.
Because in the movie, it's not just the other reindeer that are jerks.
Rudolph's dad is an asshole to him. - Oh yeah, doesn't he try to like paint over his nose? - He makes him wear, yeah, wear a prosthetic nose basically so it looks black.
- He's like, you get back in the closet, Wow.
Yeah.
It's bad.
Santa's a jerk.
Santa comes over and he's like, you got to do something about that nose.
Like, we can't hear this.
The other reindeer kids are also bullies, of course.
Comet is the coach for the kids to learn how to, like, be flying reindeer.
And Comet's the one that's like, we're not going to let Rudolph play any of those reindeer games.
This adult reindeer is...
And I also feel stupid for talking about it like this.
But yeah, everyone is an asshole to Rudolph in this, Santa included.
And the coach, you know, comment encourages the bullying.
The dad is an asshole.
And one person wrote about this in Huffington Post that was like, wow, this is pretty bad.
Yeah.
And here we are with Fox News.
Now we got to get a guy who watches his wife get fucked by the pool boy to lecture us.
But let me tell you about the original story.
So the original Rudolph story was written by someone who worked for, oh, Montgomery Ward.
OK, so way back when, a lot of department stores would put out, you know, like little stories or images or things during Christmastime as part of like marketing campaigns.
And at Montgomery Ward, there was someone who worked there that his wife was going through some major health issues and stuff.
And so he was like trying to come up with an idea to liven her spirits during the Christmas season and came up with this idea of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
And then he submitted it to Montgomery Ward.
Montgomery Ward used it as a little story book, and they sold a ton of copies.
And then actually his brother-in-law wrote the song Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer later.
But the original story for Rudolph, he was not one of Santa's reindeer.
He was not the offspring of one of Santa's reindeer.
He did not live at the North Pole.
Rudolph was just in an ordinary reindeer village somewhere in the world.
And he was taunted and laughed at for having a shiny red nose, but his parents didn't see it as an embarrassment.
They weren't ashamed of Rudolph's shiny nose.
His household was very loving.
And he ended up growing up to be a responsible reindeer with a good self-image and sense of worth.
What the hell?
And because he did not rise to fame when Santa picked him out from a reindeer herd because of that shiny nose, what happened instead was that Santa discovered him by accident.
He noticed the glow coming from his room while he was delivering presents to Rudolph's house.
So Santa was going through and delivering presents to all the reindeer in the reindeer village.
I'm on the edge of my fucking seat.
What's going to happen?
Yeah.
And then the fog was starting to get thicker and thicker and thicker as he's delivering presents.
He's like, I'm going to abduct that child.
Yeah, it says, already the cause of several accidents and delays.
And so he was concerned that he wouldn't be able to finish delivering all the presents on Christmas Eve.
So Santa asked Rudolph to lead the team.
And it was just, you know, a young reindeer.
And he said yes.
And Rudolph left a note for his mom and dad as he like went out to help Santa finish delivering all the presents.
Very different from the song.
Very different from the movie.
Like, just a sweet story.
You know, it's perfectly fine for us to criticize how horrible the reindeer are.
One thing that blows my mind is, like, we have a book version of the, you know, fucking Nightmare Before Christmas.
Yeah.
And I was reading it to the kids, like, years ago, or Phoebe, probably, just Phoebe, like, years ago, and I saw it say, On Donder!
And I was like, Donder?
Oh, yeah.
Like, is that a Printo I was just about to say?
Was that a typo?
Typo.
And I was like, Donder.
And then I looked it up and it's like, oh no, it was, not only is there no fucking Rudolph, obviously, but it was like Donder.
Yeah.
And then I, and it gets even funnier.
Cause like, it's like, oh no, the original is Donder and Blixem.
Blixem?
There's other versions where it's like Donder and Blixem and then.
Are you just making this up?
No, no, no.
It's because it's Dutch and it's actually Thunder and Lightning.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, dunder and blixem.
Wow.
I like both those words, actually.
That's pretty good.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Some blixem out there, you know?
It's kind of an onomatopoeia, but not really, you know?
A little bit.
Dunder.
In the name of our next kid.
Just kidding.
Yeah, and so once again, just getting rid of the idea that this is how it's always been and how dare you change anything.
Yeah.
It's like, no, I don't know where this fucking genius came up with this reindeer mythology, but that poem is even older than I thought.
It's from 1823.
Yeah.
And so he came up with that whole reindeer thing, although he probably was borrowing it from something, but I'm clicking on, this isn't a deep dive we're doing, but I just clicked on like, oh yeah, Santa's reindeer Wikipedia to see how they're doing.
And it doesn't have anything from really before that.
It's just like, yeah, no, somehow he came up with this.
The first reference is from this.
It's like, did he just come up?
Is he the fucking J.R.R.
Tolkien of reindeer?
Reindeer lore.
You know?
But anyway, the point is, there wasn't a Rudolph.
There was only eight of them, or whatever.
The broader point is this, that message fucking sucks.
I don't know why the original... So you're saying the original that just somebody came up with, for what purpose again?
Like, what did that... Was it published in something, or was it just... Yeah, so it ended up being published.
It was Montgomery Ward issued, like, a little Christmas magazine, yeah, kind of thing, every year.
But it was, like, the little story.
And so he ended up submitting it to work, and they liked it, and they published it, and it sold Tons of copies.
Really?
Yeah, but then it was Montgomery Ward's intellectual property because he was an employee there.
So then he ended up having a conversation with them, I think years later, and was able to secure that copyright back.
Oh, wow.
They gave it back to him, yeah.
Because that was in 1939 or whatever?
A billion years ago, yeah, something like that.
Yeah, and then in the—so in the 50s or 60s, whenever they made the thing— Yeah, the 60s for the movie.
The 60s, they're like, hey, let's take that, but let's use it to justify bullying and hazing culture.
Yeah, yeah.
Because it does.
I mean, you might say, look, I do think there's something to be said for things can be progressive for their time, but then still horrible now.
Like there's not like that's a totally normal thing, honestly.
How progress works.
Yeah, exactly.
Like most of history has been pretty fucking horrifying on every issue.
If there was a historical person in fucking the year 10, whatever, who's like, hey, maybe, you know, maybe you shouldn't like murder people for this.
Maybe just like, you know, chop their hand off.
It's like, all right, that sucks, but like it's better, you know, like it's stuff like that.
And you can recognize that maybe the message of this in 1960 something was like, hey, don't bully that minority because they might be useful, which is like horrible.
But it's still don't bully that minority.
Like that is the message, but it's for the wrong reason.
And so like, yeah, might've been fine back then.
I'm not showing my kids this fucking movie.
That movie is really weird and disturbing.
And it sucks because that's another thing that like, I have really fond memories of that movie.
Oh no, we'll find a million other things, it's fine.
No, I know, I know.
It's totally fine and I don't need the kids to watch it either.
But I say that, but if anyone ever tells me that Muppet Christmas Carol is problematic in some way, I'm Trump now.
We'll have to figure it out.
Oh no, I will fully, that'll be the thing.
I always wondered, what will be the thing that puts me... Someone's like, you can't show your kids Muppet Christmas Carol.
Oh, okay, I'll move to my own planet.
I don't care.
Freaking Rudolph.
Seriously, that song though, it's like, oh great, capitalism or something.
It's like, oh yeah, as soon as we can exploit the minority person for their features and make money off of it essentially, then it's cool.
Then we're super into that.
I really wonder, the person who made that version, what they were thinking.
I just gave my interpretation, which was maybe it's sort of the message of like, oh, don't bully minority people because they might actually have redeeming qualities that overcome the fact that they're an identity that you despise for no reason.
You know what I mean?
Like that was a lot of the counter-racist and counter-homophobic messaging back then to make baby steps as to like, hey, maybe don't do that for these bad reasons.
In the same way that we had to do, you know, oh, people have no choice.
That was the major argument for gay rights in my childhood and our childhood, I think, was, hey, they're born this way.
They don't have any choice.
And that was kind of a necessary step, I think.
People argue about this.
I'm not the decider of this, but like some people say like, yeah, that was a necessary step.
Some people say like, hey, that That really messed things up because really what the argument should have been is, you know, fuck you, like we can do whatever we want.
You know, it should be the permit that Ron Swanson has like, oh, fuck you, I can do whatever I want.
People worry that that argument set that back a bit when it comes to things like identities that aren't like, you know, biological or sexualities that aren't like, there's not going to be a gay gene per se.
People worry maybe that set that back a bit.
But I think there's a strong argument that, I don't know, maybe you have to meet the masses of bigots where they are a little bit.
And maybe that's what the original Rudolph was.
But just like the fucking rapey song of Baby It's Cold Outside, we're not there anymore.
So it's irrelevant now.
It's not a crime if you still want to listen to it, but it doesn't work the same way.
It doesn't sit within our culture in the same way at all that it would have back then.
And so I think if you're going to show it or play it or whatever to young, very impressionable youths, that they better at least know, like you better at least give them an explanation of it or just don't bother.
Find a different, better thing.
Yeah.
That's my overall Warren Christmas message.
Here's a conspiracy theory for you.
Okay.
So the brother-in-law I had mentioned is the one who wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the song of the guy who wrote the original story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Oh, okay.
So the brother-in-law is actually Johnny Marks, who wrote a lot of Christmas songs, including Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Holly Jolly Christmas.
He was Jewish, wasn't he?
Silver and Gold.
He was Jewish.
Yeah, I love it.
Yeah.
All the best.
Again, why was idiot Henry Ford thinking that?
Well, oh, wait, no, that goes with this theory, actually.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
This is a conspiracy.
The Jewish people gave us Christmas in order to kill Jesus as our savior or whatever.
In which case, fuck it.
I love it.
I'm going to ask Eli about that.
Yeah, this is incredible.
Hey, did your people do that?
That's so funny.
But that's the point.
Now, what's hilarious about that is all of those things that Henry Ford would have said, you know, the international Jew is creating in order to get rid of Christ.
Those are the very things that those same conservatives are arguing that we're taking away.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
It's so good.
That's why I wanted to start, you know, this whole conversation with, like, 1921.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
So do you have any more on, Rudolph?
I think I've made major points.
I think I've done my dissertation.
Why don't we talk about what's been going on this year then?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So just a couple of weeks ago, a week ago, it's very recent.
Jill Biden had a dance troupe come in to celebrate Christmas, and there's a filmed video of them dancing through the White House, and conservatives did not like it.
That's weird.
So I'm just on paper, I'm thinking, all right, they did a video of literally people doing, it's Nutcracker, isn't it?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, it's a version of the Nutcracker.
Yeah, it's the Nutcracker, and they're dancing, and it's Christmas tree, and it's about Christmas.
So how do we, what's our criticism going to be here, if we're not?
Yeah.
You know, like, OK, let's see.
There's nothing quite like Christmas at the White House from Winston Churchill spending his Christmas with the Roosevelt's in the midst of war to Jackie Kennedy being the first First Lady to decorate the halls with Nutcracker ornaments and twinkling lights.
But who can forget Barney Cam?
He's doing like a historical thing.
Is that supposed to be?
So these are the good examples?
to be working here you are playing i know you've been out here a long time because you've got snow everywhere nancy reagan famously brought mr t to the white house for christmas in a crimson santa suit with a signature post so these are the good examples melania trump decked the halls with glam and some dancing ballerinas okay this is the creepiest she's so pissed off yeah this is Look, I know this is an audio medium.
Yeah.
We see a fucking Dementor walk out and look over this ballerina, white as the driven snow, obviously, doing a dance, which is like if we took the kids to a Nutcracker.
Classical ballet.
We wouldn't look like, I'm going to suck your soul.
Like she, it's creepy.
I don't spend a lot of time on this because I have a hard time with seeing humans that aren't actually humans inside.
Cause it like, it creeps me out.
It makes me depressed about the whole world.
But when I'm forced to look at someone like Melania, she's a dementor.
There's no joy.
She hovers.
Yeah, she's just scowl on her face like look at this thing I'm doing and that's supposed to be the good example that look at this true hero of Christmas Yeah what you're supposed to do is hire an all white white white to be white and dance and Then scowl over them because you're miserable and you hate your fucking life.
Yeah They come through she's just fucking scowling She's like, I can't wait to suck out your souls later.
Has anyone seen these people since?
These ballerinas?
Are they missing?
This is real Christmas, okay.
And the media called that Melania's white Christmas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because it was.
But this year, Jill Biden did what Bidens do.
She plagiarized.
Recreating the Nutcracker scene, but with a twist.
Plagiarized.
Okay, this...
Okay, it's just, they're just doing tap dance, which is...
You would think that...
What's more Americana than like a tap dancey thing, you know, right?
Eh, that guy...
Oh!
Oh, there's a Christmas tree.
Okay, we got a Christmas tree.
We got people with kind of costumes I don't totally understand, but I'm an idiot, I don't know anything, so.
That's definitely a Nutcracker-esque thing.
Yeah, there we go.
Now, Akilah says she's scared, but as a patron of the ballet, I found it- What is that?
Is that another person in the studio?
I think it's a guest, yeah.
Akilah says she's scared.
Quite enchanting.
Is that because there's black people on the thing?
But not everybody agrees.
Some say it looks like the White House switched from cocaine to acid.
Others say it looks like the Hunger Games- Okay, but you recognize that in that comment, you're saying it was cocaine before.
Yeah.
Right?
I mean, okay.
Sure.
Clockwork Orange.
No, you don't understand.
Cocaine is the Christmas drug, because it's white.
Because it's white.
Acid is the, that's the progressive leftist war on Christmas drug.
But it's a perfect symbol for the Biden presidency.
People spin and tap dance while Joe doesn't appear on camera.
They called Melania's Christmas an all-white Christmas.
Yeah, Trump wasn't in it.
That would make Jill's Christmas an anti-white Christmas because the dancing group Doran's Dance... There are white people in it.
...supports critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and the 1619 Project.
I quit.
I might have to tap out of this.
Yeah, it's fine.
Let me talk about Doran's Dance Company, because that was something that kind of blew up in conservative circles where they're saying explosive new evidence about the dance company behind the tap dancing at the White House.
Behind the tap dancing Nutcracker video that is a nothing.
This is the world we live in.
Michelle Dorrance started the Dorrance Dance Company.
They are a very well-regarded dance company.
She's white, though, right?
She is white.
And she studied tap and everything growing up.
Her mother was a teacher as well, tap teacher.
And she went to NYU, and they have one of their schools at NYU where you can kind of put together your own major.
And she developed her own major, which was focused on studying concepts of American race in relationship to democracy in American culture.
And those are themes that she explores in choreography.
Tap has a significant black history.
No way!
Yes.
So from her website itself, education is very important to her and to their mission.
And so on the website it says, Tap Dance was born on the slave plantation in horrific circumstances.
To learn the heritage of tap dance is to learn the history of racial inequality in America and how that inequality was transcended.
To learn the legacy of tap dance is to also learn the responsibility to pass down that legacy in oral tradition and a black form.
So this is something means a lot to her.
It is her dance company.
It is fine for that to be part of their mission.
Tap Dance threw history, you know, on the vaudeville stage.
It started off in, like, minstrel shows where black performers had to play black stereotypes and wear blackface themselves, essentially.
And then it moved over to black vaudeville.
But there was an unspoken two-colored rule for vaudeville acts where black people were never allowed to perform solo.
That was pretty much unheard of.
Oh, wow.
So all tap acts ended up being duets for that reason.
And then segregation in the era of, like, film and Broadway prevented a lot of black people from participating in, like, this golden age of film that featured tap dancing, something that, you know, a lot of—a huge number of greats of tap dancers that didn't really get to participate in this, with the exception of, if anyone writes in, I know Bojangles Robinson.
I understand.
He was in all the Shirley Temple movies.
Not all of them.
A lot of them.
He is the exception.
But because of that segregation in film and Broadway, it led to two different styles of tap dance.
You have the Broadway style, which is the white people, and then you have more of the traditional rhythm style with more jazz influence.
And so that is the purpose of this company, is to understand where tap came from and to educate Audiences, and to, I don't know, just do something different, right?
Like what we saw with the, well, we saw it, I guess the audience didn't see it, but with the Melania Nutcracker, it's beautiful, and it's traditional Nutcracker.
This performance is, you know, Nutcracker is always fantasy.
It's always a little crazy.
Even in the original, you have a Nutcracker toy that comes to, like, a full life-size man, and he's actually, like, giant Nutcracker at one point, and then it becomes a man.
And he's fighting the Mouse King and like, it's all fantasy.
So this is kind of dialing it up a notch.
And then the song that they're using is actually from 1960 and it's a jazz arrangement by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn of Nutcracker.
So this is not something kooky and weird that Jill Biden found like a random street performer to put this together.
Like, this is all very intentional.
This company is very well regarded.
And as I said, it is very important To the owner and to their board, you know, she is not the only person that does this company, that they incorporate these themes and education as part of the work that they're doing.
Yeah.
Everything has to be a monoculture for these fascists.
That really is like, I know it's, I'm not saying any one thing like this means we're the third Reich kind of thing, but it's like, it's this, that kind of sentiment is like, no, every single nutcracker needs to be the classic, the clean cut nutcracker.
Yeah.
I just would like every fucking conservative asshole to realize that, first off, Tchaikovsky was gay.
So everything... Basically, any art that's ever been good was done by people whose identity you probably hate.
Like, just so you know.
Making into a Christmas icon a gay man's ballet or whatever, and then insisting it has to be done exactly a certain way to coincide with you.
It's just... The whole thing is just so fucking boring, more than anything.
Like, let people do different fucking things!
Yep, so we can evolve, we can change, and we can understand that certain dance companies have specific priorities.
It's nothing.
This is a nothing story.
That's not a story.
Jill Biden did a Nutcracker thing in a Christmas, it's a Christmassy thing.
That's Christmas.
I hope folks learned a little bit about a tap on the way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Next up, the other big story of 2023's War on Christmas, and this is where we're going to leave it for folks.
Apparently, Target is Dylanizing.
In Fox News's language, Dylanizing Christmas decorations.
Dylan, of course, being Dylan Mulvaney and the threat of inclusivity and diversity.
Nation of corporate America.
Companies are committing financial suicide one after the other.
We all remembered.
Wait, is that something we could fact-check?
Well, I'll wait till we hear which companies.
And Disney got all weird, started sticking their nose in politics, and then their movies started flopping.
Then there's Target.
They were selling a line of clothes for trans toddlers.
Tuckums.
Yes, tuckums.
Yeah, that's fake.
Yeah, I know that's fake.
There aren't trans toddlers that do genital surgery.
Like, what?
Also, they're wearing pull-ups and diapers.
They call those things anyway.
Literally a lot.
Literally, we have Phoebe wear Arlo's underwear that he doesn't like.
Yeah.
And it's fine.
No one cares.
It doesn't matter.
There's toddlers.
There's literally nothing going on down there.
summer, but they didn't learn anything.
Target hired this person, Gay Cruella, to run their merchandising strategy.
Gay Cruella says he's ready to whip out the glitter and hellfire flamethrowers to rip the old world to shreds.
Now, we don't really know what that means, but Target can hire and sell whatever they want.
It's their business.
If the stock crashes and sales go down, they're money.
This is a necessary part of every single War on Crisp.
Now, we know that they can do whatever they want, because capitalism.
Also, they should be allowed to hire nine-year-old kids to work there, too, because, you know, just like capitalism and stuff.
But Primetime wanted to see what Target was selling.
What does the store look like after Cruella whipped out the glitter and the flamethrowers?
So we sent one of our producers to Target and they found this.
We sent one of our producers to Target.
This is my favorite thing.
Investigative journalism.
We had one of our wealthy, like, fucking fail sons of whoever they hire at fucking Fox News, you know, the fail son of a wealthy billionaire of something, you know, we had them slum it up by going to Target and probably they probably treated it like it was a third world country kind of thing.
Yes.
Gay Nutcracker.
Every Nutcracker is gay, I'm sorry.
They're all gay.
Complete with a rainbow hat, trans flag.
Full price, $12, but right now it's on sale for $8.
Target also sells Santa ornaments, but Target's Santa is in a wheelchair and is black.
Listen to him struggling to like, okay, don't say, okay, what words am I allowed to say?
What words can I say to describe this?
This isn't how hard this is for him.
It's on sale for $8.
Target also sells Santa ornaments, but Target's Santa is in a wheelchair and is black.
His face literally twitches while he's trying to make sure he says the right thing.
So Jesse Jr.
is going to get all the gifts he wants.
Gay Nutcracker and Wheelchair Santa might be the only items in Target that don't get looted.
A sheriff in California who was trying to help Target stop shoplifters was told to not- Now we're changing to the panic over- Yeah, but play it through because Riley Gaines talks about this.
Okay, great.
Arrest shoplifters in the store.
If they want someone arrested, go around outside and walk behind the store where nobody could film it.
The sheriff says those orders come from the top.
What?
It's really happening at the corporate level, not the local level.
The employees, loss prevention, they really want to work with us.
Corporate does not.
It's a conscious decision by them.
Huh?
So police are triggering for shoppers.
They don't want shoppers feeling unsafe or threatened by law enforcement.
So the B-roll while he's talking about this is just like, it's a, I don't know, some target being looted.
And it just, they just want your fucking boomer grandparents or parents or whoever to So police are triggering for shoppers.
- Any city is like, wow.
If you have conservative family, just ask them their opinion on like any city and you'll hear, "Oh, I heard.
Everyone's moving out of there 'cause it's just all crime infested." Yeah, so that's that. - So police are triggering for shoppers.
They don't want shoppers feeling unsafe or threatened by law enforcement.
It's like they want people stealing, but they don't want anybody to know about it.
Is this Target's way of giving out reparations?
We don't know.
Oh boy!
Wow!
Yeah, yeah.
Wow!
As if you already couldn't hear the racism.
Obviously the video is, the people who are looting a Target in this video they're showing are black.
Yeah.
So his theory is that Target, oh my God, I can't.
Look.
There's so many fucking levels to the stupidity here.
I think we have to kind of take him at his word that he thinks that this is an intentional thing.
They're trying to build the story that Target is doing this intentionally, so they want... Here's what Target, the corporation, wants.
They want everyone to steal things from their store, and they're preventing local sheriffs from doing anything about it.
Yeah.
Because it's their reparations.
I can't even make sense of it.
How could you think that's any decision any human entity would like?
Wouldn't they just donate to something if that's what they wanted?
Yeah.
Like assume Target is the wokest of woke, which they're not, obviously.
Assume they were.
It was like the wokiest of woke people running it.
They'd be like, all right, we want to make a shitload of profit at our stores, so therefore we can donate to reparations causes.
You wouldn't be like, oh, I know what we'll do.
We'll let our whole, all our stores be looted and it'll just be a dump.
Like we won't have a business anymore.
That's the woke thing to do.
God, these people are so dumb.
How could you think that's what anyone would do?
Yeah.
I mean, you can now steal up to $900 in California without getting pinched.
No.
This could destroy Target.
No, that's true.
Every day I steal $900 worth of merchandise from a local California store.
It moved it from a felony to a misdemeanor.
Yeah, which it should be.
Maybe that's the idea.
Riley Gaines is the director of the Riley Gaines Center and an ambassador for the Independent Women's Forum and Madison Allworth's a Fox Business correspondent.
So Riley, are you going to have gay Nutcracker around the Christmas tree this Christmas?
What's my other option?
Well, you have disabled Santa.
Yes, you have black Santa in the wheelchair, and we don't have anything against black Santa or disabled Santa.
I think if Santa has a disability, then that's fine.
Oh, okay.
But why do you think Target is selling this type of merch?
You know what I thought about today?
Back in 2005, Target banned the word Christmas.
The phrase Merry Christmas.
Employees weren't allowed to say it.
No merchandise was allowed to have the word Christmas on it because it implied that, you know, the idea of Christ exists.
Now, I believe that's still in effect.
Who is this nut job, by the way?
I don't remember.
Oh, Riley Gaines?
Yeah, no, so she is a swimmer, right?
She was competing against Leah Thomas, yeah, and we saw her in Lady Ballers over on GAM.
So she's a, you know, B-minus athlete that blamed trans people for her not getting... Because she tied in 5th place with Lea Thomas, yeah.
She would have tied for 4th place?
Or what?
I don't know.
She would have had 5th place by herself, I guess.
Oh, she tied with Lea Thomas.
Oh, okay.
From my recollection, yeah.
She would have gotten that tin medal.
They only give the top three.
And that was division, that was college, right?
Yeah, college.
That wasn't like the Olympics or some shit.
She's out of University of Kentucky.
Hey, isn't that that state where they play Baby It's Cold Outside for two hours?
Maybe she's lost her mind.
- The rain has been rotted by hearing nothing but baby it's cold outside for hours and hours straight. - To have black disabled Santa and a gay nutcracker, it doesn't make sense.
You have to ask yourself, you know, why do they keep pushing this?
Who are they trying to appeal to?
Because despite what the media portrays or how politicians are voting, this doesn't represent the overwhelming majority of how this country, really how the world, feels on this issue.
I think majority of people, parents especially, they can acknowledge that gay nutcracker and black disabled Santa has gone way too far.
Gone too far.
I'm not as upset about it.
I'm not as upset about it either.
Here's the thing.
There are people who collect nutcrackers and like different versions of nutcrackers.
No, they have to collect the same exact one.
It has to be the one white straight With a hard dick just like, ready to fuck female nutcrackers.
There we go.
Yep.
Make little baby nutcrackers.
That's how we're gonna save the human civilization.
That's why the mouth still has the hinging action.
There are people who also don't have kids and buy Christmas decorations because they like Christmas and maybe that's something that they want to have for their house, for their decorations.
Who cares?
Who cares?
You don't even have to go that far.
I hear what you're saying, but it's like, they are a business selling things.
If these didn't sell at all, they would take them off the fucking shelves because contrary to what these idiots think, Target is not a woke corporation.
Yeah.
Every corporation tries to make money.
If they think there's enough people to buy the thing, they'll do the thing.
Sometimes you get a corporation that's like fundamentalist in one way or the other and they try to just make money on a niche audience.
And again, that's their fucking God-given right as an American capitalist fucking oppressor that, you know, that Jesse Watters.
I love how they have to virtue signal that every time.
Well, they're speaking out of every different side of their mouth.
Now, it's okay.
I don't have a problem with this.
But anyway, here's the problem with this.
Like what?
You said you don't have a problem with it.
What does it matter?
What is it?
It's the dog whistling thing.
They just want to say, it's black, but they can't say that.
So it's fine that it's black, but like, it's black though.
And it's just so hilarious too, because, you know, there's this implied sort of situation where that's all that's available to you to buy.
Where like, when you look at the pictures, You can see in the pictures that people are taking themselves and saying like, oh... Yeah, it might as well be Toy Story 2 with all the Buzz Lightyear's... Is that the second one, I think?
Where it's just like Buzz Lightyear's, Buzz Lightyear's in the shelves.
There's like a billion of them.
Yeah.
And then there's like, if you put one gay Buzz Lightyear there, it'd be like, it's the end of the fucking world.
Yeah, that's basically what it looks like.
Like, you can buy whatever you want, and then there's also this option if you like it.
This is their... It's people's whole lives.
Yeah.
It's their whole job, just keep people afraid of nothing.
Yeah.
All the time.
It's depressing.
The gay Nutcracker, I mean, this appeals to children.
The Nutcracker written by a gay composer.
Literally written by a gay composer.
Is this sexualizing Christmas for children?
And how does that, Madison, how does that affect corporate?
No, insisting on a straight Nutcracker with a hard dick, that's not sexualizing Christmas.
But if you make him gay, that's sexualizing it, I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
No, he has to be straight.
He holds a pride flag.
Exactly.
That's sex.
He must like entering another Nutcracker's vagina.
Otherwise, you're sexualizing it, everybody.
Earnings.
Well, Jesse, I think you made a great point, because the reality is, we as consumers have choice.
Now, who's this swimmer?
But what we're seeing in America for the first time on full display... Madison Allworth, did she get seventh?
No, I don't think she's a swimmer.
Okay.
Is that consumers are making choices based off of what they're seeing on the shelves.
When it came to Bud Light, there was a huge pullback.
This summer, Target also saw a pullback during its Pride season.
I mean, they're still making choices like this, so you have to imagine that this is either a direction they want to take and they're ignoring the bottom line, Or maybe it's not having as big of an impact.
But you look at the stock, and you do see it going down.
So you do know that there is an impact.
And you have to wonder, what is the point?
And then you look at the other part of all this, is the crime.
And the CEO actually coming out and saying, he said that they lock up a lot of stuff at Target.
This is something that we see when we go out to our stores.
And they say that customers actually like that.
But they like that they have stuff in stock.
You have to wait.
Wait a second.
You have to wait for it.
I'm getting a lot of mixed messages.
So I thought a second ago they want everyone to steal to do reparations, but now they're locking stuff up.
But now they're locking everything up.
Oh man.
I can order something online and it shows up to my door in a day and I don't have to stand in the target aisle and wait for a product.
You have a real problem there.
I am embarrassed when I go to the store and I want to buy deodorant or maybe another product for my personal hygiene and it's locked up, Riley, and I have to hit a button and then a big beeping sound happens and then all these workers descend upon me and they see what I want and then they judge me.
I don't like that.
I just want to go into the store and grab what I want.
Oh, so then you'd want less security.
It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, no, we're done with that video.
You just can say whatever you want.
The big bad guy that you're making fun of can have any characteristics at any time.
Contrary purposes at any time.
It's just fucking the whole thing's a big pile of steaming fucking bullshit.
Yep.
But you know, all of this research that I did watching all of these ridiculous videos.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, it's okay.
It just makes me want to make Christmas extra special for the kids.
Yeah.
To prove them all wrong.
But one thing that I came across was in 2021, someone who used to work for Fox, Allison Camerata, she actually moved over to CNN years ago.
And in 2021, she talked about how the war on Christmas It's not like it was, you know, just kind of people willy-nilly doing stuff.
She talked about how it's very structured.
It is a very planned, methodical coverage that Fox News does every single year.
And I think maybe there are some people, not Jesse Waters, certainly not Tucker Carlson, not Bill O'Reilly, but there might be some people who like when we've watched the videos and we're like, are they trapped in their bodies?
Like what are they trying to get out?
Are they trying to leave or this isn't making sense?
I think that there probably is an element of this is what's expected.
And so they're having to do this coverage.
And, you know, I don't want to necessarily give excuses to those folks, but I just thought it was really interesting to hear like how purposeful it all is.
It's really directed by Fox at the larger level to perpetuate this imagined war on Christmas year over year.
I think there's only one way to go out.
My dearest Lydia, as I lay here amidst the cold and quiet of a winter's night that seems to stretch endlessly before me, I pen these words with a trembling hand, knowing they may well be my last.
The war on Christmas, a conflict that once seemed so distant and abstract, now clings to me like the frost on these barren fields.
Gone are the days of hopeful resistance, of singing of carols and defiance, decorating our homes as bastions of festive cheer.
The shadows that we once held at bay now loom over us, snuffing out the warm glow of our cherished holiday.
I remember the laughter of children unwrapping gifts, the sound of church bells echoing through the snow-covered streets, the sweet aroma of gingerbread and pine.
But these memories now flicker, like the last embers in a dying fire, overshadowed by the relentless march of those who would see Christmas fade into obscurity.
As my comrades fall all around me, their whispers of Merry Christmas fading into the silent night, I find myself grappling with despair.
The lights of our Christmas trees, once symbols of hope and joy, now seem as distant as the stars above.
In this hour, as the end draws near, I am haunted not by the fear of what awaits me, but by the sorrow of leaving a world where the spirit of Christmas may no longer find a home.
I grieve not for myself, but for the generations to come who may never know the magic of this time of year, the warmth of family gathered around a hearth, the joy of giving and receiving love.
As I gaze upon the snowfall, each flake a testament to the fleeting beauty of life, I hold on to the belief that somewhere, in some corner of our world, the true meaning of Christmas will endure.
That the songs, the stories, the traditions we fought to protect will find a way to blossom anew in the hearts of those who still believe.
To you, my dearest recipient's name, I leave my final words.
Cherish the Christmas spirit.
Keep it alive in your heart and your actions.
Let it be a beacon of hope in dark times.
A reminder of the love and joy that wants to find the season.
As I close my eyes, I take solace in the thought that perhaps, in some small way, our struggle has kept the flame of Christmas burning, even as it flickers in gathering darkness.
With all my love and wishes for a Merry Christmas, your dying soldier's name.
That's a lot to write as you're dying.
Yeah.
I realized that when I did the prompt, but I thought it would work anyway.
Anyway, AI is taking all our jobs.
So we'll see.
Maybe we'll see you next time, or maybe it will be AI Thomas.
And no, I think your job's fine, but mine's gone for sure.
I'll be here with chat GPT.
Make sure to go to patreon.com slash where there's woke to hear the Tom bonus, where we really, that we had a lot of fun with that.
So fun.
We did a video that I think I said is kind of, it lays bare our motivations as warriors against Christmas, you know?
So it really, if you want to take a look in the mirror, in the O'Reilly funhouse mirror of what our motivations are, make sure to check that out.
And thanks to Tom Curry for doing that.
It was a lot of fun.
With that said, have a Merry Christmas!
Ho ho ho!
Merry Christmas!
We'll see you next time.
Bye.
Straight nutcracker with a hard dick.
That's not sexualizing Christmas.
But if you make him gay, that's sexualizing it.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, no, he has to be straight.
It beholds a pride flag.
Yeah, exactly.
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