The Week In Woke

Vegan "butcher" complains has her "vegan butcher shop" goes bankrupt.

Vegan 'butcher' unleashes as business dries up amid surprising new trend: 'We're out of money'

The owner of a once bustling vegan butcher shop in Sydney fears her business will soon close amid an emerging trend away from meat-free products.

The shift has resulted in dozens of vegan restaurants closing, companies that made meat alternatives collapsing and supermarkets shrinking their vegan offerings - though those in the industry have struggled to put a finger on why.

Suzy Spoon has run meat-free butcheries that bear her name in the Sydney suburbs of Marrickville and Newtown for more than a decade but business is drying up.

'Woolworths has reduced our range dramatically and Harris Farm has quartered what they would buy from us before Covid. It's terrible for our business,' the entrepreneur told news.com.au.

'We're out of money. We're out of everything, we're tired.'

She said she has seen other vegan business making a shift to serving up some meat products.

'But I can't do that, because that's just not how I roll. That will never be what I do.'

A shift away from meat had been happening over the last decade. At its peak, one report found that between 2020 and 2023 there was a 47 per cent increase in plant-based meat sales - but over the last two years it seems the bubble has burst.

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A quick browse of the Australian Vegan Reddit thread showed that its being noticed by those who adhere to the diet.

'What happened? For a little while it was awesome being vegan in Australia. But the last few years have been brutal,' one person said.

See if you can psychically divine what this "Suzy Spoons" pyrsyn might look like.

Do you have an image in your mind's eye?

Pete Hegseth fired Benghazi cover-up architect Susan Rice. As well as all the other leftists bitterly clinging to power in the DOD.

Why the hell was she still on "advisory boards" with access to Pentagon officials?

Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello

BREAKING NEWS

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended the service of all committee members on DOD advisory committees.

This would include the seat held by Susan Rice.

Hegseth thanked the members for their work but said changes are needed to align with the department's new goals and to use resources more effectively.

You probably know that when the White House began investigating the leaks of top-secret information to leftwing "news" outlets, one group of suspected culprits were all the Obama/Biden appointees hanging on to "advisory" board positions.

They've now all been fired. Thank goodness.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Good move. There are thousands of committees that take up a lot of time without clear accomplishments.

A reset was needed.

Surprise! Adam Carolla was right when he said that California would slow-roll approvals for rebuilding the houses the city and state conspired to destroy, and Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome were lying when they said they'd accelerate the permitting process.

Months after the catastrophic wildfires that devastated large swaths of Southern California, Los Angeles--under Democrat leadership--continues to lag in its rebuilding efforts. Despite President Donald Trump's swift declaration of a national emergency and promises to waive federal red tape, city officials have only approved a fraction of the necessary rebuilding permits.

Key Details:

As of late April, just 23 rebuilding permits have been issued in Pacific Palisades, where 5,619 structures were damaged or destroyed.

President Trump declared a national emergency within days of his inauguration and pledged to waive all federal permits to speed up rebuilding.

California Assembly Leader James Gallagher blames Governor Newsom and Democrat lawmakers for dragging their feet despite federal action.

John Cusack, who seems to be learning disabled, claimed that MAGA crucified Jesus or something.

John Cusack @johncusack

Happy Easter - Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day...

Happy Easter

Does this developmentally-disabled adult know what "calculation" even means?

Terrorist propaganda organization the AP lost its motion to compel Trump to restore its previous unearned privileges.

A federal judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a new White House press policy that downgrades The Associated Press to the same status as newspapers, eliminating the wire service's previously privileged access to the president.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee who had earlier ruled that the White House unlawfully discriminated against AP for declining to use the term "Gulf of America," said the revised policy appears to be viewpoint neutral.

"I'm not inclined to see anything wrong with it," said McFadden during a Friday hearing.

The new policy places reporters from the Associated Press--along with those from Bloomberg and Reuters--on equal footing with newspaper outlets like The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Under the revised rules, AP photographers will also hold the same status as other photojournalists.
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As a result, AP reporters will now join the rotating pool of journalists who cover the president's daily activities. With dozens of outlets in the rotation, this means AP will receive special access less than once a month, on par with the newspapers.

Ugly charisma vacuum Pedro Pascal once again showed that Disney allows leftwing firebrands to alienate as much as the public as they like while also firing Gina Carano for saying that the Nazis began their campaign of hatred by first normalizing the hatred of one neighbor for another.

That's not the real reason they fired her. They fired her because she wouldn't bend to the trans mafia and post her pronouns.

But Disney didn't want to admit that they fired a popular actress for not obeying the corporate line on constant promotion of transgenderism for children, so they claimed that Carano's warning about the Nazi campaign of hate was some kind of attack on the Jews.

Really.

Anyway, here's the guy who's about to lose his career after Fantastic Four makes $60 million in its opening weekend:

Pedro Pascal blasted author J.K. Rowling for her latest trans tweets, calling the author a "heinous loser" in a comment on Instagram.

The Last of Us star was responding to a post by activist Tariq Ra'ouf, who criticized the author for celebrating the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's landmark ruling last week that trans women should not be recognized as women and that "sex" should legally mean biological sex.

Rowling had posted, "I love it when a plan comes together," along with noting to a critic, "I get the same royalties whether you read [my books] or burn them. Enjoy your marshmallows!"

Wrote Pascal in the comment section of Ra'ouf's post: "Awful disgusting SHIT is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behavior."

In related news, Pedro Pascal's skin looks exactly like an aerial photograph of Dresden in June 1945.

BTW, Gina Carano is obtaining information about how much Disney pays Pedro Pascal. She wants to show the court how much Disney will pay someone for following their corporate political line.

Gina Carano is getting the salaries she's looking for.

A federal judge has ruled that the mixed martial arts fighter turned actor will be allowed to see compensation information for other stars in the "Star Wars" universe on Disney+, including Pedro Pascal, Diego Luna, and Rosario Dawson.

The April 3 ruling came in a lawsuit Carano filed against Disney over her termination from the "Star Wars" spinoff show "The Mandalorian" after two seasons.

Disney announced in 2021 that Carano wouldn't return to the show for a third season after she had made social media posts comparing political conservatives in America to Jews in the Holocaust, questioning the results of the 2020 election and the use of masks during the coronavirus pandemic, and using the pronouns section of her Twitter (now known as X) page to mock transgender people.

Carano's lawsuit, which was funded by X owner Elon Musk, accuses Disney of violating California labor laws by firing her because of her political views. Disney says the company has creative control over which characters it discontinues as well as a First Amendment right to disassociate itself from Carano's views.

As part of the lawsuit, Carano's attorneys asked for salary information related to a constellation of other stars in "Star Wars" shows on Disney's streaming service.

They said the information was crucial for calculating damages if Carano were to win her lawsuit.

Carano's lawyers also argued Disney should be forced to disclose salary information for the lead actors of other "Star Wars" shows -- such as Amandla Stenberg and Luna -- because Carano had been set to star in a "Mandalorian" spinoff titled "Rangers of the New Republic" before Disney fired her.

US Magistrate Judge Steve Kim ruled in Carano's favor, ruling that Disney needed to turn over a spreadsheet or chart of the compensation Pascal, Dawson, and the costar Carl Weathers received for the first three seasons of "The Mandalorian," Dawson's salary for "The Book of Boba Fett" and the first two seasons of "Ahsoka," Stenberg's salary for "The Acolyte," and the compensation Luna received for the first two seasons of "Andor."

Remember, California passed a law to protect communists. The law says that employers cannot punish employees for political speech. If it protects dirty filthy communists, it also protects nice Catholic girls like Gina Carano.

Western Lensman @WesternLensman

The plan we're watching play out:

Overload the country with as many unvetted illegals as possible, by any means necessary.

Know that mobilization of resources and enforcement operations to remove them would be extraordinarily daunting.

Rely on heavily funded leftwing legal groups and activist courts to delay, obstruct and impede deportations at every possible turn --

-- in an attempt to nullify the election result and override Americans' overwhelming desire for deportations, while looking to enshrine millions of illegals permanently into the country, reshaping congressional apportionment and securing future voter blocs for the Democrat party.

In parallel, utilize that same set of lawfare groups and activist judges to fight any and all election security measures, such as implementing voter ID and stopping non-citizen voting.

And, of course, count on their legacy media PR arm to run information ops and secrete a never-ending deluge of propaganda to run cover for it all.

The end goal being: Single-party, permanent power.

If Kamala would've won, the borders would have remained open, and mass importation would've continued. Game over.

Because Trump won, and the border closed -- the judicial contingency has been implemented.

That's where we are now.

The plan stays in motion, as they attempt to run out the clock on Trump 47.

Firealarm-puller and antisemite Jamaal Bowman says that the NFL is rigged against black players.

BLM influencer calls for "hunting" whites and piling up their bodies on the floor.

An illegal alien captured, but then released into the country again by Biden, forcibly sodomized a 13-year-old boy. No big deal, just a kid exposed to AIDS who will have permanent trauma. I hope the somewhat-lower costs to trim the verge on your mansions was worth it!

Hope this was worth it, too!

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

EXCLUSIVE: The families of two teens killed by an illegal alien who crashed into them while drunk, high, & speeding at 100 mph in OC in 2021 have been told by the state of CA that their killer will be released from prison early in July, just 3.5 years into a 10-year sentence for killing the teens, who both burned alive.

Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a twice deported Mexican illegal alien, had a lengthy rap sheet prior to killing 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev & Nikolay Osokin in the DUI crash on the 405 freeway in Seal Beach in November 2021. Both were US citizens, and they were dating. Ortega-Anguiano had several felony convictions, had gone to state prison, and had multiple convictions for driving without a license, but was still on the streets when he crashed into the teens' vehicle.

In spring of 2022, Ortega-Anguiano was convicted in OC of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for killing the teens, and a judge sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison for each count, but concurrently, meaning he would serve both 10-year-sentences at the same time.

The victims' families felt that was already a weak sentence, but they tell me they were notified by the CA Department of Corrections on Easter Sunday that Ortega-Anguiano is scheduled for an early release on July 19th, 2025, only a little more than 3 years into his sentence, leaving the victims' families shocked, and outraged given the seriousness of the crime and his prior criminal history. They provided us the CDCR document showing the July 19th release date.

The CA Department of Corrections wouldn't confirm the release date when I reached out, saying they "cannot provide information on an incarcerated person's release date or location in advance of their release." They added that "incarcerated persons may earn credits for participating in rehabilitative programming, which may move parole eligible dates to an earlier date.

ICE confirms to @FoxNews that they have placed a detainer on Ortega-Anguiano with the CA Dept of Corrections and intend to take him into custody upon his release. They hope the CA Dept. of Corrections will honor the detainer request and transfer him to their custody upon his release, which they often do. But the families fear, even if he is deported, he will just re-enter the US as a gotaway, as he's done twice before.

Noted Astronaut Katie Perry has hit the Demented Bag-Lady Madonna phase of her career faster than I ever would have guessed.

Of course True Conservative David French agrees with them.

The noodle-armed wokescold attacks the "anti-woke right" for making his LGBT allies sad.

This pathetic cuck opened up his dicksucker to complain about the right's anti-speech efforts.

Remember, this pansy called drag queen story hours for children "a blessing of liberty," so that's his default setting.

All of this has been obvious for some time. Or, another way to put it is that Ron DeSantis walked so that Donald Trump could run. When the time came to formulate a policy response to the woke left, no one mattered more than the governor of Florida.

He tried to ban critical race theory in education. He sharply limited discussion of gender and sexuality in public schools. He tried to limit the free speech of university professors. He retaliated against Disney when it had the audacity to exercise its freedom of speech to criticize the governor's policies.

And through it all, DeSantis declared that Florida was the place where "woke goes to die."

In his second term, Trump is a scaled-up version of DeSantis. Every element of the DeSantis model has been deployed against Trump's ideological enemies. Trump retaliated against law firms based on politics. He's attacking the academic freedom and independence of private universities. He's sweeping immigrants off the street based on nothing more than the content of their speech.

Precious few anti-woke activists objected to DeSantis's tactics. And precious few object to Trump today. It turns out that when they said, "Let us speak," they weren't embracing free speech as a universal value, but rather as an instrumental value -- free speech is important only so long as they get to say what they think.

The left? It's too dangerous to be heard.

He continually fails to note that the speech being "controlled" here is the speech of paid employees of the state "teaching" children.

He thinks woke teachers have an unassailable right to fly their freak flags for other people's children. He's in favor of censoring rightist speech so that adults can't hear it, but when right-leaning people forbid radicals to indoctrinate children on the taxpayer's dime (and therefore rightly subject to oversight by the government cutting their checks), he claims their speech rights are absolute.

We must protect adults from hearing Trumpian claims, but children? Feel free to talk about anal dildos and polyamory with them.

Like other hard left-wing propaganda organizations, the Dispatch is offering up the canard, "Well, some of the most extremist left-wingers accuse us of not being left-wing enough, therefore, we must be down-the-middle centrist."

Mollie Hemingway isn't having that:

Diagnosable moron Jasmine Ratchet appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's Unfunny Sweaty Propaganda Hour to declare that Elon Musk is an "idiot" and she wants to take head-to-head IQ tests to prove that she's as smart as the guy sending Corvettes to f***ing Mars.

Trump doesn't agree that Jasmine Ratchet is smarter than Musk:

"It's just so bad. Their policy is so bad," Trump said, shaking his head. "You know, they're great at cheating, and they're great at certain things, but they are so bad on policy, they're so far off."

Trump pointed out the absurdity of the Democrats clinging to the same losing strategies that already cost them a major election defeat. "When I watched them trying to prosecute the same things that just lost an election in a landslide on, and they're still going through the same things. It's just crazy," he said. "And they don't know who their leaders are."

Turning to the party's emerging figures, Trump singled out Crockett.

"They have a new one, Crockett. Have you seen Crockett? Have you ever seen her talk? This is going to be their leader?" he asked incredulously.

Beck joked that he hoped Crockett would be the next Democratic presidential candidate, to which Trump responded with a mix of amusement and concern.

"Well, we can hope in one way," Trump said, "but in another way, it's pretty demeaning. It's demeaning to our country. You don't see anybody out there."

Video at the link.

This classic deserves a repost:

posted by Ace at 06:10 PM

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