No one is immune to the predations of the woke mob — not even the Queen of Soul. She has been politely asked — that means ordered — to no longer sing her signature hit (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman… because the non-natural woman lobby find it offensive. And another conservative is born. Zo Rachel has the sad and stupid story.
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Their whole point isn’t just to celebrate love. Their whole point is to force acceptance of perversion by trying to equate it to traditional marriage by saying “love is love.”
Unless and until we start growing spines and saying no to these toddler tyrants who have anointed themselves the arbiters of what we should accept as a society, they will destroy the nuclear family so the state can become mommy and daddy to us all.
The left is already usurping parental authority in public school with regard to gender transitioning and vaccines, saying they know what’s best and threatening to jail parents who disagree while giving children the right to go to the school for approval of life-altering decisions behind the backs of their parents.
Gender-transitions and vaccines are the first of many issues the state will use to rip children from their parents. Here’s one. “Hey we need to put a chip in your child’s head for their protection! Sorry not sorry if you disagree. You don’t want anything to happen to little Johnny now do you? We could get child protective services involved or you could just sign here indicating your ‘consent.'”
As with everything else, the left never “just wants” anything. This particular instance with music, as with sports and other entertainment, also benefits them by dividing us over things that used to unite us.
There’s no “gender spectrum” any more than there is a gay gene. We used to follow the actual science before changing societal norms after a period of robust debate. We need to get back to that standard.
And what’s with the new release schedule? It’s like you guys are trying to cut viewership
BB – they are now shooting twice a week releasing every other day. But Bill is also doing the uploading and is hip deep in DW shooting this week. So they are not coming out every day. They still have a few bugs to work out.
I figured there had to be a reason – thanks
For shame! Trying to cancel Matt “Guitar” Murphy’s wife, where will it end?!?
I’m sure Jake and Elwood are as incensed as the rest of us!
Did Steve just say “gay friend” and “I pulled that one out of my butt” in the same sentence?
Edit?! 🙂
You caught that, too, eh? 😀
Lady Soul, the album (the what?) on which this song appeared, was recorded at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, AL. The backing band was the Swampers, a group of AL boys who had great talent. Such great talent that Motown artists went there to get that great, black sound. Then were surprised when these locals were there.
Rolling Stones, too.
Watch the excellent documentary “Muscle Shoals” and see that truly, musicians didn’t care what color your skin was, they cared do you have chops.
On your personal recommendation I watched “Muscle Shoals” and enjoyed it greatly. Anyone who is interested in the music of our time would also enjoy it.
As I watched it I found myself wishing everyone who today makes an issue of skin color would watch it too. There was no racism, deep in the heart of Alabama, demonstrated by these very local musicians who could not but help being products of their social environment. This speaks to the lack of actual virulent destructive racism even in the deep, deep South in those days. The situation has only improved since then. ‘Muscle Shoals’ and The Swampers gives the lie to the absurd nonsense the Left is foisting upon us today.
Glad you liked it and thanks for trust.
Yep, that was a really good documentary … The Wrecking Crew is a good one, too. Similar group of people on the LA scene from the 60’s through the 70’s.
I will have to look at that one, too.
Now you’d THINK … that the trans “community” – especially the male-to-female subset — would LOVE this song. And I’ll BET — that it does.
And it’s not really about Aretha – it’s about attacking a well-loved song that has become cemented in the culture as iconic … again, as I’ve been saying in other comments, to drive a wedge between a people and their culture. To make them question it, doubt it — to lose their faith in it.
You need to start using wording that is awkward to you (and frankly to everyone else, too) so that WE can tell that you’re saying “how high?” when we say “JUMP!” We WANT you to feel uncomfortable in your own culture.
We will make speech a crime. Anything you say can and will be used against you, because WE can rationalize how it is “oppressive” — no matter what it is you say.
Woke. A religion of all sin and no redemption.
“Woke. A religion of all sin and no redemption.”
Well put. It occurred to me that the reason the authoritarian Democrats never apologize—and they owe us a big one for their COVID fearmongering, mandates, lockdowns, shamings and firings…none of which really followed the science—is that they think we’ll withhold forgiveness like they do.
Yet another episode getting posted to only one of the Rumble channels…and not the one with the most followers. Is it Rumble, or are you guys dropping the ball on this one?
It seems that they’ve changed their procedure, and they are mum about the details or reasoning. Unfortunately, this has the potential to reduce the viewer counts for newer videos, since it is likely that some of the large-channel-subscribers subscribers are not BWDC members. That said, I’m sure it doesn’t matter much given that the members and the YT audience are the primary targets.
BlueTube…there’s yer problem…it’s an addiction. I broke it like I broke my TV addiction, over 15 years ago.
But last week, Bill sent me a letter about the issues they’ve had, saying he was “get more involved with the post-content content at BillWhittle.com”. But him being absent for the shows this week, IDK. I wouldn’t read too much into the changes though…seems to me, they’re just trying to keep it fresh.
Anyway, like Crowder, I’m not playing that BlueTube game…and I wouldn’t support anyone who does. It’s fine if content creators use BlueTube for reach purposes and all that, but if they bend to their control, they’ve lost their very souls.
YT is not “my problem” as you claim. I do believe you’ve missed my primary point. If you look at the larger Rumble Channel, there have been no new video additions for a few weeks while the smaller Channel has been continuously updated. This change, for which you’ve commented, coincides with Mr. Whittle’s recent declaration that he was getting more involved. Needless to say, there’s been a policy change regarding the day-to-day operations.
Bill had to cut back on editorial staff due to money shortage. He took over those duties, AFAICT and he’s trying to figure it out.
David, send Bill a message pointing out that 2 Rumble channels exist. If Bill is intentionally only posting to one channel, then he can promote the one he is posting to as the channel to subscribe to.
Editorial staff? I thought it was just the guys, and maybe their wives. Scott being the webmaster. As for the rest, that’s utterly ridiculous…if that’s his actual intent. They were posting the same shows on both. To stop posting on one to promote the other would be idiotic. And Bill made no comment in his email from the “backroom”, as to the reason he’s getting more involved…but money does seem to be the primary motivation in the shortcuts they’ve been taking with the Backstage show.
I messaged Scott about the problem the other day, no reply as yet.
Good suggestion. I did so. Now we wait and see what happens.
I asked, and Bill answered. The recent uploads are now on both of the BillWhittle Rumble channels. All is right with the World of BWDC now.
No, I got your primary point. I just honed in on a larger issue that was secondary in your comment.
The, “there’s yer problem” comment is just a catchphrase used by the Mythbusters, when the cause of a problem becomes overwhelmingly obvious…for humorous effect.
Which reminds me of glitch here. When we get replies here, you click the bell, and the sidebar opens with the link to the reply. When ever you reply, and this only happens with yours…it fills the whole sidebar with your notification…lol.
Not relevant, but noteworthy.
I’ve seen that bug for more than 6 months. For many commenters — including you and ACTS (TM). In fact, it’s a rare commenter that does not fill my siderbar. It’s interesting that you only observe it connected to mine. Since I continue to observe this bug on multiple OSes (Windows7, Windows 10, Linux, Android) and browsers (Edge, Chrome, Firefox), I assume it is a bug with the WordPress scripts on this web site. Confused yet? The inconsistent experiences you and I have just increases the confusion and mystery.
Brian didn’t ‘miss your primary point’, he ignored it because in his mind you’re wrong if you don’t agree with him. You cannot discuss things like this with people like that because he has an agenda he’s fully committed to and he’s never going to concede any points that don’t support his agenda …
Sound familiar? What Brian does is a form of conservative-sounding virtue signalling and closed minded willfulness every bit as virulent as the same sorts of tactics employed by the Left. Brian is a conservative sounding albatross around our necks.
Obviously Bill Whittle and Co. are not malicious to the Conservative cause. Obviously they do not do things that will do more harm than good to Conservatism. Sometimes that involves choosing the lesser evil or doing what balances out a greater good against a lesser bad. They make business decisions based on what will best get the conservative message out to the most people. Business decisions that are based on what is best for BillWhittle.com which IS what will best get the conservative message out to the most people.
What’s good for BillWhittle.com is what’s good for the Conservative cause. At the end of the day, that’s why most of us are subscribers here. For my part, this is the only Conservative outlet that I subscribe to. This enterprise is what I consider to be the very best of its genre. My financial resources are quite limited so this is one of the very few subscriptions I have — period. I don’t know or care if the folks who operate this enterprise understand what that means. I’m just grateful to be here.
Bill has explained the YouTube vs. Rumble vs. xyz situation many times in TSL and in other content. Ad nauseum. Because of people like Brian. Which for some unfathomable reason Bill tends in his good natured heart to want to explain his motives to such people.
Brian doesn’t care about ‘the message’ or how many people it reaches or how it reaches as many people as it can. Brian wants to punish YouTube and advance Rumble. When Bill Whittle and Co. do not do that the way he wants he whines about it. In his way of thinking he’s a better conservative than all of us, including the operators of this enterprise, because if it were up to him not only would BillWittle.com only ever post to Rumble, they would post to Rumble in exactly the manner he demands of them.
If it were a personal bias against YouTube wherein Brian wanted to ONLY view this content on Rumble so as not to give even his miniscule, insignificant traffic to YouTube out of some weird self-deluded misguided ‘principle’ — Then it’s there on Rumble for him to view to his heart’s content. Bill Whittle and Co. even link nearly every single post here on the website to Rumble even though it’s also on YouTube. But that isn’t good enough for the likes of Brian so he whines if they don’t post to Rumble in the manner he demands.
No, Bill Whittle and Co. didn’t post this video to Rumble the way he wants them to so here you are arguing with an albatross. While that albatross calls you names and accuses you of some ridiculous ‘addiction’ to support his views. You’ve done nothing to merit such treatment from such a useless bird.
Just this week I transitioned a client of mine from their Web Host’s email system to Google Workspace. The Web Host’s email system was more suitable to selling trinkets on Etsy or Pinterest than serving a multimillion-dollar-a-year-gross-income business. They were having a lot of problems with their email flow that the Web Host could not or would not fix. (No DKIM, DMARC, SPF etc. to name a few problems.)
I didn’t do this to support Google or strike a blow against Conservatism any more than Bill Whittle and Co. post content to YouTube for that reason. I did this because Google Workspace was the best available platform to meet my client’s needs at a price they can afford and feel good about.
I did this to best support the people who pay me for support as their IT contractor. I did this for my client, not for Google or any nonsense like that. Google Workspace just happened to be the best fit to get my client where they needed to be and my decision was based solely on the needs of my client.
It’s the same thing here on BillWhittle.com. What these people do is what best fits their mission of advancing the cause of Conservatism. I have full confidence in them and applaud their endeavors whatever form they take. I would never, ever dream of telling them how to operate their enterprise.
I would also never dream that they would “lose their very souls” simply because of arbitrary conditions I set for them and they remain unheedful of those conditions.
That’s egocentrism, bald-faced and obvious.
I’m the way I am because of something I learned in the Marines. It’s called being “Mission Oriented” and has served me as well in civilian life as it did in the military.
When the enterprise operators do something that doesn’t fit Brian’s agenda he whines about it as if he were somehow the guiding conscience of this enterprise. As if he’s the sole arbiter of all things best for Conservatism and the advancement thereof.
He’s not. He’s not even close. He’s just a member here that pays his tiny little subscription so he can view this content and virtue signal in the comments about how self-righteous he is.
Brian has traded one ‘addiction’ for another and then throws stones at people who refuse to do the same. He makes self-righteous claims about his new addiction. This is the same thing as a drug addict forsaking street drugs for prescription drugs and then waxing all self-righteous about that choice. Brian is a self admitted drug addict and this behavior is quite common in such people. It’s the phenomena referred to in the subject of alcoholism as being a ‘dry drunk’. Which is a drunk who doesn’t drink but could never bring himself to address the issues that led him to alcohol addiction in the first place.
In the world of drug addicts this is also known as being a ‘straight stoner’. Lose the drugs, keep the stinkin’ thinkin’.
Addicts are people whose progress to maturity was arrested when their addiction took hold of them. They never advance past that point unless they lose the stinkin’ thinkin’ too. It’s not a matter of just abandoning the chemicals, it’s a matter of abandoning the personality and thought defects that brought them to chemicals in the first place. They remain internally puerile.
A major symptom of this is their inability to abandon a major aspect of childishness known as ‘egocentricity’. Which is simply their view that the world revolves around them, a child’s view of the world. This gets disguised and masked but it is never really resolved. Thus when Brian said …
“BlueTube…there’s yer problem…it’s an addiction.”
… he was unable to avoid following that absurdity with a boast about himself. The world revolves around his ego. Aware or not, knowingly or not, he’s telling us all how wonderful he is and that we should all do as he does.
Brian knows a lot about addiction, he’s an addict whether he still abuses substances or not. He’s the only addict of the so far three of us in this thread. Addicts commonly anthropomorphize and project their own issues on others and that’s why you’ll see him accuse people of being addicts themselves. He knows a lot about addiction but only his own.
This is how dry drunks and straight stoners get through their day — By telling themselves that they’ve at heart really ‘good people’ and those who have not trod the path of addiction and stopped abusing substances are all secretly addicted to something and are lesser beings than themselves.
This is why Brian called you an addict.
(As it turns out I know quite a bit about addiction too. When I left the military I spent some of my GI Bill learning to counsel addicts with the goal of joining a Prison Ministry outreach. It didn’t take long, knowing what I had learned, to realize that was not a calling for me. My bullshit tolerance is way too low to do that kind of work. The only reason I’m telling you this is incase you might be wondering why I know so much about addiction if I’m not myself an addict. Now you know.)
Arguing with this type is futile. Lord knows I’ve tried in my most reasonable and respectful manner and all I get from such types is shallow rationalization, insults and childish memes (online). All of their reasoning is egocentric even if they don’t know it, which is really no reasoning at all. It’s pure rationalization.
That’s pretty much all you’re going to get too.
You can try to make him see actual reason all you like. That’s certainly your prerogative. He might even seem to agree with you on minor points but that’s just a ploy.
Don’t be a bit surprised if Brian replies to me with more of his vituperate imbecility in the form of rationalization about why I’m wrong and he’s right and/or some childish memes that he thinks show how clever he is. That’s what he does and that’s all he does.
It’s not a matter of which of us is right and which is wrong, it’s a matter of scope. Brian’s scope is extremely narrow and self-serving. He doesn’t care about ‘the message’, he only cares about Brian. If ‘the message’ were his primary concern he wouldn’t whine when other people don’t do things the way he wants them to. Brian is not even a tiny bit mission oriented though he probably thinks he is.
If this were a matter of his own personal principles then there’s no need at all to watch Bill Whittle content on anything but Rumble. It’s none of his business which Rumble account content posts to or why it is posted there, it’s there for him to avoid YouTube in any event. Whatever reasons the enterprise operators base their choices on are their own. They are not answerable to Brian and owe him no explanations at all.
They are not children though Brian is and sees everyone else as children too.
This is all I have to say on this matter and I’m not going to argue with him or those like him either. The best thing I’ve ever found to do about such people is to ignore them. They’re not worth my time but you are so that’s why I’m giving you this lengthy ‘heads up’. Please take this in the edifying spirit I intended it to be.
TSL … that would be why I missed it. Unlike Bill, it seems, I gotta sleep sometime. 😉
Aaargh! No DMARC, I am having the same problems with my current personal email configuration. A change is in order, but I am lazy.
HARSH! In the context of this particular thread, I think that Brian, like me, is looking for some consistency. I probably lean into “the spectrum” because I’m an engineer (Or is it the other way around? I can’t get that detail straight.<grin/>), so consistent and complete implementation is relevant to me. Hence, my commentary. I tend to give that same grace and consideration to others’ comments about subjects like this one. I just ignored the implied ad hominem of “addict”, because its rebuttal served no purpose to my comments — plus, I can rely upon you <wink/> in this forum.
I did notice and laughed at the congruity of your response in the context of the video title: “No R.E.S.P.E.C.T.“
If this were the only comment Brian has ever made on this topic you might have a point. He’s exhibited a pattern of sticking his nose into this kind of thing and thus the ‘harsh’ nature of my opinion of what he has to say. Taken piecemeal you might think he has a point. I don’t, because I have had quite a lot of experience arguing with Brian about keeping his nose out of the operational aspects of the BWC enterprise.
Brian makes a great foil to demonstrate the absurdity of solely using Rumble as a content outlet so that other people can see why that’s not a good idea.
You’re concerned and trying to make helpful suggestions out of an altruistic desire to see this enterprise succeed. Your position is not the egocentric flatulence of a drug addict’s agenda and pseudo-conservative virtue signalling. The same things cannot be said of Brian.
Brian can say whatever he wants but that doesn’t exempt him from the consequences of what he says. Nor does an attempt to sound reasonable in one out of several comments where he whines about Rumble and YouTube. Mostly I just ignore him because I don’t really care what he thinks on any given topic. I didn’t this time because you engaged him and in doing so unwillingly leant a degree of legitimacy to his whining.
Bill and the rest of his staff are not stupid people. However they choose to do things I’m very confident that they have good reasons for their methods. Reasons that may not be apparent to us and obviously are not going to be satisfactory to Brian.
Brian is never going to get his way with his Rumble/YouTube problem. Unless he can come up with enough money to buy this enterprise and then he can run things however he likes. In that event I won’t be here to tell him to mind his own business.
As for your DMARC email issues … Google Workspace only costs $6 a month per email account so you might consider that as a remedy to the mail verification, blacklisting and filtering problems you’re experiencing. It’s not the best platform but it’s the most bang for the buck.
But it’s Google even so. People that think spitting in Google’s eye for spite is an effective tactic would still not use it. I’m using it in the above mentioned case to support a very conservative, Christian business and business owner. Which is using Google’s own resources against its ideology and I get a giggle out of that. For $6 a month per email account. This is a prime example of the difference between fighting and fighting effectively.
Not a direct Sun Tzu quote, but use the enemies own weapons against him.
And giggling is not inappropriate.
Inappropriate giggling is a vice of mine. Another of my character faults like not tolerating imbecility, mocking stupidity and an inordinate satisfaction at the sound of a mousetrap being sprung ending the life of yet another small vermin.
I know I should restrain myself but I just can’t manage to drum up the strength to resist such baser impulses. 🙂
Favorite quote Sun Tzu quote: “Where you are strong, appear weak. Where you are weak, appear strong. ”
Or as Admiral Ackbar said: “it’s a trap!” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA
I always preferred this one …
“Fix bayonets and get the kickers and the floppers, boys.”
–Me*, somewhere in the Middle East, sometime in the early 1980’s.
Mercy comes in many forms. Some of which are not for the squeamish.
*(That may not be original to me, I can’t remember if I’d heard it before. Could be something GySgt W. Tribble said before me. He was a Marines Marine greatly admired and may God rest his not-so-gentle soul.)
Took me about 15 seconds to get your fix the bayonets quote. The reference to mercy may not be for the squeamish did it for me.
Use bayonets to dispatch (give mercy) to the wounded and dying, but not waste the ammo.
IDK what ACTS is rambling about. I stopped reading his replies back when you, and several others warned me about him. He rambles on his tirades, and with my severe ADHD, I don’t have the patience to read his drivel.
I did catch him accusing me of having an agenda, and ignoring your point. Which is patently false. As I was warned, he likes to start trouble. God bless, and stay Bold.
Addendum:
Your commentary was perfectly in order and aligned with your stated correct goals, BTW. You don’t need and likely don’t care a bit about my approval but what I said was not directly in application to your comments nor about you or the way you go about conveying your ideas.
As far as R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is concerned, that’s something that must be earned and is not automatically bestowed upon a person for no greater reason than that they draw breath and can get out of bed in the morning.
The idea of automatic respect is for gangbangers and criminals. What they really mean by that is “fear me and call it respect or I’ll shoot you”. Then they die with a surprised look on their faces when you shoot them first.
It is usually the least respectable that call most loudly to be respected. They must make that demand because respect is not something they are worthy of. For everyone else, for those who are actually respectable, no demands need be made.
Demanding respect is a tell. Like when someone says “trust me …”. Sometimes that’s so and you should but that’s a judgement call. More often than not someone who says “trust me …” isn’t trustworthy or they wouldn’t have to make the demand that you trust them. Whenever someone says that my ears prick up and I start looking for reasons why I should not trust them.
Used car salesmen will usually work “trust me …” into the conversation early.
You and I have been a little prickly with each other in the far past. You stood your ground and thinking about what you’re saying I came to realize that we were seeing things from a different perspective with different experiences shaping our own particular perceptions. While both yours and mine were equally valid, just different. You are a person worthy of respect. Because of how you comport yourself you merit respect without ever needing to demand it. So you have earned my respect because that’s who you are, someone worthy of being respected even if in a given instance I don’t agree with you or what you say.
I’ve gone through my entire adult life with this particular attitude towards who does and does not deserve my respect. It’s a pretty simple system for learning about people you run into online or IRL. Simple and reliable.
Once I’ve made the determination that someone is worthy of respect they get the benefit of the doubt from me and are thereafter treated as equals if not strictly peers. I probably would not fit well in your peer group and I can say that from experience from attempting to fit into peer groups I should not. It’s no shame to anyone if they don’t exactly fit well into mine. I have very few real peers who can understand the way I think and why I think this way.
Because I’m a genuine born-again hardass. See my comment about people with surprised looks on their faces above. That’s not an idle or speculative observation and I’m not being an internet tough guy.
Brian is not such a person. When I’ve tried to engage him as I did you in the past he just acts like a child. I do not respect grown men who behave childishly so … No respect for Brian. Only disdain and mockery. He’s not the only one here who makes that scale with me but he’s the one I was talking about above.
There are people who by the way they present themselves automatically merit my respect without any need to try them to see what they’ll do. Harry Ferguson, Ron SAE and others fall into that category. It’s been a long time since I’ve been wrong about someone in this manner so I trust my own judgement.
That capacity of my personal judgement was not arrived at capriciously or arbitrarily. I have developed that by long experience and considerable thought. There are people that are trustworthy that I don’t like and people that are untrustworthy that I do like. I can even like someone who I don’t hold a lot of respect for because I’m very well aware that most people are nothing like me and it’s unfair to hold them to my own standards. I just know where I stand with each sort as far as my own opinion of them is concerned.
Then there are people like Brian who are not worthy of either respect or trust and those people I do not like even a tiny bit. That was also a hard lesson learned but one I will never forget.
Well, now you’ve gone and inadvertently-mentioned the POTATO-in-Chief <grin/>, which reminds me of a pictorial description of “Build Back Better”, in which a person spray paints his exposed big toe black to match the worn shoe from which it protrudes. Nothing but window dressing loudly demanding respect. “Not a joke!”
LOL, exactly. I’ve noticed that Tater-Head Joe says “trust me” quite often. The problem is that hard as I try I cannot think of a single reason why we should.
I have an agenda? Would you tell me what it is? Wait, that’s right, I don’t care what you think.
YYSSW. You forgot to post one of your dumb, childish memes.
Oops, my bad…