New video evidence surrounding the transport of illegal aliens to California from New Mexico could compel Gov. Gavin Newsom to eat crow.
In the videos, released to Fox News by the Florida Department of Emergency Management, illegals expressed their happiness at reaching the "sanctuary state."
Newsom on Monday had accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of "kidnapping" migrants flown to Sacramento days before the video evidence was released.
"We made it to California! Thank God! Very thankful to God!" one of the migrants said, according to a clip released by the agency.
BREAKING: Florida officials confirm to @FoxNews that FL flew migrants to California. They say the migrants went voluntarily, gave verbal & written consent, & provided video appearing to show migrants signing waivers, celebrating as they arrive, & saying they were treated well. pic.twitter.com/2RYYqVEjqD
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 6, 2023
Other illegals shown in the footage laud the way they were treated, saying, in Spanish, that they had been treated "super well."
Newsom referred to DeSantis as a "small, pathetic man" in a Twitter post published Monday.
.@RonDeSantis you small, pathetic man.
This isn't Martha's Vineyard.
Kidnapping charges?
Read the following. https://t.co/kvuxe8Fb6F pic.twitter.com/KyE1lJiIYo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 5, 2023
The Florida Department of Emergency Management defended the state's program to relocate illegals in response to Newsom's allegations, asserting that the individuals transported were moved on a purely voluntary basis.
The agency contracted with a group that works with the federal government to provide services to illegals.
In a statement, FLDEM questioned why Newsom targeted Florida's program without mentioning similar programs run by Democrats.
"Florida's voluntary relocation is precisely that -- voluntary," said the statement, posted to Twitter by Julio Rosas, senior writer for Townhall.
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"From left-leaning mayors in El Paso, Texas, and Denver, Colorado, the relocation of those illegally crossing the United States border is not new. But suddenly, when Florida sends illegal aliens to a sanctuary city, it's false imprisonment and kidnapping."
Story with more details ——> https://t.co/iMeTPVAQEb
Statement from FL's Division of Emergency Management: As you can see from this video, Florida's voluntary relocation is precisely that - voluntary. Through verbal and written consent, these volunteers indicated they wanted to…
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) June 6, 2023
In a 2018 tweet directed at then-President Donald Trump, Newsom defended California's status as a "sanctuary state" for illegal aliens.
Let me be clear, @realDonaldTrump: California is a sanctuary state. We believe in the power of diversity. We have defied and resisted the xenophobic, hateful policies of your administration at every turn. We will do it again.https://t.co/HjaXaABzzC
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 19, 2018
More than 2 million illegal aliens live in California -- the most of any state in the union, according to Pew Research.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Sunday announced he was investigating Florida's relocation program after a group of illegals arrived in Sacramento on a chartered flight on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times. A second group was flown into Sacramento on Monday.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Authorities on Saturday arrested a man attending a “pride” festival in California who had been wanted on robbery charges.
“On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, a robbery occurred at the West Hollywood library. The suspect stole the victim’s cellphone. West Hollywood Station Detectives later identified the suspect as Hunter Lee Darling,” the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station wrote on Facebook.
The post noted that in April, an arrest warrant was issued for Darling.
“On Saturday, June 3, 2023, deputies saw Suspect Darling during a ‘Pride Weekend’ event,” the post continued.
“West Hollywood deputies arrested Suspect Darling and booked him at West Hollywood Station for robbery, vandalism, and battery,” the post said, adding the arrest did not take place without an incident. Video of the arrest shows Darling yelling at deputies.
Zodiac Rose arrested at West Hollywood Pride on arrest warrant for theft
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 4, 2023
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“During Suspect Darling’s arrest, Abby Nicole Thomas, a friend of Suspect Darling’s, intervened and prevented the deputies from safely completing the arrest. Abby was arrested and booked for interfering and obstructing an arrest,” the post said.
An LGBT activist claimed the arrest was homophobic.
🚨BREAKING🚨@WHDLASD just brutalized and arrested 3 queer volunteers at #wehopride. The Sheriffs were making fun of the booth and the volunteers responded “This is why we don’t like cops at Pride” The sheriffs then attacked them and are filing bogus charges. Will update here 🧵 pic.twitter.com/kcuSrLZcUs
— Jordan David (@jordandavidx) June 4, 2023
A video from April showed a man believed to be Darling taking a phone from an anti-drag queen show protester and stepping on it, according to the Post-Millennial.
The Blaze noted that multiple incidents of violence took place during the April protest.
Protest outside West Hollywood Library on April 15 during which Zodiac Rose allegedly stole and stomped a cell phone
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 4, 2023
The Post-Millennial reported that on Friday, a fight broke out at a Saticoy Elementary School "pride assembly" protest. The report said Darling, who is also known as Zodiac Rose, was at that incident.
The report said counter-demonstrators, including members of antifa, sought to disrupt a protest by a group called the Glendale Unified School District Parents' Voices, which was opposing the school’s curriculum.
Darling is being held on $100,000 bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Inmate Information Center.
Darling is scheduled to appear in court on the charges against him on Tuesday.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Hundreds of thousands of Maryland drivers may be surprised to find out that their license plate might be an advertisement for a Philippine gambling site.
Around 13 years ago, Maryland printed the URL www.starspangled200.org on hundreds of thousands of license plates to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.
The historical event led Francis Scott Key to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry," which was later adapted into the "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.
But over the years, it appears the state has failed to preserve the link, resulting in it now being used by an online casino based out of the Philippines.
The license plates are used on 798,000 Maryland vehicles.
This means about 15 percent, according to The Washington Post, of all the registered vehicles in the state have unwittingly become advertisers for "Philippines Best Betting Site," as reported by WTTG.
The site promotes gambling through online casino games such as Baccarat, Blackjack, Poker, and Slots, among others.
someone forgot to renew a domain name and now 798,000 Maryland license plates are shilling an online casino in the Philippines https://t.co/t9plRe4wFr pic.twitter.com/WRFNRnk6Ho
— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) June 1, 2023
The discovery was first made by a Reddit user whose curiosity led them to the site.
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"I was never a fan of having a plate celebrating the War of 1812, but I'm even more upset now that I (and tons of other Marylanders) are driving advertisements for international online gambling," the Redditor wrote.
Ashley Millner, a representative for Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration, told the Post that the agency is currently working with their IT department “to identify options to resolve the current issue.”
“The URL is not and was never owned or maintained by the MVA,” she clarified to the outlet, noting that they in no way support the online casino.
According to Millner, the URL was previously “maintained by Star Spangled 200, Inc., a nonprofit formed under the War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission formed in 2007 through an Executive Order.”
However, the non-profit has since been disbanded, the Post reported, citing a representative for the public relations firm who once worked with the group.
Reddit users have suggested that the site probably expired under the previous registrants and was then hijacked by a third-party.
The Redditor who discovered the mistake added in a follow-up comment that they pity the government workers who now have to fix this issue.
"I do feel bad for the employees having to deal with this. It's unlikely that any of them were making the decisions back when these plates were being planned. I can certainly empathize with how crappy it is having to be the public face defending / fixing the problems caused by predecessors," the user wrote.
"That being said: this whole thing is, objectively, hilarious."
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
If Benjamin Franklin lived in the 21st century, he'd likely say there are three certain things in life: death, taxes, and inadequate parking at Trader Joe's.
The quirky little grocery store chain is known and loved by millions of Americans for its wide array of house-branded specialty foods, like its chopstick-worthy Mandarin orange chicken, irresistible peanut butter-filled pretzel nuggets and exotic-sounding cheeses, like blueberry & vanilla chèvre.
Fans flock there for things that are either far more expensive or completely unavailable anywhere else -- like their wide range of organic, vegan and gluten-free items, imported chocolates and popular wines.
But the chain is equally known -- and far less loved -- for its dreadful parking lots.
So much so that "parking lots" was the topic of a recent episode of the company's "Inside Trader Joe's" podcast.
That's right -- the company has something of a cult following and is popular enough to have its own podcast to share behind-the-scenes stories about the company's history, products and staff (known as "crew members").
On this particular episode, two Trader Joe's insiders, Tara Miller and Matt Sloan, responded to messages regarding customer questions and comments -- one might even call them "gripes" -- regarding the stores' parking lots.
"If you spend any time on social media, looking at things about Trader Joe's, you will find there are lots of conspiratorial theories about our parking lots," Miller said.
"People out there in the world really seem to think -- not all people, but a number of people -- that we are purposefully making horrible parking lots."
Sloan chimed in, insisting, "We don't open stores with the world's most ridiculous parking lot on purpose."
The problem, in a nutshell, he said, is relative size: Trader Joe's stores tend to be a fraction of the size of a regular grocery store -- around 10,000 to 12,000 square feet, as opposed to 70,000 square feet.
Smaller retail spaces, they said, are allotted fewer parking spaces.
Adding to the problem -- good for retailers, but bad for customers -- is that Trader Joe's stores often have far more people inside, per square foot, than a regular supermarket.
"Let's say that 12,000 square foot store has 500 people visiting and the giant store has a hundred people visiting," Sloan said. "The parking lots are going to feel very different."
Miller pointed out the obvious: "The argument could be made, 'Hey, Trader Joe's just make your stores bigger,'" she said.
"But that kind of changes who we are. We have small stores, so they come with small parking lots.
"If we had bigger stores, sure we'd have bigger parking lots, but we'd feel like a different store."
As it turns out, those who suffer with only cramped, crowded parking lots at their Trader Joe's stores should be thankful: Miller said some stores have zero parking.
As in Zip. Zilch. Nada.
"We try to get as much parking as possible," Miller said. However, she added, "In some municipalities, we can't get any parking at all. We do have a number of stores throughout the country that don't have any parking."
"It's true," Sloan agreed, adding a positive spin. "Parking can be an energized experience, maybe even of a stressful variety, lots of places.
"So hats off to our crew for taking good care of the parking lots at your neighborhood Trader Joe's, collecting carts and keeping things moving.
"And thanks to you [the customer] for taking up the challenge to find that spot when you do your shopping."
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
If you're at all a fan of the Jersey shore (the actual beaches in New Jersey, not the TV show) then please take care next time you visit.
There could be a nasty surprise waiting for you -- and you may not even notice until hours after you've left the beach.
Multiple outlets and watch groups in the Garden State are reporting that a nasty group of interlopers known as "clinging jellyfish" have returned to beaches -- but there's a new development that's causing more concern than usual.
First, a visual aid from Paul Bologna, a Montclair State University marine biologist who also runs the New Jersey Jellyspotters Facebook group:
First clinging #jellyfish of the 2023 season from the north of Barnegat Bay NJ. Be careful out in the shallow vegetation @hydrozoan #10HSworkshop #hydrozoansociety pic.twitter.com/Ke1QmhqWUT
— Paul A. X. Bologna (@MSUjellyfish) May 22, 2023
"First clinging #jellyfish of the 2023 season from the north of Barnegat Bay NJ," Bologna tweeted. "Be carefoul out in the shallow vegetation."
According to the New York Post, the jellyfish are only the size of a quarter and were first discovered in 2016. Their small nature makes them particularly dangerous.
BEACH WARNING: More dangerous clinging jellyfish found along the Jersey Shore: https://t.co/orwhWsrAe3 pic.twitter.com/VS4D4iiEX7
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) June 15, 2016
“These little guys, these clingers, live in grass beds and algae. So they’re in shallow water. So if you’re out there throwing the football in the shallow water, you may run into ’em. And because they’re so small, you might not even see them or notice them,” Bologna explained to the Post.
The little critters aren't just small, they feature 60 to 80 tentacles each.
And it's those tentacles that house a particularly nasty surprise for anyone who happens to come in contact with them.
Those people just may not notice for a while.
“They’re kind of insidious because when you get stung, it’s not bad immediately, but four or five hours later the extreme pain starts to kick in," Bologna added.
The marine biologist likened the pain to bad full-body cramping.
"If you've been stung by a bee or a wasp or a jelly, usually you get a lot of pain and then it kind of [subsides]. These guys, you tend to get stung, and then it's three, four or five hours later that the pain really starts to kick in as the paralysis and toxins work through your system," Bologna told New Jersey radio station WKXW.
They are bad news, but at least New Jersey has some experience dealing with them, since the state has been grappling with them for roughly seven years now.
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One key difference this year, according to WKXW, is that the 2023 clinging jellyfish have traveled farther south in New Jersey than has ever been reported before.
If you are stung by one, the New Jersey government actually suggests cleaning the sting site with salt water and removing any lingering tentacle bits without touching them (using a plastic card to flick/scrape off the tentacle bits, for instance).
Given the severity of the symptoms, ranging from severe pain to paralysis, you should "seek prompt medical attention" if the pain doesn't subside or worsens.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Without exactly saying why, the CEO of one of the world's main carbon-offset certifying companies resigned from his position last month. But his departure comes on the tail of a series of reports that his company's efforts on climate change are essentially "worthless."
David Antonioli, the CEO of the carbon certifier Verra, announced on his LinkedIn page on May 22 that he was stepping down after 15 years as the company's leader.
Antonioli praised Verra's work and said the company has made "tremendous strides together in addressing some of the world’s most vexing environmental and social problems."
He said Verra President Judith Simon would take over for him until the company makes other arrangements.
The 59-year-old businessman did not say what he intends to do next -- short of taking a "long vacation" -- and did not say exactly why he was vacating his position at Verra.
Verra is one of the world's top certifying companies that tracks carbon emissions and certifies their levels. Its data is used by multinational corporations and governments to prove that emissions overall are being lowered to lessen the effects of global warming.
According to the company's website, "A carbon offset represents a reduction or removal of one metric tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere that is used to compensate for emissions that occur elsewhere."
These offsets result in "carbon credits" that companies and governments can use to claim that they are arresting climate change.
"Verra was founded in 2007 by environmental and business leaders who saw the need for greater quality assurance in voluntary carbon markets," the company's website says. "We now manage the world’s leading voluntary carbon markets program, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, as well as a suite of other programs, incubate new ideas to generate meaningful environmental and social value at scale, and advance the use of these programs worldwide."
Antonioli did not mention it in his resignation announcement, but Verra has come under fire recently for what the U.K.'s Guardian called "worthless" efforts on climate change.
"In January," the outlet noted in its May 23 report on the CEO's sudden departure, "a nine-month investigation by the Guardian, the German weekly Die Zeit and the investigative group SourceMaterial found Verra rainforest credits used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations were largely worthless."
One of Verra's chief metrics was its claim that its efforts were stopping the destruction of rainforests in Peru, but critics now say the rainforests Verra was claiming to protect were not under any threat of being destroyed in the first place.
CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless https://t.co/bfxa7hPwXS
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 23, 2023
Leftist HBO host John Oliver blasted the whole idea of carbon offsets last year. Not only did he criticize corporations for using the concept of carbon offsets to claim they are taking a bite out of climate change, but he also said carbon offsets don't really do anything to fight global warming -- rather, he said, they are making things worse.
Some are beginning to agree with Oliver's assessment that carbon offsets and carbon credits are more or less a scam.
As The Guardian noted, some corporations are starting to back away from relying on the claims of carbon offsetting. Gucci recently removed from its website its boast of being carbon neutral, a claim that was based on Verra's carbon credit data.
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Some scientists also have said governments and corporations should stop relying on companies like Verra to confirm carbon data for several reasons, not the least of which is there are no clear standards to make the claims of carbon neutrality in the unregulated carbon offset industry.
Of course, the whole idea that corporations can just pay money to someone or some company to reduce their carbon emissions without changing their carbon emissions doesn't pass the test of logic in the first place. More and more people are finally seeing the scam at the center of the carbon offset industry.
It is dawning on many that the whole scheme is merely a way for the super-rich to pump up their public relations and make it seem as if they are "doing something" about climate change when, in truth, they really aren't.
It's just a way to make themselves look like green warriors on their web pages and in commercials despite a complete lack of any actual efforts to cut emissions.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Target's decision to feature LGBT merchandise geared toward children could have serious negative consequences for the company.
The retail company's stock prices plunged by 3.66 percent on Tuesday, according to Fox Business.
The plunging value of its stock places Target on its biggest losing streak since November 2018.
Wednesday's price of $131.69 was the lowest value of Target stock since 2020.
Two weeks proved enough to shave off $12 billion of the retail giant's market cap this month.
Target lost $12B in 14 days. “Get woke, go broke” is no longer just a slogan. pic.twitter.com/Ehxrv3GLpi
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 31, 2023
The company's misfortunes have led some to identify Target as another Bud Light -- a major American brand that has alienated itself from conservative Americans with a warm embrace of progressive leftism.
Bud Light has wrought disaster for the brand after a decision to partner with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
An impromptu boycott of Target began in response to the company's decision to feature merchandise geared toward children in LGBT pride month sections of stores.
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The merchandise included swimsuits designed for "tucking" -- a practice in which transgender males conceal the outline of their genitalia to appear female.
The sections were subsequently moved in some stores in the southern United States, with critics of the company suggesting that the conservative boycott of Target led to the change in policy.
🚨 Target's newly released “LGBT Pride” collection includes “tuck-friendly” wear and rainbow-colored onesies, in the same section as pride attire for infants and children, stirring the original controversy. pic.twitter.com/lGGls4PGne
— Upward News (@UpwardNewsHQ) May 23, 2023
Target went on to cite supposed "threats" toward store employees as cause for relocating LGBT pride sections in some stores.
"For more than a decade, Target has offered an assortment of products aimed at celebrating Pride Month," a company representative told Fox.
"Since introducing this year’s collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work.
"Our focus now is on moving forward with our continuing commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community and standing with them as we celebrate Pride Month and throughout the year."
The company's involvement in a leftist culture war -- and subsequent decision to downplay its support of LGBT ideology -- has led some on the left to organize their own boycott of Target, according to Fox News.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin said on Tuesday's program that "white women in particular, want to protect this patriarchy" and that is the reason they support former President Donald Trump.
Hostin's comments came during a panel discussion on why women would back Trump in 2024, despite a jury finding him liable in a civil suit brought by writer and former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll that accused Trump of rape and defamation.
The federal jury in New York City stopped short of finding Trump had raped Carroll during an incident in the 1990s, but did find he had sexually abused her and then defamed her when she went public with the allegation in 2019.
"I think that women, white women in particular, want to protect the patriarchy here, because it’s to their benefit," Hostin said.
"They want to make sure that their husbands do well. They want to make sure that their sons do well. They want to make sure that their children do well. They want to make sure that they do well," she continued.
"Most of the women in some of these studies are married, white women. And they do fall in line with what their husbands are doing, how their husbands are voting."
The co-host, who is black and Hispanic, seemed to also compare white women who voted for Trump to women in the pre-Civil War South who went along with their slave-owning husbands.
She cited a book she said was titled, "She Owned Property as Well." Apparently, Hostin was referring to the book, "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South," Fox News reported.
For many viewers, Hostin's point amounted to racism, with one even calling her a "racist bigot."
More racism from @TheView: @Sunny Hostin BASHES white women AGAIN, claims they vote GOP to ‘protect the patriarchy’ https://t.co/mPjQlwu8o9
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 30, 2023
Sunny Hostin just basically said white women can't think for themselves and the only reason white women vote/support Trump is because their husbands vote/support Trump. Women need to address these insane women of the view. Time to bud light them.
— Matt Dube (@MATTDUBE_) May 30, 2023
.@sunny is a racist bigot.
'View' host Sunny Hostin belittles GOP White women voters as tools of their husbands: 'They do fall in line'https://t.co/hcc6ABcWZe— sarainitaly 🌷🐰🐥 (@sarainitaly) May 30, 2023
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is white, pushed back on Hostin, questioning if the same reasoning applies to Democrats who voted for Bill Clinton despite multiple allegations of sexual misconduct brought against him.
Paula Jones sued Clinton in 1994 accusing him of exposing himself and propositioning her when he was Arkansas governor and she was a state employee. Clinton ultimately settled his lawsuit with Jones out of court in 1998.
Other women accused Clinton of groping them. Former Arkansas nursing home administrator Juanita Broaddrick accused Clinton of raping her in a Little Rock hotel room in 1978, when he was the Arkansas attorney general, though that did not become public until 1999, after Clinton had been elected to the presidency twice and survived his impeachment trial.
Hostin saw the Clinton situation as different.
"They think that the policies are, let’s say, of a Clinton, is in line with their policies. I think with white, female Republicans, you have a Republican Party that is taking away your health right to decide for yourself," Hostin responded.
Earlier in the discussion co-host Joy Behar said she understood how women could vote for Trump despite the Carroll verdict, acknowledging she voted for Clinton twice.
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"I knew that he was, you know, a dog. But I loved him anyway. So I sort of get it. They sort of feel like Trump is a dog and they’re voting for him," Behar said.
Griffin read a quote from a Washington Post article about women who support Trump, with some saying it had more to do with his policies as president than any admiration for Trump personally.
"He’s an absolute idiot. I hate him as a person. I honestly do," Pennsylvania resident Arlene Pasternak told the newspaper. "But I’m more concerned about the economy and you can barely afford to live right now. I went to college, I have a degree and I struggle all the time."
Another woman told the Post that she questioned the timing of Carroll's lawsuit, suggesting it was politically motivated.
“Why wait ’til now? I think people don’t want him to run for president, and the government is going to come up with some lies,” the woman said.
In October ahead of the midterm elections, Hostin also chastised white suburban women who supported Republicans.
"I read a poll just yesterday that white, Republican, suburban women are now going to vote Republican. It’s almost like roaches voting for Raid,” she said.
“I’m very surprised that white, Republican, suburban women are voting against their own health care,” Hostin added, in reference to abortion policy following the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization last summer.
The ruling returned the issue of abortion lawfully to the state government level.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
A concert starring George Strait might not be the best venue to sell Bud Light.
Video of a concession stand at a performance of the country artist has some pointing to the enduring power of the conservative boycott of the beer.
Stocks of other beverages -- such as White Claw and Coors Light -- are diminished by customer sales, whereas Bud Light appears to sit undisturbed in the video.
Conservative author and commentator Evan Kilgore recorded the seeming disinterest of concertgoers in the beer.
WARNING: The following video contains language some viewers may find disturbing.
In the Saturday video at the Buckeye Country Superfest in Columbus, Ohio, where Strait was the headline act, one concert patron questions who would drink a beer associated with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Mulvaney is best known for a "Days of Girlhood" TikTok series in which he touts his supposed gender transition.
"Who drinks this s***?" one woman's voice is heard asking in the video, which had more than 128,000 views by Tuesday morning Eastern Daylight Time.
At a George Strait concert in Columbus, Ohio.
Nobody is buying Bud Light. pic.twitter.com/2uMYn17JJU
— Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸 (@EvanAKilgore) May 27, 2023
In the video, one patron pulls a Michelob Ultra can from a cooler -- perhaps unaware that the brand is owned by Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light's parent company.
But they’re drinking Michelob ultra? They’re still giving money to Anheuser-Busch but they think they’re doing something to the makers of Bud Light?
— Tupac Hologram (@tupac_hologram1) May 28, 2023
Strait is widely considered one of the most influential country music artists of all time -- distinguishing himself in a genre known for a conservative-leaning and patriotic audience.
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Other country artists, such as John Rich and Riley Green, have taken widely publicized public stands against the brand.
The decision to partner with Mulvaney has also proved disastrous for Anheuser-Busch at the grassroots level.
Some retailers have taken to selling Bud Light for bargain-basement prices in a testament to the fall from grace suffered by the once-iconic brand.
The business troubles surrounding Bud Light have begun to hit other beverages marketed by Anheuser-Busch.
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Michelob Ultra and Natural Light have declined in weekly sales, according to data from the marketing research firm NielsenIQ.
Strait is scheduled to continue his ongoing tour with a performance at American Family Field in Milwaukee on Saturday.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Two Texas high school students are facing felony charges after a prank spiraled out of control and landed six of their classmates in the hospital.
Caney Creek High School in Montgomery County had to be evacuated on May 3 and 4 as a "strong odor" permeated the campus, according to KTRK-TV.
This was no ordinary gas leak.
Two students had deployed an item court documents refer to as a "fart spray" at the school.
The prank device was so potent that six students were treated for nausea and headaches after breathing in the fumes May 4. They were released from the hospital the same day.
Authorities didn't find the prank so funny.
The two students allegedly responsible are facing charges of felony possession of a prohibited weapon, according to The Courier of Montgomery County.
Texas teens have been charged with felonies for allegedly unleashing a noxious “fart spray” inside their high school as a prank, sickening multiple students and triggering multiple evacuations. pic.twitter.com/nCYhm3Mymz
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) May 25, 2023
David Navarrete-Arce, 17, and Diego Flores, 18, have been released from custody on a $3,000 bond in connection to the allegedly criminal prank.
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“Through the investigative work of the Conroe ISD Police Department and campus administration, we believe that the odor was introduced by a student(s) using a highly concentrated prank stink spray called Hensgaukt Fart Spray," Principal Jeff Stichler informed parents in a statement, according to The Courier.
Navarette-Arce admitted to deploying a fart spray can at various locations throughout the school, according to an affidavit surrounding the incident reviewed by The Courier.
The power of the spray was so unbearable that a hazmat team ultimately ended up responding to the chemical situation.
However, some community members find the state's case against the students to be excessive.
"The crime doesn't really fit the punishment under these circumstances," legal analyst Steve Shellist said, according to KTRK.
The school had to remain closed on May 5 because of concerns over a lingering odor, according to The Courier.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
