Gender-Neutral Mr Potato Head Proves Unpopular with Public, Polls Show

 Neon Nettle

Morning Consult survey reveals majority of public disapproves of the move

"Hasbro’s recent decision to go "woke" and introduce gender-neutral branding for the iconic Mr. Potato Head toy has proved to be widely unpopular with most members of the public, a new poll has found.

"During a Morning Consult survey conducted Feb. 26 to March 1, over half (52 percent) of the 2,200 adults who responded say disapproved of the recent change.

"Twenty percent approved of scrubbing "Mr." from the name and about a quarter (28 percent) had no opinion on the new "Potato Head" branding. 

"The results suggest Hasbro has “[created] a strong net negative sentiment for the new brand name,” Morning Consult noted." . . .

Putin's disrespectful treatment of Joe Biden

Think Pelosi's sixteen-year-old voters will pick more competent national leaders than what we have now?

How to Start a War – PJ Media  . . . "Putin earlier had concluded that Trump was dangerously unpredictable, and perhaps best not provoked. After all, the Trump administration took out Russian mercenaries in Syria. It beefed up defense spending and upped sanctions.

"The Trump administration flooded the world with cheap oil to Russia’s chagrin. It pulled out from asymmetrical missile treaties with Russia. It sold sophisticated arms to the Ukrainians. The Russians concluded that Trump might do anything, and so waited for another president before again testing America.

"In contrast, Biden often talks provocatively — while carrying a twig. He has gratuitously called Putin “a killer.” And he warned that the Russian dictator “will pay a price” for supposedly interfering in the 2020 election.

"Unfortunately, Biden’s bombast follows four years of a Russian-collusion hoax, fueled by a concocted dossier paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton." . . .

 Ukraine standoff: Putin will bear 'very painful consequences' if troops cross border | Daily Mail Online Biden learned to be a world leader from Obama.

'Washington should realize that it will have to pay a price for the degradation of the bilateral ties,' Zakharova said, adding that 'the responsibility for that will fully lie with the United States.'

"She said the ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador for a 'hard conversation,' but wouldn't immediately say what action Russia will take. " . . .

 "The response by the UK and US would be heavy on rhetoric rather than military action, thereby providing Putin with another propaganda victory in time for the Russian parliamentary elections later this year. As this game plays out, London and Washington appear impotent, all words and no intervention – because there is simply no desirable course of action for Nato's leading partners to embark upon to influence Russia's affairs.

"This lack of options is as obvious to Putin as it is to anyone else. The reality is only he is in a position to call the shots.

WATCH: Biden Says He Really Gave Putin What-For Over Alleged Election Interference, Proposed Summit This Summer – RedState; Kinda like Obama telling us he told Putin to "cut it out"?

Vladimir Putin Rejects Joe Biden Invite to Meet in Person (breitbart.com)

Insanity Wrap #188: While Biden Bumbled, Putin Went on War Footing on Land and Sea – PJ Media   "With the taking of Crimea in 2014 on Obama’s watch, and Russia’s effective blockade of the Kerch Strait while Biden bumbled, Russia has annexed Ukraine’s biggest port and has now put several others out of business.

"Putin just scored his first big win against a vacillating new administration. It reminds Insanity Wrap all-too-much of the time Kruschev did something similar against JFK in his first year in office, and then decided it would be simply fabulous to put nuclear missiles in Cuba.

"We all know how that turned out." . . .

Biden Declares Threat from Russia a 'National Emergecy' | Neon Nettle

"Joe Biden has signed an executive order to officially declare the threat from Russia a "national emergency."

"Biden signed the declaration on Thursday as the White House hit Russia with fresh sanctions.

"The U.S. Department of State also said it is expelling ten Russian officials from the Kremlin’s bilateral mission.

"Today, we announced actions to hold the Russian Government to account for the SolarWinds intrusion, reports of bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and attempts to interfere in the 2020 U.S. elections," Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced.". . .

Let what is happening under Joe Biden ‘be a lesson’

Sky News Australia The “chaos of illegal arrivals” has started up again after Joe Biden scrapped Donald Trump’s work on illegal migration, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin." . . .

“Since the change of president in January, over 300,000 people… have crossed illegally from Mexico into the United States,” Ms Credlin said. 

“ 'In their quest for open borders and global government, the left thrives, on the generosity of good people – and the reality that most people don't know all the facts about refugees, illegal migration, and a nation's right to secure its borders.

“I was not always a great fan of the former US President Donald Trump, but his determination to build a wall with Mexico and stop the waves of illegal migration, at least meant that the flood had slowed – under his term - to a comparative trickle.

  'But because Trump was all bad according to the new president, of course, and his Democratic colleagues, just about all his works had to be scrapped, even the ones that had succeeded, such as his efforts to hinder illegal migration.”

"Ms Credlin said the result of this was “absolutely predictable - this trade in human suffering, particularly in relation to young children” started up again after Joe Biden’s inauguration.

“ 'Let what’s happening in America be a bit of a lesson,” she said.

“' Government’s can’t let misplaced compassion drive their border protection policy. And voters need to be very careful about electing political parties that are conflicted on this issue.”

Democrats (who destroy everything they touch) Set to Introduce Court Packing Bill

National Review’s David Harsanyi dug up a quote from the Roosevelt era that pretty much sums up the whole thing.FDR’s Court-packing scheme, wrote the Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee in 1937, “is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.”

FDR tried packing the court but was rejected by a wise congress

 Why the Left Is Wrong to Attack Justice Breyer on Court-Packing | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "Justice Stephen Breyer needs to get with the program. At least that’s what many on the left think after last week. In remarks made for Harvard Law School, the Supreme Court justice threw cold water on progressives’ desire to expand (i.e. pack) the court. His remarks gave several reasons against it, saying he wished to get those favoring such measures to “think long and hard before embodying those changes in law.” Adding to his transgression was timing; these critiques came out the same week that President Joe Biden took a small step toward court expansion, establishing a commission to study it among other proposals for judicial reform.

"Many progressives set a high priority on adding justices to the nation’s highest bench." . . .

How Could Democrats Defy Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Wishes by Trying to Pack the Supreme Court? – RedState  . . . "Well, fun fact that’s surprising no one: Democrats don’t actually care what Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks and are more than willing to go against her wishes if it means more power for them." . . .

And So It Begins...Democrats Set to Introduce Court Packing Bill – RedState "House and Senate Dems are ready to introduce a court packing bill that would expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. The bill is set to be announced on Thursday by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Congressmen Jerry Nadler, Hank Johnson, and Mondaire Jones." . . .

Israel Demolishes Super-Secure Iranian Nuclear Facility, and the Biden Bunch Was Not Given Advance Warning

Contempt for the US; no sign of embarrassment in Democrats and their press.

The Iranian official stressed that such an operation takes years, saying “the design of the enemy was very beautiful.”

  RedState  "On Easter Sunday, a massive explosion ripped through the top-secret Iranian nuclear weapons research facility at Natanz. There were some interesting aspects to the explosion. In a way, this was deja vu because, in July 2020, the same facility was hit by a cyberattack that damaged the centrifuge production plant inside the Natanz facility.  Just days before this current event, Iran brought online new centrifuges that violated provisions of the corrupt Iran nuclear deal that Biden is trying to bring back from the dead. The day before, Iran had brought some state-of-the-art centrifuges to accelerate their illegal enrichment program. The notable thing about the explosion was that it took place some 50-meters underground in an electrical substation designed to be impervious to conventional air attacks.

A power failure that appeared to have been caused by a deliberately planned explosion struck Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site on Sunday, in what Iranian officials called an act of sabotage that they suggested had been carried out by Israel.

The blackout injected new uncertainty into diplomatic efforts that began last week to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal repudiated by the Trump administration.  . . .

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Attack On Iran’s Top Nuke Site “Destroyed” Thousands of Centrifuges, Senior Regime Official Admits (legalinsurrection.com)   "The attack on Iran’s top underground nuclear weapons facility appears to have done more damage than previously reported. Sunday’s explosion may have seriously crippled Tehran’s ability to move ahead with large-scale production weapons-grade uranium, a senior regime official admitted.

"The breach left “several thousand centrifuges damaged and destroyed,” the head of Iran’s parliamentary research center, Alireza Zakani, told a state-run broadcaster.

"Following the breach on the weekend, Iran’s most secure nuclear weapons facility has reportedly been knocked out of operation. “The attacked damaged an unknown number of centrifuges – sophisticated machines that make uranium usable for nuclear purposes – and has stopped work at the facility for now,” the BBC confirmed on Wednesday.

"The revelations come as Iran sits on the negotiating table with President Joe Biden’s administration with hopes of restoring the Obama-era nuclear agreement.

"The Times of Israel on Tuesday reported the Iranian admission:" . . .

Fans Are Tuning Out on Woke Sports

 

USA News and Politics  "Last Friday, after President Biden, left-wing activists, and the national media spent weeks peddling lies about Georgia’s new voting law disproportionately impacting people of color, Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred caved to the radical mob and decided to move this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta.

"In the name of equality, Manfred’s decision will cost Atlanta, a city with a 50 percent black population, an estimated $100 million in economic losses. The game will now be held in Denver, Colorado, a city that is only 10 percent black. As nonsensical as Manfred’s decision was, no one should be surprised by it.

"Over the past few years, it has been fairly obvious to any impartial observer that the higher echelons at MLB, along with those in charge at the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), have made a conscious decision to alienate a large percentage of their fanbase by conceding more control of their sports to the demands of social justice warriors and the tyrannical Left.

"“Silence in the face of injustice is unacceptable,” Sam Kennedy, the Red Sox President and CEO said last year in the wake of the George Floyd protests. In addition to now displaying “Black Lives Matter” on the bleacher seats and on the Green Monster at Fenway Park, Kennedy and the Red Sox have created a “Social Justice, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Committee” that seeks to conduct a “bias audit” of its HR policies, “enhanc[e] ballpark messaging related to racial and social justice causes,” and partner “with an organization with expertise in racial equity and restorative justice.” Many teams have taken similar actions.

"But those in power in the sports business world may soon come to regret their woke decisions, which have begun to alienate fans." . . .

Climate "Emergency"...The next wave of leftist propaganda is hitting America's shores

. . . "Scientific American, a thoroughly woke magazine, convinced multiple major media outlets to reframe "climate change" as a "climate emergency."

Andrea Widburg   "On Tuesday, Project Veritas released a video showing a CNN technical director named Charlie Chester who cheerfully spilled the beans: under the leadership of Jeffrey Zucker, CNN is a pure Democrat propaganda outfit that worked hard to get Trump out of the White House.  With that mission accomplished, it's going to change its propaganda to pushing climate change because "fear sells."  Also on Tuesday, CNS News reported that numerous news sites have promised that, henceforth, they'll be calling climate change a "climate emergency."

"In the Project Veritas video, CNN technical director Charlie Chester explained with great specificity how CNN played the game.  CNN's game isn't reporting the news in an unbiased fashion to help educate people.  Instead, its job is to support Democrats.  "Look, what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out."

"When it came to anything Trump, the point was to paint a negative picture.  Thus, a shaking hand was a neurological disaster.  "We were creating a story there that we didn't know anything about.  That's what — I think that's propaganda."  CNN did the same in reverse for Biden, hiding the decline and showing him as a "young geriatric."

"CNN has a new plan now that it's succeeded in getting Biden into the White House?  Chester explained:" . . .