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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah 40:8 KJV
Nothing but pity
I could comment at length on this story, but all that really needs to be said is that if you’re watching “The View” for either news or theology, then I pity you. Stop that immediately.
Outrage
The luxury fashion house Balenciaga issued an apology after sparking outrage with an ad that was described as “normalizing child pornography.”
It shows a little girl alone in a large room, carrying one of the brand’s purses shaped like a teddy bear in bondage gear. If you zoom in closely enough, you can tell that the photo includes a page with an excerpt from a Supreme Court ruling that made virtual child porn protected speech.
Balenciaga apologized “for displaying unsettling documents in our campaign,” and claimed they didn’t know it was there. The company also said some of the items displayed in the pictures were “unapproved,” that they “strongly condemn abuse of children in any form” and stand for their “safety and well-being,” and “sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused. Our plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign.” They say they’re taking legal action against the creator of the ad campaign.
That didn’t sway critics, who pointed out that fashion ads go through layers of approval and are examined so closely that arguments are made over whether models’ pores are too visible, so it’s hard to believe they missed that document.
But to the larger point, even if that document weren’t there, it still looks creepily like a child porn set-up: a small girl alone in a big room, looking wary, being photographed and holding something that looks like it came out of the S&M section of a sex shop. To normal people with any sense of propriety, that’s beyond “unsettling” all by itself. The fact that they thought it was okay to run that ad at all is a disturbing signal of just how much our society has already allowed for the sexualization of children and the normalization of child porn.
I think comedian Jamie Lissow nailed it on “Gutfeld!” when he said, “If you look really closely at this photo…you’re a pedophile.”
New York Democrats are openly defying the courts
The Democrats running New York State keep getting their unconstitutional gun laws slapped down by courts, and they just keep openly defying the courts and passing new and even more restrictive unconstitutional gun laws.
What is it going to take to force rebellious Democrat state officials to obey the Constitution? Will Washington have to send occupying troops and “reconstruct” their governments? Just wondering, because I keep hearing that today’s Democrats are nothing like the ones who started the Civil War, yet so little seems to have changed.
The Real Reason Why Liberals Hate Twitter Now
The White House Twitter account made a false claim about Biden cutting the deficit, and it was actually fact-checked for real on Twitter.
Worth noting is that the new fact-check feature is described as “Readers added context,” proving what I always suspected: random Twitter users in their bathrobes are much better fact-checkers than Big Tech’s professional “fact-checkers.”