TV Commercials That Intentionally Skew American Demographics
In viewing the list of companies and products below, do you discern any common denominator?
ADT, Amazon, American Express, Armorall, AT&T, Axe Ice Chill, Behr Ultra, Cadillac, Calvin Klein, Capital One, Carolina Keno, Celebrity Cruises, Chase, Cheerios, Choice Hotels, Clearblue, Coors Light, Corona Seltzer, Cricket, Dawn, DirecTV, Domino’s Pizza, Ecolab Science, Entresto, Entyvio, Expedia, Experian, Fidelity, Freshly.com GEICO, GlaxoSmithKline Trelegy, Glidden, Grammarly, Hagerty, Home Depot, Honey Maid, Humira2, Hyundai, Ingressa, JP Morgan, Keebler, Kohl’s, Liberty Mutual, LL Flooring, Macy’s, Marriott Bonvoy, McDonald’s, Michelob Golden Light, Miller Lite, Mountain Dew, NBA.com, and Nestle’s.
Also Nioxin, Nissan Versa, Notre Dame University, Old Navy, Otezla, Pepsi, Polident, Progressive Insurance, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Samsung Galaxy 21, Smile Direct Club, Sonic, Spectrum Originals, State Farm, Subway, T-Mobile, Tahoe South, Target, Terminex, TJ Maxx, Tide, Tommy John Underwear, TouchOfModern, Toyota, VacationsToGo, Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Visit Albuquerque, Vivint Smart Home Security, Walmart, Wayfare, WeBuyAnyCar, Wells Fargo, White Claw Hard Seltzer, Wimbeldon, Volkswagon, Vroom.com, and Zeluja
Give up? Every entity above features television commercials with a black male paired with a white female. Most couples appear to be married or part of a long-term relationship. In some cases, the pair appears to dating.
To be sure, the incidence of mixed race couples in society has been on the increase since the 1970s. Currently about one in six marriages are mixed race. However, as blacks represent less than 13% of the U.S. population and black men represent roughly 6% of the population, it is a statistical anomaly that so many TV commercials would have chosen to feature such a pairing – black man, white woman — with white males out of the picture.
Armorall, Progressive Insurance, Sonic, T-Mobile, and Toyota feature a variety of different TV commercials that pair a black man with a white woman and, in many cases, with white children in the back seat.
Samsung, Budweiser, Trojans, Grey Goose Vodka, and PNC Bank depict a more casual relationship between a black man and a white woman. In other cases, only fleeting glimpse of such couples are offered, as with Google, JCPenney, Nissan, and Busch Garden commercials.
Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen
In an Amazon TV commercial, a black man is brushing his teeth as a white woman sticks her head out of the shower and says, “That’s a low price,” as two children, one black and one white, are all in the bathroom with them at the same time.
Aleve features a white woman with a black child on her shoulders. Zeluja shows a gleeful grandmother accompanied by her two mixed-race grandchildren on a boat around the lake.
LL flooring features a couple lying on a hardwood floor. The white woman says, “I love you Steve” and then the black man says, “I love you Steve.” It turns out the flooring salesman is named Steve.
Unprecedented Scenarios
Obviously, anyone can fall in love with anyone, and anyone can be in a relationship with anyone. What is going on in corporate and ‘progressive’ America that requires over-accenting such couples? Hispanics and Asians are generally not part of this phenomena.
Amazingly, whenever a black man in a TV commercial is actually paired with a black woman, the black woman always has lighter skin. If a black man is featured with his apparent children, they always have much lighter skin, leading to the obvious conclusion that the mother is white.
With T-Mobile, a white woman wearing a wedding ring is resting her head in the lap of a black man. I’ve been watching television for the past 60 years and have never seen such poses depicted in any TV commercial with a white husband and wife, or a black husband and wife. For some reason, however, today’s corporate entities feel compelled to show us a black husband and a white wife in scenarios unprecedented over the last several decades.
Abroad and in Print
Ethnic Europeans, who comprise more than 90% of the continent, are completely puzzled by what they see as an anti-white propaganda campaign conveyed through television commercials. The promotion of mixed race relationships, in particular with a white woman and a black man, has become so commonplace that even the least observant among viewers have began to notice.
Magazine ads in the U.S. are no less vigilant. DiscoverTheForest.org, by the U.S. Forest Service pairs a black man and a white woman holding hands as they strolled through a forest with two mixed-race children preceding them. Fidelity Investments features a black man and a white woman leaning on a railing, staring at the horizon, in the planning for their retirement.
Do such companies believe that black/white pairings will help them with their sales? I’d be interested in seeing their data.
https://flagandcross.com/tv-commercials-that-intentionally-skew-american-demographic/
*******************************************Major Gun Manufacturer Pulls the Trigger, Will Leave the State It Has Called Home Since 1852
When a state becomes too hostile to industry—whether by high taxes, through regulations, or other anti-business laws—the only rational option employers are left with is to leave.
We've seen this time and again in California. After analyzing the data between January 2018 and June 2021, researchers determined there were 265 headquarter relocations in The Golden State, Forbes reports, which averages six per month. California isn't alone, of course, and this week, a major gun manufacturer had to pull the trigger on moving out of Massachusetts.
Despite being in Springfield since 1852, Smith & Wesson announced Thursday that its headquarters and a "significant portion of operations" will be moved to Maryville, Tennessee, in 2023.
The decision came after proposed gun legislation that, if passed, would prevent the company from manufacturing a product that accounted for over 60 percent of its revenue last year.
"This has been an extremely difficult and emotional decision for us, but after an exhaustive and thorough analysis, for the continued health and strength of our iconic company, we feel that we have been left with no other alternative," CEO and President Mark Smith said in a statement.
"These bills would prevent Smith & Wesson from manufacturing firearms that are legal in almost every state in America and that are safely used by tens of millions of law-abiding citizens every day exercising their Constitutional 2nd Amendment rights, protecting themselves and their families, and enjoying the shooting sports," he continued. "While we are hopeful that this arbitrary and damaging legislation will be defeated in this session, these products made up over 60% of our revenue last year, and the unfortunate likelihood that such restrictions would be raised again led to a review of the best path forward for Smith & Wesson."
The company will also close its facilities in Connecticut and Missouri to consolidate at the new Maryville location, which was chosen due to the business-friendly environment, pro-Second Amendment values in the state, and quality of life factors for employees, among others other reasons.
"The strong support we have received from the State of Tennessee and the entire leadership of Blount County throughout this process, combined with the quality of life, outdoor lifestyle, and low cost of living in the Greater Knoxville area has left no doubt that Tennessee is the ideal location for Smith & Wesson's new headquarters," Smith said. "We would like to specifically thank Governor Lee for his decisive contributions and the entire state legislature for their unwavering support of the 2nd Amendment and for creating a welcoming, business friendly environment."
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Civilization Requires Deterrence
Deterrence is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends or your interests — without a major war.
Desire peace? Then be prepared for war. Or so the Romans believed.
It’s an easily understood concept in the abstract. But deterrence still remains a mystical quality in the concrete since it is only acquired with difficulty and yet easily forfeited.
The tired democracies of the 1930s learned that lesson when they kept acquiescing to Hitler’s serial aggressions.
Hitler’s Germany foolishly later attacked a far stronger Soviet Union in 1941, given Moscow’s lost deterrence after its lackluster performances in Poland and Finland, its pact with the Nazis, and its recent purges of its own officer corps.
Deterrence is omnipresent and also applies well beyond matters of war and peace. The current crime wave of murder and violent assault in our major cities is the wage of loud efforts to defund the police and contextualize crimes as somehow society’s rather than the criminal’s fault.
As a result, lawbreakers now believe there is a good chance that robbing people or hurting or killing them might result in monetary gain or at least bloody satisfaction. They no longer fear a likely sentence of 30 years in prison. So, they see little risk in hurting people. And innocents suffer.
With a border wall, an end to catch and release, and tough jawboning of the Mexican and Central American governments, a new American deterrent stance in 2019-20 discouraged once unstoppable waves of migrants.
Northern bound migrants knew that even if they reached and crossed the border, there was a good chance all such effort would be for naught, given quick apprehension and deportation.
So, in their rational calculations, migrants waited at home for less deterrent times. And they found them when Joe Biden stopped construction on the wall, renewed catch and release, and eased pressures on Mexico to interrupt caravans headed northward.
Abroad, Donald Trump restored the strategic deterrence lost by his predecessor.
Barack Obama had dismissed the murderous ISIS as “JVs” — and they thrived. He shrugged when China stole territory in the South China sea to build military bases. He dismantled missile defense in Europe to coax Vladimir Putin to behave during his own 2012 reelection campaign.
Obama loudly announced redlines in Syria while never intending to enforce them. He gave the Taliban back their incarcerated terrorist leaders in exchange for the return of the American deserter Bowe Bergdahl. And he sent the Iranians nocturnal cash to coax them to conclude an appeasing Iran deal. Aggression followed as U.S. deterrence eroded.
As an antidote to all that, Trump destroyed the ISIS “caliphate.” He obliterated an attack of Russian mercenaries in Syria. He took out terrorist masterminds like Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and the ISIS cutthroat Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
To dangerous actors, an unpredictable Trump appeared likely to strike back if provoked. As a result, America’s enemies become fearful of challenging the United States. And its friends and neutrals were more ready to join a power again deemed not just reliable, but willing to take reasonable risks to assist in their safety.
Key to deterrence is for all parties to know beforehand the relative power of each and the likelihood that it may be used. When strong powers unfortunately transmit signals of weakness, whether deliberately or inadvertently, then weak powers are confused and come to believe their rivals may not be so strong as their armed forces appear. Often, unnecessary wars are the unfortunate result.
These are quite dangerous times because Joe Biden has cut the defense budget. He withdrew recklessly from Afghanistan, leaving behind American citizens, our Afghan allies and friends, and tens of billions of dollars worth of modern weaponry and equipment.
He angered our NATO partners who were abandoned with some 8,000 troops, in a country that the United States had once implored them to enter. He has politicized the military into a caricature of an elite woke top brass at odds with traditionalist enlisted soldiers.
The result is that our enemies — Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the Chinese Communist apparat, the Iranian theocrats, the lunatic North Koreans — are now pondering whether Biden’s reckless laxity is an aberration. Or is it now characteristic of his administration? Or does it even signal a new weaker and confused America that offers enemies strategic openings?
Like the would-be felon, or the potential border crosser, our enemies know the United States has the power to deter unwanted behavior, given its vast military, huge economy, and global culture.
But they may have contempt that with such strength comes such perceived confusion. And thus, in the manner of an emboldened criminal, or migrant, they try something that they would otherwise not.
In sum, deterrence at home and abroad is now dangerously lost. And it will be even scarier trying to recover what was so rashly and foolishly thrown away.
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/82920-civilization-requires-deterrence-2021-09-23
*********************************************Biden Slammed for Promising 'Consequences' for Border Patrol Agents in Whip Hoax
Leftist justice
On Saturday, former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard slammed President Biden’s remarks that there would be consequences against the Border Patrol agents falsely accused of whipping illegal immigrants.
As Katie reported, last week several leftist media outlets claimed that Border Patrol agents on horseback were using whips to keep Haitian migrants from entering the southern border. As she and Spencer reported, these claims were incorrect.
Following the reports, “[t]he White House and the Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday Border Patrol's horse unit will no longer be operating in Del Rio, Texas after they were falsely accused of using whips against Haitians who were illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border,” Julio reported last week. Furthermore, the agents at the center of the controversy were placed on administrative leave amid an investigation.
“I promise you, those people will pay. There will be an investigation, underway now, and there will be consequences. There will be consequences,” Biden said on Friday. “It's an embarrassment, but beyond an embarrassment, it is dangerous. It’s wrong, it sends the wrong message around the world, it sends the wrong message at home. It's simply not who we are."
On the Fox News segment “Watters World” on Saturday, Gabbard discussed the “scandal” and slammed Biden for acting as “judge, jury, and executioner,” against the Border Patrol agents accused of whipping migrants.
“He’s absolutely wrong. He needs to apologize to the American people for saying what he said, and here’s why. He’s somebody who's been very outspoken as being against autocrats, autocracies, dictators – but what he essentially did was act as judge, jury, and executioner for these customs and border control agents on horseback,” Gabbard said in the interview.
“When the president of the United States has already declared their guilt and that they will be punished. And the other bigger issue that this points to, which is one that we all need to be concerned about, is that if we are no longer a country of laws, if we are no longer a country where we know we will be presumed innocent unless proven guilty, then we don’t have a democracy,” Gabbard continued.
Last week, as Katie reported, Gabbard blasted Biden’s ongoing border crisis and urged him to revert to immigration policies implemented during the Trump presidency.
“The Biden/Harris open-door policy has been a disaster. It needs to end now. The main beneficiaries of open borders are the gangs, cartels, and human traffickers. The Trump policy of having people wait on the other side of the border worked and needs to be reinstated,” Gabbard said in a tweet. In another tweet, she said “@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris, the humanitarian and national security crisis on the southern border is the direct result of your open-border policy. As I said in my 2020 presidential campaign, we can’t have a secure nation if we don’t secure our borders.”
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