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Snowflakes Claim Monkeypox Disease Name Is Racist, So Tucker Carlson Offers Hilarious Alternative Name [VIDEO]

“…we’re going to change the name this time. We’re going to do it with the public’s help because democracy is real. So we had a vote, there was no ballot harvesting, you can trust our counting…”

BY GREGORY HOYT
JULY 29, 2022

During the July 28th broadcast of Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the show host revealed the new name for the Monkeypox disease following demands from the perennially offended to have the name of the ailment changed due to it purportedly being racist – and needless to say, the left are furious over the new name he unveiled.

Back in mid-June, reports began circulating about the World Health Organization (WHO) looking to change the name of Monkeypox over “concerns about stigma and racism surrounding the virus.”

By July 26th, New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan sent a letter to the WHO urging for the name of the disease to be changed, claiming that the name of the virus is racist and could reignite stigmas reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic from the 1980s and thus could discourage certain communities from seeking treatment if they come down with Monkeypox.

“Continuing to use the term ‘monkeypox’ to describe the current outbreak may reignite these traumatic feelings of racism and stigma — particularly for Black people and other people of color, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities, and it is possible that they may avoid engaging in vital health care services because of it.”

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With the growing clamor to change the aptly dubbed name of a disease that was indeed first discovered “in a colony of monkeys in Copenhagen in 1958,” per the Smithsonian Institution, Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson decided to beat the left at their own game and polled his audience on what the disease should be renamed to.

“So Monkeypox is about the coolest name ever for a disease, ‘Can’t come tonight, got the monkey,’ but they are changing the name because of racism or something. Well, for once we don’t know who ‘they’ are, we’re not going to allow it – we’re going to change the name this time. We’re going to do it with the public’s help because democracy is real. So we had a vote, there was no ballot harvesting, you can trust our counting. And the new name for Monkeypox is now officially, and we’re declaring it: Schlong COVID. That one our audience elects with about 40% of the vote. So let Rochelle Walensky at the CDC know. Her number is 1-800-232-4636, wait for the prompt on ‘Monkeypox’ and make your voice heard because it’s still a democracy.”

Of course, right on schedule, leftists on Twitter engaged in a collective meltdown by asserting that Carlson’s newly-revealed name for the simian sores is “homophobic” – despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of confirmed cases were contracted during sex between men.

One Twitter user responded to Calrson’s poll results with, “Causal homophobia for cheap laughs is the lowest kind of joke. And somehow the people who find this funny are even lower.”

Of course, there were many who responded to the disease being relabeled as Schlong COVID with a sense of humor, with one person writing on Twitter, “2 clenched cheeks to flatten the curve. I will allow the government to use this slogan.”

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Netflix Takes Aim at Liberals With ‘Snowflake Mountain’

The streamer has already been courting conservatives with its transphobic stand-up specials. Now it’s airing an absurd reality series mocking liberal “snowflakes.”

The streamer has already been courting conservatives with its transphobic stand-up specials. Now it’s airing an absurd reality series mocking liberal “snowflakes.”

On Wednesday, Netflix quietly dropped Snowflake Mountain with little promotion in the lead-up to its arrival. And it only takes watching the first 30 seconds of the reality-television series to understand why.

If you hadn’t already guessed, the “snowflake” in Snowflake Mountain refers to the pejorative term largely used by the right—and often preceded by the word “liberal”—to describe someone who is overly sensitive. The eight-episode series follows a group of young adults who are purportedly “overly emotional, easily offended, and dramatic.” Their parents, whom they all still live with, send them off to the wilderness where two military veterans teach them survival skills that will somehow transfer into maturity and accountability once they return home. Later on, it’s revealed that they’re also competing in a Survivor-style competition for a $50,000 prize.

The show’s authenticity immediately comes into question as we’re given a brief overview of the cast. You sense that the participants are either actors or non-professionals who were instructed to appear overly narcissistic and lazy by producers. For instance, a 19-year-old woman named Devon, who “parties 24/7,” tells us that her only contribution to society is being a vegan. A British white guy named Liam childishly asserts that cleaning is “not for me, hon!” And a Black man named Carl tells us, while playing basketball, that he dropped out of college without any further information about his life.

Overall, Snowflake Mountain has a familiar, early-to-mid-2000s Fox sensibility regarding its subject matter, mixed with the sort of overtly wacky tone of other Netflix programs like The Floor Is Lava and Is It Cake? The series lacks the stakes it tries to establish given how obviously scripted it all feels. And the challenges are as riveting as watching your neighbor cut down a tree, which is literally one of their assignments. (Although, there is one particularly shocking, unflinching scene where Devon, the vegan, has to butcher a deer carcass).

The depictions of the cast members become more bearable over time, treating them less like one-dimensional caricatures and more like recognizable human beings with backstories. Meanwhile, the survival experts, Matt and Joel, a former Army combat engineer and a former Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician, respectively, are purposely presented as disarming and approachable so as to convey the message that people who commit mass destruction for a living are actually harmless. Toward the end of Snowflake Mountain, you realize it touts the same centrist messaging of Netflix’s Emmy-winning original series Queer Eye, only this time aimed at progressive, urban millennials and Gen-Zers.

At a time when Netflix’s stock is plummeting due to a major loss in subscribers this year that’s only projected to get worse, Snowflake Mountain reads as a desperate attempt by the streaming service to court conservatives viewers who may not see themselves represented in their current slate of programming. Netflix has already taken a right-wing stance in our current culture war by allowing transphobic comedians to thrive on its platform, so why not invite bigoted subscribers to mock a decidedly diverse group of young people introduced in the most stereotypical fashion?

One can imagine Netflix executives defending Snowflake Mountain by claiming it pokes fun at young people broadly as opposed to the people of color and queer people that are cast in the show. But viewers who already make uninformed generalizations about younger generations—like the idea that they don’t work, are too sensitive, and are economically privileged—and earnestly use the term “snowflake,” typically hold bigoted views about the demographics on display in the series. Even as the show becomes more grounded and sympathetic, it’s already done the work of confirming any biases conservative viewers may have of Black women and gay men, for example.

All in all, Snowflake Mountain is another instance of Netflix, which likes to applaud itself for having progressive values and embracing diversity, wanting to have it both ways. It’s also another reminder that tech companies, particularly ones as big as Netflix, don’t actually have morals, and we shouldn’t really look to them to have any. If their newest reality series becomes a success, we should only expect more of this sort of bootlicking, conservative garbage in the future.

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Snowflake Alert: Colleges Offering Counseling For Those Upset With SCOTUS

By Pamela Glass | Wednesday, 29 June 2022 01:15

A number of U.S. colleges responded to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade , emptying a constitutional right to an abortion, by directing students to school counseling services.

The court’s Friday order in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization revoked the precedents set in Roe and the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which had sustained a right to an abortion under the Constitution. The Friday conclusion suggests that the issue returns to state legislatures.

As a consequence of the verdict, several colleges and universities published statements, with some prompting students to look for counseling and psychiatric services to “cope” with the ruling.

Santa Monica College, a community college in California, issued a statement saying it “affirms our support for the basic human right that SCOTUS has now called into question with this decision” and suggested directing students and staff to “mental wellness resources that can help you cope with current events.” The statement included contact information for Planned Parenthood.

“While this decision is not expected to impact reproductive rights in California, it will significantly impact basic rights for many women across the nation — with women from low-income communities and women of color disproportionately impacted — and give nearly half of the states the ability to end access to legal abortions,” college President Kathryn Jeffery said in a statement.

“We know many in our community are deeply concerned by today’s news and this reversal of a woman’s basic right to choose; many are just beginning to process the immeasurable impact and will continue to do so in the days to come. As U.S. President Joe Biden stated, ‘… it is a sad day for the Court and for our country.’”

The California state government has passed several laws providing the availability and legality of abortion, meaning that Friday’s ruling has little bearing on the availability of the procedure in the state.

In response to the ruling, University of Wisconsin-Madison interim Chancellor John Karl Scholz encouraged members of the university community to “seek support and community in ways that feel right to you” and added that “campus resources are also available to anyone seeking assistance in processing change and uncertainty.”

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FINALLY: WaPo Stands Up to Radical Left-Wing Snowflake Reporter Who Viciously Attacked Colleagues on Twitter

BY RICK MORAN JUN 10, 2022 12:19 PM ET

Washington Post Headquarters
Ten years ago when radical college snowflakes began their careers, many of us wondered just what sort of employees they’d make given their hypersensitivity to criticism and penchant for seeking confrontation
over trivial matters.

Meet Washington Post political reporter Felicia Sonmez. When noted WaPo political commentator David Weigel tweeted out a tasteless joke disparaging women, Somnez blitzed him with a series of tweets that had the veteran reporter apologizing in a matter of minutes.

Weigel shared a joke by YouTube host Cam Harless, who said, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.” Tasteless, yes. Inappropriate? In a workplace, absolutely.

But then, the madcap radical Sonmez attacked the Post for not firing Weigel on the spot. They eventually suspended the reporter without pay for a month

It didn’t end there. Sonmez went on the Twitter warpath, going after any colleague who supported the Post or claimed Somnez overreacted.

The Post editorial staff finally had enough. They fired Sonmez for “insubordination.”

Politico:

But the infighting continued from there. Another Post reporter, Jose A. Del Real, accused Sonmez of trying to publicly bully Weigel over a mistake for which he had apologized. Sonmez responded in kind: “When women stand up for themselves, some people respond with even more vitriol.”

Sonmez continued to rail against the paper’s leadership from there, with lengthy threads arguing that it had done little to create an inclusive culture or protect reporters from internal and external harassment. The New York Times reported on Thursday that in its termination letter to Sonmez, Post leadership wrote that her conduct amounted to “insubordination, maligning your co-workers online and violating The Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity.” POLITICO has not been able to authenticate the letter.

What makes this story significant is that it may mark a turning point in the untrammeled ability of these spoiled, entitled young people to create havoc over meaningless controversies. Simply asking Weigel to delete the offending tweet and apologize would have been more than enough for any reasonable manager or company. It should have been enough for Sonmez.

But Sonmez has made a huge deal about being a “MeToo survivor.” And, like any other snowflake, she needs special treatment or she’ll collapse in a heap of Jello, unable to move or speak.

The world is full of ugliness, tragedy, mean-spiritedness, and hate. If you can’t cover it without falling apart, perhaps the Post should find someone with a little more backbone. Of one thing we can be sure: there are at least 20 young people ready, willing, and eager to cover any story for the Washington Post without needing a “walk around the block” and who are almost certainly a damn sight more talented than Felicia Sonmez. There is nothing special about this woman at all.

She should have realized that before mouthing off to her superiors and getting herself fired.

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Ilhan Omar bashes ‘snowflakes’ who called her out for complaining about Christians

Some liberal journalists defended Omar’s comments

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ilhan-omar-bashes-snowflakes-who-called-her-complaining-about-christians

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., mocked her conservative critics as “snowflakes” after she faced blowback for bashing an Easter worship service on an airplane over the weekend.

The congresswoman shared a video of a worship leader with a guitar singing Christian worship music on the airplane. She included a sarcastic comment, “I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?”

After facing backlash from conservatives, Omar mocked her detractors as “snowflakes,” in a follow-up tweet Monday.

“And the original snowflakes had a complete and glorious meltdown,” she tweeted.

ILHAN OMAR MOCKED FOR VOICING OUTRAGE OVER EASTER WORSHIP ON PLANE: ‘WHY DO YOU HATE CHRISTIANS?’

Several reporters came to the defense of Omar. 

Philly Magazine editor-at-large Ernest Owens praised Omar’s original tweet about Muslims praying on a plane, “A point was made.” 

Deadspin sportswriter Chuck Modi complimented the congresswoman for her “very valid point,” before slamming her critics. 

“Right-wingers who hate Ilhan Omar: You are ‘attacking Christianity’ because I am stupid or dishonest or just pandering to my bigoted base,‘” he tweeted.

The Minnesota lawmaker has been a lightning rod for controversy since she took office in 2019 for her inflammatory comments about Jews, Israel and America.

Last June, Omar sent out a tweet equating the Taliban to America and Israel. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to take punitive actions against the congresswoman, saying she had a “right to make that point.”

The Democrat doubled down on her comment told CNN’s Jake Tapper she didn’t regret making the appalling comparison.

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Macrophotographer Snaps Snowflakes Up Close—And the Results Over Past 14 Winters Are Magical

By Anna Mason TIME February 18, 2022 – Link to source article at The Epoch Times

{Editor’s Note: We thought we’d treat our readers to a special collection of images showing the magnificence and uniqueness of ‘real’ snowflakes…]

It’s true: every single snowflake is unique—and nothing shows this better than photographer Alexey Kljatov’s macro snowflake photography.

Born in Moscow, 46-year-old Alexey still lives in the city. On a winter night in 2008, when the snow started to fall, he went out onto the balcony of his ninth-floor apartment and stood poised with his camera. Later that night, transferring the images onto a high-resolution screen, Alexey saw the results of his macrophotography experiment and was astounded.

Raised by photography-loving parents, Alexey was exposed to the art from a young age. Their Soviet-design equipment was good quality, but it wasn’t until digital cameras appeared that Alexey himself became interested.

(Courtesy of Alexey Kljatov)

“My first subjects were flowers, bugs, and butterflies,” he said. “I also photographed landscapes and cityscapes, especially night city illumination and moon photos at high resolution; I was obsessed with HDR for several years.”

Today, Alexey places his focus solely on snowflake macrophotography; his work sold widely, published by NASA, and featured in outlets such as USA Today and Fox News. The journey started when Alexey stumbled upon snowflake photos by Kenneth Libbrecht on the web.

“Words can’t describe how amazing and unbelievable the snowflakes look in his photos!” he exclaimed. “From that day, I waited for winter like never before, so I could try snowflake photography myself.”

(Courtesy of Alexey Kljatov)

Since that first night out on the balcony, Alexey’s technical skill and his understanding of the magic of water crystals continue to evolve.

His inspiration is the unlimited diversity of snowflake structures:

“Yes, each of these crystals can be classified to limited set of types, and some snowflakes look similar, but almost every snowflake session makes me say ‘Wow!’ when I transfer photos from the camera and see them on the high-resolution screen,” he said.

“Some snowflakes are not symmetrical; some look boring and uninteresting, but many of them are extremely beautiful, and have amazing, strange, and absolutely unique structures, shapes, or inner details.”

(Courtesy of Alexey Kljatov)

Years after starting with just a handheld camera on auto setting, plus a waterproof cover, Alexey has progressed to a far more advanced setup, he says, “with additional optics, tripod, fast serial shooting, and post-processing pipeline.”

While he loves getting out of the city to the Tver region, which he describes as a land of big lakes, woods, and swamps, Alexey says his apartment balcony is still the ideal spot for snowflake photography.

“Just two steps from home on balcony, I can start shooting instantly,” said Alexey. “I can shoot any time of the day and night, when I see falling snow from the window. Nobody disturbs me here.”

(Courtesy of Alexey Kljatov)

When doing this type of shooting, the outdoor temperature must be lower than 23–25 degrees Fahrenheit, otherwise the snowflakes melt too quickly, the photographer said, adding, “Shooting on the balcony also means I can go inside when I start to freeze.”

Are there any snowflakes he has found particularly mesmerizing?

One of his most favorite snowflakes he captured was during the previous winter—a stellar dendrite, one of most common types that has a very beautiful center “in the form of a hexagonal 3D pyramid and beautiful arms.”

(Courtesy of Alexey Kljatov)

“Each of them has an outer part which also resembles a snowflake, and this part has a star-like structure with side branches, coming in all directions, even inward. It’s an incredibly rare structure,” he said.

“Another remarkable finding is tiny plate without arms, just about one millimeter from tip to tip, but this tiny thing instantly attracted my attention even when I saw it with a naked eye on a black background: it has a square shape!

“Almost every snowflake has a hexagonal symmetry, or a variation, but this specimen had clearly visible rectangular symmetry not only in its shape, but also in all the inner details.”

(Courtesy of Alexey Kljatov)

Likening snowflake photography to a sort of hunting, fishing, or mineral collecting, Alexey says he’s never sure what he might catch each day. Sometimes, when he’s very lucky, he gets what he calls “super-snowfall.”

“This is when amazing, super, unique snowflakes are everywhere and I point and focus the camera as fast as I can to be able to catch more of the treasures falling around,” he said.

These super-snowfalls are rare events, though, and sometimes very short. But just half an hour can yield amazing photos, worth “several winters of ‘common snow’ shooting.”

(Courtesy of Alexey Kljatov)

Like many photographers, Alexey extols the benefits of Instagram for showcasing his work. He also uses Facebook, is growing a snowflake library on Patreon, and integrates his personal website, alexey-kljatov.pixels.com, with print-on-demand service, FineArtAmerica.

“My main goal is show people just one small part of the unbelievable macro world, unseen by our eyes” he added.

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‘Snowflake’ school bans students from touching snow

LIFESTYLE – Published February 27, 2018 8:06pm EST

A school in Britain is defending itself after being mocked for banning students from touching snow on school grounds.

Ges Smith of the Jo Richardson Community School in Dagenham, England, claims the ban is a “duty of care issue” that protects the school from potential lawsuits, the Telegraph reported.

“It only takes one student, one piece of grit, one stone in a snowball in an eye, with an injury and we change our view,” Smith said on Good Morning Britain.

“The rules are don’t touch the snow. If you don’t touch the snow you’re not going to throw it,” he added.

SCHOOL DISTRICT APOLOGIZES AFTER TEACHER BANS MAGA SHIRTS

The headmaster also argued that playing in the snow leaves children’s clothes wet and “unfit for school.”

As snow has been pelting the country because of the Beast from the East weather system, some schools have been banning snowball fights. However, Jo Richardson Community School is the only one to ban touching snow altogether, according to the Telegraph.

The school has been attacked on social media, and called a “snowflake” for its controversial decision.

“I think the snowflake society should build separate schools for their children, and let the rest of society’s children get on with doing, what children have been doing, since the beginning of time. Being children!

”Whoops! We couldn’t access this Tweet.

Another person felt similarly and tweeted, “For crying out loud let em have some fun before they have to start paying taxes.”

Even British talk show host Piers Morgan addressed the controversy saying the school would produce children “unprepared for normal life” if they were forced to follow these rules, the Telegraph reported.

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Though there were some who supported the school’s decision.

One person tweeted, “Yes it’s sad to ban snow ball throwing and handling in schools but we now live in an insurance claim society. There are many parents out there ready to make a claim. Children can always play in the snow outside school hours! #GMB”Whoops! We couldn’t access this Tweet.

Another wrote, “No of course we shouldn’t ban snow fun but I totally understand what this guy is saying. He’s the one responsible for the children and he has a duty of care whilst they are in the school grounds. If a child is injured some parents would see that as a green light to make a claim.

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Alexandra Deabler is a Lifestyle writer and editor for Fox News.

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Must See: Aaron Rodgers Calls Out ‘Snowflake’ Reporter Who Thwarted MVP Bid

Written By BlabberBuzz | Saturday, 08 January 2022 05:15

Aaron Rodgers, Quarterback of the Green Bay Packers

After one of the Associated Press’s 50 voters for the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award stated that Aaron Rodgers is “the biggest jerk in the league” and would be voting for someone else, Rodgers slammed the voter in a recent press conference.

Hub Arkush, a Chicago-based sportswriter and one of 50 Associated Press voters, announced while appearing on 670 The Score in Chicago that “I don’t think you can be the biggest jerk in the league and punish your team, and your organization and your fan base the way he did and be the Most Valuable Player,” according to Sports Illustrated.

“Has he been the most valuable on the field? Yeah, you could make that argument, but I don’t think he is clearly that much more valuable than Jonathan Taylor or Cooper Kupp or maybe even Tom Brady. So from where I sit, the rest of it is why he’s not gonna be my choice,” he went on.

“I think he’s a bum. I think he’s an absolute bum. He doesn’t know me. I don’t know who he is. No one knew who he was probably until yesterday’s comments,” the Green Bay Packers quarterback announced.

“But I mean to, and I listen to the comments, but to say he had his mind made up in the summertime. In the offseason that, you know, I had zero chance of winning the MVP, in my opinion should exclude, you know, future votes,” Rodgers went on.

“You know, his problem isn’t with me being a bad guy or the biggest jerk in the league. Because he doesn’t know me. He doesn’t know me, he doesn’t know anything about me. I’ve never met him. I knew I had lunch with him.

I’ve never had an interview with him. His problem is I’m not vaccinated,” he continued. “You know, so if he wants to go on a crusade and collude and come up with an extra letter, to put on the award just for this season, and make it the most valuable vaccinated player, then he should do that. But he’s a bum, and I’m not going to waste any time worrying about that stuff,” Rodgers went on.

Rodgers, who has refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, has lost sponsors and received backlash over his vaccine stance, and his backing of alternative treatments criticized by the media.

“I can guarantee you I will not be the only one not voting for him,” Arkush said.

For Arkush, it comes down to who Rodgers is as a person, not who Rodgers is as a quarterback.

“I just think that the way he’s carried himself is inappropriate,” Arkush said. “I think he’s a bad guy, and I don’t think a bad guy can be the most valuable guy at the same time.”

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“The Anti-Vax Right Are the REAL Snowflakes.” – Says RINO Adam Kinzinger Who’s on Jan 6 Committee with Liz Cheney

By Joe Hoft – The GatewayPundit.com
Published December 29, 2021 at 7:16am
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This guy is more than a RINO.  He’s weird too.  

Rep. Adam Kinzinger is a disgrace to America and the conservative movement.  He is now claiming that the COVID vaccine is healthy and ” The anti-vax right are the REAL snowflakes.”

RINO Kinzinger is not liked by Republicans or Democrats.  The people in his district hate him which is why he is not running again for reelection in 2022.   President Trump knows who Kinzinger really is and he let him know it.

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New Tom MacDonald Anti-SJW Music Video Featuring Blaire White Goes Mega Viral, Tops iTunes Charts

freedomrockradio.co/news — June 7, 2021

[Warning: Video contains strong language and a generous dose of reality…]

“I hear ’em preaching at a protest that hatred’s the problem, but hating straight men, white folks, and Christians is common. Coca Cola telling people they should be less white — they preaching tolerance but if you disagree, they fight,” MacDonald raps. “There’s a race war here, elections based on fear — Black lives only matter once every four years.”

Rapper Tom MacDonald is once again topping the iTunes charts with an incredible music video slamming woke social justice warriors.

The stunning video for his new song “Snowflakes” also features popular right-wing political commentator Blaire White.

“Snowflakes” reached #1 on the iTunes all-genre sales listing on Friday afternoon, beating out BTS’ “Butter (Cooler Remix).”

As of Monday evening, the video had been viewed 3,664,399 times.

MacDonald previously topped the charts with his video for “Fake Woke.”