On this week's episode of Relatable, Allie talks about the backlash Target has received for their pride collection, Ron DeSantis officially announcing his bid for the Republican nomination, and why you should vote for Donald Trump.
00:03:23.320And I hate that we're already getting into these fights and these battles, especially
00:03:28.700when it comes to who's going to be the Republican nominee.
00:03:32.180Now, really, the two people that are running for the nomination are Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
00:03:37.620That's not to say that we can necessarily count anyone else out yet, but just looking at the numbers, looking at the polling and just kind of feeling the sense of where people are.
00:03:50.120Nikki Haley probably is not going to get the nomination.
00:04:18.620And look, I'm not trying to be mean by saying this, but it's true.
00:04:21.700Like, even in my own DMs and in the comments that I get, like, I think that Trump primary voters, I say this as someone who has had Donald Trump on my show.
00:04:30.740I'm very thankful for a lot of the policies that he put forth.
00:04:36.420But it seems like the diehard Trump supporters, like the Trump primary voters, are some of the maddest people on the Internet at all times.
00:04:45.080Like, if you say anything that is even slightly negative about Donald Trump or say, well, I think that this other nominee could do a good job.
00:04:52.200Or if you just look at the facts of people's records, like, you will get very, very angry and not just, hey, I disagree with you, but, like, some of the angriest and meanest messages and comments I've ever received are from this crowd.
00:05:07.320Like, I might just share, like, a Ron DeSantis post and I'll get all of these, like, very angry messages from, like, the diehard Trump supporters.
00:06:26.960There is no one who is going to ride in on a white horse and single-handedly save the, you know, the Western world or the United States of America.
00:06:44.500And that's actually, I think, what's fostering, like, a lot of your anger.
00:06:47.240I understand getting angry and having arguments over the issues themselves, but these are finite, fallible, imperfect people who, at the end of the day, don't know us.
00:06:59.440They are people that we are putting in place to serve the interests and the well-being of the people who voted for them, of the American people, okay?
00:07:31.000You might just have to be kicked off, you know, not follow me on Instagram for a little while here because I just think that the contention right now is too much.
00:07:38.780Now, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to tell you what I think about what's going on.
00:07:42.720But in my opinions about things, because that's obviously why you listen to this podcast, again, as someone who supported Donald Trump and supported a lot of his policies and is thankful for that, was very thankful that he took the time to come on my show.
00:09:01.520If you've got a young person with stamina who is out there talking to the people, gathering crowds, advocating for the things that matter in a way that projects strength and fortitude, that's going to look really good.
00:09:19.080And really favorable against an old man who has to take his first nap at 9 a.m.
00:09:25.420So that alone is going to present a kind of dichotomy to the American people that I think even just like the independent average voter is going to go toward the side of strength and fortitude and perseverance and stamina rather than the guy that can't even string sentences together.
00:09:43.000But if you've got someone who is in his basement yet seems subdued and quiet and compassionate and empathetic and a unifier, which is absolutely crazy that anyone would think that at this point, I understand.
00:09:58.200And then you've got this guy over here who, unfortunately, a lot of people think says, you know, absolutely ridiculous things and is a bully and is sometimes equally incoherent and only cares about himself and loyalty to him.
00:10:12.180And not necessarily the moral social issues that you and I do, then people will go towards Joe Biden, the candidate to represent sanity best, the candidate to best represent stability, the candidate to best represent normalcy, a sort of real resurgence of American strength and excellence.
00:10:37.600The person who comes in and says, you know, I'm going to make things work well again in the United States, that person, I think, in the general election is the one that's going to win at this point, just because of age, because of history, because of persona, personality, just like his inability, I think, to stay on track and to really care about the things that matter.
00:11:02.200I do not think that Trump can win the general election.
00:11:46.700And by the way, even if you're like the only reason that Donald Trump lost in the last election was because of all of the funny business that went on, like even if that's your position, has that been fixed?
00:11:59.440Have any of those broken mechanisms or corrupt systems been rectified for 2024?
00:12:05.500And if not, then what makes you think that it's going to be different this time?
00:12:10.580If you think that Donald Trump poses like such a unique threat to the globalist powers that be, that they are going to stop him no matter what, then what's going to change in 2024?
00:12:22.540Of course, I also just think that he is not popular enough.
00:12:26.560He's not popular enough to win the general election.
00:12:29.060I understand he has a lot of supporters and they're very passionate.
00:12:57.760Okay, so you've already heard probably some of the stuff that I'm going to talk about, but there have been some developments.
00:13:04.660And I want to give as much background as possible for those of you who haven't been following this Target saga.
00:13:09.860I won't back all the way up because I've already talked about a lot of it in a previous episode.
00:13:13.700So go back and listen to, I think, an episode that we did last week about what Target is selling, their new Pride Month, and just how absolutely depraved and awful it is when it comes to compression tops for girls who want to present themselves as boys and push their breasts down.
00:13:30.420When it comes to bathing suits meant for tucking so boys can tuck their genitalia to look more female.
00:13:37.320It is so absolutely demonic and disgusting.
00:13:40.420But there's been more that's come out about the kind of design partnerships that Target has with some people who are developing some of the products that they're selling.
00:13:49.060And a couple products that are actually blatantly demonic and satanic, glorifying hell and glorifying Satan and all of that.
00:14:00.400And then now, as we will get into, Target has actually had to issue a statement because of the backlash to all of this.
00:14:07.640So as part of the 2023 Pride Collection, Target created a partnership with someone named Eric Carnell, creator of Eprolin, an LGBTQ company based in London.
00:14:21.080Now, I'll put up some products that's being sold that are being sold at Target.
00:14:26.360A fanny pack that says, we belong everywhere with the trans flag, too queer for here with a little UFO, and then a sweatshirt that we talked about last week.
00:14:36.360It says, cure transphobia, not trans people.
00:14:41.060And again, just a little bit of a question of what that means.
00:14:44.560It seems like a little bit of a veiled threat.
00:14:46.920I will say, I mean, they're cute designs.
00:14:48.860I can totally see why they're popular.
00:14:50.600Just based on the aesthetic alone, I understand why Target partnered with this person.
00:14:57.380This person is obviously very artistic, very talented.
00:15:00.120I see why the designs themselves are popular.
00:15:02.820This kind of retro look is very in right now.
00:15:06.360As I've always said, I think it's very strange, though, the use of baby colors, the use of pastels in these products.
00:15:13.420Not that adults can't wear pastels, but the juxtaposition of the baby blues and the baby pinks, I think, is made to look very infant-like.
00:15:21.180And if you go back to the history, as we've talked about many times, of the trans flag that was created by a man who identified as a woman, or still does, named Monica Helm.
00:15:31.580And the literature that this man wrote actually glorifying pedophilia, glorifying the idea of being trapped in a little six-year-old girl's body, that's who created the trans flag, this baby blue and baby pink, these baby colors, I think is very strange.
00:15:48.140So that in and of itself, any glorification of the trans flag, any inclusion of the trans flag, knowing its history, and that it just represents this absolutely depraved and deceptive idea that you can actually switch your genders, that in and of itself is radical.
00:16:06.260There were people who decided to dig into the designer of these shirts, and they saw that this person is extremely, extremely violent in their rhetoric.
00:16:18.640And also, I don't know, by the way, if this is a male or a female, so I just don't know.
00:16:24.000You guys know I use biological pronouns.
00:16:25.720But the designs are very, very violent, not the ones being sold by Target, but the other designs on this person's website.
00:16:36.840And then there are also posts where this person says that they are a Satanist and that they love Satan.
00:16:45.960So let me go through some of those designs.
00:16:49.400So here's one that says, burn down the system, C-I-S-T-E-M, and it's a little lighter.
00:16:58.940And of course, what that means, cis, is you are the gender that you were born as.
00:17:05.140It's another totally nonsensical term that was created by very depraved and confused people in the 1960s and 70s.
00:17:13.180And then there's one that's a guillotine.
00:18:44.180There's not a coincidence that there is a crossover here, a very significant crossover between the demonic, between the satanic, and transgenderism.
00:18:50.640Because this statement, even though this person doesn't realize it, is absolutely true.
00:18:54.640Satan does respect pronouns in the sense that, yes, he would absolutely call someone they.
00:18:59.980Actually, we can read the interaction between the demon-possessed person that was wandering among the tombstones in Jesus, in the book of Mark in particular.
00:19:11.960And this person was possessed by a legion of demons.
00:19:15.840And so thousands and thousands of demons.
00:19:17.780And because he was indwelled by all of these demons, he is referred to as they.
00:19:43.700He loves for you to reject the body that God gave you because he hates you.
00:19:49.380I know this person doesn't actually believe in the real Satan and so thinks that Satan represents love.
00:19:55.780That's actually the greatest trick that the devil can play on you, is convincing you that he doesn't really exist.
00:20:01.260He doesn't really care whether you really believe that he exists.
00:20:04.640He doesn't really care if you really believe in hell.
00:20:07.280He doesn't really care how you depict him.
00:20:09.000As long as you are worshiping someone other than the creator, as long as you are accomplishing his purposes, he doesn't really care what your belief system is.
00:20:18.280And this person has stated something that is actually very theologically true.
00:20:23.020That Satan would absolutely call someone by the pronouns that do not correspond with their biology.
00:20:44.000He loves the perversion and the depravity and the sickness and the sorrow and the sadness and the body mutilation that comes from all of it.
00:20:52.080So this person is at least extremely intuitive in understanding what side they're on.
00:20:57.500And Target has made the conscious decision to partner with a person that is an open Satanist and who is pushing these kinds of demonic and destructive ideas.
00:21:11.540There are also a lot of depictions of death in this person's artwork.
00:21:14.720There is one particular picture of like a bigger skeleton passing on a flame in the colors of a transgender flag to a smaller skeleton says the fires of today's trans adults will light the way for tomorrows.
00:21:29.000And so, again, talking about children may mean their bodies, denying the body, the identity that God gave them.
00:21:37.400Other stickers, heteronormativity is a plague.
00:22:26.360And so, of course, he is going to encourage his followers, the people that follow him and adhere to him.
00:22:34.500Of course, he's going to encourage them to be violent and to be murderous, both unfortunately against themselves.
00:22:40.580The suicide rates among people who identify as trans show that, but then also violent towards other people.
00:22:48.060Now, Target has responded to the backlash here because this was just all like a little too far for people.
00:22:53.060You can imagine, okay, rainbows, whatever.
00:22:56.700Some people were just, you know, like Christians like me, of course, we're for traditional marriage.
00:23:01.220We're against all of that, all of the sexual revolution, anything besides sex between one man and one woman in the context of marriage we are against.
00:23:10.980But it's like, okay, you got a few rainbows in the back.
00:23:14.900You can easily explain it to your child by explaining the Noahic covenant if you want to.
00:23:20.500But this, the tucking, the chest binding, the transgender flag onesies, the partnering with an open Satanist, it was too much for people.
00:23:28.980And it's caused massive backlash and massive anger on social media.
00:23:33.420And on the heels of the Bud Light boycott, I think a lot of conservatives, a lot of Christians, a lot of people just anti this stuff have said, ooh, we can actually make a difference because Bud Light is actually still suffering.
00:23:45.200They're still suffering from the Bud Light boycott after they hoisted up Dylan Mulvaney as some kind of hero.
00:23:50.900And so I think that there is some, there's some motivation.
00:23:55.320There's some momentum, I should say, from conservatives to be like, yeah, we're going to do the same thing to Target.
00:24:02.120So I'll get into Target's response in just a second.
00:24:04.220Okay, so as I said, Target, after all of this backlash, so many people talking about this on social media, so many people saying that they're going to boycott.
00:24:24.760But as I said, I started boycotting a year ago, a lot of you joined me then, a lot of people just now are being like, wow, this is really bad.
00:24:53.080I can't even walk into a Target without explaining all of this stuff to my kids.
00:24:56.920So this is when it's gone too far, the Satan stuff too far.
00:25:00.220So on Wednesday, last week, Target released a statement or yesterday, alleging that the reason it was pulling products and making adjustments to their pride collection plans was due to threats they've received and a concern for team member safety.
00:25:14.340And so they started apparently in Southern stores either taking down their pride segments or moving it to the back or diminishing it.
00:25:21.400They're they're pulling some of these products and they're not going to sell it anymore because of the backlash.
00:25:26.820And they're claiming there have been violent threats against their employees, which obviously is wrong.
00:25:31.700You shouldn't be threatening their employees if that's something that's happening.
00:25:34.860But the thing is, I don't know that that's happening.
00:25:37.120This is something that Target's saying.
00:25:38.460They're presenting themselves as victims.
00:25:44.760Those hospitals that were performing the bodily mutilation surgeries in the name of gender affirmation on children, they claim to be the victims when really the ones they are the ones victimizing.
00:25:55.020So Target is really kind of doing the same thing here.
00:25:57.440So I don't know if the allegation is true that anyone has called in and threatened people.
00:26:02.060If that is true, obviously it's wrong.
00:26:03.980These employees, these managers don't have any say in the products that are being sold or even where they're set up.
00:26:19.640And they held an emergency call last Friday telling some managers and district senior directors to tamp down the pride sections immediately.
00:26:30.980An insider reported that they were given 36 hours to move the entire pride section from the front of the store to a section that was a third the size in the back of the store.
00:26:58.800Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.
00:27:06.320Our focus now is on moving forward with our continuing commitment to the LGBTQIA plus community and standing with them as we celebrate Pride Month and throughout the year.
00:27:16.120So obviously there's no apology there.
00:27:17.780They're not like sad or sorry that they partnered with an open Satanist.
00:27:22.120They don't wish that they hadn't gone so far.
00:27:25.140Like they're not apologizing for encouraging body mutilation of kids or hiding, you know, hiding genitalia.
00:27:32.600It's not like they're repentant here or anything like that.
00:27:36.100Apparently they are also re-looking at this partnership with the open Satanist and this person's products.
00:27:43.900So this company issued a statement on their Instagram saying,
00:27:48.200Going forward, I do not know if Target will begin selling the three items I designed for them again or if the unjust backlash is not worth the risk of supporting the LGBT plus community.
00:27:57.340I hope that none of Target's retail employees are the victims of further threats and that none of them come to any harm.
00:28:02.080As for my Target Pride collection, I will hopefully know more in the next few days.
00:28:04.920Until then, I cannot update you with information I do not have.
00:28:08.000If you wish to support me, you can do so through my website or Etsy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:28:11.780So, um, Gavin Newsom also criticized Target.
00:28:16.000My thought is because of all this, Target is going to fold.
00:28:18.460They're going to re-double down and I'll tell you a little bit more about why in a second.
00:28:23.100But Gavin Newsom said this, CEO of Target, Brian Cornell, selling out the LGBTQ plus community to extremists is a real profile in courage.
00:30:07.440We're not, it's not even close to a victory.
00:30:11.780Do not think because they've made these changes and they've issued a statement and they've heard your voices that that's enough and that you can move on and you can go back to Target.
00:30:53.980I got a list from y'all of various places that you can shop at besides Target.
00:31:01.940And the reason why I haven't said them yet or why I'm not going to say all of them on this podcast is because I just didn't have time to research them.
00:31:09.900Some of the things that were suggested, some of the stores that were suggested as alternatives to Target are actually like probably just as woke themselves.
00:31:19.200So I need to take time to research them.
00:31:20.940But look, I would say the biggest thing is try to shop small, try to shop secondhand, try to go directly to the website of the product that you typically buy from Target.
00:31:35.980Go to your local grocer, go to grocery stores.
00:31:39.520And look, I'm not saying that it's going to be easy to let go of Target.
00:33:26.560Bud Light is still feeling the boycott.
00:33:28.700Like that's actually more than I thought would happen with the Bud Light boycott.
00:33:33.000I honestly thought that things would kind of spring back quickly and that they wouldn't really care because they care more about their shareholders who are all progressive than they do their customer base.
00:33:44.180But apparently Bud Light is really struggling after hoisting up Dylan Mulvaney.
00:33:48.640Target, I think, is really going to struggle too.
00:33:51.220Now, we know who the shareholders in Target are.
00:33:55.220Glenn talked about that this morning on his show.
00:50:41.280I've got so much I still need to talk about.
00:50:43.580I wanted to talk about, I wanted to respond to something that Jen Hatmaker said today.
00:50:47.480I'll probably have to do that on Tuesday or sometime next week.
00:50:49.680We've got a lot of good subjects coming down the pipeline that I'm excited to talk about with you guys.
00:50:56.320I just want to reiterate my thanks for you guys, the encouragement, the prayers from the related bells and yes, the related bros out there.
00:51:03.300You guys just mean a whole lot to me and I'm very thankful for you.
00:51:06.960I'm very thankful for this family, for this community and how we lift each other up and share the arrows.