In the second quarter, many of our (Inaudible) team members faced a negative guest reaction to our Pride assortment.

As you know we have featured a Pride assortment for more than a decade. However, after the launch of the assortment this year, members of our team began experiencing threats and aggressive actions that affected their sense of safety and well-being while at work. I want to make it clear, we denounce violence and hate of all kinds, and the safety of our team and our guests is our top priority. So, to protect the team in the face of these threatening circumstances, we quickly made changes, including the removal of items that are at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.

Pride is one of many heritage moments that are important to our guests and our team, and we’ll continue to support these moments in the future. They are just one part of our commitment to support a diverse team, which helps us serve a diverse set of guests. As we talk to these guests, they consistently tell us that target is their happy place.

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https://www.target.com/c/girls-clothing-kids/lgbt-pride/-/N-5xtwaZt4bgn

I would not know if Target is a happy place since I stopped shopping there when they came out with their bathroom policy. I know perversion when I see it. I know indoctrination when I see it. And I know our children are our most precious resource.

I do not know why people shop at Target. It is disheartening to see people not standing up for their children’s safety and protection.

David DeGerolamo

Mainstream media pundits were recently taken aback when it became utterly and finally clear that President Joe Biden has now reached mental depths so low that he can’t even respond to the easiest questions imaginable.

As a case in point, a reporter asked Biden for remarks about the holocaust-style wildfire in Maui that incinerated at least 99 innocent victims with over 1000 people still missing and 75% of the burned-out ruins unsearched.

Even a brain-injured sloth would have said something like “my heart goes out to the victims and their families” or “As a people, all of America feels this pain and all of us will work to rebuild these homes and lives” or “I will do everything in my power to bring comfort and relief to all who were affected by this tragedy.”  Or if he wasn’t feeling voluble, how about “it’s very sad” or “terrible, just terrible.”

But instead, Joe only fired back “No comment!” and flashed a disturbing grin before wandering off aimlessly. 

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I received the following comment for the article “Tipping Point”:

You say genocide but you’ll do exactly nothing.  Show me any single person that has done any single thing that will make a difference.  You see, you faggots will have to disembowel the secret service babies in front of their mothers.  You won’t.  Anything less will be the same as this half-nigger bellyaching about 2 billion “people” injured.  You’ll also delete this because you know that you’re scared to mess up your easy life yet you understand, albeit vaguely that our lives are over.  The communists won

Actually, I received it twice with two different names. I blacklisted the IP address and the system found 10 other comments linked to it in the system. All were comments by Jane. I restored the other comments but left the above comment to the dung pile. I then received a second email with the same content but a different name (the same IP address) which also was deleted.

My best guesses:

1. Jane is a plant.
2. Someone has gotten access to her cell phone or computer.

Unfortunately, Wes and I (and now Hammers Thor) have received much worse comments. This is why comments are moderated. I do understand frustration and the lack of patience. I also understand the attempts to marginalize and attack this site. And while the threat of a lawsuit over copyright infringement of a public high school in New York promoting a Zerohedge article seems to be over, I am just waiting for the next attack, threat or malicious label. As Rush Limbaugh said, he received satisfaction for living rent free in their minds.

The main reasons that I am posting this article are:

1. To let people know that comments have IP address attached.
2. To let people know that VPNs are not a valid workaround for comment moderation.
3. To possibly warn Jane that her security may be compromised.

However, I do want to stress that labels of any kind will not be tolerated attacking race or religion on the site. While living rent free in the minds of evil people has some satisfaction, knowing that this site is a thorn in their side also brings satisfaction. In closing, I once again implore any decent federal employees to assess the evil for whom they work. If you are CIA or FBI and believe that you are one of the “good guys”, you are only justifying working for evil. Stop it.

David DeGerolamo

I finished watching the latest Tucker Carlson interview with RFK Jr. that was posted earlier today. Since there were no comments about its content, I will assume that it was TL;DR (too long; don’t read) or TL;DW in this case for people to watch.

And that is a shame. There is so much information in that 1 hour and 21 minutes that should be disseminated and discussed by the people in this country. Fauci’s crimes, bioweapons’ laboratories across the world funded by the US illegally, the CIA and mafia involvement with John Kennedy and his assassination and the drug cartels’ money operations with human trafficking.

While the information was disheartening, it makes me mad that our “media” suppresses it at the behest of the CIA. If I knew how to get people to watch the interview, I would do it.

This is a more appropriate graphic:

I don’t know what it will take to have people discern the truth and fight evil but the longer we wait, the worse it will be.

David DeGerolamo

It has been my privilege to be a contributor to NCRenegade for some time now, and have been a follower/reader for much longer. NCRenegade historically addresses topics that primarily affect North Carolinians, but is certainly not limited to this, as the issues that affect us are almost always the same that affect everyone.

We’re are at a tipping point regarding freedom in our nation. As David said, we may already be here. Freedom to speak, freedom to defend ourselves and our constitution, freedom to worship, and freedom to decide our own destiny. We’ve been headed this way for some time, but the growth of tyranny has been, as it is with all tyrannies, exponential. It’s not a stretch to imagine living in a soft dictatorship within months, and once there, the total and complete elimination of any dissent, whether by censorship or by force, or both.

Everyone here knows, or is pretty sure, that what is happening to us, to all Americans, is not due to incompetence, but driven by pure, unadulterated, sociopathic evil. This evil seeks to kill us all, and it’s succeeding. It is suggested, and likely, that 20 million people worldwide have been murdered by the covid vaccines, and that upwards of 2.2 billion have been badly injured, and are likely to die within the next 5 years from their injuries. That’s mass murder, genocide, on a scale never before seen. Tens of thousands of Americans will die early from the chemical attack at East Palestine, Ohio, and at least a hundred, and probably hundreds more, most of them children, were killed by an out-of-control wildfire in Hawai’i that was in all likelihood deliberately set, then grossly mismanaged by their government. Children who were burned alive as a sacrifice to evil. Add to this the trafficking of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of young boys and girls that have been subjected to the unspeakable psycopathy of child rape and torture. Children, many as young as five years old, brutalized, often ten times a day or more, for years, then sacrificed for their organs, for the sick pleasure of monsters and the profit of politicians. There are more examples of this depravity than I can possibly list. You know what they are. We all do. They are killing us. They hope to kill us all. And they enjoy it.

There are things that we can do to maintain our freedoms (and our lives), and to not submit to this lawlessness and evil. The day is coming when our choice is either death or slavery. We’ll know when that day arrives. In the meantime, it must be a priority to maintain our health and strength. We must not give in to the endless propaganda delivered by the mainstream media or the evil and corrupt Biden regime. Remember, when they speak, they are lying.

We must never give in to their lies. Call them out, each and every time. Tell everyone, publically, loudly, so that, even if the person you are speaking to is unable to hear, the third person may overhear and learn. More importantly, you must prepare to survive. I will not go into how to prepare, as there are more articles and tutorials on what, how, where and why to do this than I can possibly count. I’ll just list those things that you cannot live without.

• A place of long-term safety. This will not be in a city, or a subdivision. Think small home, in a place that no one else wants to be. Preferably above 2000 feet altitude… more on that later.
• Water. At least TWO sources. Think well, with a hand-pump, and rainwater. Perhaps a spring, or a ram pump from a creek. You’ll also need to filter it. Without water, you will die. Quickly. If you do not have water available within a hundred feet of your home, then imagine carrying two five-gallon buckets of water from wherever you can get it, every day, rain, heat, snow, and when you’re injured, or too sick to get out of bed.
• Food. Do you have enough? Can you grow enough? Some people say you cannot. Others say you can. It depends on how much use you make of your space. The fact is, with planning and optimum conditions, you can grow enough food for a family of four on an acre of land or less. You won’t be able to do this the first year, however, or even the second. There are plenty of tutorials on how to do this online. Study them. Remember you’ll have to grow a year’s supply of food in a six-month growing season. That’s a lot of work. Get started. Now would be a great time to get your fall garden in the ground. Wait, what? Fall garden? Who does that? People who know that you can. Now you do too. There’s a fellow in New Jersey that grows way more food than he can eat in his backyard food forest. He gives most of it away. Be like that guy.
• Defense. There is no one who visits this site who does not understand this. Plan for a worst-case scenario, then triple it. Hint: You’re going to need friends. Live in the mountains, where the thugs have to walk uphill to get to you. They’ll be tired when they get there. This is a good thing.
  
  There’s plenty more, but those are the basics. Without doing these things, you’re just preparing to die. Slowly, and horribly. Stop being stupid. Get started. Get in shape, get supplies, sell your bloated house in the subdivision while you still can (and homeschool your kids instead of punishing them in the public school system), and get somewhere you can actually survive what’s coming. Time is up.

Some new fan art created by @seanlongmore (shared via @layeredbutter on Instagram) imagines Barbie and Oppenheimer as one mythic movie titled “Barbenheimer.”

I was asked this morning when the economic collapse would come or if I thought it was already here. I said we are already here. This was an appropriate question since I had just finished reading the following article on Zerohedge:

“I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Barbie World” Says The Fed, And The PBOC Too

‘The Long, Slow Death of Global Development’ outlines how Global South economies used to have industrial sectors as growth drivers until neoliberalism hollowed them out, leaving only volatile commodity and rates cycles and low-productivity services “wage hunters and gatherers”, “too many workers and far too few good jobs to put them in”, and “premature financialization” of a “highly predatory character.” That’s Argentina, and many others. There is no easy fix, which is why ‘dollarisation’ is flagged as well as ‘dedollarisation’, global commodity producers try to move up the value chain, and we see war and coups.

Yet today the West looks like the Global South too. Its YouTubers, TikTok influencers, and gig jobbers can’t afford to buy or rent a home, marry or have kids, or even eat well or stay warm: they flood into digital pyramid schemes. Governments seem incompetent or powerless. Populism is surging. The Guardian argues, ‘Let’s stop kidding ourselves we’re a rich nation and get real… the UK’s gone bust’, and that: “Britain has to start thinking of itself not as a rich industrial country but as a poor country facing first-order economic development challenges. Large parts of the UK are scarcely better off than middle-income developing countries, and on current trends are about to get poorer.” I was saying DM = EM in 2022, if you recall.

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I strongly recommend that you read the entire article. Or I should say “study” the entire article and think about the consequences of its content. This was my question after reading it: what will Americans do when forced to live in third world conditions? Consider the following:

LA’S HOMELESS RESPONSE LEADERS UNITE TO ADDRESS UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS AS HOMELESS COUNT RISES

LOS ANGELES – The 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count results were released today, showing a 9% rise in homelessness on any given night in Los Angeles County to an estimated 75,518 people and a 10% rise in the City of Los Angeles to an estimated 46,260 people. While this year’s increases are slightly lower than previous year-over-year increases in the homeless count, they continue a steady growth trend of people experiencing homelessness in the annual Point-in-Time Count (PIT Count).  

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Consider the county where I live:

Cherokee County

County in North Carolina, United States of America, North America

Population: 29,167 (2021) www2.census.gov

There are more homeless people in the City of Los Angeles than the total amount of people in my county: 158% more homeless than my county’s population. And nothing is being done except talk and wasted funding for a problem that has increased 10% in the past year. This is only one city. Let’s be honest: every Democrat run city is in the same condition and the number is only exploding as Bidenomics lets illegal aliens (and terrorists) into the country.

Back to the article on Zerohedge:

Via a higher US dollar, the Fed can then help cap commodity prices, which are rising again, risking an inflation upswing in H2 2023 and H1 2024 – and hurting Russia and ‘dedollarization’ rivals to boot; it can push back against bullish China stories and pull capital into US markets; and it will see more headlines bewailing the struggles of the private equity industry, or that the ‘Number of China hedge funds falls for first time since 2012’, as ‘Investors bemoan end of an era for offshore China hedge funds’: wait until the number of US hedge funds falls too, then private equity firms, then other forms of shadow banking predicated on financialisation, not national-security physical production.

“I am become Death, the destroyer of Barbie World,” says the Fed as rates rise and stay high; and the PBOC too, as they cut them.

Or as stated in the article: Barbenheimer (a cross between a fantasy Barbie land and the nuclear threat to the world by Oppenheimer):

Mr. Market, with the greatest array of intellectual firepower since Los Alamos, is not focused on this theoretical thinking because he now lives in Barbie World and only wants pink plastic rate cuts, higher asset prices, and more China stimulus: welcome to the real ‘Barbenheimer’!

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The world’s economy and globalization have collapsed. We do not have to acknowledge it and most will not face the truth. The media will not report on the real news: vaccine deaths, inflation, woke military, voter fraud and a tyrannical government. I do not even know where to start with “government” since all of our “problems” are caused or manufactured by government.

If you have read this far, I have a request. Please implement a plan to accommodate a third world lifestyle in your future based on the information in the Zerohedge article. I know it may be a difficult article to read and comprehend for some. Shelter, heat, food and water will be essential for your immediate needs as will the ability to protect yourself and community. As always trust in the Lord with all of your heart as the foundation of your life.

David DeGerolamo

MICHAEL BURRY REVEALS MASSIVE BETS AGAINST STOCK MARKET

In a recent regulatory filing, Michael Burry, known for predicting the subprime mortgage crisis, unveiled potential significant bets against the stock market. Burry’s hedge fund, Scion Asset Management, held put options against 2,000,000 shares of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, which tracks the S&P 500. The value of these contracts at the end of June was $886.6 million. Additionally, Scion held put options against 2,000,000 shares of the Invesco QQQ ETF, which tracks the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 index. These contracts were valued at $738.8 million at the end of the second quarter.

Put options increase in value when the underlying asset decreases in price. These bets were especially noteworthy in Burry’s portfolio, as the rest of his holdings were significantly smaller. It should be noted that the filing only reveals Burry’s holdings at the end of the second quarter, so it is possible that he has exited the bearish position or made additional moves since then. These trades could also serve as a form of hedge.

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