Target’s newest pride strategist bringing a whole new LGBT spirit to Christmas

Via The Washington Examiner

Gay Santas and LGBT-themed nutcrackers are set to line the shelves at Target this Christmas season as the retail giant makes another foray into the world of pride merchandise.

Erik Thompson, who markets himself as a “Senior LGBTQIA+ Segmentation Strategist & Pride Lead,” is Target’s latest leader for multicultural merchandising.

He announced his partnership with Target earlier this week in an Instagram post, citing the backlash and drop in sales that the retailer endured as a result of its Pride month merchandise featuring a “tuck-friendly” swimsuit.

“Honored to get to start a new body of work and lead Target’s LGBTQIA+ multicultural merchandising strategy and Pride businesses for the company and the LGBTQIA+ & Allied communities across the the [sic] nation,” Thompson, who goes by the username “gaycruella” on Instagram, said in the caption.

“Time to whip out the … Glitter & Hellfire … flamethrowers and rip that old world to shreds darlings.”

His new position with Target is an “honor,” Thompson said.

Whether the multicultural merchandising lead will be successful is yet to be seen, but Target’s 2023 Pride month venture saw its stock plummet and the company lose billions of dollars.

Estimated losses due to boycotts related to pride-themed merchandise are reportedly around $15 billion.

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Señior Corroberation
Señior Corroberation
November 21, 2023 3:06 pm

Where did all the home electronics stores go?

49%mfer
49%mfer
  Señior Corroberation
November 21, 2023 8:08 pm

Out of business. Looted by the melanin-enhanced crowd.

Texas Khaan
Texas Khaan
  49%mfer
November 21, 2023 11:04 pm

MEL
Melanin
Enhanced
Looters

Laura ann
Laura ann
  49%mfer
November 22, 2023 11:57 am

Only because the cowardly store managers didn’t care about losing their jobs.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2023 3:08 pm

fuck them

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  Anonymous
November 21, 2023 8:17 pm

and FJB.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  Aunt Acid
November 21, 2023 11:02 pm

Corporate Clown World.
Burn to the ground Tar-Gay.
The only one’s who will care are your witless shareholders.
Fuck off forever.

Cricket
Cricket
November 21, 2023 3:09 pm

I stopped going to Target when I visit the US around the time they decided it was OK to let grown men use the women’s bathrooms.

Target’s management appears to have learned nothing from the consumer backlash they suffered when Target went all in and thensome on pride month earlier this year.

Target went broke in Canada, so here’s to hoping for same for their US stores.

Cpt_Obviuos
Cpt_Obviuos
  Cricket
November 21, 2023 7:28 pm

When I was a young child, our next door neighbors (man, wife and child around my age) were Canadians — this was in the early ’70’s, in Stafford, TX — and the lady was French-Canadian.

I just remember hearing my parents laugh (and later understanding why) when Pama saw a Target store and called it “tar-ZHAY.” So we always called it Tar-ZHAY afterwards, just because everything sounds better in French.

It’s sad that now I have good memories ruined. Thanks, Gay Tarzhay.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Cricket
November 22, 2023 10:59 am

20+ years since we have been to Targay and 13 years since we have to WallyWorld. Miss them like a sore tooth.

Laura ann
Laura ann
  Balbinus
November 22, 2023 12:00 pm

Problem is unless you are super wealthy we sometimes go to Wal Mart to beat other stores prices. I do not buy their meats. Many lgbtq people otherwise Target would be out of business now.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2023 3:10 pm

And yet the normies still can’t help pissing away their money on junk from target fucking queers

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Anonymous
November 22, 2023 11:03 am

Aim your business toward 2% of the population and watch the other 98% go somewhere else. Great business model!

Laura ann
Laura ann
  Balbinus
November 22, 2023 1:15 pm

It may be 15 or 20 % now days as younger generations of boys fed soy forumlas decades ago, that now cause girls to mature sooner from estrogen in soy. LGBTQ and gay marriages are in some churches, thus a higher percentage now than maybe 30 or 40 yrs ago it would be banned then.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
November 21, 2023 3:22 pm

Maybe someone who literally has some money to burn will buy some of those gay Santas and Nutcrackers and burn the Santas and Nutcrackers and post it on Tik Tok. Make it go viral, just for fun.

Not me. I won’t step foot in that store and haven’t for many years.

Gary
Gary
  Mary Christine
November 21, 2023 5:21 pm

Or throw them off roof tops 🤔

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
November 21, 2023 3:22 pm

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N’interrompez jamais votre ennemi lorsqu’il fait une erreur

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
November 22, 2023 9:52 am

Intepretation:
Capitan”Horsey, let’s go that way.”
Horsey “nay”

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2023 3:24 pm

They can hire the Bud-Light ” mascot “

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Anonymous
November 21, 2023 4:03 pm

Even Old Style beer hasn’t learned a lesson. From their website:
https://oldstylebeer.com/
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Now is not a time to be nostalgic.

As a society, we need to be looking forward. Embracing what we hold dear not by fetishizing its glory days, but by honoring our valuable heritage with a renewed spirit of confidence, self-awareness, inclusion, and building something for us to be proud of not just now, but for decades to come.

Old Style’s namesake and history might imply a brand that isn’t positioned to align with that ethos. Old Style does not reflect one’s age. It reflects one’s ability to authentically feel young.
**************

They’re apologizing for the name of their beer, FFS!

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Iska Waran
November 21, 2023 5:08 pm

Old Style does not reflect one’s age. It reflects one’s ability to authentically feel young…
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Right.

k31
k31
  hardscrabble farmer
November 21, 2023 7:12 pm

I never realized how tough old people have to be.

Ed
Ed
  k31
November 22, 2023 10:36 am

Yep, gettin’ old ain’t for sissies.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Iska Waran
November 21, 2023 6:09 pm

Piss beer anyway

A cruel accountant
A cruel accountant
  Iska Waran
November 21, 2023 8:40 pm

Iska

Old style went to shit 30 years ago. After they stopped using artesian water started using tap water.

Hammuh
Hammuh
  A cruel accountant
November 22, 2023 2:54 am

I think it was about 1997 they changed it. They didn’t say ‘Fully Kreusened’ anymore. Sent my nephew out to the Jewel-Osco stores and he came back with 30 cases of old Old Style.

Tim
Tim
  Iska Waran
November 21, 2023 9:06 pm

Remembering the tag line from Schlitz: “The beer that made Milwaukee famous”. Not sure that would be a good association these days.

Footnote: Ice cold Schlitz used to be one of the better after game drinks during summer softball season.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Tim
November 22, 2023 9:59 am

Alcohol has enslaved humans to the Heroin of Sugars for millenia.
Reading Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Years Together finally answered the question.
“Merchants” have used alcohol to defraud and enslave nons for millenia; and it’s what got them kicked out of all those countries… .
Distillation and usury.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2023 3:25 pm

Oh, not The Babylon Bee?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Administrator
November 21, 2023 3:50 pm

Dog dick is biological, anatomical fact, but mine’s a social construct. We’re both mammals that reproduce identically.

Got it.

Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor, but I play one on the Internet.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 21, 2023 5:37 pm

DVs? What was misunderstood here? The trans loons claim the nonsense that human sexuality is a social construct, not a biological fact.

A9racer
A9racer
  Anonymous
November 22, 2023 7:53 am

You prolly freaked people with the red rocket talk, bro…

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
November 21, 2023 4:10 pm

Auntie is waiting for the introduction of a Fabulous Fag Fellatio collection at Target. Perhaps even a Paedophile and Bestiality section because sick and perverted knows no boundaries.

Let them choke on it and FJB.

Tim
Tim
  Aunt Acid
November 21, 2023 9:08 pm

Just wait until all the University professors hear about the new lines at Tar-jay.

suziecrittersnatcher
suziecrittersnatcher
  Aunt Acid
November 21, 2023 10:02 pm

What’s next glory holes in the kids dresing rooms.

This is clown world on steroids.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  suziecrittersnatcher
November 22, 2023 9:32 am

What’s next glory holes in the kids dresing rooms.
No.
What’s next is reducing the age of consent.
The WEF loves to fuck 12 year old kids.

Credit
Credit
  Aunt Acid
November 22, 2023 8:44 am

If I had gigantic balls I would protest at Target with a sign saying

“Welcome to Target! Visit our all new bestiality dept.”

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
November 21, 2023 4:11 pm

I guess it’s time to go seafood and ice cream shopping again.

Just Thinking
Just Thinking
November 21, 2023 4:31 pm

Are the “nutcracker” jokes low hanging fruit?

Just Thinking
Just Thinking
  Just Thinking
November 21, 2023 4:38 pm

My bad.

“low hanging fruit” is the punch line.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2023 6:00 pm

Award for total lack of sense of irony goes to . . .
.
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. . . especially considering that:
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We Asked AI Chat Bot: “What Is the Scientific Method?”

zappalives
zappalives
  Anonymous
November 21, 2023 6:47 pm

FAGGOTS

k31
k31
  Anonymous
November 21, 2023 7:15 pm

That’s just horrifying. I read some 4chan thing that it was the result of grooming and drugs through visiting some pyschotic prostitutes at strip clubs. I don’t really care to ponder it harder than that, but I used to waste time reading stupid crap on 4chan.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 22, 2023 9:48 am

This is where over 70% of science fails miserably:

11. Replication: In order to validate results, other researchers may attempt to replicate the experiment or study to confirm the findings.

Many science branches have a replicating crisis.

zappalives
zappalives
November 21, 2023 6:45 pm

FAGGOTS

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
November 21, 2023 8:39 pm

Target should just go all in and hire drag queens as Santa Claus – they’re already promoting grooming.

Let America choose if it wants to be straight or gay.

A cruel accountant
A cruel accountant
November 21, 2023 8:42 pm

From a business standpoint it’s better to only piss off one side than both sides. Unfortunately they picked the wrong side.

A9racer
A9racer
  A cruel accountant
November 22, 2023 8:09 am

But the other side is so very vocal while normal America is living quietly.
Squeaky wheel theory

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
November 21, 2023 9:29 pm

“Senior LGBTQIA+ Segmentation Strategist & Pride Lead”

Now there’s a job title for you … a.k.a., c-s’er …

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2023 11:43 pm

2024 Target bankruptcy and no cheers at a football game like bud light and their fag fuck up ain’t gonna do it !
Anyone remember Hechengiers Home Center pre Lowe’s & Home Depot
They took an anti private ownership of firearms and POOF BANKRUPTCY

zappalives
zappalives
November 22, 2023 5:51 am

Did you guys know that only niggers and white male democrats with a white female democrat sidekick who love jazz music get AIDS ?
Yeah…………I saw that on a teevee commercial.
Its a cautionary tale about why white male democrats should stop sucking NIGGERCOCK.

A9racer
A9racer
November 22, 2023 7:42 am

Boy, all these fucking gays sure don’t have the pulse of the public, do they? The backlash on all this gay shit is growing
Edit” I don’t care who you love, but if you throw it in my face, yer gonna get something back in your face. I don’t tell you my sexual stuff and you don’t tell me yours, Capishe’?

KJ
KJ
November 22, 2023 8:42 am

The queers are only going to shove both the gay Santa and gay Nutcracker up each other’s distended assholes.

Harold Crapper
Harold Crapper
November 22, 2023 10:30 am

To stupid to know they are stupid.

Lucretius
Lucretius
  Harold Crapper
November 22, 2023 10:48 am

HC,

“To stupid to know they are stupid.”

To, too, two, three different words that sound the same… learn the difference.

Does you Mommy know you’re on her computer?

Peace, L.

riv
riv
November 22, 2023 12:08 pm

Here we go…How about the fact that “Christmas” is not about Christ anyway. Teaching kids about Santa? It is based on pagan soltice observance etc. And people feel compelled, regardless of their budget, to make sure all get gifts…Talk about slave mentality.

Asstro Buoy
Asstro Buoy
November 22, 2023 2:31 pm

I can’t believe Targayt is doing this and there is only ONE reason they are doing this. Somebody is PAYING them off.

delaville
delaville
November 22, 2023 6:15 pm

I was going to venture into the huge new expanded Target in my town. This just changed my mind.

Jana
Jana
November 23, 2023 10:18 am

Target is all Israel, they sell goods from Israel, it’s totally Ashkenazi, just like communism, Transgenderism, LGBTQIA, S&M, porn, drugs, the music industry, Hollywood, sports, TV, the media, and all the executive branches, of the US government are the property of Israel.
Just like Trump and all the other candidates for President are fools, controlled by Israel.
America one nation under the mentally deranged Ashkenazi is headed for eternal Hell.
We will be the next Gaza, because with friends like Israel that friend is your worst enemy.