What is this world coming to?

What went down:

This story is bizarre, and oddly symptomatic of our time. Maybe the best way for you to understand it is to just read some reporting on the matter:

• National Review DeSantis Pulls Hyatt Regency’s Liquor License following Drag Show with Children Present
• Fox News DeSantis stripping Florida hotel’s liquor license after hosting ‘lewd’ drag show with children present
• Eater Miami Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Going After a Miami Hotel’s Liquor License for Hosting a Holiday Drag Show
• Washington Times Ron DeSantis strips liquor license from a theater that let kids watch drag queen show

The short story:

The Hyatt Regency Miami rented space to people who put on a show called “A Drag Queen Christmas”, which was advertised as being for “all ages”.

No specific warning of there being explicit content in the show… and yowzers, was there explicit content in the show! For specifics, click the links above.

Here’s the flyer: [We were going to put in a picture of the flyer, but you can find it on that Fox News article]

We had a clip from a Fox News Tucker Carlson segment teed up that shows a video from the show in question, but since Tucker’s ouster, it somehow vanished (perhaps temporarily). We’ll leave it up to the good folks out there to use their discretion on whether or not to look it up independently.

Warning! It’s awful!

Are people over-reacting about these “drag queen” shows?

In a word: Nope.

If you think there’s something wrong with “sexualizing” kids, this will bother you.

We thought about including the pictures, or at least linking to them with such lines as:

• Here are two pictures as example from this particular case:    AWFUL and WORSE
• And here’s some pictures from other “drag queen story hour” events that occurred recently in the supposed “civilized world: AWFUL and HORRIBLE and THIS and MUST and STOP.

We decided not to link. Look them up on your own if you’d like.

Of course, there will be counterfactuals, manipulating the story in a sympathetic way, and overall pushback on our position, but as far as the pictures themselves go, honestly, we were too horrified to look at them any closer.

It’s wretched.

Courage & Conformity

The Brian D. O’Leary Show addressed this a while back.

More Mandolorian … but first, what is the opposite of courage?

Francisco Franco

We spoke briefly of Francoist Spain. O’Leary has done a lot of work about this era. Some links if you want to go down his rabbit hole:

• Francisco Franco page at BrianDOLeary.com
  • https://briandoleary.com/franco/
• “Moses Ezekiel, American sculptor—plus, the prevailing myth of the Spanish Civil War”
  • https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111422#details
• “Revisiting the Myths of the Spanish Civil War”
  • https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111522#details
• “Making sense of fascism & antifascism as the concepts relate to the Spanish Civil War”
  • https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-11162022#details
• “Chipping away at the myth of the Spanish Civil War”
  • https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111722#details
• “Deconstructing the Myth of the Spanish Civil War and how it informs us today”
  • https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111822#details

Author/book mentioned

Nassim Taleb’s, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Adam’s “other” gig:

The Nevada Libertarian Party Presents: The Battleborn Podcast

Co-hosted by fellow Nevadan Randy Sadac, the LPNV’s Battleborn podcast features commentary about goings on in Nevada from a liberty perspective. Here you can find some great interviews with people doing great things to advance liberty in the state of Nevada, and beyond.

Don’t miss their great interview with Economist (and libertarian superhero) Bob Murphy!

Randy and Adam Interview Robert Murphy

Brian’s empire of great content:

BrianDOLeary.com

Where you’ll find all of the interesting things Brian is up to, including

• The O’Leary Review – Writing and associated Podcast
• The Brian D. O’Leary Show
• Who Is In The Tom Woods World?
• and more.

While you’re there, don’t forget to buy Brian a coffee. He’ll greatly appreciate it, especially a darker roast.

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