Dana Loesch Is Clearly Off The Rails!

Thomas and Friends introduces Nia. The new engine is from Kenya. She got a right wing carnival barker upset.

The right wing carnival barker got herself a fresh tattoo in support of the Second Amendment.

The National Rifle Association spokeswoman is steamed. Dana Loesch is relentlessly bitching about a children's show.

The UK-children show Thomas & Friends is based of the popular Thomas the Tank Engine series. The CCG-program features a friendly train who helps his friends solve problems.

The right wing carnival barker is upset that the show introduced a new character to the program.

The female engine named Nia is from Kenya. The train will join Thomas, Percy, Henry, James, Gordon, Edward, Emily and Sir Topham Hat on the Island of Sodor. Her best friend is Rebecca and the two will become main characters to the show.

Loesch goes into an epic rant saying that social justice warriors (sjws) are infiltrating the minds of children. She even went as far to place Klan hoods on Thomas, Percy and Edward.

DANA LOESCH (HOST): Thomas the Tank is now bringing gender balance to the show by adding girl trains. Seriously. One of those trains, Nia, will be from Kenya to add ethnic diversity to the show. And -- which that by the way, that’s where it gets really strange to me because I’ve looked at Thomas and Friends, at their pictures, and I see gray and blue. Am I to understand this entire time that Thomas and his trains were white? Because they all have gray faces. How do you bring ethnic diversity? I mean they had to paint, what I guess they thought was some sort of African pattern on the side of Nia’s engine? How do you bring ethnic diversity to a show that literally has no ethnicities because they're trains. They don't even have skin pigmentation. Where -- was there some concern that the show had racist undertones? Because, Sir Topham Hatt clearly is white, but the trains? I mean, I’m looking at this picture and I’m really, really struggling to understand how in the world there isn’t any diversity in any of this. Oh, was it because, I see it. It was the white hoods. And the burning train tracks. OK, fine, fair point. Fair. I get it. Thomas the Tank Engine has been a blight on race relations for far too long. Clearly this is overdue. Right?                     


Clearly, this cuntservative is off the rails.

CBS News reports that the show is going through a makeover. Some of your favorite engines will leave Sodor and travel across the world. They will meet Nia and her friend Rebecca.

"We've always had female characters but bringing them to the forefront of the show is really important. … Having that real kind of range and diversity is important so that everyone can watch the show and think: that person is like me, that character is like me, and feel represented," said Micaela Winter.

Thomas & Friends will travel the world. Nia and Rebecca will join the engines on the Island of Sodor.

"If about half of Thomas's fan base are girls, why did it take so long to have a main female character?" asked correspondent Roxana Saberi.

"I think possibly because we had introduced lots of female characters, with Thomas we always introduce characters. And we can't write stories where every single character is in every episode so what happens is we sort of create a new female character, she's in two or three episodes, and the next season she'll disappear into the background when we bring in the newer characters. So I think that was a fault of our own that we wanted to rectify and that's why we decided what we needed to do is move out two of the boys and bring in two girls," said McCue.

The team wanted Nia, a tank engine from Kenya, to be authentic. The character is voiced by Yvonne Grundy, a Kenyan-born English actress. Nia was developed in partnership with the United Nations.

NRATV depicts Thomas & Friends as a bunch of Klan sympathizers.

"Through Nia, we're able to see an African character really taking a leadership role as a female engine with lots of strong values and goals, herself," explained Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka, a regional adviser for U.N. Women.

Five United Nations sustainable development goals, including gender equality, were weaved into storylines.

"There are stereotypes out there around the role a girl should play that are different from the role a boy should play but through the character Nia we are able to simplify by showing that a female engine has skills and ability and can actually get the job done just like a male engine," said Lewis-Tamoka.

Dana Loesch is a stupid woman. She should have tatted that on her forehead.

Thomas & Friends has over one billion YouTube channel views. But viewership has not necessarily translated into sales for Mattel. The company acquired the franchise six years ago for $680M but net sales for the Fisher-Price and Thomas & Friends brands were down 14 percent due in part to lower sales of Thomas products.

A Mattel spokesperson said the challenging second quarter of 2018 was "driven primarily by the Toys 'R' Us liquidation." The spokesperson added, "Both Thomas & Friends and Fisher-Price are in different stages of the transformation process. We are excited about the new content launching on Nick this fall and look forward to seeing the consumer response to the many changes we have made."

For these engines, the keys to staying relevant may be inclusion and girl power.