Victoria’s Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk, who was also CEO of the company’s Pink brand, announced this week that she is leaving the company after less than a year on the job.

“Amy Hauk will be stepping down as CEO of Victoria’s Secret and Pink in order to spend more time with her family in Florida,” a spokesperson for the company said. “Amy has graciously agreed to a managed transition between now and the end of March. There are no plans to replace her role.”

The Daily Wire reported over the summer that the company did away with the iconic Victoria’s Secret Angels, replaced models with the likes of soccer star and liberal activist Megan Rapinoe, and even hired the company’s first biologically male transgender model — but, unsurprisingly, the wokeness has not paid off.

Victoria’s Secret fired 160 management-level employees over the summer at its Ohio headquarters in an effort to save the business $40 million.

Notably, sales at the lingerie company dropped by 4.5% to $1.5 billion earlier in 2022, the New York Post reported, adding that comparable sales from the same period in 2021 had declined by 8%.

“When we first announced our repositioning, we got a significant amount of mail from people who said, ‘This is terrible, you’re scorching the earth, you’re spoiling your brand. We love the way it was before. Why are you changing it?’” Victoria’s Secret CEO Martin Waters said, denying the changes hurt the company.

The company in 2019 hired its first transgender model, Valentina Sampaio, a biological male who identifies as female.

The move came as longtime VS chief marketing officer Ed Razek, who criticized the idea of hiring transgender models for the company’s fashion show, resigned.

“It’s like, why doesn’t your show do this? Shouldn’t you have transsexuals in the show?” Razek told Vogue in 2018, when asked about so-called inclusivity. “No. No, I don’t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It’s a 42-minute entertainment special. That’s what it is.”

And by 2021, the iconic VS Angels were dropped, replaced with a new promotional campaign called the “VS Collective,” The Daily Wire reported.

“Fashion is a business of change. We must evolve and change to grow,” CEO Leslie Wexner said in 2019, announcing the end of the Angels fashion show broadcast. “With that in mind, we have decided to rethink the traditional Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.”

Rapinoe was tapped as one of the women to be in the new campaign, apparently based on her activism and achievements rather than her body or looks.

The soccer star notably slammed the company she teamed up with for its “patriarchal” and “sexist” past.

The marketing was “patriarchal, sexist, viewing not just what it meant to be sexy but what the clothes were trying to accomplish through a male lens and through what men desired,” she complained to The New York Times. “And it was very much marketed toward younger women.”

Rapinoe added that the VS Angels were “really harmful.”

Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this report.

For good reason, it is rare to call any politician a “hero,” but who in The Swamp could be seen in a better light right now than the 20 Republicans who fought the status quo, demanded congressional change, and won this past week?

The conservative congressmen and women (full list of names below) held out on supporting now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) all week, after working behind the scenes since the summertime, to ensure that Republicans would actually have the tools and rules necessary to effectively disrupt the way Washington works for the better.

Not only did these individuals withstand pressure and insults such as “terrorists,” “enemies,” and comparisons to the Taliban from their House colleagues this past week, but they also stood against outside criticism from those who thought it better to simply vote in McCarthy without question.

These representatives knew what they wanted, knew what their voters expected of them, and worked tirelessly for it. The debate and temporary gridlock were a moral and political necessity.

Consider that all week long, the GOP establishment claimed that the anti-McCarthy crowd had no specific demands. As this author previously wrote, that idea was nonsense.

The group’s fundamental complaint was that the federal government has grown in scope and power thus harming the quality of life in America.

In order to stop that decline, these 20 individuals wanted explicit changes in the House as well as assurances regarding the makeup of certain congressional committees.

Ultimately, in order to support McCarthy, the majority of this group needed to have confidence that the new Congress would put forth conservative legislation, have the means to block bad bills, and authority to hold corrupt actors inside and outside the government accountable. Many had differing ideas as to how to do that, some even saying they could never support McCarthy, but it was clear that as a whole, they weren’t seeking change for the mere sake of doing something different.

In turn, establishment allies wanted the American people to believe that Congress was in a “hostage” situation. Why? Well, because these conservatives dared to demand that Congress act conservatively with guardrails in place.

The holdouts, we were told, had no desire to discuss anything and were blocking the GOP from governing.

In reality, those who were refusing to vote for McCarthy were arguing their ideas to anybody who would listen. Behind closed doors, they were making deals to get their desired results as explained to the public.

Saturday morning, after 15 rounds of voting, the American people can now see which compromises McCarthy made in order to swing votes his way.

That fact alone raises the question of how exactly could McCarthy make concessions on stipulations that were supposedly non-existent. It’s unlikely those most vocal against these negotiated agreements will ever answer that one. Courtesy of Zerohedge, here’s a partial list of what we’ll see out of the People’s House this year:

As has been reported, it will only take a single congressperson, acting in what is known as a Jeffersonian Motion, to move to remove the Speaker if he or she goes back on their word or policy agenda. A “Church” style committee will be convened to look into the weaponization of the FBI and other government organizations (presumably the CIA, the subject of the original Church Committee) against the American people. Term limits will be put up for a vote. [Spending] Bills presented to Congress will be single subject, not omnibus with all the attendant earmarks, and there will be a 72-hour minimum period to read them. The Texas Border Plan will be put before Congress. From The Hill: “The four-pronged plan aims to ‘Complete Physical Border Infrastructure,’ ‘Fix Border Enforcement Policies,’ ‘Enforce our Laws in the Interior’ and ‘Target Cartels & Criminal Organizations.’” COVID mandates will be ended, as will all funding for them, including so-called “emergency funding.” Budget bills would stop the endless increases in the debt ceiling and hold the Senate accountable for the same.

There are other points, such as capping fiscal year spending in 2024 at 2022 levels across the board, but none of this should come as a surprise. These requests were all known throughout the week.

In light of it all, the question really should be why the other 200-plus Republicans supporting McCarthy weren’t also demanding these items in the first place.

For some reason, Republicans fretted that this entire standoff would end with Speaker Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). The base was told it was a national embarrassment for Republicans everywhere — as if the GOP establishment doesn’t embarrass itself on its own plenty.

A Democratic speaker was realistically never going to occur because it would have been political suicide for any Republican to lend support to Jeffries.

Still, despite threats, name-calling, and more — these 20 did not budge. Perhaps it is because conservatives in the House who want to do more than simply provide lip service have been treated pretty badly by the party over the years — especially the Freedom Caucus.

Since 2015, folks like ex-Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) have called the Freedom Caucus far-right kooks, lunatics, and other denigrating names.

In this latest battle against their moderate party members, it would have been easy to throw in the towel.

Yet as Congressman Dan Bishop (R-NC) explained in a statement via Twitter, he “came to Washington to change the status quo.” He and his other co-holdouts didn’t come to The Beltway to go-along and get-along. Bishop worked with the others to “cause the Republican Conference to reform rules and procedures, commit to specific policy strategies, and improve the distribution of conservative voices across key committees.”

My statement on today's agreement: pic.twitter.com/wgedesD4LG

— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) January 6, 2023

It should be noted that the rules package will be voted on in the coming week. That package will heavily decide how the new Congress works, but it is likely to pass given the GOP majority.

As mentioned, the term “hero” never really should be used for politicians because they so often disappoint. It is likely these 20 Republicans praised in this column will fail the American people at various points in the future.

Above all else, they still need to put in the actual work to defeat the Left in all its forms. Nobody should be putting their faith in the U.S. government — least of all Congress — to save the country.

Yet the first step toward that end could be the reforms introduced this week thanks to those who bucked the party.

In order to have a truly conservative Congress and federal government, there is much more work to do. It will take years, and more likely decades, to roll back the administrative state and stem the tide of social degradation advanced by The Uniparty.

For now, though, the 20 Republicans who held out in order to secure the first meaningful reform in decades can be found here:

🇺🇸#Heroes@RepBoebert @RepMattGaetz @RepAndyBiggsAZ@EliCraneAZ@RepBobGood@RepRosendale@RepDanBishop@Brecheen4OK @RepCloudTX @Rep_Clyde@RepGosar@byrondonalds@RepAndyHarrisMD@VoteAPL@RepMaryMiller@RepRalphNorman@AndyOgles@RepScottPerry@RepChipRoy@SelfForCongress pic.twitter.com/kC9bETRCUY

— Jewels Jones (@JewelsJonesLive) January 7, 2023

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