The attack on Georgia isn’t really about Georgia
Georgia passed a recent voting reform law that was criticized sharply by the Democrats and Biden; I wrote about it already in this post, so I’m not going to go into those details again. In retaliation, however, we have major league baseball pulling the All Star game from Atlanta, where it had been scheduled to take place, and we have Delta Air Lines and Coca Cola, both based in Atlanta, speaking out against the law and calling it “unacceptable.”
That’s actually pretty ironic, considering that the legislature of Georgia – elected by the people of Georgia, unlike the CEOs of Delta or Coke – passed the law and found it quite acceptable. It’s also interesting that the companies had made previous statements about the law that were far less critical. What happened? This:
The statements came as Georgia companies faced growing threats of boycotts from voting rights advocates who say local corporations should have done more to oppose the legislation before it was signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp last week. Tens of thousands of social media posts carrying the hashtags #BoycottDelta, #BoycottDeltaAirlines and #BoycottCocaCola proliferated on Twitter in recent days…
Kemp said that at “no point” did Delta raise objections with his office about some of the controversial provisions in the measure before he signed it into law.
“Today’s statement by Delta CEO Ed Bastian stands in stark contrast to our conversations with the company, ignores the content of the new law, and unfortunately continues to spread the same false attacks being repeated by partisan activists,” said the first-term Republican.
The Republicans of Georgia exerted a little bit of pressure themselves, although they haven’t followed through:
…[T]he Georgia House retaliated by narrowly voting to end a lucrative tax break on jet fuel during the final, frenzied day of the legislative session. The measure never came up for a final vote in the Senate, where leaders are more lukewarm on overtly punishing Delta.
This is just another example of a trend we’re seeing more and more of lately, in which companies that used to stay out of politics are making bold statements that align with the present-day Democrat narrative. In the case of the new Georgia voting law, that narrative is a familiar one that has been used to challenge (often successfully) any laws that attempt to ensure voting security and eliminate fraud: that the law is racist.
Or, as Biden put it recently, that it’s “Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia and 40 other states.” That has to be one of the most audacious, egregious lies I’ve heard the man utter, and that’s saying a lot. It trivializes past discrimination, and labels as much worse discrimination practices such as voter ID laws that are designed to promote the integrity of elections, have been in place in many states previously, and are commonplace all around the world.
Any thinking person, anyone who knows history, anyone who knows how voting works, should know that the statement of Biden’s is an outrageous lie. And yet here we are – the president of the United States says it, various corporations and major league baseball go along with it, and it is highly possible that Congress will pass a law forbidding legislation such as Georgia’s and the various bills those other states are considering.
The Democrats, who hold Congress very narrowly, are determined to take away states’ ability to discourage fraud in federal elections. In an attempt to get the public to buy the idea (a public 72% of whom currently favor voter photo ID laws), they are trying to convince people that such things are inherently racist. Article after MSM article about such laws call them “voter suppression,” which makes it sound like their aim is to keep valid voters from casting ballots.
That’s where Biden’s “40 other states” comes in. Whether he thought of the statement himself or whether he was told to say it by others, or whether he or they have a clue what is actually in each state’s proposed law, what he’s actually saying is that 80% of states in the US are trying to pass voting laws that are more racist than those of the South during the bad old days of Jim Crow.
They’re not just talking about Georgia; that state is merely an example that’s being made to the others. Not only do the Democrats intend to pass HR1 and make laws such as Georgia’s illegal if they can, but if HR1 fails in the Senate (for example, if the filibuster stays in place), they have already demonstrated to all states that the costs will be high if they try to pass laws such as Georgia’s. That’s why the participation of baseball, Coke, and Delta are important, both as examples and threats to other states. That’s a nice state economy you’ve got; shame if you were to lose it.
Democrats feel that their goal of permanent power (or at least very long-term power) is so close they can taste it. And they are willing to do nearly anything to secure it.
It’s hilarious to see Chamber of Commerce Republicans suddenly realize they’re back alley whores to be tossed aside when someone classier comes along. I wonder how many Georgia Republicans were nodding along when North Carolina was targeted for boycott back in 2017 over transgender bathrooms?
And if Georgia Republicans in their state senate don’t care when major corporations call them racists and cheer on economic warfare against them, I don’t care about it either.
Mike
The Georgia House passed a bill to remove Delta’s tax advantages. The Governor should recall the senate and task them with passing this legislation, and to remove tax breaks for Coca Cola while they are at it. Both sides can play the consequences game. That is, if the Governor is really a Republican. Hard to tell. I have always thought that the tax breaks and municipal bonds raised for the construction of ever more elaborate sports stadiums for wealthy sports team owner owners is outrageous. How about passing new laws directing wealthy team owners and their team members to pay into these facilities.
America’s Pastime’s time is past.
The failure to hit back hard when this began happening during the Obama administration is how we ended up with a miscreant like Trump in the first place. He was the only one who was willing to do anything other than meekly surrender. Republicans had better not lose their nerve in Georgia, Texas, or any other states because if they do, what follows will be much worse than Trump. At least Trump won an election and didn’t lead the party to a catastrophic defeat. I suspect that Trump 2.0 would fall short on both accounts.
Part of the problem is that nearly every elite employee in corporate America right now under the age of 40 is all-in woke and about as aware of it as a fish is aware that it is wet.
Cancel culture comes to a state. All I can think is “The Devil went down to Georgia”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7BZf7D5Bw
Why do they do it? Because it is cost less to them. So make it cost. How to do it. Well the best way is to have Board of Director fired as well as the top officers of a company replaced or lose their stock options. People losing jobs concentrates a person’s mind in a wonderful way.
How to do it. Boycotts work for a while but we have to have shareholder sanction these virtue signaling actions. My thought that I am exploring is to have the pension funds that we contribute to vote the sanctions. If we are participants in the plan maybe we can force the plan to introduce and force action. I remember something happening like this in CALPERS. I have to do more research on this to flesh out the concept.
Hard work, time consuming and difficult to execute at this time. But the longest journey starts with the first step. But I am by nature a person who goes on the offense. I will not rest. I will not relent. I will strive and strive and strive.
There will be difficulties in choosing an alternative to Atlanta.
Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit
Toronto has MLB team. In Canada, there are no mail-in ballots or ballot harvesting. Nearly all votes on one day, in person with ID. Votes are counted in front of scrutineers from each(all) parties. Does new MLB policy prevent Toronto from hosting future all-star game?
Sooner or later ordinary people will wake up. The question is, “will it be too late?”.
We have a discussion at home along these lines. I have lost interest in sports in general and particularly the women’s national soccer team, and the teams of long time college sports favorites, because of their ‘social justice’ antics. I will not watch them on TV. My wife accuses me of cutting off my nose to spite my face. She values her sports enough to overlook the insults. Or more accurately, she refuses to recognize the expressed, or implied, insult.
Sooner or later, enough Americans must be willing to forgo products and activities they have long enjoyed, or even cherished. That is the only way to reverse the trend. If the U.S. Olympic Committee, MLB, NBA, NFL, college sports administrators, TV networks, and the likes of Coke and Delta don’t have to pay a price, this will just get worse.
To paraphrase: “you may not be interested in social justice, but social justice is interested in you”.
” … the best way is to have Board of Director fired as well as the top officers of a company replaced or lose their stock options”
Conceptually this is great but practically it is more difficult now. Here are 2 related reasons.
1) In the past, a truculent shareholder could attend the annual meeting and ask for a shareholder vote. But now nearly everyone owns index funds or ETFs. You rarely vote shares, even if you had the time and desire to do so. One entire check-and-balance on the executives has been lost.
2) Even worse, there are the new ESG ratings. I don’t even know what it stands for, but ESG relates to companies who are Woke for environment, social justice and equitable corporate governance.
Why would a CEO care about ESG more than traditional goals related to products, profits, customers …? Because if your ESG score is low big investment houses will ditch you. You might legitimately worry about damage to the company’s stock, or you might be relieved to use ESG as an excuse to let your Woke HR Department go to town with social justice initiatives. Either way, the common sense of individuals is discounted and insane social justice policies favored by the vocal few are ascendant.
The lies and misinformation being spread about Georgia’s voting law is so openly dishonest it’s breathtaking. A delusion is being downloaded by the MSM and the weak kneed CEOs of corporations are buckling under the weight of pressure from the peddlers of “systemic racism.” I don’t drink Coca Cola so I can’t drop them from my must buy list. However, Delta Airlines will never get another penny from me nor will I patronize Home Depot. MLB – not my cuppa, but I hope its many fans will make a statement.
The sudden buckling of the corporate CEOs in the face of such bald-faced lies is very troubling. These people are supposed to be among our brightest and most able citizens. If they cave to mendacity, you can be sure many LIVs will follow their lead. It’s a sort of national hysteria. Feelings are reigning supreme and facts mean nothing. But, like I Am Spartacus, I’m not in despair. I’ll do anything I can to help change the direction that the winds that are blowing.
It won’t matter to them, they’ll just continue to use China to make up for whatever they lose over here. They won’t say boo to China and will continue to use its slave labor, they want us to be like them. Corporations got theirs, screw the rest.
Many (perhaps most) large American companies are very worried about Millennials and younger, both as customers and as potential employees. So they do things of which they *think* this demographic will approve.
Must be a coincidence…
https://nypost.com/2021/04/03/barack-obama-praises-mlb-decision-to-move-all-star-game/
“There will be difficulties in choosing an alternative to Atlanta.”
Not so sure about that.
There’s always Philadelphia.
In fact, what are the odds that “Biden” ‘s next EO will declare Philly as the permanent venue of the MLB All Star Game?
Think of it as a “Biden” Rewards Program…
The only reason Democrats are as close to power as they are is because of a lack of laws like the one in GA and they know damn well they have zero chance of attaining that power without fraud.
THAT is the root of the problem
Bush league. Ama-teeuuur.
Move the g#dd#mn All Star Game to Beijing. ‘Twould be most fittin’.
(Hey, I’ll bet they’re real good at vote harvestin’. Do they do mail-in?)
You bums really wanna mean business? Cancel *all* Atlanta Braves’ friggin’ home games. No settlin’ for anything less.
Then move on to the Falcons in the fall. No home games his year. And then, the Hawks. Cancel Cancel Cancel.
This country’s goin’ off its rocker, and (as you prob’ly can tell) I’m goin’ off mine. Gotta go along to git along, y’know?
(Exhales.)
I pretty much agree with neo’s post and what all the comment’ers here have written, but what really, really disturbs me about this is how quickly the hammer came down, and from where.
I wrote earlier, I really don’t like trading in conspiracy theories. I just don’t have that much faith in people regarding large scale, clandestine schemes. People are blabber mouths, selfish, short-sighted and vindictive. But there have been so many “coincidences” since January 20th, 2009. I can’t ignore all these patterns.
Especially in this case. Georgia’s voting changes are actually quite innocuous. They are also likely amenable to the vast majority of Americans. Yet Delta, Coke, the MLB… they were ready. Why? Who?
Even though it’s wrong, if the premise is this disenfranchises African Americans; are African Americans big Coca Cola drinkers, as a group? Delta Airlines flyers? MLB watchers? The interest in baseball has diminished so much among blacks major league baseball has had an active program for years to get more, young, black kids playing the sport so teams don’t lack black players.
Anyone daring to step out of line with the orthodoxy held by a small minority of powerful people is being struck down. Hard. And fast.
This is very, very grave.
neo has often stated Obama is pulling the strings behind the scenes and I now believe she is correct. I have been experiencing a feeling of almost constant frustration for about two weeks. Like I’m watching a beautifully built shelter be senselessly destroyed by toddlers. It just hit me. This feeling is familiar. I felt it often during Obama’s Presidency.
The voter ID requirement is said to be racist. The implication is that POC are unable to get IDs. First, that is a downright falsehood. No one can function in this society without some form of ID. And they are easy to get. We all know it, and yet the Dems persist in this fairy tale. And it’s bought by millions who are looking for any excuse to see racism in our society. Can anyone get on a Delta flight without ID? Can anyone open a bank account without ID? Can anyone apply for welfare without an ID? Why should people be able to vote without showing an ID?
Secondly, it’s an insult to POC to insinuate they are too stupid or lazy to get an ID. That, in itself, smacks of racism. If I was in a group whose intelligence and work ethic was questioned like this, I would be insulted.
No, the voter ID requirement is solely aimed at stopping fraudulent voting. With no ID requirement multiple votes can be submitted by the same person. Or fake ballots can be fed into the system when necessary to increase numbers. The fact that votes in some precincts in the swing states exceeded 100% of the registered voters is exactly what can be achieved when voter ID isn’t required.
Beat me to it MJR, ie hold the ASG in Beijing. Let’s get everything out in the open.
As for those who claim to oppose voter ID laws because poor minorities don’t have ID, instead of trying to make the law so they can vote without ID, why not devote their efforts to helping those people get ID, so they can not only vote but also cash checks, board airplanes, enter Federal buildings, buy alcoholic beverages, etc., etc.?
Q: Do voter ID laws suppress the black vote?
Ami Horowitz asked white liberals about it, got some amazing answers, then went to East Harlem to get their take. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk
Rufus T. Firefly:
Another thing about Obama – from the very first, even before he ran for office, he was extremely into expansion of voting. That was actually one of the first things I noticed about his resume – that and his manipulation of legal maneuvers and timely leaks in order to knock out his opponents when he did get into running for office.
That happened when Obama was teaching at the U of Chicago law school. He was the director for the entire state although he was only 30-31 and to the best of my knowledge hadn’t done anything like that before. Note also that it appears that the voting registration was only for black people – at least, that’s what the entry seems to be saying. I would imagine that it wasn’t doing anything illegal, though; just encouraging black people who hadn’t voted before to get involved. But it’s interesting that he headed that particular project.
Obama’s entire political career up to his run for the presidency involved either using legal machinations to declare invalid the candidacies of all his opponents (see this for that story), or having his opponents drop out because of well-timed leaks of private information that damaged them in the public eye (see this for that story). The only race where he didn’t do either of those things he lost (Bobby Rush was the victor).
Those are Obama’s fingerprints, and his prints are also all over what’s going on now. He’s not alone, of course, but he’s a major player.
M J R:
I hear ya.
By the way, I just learned yesterday that the wokest of the woke NBA star LeBron James has just become co-owner of the Red Sox.
…#BoycottDelta, #BoycottDeltaAirlines and #BoycottCocaCola…
So it is written. So shall it be done.
Banned Lizard:
Well, I already don’t fly Delta, don’t drink Coke, and don’t watch baseball. I guess I’m prescient 🙂 .
Corporate CEO’s are getting ‘woke’ because its less fiscally injurious to appease than to fight.
That is, in the short run. In the long run, they will find their industries to have been nationalized.
When fiscal reality arrives, that’s where marxist movements invariably turn and the capitalists discover that they’ve sold the rope with which the ‘progressives’ always intended to hang them.
CEO’s and all the wealthy ‘woke’ will discover that when the crocodile finally gets to them… that it remains unsatiated because the wealthy are always the collectivist’s foremost enemy.
Collaborationists are always among the first purged with true believers next in line for the Stalinists are always waiting in the wings when the opportunity to gain power exists.
There will be difficulties in choosing an alternative to Atlanta.
Around 35 states have some sort of voter ID law. But those that do not include CA, NY, IL, MN, PA, MA. I believe that’s 13 out of 30 teams, so plenty of options. Of course now that they’ve politicized it, those options may dwindle. If Chauvin is acquitted they’ll probably strike Minneapolis from the list.
JimNorCal on April 3, 2021 at 2:04 pm said: “Votes are counted in front of scrutineers from each(all) parties.”
That is exactly what we need: scrutineers sounds like people who will be much more “in your face” about possible voting irregularities than the more benign “observers”. Cell phone videos or regular CCTV recordings of the voting/ counting areas also would help to avoid “he said – he said” situations. As I think about it, I am surprised that is not more commonly done, if only as a back up measure for later audits, etc.
I am Spartacus on April 3, 2021 at 1:49 pm said: “Boycotts work for a while …” Perhaps this can be made more effective if/when we find a champion (like Rush Limbaugh, RIP; probably cannot be Trump right now because of excessive TDS) who can call for a focused 3 to 6 week campaign, not so much to bring a company down but to signal to the BOD and clueless execs that their product or service may not be so essential or widely endorsed as they think; that consequences from the populist populace are possible.
The Ds aren’t interested in more voters, they want more ballots. They want the no-information voter – the guy who doesn’t care, who won’t make the effort to even go to the polls, much less know the differences between candidates. Ballot harvesting those ballots, unmarked, is the plan.
The problem with the traditional vote fraud of stuffing the ballot box is that more ballots than voters is blind pig obvious fraud. But if you send out ballots to everybody, controlling the no-info vote is massively decisive.
HR1 turns elections into NASCAR contests:”If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.” Eventually, the Rs (or a successor party) will cheat better. HR1 codifies dishonest government.
I live in Georgia.
I would willingly lose half my income to make Georgia’s elections bulletproof against falsified or unauthorized voting. (Not happily; I admit, but willingly.) I would happily take a 10% pay cut to achieve that.
And as for Delta and Coke, if they continue with the woke pressure, I hope they go bankrupt. If they, and all the filmmakers other than shoestring Christian productions, decide to pull out of Georgia, that’s just fine with me: I hope the screen door does hit them in the backside on their way out.
I am tired of putatively “American” companies going woke and becoming threats to the Republic. I would be upset, but not overly upset, if next time a Republican is in the White House, Google headquarters is leveled in the middle of the workday by a U.S. military airstrike. (I’d be upset primarily over the posse comitatus issue.)
And as for Coke, which (my being an Atlantan, and preferring its flavor over competitors) had previously had my brand-loyalty? I will never drink or purchase a drop again if I can avoid it. Non-bottled water is better for me anyway.
“Well, I already don’t fly Delta, don’t drink Coke, and don’t watch baseball. I guess I’m prescient.” – Neo
First they came for the sports teams, but I don’t watch them anyway.
Then they came for the expensive airlines, but I don’t fly on them anyway,
Then they came for the sugary soft drinks, but I don’t…
… I just heard that Southwest Airlines and Dr. Pepper’s owners joined the Cancel Cabal.
Never mind.
The first link below is just a listing – it was already too long 8 months ago (279 companies), and it’s getting longer. The others have more details if you want to concentrate on boycotting the worst offenders per your personal sensitivities and lived experiences.
https://realityanddenial.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/279-companies-supporting-violent-antifa-black-lives-matter/
https://thebluestateconservative.com/2021/01/20/12-woke-companies-to-avoid/
https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/09/woke-companies-brands-liberal-50/
This one really gets down to the nitty-gritty, with subdivisions by type of company and what beliefs they are most intent on eliminating from their customer base.
http://www.investingadvicewatchdog.com/Liberal-Companies-Boycott.html
This article is akin to those pointing out that the company CEOs clamoring for diversity, pay equity, and other Left-liberal policies don’t often practice what they preach.
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2019/08/10/americas-wokest-companies-and-what-theyre-paying-their-ceos-n2551464
And this adds one more big footprint to the Walk of Shame.
https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2021/04/04/an-important-easter-sunday-message-for-the-catholic-church-major-league-baseball-and-delta-airlines-n2587351
Also worth reading in full, but I quote the punchline.
https://townhall.com/columnists/robjenkins/2021/04/04/censored-major-league-baseball-n2587371
“Let’s see how long MLB can maintain those $100 million salaries when half their fan base abandons them, as they have abandoned us.”
I would guess more than half; I don’t think many BLM / Antifa folks are big fans.
Does anyone have a guess at how a party affiliation poll taken at a sample of (pre-Cancel) games would play out?
Most of you have already heard about this blatant violation of the 14th Amendment and probably the Civil Rights Act and all sorts of statutes.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/04/03/who-needs-the-14th-amendment-vermonts-blatantly-unconstitutional-vaccine-rules-prioritize-bipoc-households-n1437177
My point in posting it here is this: aren’t people going to need some kind of ID that proves they are BIPOC in order to get the vaccination ahead of everyone else, or are they going to just make appointments on the honor system?
Post from Larry Elder – it’s generally applicable, but really addresses Neo’s post on not being able to change people’s minds with facts – it depends on the people.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/larry-elder/2021/04/01/fight-left-wing-lies-with-facts-n1436679
A long list of facts that we all have seen many times before, but which the MSM (D) will never publish. (h/t TallDave on the Capitol thread)
Almost true.
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-propose-requiring-vaccine-passports-for-voting
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats have proposed a controversial new law that would require vaccine passports for voting. The bill currently under deliberation in Congress would ban all forms of ID for voting — because that’s racist — but require voters to show their COVID-19 vaccine passport at polling places.
Republicans and Democrats alike were confused by the proposal, not sure if they agreed with it or not. “I like requiring people to show documentation to vote, but not like this, I don’t think,” said one Republican man in Georgia. “I’ll have to think about it.”
“No one should have to show documentation to vote,” said a liberal woman in Georgia. “Except, well, yeah, vaccination papers, I guess.”
“We must make sure the people who are voting are fully vaccinated against this incredibly deadly virus,” said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “They must wear full face masks, and of course, won’t be asked to show ID. We won’t know who they are, but we will know they are safe from COVID-19.”
“This is much better than that racist law in Georgia.”
At publishing time, Pelosi had admitted she hadn’t actually read Georgia’s election law, but declared that “we have to overturn it to find out what was in it.”
Yes, even absent a filibuster-kill and passage of HR.1, we will see an all-out coordinated assault on states trying to true their local votes over the next year. It’s started with Dem-dominated propaganda outlets (AKA 90% of “the news”) and the “woke” CEO’s are now the second wave. (I hope they enjoy losing a major fraction of their business.)
And yes, the Dems are unleashing their heavy artillery: State ballot-integrity measures are “racist!” But then everything they don’t like is becoming “racist!” One suspects the trope is already losing power through overuse. (One certainly hopes so!)
The inevitable followup will be DOJ lawfare to tie up the state reforms in court past the next election, and the next, and the next… Georgia just happens to be the first state to pass reforms in this post-Steal wave. Others will follow. Arizona, for one, once the current audit grinds through. Wisconsin’s legislature is headed that way too (though they have a Dem governor’s veto to clear.) Likely Montana, of all places! (They just found that over 6% of the mailin ballots in Dem Missoula have no corresponding envelopes, oh my. JIC you wondered why Dems have ever won statewide office in Montana.) Lots of places.
Arizona already has experience of this, mind. We tried to enforce proof of citizenship to register back in the early 2000’s, and ended up losing that one to DOJ after a long and dirty battle. The other side has been doing this for a long time, yes.
But, if a dozen or two states are all trying to tighten up local balloting at once, well, the Dems won’t run out of propaganda outlets. They might start running short of stupid-woke CEO’s once the sales consequences start sinking in. And could they just flat out run short of DOJ lawyers to handle all the lawfare? I’d look for an attempted hiring surge there soon.
AesopFan,
Thank you for posting the list of companies and their attacks on freedom and liberty. I have bookmarked it and will refer to it as I choose where to spend my money.
My take on the GOP is, that the GOP is the “GO Along to GET ALONG with the Dems” Party. Harsh, but it/they DESERVE it.
The truth is that requiring ID will suppress the black vote, and obviously not because ID is difficult for them to obtain. Blacks in this country are raised with an pathologic fear of police. They believe the police are out to get them at all times, for crimes real or imagined. They thus fear presenting ID of any kind in public with a police officer present (such as a polling station)–they are worried that the officer will recognize their name and jump into action and arrest them for some outstanding crime.
I will not watch them on TV. My wife accuses me of cutting off my nose to spite my face.
My wife is a football addict who gets depressed after the Super Bowl most years. This year she has been watching videos of football games in previous years. The video quality is so good the only way I can tell a present year game is the masks. This is a possible alternative, just as classic movies are for some of us.
The USA has become infected with a deadly social and political virus. It attacks the brains of the infected. And it will kill the country, turning us into just another economic colony of the Chinese communists, on whom we now rely to carefully (Ha!) produce most of our prescription drugs.
We are doomed.
Happy Easter to All.
In pretending there’s anything wrong with this law, they’re trying to tell us that day is night and night is day, the way Petruchio did with Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew: https://abardseyeview.com/i-say-it-is-the-moon-that-shines-so-bright-the-taming-of-the-shrew-and-election-fraud/
I join Rufus in not willingly giving credence to conspiracy theories.
But then stuff like this comes along. And it is not at all the only thing. There really, really does appear to be a high level, powerful group dedicated to eliminating 70+ million traditional Americans.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/they-told-me-if-i-voted-for-trump-billionaires-would-run-the-country-they-were-right/
“An organization backed with millions of dollars from liberal billionaires Bill Gates and George Soros has launched a commission led by radical liberals to fight “mis- and disinformation.”
The commission, dubbed the Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder, is co-chaired by leftist Katie Couric Media founder Katie Couric. Couric recently suggested during a segment with HBO host Bill Maher that “we” should “deprogram” people within former President Donald Trump’s “cult.” The commission is also chaired by leftist Rashad Robinson, who leads the Soros-funded and racially charged Color of Change group.
Color of Change was recently behind an effort to defund police foundations. The last co-chair, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, had claimed that the 2020 election was “the most secure in history.” Krebs’ comment earned him backlash from a senior Department of Homeland Security official, according to Fox News.”
marely: “Blacks in this country are raised with an pathologic fear of police. They believe the police are out to get them at all times, for crimes real or imagined. They thus fear presenting ID of any kind in public with a police officer present (such as a polling station)”
I was an election observer and a poll worker this past year for the first time in my life. Here in CA, at least
1) There are no police at polling stations
2) Police are not allowed to vote in uniform
Police are not allowed at polling stations in general. I mean, there pretty much has to be an crime in progress or something. I didn’t see a single policeman in all the days I was there at the polling station.
marley seems to live an alternate reality of concern-ville and would claim to speak for “blacks.” Do all BIPOCs have the same fears of the police, or just African-Americans? Does this phobia of “the man” show up in all dark skinned Americans, say from Africa of recent immigration, those from parts of India, or Melanesia? Show your work, please.
“Does this phobia of “the man” show up in all dark skinned Americans, say from Africa of recent immigration”
Off topic but my wife and I have gotten to know 2 African persons through her work. One is a young techie, the other is middle-aged project management leader. Both are in the country legally, of course. What they have in common are personal qualities: hardworking, friendly, devout (esp the lady), effective in their jobs.
I recall nearly a year ago now, reading about an African immigrant in Seattle who hit a scuzzy Antifa female protestor blocking a freeway. I’ve forgotten his native country but there was a pocket of fellow countrymen in the city and as a group they ranked very highly in terms of financial success.
About that time, it started to enter my consciousness that Africans are often pretty impressive people, esp those bold enough to leave their homeland and make a new home abroad.
marely doesn’t know that 69% of black folks WANT IDs to vote laws — quite close to non-blacks polled preferences.
TJ:
Dollars to donuts “marley” would attribute that statistic as evidence of “false consciousness,” or those polled not being true people of color.
The entire country seems determined to maximize its concerns about the 13%, the black population, over all other concerns.
I am truly sick and tired of whiney blacks, their crappy culture and their violence. The ones in prison earned the right to be imprisoned by commission of felonies. The NBA/NFL athletes earning many millions each show no gratitude toward the land that allowed them such fortunes.
Fentanyl Floyd has become a saint? How sick is that?
Nothing good has ever spontaneously arisen from the Dark Continent, has it?
The good news is that blacks have the highest abortion rate by far, and that blacks kill blacks at a far higher rate than other races. So this may be self-cleansing over the long term.
Cicero is unduly harsh and pessimistic, I think.
Many fine people live in Africa, and some have moved here (they are my neighbors and friends).
However, in re “Fentanyl Floyd has become a saint? How sick is that?” – Candace Owens agrees, and has drawn quite a bit of flak over it from the race hustlers.
The fact that Democrats simultaneously advocate and enable black-infant-genocide while strenuously proclaiming that “Black Lives Matter,” and ignoring black-on-black homicide, is scandalous, and some of the black community are getting wise to the hypocrisy.
https://babylonbee.com/news/dems-we-will-not-legitimize-georgias-racist-election-law-by-reading-it-to-see-what-it-says
The Bee is really becoming the Paper of Record.
Maybe it isn’t really satire after all.
https://babylonbee.com/news/godzilla-vs-kong-the-babylon-bee-review
“With so much potential for in-your-face social messaging on progressive issues, Godzilla vs. Kong utterly failed to explore Godzilla’s thoughts on the greater social injustices of our day. Sure, we know Godzilla’s stance when it comes to fighting for the fate of Earth, but why haven’t we explored his take on the pandemic, gender identity, Georgia’s voter law, and ease of access to government-funded abortion?”
https://babylonbee.com/news/charles-barkley-to-undergo-racial-sensitivity-training-to-be-less-white
“Barkley, in one of his more controversial statements, said “most white and black people are great people”, and that “cynical politicians want us to hate each other.”
…Barkley will be sent to a two-week training at Coca-Cola.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/all-star-game-moved-from-atlanta-to-uighur-prison-camp-yard
“Spokespeople for Major League Baseball announced today that the All-Star Game this summer will be moved from Atlanta, due to its egregious voting laws, to a Uyghur prison camp yard, where there aren’t any bad voting laws at all.
… However, the game will be limited to just three extra innings, as Disney needs the space immediately after to film a documentary on Georgia’s bad voting laws.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/nasa-ends-mars-mission-after-finding-out-planet-has-no-early-voting
“We here at NASA are in favor of voting rights,” said NASA director and founder Bob NASA. “And we can’t in good conscience work with a planet that doesn’t embrace those rights.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/op-ed-i-know-im-on-the-right-side-of-history-because-every-corporation-in-america-agrees-with-me
“If I’m being honest, I was a little unsure of my positions a year ago. I felt really lonely knowing I was only on the side of the NFL, NBA, and Disney. But when Major League Baseball came out in favor of my politics, I decided it was time to make a brave stand. Not because Google, Facebook, and Twitter all said my ideas are good — but because it was the right thing to do.”
NOT the Bee isn’t satire at all, but it reads like a very bad parody of a TV show.
https://notthebee.com/article/watch-psaki-gets-asked-if-biden-will-stop-lying-about-ga-voting-law
“Psaki gets asked if Biden will stop lying about the GA voting law now that he’s been fact checked into oblivion. She parkours around the question about as expertly as Michael Scott.”
https://notthebee.com/article/in-the-same-week-that-mlb-pulled-the-all-star-game-out-of-georgia-they-signed-a-new-deal-with-a-chinese-company-backed-by-the-ccp
“On Wednesday MLB signed a huge deal with China’s TENCENT for streaming rights until 2023. The company is backed by the Chinese Communist Party and like all Chinese tech companies feeds user information to them in order to further their digital dictatorship and subjugation of all citizens. …Tencent is one of the companies that dropped NBA games in 2019 after Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey publicly voiced support for pro-democracy Hong Kong protesters while China was cracking down on them in tyrannical fashion.”
https://notthebee.com/article/sir-charles-aint-afraid-to-say-it-watch-barkley-say-on-national-tv-that-racial-division-and-class-division-are-caused-by-power-obsessed-politicians
“He’s not supposed to be able to say that, you know. As a famous black man with a huge stage, he is expected to toe the Marxist line or ELSE.
But for some reason Barkley doesn’t care what people think. And it’s a curious thing how the mob dissipates once they understand that their target doesn’t care what they think and is not afraid of them.
God Bless Mr. Barkley for never being afraid to speak his mind.”
Amen.