Election 2020: Boycotts and Counter Boycotts

Roger L Simon at ET, Virtue Signaling Replaces Baseball as America’s National Pastime. Clarice at Am Think, What’s More American than Coke and Baseball? Fox, MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law, well duh, their money is important to them; voters aren't. Breitbart, MLB Requires Photo ID to Pick Up Tickets Yet Blasts Georgia for Voter ID Law. People will cheat to get a free baseball game, but they'd never cheat in an important election, would they? Also, Carlson: MLB ‘Encouraging the Destruction of Democracy’; Biden Willing to Destroy Baseball to Increase Democrats’ Power. Newsalert, If MLB really believed Georgians are now living under “Jim Crow on steroids,” why are they only canceling 1 of the 82 MLB games scheduled to be played in Georgia in 2021?. 

Some GOP lawmakers are starting boycotts of their own, Da Hill, Some Georgia GOP legislators want Coca-Cola products removed from offices. That's not enough of a hit to make much impression, but this one might be, Sundance at CTH, President Trump Calls for Unrelenting Boycott of All Corporations Working Against U.S. Election Security: “Don’t Go Back To Their Products Until They Relent”. So far, I have refrained from asking Georgia to boycott Coke, but she only gets it when it's super cheap anyway. Also from Breitbart, GOP Senators Launch Effort to End MLB Antitrust Exemption. Sure, and extend it to the NFL as well over the BLM bullshit.

At WaPoo, Hugh Hewitt offers an Opinion: Good luck with your fans, Major League Baseball. Have they misjudged their audience? 

At Da Fed, the unsinkable Mollie Hemingway has a series of Questions The Media Should Ask President Biden About His Call For Economic Sanctions On Georgia

Q: Seeing that over the past year, almost 50 percent of small, black-owned business in America have closed for good and seeing how African Americans make up 55 percent of Atlanta, 54 percent of Savannah, and 55 percent of Augusta (where The Masters is played), does President Biden still think calling for an economic boycott and punishment by private companies on all Georgia citizens is a good idea? And will he now call for boycotts of The Masters, the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta Falcons, and the Atlanta Hawks along with UGA & GA Tech. football? Why or why not?

News Busters, CBS 'News' Deletes Tweet Advocating How Companies Can Oppose Georgia Republicans.

Da Wire, Georgia County That Voted For Biden To Lose $100+ Million Over MLB Relocating Game After Biden Remarks: Report. Fine. You get what you vote for then.Kaylee McGhee White at WaEx, Georgia Democrats stare down a mob of their own making

Leftist activists are busy whipping up a national boycott of Georgia-based businesses over the state’s new election integrity law. The boycott has the support of Hollywood and the White House, with President Joe Biden saying this week that he would support moving the MLB’s All-Star Game out of the state as a sign of protest.

Georgia Democrats are now left trying to talk the mob down.

“I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia,” Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff said in a statement on Thursday. “Georgia welcomes business, investment, jobs, opportunity, and events. In fact, economic growth is driving much of the political progress we have seen here.”

Stacey Abrams, who, having lost Georgia’s governorship in 2018, rebranded herself as a voting rights activist, agreed and reminded Democrats that economic boycotts would hurt the very communities they claim to represent.

“Black, Latino, AAPI, and Native American voters whose votes are the most suppressed under SB 202 are also the most likely to be hurt by potential boycotts of Georgia,” she said in a video on Wednesday.

“I ask you to bring your business to Georgia and, if you’re already here, stay and fight,” she added in an op-ed for USA Today. “Stay and vote.”

But Ossoff and Abrams ought to know that once a mob takes shape, it will not settle for anything less than what it came for: the total destruction of that which it opposes. We see this all the time nowadays. People lose their jobs and reputations over years-old tweets, and anyone who questions the ideological conformity woke extremists are pushing is shamed into remorse.

Now the mob has an entire state in its crosshairs, and it will not back down until Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is punished for signing the election reform bill into law, state Republicans are ousted for proposing and passing it, and Georgia-based corporations are financially crippled because they didn’t speak out against the bill “soon enough.”

The irony here is that Georgia Democrats created this mob. They deliberately misrepresented Georgia’s election reform law and made it out to be the undoing of the civil rights era — a false and ridiculous claim that is easily debunked by a quick skim of the law’s text. Democrats lied about the bill, hoping to convince minority Americans that they’re on the verge of being disenfranchised, to scare them into voting blue.

Nick Arama at Red State, Tucker Carlson and Brian Kemp Rip Dem Duplicity Over GA Election Law

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp blasts MLB for pulling All-Star Game from Atlanta | https://t.co/RY2dDiu5l9

— Dr. Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) April 3, 2021

1945, “You’re Racist If You Oppose HR 1”: How Democrats Plan To Pass It. From Da Caller, Rep. Burgess Owens Lived Through Jim Crow, Says It’s ‘Demeaning’ To Compare Voter ID With Actual Racism. Nate Cohn at NYT (cited at Hot Hair) even admits, Georgia’s New Election Law Probably Won’t Affect Turnout Much. Sister Toldja at Red State, Chris Christie Causes Pain on ABC News by Pointing out Real Reason Biden Is Attacking Georgia's Voting Law

This is — it expands early voting in Georgia. The president said it ended it.

Listen, he’s what Joe Biden’s got to live with when he wakes up this morning on Easter morning. He is doing exactly what he sat around in the campaign and the transition and accused Donald Trump of doing. He is lying to cause racial divisions in this country. That’s what he accused Donald Trump of doing and he’s a liar and a hypocrite this morning (ph).

At Insty, Asked by Hugh Hewitt if Delta and Coca Cola benefitted their shareholders in urging MLB move the All Star Game, Chris Christie says flat out “No.”

Corporate governance experts used to warn about the “separation of ownership and control,” in which corporate management took advantage of its position to run companies in its own interest instead of shareholders’. But they were mostly concerned with financial conflicts. This woke posturing is just another example of how management can run the companies in its own interest instead of shareholders’.

Companies should have to get shareholder permission to take political stances.

Pedro Gonzalez at Am Great,  Republicans Are Digging Their Own Graves on Election Reform "H.R. 1's provisions are intended not merely to root out dark money in our elections but would, in reality, serve as a cudgel against opponents of the Democratic Party." Breitbart, They Helped Elect Joe Biden. Now Hollywood Celebrities Are Pushing Democrat-Backed H.R.1. Totally in character. 

And the memory hole gets deeper and wider. Ashe Schow at Da Wire, Media Quickly Moves On From Man Who Killed Capitol Police Officer After Learning He Supported Louis Farrakhan and from Matt Vespa, at Town Hall, The Left Tried to Blame the Capitol Attack on a White Guy...And Got Wrecked For It

This story will be out of the news quickly. Our friends at Twitchy noted the very obvious reason why this attack was not trending on social media. As soon as Green’s race was identified, the sweeping under the rug protocols were engaged. Meanwhile, there’s another mess of tweets of liberals just embarrassing themselves—again—for playing this game.

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