It’s Time for Conservative-Led Boycotts
For the longest time — for decades now — we conservatives have blithely ignored the boycott game. We paid little attention when Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow/Push coalition shook down Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola for millions in the early 1980s, and we’ve watched the Left work to perfect the corporate boycott in the years since.
While the Left tends to ruin everything it touches — in this case, by bringing politics into it — we on the Right have been more principled. Boycotts have always rubbed us the wrong way, because while we might disagree with certain companies’ political leanings, we’re still inclined to reward them for making a superior product — whether an ice cream or a coffee or a car. Put another way: We just want to have a Coke or jump a flight or enjoy a ballgame.
This approach, though, no longer seems tenable. Republicans, once the business-friendly party of corporate America, have been getting their clocks cleaned in campaign fundraising and spending in recent election cycles, and this will only get worse if conservatives allow it to. Corporations, generally, are anything but courageous. Rather, they’re pragmatic; they take the path of least resistance. And the path of least resistance right now is clearly that of appeasing the loud, angry, energetic, organized, boycott-crazy Left.
Donald Trump, for one, has seen enough. On Friday, he took issue with Major League Baseball’s cowardly and ill-informed boycott of Georgia, which was scheduled to host this year’s All-Star Game and annual draft. “Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans,” he said, “and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical Left Democrats who do not want voter I.D., which is desperately needed, to have anything to do with our elections. Boycott baseball and all of the woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections. Are you listening Coke, Delta, and all!”
By late Saturday night, though, the former president had cast a wider net. As The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra reports, “Trump encouraged people late on Saturday evening to boycott companies and organizations that are caving to the political left. The former president made the statement just days after Major League Baseball announced that it was moving the All Star Game and Draft out of Atlanta, Georgia, following democratically-elected Georgia officials’ vote to enact a comprehensive new law aimed at securing the state’s elections.”
Trump then did what he has a genius for: boiling matters down to their essence.
“For years,” he said, “the Radical Left Democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company is done or stated in any way that offends them. It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back — we have more people than they do — by far! Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck. Don’t go back to their products until they relent. We can play the game better than them.”
Game on?
We on the Right have historically eschewed boycotts, but perhaps this is exactly what’s been missing: A highly influential spokesman to organize the masses and lead a charge that will be felt deeply and conspicuously by its weak-kneed targets.
Donald Trump might not know it yet, but mobilizing the Right and leading conservatives into the Boycott Wars could be the most important thing he does during his post-presidency. ~The Patriot Post
Major Woke Baseball’s Atlanta Stunt
Major League Baseball has removed this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta because the team’s name remains the Braves. Oops! Wrong “woke” sensibility. The real reason MLB punished Atlanta is because of Georgia’s recent passage of a law with some mild provisions to shore up election integrity while expanding voting access beyond what it was prior to 2019. Why the entirety of the Braves 81-game home schedule will still be played in the “Jim Crow State” is anybody’s guess.
Speaking of “Jim Crow,” that’s how President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden characterized Georgia’s law, and before MLB made its move he said he’d “strongly support” the idea of moving the All-Star Game. “I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly,” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden also said. “The very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports.” You know, those poor victims who earn $10, $20, or even $30-plus million a season to play a game. Biden added, “This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia and 40 other states.”
For his gross dishonesty about the law, even his fan boys at The Washington Post rebuked him with “four Pinocchios.” Yet his lies just cost a city that gave him Georgia’s 16 electoral votes roughly $100 million. Fine repayment.
Consider all the wages lost for workers at the stadium, many of whom are minorities. Or the lost business and wages for the hotels that will no longer have rooms booked or restaurants without meals served. MLB is punishing socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s own voters for his lies. Perhaps that’s poetic justice.
Perhaps that’s also why President Unity is having trouble unifying his own side. Two of the Georgia Democrats who’ve done the most to perpetuate the lies and sic the mob on their own state are now saying, Hey, hold on a minute. Stacey Abrams, the perpetually aggrieved supposed victim of voter suppression, said, “I am disappointed that the MLB is relocating the All-Star game.” She added, “I don’t want to see Georgia families hurt by lost events and jobs.” But then she twisted the knife: “Georgians targeted by voter suppression will be hurt as opportunities go to other states. We should not abandon the victims of GOP malice and lies.”
Jon Ossoff, the inheritance-welfare recipient who won a Georgia Senate seat in January, likewise asserted, “I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia.” Yet he too turned his fire on “the disgraceful Voter Suppression bill” and the Republicans who passed it.
But at least socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s former boss Barack scumbag/liar-nObama cheered from the bleachers. “Congratulations to @MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens,” scumbag/liar-nObama said. “There’s no better way for America’s pastime to honor the great Hank Aaron, who always led by example.” Aaron played for the Braves.
Democrats can’t have it both ways, falsely slandering the state of Georgia and then being upset when “woke” businesses follow their lead and enact the equivalent of economic sanctions on the state Democrats just won. Then again, having it both ways is what Democrats do best.
This isn’t about “voter suppression,” of course. Senate Majority Leader Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer predictably threw a pitch to host the game in his state — except New York has more restrictive voting laws than Georgia does.
The squeeze play Democrats are really trying is to pass their own election overhaul in Congress. HR 1 and S 1 would make election fraud and chaos permanent, undermining efforts like those in Georgia and elsewhere to establish at least some measure of integrity in American elections. Characterizing any and all efforts at integrity as “suppression” is critical to the strategy.
Republicans are fighting back, with several of them calling for stripping MLB of its antitrust exemption. That could be an effective tool, but even more so would be for every God-fearing American to turn off pro baseball. MLB has arguably been the least politicized major sport, but millions of fans are tired of political disputes bleeding onto the sports field or court, and we have to make our voices heard by refusing to tune in or show up.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp blasted the league in a pointed statement. “MLB caved to fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies,” Kemp declared. “Georgians — and all Americans — should fully understand what the MLB’s knee-jerk decision means: cancel culture and woke political activists are coming for every aspect of your life, sports included. If the left doesn’t agree with you, facts and the truth do not matter.”
By the way, given that socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden has finally found his backbone, we look forward to seeing him stand up to the ChiComs by boycotting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The ChiComs don’t exactly have free and fair elections, plus they’re committing genocide against the Uyghurs. Surely that merits some socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden bravery. Or is he too beholden to Beijing to notice those things?
Speaking of China, guess who just made a deal for broadcasting games in the “People’s Republic”? That’s right — Major League Baseball.
Senator Rand Paul aptly summed it up, saying, “Your sports league might be a little too woke if it will freely do business with Communists in China and Cuba, but boycotts a US state that wants people to show an ID to vote.” The same goes for “woke” Georgia-based brands like Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, the latter of which bills itself as the “most Chinese-friendly” airline. Senator Marco Rubio gives the bottom line: “They’re hypocrites. Complete and total hypocrites.” ~The Patriot Post
Who Murdered Officer Evans?
On Friday, Capitol Police Officer William “Billy” Evans was murdered by an assailant, and another officer was injured.
As I noted in my tribute to officer Brian Sicknick, there have been two Capitol Police officers murdered inside the Capitol building — both back in 1998. Officer Evans is the third member of the Capitol Police murdered in the line of duty on the Capitol grounds.
Notably, as with two other recent high-profile attacks, the assailant in this case doesn’t fit the Left’s race-hustling, hate-bait narrative. Both were “hate crimes,” but you won’t hear those words out of the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden/ lowlife/liar-Harris regime or the Schumer/Pelosi tag team.
Last week, the assailant in the brutal assault against an Asian woman in New York turned out to be a black paroled murderer. Earlier, the mass murderer who killed 10 people in Colorado, all of his victims including a police officer being white, turned out to be an Islamist.
Now, the assailant who murdered Capitol Police Officer Evans turns out to be a radical black Islamist, Noah Zaeem Muhammad, being identified elsewhere as Noah Green. Muhammad was shot and killed as he attempted to assault another officer. He was a follower of Afrocentric black supremacist Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semite, anti-American hater who leads the Nation of Islam.
Before Facebook “memory holed” Muhammad’s social media page, the assailant noted that his religion was “centered on the belief of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Jesus, the Messiah, the final divine reminder in our midst.” He added, “The Minister is here to save me and the rest of humanity, even if it means facing death.” He had recruited other Farrakhan followers.
I noted two months ago that all the Demos’ DC security overload was baiting another attack by some unstable individual, and indeed Muhammad took the bait.
According to the leftist Capitol Hill elite, this incident bolsters their case for keeping all the “border security” around the Capitol building. The irony is rich given their open invitation to illegal immigrants now swamping our southern border. Of those who are caught, most are being dumped into border state communities or bussed elsewhere, and some of them will commit serious crimes against Americans. But again, those who dwell inside the Beltway believe their safety and security are much more important than that for the rest of us.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in DC, there have been 51 murders so far this year — that’s up 35% over the same period last year. That trend is tracking in other urban centers whose Demo leaders have adopted the Marxist so-called “Black Lives Matter” movement’s agenda to “defund the police.”
That notwithstanding, some leftist appointees on DC’s so-called Police Reform Commission want the Metro Police budget cut in half. The number of officers is already declining, from 3,850 at the beginning of 2020 to about 3,650 now. On the same day Officer Evans was murdered, the commission released a report recommending cutting 3,000 of the remaining 3,650 Metro officers. Their justification: “Decentering police requires shifting our collective focus and resources to invest far more in community-centered programs.”
But at least the Capitol dwellers are safe.
Predictably, President Post Turtle once again demonstrated his penchant for using the American flag as a political rag by ordering flags nationwide to half-staff, ostensibly to honor the Capitol Police.
It’s not that Capitol Police don’t deserve recognition when losing one of their own, but for the record, there have been more than 40 police officers killed in the line of duty across the nation already this year — and I can assure you neither socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden nor lowlife/liar-Harris can name any one of them. (You may be aware that The Patriot Post creates “End of Watch” tributes to every officer killed.)
Of course, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s political objective was not to honor the death of an officer but to keep the Capitol riot drama alive.
Finally, on the subject of using police deaths as political fodder, ensuring her arrogance and abject ignorance, moments after hearing about the Capitol officer’s death, Rep. Sandy Cortez (D-NY) issued a demand for gun control.
Footnote: It’s a gross irony that after I posted a Facebook note Friday about the death of Officer Evans and the arrest of the assailant in the New York assault on an Asian woman, Facebook’s “all seeing eye” algorithm bot determined that because I used the words “hate crime” and “Asian,” I should promote a fund to stop Asian hate crimes. So I was prompted with a pop-up noting, “Take action to #StopAsianHate. Raise money for a nonprofit supporting Asian communities, and we will take care of the donation process with no fees.” ~The Patriot Post
Hunter liar-Biden Is Back With More Laptop Lies
He’s back. liar-Hunter emerged from whatever rat hole Democrat Party handlers have been hiding him in since revelations about his laptop computer became headline news last October — just before the election.
Of course, few voters actually saw the incriminating New York Post information connecting Hunter and socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden in a quid pro quo deal with corrupt Ukraine officials. As I have previously written, the Democrats attempted to impeach Donald Trump for what socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden actually did in his influence peddling scam with Ukrainian officials.
The Demos had their Leftmedia propagandists and their Big Tech First Amendment suppressors black out the evidentiary bombshell reports from the New York Post, and that amounted to a colossal case of corrupt collusion.
Likewise, media outlets suppressed subsequent references to ChiCom socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe’s “Big Guy” pay-to-play scheme with the Red Chinese.
Regarding liar-Hunter’s incriminating laptop, socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe claimed it was “Russian disinformation,” an outright lie that was then repeated by his minions. Responding to that lie, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declared: “Let me be clear: The intelligence community doesn’t believe that, because there is no intelligence that supports that. … It is simply not true. … Hunter liar-Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”
The reason liar-Hunter came out of hiding this week was to promote his “memoir,” titled Beautiful Things. That in itself should raise the question, “What the heck has he done that would justify publishing "memoirs”? The book is liar-Hunter’s appeal for sympathy and to clear his name — and by extension the Big Guy’s name — regarding “debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China.” None of those claims have been “debunked.”
Regarding his laptop, when asked if he had dropped it off for service before the FBI picked it up, he said, “No. Not that I remember at all. At all.” Regarding the incriminating evidence on the computer, here is Hunter’s delusional spin: “It, it, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the — that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me.”
That assertion makes two things clear. He is finally admitting it was his computer, and he is admitting that the incriminating evidence on that computer was so politically damaging that he is floating laughable explanations about how it got there. Laughable, except this laptop involved the most massive media blackout in history ahead of a presidential election.
New York Post political analyst Miranda Devine, who led the charge to expose the evidence on liar-Biden’s computer, offered a recount of the corruption and cover-up. Regarding the computer, she notes, “liar-Hunter gave himself an out in that CBS interview: ‘Not that I remember.’ It’s a convenient excuse for a self-described longtime crack addict. Yet in his memoir, he can recount vivid details of his substance use, from his first glass of champagne at age 8 to his months-long crack benders at LA’s $830-a-night Chateau Marmont.”
So will anyone in the mainstream media now do what should have been done last October — expose this corruption and cover-up for what it was?
Jonathan Turley, Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, observed: “One of the ‘beautiful things’ in his life is a media that puts a blackout on the laptop story and wraps him and his father in a protective press cocoon.” Regarding liar-Hunter’s explanation of how all that incriminating information got on his computer, Turley notes, “Or perhaps it could be an initial attack by an alien technology.” He added, “How can you remember details from your period of addiction going back 20 years, detailed in your book, but you cannot remember this laptop?”
Turley asked this question: “Will the press ever cover the Hunter liar-Biden news fairly?”
The answer: NO. ~The Patriot Post
‘Border Czar’ lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris Is MIA
As the socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden-induced illegal immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border has continued to surge without any apparent abatement, and after nearly two weeks since being dubbed the “border czar,” lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris has yet to visit the border or even hold a press conference. So, the question is, why is Harris missing in action on the border?
When socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden first tapped lowlife/liar-Harris to lead his administration’s effort to tackle the border crisis, he first blamed Donald Trump. “So, this new surge we’re dealing with now started with the last administration,” he asserted, “but it’s our responsibility to deal with it humanely and to stop what’s happening. And so, this increase has been consequential, but the vice president has agreed … to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept … the returnees, and enhance migration enforcement at their borders.”
However, the lowlife/liar-Biden-Harris administration quickly sought to “clarify” her role. As the Associated Press reported, “ lowlife/liar-Harris won’t be on the ground at the Southwest border anytime soon as she leads efforts to address a rise in migrants trying to enter the country. lowlife/liar-Harris has no plans to visit the U.S.-Mexico border region ‘in the near future,’ spokeswoman Symone Sanders said Friday.” Sanders added, “You can expect she will be speaking with leaders from the region in the near future.”
How are these engagements with foreign regional leaders progressing? Well, as of the end of last week, lowlife/liar-Harris has not established any. Nothing says urgency like putting off addressing an issue for weeks. Evidently, lowlife/liar-Harris is too busy hobnobbing among the Washington establishment to be bothered with taking a trip to assess the border crisis, let alone finding the time to update the American public on how she’s progressing in bringing this humanitarian crisis to a swift resolution.
It’s obvious, of course, that lowlife/liar-Harris’s refusal to go down to the border has everything to do with the administration’s continued downplaying of the crisis. The last thing Harris wants is any pictures of her associated with this debacle. This also explains why a group of Republican lawmakers who recently visited the overcrowded migrant facilities were instructed by administration officials to delete the photos they had taken.
Apparently, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and lowlife/liar-Harris believe that simply spinning political narratives that have little relationship to the truth and facts is how leadership is done, as this has increasingly become the administration’s most recognizable modus operandi.
Meanwhile, an actual leader, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, has taken action via his recently launched Operation Lone Star to address the massive criminal elements at play that are fueling and exploiting the border crisis with human trafficking. Abbott sent a letter to Harris last week admonishing her to get busy securing the border. “Americans deserve to know what the administration is doing to get answers to these questions and to go after human traffickers,” Abbott wrote. “I implore the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration to take swift action to secure the border, crack down on human trafficking, and prevent more children from being trafficked and abused.”
The problem is, Texas is not Washington, and apparently lowlife/liar- Harris just can’t be bothered. ~The Patriot Post
Overrated News Anchors
Sometimes, one simply has to marvel at the arrogance and condescension displayed by those who purport themselves to be purveyors of “truth.”
NBC News anchor Lester Holt is one such person. Last Tuesday, while accepting the Edward R. Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism at the 45th Murrow Symposium, Holt declared that reporters are not required to hear both sides of a story in order to determine the truth.
“I think it’s become clearer that fairness is overrated,” Holt asserted. “The idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in. That the sun sets in the west is a fact. Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention. Decisions to not give unsupported arguments equal time are not a dereliction of journalistic responsibility or some kind of agenda. In fact, it’s just the opposite.”
Holt further insisted, “Providing an open platform for misinformation, for anyone to come say whatever they want, especially when issues of public health and safety are at stake, can be quite dangerous.” He added that the duty of reporters is to be “fair to the truth.”
Who’s kidding whom? For Holt and others who work in what is most aptly described as the Leftmedia, unsupported arguments, far too often promulgated by “unnamed officials who wish to remain anonymous,” have been the lifeblood of what they reported as “sun sets in the west” facts.
Anyone remember three years of “Russian collusion” stories that were manifestly false? How about turning a high school kid from Covington into a certified racist, or the wholly duplicitous “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative that nonetheless attended the justified shooting of Michael Brown? How about the media’s effort to turn George Zimmerman into a “white Hispanic”? Or the coordinated effort to give credence to Julie Swetnick, who accused Brett Kavanaugh of indulging in gang-rape parties? How about an MSNBC reporter standing in front of burning building while insisting what was going on behind him was “mostly a protest” that is not “generally unruly,” or a CNN reporter standing in front of burning buildings and cars while a CNN graphic read, “Fiery but mostly peaceful protests”?
As for providing an open platform for misinformation “especially when issues of public health and safety are at stake,” who didn’t give Dr. Anthony Fauci a platform and continuing credence, even when his flip-flopping became impossible to reconcile, and even as he now claims he is “too busy” to reconcile the irreconcilable reality of a socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration that wants travel and mask restrictions imposed on citizens, along with the implementation of vaccine passports, while it champions the potential super-spreader event that releasing untested, unaccountable illegal aliens throughout the nation represents?
Moreover, where was the media stampede to find the truth when The Lancet medical journal retracted its findings regarding an increased risk of death due to the usage of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to fight coronavirus? In December, the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents published a new peer-reviewed study that confirmed low-dose HCQ combined with zinc and azithromycin was an effective therapeutic approach against COVID-19. In January, a study posted in the American Journal of Medicine found that early treatment of coronavirus patients with HCQ lowered the disease’s mortality rate.
Will the same Leftmedia reporters who bashed HCQ’s usage — primarily because it was touted by former President Donald Trump — issue any mea culpas for their “contrary views” that proved to be wrong, perhaps fatally, for thousands of Americans?
“Sometimes a story falls in our laps in the newsroom and it seems huge,” Holt continued. “Then we begin to tug at it and pull at it looking for holes and suddenly it falls apart.”
Really? Holt himself hosted a socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden town hall event held in Miami that the NBC anchor characterized as being attended by an “audience of undecided Florida voters,” even though at least two of them previously declared their support for socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden on the network’s sister channel, MSNBC.
And that would be the same MSBNC that initially reported the latest attack at the Capitol building was perpetrated by a white male, even though the perpetrator was black and a Louis Farrakhan supporter to boot.
Remember the media refusing to “tug” at the Hunter liar-Biden laptop story? Numerous outlets either suppressed it outright or insisted it was the product of Russian “disinformation,” only to subsequently “discover” — post-election — that he was being investigated by the FBI. Associated Press Vice President for Standards John Daniszewski recently wrote a column advocating for standardizing a lack of tugging: The increasing chaos at the border “does not fit the classic dictionary definition of a crisis,” he insisted.
“Of all the things our nation is grappling with, in my opinion, the most worrisome is the death of truth and trust in our institutions,” Holt stated. “Please know this is something I’ve expressed worries about going back long before the previous administration. It’s been a slow erosion, but the answers and conclusions are already pre-loaded for us on social media or opinion-oriented programs. We have increasingly lost our critical thinking skills. The ability to hold things to the light and ask key questions for ourselves, unafraid that the answer may not be what we hoped.”
Did Holt or any of his colleagues express their worries about death of truth and trust in our institutions when New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg insisted that “you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer” when it comes to covering Donald Trump’s presidency? Do they really worry about pre-loaded answers and questions on the very same social media platforms in which they themselves partake? Should we eliminate “opinion-oriented” programs because they might challenge a media narrative such as the currently egregious and “lie repeated often enough” meme that Georgia’s election safeguards constitutes a return to Jim Crow?
Jim Crow laws are historically owned by Democrats, like Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Conner, who set dogs and water hoses on black protesters in 1963 in Birmingham, and Governor Ross Robert Barnett, who denied James Meredith admission to the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. Democrats also opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act by considerable margins, and Democrat Senator Robert Byrd led a filibuster of it. And despite the fact Byrd was deeply involved with the Klan in the 1940s, The New York Times still referred to him as a “pillar of the Senate” when writing his obituary in 2010.
The same media also referred to the late Ted Kennedy as the “Lion of the Senate,” despite the fact that he left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in a car he drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island.
It isn’t fairness that’s overrated, Mr. Holt. It’s the cadre of self-aggrandizing progressive water-carriers who believe they are the sole arbiters of “truth,” “misinformation,” and “fairness.” Those whose dedication to a particular narrative far outweighs any commitment to objectivity.
Those for whom the term “journalistic integrity” is now, for all intents and purposes, an oxymoron. ~The Patriot Post
Big Government, Little Freedom
Though every dollar taxpayers lawfully send to the U.S. Treasury is already owed to creditors like China, and though the debt now exceeds the worth of all goods and services in the U.S., the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden/ lowlife/liar-Harris administration is determined to “transform” the economy through more government spending.
Last month, it was revealed that less than 10% of the $1.9 trillion “COVID relief package” will be spent directly on COVID, and just 1% will be spent on COVID vaccines. On the day socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden was sworn into office, it was estimated that 15.6 million doses of COVID vaccines were administered — without the trillions of faux philanthropy. Today, companies are competing with welfare to get employees to return to work and abandon the supplemental welfare checks from “COVID relief.”
The socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden/ lowlife/liar-Harris administration has now announced an additional $2.25 trillion for “infrastructure” with most spending directed toward “clean” energy and climate control spending. Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, described the proposals as an “out-of-control socialist spending spree.” But in a Pittsburgh speech to a labor union crowd, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden pitched this bloated spending as the most significant federal jobs investment since World War II.
Sadly, it seems socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s memory is again a problem. While serving as President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s VP, he admitted, “There’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects,” because unemployment had stalled at 10% two years after the administration spent almost $1 trillion via the American Recovery Act. Unlike the scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton-era Democrats who actually tied welfare to work, the reengineered Democrat Party has completely moved to guaranteed government income, “free” healthcare, and “free” college tuition with more reliance on government services rather than personal responsibility and innovation. This evolution in philosophy and ideology is referenced in the Wall Street Journal’s succinct analysis of Biden’s plan: “The administration’s policies are rooted in economic research focused on perceived free-market flaws.”
Ronald Reagan dismantled Big Government spending and control by cutting taxes and regulations to create decades of economic health, ensuring that American hard work could lead to financial freedom. “One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand,” President Reagan declared. “Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn’t empower people, it impoverishes them.”
And as studied and researched by the Mises Institute, “The establishment of government enterprise creates an inherent competitive advantage over private firms, for at least part of its capital was gained by coercion rather than service.”
Last week, Angela Davis, the former Communist Party member who was instrumental in a 1970 armed California courtroom takeover resulting in four murders, was invited to speak to the Head-Royce School, a $47,300-per-year prep school in Oakland. Davis’s directive was right in line with today’s Democrats. “Ultimately, I think we’re going to have to dismantle capitalism if we really want to move in a progressive direction, if we want our children and children’s children and their children to begin to move along a trajectory that is described by freedom,” heralded the 1979 winner of the Soviet Union’s International Lenin Peace Prize. This activist speaker is connected with the Black Panthers and has praised Vladimir Lenin as “glorious” and the Bolshevik Revolution as “great.” She’s just one example of the folks now getting publicity and instilling socialist values in the next generation.
Lady Margaret Thatcher once quipped, “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Reagan was credited to say, “Socialism only works in two places. Heaven, where they don’t need it, and hell, where they already have it.” Conservatives must unify against Big Government because the future of American Liberty is at stake. ~The Patriot Post
Stopping ‘Woke’ Corporate Tyranny
As more businesses and corporations cave to the intolerant Left and its “woke” diversity, equity, and racial dogma demands — evidently out of fear of being canceled — a new coalition of conservatives has come together in a concerted effort to combat this decent into fascism. The coalition Back to Neutral recently launched StopCorporateTyranny.org, and the project aims to enlighten Americans regarding the dangerous advances of the far Left in our nation’s business world.
Justin Danhof, general counsel at the National Center for Public Policy Research, explained the group’s objective: “We’ve watched with growing concern the Left’s efforts to infiltrate corporate boardrooms and use that power to force their agenda on Americans everywhere. We are drawing a line. It’s time to hold corporate America accountable for canceling conservatives. We seek to restore a healthy understanding of, and respect for, liberty, free enterprise, and American culture, all of which is being corrupted by corporate oligarchs.”
After a rash of cancellations of conservatives such as Disney’s high-profile firing of actress Gina Carano for daring to push back against the woke narrative, conservatives have been ringing the alarm bells in earnest. As author Steve Soukup observes, “Whether under the guise of ‘ESG’ (environmental, social and governance), ‘wokeness’ or ‘stakeholder capitalism,’ make no mistake, all these terms are just cover for liberals weaponizing big business to achieve their radical, political goals.”
Back to Neutral holds that “corporations shouldn’t be bowing to politically correct factions for perceived short-term public relations gains at the expense of their customer base and shareholders.” Indeed.
Will this effort prove successful? We certainly hope so, as it will take concerted efforts like this to turn the tide, not merely relying on politicians to stand against the Liberty-eroding aims of the radical Left. ~The Patriot Post
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