Posted on Apr 8, 2021
The GOP may be punishing ‘woke’ brands over Georgia voting rights, but it won’t be the companies...
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In 2011, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney – then seeking the Republican nomination for president in the 2012 election – was defending his pledge not to raise taxes if elected when he told a protester at the Iowa state fair: “Corporations are people, my friend”.
Mr Romney’s declaration of fealty to the concept of corporate personhood – a soundbite that was used by then-President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign to cast him as an out-of-touch plutocrat – expressed what was then the mainstream view of the Republican party.
Ten years later, most of the GOP still agrees with the man who is now the junior senator from Utah, but a growing number of them would prefer that those “people” shut up – or else.
Mr Romney’s declaration of fealty to the concept of corporate personhood – a soundbite that was used by then-President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign to cast him as an out-of-touch plutocrat – expressed what was then the mainstream view of the Republican party.
Ten years later, most of the GOP still agrees with the man who is now the junior senator from Utah, but a growing number of them would prefer that those “people” shut up – or else.
The GOP may be punishing ‘woke’ brands over Georgia voting rights, but it won’t be the companies...
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Why would you knowingly spread lies? The corporations and MLB have taken a stand because they believed the lies and propaganda from Biden. The puppet who knows not what he's saying. JIM CROEW 2.0 Is a flat-out lie. Even minorities want voter IDs and voter integrity. More early voting, absentee ballots on-demand, and water and food inline it just can't come from a partisan organization within 150 feet of a polling station, which is a standard rule in most states. That's basically the new Georgia voting rules. And they are less restrictive than Colorado voting regulations. PS. Atlanta has a 51% African-American population. And COLORADO has a 9% African American Population. So who's really hurting minorities? It's not the voting rules in Georiga. It's the woke fools who don't care about the realities on the ground and the damage to minority communities across the nation by eating the Bull Shit spread by Antia American woke haters. Once again, I ask you who are the raciest if your saying Blacks can't get an ID because of their skin color?
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SPC Les Darbison
The state of Colorado has a 4.1% population of African Americans. The State of Georgia has a African American population 31.45% THe Washington Examiner Poll: Sixty-nine percent of black voters and 75% overall support voter ID laws
by Andrew Mark Miller, Social Media Producer. So here are the facts and it's easy to Google . And common sense says the Corporations never even read the new voter rules from Georgia. Or they would have know they have more early Voting than Colorado. It sure sounds racist to think some Ppl. are incapable of getting a ID because of their Skin COLOR! Jim Crow was established by Democrats and Abolished by REPUBLICANs Just like Slavery the Republican Party was mostly founded to Abolish Slavery and they succeeded in doing so!
by Andrew Mark Miller, Social Media Producer. So here are the facts and it's easy to Google . And common sense says the Corporations never even read the new voter rules from Georgia. Or they would have know they have more early Voting than Colorado. It sure sounds racist to think some Ppl. are incapable of getting a ID because of their Skin COLOR! Jim Crow was established by Democrats and Abolished by REPUBLICANs Just like Slavery the Republican Party was mostly founded to Abolish Slavery and they succeeded in doing so!
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SPC Les Darbison
MSgt Steve Sweeney - Thanks for making the point of how Ppl throw out the race card when they run out of coherent thoughts to keep a discussion going. My wife of 37 years is a Proud first generation American of hispanic descent.
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SPC Les Darbison
MSgt Steve Sweeney - PS the Washington Examiner listed the Poll as their own. And whites and Blacks are the 2 largest demographics in Georgia.
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