“The Republican backlash to the corporate backlash to Georgia’s new restrictive voting law is in the news. The measure, passed by the Republican lawmakers and signed by the Republican governor, Brian Kemp, shortens the window for absentee voting, curtails access to ballot access for predominantly minority voters in urban counties, and makes offering food or water to voters waiting in line a misdemeanor.
Major League Baseball condemned the law, along with a slew of corporations including Delta, Home Depot, Aflac, Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Facebook and JP Morgan. In response, some congressional Republicans called for a boycott of ‘Woke-a-Cola’, and found support from the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, who this week warned businesses of ‘serious consequences’ if they continued oppose Georgia’s restrictive voting law.
‘My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics,’ McConnell told reporters. Yes, corporations, Mitch McConnell wants you to stay out of politics, which is why I’m sure any day now he’s going to return the $4.3 Million he’s accepted from corporations in the last five years.
McConnell’s ‘stay out of politics’ line is grossly hypocritical, considering the Kentucky senator’s comments in 2013 after the Citizens United ruling, which considered corporations ‘people’ free to express political speech through massive campaign contributions. ‘Under the first amendment, every corporation in America should be free to participate in the political process,’ McConnell said at the time. I’d call that a self-own, but he’s already 100% owned by corporations.” —Stephen Colbert
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html
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A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
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