Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Even the Post Office is pandering joining the cause in a subtle way.
While in Milwaukee…
Black Lives Matter activists intimidate an Asian nail salon in Milwaukee. pic.twitter.com/iMXBMSKs4F
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 3, 2021
Calgary Police get told to leave while interrupting church service. pic.twitter.com/RaoIK8Khxf
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 3, 2021
Standing ovation, if you please.
Oilfield Rando is one of my favorite Twitter accounts to follow, and usually, I agree with him, but this time he is wrong, and it’s necessary to understand why.
Exactly. Conservatives don’t have the backbone of the American left, and the Wokification of sports will continue until they do. https://t.co/CMhvA0ITPh
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 2, 2021
Think I like saying this? I don’t.
But the left is committed enough to their ideology to riot for a year and destroy any businesses that cross them.
Conservatives couldn’t turn off ESPN for2 weeks if Kirk Herbstreit came to their house, sh*t on the floor and smacked their wife
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 2, 2021
A few things.
First of all, I am not aware of a single Leftist boycott in the modern era that actually harmed a company in any way. Not one. If I’m wrong, point it out to me.
What the Left does is go on social media and shriek about wanting a boycott, but other than posting pictures of throwing away perfectly good Goya food, what did they accomplish? Nothing. In fact, Conservatives rushed out to support Goya and they made more money.
So don’t tell me the Left has the backbone to boycott to make their voices heard. They don’t. They have an amplified social media presence and that’s it.
Second, we have seen Conservative boycotts work, sort of. The financial damage done to Dick’s after they stopped selling ARs is proof of that.
The problem is this doesn’t work with Coca-Cola or MLB or the NBA or Hollywood.
If you remember correctly, during the GW Bush years, Hollywood made countless anti-War films that portrayed America as evil and our soldiers as either bloodthirsty killers or poor dumb hicks who signed up to be abused by the military because they were too stupid to know any better.
Every single one of these movies lost money. They were box office flops.
Who actually watched Stop-Loss? Nobody.
But Hollywood kept cranking them out because insulting America was more important than money.
These studios made their money back on popcorn fodder and their balance sheets were in the green at the end of the day.
And I hear what you are going to say “but don’t see the popcorn fodder too.”
You’re right, except it doesn’t matter.
Have you noticed just how much every popcorn fodder movie is the exact same piece of generic shit?
It’s because Hollywood no longer makes movies for America. They make movies for the global market and they need shallow characters with dialog that is easy to dub or subtitle in a foreign langue without much lost in translation.
Any American cultural references are lost. Any character depth is eliminated.
There are literally more people who watch movies in China than there are Americans.
India is getting up there.
Hollywood knows that if every American Republican, all 74 million Trump voters in 2020, never went to the theater again, never signed up for a streaming service ever again, never turned on the TV ever again, and just sat around watching old DVDs they already owned, that would make a rounding error difference on their balance sheets against the global market.
There are more NBA fans in China than there are total Americans.
MLB is trying to capture the same market.
Only football is still heavily US-dominated because football is uniquely American in culture.
So what that Coke or basketball insults American Conservatives.
They lose some sales in the US.
They make up for it in China because China loves it when American companies insult America, that is used as propaganda in China.
The Chinese government loves to throw Black Lives Matter back in our faces. It pulls our teeth on calling them out on their human rights atrocities.
We saw that just recently in the meeting in Alaska.
(Paraphrasing)
US: “Your treatment of the Uyghurs is bad.”
CCP: “You commit genocide against black people.”
US: “Touche.”
The more the NBA or MLB go woke, the more they get promoted in China.
I’ve said go Woke, go broke is an absolute law, it is locally, it’s not globally.
A vegan restaurant that charges men and white people more and tells Trump supporters they are not welcome will fail because half the local population won’t eat there.
A multinational corporation that does the same won’t notice because the percentage of potential customers who boycott against their total market presence is a drop in the bucket.
There is literally nothing that the average Conservative consumer, in their day-to-day purchases, can do to a global megacorporation that makes an iota of difference.
Politically, Conservatives need to run people who are willing to hurt these megacorporations.
Every product that they make in China needs to be seized at the border and destroyed.
I would love nothing more than to see every iPhone, iPad, Macbook, etc, unboxed, laid out on a shipping dock, and run over with a steamroller driving by a Customs agent like semi-autos in Australia.
Corporate executives need to be held criminally liable, as in prison time, for human rights abuses against workers overseas, including subcontractors. Take Mr. CEO, send him to Terre Haute for life, seize all of his assets and leave him destitute. Starve his children.
Put a 100% tax on all overseas corporate profits.
We need a Conservative Bane.
To say to people on the right “next time you go to a restaurant get water instead of Coke because of what Coke said about Georiga” is functionally useless.
It won’t change until the punishment for the Coke CEO for doing what he did is to throw him in a hole and seize all of his money because some of the sugar that went into a Coke bottling plant in Beijing came from a plantation that used forced labor in southern China.
And in the latest faux outrage to claim Jim Crow Electoral strategies by Republicans:
Florida Republicans are considering a bill that would effectively make it a crime to give voters food or drink, including water, within 150 feet of polling places.
According to the text of an elections bill introduced last week, state law currently prohibits offering voters assistance within 100 feet of polling locations; H.B. 7041 proposes expanding that zone to 150 feet and includes a prohibition on giving “any item” to voters or “interacting or attempting to interact” with voters within that zone.
We discussed the Senate version on an earlier post. This is the House version which covers more. And as usual don’t tust the assholes in the Media and read the bill yourself
General Bill by Public Integrity & Elections Committee and Ingoglia
Elections: Revises provisions relating to voter registration applications, voter registration, elections and terms of county commissioners, ballots, voting systems, duplicate copies of ballots, audits, reports, vote-by-mail ballots, canvassing board duties, certain notifications, voter signatures, secure drop boxes, and penalties.
Allow me to save you some time since it is a long bill. Here is a screenshot of the offending part.
Notice something? It says nothing about providing food or water to a voter. What they cannot do is solicit an elector on how he or she should vote. So yes, you can pass food and water as long as it is not done under the color or a particular political party. If the water bottle is stamped with a candidate’s name or you are wearing colors for a party while engaging in the “acts of good” then it is considered soliciting.
And the second part: There is already in the law and for years a stablished distance of 100 feet from the polls where you cannot solicit. So please explain to me how you can survive without water within 100 feet but at 101 feet you will drop dead of dehydration.
There is all that national coverage about the Georgia Voting bill and I guess our intrepid journos have the need to make up BS so they don’t feel left behind.
Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family and the entire Capitol Police force. The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife.
— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) April 2, 2021
“If…”
Let us eliminate your civil rights based on hypotheticals says the person who swore to uphold the Constitution.
The 2016 Nice truck attack killed 86 people, the worst mass shooting in the US, the 2017 Las Vegas shooting killed 60.
This attack by a follower of the Nation of Islam killed more people than the Storming of the Capitol.
Before we ban AR-15, how about we ban Muslims from driving. If we are going to play the “what if” game on Civil Liberties.
I am late for this party, but let me get a dance in anyway.
CS/CS/SB 90: Election Administration
GENERAL BILL by Governmental Oversight and Accountability ; Ethics and Elections ; BaxleyElection Administration; Limiting the duration of requests for vote-by-mail ballots to all elections through the end of the calendar year of the next regularly scheduled general election; requiring vote-by-mail ballot requests to include additional identifying information regarding the requesting elector; prohibiting the display of an absent elector’s party affiliation or other partisan information on the outside of vote-by-mail ballots and return and secrecy envelopes; prohibiting the use of drop boxes for the return of vote-by-mail ballots, etc.
So what evil remembrance from the Good Old Boys Klan-Based Democrat South are the Republican bringing with this law? Poll Taxes? Literacy tests? Veiled threats against Blacks?
ID for Mail In vote request. Kid-You-Not.
I believe that the Democrats go something like this: “How dare the Republicans think African Americans actually have state-issued identification or are smart enough to get one! ”
And if you do not have Drivers License or Florida ID, you can use the last four digits of your SSN. The noise they are making, you would believe they are asking for a photo, fingerprints and a background check before they get to send you a Mail In Ballot.
But wait, there is more evil republican voter suppression in this bill. If you cannot deliver the vote in person, you can design an immediate family member to do it for you 9 days before the election and the designee must present ID and a written authorization to turn in the vote. Damn it! How dare the FLAGOP interfere with ballot harvesting!
And they also messed up with the canvassing of the Mail In Votes by allowing the poll workers to start counting the Mail Ins once the machines are tested and ready to go in election day and have till noon the next day. No chance to fuck around with “late coming votes” from a friendly Democrat Postal Supervisor who just happened to find two trucks full of votes for the D’s.
There are a couple of other things, including the elimination of Drop Boxes altogether. But this Jim Crow shit Fuzzy Nikki talks about? That only happened on her side of the Pot Patch.
