Recall Prof. Sowell’s truism about minimum wages, that “The Real Minimum Wage is Zero” is talking about the person who DOESN’T get the job because the Government has artificially screwed up the Marketplace by hiking the cost of doing business.
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Is Ben & Jerry’s Taking a Bud-Light-Level Beating After Ignorant Independence Day Tweet?
Yesterday, I scrabbled together a quick comment on Ben & Jerry’s ignorant indigenous Independence Day tweet, but when I saw Rob Roper’s take, mine went into the digital dustbin. I liked his more, but the fates have since blessed me with news that makes for a great follow-up.
Target’s Pride Kids Collection Did Not Get Yanked Over Fears for Worker Safety -Execs Fear a Bud Light Level Boycott Event
My inbox is loaded with links to stories about Target pushing pride month gear for kids. The collection hit stores but, within days, got yanked off the floor entirely in some locations, and not over fears for workers’ safety.
Russia, Boycotts, and Sports
So Chinese dictator Xi Jinping asked Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to hold off on invading Ukraine until after Beijing’s Winter Olympics. Putin generously postponed the bloodshed to accommodate his Communist buddy’s request.
Boycott Carhartt
Employees cannot simply quit their jobs and go work elsewhere when they are subject to human rights abuses by their employers, despite what the Conservative, Inc. grifters would have you believe.
Will SAU16/Exeter DEIJ Director Support the BLM Boycott of White Owned Businesses?
A parent from SAU16/Exeter posted the following screen shot, asking if Andres Mejia, the DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice) Director, will be supporting this boycott since he is a member of the Seacoast Black Lives Matter.
Another Ben & Jerry’s Fail – State’s are Divesting from Its Parent Company After it Halted Sales in Israel
Earlier this year, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever) decided that “it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).” They stopped selling. States with anti-BDS laws are taking notice.
Boycott the Red Sox
This: MLB’s “values” … more specifically, allowing voting WITHOUT a photo ID … is OPPOSED by a whopping 74% of Georgians: In Georgia, support for voter ID is even higher, with 74% of voters supporting in a UGA/AJC poll for mandating voters to show a copy of their photo ID or other documentation to be … Read more
Retailers Drop Mike Lindell and My Pillow for Daring to Say There Was Fraud in the Election
Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of My Pillow is a Yuge Trump supporter. He’s also spent some social capital on the idea that the November 2020 elections were a bit hinky. The word fraud may have been used. In response, a growing list of retailers will no longer carry My Pillow Products.
GOYA Foods Gives AOC “Employee” of the Month Award – Her Boycott Raised Sales 1000%
Over the summer Robert Unanue, the CEO of GOYA Foods, said nice things to and about President Trump. The left, naturally, lost their mind. The punishment for this is your destruction. Even NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tried to bring the hammer down on GOYA.
Cancel Culture Backfire – GOYA Boycott Big Win as Buy-cott Begins to Stocks Food Pantry Shelves
The Left talks about debate and bipartisanship and working together while actively destroying anyone who disagrees. The goal is to scare people into silence. No challenge, no contest, no other side.
Pappas and Kuster Vote to Block Anti-BDS Bill
House Democrats including Pappas and Kuster on Wednesday blocked the consideration of HB 5594. The bill prohibits domestic support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The bill itself says it is to impose additional prohibitions relating to foreign boycotts.
Drag Queens Refuse to do Future Events at Library that Featured Anti-Drag Feminist
The social constructs on the left have a habit of becoming anti-choice or anti-speech advocates. Their ideology demands it. So, while men dressing up as ugly clownish caricatures of women is okay, an actual woman who says drag queens are real women is bad.
ESPN’s New Policy
By Jim Johnson
NFL Owners have relinquished their power to the players. Now, executives at sports television network ESPN have interceded to appease multi-million-dollar players by not airing the playing of the National Anthem before NFL Monday Night Football games.
How soon before other networks follow this PC liberal morass?