Posted on 01/17/2022 4:24:23 PM PST by raptor22
Our American Marxists, both in and out of the administration of “Dementia” Joe Biden, have learned that if you can’t cancel people who are too big to cancel, you can at least make their financial life difficult and it almost impossible for them to do business, as they are once again trying to do with Trump-supporting conservative entrepreneur and Mt Pillow CEO Mike Lindell by putting pressure on his banks to stop doing business with him/
They tried to destroy his company by coercing major retailers to drop his product lines and media outlets to refuse his advertising. Now they are trying to debank him, in a sense defund My Pillow and Mike Lindell:
War Room reported that in the latest attempt to silence conservatives, Minnesota Bank and Trust has informed Mike Lindell that he has to close the bank accounts he has for Lindell Recovery Network, Frank Speech, Lindell-TV, MyStore, and several other entities. Why? Because of the “reputational risk” that he supposedly brings to the bank because of his political role.
Steve Bannon is asking the “War Room” posse to politely but firmly let the bank’s officers know that they are making a mistake and that they will pay a price with lost business if they insist on de-banking Lindell.
The name of the bank is Minnesota Bank&Trust but the mother ship bank is Heartland Financial snd they are trying to weaponize the banking industry, as is the Biden administration, to destroy this “woke” institution’s political opponents:
collusion...
The crony corporatists have joined the Red Wave.
It’s been a while since we had a Run on the Bank, see IndyMac
Textbook fascism. Remember this event.
Call CEO Stephen Bishop 952-814-9300. They are taking calls & messages. Voice your opinion.
They can refuse to serve a customer based on the customer’s lifestyle?
Doesn’t the bank have to BAKE THE CAKE?
IMHO, banks are much more of a public accommodation than a wedding cake baker. They shouldn’t be able to selectively discriminate against potential clients.
History repeats. Russia’s urban upper middle classes gave the Bolsheviks critical political and financial support prior to them seizing power. When they did, they repaid the woke fools by liquidating them and their families.
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“US-based omnichannel domestic retailer Bed Bath & Beyond has revealed plans to close 37 locations across 19 US states this year,” a retail news site reported. “The closures will affect seven stores in New York, five in California, four in Washington and two each in Georgia, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas.”.
The company succumbed to pressure from far-left activists who objected to Lindell’s claims about the security of the 2020 election and the results.
Bed Bath and Beyond’s stock price collapsed after last year after it announced its retail boycott and investors and customers fled in droves:
Amid a boycott in response to its politically motivated decision to drop Mike Lindell’s MyPillow products, shares of Bed Bath & Beyond plunged 36.4% at the close of trading Thursday. The retail chain suffered its biggest one-day loss since going public in June 1992.
The consumer organization Media Action Network launched the boycott of Bed, Bath & Beyond after the retail chain stopped selling Lindell’s products due to his support of President Trump’s claim that fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
I have been boycotting BB&B, Kohl's, and Wayfair since all this happened. My boycott is for life.
Time for banks to refuse to do business with the DNC and BLM and AntiFa and any company that supports them
Used to be a bank would take your money and open an account for you. They did not give you a political litmus test. This smacks of Nazi Germany.
"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!"
I think it’s a monumental mistake for any business to descend into politics. If you can’t serve the damned pizza, or service the damned account, sell the damned car, or whatever the Hell you think your business is, regardless of your customer’s politics, then you’re in politics; not in business, and you should expect to catch all the fresh Hell that accrues to those who descend into politics.
That said, I think Conservatives around the country have BROAD leverage to take any woke company and clamp its nuts in the vise of BDS — boycotts, divestment, and social sanctions.
Business owners toying with “going woke” likely have little grasp of how much business they get from political Conservatives. Those who’d like to find out should be duly served, and lose it ALL.
I doubt this Minnesota bank has the least grasp of how much of their assets are tied to Conservative depositors. If they decide to run Lindell off, the Feds need to require them to make full disclosure to all depositors of the policies they’re acting upon. Then I’d wager we’d see the conservative political ground open up and swallow them whole, as they lose c75% of their assets.
This event is one in a string of events the Commies have introduced to try and silence conservatives. Gun stores and FR have felt the power. Facebook is training people to not think conservative thoughts, books are being banned, The IRS and other alphabet agencies have been weaponized, Pastors are being silenced, Doctors are loosing their licenses (some are forcibly being sent for psychological exams). I think the commies are so close to final all out control they can taste it.
I hear you about not being political (or otherwise…being homo is not political). However, businesses are run by people. People have opinions. People wish to or not associate with certain views, or people. They should have the RIGHT to discriminate….which is not all bad.
I think homo bakers should not have to make a Christian cake as much as Christian (or just, mentally stable) bakers should not HAVE to make a homo cake.
BTW, ever hear of anyone HAVING to bake a porno cake? Sounds a bit ridiculous that that would be a federal case? Probably because it is.
This “discrimination” obsession has to stop. People should be allowed to associate as they wish.
I just received MyPillow slippers for Christmas. They are very good.
Being homo is a moral issue, and demanding others’ support makes a moral demand on them. If they disagree, you’re done if you want to remain ethical.
Not baking the cake was NEVER political.
Demanding to have the cake anyway was unethical.
Trying to sue the baker into capitulating his mortal position — THAT’S crazy unethical, and overtly political, saying “You will agree with me morally, or else!”
If the root of the disagreement is of a political nature, it’s not in the purview of doing business.
If the root of the issue is moral, it might be.
Linddell arguing about election results, and the ifs ands or buts of fraud...that’s political; it’s not a business issue. Lnidell running a social media site ...that’s political; it’s not a business issue.
Unlike a sole proprietorship bakery, a bank is subject to Federal regulation, and inherent in that is all kinds of compliance with non-discrimination and equal access... This is by no means the same. It’s murky water a bank would be best advised to simply avoid altogether by not playing some games.
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