Walmart Halts GOP Contributions for Electoral Objectors

Newsmax ^ | 12 January 2021

[EinNYC]

Walmart, the world's biggest retailer, joined other major companies in indefinitely suspending donations to U.S. lawmakers who voted against President-elect Joe Biden's election certification.

The Arkansas-based company said Tuesday, in light of last week's attack on the U.S. Capitol, its "political action committee is indefinitely suspending contributions to those members of Congress who voted against the lawful certification of state electoral college votes."

[Sans-Culotte]

Conservatives are loath to participate in boycotts. Even here on FreeRepublic there are so many posts documenting so many excuses why Freepers will not do so.

I don't think boycotts work against woke companies. They keep on keepin' on, in spite of the boycotts. I no longer watch sports, don't go to Target and other companies, etc. because they disgust me now. But nothing we do to "show them" will mean diddly; so I don't kid myself that I am part of a boycott. The business they lose from you and me will be made up with new customers imported from turd world countries with EBT cards that you and I pay for.

[ProgressingAmerica]

And that's why progressives are winning.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt

-John Philpot Curran

The active ones, they're the progressives. I mean we have some guys here and there, but they have whole institutions and sectors of society.

Twitter and Facebook censorship fits right in there, the active preying.

[38special]

This explains Tom Cotton selling out

[Celerity]

I live in Bentonville and the walmart thing is a bit different. Yes, they are a-holes at every level but they still employ the entire NW Arkansas area with jobs. There are other companies as well: Tyson, JB Hunt, Simmons Chicken, and a few others. Mostly in food production. It’s a good area for honest work.

All of these companies treat people like dirt though. They all need to go. I’ve often said this: All businesses today need to be shut down and replaced by new people who haven’t been turned into money-hungry a-holes.

So Alice. Lets talk about Alice for a moment.

This woman is Hunter Biden in female form. She has been caught, by locals, with some very strange dealings in China - Mostly in banking. Not sure if you know this but Arvest is a bank started by Walmart. Banking rules and regulation are nil here because the Waltons control Arkansas. As the single biggest reason Arkansans aren’t eating each other they often get very special treatment around here. Everyone acknowledges that they can do whatever they want.

And they are a STRANGE bunch. Like to build things underground. It’s creepy but I’m also jealous.

Sam was a good guy. Even drove the same truck his whole life (It’s on display downtown and people still drive it). But make no mistake - his empire was built with the go-ahead and massive investment of the CCP, Norinco and built with slave labor provided by domestic Chinese labor and imported North Korean slave labor.

In the 20s we marched to defeat this. 100 years later we are marching to support it. And that’s everyone, left and right.

But yeah, The Walton family are major issues but for me to shop at Walmart in NW Arkansas is a different dynamic than anyone else. We support local grocers whenever possible but supporting Walmart here is supporting the local area.

And yes, lots of Indians here. The TATA consultancy firm is a bigger building than Walmart. They provide all the labor force for their I.T. at a fraction of of the cost.

[daniel1212]

List of companies to suspend payments to or potentially cease doing business with due to these companies suspending or stopping political contributions in order to punish those who voted to overturn the election, and or in response to the Jan. 6 protests at the capital.

(*Sources)

Note: Report: Companies donated $170M to GOP election objectors

HALLMARK CARDS (stopped and seeking reimbursement)

AMERICAN EXPRESS (stopped)

AIRBNB (stopped)

AMAZON.COM (suspended )

AMERICAN EXPRESS (stopped)

AT&T (stopped)

AMERICAN AIRLINES (suspended 3 months)

ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND (agricultural commodity trader: suspended)

BEST BUY (stopped)

BLACKROCK (asset manager: suspended)

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD (suspended)

BP (suspended six month)

CISCO SYSTEMS (stopped permanent)

CITIGROUP (suspended current quarter)

COMCAST (suspended)

COMMERCE BANK (stopped)

CONOCOPHILLIPS (suspended at least six months)

DELOITTE (consulting firm: stopped; will not)

DISNEY (stopped)

DOW Chemical(suspended)

EDISON INTERNATIONAL utility (suspended)

GENERAL ELECTRIC (suspended)

INTEL (stopped)

MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL (suspended)

MASTERCARD (stopped)

VERIZON (suspended)

FREEPORT-McMoRan (mining: suspended)

DUKE ENERGY (utility: suspended 30 days)

FIRSTENERGY (utility: suspended)

MORGAN STANLEY (suspended)

The following suspended all political donations, most in protest of the events of January 6:

AMERICAN INVESTMENT COUNCIL,

3M,

BANK OF AMERICA,

CHARLES SCHWAB,

CITIGROUP,

COCA-COLA,

FACEBOOK (through the first quarter),

Ford,

Google,

G0LDMAN SACHS GROUP,

HILTON,

INVESTMENT COMPANY INSTITUTE,

JPMORGAN CHASE (six months),

LOAN SYNDICATIONS AND TRADING ASSOCIATION,

MANAGED FUNDS ASSOCIATION,

MARATHON PETROLEUM,

MICROSOFT,

SALESFORCE,

SMITHFIELD FOODS,

TARGET,

TYSON,

UPS,

VALERO ENERGY,

Visa

*List is complied from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/here-are-the-u-s-companies-hitting-pause-on-political-donations and https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2021/01/12/corporate-america-halts-donations-to-republicans-who-voted-to-overturn-the-election/

[familyop]

Thank you for the insights. I visited some relatives in the Midwest and went into a large Walmart store in a small town early in the morning, at opening time (epidemic hours). There was a handful of customers—not many at all. Maybe five of us.

But there were many employees. Seeing their rows of vehicles, there were probably around 50 of them there at one time.

I worked in a large supermarket for my first job as a teenager nearly 50 years ago. That busy supermarket in a larger city employed maybe about one-tenth the number of employees. It paid less, too, considering the difference between now and then, job markets and standards, if you can imagine that. It paid less than the minimum wage at the time, until the manager was caught.

All of the companies sell Chinese and other foreign products except for a very few outliers that have extremely high prices on items for sale and inventories sorely lacking in variety. There are also items sold in Walmart, that are not from China. Walmart is only an ever-visible target for contempt.

[familyop]

"When Walmart, Target, Safeway and King Soopers (Kroger) (plus woke-ass Trader Joe’s) are the only places in town to shop in Denver (for example) what’s the real alternative?"

There are City Market stores up on the Range (around ski resorts, ranches, etc.), but they're even worse.

[Celerity]

Walmart put out an “Urgent” request to all vendors, inventors and entrepreneurs to bring to them any product made in the US. They were panicked when Trump stopped being beaten around by China. Plus, you just know that the Walton family have and continue to speak to Xi. Personally.

They saw the Trump writing on the wall. But when November 4th came around they retracted their open bids for all made in the US products. It was business as usual for them now.

[familyop]

"I was talking one of these videos,..."

Thanks. That's an interesting video.

I worked in many offices of various companies as a temporary employee during the '90s--tech offices, admin offices,... The foreign workers weren't so cheap in most of those offices, but managers and board members preferred to be in the presence of peoples from places closer to the Equator. Perhaps those places had been tourist destinations for some of the managers and board members.

It's really more about social pride, vanity and slavery than economics. I learned that lesson in more brutal ways while working with steel in the 1970s, when our labor unions were busted by "labor management consultants" (lawyers) working with the officers of those manufacturing companies. The manufacturing was moved to southern states, Mexico, other, less free countries, then countries like China.

The upper managers were gleeful about it and hated our very existence. They were a prideful lot of spoiled, vain, neurotic, philandering drunks, and that was in the late 1970s.

[Starcitizen]

but managers and board members preferred to be in the presence of peoples from places closer to the Equator. Perhaps those places had been tourist destinations for some of the managers and board members.
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India would be last or nearly last on my list of vacation destinations. That said,

For IT, it’s the Indian mafia. Once an Indian is hired in ANY POSITION, that’s it, within a year, the entire department will be Indian.

[Starcitizen]

Sad AirBNB is on the list, it’s through them I’m paying the mortgage on my beach house. I can get 10k pesos ($200) a night through individual room rental. Maybe $5000 a month once full tourism is allowed back in the Philippines (its right on the ocean in the whale shark eco tourism area). Pays all expenses above and beyond the $2200 a month mortgage. Without AirBNB, the best I can hope for is 30k pesos a month for a monthly rental ($600) and I lose access to my own property when I want to enjoy it. Still need $1800 a month to cover the mortgage.

[daniel1212]

Still need $1800 a month to cover the mortgage.

A lower income 3 bedroom apt. in lower income neighborhood near Boston will usually cost at least that much!

[Starcitizen]

A lower income 3 bedroom apt. in lower income neighborhood near Boston will usually cost at least that much!
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In the Philippines, mortgages are usually 5 years, 10 years max. Property worth 13 million pesos (about $270K USA). I’m on a 10 year mortgage.