Posted on 02/25/2019 10:23:08 AM PST by Mount Athos
It’s hard to imagine how conservatives could be even more complacent than they actually are about what’s being done to this country.
The schools our children are taught in are almost universally run by liberals who hate everything we stand for, but we don’t demand that our representatives pull funding from state schools that behave that way.
Hollywood has become vocally, over-the-top hostile to Christians and conservatives, but we go see the movies anyway.
We still buy the papers and watch the cable news shows of networks that talk about us like we’re Nazis because we don’t agree with their liberal worldview.
More recently, increasingly monopolistic social media companies that have an inordinate amount of control over who gets heard and who doesn’t have started actively targeting conservatives and we just shrug or spout platitudes.
“If you don’t like the way they do it, take on those monopolies with hundreds of millions of users and billions in cash by building your own company.”
So, what happens when banks and credit card companies target people for their political views? Do we need to build our own banks, too?
Activist Laura Loomer, who has already been banned by PayPal, claims she had her account suspended by Chase Bank.
Enrique Tarrio, the black leader of the Proud Boys, a group that has laughably been branded a white supremacist organization by liberals, was also suspended by Chase. So was Martina Markota. And Joe Biggs, who made enough of a stink that Chase reluctantly gave him his account back.
Banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries in America for a good reason – and it’s not just because the bankers can steal your money. The idea that citizens could be cut off from using a bank because of their political views is extremely dangerous. Imagine going to your bank and being told to produce your voter registration before you’re allowed to open an account or get a credit card. If Chase is allowed to do this, we are taking a step into that world. A world where your political views could keep you from being able to get credit or run a business. Certainly, there are an awful lot of liberals who would love to see us enter a world like that. In fact, there was a column in the New York Times last year calling for weaponizing the financial industry in exactly this way to shut down the gun industry as part of an effort to deny Americans their Second Amendment rights.
Republicans in the Senate should demand that Chase executives come before them and answer some hard questions about targeting customers for their political views. Maybe we need to rewrite banking regulations to make sure this kind of discrimination can’t occur. I tell you what’s not a “maybe”: Republicans in Congress should at least let banks know that they are paying attention to this issue and that there could be rather severe consequences for Chase or, alternately, for the whole industry if this practice spreads.
You may have heard someone say, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.” I would add to that “capitalism is not a suicide pact.” Breaking up monopolies is a conservative idea with a long track record. Protecting middle-class citizens from the abuses of corporations that are targeting them unfairly is not something conservatives have historically shied away from doing when it was needed.
If conservatives are too complacent and lazy to address the challenges of the 21st century, maybe they should step aside for the socialists. They’re not complacent. They don’t sit around saying, “Gee, our people are being mistreated, but it would take work to do something about it and we might offend some powerful business owner if we fight back, so I guess we should let them trample us into the dust.” Conservatives with power need to stop mumbling platitudes about the free market and capitalism while their supporters are being stomped into the ground. They need to defend the real human beings, warts and all, who make it possible for conservatism to exist.
“Conservatives with power need to stop mumbling platitudes about the free market and capitalism while their supporters are being stomped into the ground. They need..”
I’m with you 95%.
The “supporters” are those with power that needs to be exercised.
Next time Wall Street needs a taxpayer and Fed bailout, these financial leftists and progressive oligarchs will find they have created a lot of enemies on the right who will firmly oppose it
Americans know who the nazis are and Americans are NOT unarmed as was Germany in the 1930s. Don’t claim to know what Americans will do when the nazis come, in mass, for Americans’ firearms but I remain unconcerned
Time to contact their Federal Reserve regulators.
This story is recycled from a few months ago. Treat with suspicion
If this story is false treat it as true. Let it be a motivator. Lie.
I have not contributed to Hollyweird, the Ministry of Propaganda or any other leftist stronghold in years.
My boycott list grows daily.
We gave up on Chase 30+ years ago when they wouldn’t zero out our credit card balance. We’d pay the statement on time and not charge anything but the next statement would always show a balance. Chase claimed that the time between sending out their statement and the time they got our on time payment, interest accrued so, by their own words, the balance would never be zeroed out. Finally, sent them a $5 check (I know, a scam and $5 lost) along with a letter to cancel the card forever.
if you’re right then i’m embarassed
Are lawsuits coming? I’ve heard nothing.
My buddy at work who is a Vietnam war Navy veteran with 3 sons who fought in Afghanistan and elsewhere, had his Chase credit card cancelled.
This happened to me (non veteran.)within a short time.
Reason: Chase said we can do it, we have the legal right to do it, we have the power to do it (in different words). Both of our accounts were always paid on time, never late or overcharged over the maximum.
To all vets here: Thank you again for your service to our country.
Main reason: Small accounts cost us money to keep servicing so we can close them if we wish.
Chase’s competitors who don’t cancel accounts based on political views should be advertising that fact.
” This story is recycled from a few months ago. Treat with suspicion “
Why? Was/is it untrue?
It wasn’t really proven as bunk, but.... serious doubts were raised. Now, it’s back again and being treated as new. That always makes me suspicious. I’ll search when I get home.
Laura Loomer is cut off from Chase. She has to do her courageous work by checks. This story is true or true enough. This is seditious war against good people who resist evil such as Laura Loomer. Congress needs to step in or, at least, someone does.
No we don't.
We still buy the papers and watch the cable news shows of networks that talk about us like we’re Nazis because we don’t agree with their liberal worldview.
No we don't.
“The schools our children are taught in are almost universally run by liberals who hate everything we stand for, but we don’t demand that our representatives pull funding from state schools that behave that way. “
Heck, most people here, and the VAST MAJORITY of conservatives not only support funding for their ‘wonderful’ public schools, but they also DUMP THEIR KIDS THERE.
I guess the rationale is “Hell, I’m paying for these schools, you’re damn right I’m going to let my kids get destroyed there. What do you take me for, and idiot?”
Never... This message is spot on and absolutely accurate. This needs to be shouted to the four corners of the earth to embarrass those who are indeed being complicit. Because we are...
There are no “suspicions”. The personalities mentioned in the article aside, how Chase treats conservatives is all fact. I am personally going through an issue with chase bank for the exact same reason. Chase bank is giving a wall of abnormal obstruction because a new “liberal manager” just took over and I look like a redneck.
He is giving me a “special kind of customer service (stonewalling even simple window transactions)” that I see other customers not have to experience. I just would have quit them but all this documented evidence is going to be absolutely priceless pretty soon. I’m going to sue the crap out of them for the stuff they have pulled on me.
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