Posted on 08/09/2020 8:09:08 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen praised a company for firing an employee who had posted “all lives matter” on her private Facebook page as an example of the free market standing up against “systemic racism.”
Yes, really.
During a C-SPAN interview, Jorgensen argued that Rosa Parks was discriminated against because, “what a lot of people don’t realize is that that was a government-owned, government-run bus, and the only way that racism was able to go on for so long was the government was putting it into place.”
She then claimed that it’s harder for private companies to engage in ‘systemic racism’ because they would go out of business, before celebrating the fact that a woman lost her job for posting “all lives matter” on her Facebook page.
“There was a woman who on her private Facebook — this was highly publicized — her private Facebook put ‘All Lives Matter,’ and the company fired her,” Jorgensen stated.
“And what I’d like to make note of she wasn’t talking to or wasn’t tweeting a coworker, an employee, a customer, a client, anybody like that, and this was her private Facebook, not the company Facebook, and yet the company said ‘OK, we don’t tolerate that.'”
Maybe someone should point out to Jorgensen that saying “all lives matter” isn’t remotely racist and that disagreeing with this statement is in fact a racist position.
Under her ideal system, woke corporations would feel even more empowered to trample free speech, opening up millions more Americans to be viciously targeted by cancel culture mobs who intimidate and bully companies into policing their employees’ behavior.
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Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen praised a company for firing an employee who had posted “all lives matter” on her private Facebook page as an example of the free market standing up against “systemic racism.”
Yes, really.
During a C-SPAN interview, Jorgensen argued that Rosa Parks was discriminated against because, “what a lot of people don’t realize is that that was a government-owned, government-run bus, and the only way that racism was able to go on for so long was the government was putting it into place.”
She then claimed that it’s harder for private companies to engage in ‘systemic racism’ because they would go out of business, before celebrating the fact that a woman lost her job for posting “all lives matter” on her Facebook page.
“There was a woman who on her private Facebook — this was highly publicized — her private Facebook put ‘All Lives Matter,’ and the company fired her,” Jorgensen stated.
“And what I’d like to make note of she wasn’t talking to or wasn’t tweeting a coworker, an employee, a customer, a client, anybody like that, and this was her private Facebook, not the company Facebook, and yet the company said ‘OK, we don’t tolerate that.'”
Maybe someone should point out to Jorgensen that saying “all lives matter” isn’t remotely racist and that disagreeing with this statement is in fact a racist position.
Under her ideal system, woke corporations would feel even more empowered to trample free speech, opening up millions more Americans to be viciously targeted by cancel culture mobs who intimidate and bully companies into policing their employees’ behavior.
Jorgensen also claimed that “private companies cannot discriminate as easily and get off as scot-free as the federal government.”
Presumably she missed the last 4 years of rampant social media censorship, which has overwhelming targeted libertarians and conservatives.
No wonder the Libertarian Party is a national joke.
Jorgensen makes Gary Johnson look like a bastion of logic and credibility.
There was suspicion that Stevenson was assassinated via drug.
Well, Graham was pretty poisonous.
A lot of people associate the 1950s with peace and prosperity, before everything went to hell in the 1960s. It would seem like the public shouldn’t have a reason to turn against the Republicans in that decade if times were so good. What do you think explains it? Perhaps the 1950s weren’t as peaceful as they are portrayed? How did Ike screw things up?
BTW, thanks for the visual of those two bumpin' uglies. :^)
As an aside, I think it is the decade we reached our cultural zenith, perhaps even a couple years into the 1960s. But 1965 onwards, we’ve been in a rapid cultural decline.
But aside from that, the 1950s was really the eye of the hurricane. Look closely and you could see there were many serious problems that surrounded us. Truman’s failure to defeat Mao, which has caused us no end of problems ever since (a National China would never have unleashed bacteriological warfare on the world). Failure to take McCarthy’s warning seriously and rid the country and institutions of a deep-seated Communist infiltration. Ike found McCarthy to be more of a problem, which was a serious failure of leadership.
Also the failure to curtail the size and scope of the federal government, tax rates, et al. I think the country was doing well in spite of this, but our growth rates could’ve been off the charts if Ike had rolled things back to Harding-level governance.
The 1958 elections was the crash of the decade, the worst since the 1936 elections. It was one of the worst loss of seats, especially in the Senate where the GOP lost the most number of seats in a single election. This was due to the Recession of the same year, blamed on Ike (the GOP was already in the minority, but not by much). Another issue was the public’s perception we were falling behind the Soviets. Stronger leadership on Ike’s part could’ve prevented both, but he simply wasn’t a Conservative. He wasn’t raised as one (his father was a Socialist) and didn’t really believe in small government ideals.
Well, at least she won’t be taking Trump votes away.
“Bill Knowland as Senate Majority Leader.”
Presumably after 1954 because if Ike wasn’t winning we likely would not be gaining that narrow congressional majority. The House is another matter, as you mentioned long ago with urban seats no longer going GOP and with southern seats not in play yet, we had a problem. GOP House if elected in ‘54 wouldn’t have survived a Stevenson reelection. Rocky would have been awful for the GOP in the south.
Republicans would have been apoplectic if Ike had lost. I think that means a conservative wins the nomination in 1956.
I found this cool book “The Republican Right Since 1945” (1983) By David W. Reinhard (Former Reagan undersec I believe). I started reading the google books preview but I’ll probably buy the ebook. 36 bucks on google books, pricey for such and old book.
Lots of details about the 80th Congress and the ‘48 election (what a boner!) and Robert A. Taft I read so far (Taft had attacks from his right as well as his left in his job as GOP Senate Boss). If McArthur had only taken the good advice he got and came home to campaign in the WI primary I think he could have taken the nomination and the election, with the (unmentioned in the book) farm recession that helped Truman (unlike what would happen today where the incumbent would be hurt) being the only stumbling block to the White House. Even Dewey with his horrible campaign would have won without that recession.
Jorgenson has made the ballot in PA.
Greens are still pending, democrats are challenging.
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