Posted on 04/01/2021 7:19:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After leftists intent on making election fraud permanent threatened Georgia's big companies with a boycott if they didn't condemn Georgia's election integrity law, Delta was one of the first to cave.
According to the Washington Post:
Some of Georgia’s biggest companies — including Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines — and Atlanta sports teams the Falcons and the Hawks came out strongly against the state’s new voting law Wednesday amid growing backlash against the business world for failing to do enough to stop the measure from becoming law.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian condemned the legislation as “unacceptable” and contrary to the company’s values.“Last week, the Georgia legislature passed a sweeping voting reform act that could make it harder for many Georgians, particularly those in our Black and Brown communities, to exercise their right to vote,” Bastian said in a Wednesday memo to employees.
“The entire rationale for this bill was based on a lie: that there was widespread voter fraud in Georgia in the 2020 elections. This is simply not true. Unfortunately, that excuse is being used in states across the nation that are attempting to pass similar legislation to restrict voting rights.
Which is amazing garbage from the CEO of one of America's best and most loved companies. The Washington Post's writer was careful to leave off any information about just why he might be doing that, which was that he was under threat of a far-left boycott. Apparently an editor, or maybe even a bot, had to insert a related-item link near the bottom about that boycott threat, which the current Post piece had conveniently ignored. They just wanted you to think he said this garbage because he actually believed it, and wasn't in a sort of hostage situation, mouthing what his captors wanted him to say
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Shame on him!
Corporations should stay out of politics.
Folks. We fly planes..
We are not political.
Thank you.
We know Delta's human resources people are Woke, but is it also getting pressure from the government and its own board of directors.
May they go bankrupt.
Who cares what Delta thinks? They have no (direct) power to overturn the law.
The content of Bastian’s statement is appalling. He’s telling us, as a guy whose airline rides require I.D. to get onto, that voters should not be required to show any identification to vote?
Or that the word of that Democrat sleazebag operative with 99 people residing in a single residence is sufficient for handing him 99 ballots? Or that Black people are incapable of getting I.D. even though every last government service, every last airline ride, every last entry to buy a sports-event ticket, every last hospital admission, every last drive of the car somehow requires I.D. to partake? What planet does this soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations guy live on? His claim is flamin’ hot dishonest.
And that unattended ballot drop boxes, easily stuffed by ... Democrat election cheats ... should continue to go unattended with zero chain of custody? How convenient for them. Why not create a common pit for all election votes, a big dry toilet, the effect would be the same. Yes, they call them ‘secured’ but any election cheat with knowledge of the works can get around those supposed safeguards.
What they can’t get around is a disinterested nonpartisan public official watching with witness all around, as the ballots are dropped off. That’s what he doesn’t want.
What evidence is there that he “caved” into anything?
Ed Sebastian has a bachelor’s degree. He is indoctrinated. He “caved” into nothing except for perhaps his professors.
Delta is ready when you are.
I am ready to help them pack and get the hell out of Atlanta AND the US government bailing them out with my tax money.
It will also get rid of a lot of nepotism.
This is all about the educational system. We let the left have it, and now the indoctrinated products of that system are running corporations.
This really is a case of chickens coming home to roost.
Close down Delta’s Atlanta hub and offer it, cheap, to any airline that will keep its mouth shut and move passengers.
so its racist to require a government id to vote, but it’s not racist to require a government id to fly?
How are minorities supposed to travel? I’ve been told none of them them have id’s.
I wonder if Stacey Abrams has paid Bastian a visit.
RE: Who cares what Delta thinks?
Georgia does. Their headquarters is in Atlanta, which has the busiest airport by passenger boardings in the United States.
As well as the asslown running jp morgan:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3946688/posts
And another take on the delta assclown:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3946669/posts
So highly paid, so friggin’ ignorant. No doubt one of their conservative employees will set them straight. Oh, there may not be any. If there are they’ll keep quiet to keep a job.
>>Georgia does. Their headquarters is in Atlanta, which has the busiest airport by passenger boardings in the United States.
So what are they going to do? move to another state? I doubt it.
I want these corporates bankrupt and re-organized. The title of the article even irritates me. Delta isn’t caving to the left, they are run by the left.
Corporations should stay out of politics.
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Ah but we’re told they are private entities that can do what they want. It’s all part of freedom. They have the freedom to throw their weight behind open borders, shady electoral practices, large-scale outsourcing, tax-payer subsidized bailouts, Woke cultural values and a whole host of other policies that are harmful to the average American voter.
Now I certainly wish that corporations didn’t do this. In this day and age they serve to anger at least 50% of their customer base. But in effect, they are telling us they don’t care. This is why conservatives should not be too quick to abandon government solutions when private citizens and entities threaten the well-being of the nation. There’s a reason that Republicans in the past embraced anti-monopoly policies and other laws to reign in private businesses. It’s because the multinational corporations interest often do not align with a particular nations interests on many different levels. What is the nation to then do?
Why does any business have a political stance on anything?
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