Posted on 10/12/2022 8:49:41 PM PDT by grundle
Singer and business empire owner Kanye West is one of the most controversial figures in the world. He’s a rapper in an industry that generally leans very much to the left, yet he’s a conservative. His Christian views are confusing to some, including many fellow Christians. And he’s never afraid to speak his mind on stage, through social media, or during interviews.
But even someone like “Ye” is not immune to cancel culture and it just hit him in a big way. He now has until next month to move his financial empire out of JP Morgan Chase banks. According to friend and conservative pundit Candace Owens:
"Earlier today I learned that @kanyewest was officially kicked out of JP Morgan Chase bank. I was told there was no official reason given, but they sent this letter as well to confirm that he has until late November to find another place for the Yeezy empire to bank."
Though they gave no reason, let’s face it. The reason is clear. Between wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt at recent events and going on Tucker Carlson to rant about pretty much everyone, the reason he’s being booted by his financial organization is because he’s not “woke” enough as a Black rapper. The radical left and the globalist elite cabal fear conservatives, but they especially fear successful minorities like Kanye West who don’t use their platforms to attack the right.
Jamie Dimon is Jewish. Ye just slammed Jews. Diamon makes a revenge move. We’ll see what the next shoe to drop will be.
Financial institutions, social media, and online retailers should be treated like utilities. Once they read a certain market share, they should be legally obligated to provide their services to any and all consumers.
If that opinion offends the radical "private property" libertarians, well, too bad.
Many people think it's not a crime for a bakery to reject same-sex couple wedding cake orders. You know, free enterprise and capitalism.
Here's my consistency. It's about market share. A mom-and-pop store can do what it likes. But an enterprise with vast resources and market share (Chase, Amazon, VISA, Facebook, Twitter) should be treated like utilities. Their services should be open to all.
How big is too big? We can figure out the details later.
A one-store bakery is private property. But Chase should be treated as a public utility.
It is very hard to believe that republicans have ALWAYS been the defenders of big and small businesses just so WE ALL could end up being pissed on!! My how times have changed in such a short period of time!!
So he was denied having an account because he said stupid stuff that had nothing to do with his banking relationship?
That sure opens a can of worms for who can be an account holder. Half the country would be ineligible for an account.
Does the bank think it’s Twitter?
Fox News? National Review? Ben Shapiro? Sean Hannity?
I think all have paid lip service to free speech. Or do they only defend free speech when it's offensive, but not when it's really offensive?
I think his comments about Jews were racist and untrue. They were stupid, insulting and unfounded. He can say what he wants but if he says stuff like this not many will defend him.
As for the actions of the bank, it may not be their place to punish him and I don’t like it when banking institutions start acting like moral guardians, but I don’t think their actions are illegal.
my mortgage is paid off and the sooner I get around to having our checks deposited directly into the credit union, the better.
>“death con 3” was the last straw.<
Do people not realize the US has been at Def Con 3 since June 2022?
DEFCON 5 is the lowest state of readiness indicating minimal threat, whereas DEFCON 1 indicates maximum threat and readiness.
A thinking person -something in very short supply- could conclude Def Con 3 is exactly in the middle.
Does that mean Ye is going to go mediocre?
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White Lives Don’t Matter?
There should be no difference. What the bakery and bank are doing is wrong. They are in business to serve the public.
Both are not private clubs.
The does biz with the ChiComs.
Not too picky, are they?
It was probably the bank's Woke brain, either HR or Legal.
There will be fallout when retail lending realizes that its responsibility was overridden.
As an aside, the Woke folk at Morgan/Chase probably weren't really concerned with Kanye's antisemitic rant. They were after Kanye for his White Lives Matter stance but needed an oblique angle of attack to hide their true motive.
Or else what?
They give him a deadline to meet but what if he doesn’t?
Do they keep the money?
Account frozen with no way to access it?
Send him a check in registered mail?
If they take his funds that would entail some serious legal jeopardy.
What if he doesn’t do anything to help them close his account and makes them make good on their threat?
FIs, mom and pop shops, middle market firms, whatever, in the realm of free enterprise, should be free to make decisions that aren't using force nor fraud as their North Star. If the marketplace objects to artisans who don't make same-sex wedding cakes, FIs who won't finance Gun companies, or big media firms quashing conservative commentary, those firms will wither. Over time, they die.
That's natural law at work. And until recently, it's how "conservatives" reasoned.
Using the force of government to pick winners regardless of your political persuasion, is what Clinton, Obama, Bidet et al do/did/wish. We can either stay true to principles and pull our business if we object to an FIs decisions, or just make things up to make us feel good like leftist snowflakes.
Talk about unstable - you pretty much just sided with the whole cancel culture...but I bet you don’t believe you were ever slowly brainwashed...
What I always think is crazy is IF I was a gay couple looking to get married would I really want someone who did not want to forced to make me a cake?
There might be some “special ingredients” added to the batter or frosting.
Kind of like pissing off the chef or waiter/waitress at the restaurant PRIOR to getting your food served. Just not a good idea.
That libertarian theory of the marketplace would be relevant if we were living in an open, free market. But we aren't.
The theory you are relying on also pre-supposes things like the ability to buy or sell any drug without government intervention, and the right to buy or sell firearms without any government intervention, and the right to operate money transfer and banking businesses without any government regulation.
That is not the world we live in. You are thinking about another world.
As one example, how would a private system of money transfers exist that would enable firearms dealers blocked from using banks to conduct business? It wouldn't because it is illegal to set up money transfer systems which don't meet a large set of federal and state laws and regulations.
In our current situation we have to use the law to shield society from being controlled by large corporations and groups of corporations working in concert with the government.
yeah that’s pretty much it.
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