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2021-12-13 -Land of the Free
Left Is Shocked Companies Who Promised to Punish GOP Congresscritters Quietly Did the Opposite
And thank goodness they did. Red State does like to get overexcited, so here are just the key bits:
[RedState] In the aftermath of the "insurrection" of January 6, 2021, American companies governed by woke executives and boards fairly fell over one another to appease the left. In a flurry of virtue signaling rarely seen, company after company declared that they would no longer contribute to the campaign funds of anyone who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.

As the Biden bunch began to demonstrate they were not only corrupt to the core but hopelessly inept in the bargain, some companies started pulling back from the precipice of waging an electoral war against the people who were probably going to run Congress in 2024. The Hill reported the companies that pledged to punish Republicans for acting in accordance with their oath of office have slowly been backing off that promise, either directly or indirectly:

Six months after the Capitol attack, only a small number of powerful corporations have made good on their pledge to suspend PAC donations to the 147 Republican politicians who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.

Among the 10 biggest corporate PAC donors that pledged to pause their contributions to election objectors, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Verizon have followed through on their promises, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission filings.

Other top PACs that vowed to withhold contributions, such as AT&T, Comcast, General Electric, Home Depot, Pfizer and Walmart, have been bankrolling party committees or leadership PACs that can easily funnel campaign cash to election objectors. Those company PACs have not made direct donations to the politicians’ campaigns.

Now the most significant sign has arrived that the whole benighted effort to blame Republican senators and members of Congress for doing what they are paid to do as well as what they believe is right has come to a screeching halt comes from a whining, mewling article in Rolling Stone titled Big Law Firms Promised to Punish Republicans Who Voted to Overthrow Democracy. Now They’re Donating to Their Campaigns. This is strictly a "reader beware" situation, as Rolling Stone is famous for just making crap up and portraying it as fact;

[Big Law firms] weren’t alone in reacting swiftly to the events of Jan. 6. Major corporations and their lobbying front groups in Washington called the insurrection "appalling," an "assault on our democracy," and "an attack on all those things that people cherish and associate with America." Numerous major corporations from Pfizer to Chevron made pledges to freeze financial contributions to the House and Senate Republicans who had voted against certifying Biden’s election, many of them citing vague or baseless claims of election fraud. But by the fall of this year, those corporations have resumed donations to members of the so-called Sedition Caucus as well as party committees that work to reelect Republican members.

Now, the same pattern is playing out with Big Law.

Why companies are backing away from their intemperate declarations earlier in the year is not a mystery.

Nothing is going Biden’s way.

Like major corporations, Big Law can see what is coming. They can either remain true to their wokeness and find themselves totally shut out when a new Congress takes the reins, or they can quietly renege on their virtue signaling and move on. It is increasingly apparent that sane people don’t consider January 6 an "insurrection," and they don’t care about the silly little "commission" pretending to investigate that event. Voters aren’t going to cast their vote based on a senator or member of Congress having the foresight to try to keep Joey SoftServe out of the White House, and there is no downside to stop play-acting like the Republic was in danger on January 6.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-13 00:58|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 It's a parliament of whores and you ignore the whores at the top of the heap at your own peril. Always remember that these woke corporate CEOs are just slimy johns.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-13 07:42||   2021-12-13 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Pressley, 'Squad' Dems pressure Pelosi to strip Boebert committee assignments over Omar comments
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-13 10:12||   2021-12-13 10:12|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ "So many women will have their hijabs ripped off on public transit, because of the example that Leader McCarthy and Republican caucus is setting right now," she said. "We have a responsibility to show this country that bigotry is unacceptable."

Howls lawmaker (D, Al-Shabob),
"Yo, Po-lice! A MAGA-hat mob
[pix of underserved yeeth
rocking locks and gold teeth]
Has just stolen my Holy Hijab!"
"Well at least they didn't get yer dirty drawers, ma'am, er, peace be upon 'em."
Posted by Spuck Phavith2468 2021-12-13 20:39||   2021-12-13 20:39|| Front Page Top

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