(07-11-2020 09:12 AM)miko33 Wrote: (07-11-2020 05:08 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Ted Cruz is of course speaking from both parts of his mouth as always. First off, he claimed that his grandparents ate Goya beans for 90-plus years, which is highly questionable since the product only started in 1936 (and wasn't too widespread at that point). But I don't know when his grandparents were born and died, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there.
But secondly he's annoyed at people wanting to boycott Goya when he tweeted out last year he was boycotting Nike products for doing something he didn't like. As always, there are two sides of the equation and people choose to focus on whatever side they reside on. I personally don't give a flip what the Goya president said and I would buy their products if I want them. And if not, I won't.
I get your point about being consistent, and I truly loathe the idea of cancel culture that is pervasive in the U.S. today. However, I think Nike and a lot of corporations DO need to be boycotted - or "canceled" until they change their practices of having their products manufactured in sweat shops. Not sure if Nike ever cleaned up their act, but we KNOW that Apple is utilizing Chinese slave labor for making their products. Too bad the assh0le progressives don't call them out on it and hold China accountable for their gross human rights violations...
It's much easier to protest and scream about social injustice in what is arguably the most inclusive country in the world. Generations ago, bleeding heart college kids used to put their money where their mouth was and did things like joined the Peace Corps and other international organizations to drive social and economic justice in the 3rd world where it is most needed. Today, these same people gave up truly noble causes in order to be the useful idiots of political power brokers.
Today's progressives are incompetent jokes, and most people see them for the idiots they are.
Here are the issues for me Miko:
And these remarks are for the coalition of aggrieved leftists groups not any one per se:
They want to have their say. But they don't want anyone who differs with them to have one.
They want the law to protect them from law abiding citizens when they attack us, but do nothing to enforce our rights.
They want to be able to burn, loot, tear down icons of our heritage, and even kill, but piss their pants over a rope pull in a garage.
They want to disarm pasty white homeowners, but brandish weapons in streets of cities that have laws against any firearms.
The want to boycott business that legitimately support legitimately elected officials but whine and complain when regular citizens boycott business whose practices they object to.
They want the right to practice sexuality as they feel their natural proclivities, but in more than a few cases they want to indoctrinate children so that their natural proclivities are not all that is considered.
The want to use terror and anarchist tactics, but they don't want true anarchy where the Billy Bobs and Bubbas and the straight Black pro American males might decide to retaliate upon them.
What every bit of this smacks of is fear being whipped upped to oppose something that doesn't really pose a threat to them at all, except for in their minds.
The simple reality is that statistically blacks are less likely to be killed by law enforcement than whites. No church tosses gays into the street on Sunday mornings. No school is teaching an anti gay agenda. No black people are being lynched (which has to be the most far fetched image dredged up and superimposed on 2020 ever. No restaurant refuses them service unless they aren't wearing shoes or a shirt and now a mask and maintain social distance. Nobody in a gated community is out to get them, and likely as not out of some sense of guilt gives to one of their causes. And the last time I heard the N word used it was by black rappers.
This whole movement is fuller of **** than a Christmas goose, but it has one overarching thread in common that binds them together. It is absolutely to the gills Maoist Marxist in nature and therein lies the ties to the Globalist Multi Nationals that use the seat shops of women and children in Asia from some of the Islands to especially China. And there is the only link to Trump who cut off trade and imposed tariffs.
Do Marxists want to the right to speak but limit your speech? Yes.
Do Marxists want the law to protect them but not their targets? Yes.
Do Marxists want to indoctrinate your children to be something that is alien to them naturally? Yes
Do Marxists want the weapons and to deny you your weapons? Yes
Do Marxists want to be able to cancel your job, your voice, and your life if you aren't one of them? Yes
Do Marxists want to depose the legitimately elected who block their agenda? Yes
Do Marxists want to erase history by destroying the icons upon which it was built? Yes
We all should consider ourselves under oath to defend our nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. Well by all that is right and just the left today is the fullest representation of a Domestic enemy we've had since the War Between the States. They want to destroy our lives, destroy our rights by eliminating our Constitution, they want to take our property, our right to defend it, and eliminate our livelihood if we oppose them. In short they want us dead.
The should be treated as the enemy they are, but not just the thugs in the street but especially their corporate overlords who pay to shuttle the same ridiculous band of dweebs and ex cons around to do their bidding and to bail their asses out when arrested. And what truly pisses me off is they are getting tax write offs to do it because these groups have non profit fronts granted to them by bureaucrats and politicians are also on the payroll of these corporations. All PAC money should be cut off from elections and anyone who threatens the rights of the common man in this nation and by that nature the Constitution which grants the common man (or woman) their rights should be treated exactly like Hitler, or Tojo and with haste and without exception.
But there is however an element of discernment that must accompany all of this. If another citizen, any citizen, is demonstrating peacefully for guaranteed rights not being afforded them they are a lawful protester whose cause deserves not only everyone's attention, but everyone's support if indeed they are not being giving their full rights. But, if they are seeking to destroy the rights of others, or violate or steal their property, or harm them in any way they are an enemy of the state and people.
The problem that has lent it's ear to the Marxists is the leadership of the organizations over the years who have successfully petitioned the public for support to attain their rights. When the objective is met the bureaucracy remains and wants to keep its job so it must create offenses to justify its continued existence and then they are susceptible when those they represent no longer feel the need to protest to take outside funds to continue their existence and that is how the Marxists get control of them, and organize various such groups into a collective voice, and use them as a force to attack a free nation from within. So when we oppose these bureaucracies of these groups it does not mean we oppose those which they once represented, but oppose the corruption that has allowed their once valid reason to exist to be hijacked for an alien agenda.
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