WSJ opinion piece.

The public debate on Georgia’s new voting law has become a stew of falsehood, propaganda and panic. Part of the blame lies with the partisan distortion of Democrats, part with their media echoes, and now part with CEOs of major companies who are uninformed at best or cowardly at worst.

Start with President Biden, the great unifier, who on Wednesday to ESPN called the law “ Jim Crow on steroids,” while saying he’d “strongly support” moving the Major League Baseball all-star game out of Atlanta. He’s picking up the smear about Georgia from Stacey Abrams, who still hasn’t accepted that she lost the race for Peach State Governor in 2018.



On Election Day in Georgia, anyone in line by 7 p.m. gets a ballot. The new law requires an extra Saturday of voting, while specifying early voting hours: The minimum is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but counties may run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. In metro areas, “you might not notice a change,” explains Georgia Public Broadcasting. Elsewhere, “you will have an extra weekend day, and your weekday early voting hours will likely be longer.”



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Then there are the big companies racing out PR statements of condemnation, though what’s often most conspicuous is their vagueness. The voting law “is unacceptable and does not match Delta’s values,” said the airline’s CEO, Ed Bastian. He groveled that he’d had “time to now fully understand all that is in the bill.”

What a clumsy emergency landing. Last week Mr. Bastian said that “concerns remain” about the law, while he explained—accurately—that it “expands weekend voting, codifies Sunday voting and protects a voter’s ability to cast an absentee ballot without providing a reason.” He added: “For the first time, drop boxes have also been authorized for all counties statewide.”

What changed in the interim? Could it be that he has bowed to the woke mob, as the path of least political and commercial resistance? Why not stay silent if you don’t know what you’re talking about or can’t stand the heat?

Gov. Brian Kemp, who signed the bill, rightly called foul: “Today’s statement by Delta CEO Ed Bastian stands in stark contrast to our conversations with the company, ignores the content of the new law, and unfortunately continues to spread the same false attacks.”

Or take Coca-Cola’s watery statement. “We are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation,” said CEO James Quincey. “Our focus is now on supporting federal legislation that protects voting access and addresses voter suppression across the country.” He cited no specifics about either bill. Apparently Coke’s secret ingredient is pandering.

When woke progressives target a company with tactics like a “die-in,” as Coke received last month, CEOs seem to view a mealy-mouthed statement as cheap insurance. But surely we should expect more from senior business executives, who are supposed to have some backbone and concern for the facts. They’d react with high dudgeon if similar falsehoods were spread about their companies.

Yet so much of this CEO posturing cites no facts—or even fails to mention the word “Georgia.” American Express stands “against any efforts to suppress voting,” said CEO Steve Squeri. “ BlackRock is concerned about efforts that could limit access to the ballot,” said CEO Larry Fink. “Governments should be working to make it easier to vote, not harder,” said Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins.

Georgia’s law does make it easier to vote, though it also tries to reassure citizens about ballot integrity. The state provides far more days of early voting than New York. It offers no-excuse absentee ballots, unlike Mr. Biden’s beloved Delaware. So who’s really suppressing whom? Georgia’s new law puts limits on drop boxes, but as Delta’s Mr. Bastian now regrets pointing out last week, it also makes them a permanent part of the voting system. In 2019, before Covid, drop boxes were illegal.

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CEOs may think there’s no downside to hopping on a bandwagon that insinuates that Georgia’s GOP leaders are inveterate racists. But far from dodging our partisan political warfare, they’re taking a side and promoting more division. They and their companies may pay the price when the woke mob decides to turn on them and they need GOP protection.

You can always tell when they get their news from a news entertainment show.

The best one is the Delta airlines CEO blasting Georgia for needing a photo ID and forgetting that you need to have a photo ID to get on one of his planes.

Then Georgia voted to hit back at the company by voting to strip it of a jet fuel tax break worth over $35 million a year.

That’s what needs to happen so some of these loons will shut their pie hole. I’m pretty sure the shareholders weren’t too happy about that.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
The best one is the Delta airlines CEO blasting Georgia for needing a photo ID and forgetting that you need to have a photo ID to get on one of his planes.

Then Georgia voted to hit back at the company by voting to strip it of a jet fuel tax break worth over $35 million a year.

That’s what needs to happen so some of these loons will shut their pie hole. I’m pretty sure the shareholders weren’t too happy about that.

Love it. Hope they hit back faster, harder, again and again.

I STILL fail to understand the premise behind voter ID and vote suppression. Is the premise just not rational to begin with or am I missing something?

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Originally posted by konata88:
the premise behind voter ID and vote suppression.

A liberal coworker explained it as- There's a limited number \ 1 place to get the ID and the hours are severely restricted on purpose. I considered them a liberal idiot and their explanation confirmed my beliefs.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I STILL fail to understand the premise behind voter ID and vote suppression. Is the premise just not rational to begin with or am I missing something?

It's rational--if you understand what they really mean. What they really mean is voter i.d. is voter fraud suppression.

There's a video floating around somewhere where somebody interviewed PoC, asking them if they had photo i.d., did they know whence to acquire photo i.d., etc. Without exception they were met with disbelief, offence, disdain, or laughter at being asked such questions. And, yes: Every PoC they asked had photo i.d. and, IIRC, thought the requirement to have it for voting being "voter suppression" was ridiculous.

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Originally posted by braillediver:

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Originally posted by konata88:
the premise behind voter ID and vote suppression.

A liberal coworker explained it as- There's a limited number \ 1 place to get the ID and the hours are severely restricted on purpose. I considered them a liberal idiot and their explanation confirmed my beliefs.

Of course, that would rule out getting the covid jab since ID is also required AFAIK.

I say go ahead and not have any laws against voting fraud but they'd have to accept no ID for:

guns or ammo
alcohol
cigarettes
driving
any financial transaction

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Originally posted by braillediver:
A liberal coworker explained it as- There's a limited number \ 1 place to get the ID and the hours are severely restricted on purpose. I considered them a liberal idiot and their explanation confirmed my beliefs.

But I bet that idiot liberal coworker would sure figure out a way if the hours were "limited" for getting free shit.

Ami Horowitz: How white liberals really view black voters



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk

It should be insulting to black people. What they are essentially saying is black people are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID.

If that’s the case do you really want them deciding how the country is run.

IT's all about the $$$, look up the ESG score that banks are now putting together.

The plan is to rank companies on their ESG score and this will dictate things like interest rates or whether they even have access to loans.

It's an easy decision for companies....I act woke and get money at a lower interest rate or other preferential treatment....and the people who have issues with being woke normally stay quiet so no harm done.

This is all part of the "great reset" and soon individuals will have a ESG score as well....just like Chinese citizens have a social score

It is really quite simple. Democrats realize that if intelligent, informed, actual people were the only voters...they'd get VERY FEW votes. The few that do actually vote for them are mentally ill, brainwashed idiots voting because they've been either bribed, coerced, or programed to. Then the dims have to count on these useful idiots to actually wake-up in time, navigate to the correct facility, and fill in the proper bubble...with reading being the challenge.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL: ...and now part with CEOs of major companies who are uninformed at best or cowardly at worst.

This is the crux of this Woke/Cancel-Culture BS that's going on. What's changed is corporations are parroting these asinine positions, believing their company, their brand, is more than the products and services they provide thus they NEED to show their values. CEO's and Board of Directors are willingly and willfully going along with these positions, many of these corporate leaders are long-time marketing people, not sales or, operations backgrounds. Vague and wishy-washy statements asserting their position without any concrete action or, reasons; lots of sloganeering and bumper-sticker statements.

Woke cancel culture dogshit is nothing more than the beginning malignant stage of who waves the flags the most enthusiastically at a North Korea military parade. While it is hard to tell who is the most enthusiastic, no one wants the assessment of being the least enthusiastic flag waver.