Gov. Brian Kemp signs 95 page Georgia GOP voter suppression bill allowing GOP takeover of state/county election boards, unlimited challenges to voter eligibility, restricting drop boxes & making it a crime to give voters food & water in line.
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atlanta journal constitution:
Voting rights advocates plan economic boycott to pressure Georgia firms (ajc.com)
We vote with our dollars, too.  Itâs a  âvote the bums outââboycott in which the entire nation can participate…and we get to vote every, single day.Â
WKBN27:
~~~yeah, sure ~~~ coke corp guysÂ
All of the corporate ties/brands of Coca-Cola, etc., need to be named, as well.
https://www.coca-colacompany.com/faqs/how-many-brands-does-coca-cola-have
Look, they made it easy and listed it all themselves. Boycott them all. Gotta go to work. Someone else do the others, please.
Pepsi, Pepsi, no Coke.
Overall, Biden delivered a strong, one-hour performance during his inaugural press conference, which must have felt like a colossal letdown for the Beltway media. Journalists had spent weeks mindlessly hyping the idea that Biden was hiding from the press and its legions of truth-seekers. The unending desire by the media to turn Biden’s press conference into two-week, naval-gazing ânewsâ story was something to behold.
“Stumbling or steady?” asked a Washington Post reporter, hours before the press conference. “Finally,” harrumphed Politico.
https://www.wjcl.com/article/georgia-representative-arrested-as-gov-kemp-signs-voting-bill-into-law/35942368
Arrested for knocking on Kempâs door. Â Didnât even have the guts to sign that abomination in public. Â Behind closed doors like a coward.Â
No Coca-Cola products. No juice, no water, no tea.
Delta cut ties with the NRA. Letâs see them push back against voter suppression.
Warren Buffettâs Berkshire Hathaway lens the lionâs share of Coke stock. Â Hmmm. A lot of companies under the BH umbrella. Â No Mrs. Seeâs chocolates this Easter.Â
A national boycott is exactly whatâs needed. (Plus, beverages produce a lot of plastic waste, so…)
Seeâs isnât a Georgia company or owned by a Georgia company
those corps are probably waiting until GA legislature adjourns before they make any moves to reprimand the new suppression law. many of those corps are currently paying lobbyists to fend off unwanted regs and promote fav goodies up for grabs. hard to bite the hand that may bite you back.
but later, don’t be surprised if some conveniently find their patriotic souls upon adjournment and the danger passesÂ
The constant pushing of the “sleepy Joe” or “mentally slow guy” memes by the greedy q perverts is also pushed by the media. The lead up is that he is so far gone that he cannot talk for more than a minute is baloney, but it is there. Local stations in D.C. which profess to be fair always write the leads with Dems do something, strongly opposed by r’s, not Dems do something, strongly supported by Dems. The radio station I listen to for traffic constantly has some article and they run to mccarthy and mcconnell for the interpretation of it and why the gqp will not support it. Never bother going to the Dems who wrote it for interpretation and why it should be supported. You never hear Dem voices but the station builds itself up as a neutral station.
Haven’t drunk coke in years…
I did catch a bit of Rachel Maddow last night… Â she said not one question was asked of Joe about Covid and what he’s doing to combat it. Â Really?! Â
Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes’ new bill, S. Bill 9, will disallow driving of elderly, disabled, or poor people to the polls. It would ban efforts with vans full of elderly from nursing homes, disabled people, poor people who donât have cars, would be illegal in Texas.Â
Still stunned by this, Trump call-in last night to Laura Ingraham on FOX about Capitol riots, of course she challenged none of it:
“It was zero threat, right from the start… Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards… a lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out”
All the Coca-Cola in the world wasn’t going to stop the Georgia GOP from disenfranchising black voters.
i support your boycott but good luck trying to get Americans to stop drinking sugar-water and ordering junk online
So public transportation is illegal in TX nowđ
methinks the TX st. senator is desperate for media attention in order to get to whomever he’s convinced will get him more attention, more money, more power ad infinitum.  outrageous sells these days. Â
his mentors no doubt are drumpf, cruz and paul
The last 4 years were bizarre enough, but the next 4 seem determined to say, âHold my beerâ.
No fair lugging around the old, the sick, and the lame! Â My goodness, whaddya think we runninâ ova yeah…..
This all is beginning to seem like nothing but a prelude to:
NO VOTING ALLOWEDÂ
crackers – It doesnât matter. Â This should be a national boycott of Coca-Cola, all its brands, and just to get the point across, the companies of its largest shareholder, Berkshire Hathaway.
âThe company wholly owns GEICO, Duracell, Dairy Queen, BNSF, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, Forest River, and NetJets, and also owns 38.6% of Pilot Flying J; and significant minority holdings in public companies Kraft Heinz Company (26.7%), …â Wikipedia
Well, there goes organized busing to large arenas for voting. Â There goes Uber and Lyft helping with free rides. Â How in the F can they regulate private carpools, though? Â They canât. Â
https://www.wjcl.com/article/lawsuit-filed-against-georgias-new-election-laws-by-voter-rights-groups-read-the-full-text-here/35946522
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âThe suit is asking a judge to declare that the bill violates the 1st and 14th Amendments and the Voters Rights Act.â
Going after the GA film industry would hurt, and is more likely to resonateÂ
(if you didnât know, Georgia is a major filming location lately due to incentives, good weather, and a generic âAmericanaâ aesthetic, âOzarkâ was filmed there for example)
and speaking of rights…
i was more concerned with getting shots and crawling back to normalcy, but if the former guy wants to remind everyone about the time he tried to start a civil war, thatâs fineđ¤ˇââď¸
Unless and until I hear a fulsome condemnation of this ridiculous voter suppression law from Coke and Delta, no Coke or flights on Delta for me. Shame, too. I hate Pepsi and tolerate water.Â
Is Coke the Supreme Court of Georgia, or something? Â This supposed boycott is based on weird logic
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-gop-launches-avalanche-bills-curtail-voting-n1260747
âAccording to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, lawmakers have introduced at least 253 restrictive bills in 43 states.â
Folks vote with their wallets. Politicians and companies can only hear the frequency given off by money.
Berkshire Hathaway owns over 60% of Coca-Cola stock, so maybe that has some sway at Coke. They make juice, tea and water products, too.
Letâs see if Coke and Delta and Home Depot like being called companies which support racism so much that they want to kill democracy.
iâm boycotting this dumb threadâď¸
https://www.whenweallvote.org/
I imagine that big dollars will get pulled from entertainment production in GA. But with so many states trying to suppress the vote, they may have to go to Canada. There is a long list of folks in the entertainment industry who support this.Â
How would you try to impact it on a national scale?
Deciding how we spend our money is the one thing we can all do.
Because Democratic strength is concentrated in urban and suburban areas, usually restricted to a few counties or less per major city, they will continue to have losses in state legislatures. Â Not a whole lot to be done except get those Governorships.
All these evil fuckers of note just got elected to fresh terms, last cycle, if that donât warm your cocklesđ
Anyway, instead of thinking âboycottâ (observe: they donât work), think âsupportâ, as in Georgia black-owned businesses, social initiatives, outreach, voter-education, yada yada…
OK, enough out of meâď¸âď¸âď¸
Financial boycotts are tough enough without including companies that have nothing to do with the purpose of the boycott. People in California will not boycott See’s.
I am willing to boycott coca cola and I drink enough to hurt this market. And other Georgia companies but I am not willing to boycott all the companies owned or or invested in by Berkshire Hathaway. I don’t think that will be successful and the focus should be on Georgia.
the way to georgia’s heart is via sports. what’s called for are organized protests by UGA, Tech, Braves, Hawks, Falcons, Flames, etc players – and not just the athletes of color. maybe even the Masters might throw a monkey wrench into the mix with the upcoming tourney in augusta.  those are the boycotts that matter down south.Â
daily beast:
A photo of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signing the stateâs new restrictive voting bill into law on Thursday night quickly went viral, thanks to the gaggle of white Republican men standing around him, celebrating a bill that will mostly affect Black voters. But Twitter sleuths have uncovered another vile twist: The men are standing below a painting of a notorious slave plantation in Wilkes County. A guide from Georgia Council of the Arts confirms the painting is titled Brickhouse Road (Callaway PLNT). It depicts the Callaway Plantation, once a 3,000-acre plantation that owned up to 100 slaves. Their master was so cruel he built a quasi-jail on the property for unruly slaves, and set dogs onto those who tried to escape, according to an oral history from Mariah Callaway, a woman who was born into slavery on the plantation in 1852. Georgian voter rights activist Stacey Abrams has dubbed the new voter suppression bill âJim Crow 2.0.â
Farewell to Larry McMurtry who has passed away at 84
Time to reread all those great novels and find a new one you hadn’t got around to yet.
voter shmoter suppression, how about just killing them off like drumpf did. easier that way, no protests, boycotts or court cases to contend with.
from wonkette today:
The United States could have had nearly 400,000 fewer deaths from COVID-19 if it had instituted and stuck with strict infection-control measures starting in May of last year, according to a paper presented this week at a Brookings Institution conference on the health and economic costs of the pandemic response. UCLA economics professor Andrew Atkeson did some computer modeling of the history of the virus and the effects of various scenarios â from doing nothing to taking universal precautions like masking, social distancing, and limiting social gatherings, plus an aggressive regimen of testing and contact tracing. We’ve cued up his presentation, which is really only 15 minutes long (do not panic at the seven-hour video length, which is the whole conference).
Had we done nothing at all, Atkeson concluded, the death toll could have reached 1.5 million in the US in the first six to nine months of the pandemic, so hooray for our having done something, at least. We would note that’s pretty much what Donald Trump frequently demanded we praise him for.
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Gee I think you can lay to rest the argument that the Goopers and SFB arenât racists
I began a boycott of Florida a long time ago, guess it wonât hurt to add Georgia.Â
Gee I think you can lay to rest the argument that the Goopers and SFB arenât racists
KGC… Â HA!…. Â ya think…
Oh hell yeah, just as racist as StromThurmond and George Wallace ever were. And the Imperial One-Eyed Gizzard of the Knights of the invisible whatever it was from the klu klax Clones. Pepsi, no coke.
The picture of the signing. Â Fat old bald white men. So pathetic they need to step on otherâs rights to make themselves feel good. How sick is that. Â I think they should be banned from traveling to other states. Â Especially here. Â We donât want them here!
Thanks Jamie –
“Here’s to the sunny slopes of long ago.”Â
The Georgia film business has a pretty big dog in their pack , Tyler Perry , I await his bark. Â
https://youtu.be/OLNshIY2W-Y
The separation of powers.Â
We have all just witnessed the genius of the founders at work , the judicial branch stood up when the clown car came to court.Â
A lot of these laws are based on the idea that there was widespread fraud , 60 cases said otherwise. That’s a hard row to hoe .Â
Sue the bastards as well .
Full Tilt Crazy –
https://www.salon.com/2021/03/26/fox-news-guest-predicts-on-tucker-carlsons-show-that-gop-will-pick-a-fascist-to-lead-the-party_partner/
https://www.salon.com/2021/03/26/fox-news-guest-predicts-on-tucker-carlsons-show-that-gop-will-pick-a-fascist-to-lead-the-party_partner/
I saw where Mimi got a piece of the Wright Flyer to ride along on this up coming flight.
As human mile markers go, this is a big one.Â
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-north-carolina-paying-this-proud-son-of-confederate-veterans-to-lock-up-black-men?ref=home
“I intend to make Georgia howl”
William Tecumseh Sherman
Lincoln told Grant to let the South up easy.Â
Grant did not take Lee’s sword at the surrender . Grant should have taken it and broke it over his knee.Â
Lincoln was deeply afraid of guerilla warfare , but America should have hung Davis , and Stevens. And that asshole Forrest .Â
“What’s got 4 eyes and can’t see ?Â
MississippiÂ
Good point, OM. Â Tyler Perry has a friend with a big soap box, too. Â Oprah.
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Just sayinâ that the majority share-holder of Coca-Cola might not like it nor any negative association that rubs off.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/26/austin-masks-paxton-lawsuit/
Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton want to kill off Texas voters. Â Not so fast, boys.
Dad this morning. 94 next month.Â
://youtu.be/OKFnq4rXQWk
When Burns made his masterpiece on the Civil War.Â
Shelby Foote quotes this about the founding of the country ,
” When the founders signed signed the constitution , they left a snake curled around the legs of the table. ”Â
Young Crawford –
Hardy stock. The image is cheek and jowl with the one you posted of your head sticking out of the CR rainforest.Â
I always loved that shot , best picture you ever took.Â
https://youtu.be/z7Mirkd3CT4
Enjoy every sandwichÂ
Dad’s pics trending on Twitter. Morgan Fairchild just retweeted.
https://youtu.be/-1BxGded604
Hey! Â Had the pleasure of meeting Craigâs dad a couple of times. Â Iâd recognize that smile anywhere. Â Â
Sweet !
Having Morgan Fairchild give you an atta boy is a big deal at 93 .Â
Speaking of icons ,  Ali Macgraw was on CBS Sunday Morning ,
She left Hollywood 25 years ago for Stanta Fe.Â
The woman is stunning. Her hair is white , but otherwise she is unchanged.Â
Craig… your dadâs smile is infectious!
Time to go –
One of the most important things  I ever learned about America was the sorry state of Craig’s dad , and my own dad ‘s health. When the war broke out , all these young men had never seen a dentist, or had their eyes checked.Â
Those were the big items , but that draft health screen was the first time America saw a large pool of data about us.Â
We had bad teeth , and poor eyesight.Â
Bipartisanship –
Will the press please stop this fiction , It is dead as Pablo Escobar .
You don’t bargain with crazy .
And that question yesterday, the scalp on the wall that means so much to fucking TV reporters , “Will you run again ?”
Thank God he said yes.Â
The American press needs to understand the Republican Party is a nest of vipers. Run by old white snake charmers.Â
They are all in with the Big Lie.Â
Hence all the voting laws .
Our saving grace , “These are not very bright people”.
DEEP THROATÂ Â
Water can compromise election security?
Hmmm. Â Maybe if you pour it on a voting machine.
What is to stop folks from giving voters rides somewhere close to the polling place and handing them a bottle of water at drop-off and they walk a block or two to vote? Â Â
What about those who are unable to make the short walk? A violation of the Americans With Disabilities protection?
favorite line about life. says it all.
I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that’s all.
[jake spoon, lonesome dove]
I see voter drives providing contact numbers for rides with safe drop-off points, help getting the needed ID for those without a license. Â The GQP will make folks even more determined to vote. Itâs like they donât understand Americans at all.
Blue Tsunami 2022
Patd-
Bingo!
There’s the heart of the story.
You have the eyes of a hawk. Â
TV is slow , ” A Fist Full of Dollars ” is on .
The next one was their master work. Lee Van Cliff made that movie . He paid his dues in an endless chain of western villains   , then he got this part.
He steals the movie from Clint Eastwood , and this is the best score of the 3.
I miss all those old ugly character actors. In all those old westerns.Â
And their beauties ………
Ruta Lee
Pat CrowleyÂ
Amanda Blake
Just use their own law against them and scrutinize the credentials of paranoid anti-government everyday Republicans, theyâll end up suppressing their own voteđ
The section of the Rio Grand that saw Ted idiot Cruz in Kevlar with guns and a border control boat is often used by rafters just floating down the river. Â
“Gunsmoke” is a touchstone  in TV history , it ain’t Marshall Dillon they were looking for , it was Amanda Blake.
The western whore who bought a bar , and never had sex with the guy who played the first monster in the “Thing!”
Boycott Georgia. Just what I was thinking.
https://www.georgia.org/industries/advanced-manufacturing
Click this kids ……Â
No sex, no climax for nearly 20 years.Â
The foundation of TV, as we know it.Â
Amanda was a Greek marble with red hair.Â
Yeach. They were more than just friends.Â
It’s Fridayly Night !
Time to stop grabbing that HOT copper wire , and be a human , but just for a few days.Â
I ran one of the oldest Tandy Leather stores in American , in Torrance , California.Â
I wrote a pretty good story , and pop it disappeared.
The russians are eating my posts.Â
The peak of my life,  shot hole drilling in Utah, and all those Mormon women.
Your jobÂ
There is something about lacing up your boots, and knowing you could die today,
I pity the ones who never did that.Â
I was in the back seat of a VW once , Al Jensen was driving , we did a complete 360 crossing a bridge on 285 . West of Crow Hill.
Ted decked out in his duck dynasty-esque costume was a lovely piece of theater. Â It mustâve taken great restraint for someone not to push him in the river. Â Nobody likes him. Â
TT – Glad to see you back.
All my old friends are highwaysÂ
My best friend is 285Â
I saw 66 in the Sixties when she was barely alive.Â
But I came back to 285.Â
Yes , I came back to  285
She runs up the RockiesÂ
An asphalt woman in time
She will take you ,
This is a big deal this song started 40 years ago.
Georgia 2021 = Georgia 1964. Â
No Coke for me.Â
Good lyrics Old Man. Howâs the tune go?
Old man, it ainât the Russians. Itâs the WordPressians. Happens to me all the time.Â
I also had some times on 285….a mighty good road.
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