IT: 🚨 U.S. warns China using military force against Taiwan 'serious mistake,' and... Should CEOs - and Will Smith - fight restrictive voting laws?
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Welcome to Tuesday, April 13th, Ps and Qs...
More than a 100 corporate executives and leaders got together on a Zoom call recently to discuss ways to fight controversial voting restrictions proposed (or passed) in Georgia, Texas, and several other GOP-controlled states.
“They felt very strongly that these voting restrictions are based on a flawed premise and are dangerous,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor and one of the organizers of the call.
Former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have recently threatened CEOs to "stay out of politics," but Sonnenfeld said the Zoom pow-wow showed American businesses "[a]re not intimidated by the flak. They are not going to be cowed.”
Should CEOs fight restrictive voting laws?
Will Smith has also joined the fight. See below for more...
Blinken Warns China Military Force Against Taiwan ‘Serious Mistake’
In an interview on Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) against using military force in an effort to achieve its goal of bringing the democratic, self-governing nation of Taiwan under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Blinken’s comments come after a series of provocative actions by Chinese military aircraft, which have entered Taiwan’s airspace on numerous occasions in recent months, surveilled outlying Taiwanese islands, and conducted a simulated long range attack on the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group earlier this year as it sailed in nearby international waters.
Do you support or oppose the U.S. commitment to enhance Taiwan’s ability to defend itself?
Men In Red State
Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have pulled production of their runaway slave drama “Emancipation” from Georgia over the state's new restrictive election laws.
The two filmmakers added:
"The new Georgia voting laws are reminiscent of voting impediments that were passed at the end of Reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting. Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state,"
Georgia's new election law limits absentee ballots & early voting, restricts ballot dropboxes, imposes tough new voter ID requirements, and makes it a crime to provide food or water to voters waiting to cast their ballot.
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said the bill was necessary to ensure Georgia’s elections are "secure, accessible and fair."
Do you support films pulling out of GA?
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And, in the End…
Grab some $2s for Thomas Jefferson Day.
Jefferson, the third president of the U.S., and one of America's Founding Fathers, was born on this date in 1743.
While his ownership and trade of slaves - and likely relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings - remains a source of controversy, presidential scholars generally praise Jefferson's public achievements.
Uncomfortable celebrating Jefferson? Lavish your praise, instead, on crusted fruit—it's also National Peach Cobbler Day,
—Josh Herman
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China has already shown its true intentions and communism must be met with opposition where ever it raises its abusive head
We should ALL fight restricting voting laws. We should do everything we can to ensure every eligible American votes.
The biggest lie in the country right now is that the Georgia voting law is racist and is voter suppressive. Read the damn bill.
Voter Issue: More businesses and now actors, i.e. Will Smith, are getting involved. This is a good example of dictatorship. Do as I say or suffer the consequences. Unfortunately, the only ones they are hurting is the people of Georgia.
What’s happening in GA is an excellent example of what happens when groups of people, primarily BIPOC, use their creativity, think out of the box, and get people out to vote. As long as people are NOT told who to vote for, why should it matter if they car pool, go in vans or in church busses. The long lines people had to endure were caused by administrative decisions to either understaff or close down polls in BIPOC communities. In my state, we’ve been voting by mail for years, neighborhood mailboxes were removed. They’re now back in place. So giving water to people waiting on long lines that the previous government created is illegal. CEOs, Will Smith and any other American who feels they want to boycott GA- more power to them. Boycotts hurt everybody. Remember Montgomery and South Africa boycotts. When you mess with the $, you get liberation!
Voting Issue: Noting that the actions taken by these businesses and actors are punishing the people of Georgia, why are the Democrats silent? Why are the Democrats not crying racism like they do for everything else, especially considering that Georgia is one of the top states with the highest percentage of blacks. Only goes to show you that the Democrats could care less about the black population; they only use them when it suits their purposes.
Communism is here. Don’t agree with the liberal left? You’re cancelled.
Voting: this is getting pathetic let’s debate the issue. Why can’t one of the media outlets arrange a debate for all to see? The ratings would be high. What are they afraid of?
Voting should have integrity with ID requirements and should be a single day, I also believe that businesses should offer voluntary paid time to allow employees to vote but not legislated. I also believe that publicly owned businesses should stay out of politics.
There is something seriously wrong in Minnesota. Who is training the police? How often do they get training? Is there funds for their training? Shame on the leaders in Minnesota to fail again in another devastating death of an unarmed American black man. After George Floyd one would think this type of sentinel event would lead to major police reform and retraining but apparently not. Instead of defunding police you have to fund the police so they can get the training they need. Also the hiring has to be done based on competency!! Not diversity. If hospitals hired doctors for diversity rather than competency would you not have a problem with that? Equity in regards to race is not always good and should not be the goal for every facet in our society. This is what the nation should be talking about but instead it’s about race and not competence. It’s completely backwards.
At this moment I am much more concerned about republicans trying to suppress Americans right to vote. Imho any politician who actively tries to suppress Americans right to vote must be charged with sedition
Yes and yes! Everyone should care about our democracy! It doesn’t matter what your profession is. It’s their right too. You don’t like it go open your own business in Georgia since some of you racists care so much. Use your muscles not your mouth to try and shame people out of politics. The majority of the post on here must be by white people!they think they are right because they hold all the rights. Not for long though because the rest of us are sick of your racism and hate!! We have had enough!!
China should not use military force against Taiwan!!! We need to protect our voting rights!!! Unfair voting restrictions are not constitutional!!!!!
So I guess as the Democrats tell us Blacks are to. Stupi. to get a driver's license or a state iD that's free in Georgia,, so Black must never use a credit card or ever go to an airport or a Hotels.... Thank God the Democratic party is there to tell them how to live..... Facts and sarcasm work lies and bullshit don't
I don’t know why people don’t want movie stars to be political. They have just as much right as anyone else to care about their country. You can’t knock out a group of people because you don’t like what they are saying. They pay taxes and are citizens. You don’t like it turn your head and close your ears. 70 million of you are already good at turning a blind eye to people being abused by the system. You ignore the cries of innocent people you demand be born. Then you blame them and mock their pain. That’s why some police are scared they know the shit they have done under the guise of a badge!
You are cowards. Watching fellow Americans be shot by the police unarmed. Your both disgusting examples of white privilege. You are not pro-life you are pro birth then you could care less about the life. You turn your eye to whatever doesn’t affect you.
We need China to understand they cannot willfully stir up trouble!
Yes, it’s time for people and businesses to be on the right side and appose restrictions to voting rights! I see the Governor of Florida is threatening business if the publicly appose restrictions on voting rights! We are supposed to be the example of democracy to the world, we can not be a leader in restrictions of voting rights! Republicans across the nation have introduced over a 100 bills restricting voting rights! History will remember these Jim- Crow actions!