Posted on 09/05/2018 3:14:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Not all forays into politics are equal. Two companies in the news in the past few days highlight this lesson. The Silent Majority has spoken. This is the story of In-n-Out versus Nike.
Let’s start with In-n-Out Burgers. Liberals decided to call for a national boycott because In-n-Out committed the “sin” of donating to the GOP. How idiotic is the idea of boycotting a company for making a political donation? Almost every company, even the small businesses you buy from, is run by someone who has a political opinion.
Having that opinion is protected by free speech clause of the U.S. Constitution. It’s what America is all about. It’s what so many millions of young Americans have died for on bloody battlefields all over the world.
Most businesses, or their CEOs give political donations. Again, that is protected by free speech. Again, that is as American as apple pie. Most of us never know who the businesses we buy from donates to. Or care. If I like a product, I’ll buy it. I don’t care who you donate to. But boycotting businesses who give to the GOP is idiotic.
First, the GOP controls the Presidency, Senate, House, a large majority of Governors, Lt. Governors and state legislatures. In short, the GOP dominates America. As a matter of fact, polling proves “conservatives” outnumber “liberals” in 47 out of 50 states.
Yet liberals and the liberal media paint us as either “extreme” “racist” “Nazis” or criminals. Liberals are kidding themselves. Pure delusion. Our views are common sense and mainstream. You’re the radical extreme ones. You’re the ones who are out of touch. Fact- we are “the Silent Majority.”
Secondly, the GOP is pro-business, pro-Capitalism, and as Trump has proven (just like Reagan before him) great for the economy, jobs, small business and the average middle class American worker. So, how can it be a “sin” for a business to donate to the GOP. We are benefiting from GOP policies. So are the majority of our customers. That’s precisely why consumer confidence is the highest in 18 years.
Thirdly, polls prove small business owners are the 2nd most optimistic in modern history. Only Reagan made them happier and that was almost four decades ago. Like it or not, the owner of almost every small business you buy from is a Republican and fan of Trump.
So, you think you’re going to boycott all 28 million small businesses in America? For donating to the party that’s great for the economy, helps our businesses succeed? Good luck.
That could be why the In-n-Out boycott failed so disastrously. No one cares about a political donation.
But now we come to corporation number two. Nike. They just made a disastrous decision. And they will pay for it with a massive sales decline and billions in lost stock value. Nike may have fatally damaged itself this week.
Nike didn’t make a political donation. I couldn’t care less about that. But Nike just made former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick the face of their company. That is a combination of stupid, ignorant, offensive and tragic. Nike just sided with what half of America (and all 63 million Trump voters) thinks is a vile, ungrateful, America-hater. Now that’s bad business.
Nike didn’t make a political donation. I couldn’t care less about that. But Nike just made former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick the face of their company. That is a combination of stupid, ignorant, offensive and tragic. Nike just sided with what half of America (and all 63 million Trump voters) thinks is a vile, ungrateful, America-hater. Now that’s bad business.
Drive these pukes out of business.
Just keep giving the radical left more and more rope......the pace is picking up.
The Silent Majority, who are enraged and incensed because the sedition and treason perpetrated by the Marxist Left, will be showing up in November as well!
Their attacks on our President Trump are attacks on us as well.
Just went and spent about $25 at In and Out. First time. Will go back soon - good food. Nike is what I’ve bought for running/hiking/walking for 30+ years. Will never spend another dime on Nike products.
That is all.
Ekin right!
Like nobody has observed what successes Chik Filet has had by doing what they do best and adhering to it’s core principles? I have to wait in lines at Chik Filet now.
Don’t forget the gun-grabbing Levi-Straus!
Yeah, but they were kicked out of the student union building at East Snifpit State three years ago, so there's that.
Nike made their choice. They have chosen to pay a football player who can’t play and who hates the country big bucks.
I’ll laugh when they declare bankruptcy.
These jerks- the CEO’s of Starbucks, Dick’s Sporting, Levi-Strauss, and Nike put their egos ahead of the well-being of their stockholders. This should be a fireable offense. We truly live in Facebook Nation, where every self-absorbed puke thinks that his is the only valid opinion.
San Francisco-based Levi Strauss has been Left for years.
The primary reason I stopped wearing their jeans back in the 70’s.
I hope there is follow up a year+ out, with this outrage of the week culture there usually isn’t. Target is pretty healthy. It is hard to fail in this economy but yeesh, they actually let men who claim to be women into their exclusive women’s facilities.
Freegards
It’s possible they’re living in a bubble. Look at the stupid decision that Starbucks made a few months ago.
You look at the business publications, like Fortune. I subscribe to it and, I swear, the virtue signaling over minorities, anti-Trump, women executives is almost too much to bear. Now every article I look at, my first reaction: OK, which special interest group is this story aiming to please.
My theory is that the whole Time organization is being run by angry #MeToo women who have the management over a barrel.
Everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi, and I'm not afraid to say so.
Yeah, that sort of thing must make the big fund managers feel real good about themselves.
Isn’t that Levi-Strauss with 2 s?
I havent desired a pair of nike shoes since high school. Certainly not craving them now.
And when the nfl does too.
NFL - Not For Long
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