"Boycott"

If you've never heard of Captain Charles Boycott you're probably not alone.

He was the "agent of process" for the absentee landlord of a bunch of tenements in long-ago Ireland.  The landlord ordered Boycott to increase the rents.  When he tried to collect them, he discovered that the tenants had all gotten together and decided to simply not pay.  That act of civil disobedience would thereafter be known as our very first "Boycott."

Bringing that concept up to date, Georgia just fine-tuned its voting laws.  Its legislature said the changes it recently and legally voted into law will make voting easier and cheating harder.  Unsurprisingly, Democrats have howled in protest!  They Do Not want it made harder to cheat at voting.  So they got Faux Governor Stacey Abrams to corral local corporations in an effort to try and force the Georgia legislature to rescind the new law.  When new Georgia Governor Kemp told her those heavy-handed efforts will not work and for them to pound sand, its been reported that "Gov." Abrams was the one who then convinced Major League Baseball's Commissioner to pull the "All-Star Game."  

Well Whooooweee!  Everything just flew apart like a Woolworth watch!  Taking the game from Atlanta without notice will cost that city more than $170,000,000!  If you want to have some measure of the impact, MLB just cancelled its reservations for the 8,000 Atlanta hotel rooms they had intended to use!  And then MLB told us all the Game would be played now in Denver.  

BTW, Atlanta is 51% Black.  Denver is 9% Black.  

The Boycott against Atlanta is being led by Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola.  But they're not the only ones.  I believe you should be sufficiently pissed at this whole audacious gob of bullsh*t to want a more complete listing of those corporations stupid enough to leave the business arena and enter the political arena.  Sort of like, if you need a list of "who not to do business with," not that I'm suggesting a Boycott here, you understand, but if you're so inclined, as am I, here it is:

     -  Aflac

     -  American Express

     -  Apple

     -  Atlanta Falcons (?)

     -  Atlanta Hawks (??)

     -  Blackrock Corp.

     -  Cisco

     -  Coca-Cola (Pepsi's tasting better every day)

     -  Citibank

     -  Delta Airlines  

     -  Facebook

     -  Google

     -  Major League Baseball (Our first "Blue" sport!)

     -  Merck

     -  Microsoft

     -  Patagonia

     -  Porsche

     -  Salesforce

     -  Twitter

     -  United Airlines

     -  United Parcel Service

     -  Viacom/CBS 

Something tells me there's at least one more shoe to drop on this one...