So let's run through the chain
of events.
The Georgia elections didn't go
well for the Republicans.
So they decided to pass the bill
making it more difficult for
people to vote.
And then some corporations,
I guess driven by the fact that
people don't like these attacks
against democracy and they want
to stand with where the consumers
are have stood against those bills.
So you have companies like
Delta and
Coke putting out messages against
this voting suppression bill.
You also have the MLB deciding that
they're going to take away the I'm
going to say all star game from
Georgia, and that is not okay from
the point of view of Republicans
because all of these corporations
have been saying things that
are incorrect politically and
they need to be struck
down as a result of it.
So here is the governor of Georgia
speaking out against all of this
political speech that he's found so
inconvenient >> Today major league
baseball cave to fear and
lies from liberal activists,
they ignored the facts of our new
election integrity law, and they
ignored the consequences of their
decision on our local community.
In the middle of a pandemic,
Major League Baseball
put the wishes of Stacey Abrams and
Joe Biden ahead of the economic
well being of hardworking Georgians
who were counting on the all star
game for a paycheck, Georgians and
all Americans should know what this
decision means.
It means canceled culture and
partisan activists are coming for
your business.
They're coming for your game or
event in your hometown.
And they're coming to cancel
everything from sports to how
you make a living.
And they will stop at nothing to
silence all of us.
>> There he's saying that okay,
there is them wanting people to not
vote, which is down form of cancel
culture but for
some reason it doesn't qualify.
And there's the corporation
saying hey, we want consumers
to know we think voting's good,
that's cancel culture to the right
It doesn't make any sense to me.
I guess when you pretend that your
party is in favor of free speech
and political expression and
they're not you're going to sort of
end up in these awkward contorted
places.
But this seems like a hard sell to
imply that a corporation saying
what it either believes or more
likely thinks consumers believe
that that is canceled culture,
I don't understand.
>> Yes,
this is going to be the next four
to 20 years of our lives talking
about canceled culture,
just the Catholics.
I just can't wait,
I first I see the future, I see
the grave of canceled culture,
I lay a flower on it.
[LAUGH] >> And we never
have to talk about it again.
But this is, of course now, the
culture war and the only thing I
want to cancel is the culture war.
But here we are.
It's a merry go round and
that's exactly right.
The MLB first of all made its own
damn mind up, like they were not
told by Stacey Abrams or Joe Biden.
They're not driven by anything,
they're driven by money.
And it's a bad look to put your
game in a place that is like
systematically disenfranchising
a whole lot of black and
brown people.
>> Yup. >> Who by the way our
baseball consumers, right?
They they like the MLB.
And it's not a good look for you.
These are also people you're trying
to sell ads to,
in commercial breaks.
So look, the MLB is not a hero
here, but they don't want drama,
they don't want to be in a place
that is politicized right,
especially in the year 2021, right?
Somehow they're trying to drag us
back, GOP in Georgia are trying to
drag us back to Jim Crow era, and
so like by actually continuing
the game, you are making
a political statement.
So and I know we're going to get
into like whether or not that is
a good thing to boycott the state.
And I think there's
a really interesting
debate happening around that.
>> Sure.
>> But camp honey, honey,
this was going to happen.
Like you want to basically like put
your talons in your democracy and
completely contort it so
that you win every single time and
change the rules when you don't
win, then suffer the consequences.
>> Yeah, exactly.
And yeah, I'm glad that you alluded
to that there's a debate about what
the correct tactics should be, but
you either believe that
individuals and corporations can
express things or not.
Here we're not even talking about
huge amounts of unregulated
campaign contributions it's like,
I think we should have
that conversation.
Here, it's just like Coke put out
a statement.
You either think the corporation's
can do that or should do that or
you don't.
So which is it?
Is Coke fascist because they say,
hey young people seem to like
voting so we're going to be
in favor of voting or
not you liked Goya when they were
with Trump that was a corporation
what didn't they keep their beings
out of our politics though you
liked it then, you like his pillow.
He's all up in politics, so
which is it?
Should corporations be in
politics or not?
Personally, I say let's just
simplify things and
get them all out of here.
But that said whether they're
investing money in politics or not,
they definitely want to be seen to
be on the side of the people and
the people are on the side of
the people voting this
shouldn't be a surprise.
Now, it's not just about cancel
culture, it's also about
Stacey Abrams he brought her up.
Notably, she's a critic of the law,
but she's pushed back on calls for
sports leagues and corporations
to boycott the state, she's not
even necessarily in favor of it.
>> Exactly. >> She said on Friday
that she was disappointed that
baseball officials had pulled
the all star game, but
just she was proud of their
stance on voting rights.
So he says she's responsible for
it when she's literally advocating
for them to not do it.
But you can,
I guess you could forgive him since
I'm sure he didn't look.
He just thinks everything bad,
that's gotta be Stacey Abrams.
It wasn't enough that he cheated
out of an election win,
now he's got a For literally years.
So anyway, yeah, the whole thing,
it really just, it's so
nonsensical, it's so like
they don't even have to pretend
that their concept of canceled
culture is based on anything.
It is just what helps us right now.
What makes us seem good, right now?
We like that.
And if it's inconvenient later we
dispense it doesn't matter our
followers will never count and
call us out on that.
We'll just do it, it'll be great
>> Yeah, I just want to clarify
that like Coke and Delta and
the MLB they did not do this out of
the goodness of their hearts.
They don't care,
they don't have hearts.
They're money-grubbing stock
buyback corporations that steal
water resources from the world's
population to bottle fizzy overly
sugary drinks.
These are not the good guys.
So what does that tell you about
where we are in American history
when the not good guys the middle
of the road, the most middle of
the road safe corporate brand is
saying, nah don't like it.
Not going to touch it don't like
this voting law.
It tells you that actually, what
you're doing is controversial, and
that voting is non-controversial,
that voting rights are
non-controversial rights, right?
This is the middle of the road, and
so what side are Republicans on?
100 years ago.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Just Jim Crow South.
Yes. >> Yeah, >> Like so
far behind where we need to be and
so I know we're going to talk
about Trump, but like just remember
that these aren't the heroes.
They're the middle of the road And
Republicans are not even on
board with that
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