OF LEGAL AGE IS NOT A CRIME.
>> WHEN "ALL IN" STARTS RIGHT
NOW.
>>> GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK,
I’M CHRIS HAYES.
WE’RE IN THE MIDST OF
INTENSIFYING NATIONAL TEMPER
TANTRUM HAPPENING NOW, INCURRED
ENORMOUS COSTS AND SHOWS NO SIGN
OF STOPPING.
ONE OF THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES IS
ACTING IN FLAGRANTLY
UNDEMOCRATIC WAYS, MORPHED INTO
CHANGING VOTING RULES IN
RESPONSE TO HAVING LOST
DEMOCRATIC ELECTION.
AND CERTAIN CORPORATIONS HAVE
TAKEN THE POSITION IT’S WRONG,
REPUBLICANS HAVE VOWING TO
CANCEL EVEN THE MOST AMERICAN OF
INSTITUTIONS, MAJOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL, COCA-COLA, AMERICAN
AIRLINES, DELL COMPUTERS.
REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THEY SHOULD
BE ABLE TO CRACK DOWN ON VOTING
RIGHTS WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES BUT
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MOVED
ALL-STAR GAME OUT OF GEORGIA
AFTER IT PASSED VOTER
SUPPRESSION LAW AND NUMBER OF
COMPANIES HAVE CALLED THAT BILL
AND OTHERS IN OTHER STATES
UNACCEPTABLE AND REPUBLICANS
HAVE HAVING AN ABSOLUTE HISSY
FIT.
>> MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HAS
CAVED TO THE CANCEL CULTURE.
>> THESE CORPORATIONS ARE GOING
TO FACE THE WRATH OF GOP
OFFICIALS AND TENS OF MILLIONS
OF AMERICAN CONSUMERS WHO
SUPPORT THEM.
>> MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
BELIEVES IT HAS VETO POWER OVER
THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
>> IS IT TIME FOR AMERICAN
CONSERVATIVES TO CANCEL SPORTS
AND THEN THEY’D START TO RESPECT
US A LITTLE BIT?
>> CANCEL SPORTS?
REMEMBER THE CONTEXT.
IN GEORGIA TO TAKE ONE EXAMPLE,
HAD RECORD TURNOUT IN THE
NOVEMBER ELECTION, REMEMBER
THAT?
VOTE WAS RECOUNTED THREE TIMES,
AUDITED, HAD THREE RECOUNTS, ONE
BY HAND, NO SUBSTANTIAL FRAUD
WHATSOEVER.
INDEED WHOLE ENTERPRISE THERE
WHICH WE CAN LOSE SIGHT OF, IT
AS MASSIVELY SUCCESSFUL ELECTION
AS THEIR OWN REPUBLICAN
SECRETARY OF STATE SAID.
BUT REPUBLICANS DECIDED TO
RESPOND TO LOSING IN THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND SENATE
WITH NEW RESTRICTIONS ON VOTING.
THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE WHY
THEY’RE DOING THAT.
CLEARLY BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T LIKE
LOSING.
HOPING THIS LAW WILL MAKE IT
HARDER FOR THEIR OPPONENTS’
SUPPORTERS TO VOTE AND MAKE IT
EASIER FOR THEM TO WIN, IT’S
PART OF BROADER ATTACK ON THE
FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC
PRINCIPLES.
FIRST REMEMBER CONSERVATIVES
PUSHED BIG LIE ABOUT THE
ELECTION, THAT IT WAS STOLEN AND
RIGGED.
NOW LEGISLATING IN STATE AFTER
STATE TO QUOTE/UNQUOTE RESTORE
THE INTEGRITY OF THEIR ELECTIONS
AND BUNCH OF THEM NODDED AND
WINKED AT INSURRECTION THAT LEFT
A POLICE OFFICER DEAD.
NOT SURPRISINGLY, HALF OF
REPUBLICANS BELIEVE IT WAS A
NONVIOLENT PROTEST FOR IT WAS
LEFT-WING ACTIVISTS TRYING TO
MAKE TRUMP LOOK BACK.
THERE’S A STRAIGHT LINE FROM THE
REPUBLICAN EFFORT TO CRACK DOWN
ON VOTING.
ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT THE
FUNCTIONING OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
IN RADICALIZING AGAINST
DEMOCRACY, THEY’VE GROWN
DIVORCED FROM BASIC MAINSTREAM
AMERICAN NORMS THEY’RE LASHING
OUT AT WIDER AND WIDER CIRCLES
OF AMERICAN LIFE.
BUT BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL OR COKE
HASN’T CAUSES THEM TO ASSESS
WHAT THEY’RE DOING, ARE WE THE
BAD GUYS?
NO THEY JUST WHINE MORE
HYSTERICALLY HOW PICKED ON THEY
ARE.
GEORGIA STRIPPED DELTA OF A TAX
BREAK FOR SPEAKING OUT.
QUESTION WAS THE TAX BREAK GOOD
POLICY FOR AND BAD NOW?
WHICH WAS THE RIGHT POSITION,
GEORGIA REPUBLICANS?
BUT FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FOR
REPUBLICANS WHILE THEY HAVE A
HAMMER LOCK ON PART OF THE
COUNTRY THEY’RE GROWING EVER
MORE ESTRANGED FROM REST OF IT
AND MORE ANGRY.
LEADING TO PREPOSTEROUS
PERFORMATIVE CULTURE WAR
SPECTACLES.
TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT
BACKING OUT OF THROWING FILCH
THIS YEAR, HIS STATE SENATE JUST
ALSO PASSED RESTRICTIVE VOTING
BILL, AND INTIMATIONS OF USING
STATE TO PUNISH CORPORATIONS NOT
UNDER VISION OF POLITICAL
ECONOMY, POLICY, REGULATION BUT
EXPLICITLY AS PUNISHMENT FOR
THEM NOT HAVING THE RIGHT
POLITICS.
>> MY ADVICE TO THE CORPORATE
POLITICS.
DON’T PICK SIDES IN THESE BIG
FIGHTS.
>> STAY OUT OF POLITICS, STAY
OUT OF POLITICIANS SAYS
REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH
McCONNELL TO BUSINESS TODAY.
ALSO SAID PARTS OF THE PRIVATE
SECTOR KEEP DABBLING IN BEHAVING
LIKE A WOKE PARALLEL GOVERNMENT,
DON’T YOU LOVE HOW THEY
APPROPRIATED THAT WORD?
FROM OUTSIDE THE CONSTITUTIONAL
ORDER.
KEEP QUIET ABOUT REPUBLICAN
VOTER SUPPRESSION OR ELSE.
WHAT IS OUTSIDE THE
CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER OF PRIVATE
CORPORATION EXPRESSING A VIEW?
WHAT’S INSANE IS CORPORATIONS
HAVE OF COURSE PROPPED UP
REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR DECADES.
IN MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC LAST
YEAR MITCH McCONNELL’S BIGGEST
PRIORITY AS PEOPLE ARE DYING
UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS, DAY AFTER
DAY, LASER-LIKE FOCUS OF THAT
GUY THERE WAS TO MAKE SURE
CORPORATIONS WERE PROTECTED FROM
COVID RELATED LAWSUITS.
THAT’S WHAT HE WAS CONCERNED
ABOUT.
AND DONALD TRUMP’S MOST
SIGNIFICANT LEGISLATIVE
ACCOMPLISHMENT BY FAR THANKS TO
MITCH McCONNELL AND PAUL RYAN
AND OTHERS IS MASSIVELY CUT
CORPORATE TAXES WHICH JOE BIDEN
IS TRYING TO RAISE AMONG
OPPOSITION FROM CORPORATE
AMERICA AND DRUM ROLL, THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ALL THE
PILLARS OF AMERICAN CULTURE,
SODA TO BASEBALL TO AIRLINES,
HAVE ALL DECIDED TO COME
TOGETHER TO PERSECUTE
REPUBLICANS FOR NO GOOD REASON,
SO COULD IT BE REPUBLICANS ARE
SO FAR OFF THE MAP AND ALIENATED