Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will never admit it, but it's his fault that Major League Baseball has taken the 2021 All-Star Game and the 1st Year Entry Draft out of Atlanta, with a new site to be determined.
This is all because Kemp, a Republican, signed a new voting rights bill into law, and despite the predictable posturing from the GOPers, including former president Donald Trump, claiming that MLB "caved in to pressure" (they didn't), the truth is that the GOPers are, five months later, still butt-hurt over losing the White House and a pair of Senate seats, and enacted the new law, which critics say is essentially illegal anyway, to "suppress" minority voters who are believed to favor Democrats.
Let's be real. Four years ago, the NBA pulled its All-Star Game from Charlotte because of an anti-transgender law, since repealed. In 1991, the NFL decided not to have the Arizona Cardinals host the Super Bowl because Arizona refused to recognize Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. However, the Big Game has been played in Arizona since then. The common thread? Republican-controlled governments in Arizona and North Carolina created those scenarios, just like in Georgia. The GOPers just don't get it. You can't predict how people will vote, so why discriminate against minorities, such as African-Americans and Asian-Americans? Because the GOPers want to ensure they retain power. As noted, they've already lost 2 Senate seats in Georgia. Kemp stupidly claimed that MLB is "afraid" of President Biden, when instead the President threw his support behind MLB's position.
As far as Kemp and the voting rights law? This, too, will be repealed, and no amount of whining from Trump and his sycophants will change that. To paraphrase the Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla", history has shown again and again how Republicans expose the folly of man. Ain't that the truth.
What's funny is that Gov. Grump actually thought that he and his Nutzi cronies could just make this a thing and everyone else was just gonna roll over and let them do it. Have these guys learned nothing from the last 4 years? Did he forget that Stacey Abrams is still kicking? Jim Crow is dead, my guy. Fascism isn't making a comeback. Really, what the blankety-blank did this guy think was gonna happen?
ReplyDeleteAnd now the old curmudgeon (who had the gall to sign this bill under a painting of a plantation, subtle!) wants to whine about "cancel culture". It's not cancel culture, my dude, it's Consequence Culture. If Little Johnny steals money from his sister Susie's piggy bank and gets caught, then he gets punished and grounded. Little Johnny hasn't been 'canceled', he's being made to pay the consequences for his actions. Actions have consequences; you can't expect to pull bullcrap like this without pushback. This current tiff between you and MLB isn't cancel culture, Gov. Racist, it's freaking capitalism; companies generally don't want to business with people who make hate possible. Funny thing, that.
And nobody gives a bleep what former President Reject has to say. He ain't in power anymore, so we ain't gotta listen.
Kemp is lying about the reasons why he signed that law. If the Braves thought this would blow over in three months, in time for the All-Star Game, they're keeping their collective corporate brains in the sand as well. And, yeah, Kemp is doing stuff like this to maintain loyalty to Citizen Pampers.
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