 The backlash to Georgia's voter suppression law has been swift and severe and even large multinational corporations are speaking out against the law not necessarily out of the goodness of their hearts, but because public pressure, part marketing, there's a number of reasons. But either way, corporate America is getting involved and a lot of capitalists are finding out the hard way that their preferred economic system does have some pitfalls. Now, if you are a socialist, you know that democracy and capitalism are incompatible because capitalism is like a virus. It seeps into every single corner of society and attempts to commodify every single aspect of human life. And eventually it grows and grows and spreads and it gets so big that it takes down the political system within which it exists. It even makes democracy and elections this commodified money making venture. We're to the point now where you can't be electorally successful unless you can raise lots and lots of money. You don't even have a say over policy outcomes unless you are an elite with a lot of money and capital. And you know, people who helped create this late stage capitalist dystopia that we live in, like Mitch McConnell, who literally signed legal briefs supporting Citizens United to increase the amount of corporate influence in our politics, all of a sudden doesn't like that corporations are getting involved in politics. And he decided to send a very strong message to them and he told them to stay out of politics. Although that lasted about a day because he immediately had to backtrack saying, I didn't actually say that very artfully yesterday. They're certainly entitled to be involved in politics. They are. My principal complaint is they didn't read the damn bill. In other words, somebody got a stern talking to by their corporate overlords and they told him, you better change your opinion real quick. Otherwise, if you want us to give you money in 2022, then we're not going to be there. The gravy train is going to dry up. So either come correct or find yourself some different corporate donors. I'm loving all of this. Now, there are two additional capitalists that I've got a spotlight because they're also very outraged at the fact that the system that they support or purport to support is operating exactly as it is intended to. All right. On top of the MLB moving out of the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, dozens of Craven CEOs have jumped onto the left's trash Georgia bandwagon. To me, it's shameful. But what if it became the new normal? We just accept it. JPMorgan CEO, Jamie Dimon, wants corporate America to get more involved in politics. Writing this today, companies like ours have an extraordinary capability to help to not just with funding, but with developing strong public policy. Oh, really? JPMorgan is going to run the country, which could have a greater impact on society. Here to react is Dan Crenshaw. Dan, stand down as congressman from Texas. Jamie Dimon is going to start making decisions. Isn't that a relief? Yeah, look, you know, he should run for Congress if he really wants to be in politics. And that's my message to all of these CEOs. And I don't think what they I don't think they understand how damaging their entry into politics is for far too long already. Americans are forced to, you know, watch a different late night comedy show. Every time they watch a movie, they have to deal with the fact that the actor they might be watching doesn't like them, thinks that their ideas are stupid. And now we have to look at products or banks or our airlines and think to ourselves, well, yeah, I want to buy this product or purchase this ticket. But these people hate me or they don't think my ideas are good or they lie about my ideas, they lie about what we want to do for election integrity. This is damaging our culture. It's damaging our social fabric. They're doing far more damage than they realize. Yeah, we call that the free market, bitch. You are the ones, capitalists are the ones who claim that the free market is this sort of sentient being that should be unaccountable and unregulated, answer to no one whatsoever, not even the government. But now all of a sudden you're worried about the power that these corporations have over our government. Brian Kilmeade asks, is JP Morgan going to run the country? Crenshaw then chimes in saying you should run for Congress if he really wants to be in politics. I don't think they understand how damaging their entry into politics is. No, no, no, I don't think you understand how damaging their entry into politics is, because if you actually understood how damaging it was, you would be supporting legislation that would get money out of politics, rein in the power that large multinational corporations have. And I love how they're only finding out about the amount of influence corporations have now. When it comes to policy outcomes, normal Americans have a statistically insignificant impact on what lawmakers produce. However, if you are an elite, a business interest, you actually have all the say in our political system. So this isn't a new thing. You just don't like that these corporations aren't doing what you want them to do, because they know it is not socially acceptable to support voter suppression. But when they do actually take a political stand on an issue, it's a business decision. They're not doing it out of the goodness of their heart. They're condemning the voting law in Georgia because they're worried that there could be organized boycotts against them if they don't speak out against something that is very clearly an attempt to suppress the votes disproportionately of black voters in Georgia. Now, Dan Crenshaw, really, if he's concerned about money and politics, he should ask himself as a capitalist, why do these large corporations have so much influence on our country in the first place, on our government in the first place? They fund politicians that in turn do the bidding of the corporations that help them get elected. Dan Crenshaw is also guilty here. So if you truly want to complain about corporate power in America, your words are meaningless as a lawmaker if you're not actually taking action. Now, there's one more clip that I want to show you here. So he very clearly is just going to complain about corporate power in politics, not going to actually take meaningful steps to curtail the influence that they have. But he's also going to say that this is really a specific kind of politics that we're seeing. He's going to misrepresent a word that he obviously doesn't understand. But I'll tell you why what he's saying here is a little bit ironic and hypocritical. United Airlines wants to get a little bit more woke. They want to go out and say that 50 percent of the new hires from here on in are going to be women or people of color. United Airlines is officially stating this. They're planning to train 5,000 new pilots and a new pilot training program by 2030, of which at least half will be women and people of color. What do you think about this idea? Look, I think just about every passenger that gets on a plane thinks to themselves, I hope the pilot is qualified and can take off and land the plane safely. Look, if they want a virtue signal, that's fine. You know, what really pissed me off about United was the way they lied about the election integrity reforms that we're trying to make in places like Georgia and in Texas. They lied about it. They insinuated that these that these were voter suppression laws. And of course, that's not true. Clearly, they didn't read it. And again, they're venturing into territory that they don't understand that they that they don't know that they know nothing about in an attempt to what this is what I call the phenomenon that's going on. It's it's progressive fascism because because what is fascism? Well, it's the it's the it's the regimentation of the economy, of society, and it's the forced suppression of of your opposition. That's what's happening right now. The Democrats have successfully captivated the institutions, you know, pop culture, Hollywood, our education institutions. And now our corporations into their own woke agenda. This is fascism, right? And they use cancel culture as as a tool to impose their fascism on us. And so they're always using these anti this anti fascist labeling against the right, but they're the ones who actually engage in the tactics. And it's time we expose that. That's really what's happening here. And we should see it for what it is. Look, if they if they want to if they want to hire based on quotas and virtue signal to us and imply that that that people didn't have these opportunities to begin with, fine, but don't lie about other policy. OK, that that's what I really have a problem with. How are conservatives being forcibly suppressed because the MLB is choosing to move to a different state? How is that suppressing opposition? And he says this is progressive fascism, as if these corporations are progressive. Dan Crenshaw is either dumb or disingenuous. But what he said there is extremely stupid. And, you know, I've got to ask Dan Crenshaw this because if we actually accept his argument, if we assume that what he's saying here is true, then he needs to admit he's a fascist because in response to conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson pointing out on Twitter that Dan Crenshaw suggested that criticism of Israel should not be protected under the First Amendment. Dan Crenshaw responded by saying the question wasn't about criticism, but the BDS movement, i.e. economic warfare against Israel. The US government can choose not to do business with BDS supporters. So hang on a second, according to Dan Crenshaw, when the government chooses who it does business with, based on the political ideology of the business in question, that's perfectly justifiable and reasonable. But when a private corporation chooses where it does business based explicitly on the policies of said state, that's fascism. OK, we'll admit that you're a fascist, admit you're a fascist. You are advocating by your definition of fascism for fascism by saying that the US government can choose to not do business with supporters of BDS and understand that this is a capitalist who is making this case. Shouldn't you be the one who argues that private corporations can do whatever they want? They could take their business wherever to whatever state. That's the free market. But you're claiming that this is forcible suppression of conservatives. And you even go so far as to argue about how terrible it is in that first clip that, you know, you have to you have to watch these movies and you just know that these liberals in these films acting, they think that your ideas are stupid. How terrible. This is definitely tantamount to forcible suppression. And I love how he's just outraged that Delta is misrepresenting the bill. How could they call this a voter suppression bill? I don't know. Did you read the bill, Dan? Did you actually read the bill? I don't know, criminalizing, giving food and water to people standing in line. I'd call that voter suppression because we want to encourage them to stay in line to vote. Do we not removing the amount of drop boxes that exist leading to longer lines? I mean, if lines are longer, I'd call that voter suppression, right? I mean, he knows what he's doing. He's claiming that they're lying, Delta's lying, but this is nothing more than projection. And again, Delta doesn't give a flying fuck about voter suppression or black voters in Georgia. They don't care. They just want to make sure that they don't face backlash if they don't speak out. And it's sad that in a democracy, the only way that citizens have a chance at having any say or influence over policies is if they can somehow pressure corporations to denounce what their lawmakers do. If you actually if lawmakers like you, Dan Crenshaw, actually listen to the people, perhaps they wouldn't be tweeting at Coca Cola to take action in Georgia. If you all just listened and did what the American people wanted and not what your corporate donors want, I mean, they wouldn't ever say. But we have no say. Sixty to seventy percent of Americans, depending on the poll, support Medicare for all. But yet because corporate shills like Dan Crenshaw take money from the private insurance industry, well, we don't get it. We want to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Corporate America says, no, we don't get it. So I guess what I want here is just consistency from conservatives. You're just whining about corporations denouncing your party's racist policies. But be consistent. This is the free market. You're not proposing anything to curtail the power of these corporations on our democracy. So I can't help but think that maybe you should probably shut the fuck up here because if you're not proposing a solution, if you're just whining, then I don't know what to tell you. You're a lawmaker. If you don't like corporate power, do something to rein them in. But then that go against your capitalist economic philosophy. So you're kind of backed into a corner here.