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Source: (Democratic National Convention via AP) Former President Obama criticized voting laws being passed by Republicans across the country, saying that such changes to the voting system is “rigging the game.”
He said during an Economic Club of Chicago event Friday about the new election integrity law in Georgia: That’s the kind of dangerous behavior that we’re going to have to push back on. Obama suggested that urban areas will face more barriers in order to vote, alleging that the law made a “different set of rules for how votes are counted in Atlanta versus how they’re counted in the rest of Georgia.”
The former president was in support of companies such as Major League Baseball and Coca-Cola that were critical of the voting bill in Georgia. He urged more corporations to follow suit in protest of the laws being passed in several GOP-led states. I think the corporate community has a responsibility to at least call folks out on that. Because that transcends policy. This really has to do with the basic rules by which we have all agreed to keep this diverse and multiracial democracy functioning. The former president suggested that in passing laws aimed at protecting the validity of elections, Republican lawmakers were attempting to rig elections. Are we going to stick to those rules or are we going to start rigging the game in a way that breaks it? And that’s not going to be good for business, not to mention not good for our soul. In addition to Georgia, states such as Texas , Arkansas and Arizona are looking to pass legislation aimed at ensuring elections are protected by requiring identification and barring election officials from receiving mail-in ballots that were not requested.
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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JD Rucker