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Source: Boycott Culture Forces CEOs to Walk Tightrope in Trump Era – Bloomberg

The absurdity of the world in which we live continues to plumb new depths. The emboldening of groups that insist on creating identity issues for people to side with has created a society of consumers angry about…everything!  At least it seems this way if you observe the news.

Much of this constant angst and anger is supported by a compliant media, ravenous to report the latest outrage, injustice or imagined slight.  A cake that is refused baking is transmogrified into a national debate on human rights.  The mountain out of molehill business is at an all time high.

And of course the recent phenomenon of boycotting businesses because someone decided that their policies were not in line with righteous principles…as determined by whatever group gets the loudest audience.  Recently, the National Football League even warned the state of Texas that their state may be blackballed for future Super Bowl venues because of…their public restroom policies.

The most recent victims of public bullying and corporate spinelessness are the Trumps.  Not only have the always-angry-about-something left mounted a campaign to boycott anything with a Trump label, they actually impede other non activists from buying anything Trump as well.  Corporations are falling like bowling pins as they prostrate themselves at the altar of political righteousness by the leftist mob.  Budweiser, Coca Cola, Walmart and others surely to follow, are so scared of the negative impact of the mob that they scurry to prove themselves worthy of the mob dollars.

It’s not a stretch to believe that one day, businesses will have to show some kind of proof that no one in their organization has ever uttered a slur, worn fur, didn’t recycle, eaten an animal in anger or owns a gun.  It’s hard to know what’s in vogue as far as the righteous cause of the day, but corporations are anxious not be on the wrong side of it. The resemblance to ISIS enforcement squads may be just a coincidence.

The sanctimony and preposterousness of this recent phenomenon is as laughable as wooden contact lenses.  The irony of the inclusive, feminist, non bullying fringe left using militant fascist tactics to impose their views will be looked upon by future historians with great fascination and no doubt, chagrin.  It’s kind of like that whole ‘religion of peace’ thing.

The only positive thing about this mass insanity is that the movement will eventually consume themselves.  There will be divisions and factions from within that will profess to be the most pure and righteous as they stratify their pecking orders.  It will be Lord of The Flies for lefties.

Update: Texas rebuke of NFL

Source: Trump’s Immigration Order Tests Limits of Law and Executive Power – The New York Times

Donald Trump has officially been in office just over one week.  In that time, he has produced a virtual avalanche of directives that have his detractors feel as if they were drinking from a firehose in attempting to react to them.  Who could have known that he would: approve the building of a wall at the Mexico border, move to redact and repeal Obamacare, move to reduce burdens of over regulation, restrain the EPA, approve the Keystone pipeline and now restrict the movement of individuals from areas of the world where terrorism is endemic?

Actually, if anyone was paying attention, everyone should have known!  For well over a year, his entire campaign platform had all these planks firmly front and center without apology or reservation.  Now that he’s acting with the blessing of the recent vote, detractors are ‘shocked’.  Imagine that; a political executive doing what he promised.  It’s not as if his campaign rhetoric included promises to lower the oceans and heal the earth. You may not like the guy, but a liar and a slacker, he ain’t.

The most current uproar surrounds the “sudden” restrictions imposed on persons travelling from areas of the world known to be terrorist hot spots.  Again, no one was paying attention to his campaign rhetoric if they think this was ‘sudden’.  Predictably, a collective howl has arisen from all corners of the usual leftist world, invoking racism, Nazism, etc etc.  On the very next day of the travel restrictions, headlines were already screaming about how Trump has impeded the progress of science.

We are not in the lawyer racket, (and amen to that), but claims of Trump’s actions being illegal and unconstitutional are as valid as Michael Moore beauty products.  The primary mandate of the president of the nation is to keep the nation safe.

No doubt, many innocents will be caught up by this policy, but a logical question arises.  Why do refugees and immigrants need to come to the US, or for that matter, any country.  Nations have the right to restrict people from entering their borders, or else, why have borders?  But a more logical question may be framed this way: If a person was being persecuted for religious or personal safety reasons, why would they board a plane and make the onerous trip all the way around the world when there are presumably options in the immediate vicinity? Why not Germany or Sweden or even Canada, all known for their expansive immigration policies.  Or how about any of the nation states within a 4 hour drive, such as Saudi Arabia? Oddly, most Muslim dominant nations have been quiet so far on this.

One of the more kooky critiques of the new policy is that this will serve to further inflame anti-American sentiment among certain nations and that this will be another recruitment incentive for radicals to join ISIS.  Really?  There’s yet another notch of hatred above what we’ve seen?  How far does this scale go?

To be clear, the new policy is not a permanent ban.  It is a temporary measure to allow more scrutiny of people from dangerous areas of the world.  If this is irrational, then so are security lines at airports, so are travel restrictions upon persons travelling from disease infected locales; recall the SARS outbreak of many years ago.  But as we’ve seen, almost half of the population are not known for any ability to think rationally.