This is what having a spine looks like.
David Hogg, emboldened by his many backers and media handlers, figured he could throw his political weight around, and bully Floridian businesses who had donated campaign funds to pro-business candidates who — wouldn’t you know it — also happened to be pro-2A.
We called it a ‘protection racket’.
Extortion: Famous Gun-Grabber Just Issued A Million-Dollar Demand To This Major Grocery Chain
A specific amount was to be given to a specific cause … ‘or else’.
I call on @Publix to donate double the money they gave to Putman to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, $1,000,000. And never support an A rated NRA politician again.
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) May 24, 2018
Of course, that plan boomeranged right from the beginning… hurting many causes friendly to his side. (oops)
LMAO: Hogg’s Boycott Of Publix Supermarkets Spectacularly Backfires
Now we’ve got an update. He can (politely) go pound sand.
“While we have not contributed to the GoFundMe account, on April 3, more than 65 Publix associates, including our CEO & President [Todd Jones], spent our Publix Serves Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas,” said Ms. Krauss in an email.
“We worked on several projects that were funded by Publix, including an herb/vegetable garden for the culinary program, beautification of common grounds and sodding, and landscaping a new yoga/meditation area for the students,” she said. “We hoped our efforts would help the students find comfort in each other and a peaceful place to reflect and meditate.”
Source: Washington Times
It seems a good place to cite Kipling’s poem about demands like that, and why yielding to them is a bad idea.
Dane-geld – (Kipling)
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: –
“We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: –
“Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”Source: Kipling
Some of us are old enough to remember when this kind of defiance to bullies was America’s DEFAULT response.
Clash Poll: Publix Refuses To Pay $1M Demanded By Hogg - Do Love It Or What?
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