The companies that lied....

[kadee79]

About who they would contribute to in the future after Jan. 6...

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot and efforts by 147 members of Congress, including eight senators, to overturn the election results by voting against the certification of state Electoral College votes rattled the country’s politically active business sector.

Spokespersons of some of the biggest names in corporate America scrambled to issue statements condemning the violence and to distance themselves from their past financial support of lawmakers who made last-ditch efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in favor of then President Donald Trump. Joe Biden won the election by a sizable margin of 7 million popular votes and 74 electoral votes with the highest presidential-election turnout since 1908. These are the states with the highest voter turnout.

“There is never any justification for violence or the kind of destruction that occurred at the U.S. Capitol last week,” said a Jan. 13 statement from Cigna, one the country’s largest health insurance providers, adding it would “discontinue support of any elected official who encouraged or supported violence, or otherwise hindered a peaceful transition of power.”

According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan nonprofit political watchdog, nearly 190 companies issued statements like this in the weeks following the Jan. 6 riot and Republican Congress members efforts to reject electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/companies-that-lied-about-not-bankrolling-congress-members-who-didnt-certify-the-election/ss-AAO7KEO?ocid=msedgntp&li=BBnb7Kz



And here is the link to the place where the list is....and it changes daily if you want to keep up...


www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/this-sedition-is-brought-to-you-by/?fbclid=IwAR1DPiNr0xhS4q76RbjAqoNAXhcU_xw0DrQKA5NVdgo-e4ySAYiT9LE92W4

[Lizard Queen]

[chiver78]

Sept 8, 2021 17:28:54 GMT -5 Lizard Queen said:

FUCK! ugh. that's the only company that has reliable signal in the trees where I am now. 

as far as the list overall, nobody should really be surprised that corporations talk out of both sides of the mouths they have now that they are people. 

[Lizard Queen]

Sept 8, 2021 17:50:41 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Sept 8, 2021 17:28:54 GMT -5 Lizard Queen said:

FUCK! ugh. that's the only company that has reliable signal in the trees where I am now. 

as far as the list overall, nobody should really be surprised that corporations talk out of both sides of the mouths they have now that they are people. 

Yeah, this is just one of many. Comcast is rolled up into that, too, and if I want to continue to WFH, them I'm stuck. I will avoid business with the ones I can, though. Speaking of, I still need to sell my Exxon stock.

[chiver78]

that's pretty much where I'm at. I can thankfully avoid comCRAP now that I'm off Cape, not that I knew they were on that list. they just suck in general. they were also the only option other than DSL.  I think if I can make choices wherever possible to avoid businesses that (not who that I had originally typed..whatever Citizens United thinks....🖕) support policies I abhor, then I'm being a responsible consumer. 

[Lizard Queen]

Sept 8, 2021 18:04:15 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

that's pretty much where I'm at. I can thankfully avoid comCRAP now that I'm off Cape, not that I knew they were on that list. they just suck in general. they were also the only option other than DSL.  I think if I can make choices wherever possible to avoid businesses that (not who that I had originally typed..whatever Citizens United thinks....🖕) support policies I abhor, then I'm being a responsible consumer. 

I agree. I absolutely detest comcrap, but monopolies must monopolise.

[Lizard Queen]

Walmart, Coca-cola and UPS (I couldn't read farther):

[kadee79]

Sept 9, 2021 8:29:37 GMT -5 Lizard Queen said:

Walmart, Coca-cola and UPS (I couldn't read farther):

I'm in Ga....We don't drink Coke.  There aren't a lot of choices here for groceries, but we are buying less & less from Walmart.  And I ship all my packages by USPS!  I can't control how I receive things I order or I'd have it all come FedX or USPS.

ETA...And I just spent $47+ shipping some things yesterday at the PO!

[Deleted]

Oh dear! I’ve been with ATT for cell phone service for forever. I’ve had Comcast for forever. And Exxon is the only gas I’ve used in my cars for forever. In each case, “forever” is at least 20 years.

The only thing in my favor is I don’t shop at WalMart. I did occasionally when I was broke, broke, broke about 15 years ago, but I was not impressed. The lines were always long, I didn’t like the meat or produce (I really hated their ground beef, it didn’t crumble like other ground beef, it still looked like worms to me when I cooked it) household goods were only a few pennies cheaper than Target, which I prefer. 

UGH!

[formerroomate99]

I can’t say I’m surprised by this. If you are operating in an industry where your business depends on legislation, making sure all the politicians are beholden to you is necessary.