High fives to the many corporations that lent their support to diversity with their Super Bowl ads. But the real test is this: Will they quietly collude with the Trump Administration to achieve such narrow interests as looser environmental regulations, net neutrality, weak antitrust enforcement, favorable corporate tax laws, and big tax breaks for the 1 percent?
“I’ve always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that’s why I gave it to my people, but I’ve come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it’s the truth.”
Andrei Sakharov
BoRder waLL made out of concretE, not wooD. What’s thE purpose of Mexico ad? Is 84Lumber the PLace tO go to piCk up broWn day laborers?
You Betcha!
hhhhhmmmmmm…FOX, which daily traffics in political propaganda, rumors, gossip and lies as a profitable business model, is now afraid of filmed commercials with a mildly political POV? Is Fair & Balanced a convenient conditional trope that doesn’t apply to other people? Seems so. Looks like these FOX pussies have been grabbed.
In 2 years that ad will show people going in the other direction
Had a bunch of old farts over at my house last night watching the Superbowl, and 2 of the oldest kept saying that “Lady Gaga better not try to do anything political!” I did not argue with them for fear of giving them a heart attack, but the thought of them complaining about someone making a political statement on FOX news was almost more than I could bare
Fox can only handle messaging that supports “their” politics! Intimidation reigns!
84 Lumber wasn’t the only company to err on the political side with their Super Bowl ads: One Budweiser
spot told the story of Adolphus Bush, a German immigrant with a prized
beer recipe who faced discrimination when he came to America.
I’m not sure that word means what you think it means.
How is it that a lumber company gets it, but our President doesn’t?
There is, again, a big difference between immigrants (like Busch) and illegals. Immigrants come in legally. Illegals come in illegally. The confusion between the two is a deliberate process. For immigration restrictionists like myself, the issue is legality. My ancestors all came here legally. We need to enforce the laws we have. No one gets a special break.
Busch’s entry into this country was not illegal. He came legally. The real controversy with him is that he came to the US, and apparently quickly began brewing “beer” which did not follow the Reinheitsgebot rules. That’s the reason Bud sucks. Did he come here to evade proper brewing methods?
Bud isn’t even an American beer. It’s now a Belgian-Brazilian (or is it Brazilian-Belgian) beer.
I watched that whole Lumber 84 ad later and boy it’s something. Too bad they wouldn’t let them show it.
But a big thank you to all the corporations and companies that did show and take a stand. It was quite something really.
Sorry, the whole concept of “illegal” immigrants is a very recent one in our history. Almost all of our ancestors came in without any document that would today make them “legal”. We spent most of our history allowing anyone who wanted to live here do so - unless they didn’t have nice pink skin. But, that’s another story.
Yeah we had some things that needed building - like a transcontinental railroad that would never have been built without immigrants, in this instance mostly Chinese.
The question is whether the immigrants were welcomed or not.
If it ain’t illegal, it’s legal. No other interpretation is possible. Abraham Lincoln drove all over Southern Illinois and never had a driver’s license. Yet no one ever said he was an illegal driver. He was a legal user of the conveyances of his day, because the notion of the driver’s license had not been devised.
What happened 150 years ago is irrelevant today.
This is simply a bullshit attempt of the open-borders globalist idiots to normalize illegals.
Also, every one of the folks blocked by Trump’s ant-Muslim, anti-refugee travel ban were attempting to enter the U.S. in a completely legal way, as already-vetted-and-approved refugees, with valid visas, or as Green Card holders.
Some of them had been vetted and waiting for as long as 3 to 5 years. And some of them were only 5 years old.
One was only 4 months old, and in desperate need of highly specialized heart surgery. Her life was put in grave danger by Trump’s order. Thankfully it now looks like she’ll make it in on Monday.
From the USA’s perception, slavery was also legal. As was the genocide of the native people.
The law and what’s right can sometimes be at odds. I do understand not wanting to have a fully open border. But what we have now also sucks. Hardworking, adventurous people being criminalized for where they were born is not a benefit to the United States.