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President Biden stops short on telling Masters golf tournament to leave Georgia following calls to boycott the state
Biden feigned impartiality after openly fanning the PR flames that led the MLB to take the All-Star Game away from Georgia, doing significant economic damage to the state.
Today at the White House a reporter asked Biden if he thinks the Masters golf tournament should pull out of Georgia. This coming after a politically-charged boycott campaign targeting the MLB that had even Stacey Abrams begging for mercy.
“It’s reassuring to see that for-profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new “Jim Crow” laws are just antithetical to who we are. There is another side to it too. The other side to it too is when they in fact move out of Georgia, the people who need the help the most, people who are making hourly wages, sometimes get hurt the most.”
He called it a very tough decision for corporations to make but Biden says he “respects” them when they make that judgement or “whatever judgement they make.”
President Biden closed by urging Georgia to buckle to this wave of reactionary activist pressure.
President Joe Biden previously endorsed the MLB pulling the All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest over the passage of Georgia's new voting law. Something that was done under false pretense, as the President launched a campaign of misinformation surrounding what the new election rules for the state actually entailed. A debacle that even the Washington Post sentenced Biden to a shameful four Pinocchios for.
Surprisingly enough it actually worked. In an official press release from the MLB site, on April 2nd the organization officially announced they were pulling out of the state. To the praises of former President Obama who heinously violates the unspoken rule that past Presidents keep their mouths shut after leaving office.
Barack is engaging in nonsense on two different counts: 1.) The MLB’s decision to move the All-Star game to Coors Field in Denver, Colorado isn’t a nod to the so-called diversity agenda because of their closer majority white population. 2.) On the official narrative front of this protest being over voting laws, Colorado’s measures are just as “strict” as the new rules set in place by Georgia lawmakers. 3.) The decision to move the All-Star Game out of Georgia over political posturing by the elite is reportedly going to cost $100 million (per CNN!) for the people of Georgia.
But America is supposed to trust Joe Biden when he proposes a $2 trillion infrastructure bill.
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