04/06/21 Tue: Dan Cathy, Blech! Clarence Thomas, King! DMX Day 4
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The Hake Report, Tuesday, April 6, 2021: Lots of James monologuing, and a couple calls from Joe from Phoenix and lastly Art from Ohio in the second hour! (After the break, white Chris clarifies death metal vs black metal.)
Propaganda from Pocket/Firefox.
Dan Cathy of Chick-Fil-A polished Lacrae's shoes and kissed up to BLM.
The Trevor Project promotes LGBT madness while seeking to prevent suicides.
Is rapper DMX (Dark Man X, aka Earl Simmons) gonna make it?
Justice Clarence Thomas suggests Twitter, Facebook be regulated as public utilities.
Andy Ngo left the country after threats for exposing Antifa!
Also check out Hake News from today.
CALLERS
Joe from Phoenix, AZ - Violent crime stats are trending down over the last 20 years. Perhaps the community groups like the Urban League are helping?
Art from Ohio - wishes DMX well, and heard migrant kids are being taught computer programing at the border?!
TIME STAMPS
…coming?
SHOW NOTES
Mess!
MESS FROM POCKET
(Pocket / BBC) The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use — RME!
(Pocket / BBC) 'We found a baby on the subway - now he's our son' — The subtitle reads: “Danny Stewart was rushing to meet his boyfriend for dinner when he ran past something lying on the floor of a New…” GROSS! TERRIBLE! SMH.
(Pocket / Guardian) We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals — HMM.
DAN CATHY OF CHICK-FIL-A
Chick-Fil-A’s CEO since 2012 is a disgrace: (The Sun) Who is Chick-fil-A's Dan Cathy and what did he say about racism and Black Lives Matter? …
His LinkedIn from June 2, 2020: Use Your Power and Influence | by Dan T. Cathy
(TheSun, Fionnuala O'Leary, News Reporter, June 19, 2020) Cathy said white people should be ashamed of their racism amid widespread civil unrest in the United States.
His emotional plea came after a dozen Chick-Fil-A restaurants were vandalized by protesters decrying the recent police custody killings of two black men, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks.
WHO IS DAN
Cathy is the billionaire son of Chick-Fil-A founder S Truett Cathy.
He is reportedly worth $7.1 billion as of June 2020, according to Forbes.
Cathy is the chairman and CEO of Chick-fil-A, the fried chicken juggernaut his dad founded in the sixties.
He became CEO in 2012 but his comments about the LGBT community caused uproar that year.
The Chick-fil-A boss criticized same-sex marriage, prompting some politicians to block the chain from expanding in certain areas.
“We’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage," he said during the controversial radio interview.
Cathy supports the anti-racism demonstrations stemming from Floyd's brutal arrest and death in Minneapolis.
ANTi-RACIST
Cathy slammed racism during a roundtable panel discussion at the Passion City Church in Georgia, with Christian rapper Lecrae and the church's founder, Louie Giglio.
Cathy began polishing Lecrae's sneakers during the recorded talk.
This happened two days after Brooks was shot in a Wendy's parking lot by an Atlanta cop after falling asleep in his car and failing a sobriety test.
Cathy said most white people were "out-of-sight" and "out-of-mind oblivious" to racial injustice.
His comments came after the Chick-fil-A boss shared an emotive LinkedIn post on June 2, entitled "Use Your Power And Influence."
"Our silence is so huge at this time," he told Lecrae and Giglio. "We cannot be silent. Somebody has to fight and God has so blessed our city, but it’s shameful how we let things get so out of whack.”
Cathy said conversations with his employees – including at the corporate office – unearthed conscious and unconscious biases.
This made black staffers feel like they weren't "treated with honor, dignity, and respect," he said.
“We as Caucasians, until we’re willing to just pick up the baton and fight for our black, African American brothers and sisters, which they are as one human race, we’re shameful," Cathy continued. "We cannot let this moment pass."
"Any expressions of a contrite heart, of a sense of humility, a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment," he added.
"An apologetic heart, I think that's what our world needs to hear today."
...Cathy's fast food chain recently apologized for a viral photo of an employee wearing an "Back the blue" shirt.
This slogan tee was actually in support a local football team and the image itself was several years old.
The company has issued their support for the anti-racism movement in the US.
Speaking about the vandalism of his restaurants after Brooks' death last week, CEO Cathy said his “plea would be for the white people."
"Rather than point fingers at that kind of criminal effort, [it] would be to see the level of frustration and exasperation and almost the sense of hopelessness that exists on some of those activists within the African American community," he told
He described how Chick-fil-A has worked to improve “the most distressed zip code in Georgia."
The company also donated money and resources to local businesses and institutions, and is helping plan redevelopment of the area.
EVIL TREVOR PROJECT
I mentioned them in Hake News, Hr1: Asa Hutchinson vetoes a bill banning LGBT madness on kids, but Asa thinks it violates doctors and parents’ rights to abuse kids.
Evil: The Trevor Project with James Lecesne who as of 2020 goes by Celeste Lecesne, Peggy Rajski, and the late Randy Stone.
IS DMX OK?
Aw: Travis Scott Sends Well Wishes to DMX as He Enters Day 4 on Life Support
CLARENCE THOMAS
Supreme Court Justice Thomas Suggests Facebook, Twitter Could Be Regulated Like Utilities
(The Epoch Times) Clarence Thomas made the point during a 12-page submission as the Supreme Court issued an order that rejected a lawsuit over Trump’s blocking of certain Twitter users from commenting on his posts before his account was taken down. The Supreme Court said the lawsuit ultimately should be dismissed as Trump isn’t in office anymore and was blocked from using Twitter, coming after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled against Trump.
“Today’s digital platforms provide avenues for historically unprecedented amounts of speech, including speech by government actors. Also unprecedented, however, is control of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties,” Thomas wrote Monday (pdf). “We will soon have no choice but to address how our legal doctrines apply to highly concentrated, privately owned information infrastructure such as digital platforms.”
He said some suggest digital platforms such as Twitter or Facebook “are sufficiently akin to common carriers or places of accommodation to be regulated in this manner.”
Thomas made reference to the respective owners of Facebook and Google by name—Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin.
“Although both companies are public, one person controls Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg), and just two control Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin),” he wrote.
Thomas agreed that Trump’s Twitter account did “resemble a constitutionally protected public forum” in certain aspects, he noted that “it seems rather odd to say that something is a government forum when a private company has unrestricted authority to do away with it,” possibly referring to Twitter’s ban against Trump following the Jan. 6 incident.
“Any control Mr. Trump exercised over the account greatly paled in comparison to Twitter’s authority, dictated in its terms of service, to remove the account ‘at any time for any or no reason,’” he added. “Twitter exercised its authority to do exactly that.”
Thomas then said that modern technology isn’t easily addressed by existing laws and regulations.
“The Second Circuit feared that then-President Trump cut off speech by using the features that Twitter made available to him,” Thomas said. “But if the aim is to ensure that speech is not smothered, then the more glaring concern must perforce be the dominant digital platforms themselves. As Twitter made clear, the right to cut off speech lies most powerfully in the hands of private digital platforms. The extent to which that power matters for purposes of the First Amendment and the extent to which that power could lawfully be modified raise interesting and important questions.”
Thomas noted that Big Tech firms have a vast amount of power over the flow of information—even books. He said it does not matter that Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and others are not the only ways in which to distribute speech as long as their power to do so is unequaled.
“A person always could choose to avoid the toll bridge or train and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oregon Trail,” he wrote. “But in assessing whether a company exercises substantial market power, what matters is whether the alternatives are comparable. For many of today’s digital platforms, nothing is.”
EVIL CORPORATIONS
(Newsweek, April 1, 2021) A Full List of Companies That Have Advocated Against Georgia's New Voting Law
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill, SB202, last week after it was passed in the state's Republican-led Legislature. The bill came in response to widespread claims of voter fraud, despite officials in Georgia and across the nation saying there was no evidence of such fraud in the 2020 election.
The new law limits the number of mail ballot drop boxes in the state; lessens the time residents have to request an absentee ballot; requires residents to provide a photo ID when casting their mail-in ballot; and makes it a misdemeanor to give "money or gifts," as well as "food and drink," to voters waiting in line.
Additionally, the law takes some authority away from the secretary of state and local election officials in Georgia. Instead, the Legislature will elect the chair of the election board (instead of appointment by the secretary of state) and replace election officials with its own appointees.
On Wednesday, Ed Bastian, CEO of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, issued a memo calling the bill "unacceptable."
"We had some success in eliminating the most suppressive tactics that some had proposed. However, I need to make it crystal clear that the final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta's values," Bastian wrote. STUPID! HE’S A SIMP!
He added that "the right to vote is sacred," (IT’S NOT A RIGHT AND YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD!) and that "it's evident that the bill includes provisions that will make it harder for many underrepresented voters, particularly [b]lack voters, to exercise their constitutional right to elect their representatives. That is wrong." SHADDUP, COMMIE!
Alfredo Rivera, the first Hispanic CEO of Coca-Cola, which is headquartered in Atlanta, issued a similar statement on Monday. After discussing the bill with Georgia businesses, "we opposed measures that would seek to diminish or restrict voter access and we advocated for broad access, voter convenience, election integrity and political neutrality," he wrote (TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH — WITH A FORKED TONGUE!). "Anything that inhibits these principles can lead to voter suppression." SMH, STUPID.
ALSO: Coca-Cola was one of the first Georgia-based companies to publicly condemn Senate Bill 202. Company CEO James Quincy (WHO’S NOT EVEN AMERICAN!) said the law "does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity,” in an interview with CNBC, according to The Washington Post.
On Wednesday, Kenneth Frazier, CEO of New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company Merck, posted a statement on Twitter that said, "There is no more fundamental right than the right to vote.... [UHH, YES THERE IS! IT’S NOT A RIGHT!] We all have an obligation to stand up against racism and other forms of discrimination whenever we see them." HE’S A LIAR! HE’S BLACK!
SO…THE LIST: Delta, Coca-Cola, pharmaceutical company Merck, Apple/Tim Cook (who’s HOMOSEXUAL), Facebook, Home Depot, the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta Hawks…. asset manager BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Citigroup, Google, Porsche North America, UPS, Microsoft, Aflac, Bank of America, Cisco and Viacom CBS.
(USA Today) Republicans call for boycotts of critics of Georgia voting law
An April 3 letter addressed to Kevin Perry, president of the Georgia Beverage Association, from members of the the Georgia House Republican Caucus requested the removal of all Coca-Cola products from an office suite. Eight GOP legislators signed off on the memo. GOOD.
ANDY GNO LEFT THE COUNTRY!
Andy Ngo, Journalist Who Covers Antifa, Reveals Why He Left the United States
(The Epoch Times) Journalist Andy Ngo, who for years has been documenting the anarcho-communist group Antifa, revealed why he left the United States earlier this year.
Ngo, who is the editor for The Post Millennial, told Fox News that he left the country amid threats of violence against not only him but his family members.
“It was just not safe anymore for me. I had already been on borrowed time,” he said, adding that there was an “escalation of safety concerns.”
Ngo said that when he was covering the far-left group after the 2016 election, “the response to that Democratic outcome was for people to take to the streets in masses to reject that outcome, and in Portland, many people chose to manifest their frustration through violence and destruction.”
“There was just this overall, not just a shift in the attitudes in the public toward left-wing political violence, but also the hollowing out and weakening of law enforcement institutions,” he said, adding that mainstream news outlets allowed such rhetoric to flourish.
“These extremist, radical, unfounded ideas were given space to propagate in our papers of legacy, in our homes and … through broadcast and radio, and of course to online news sites. That helped to really radicalize the left, in my opinion.
“After every riot that was occurring in Portland and Seattle, the coverage from the local press was not the honest picture about who these masked militants actually were.
“The way they were described, they were lionized and described essentially as heroes who are protecting their communities because police don’t protect people, because police are racist and transphobic and homophobic.”
However, over time, Ngo became known to Antifa followers and had to stop going to riots and demonstrations. In 2019, Ngo was attacked by a mob of Antifa adherents and was hospitalized, although some members of the media accused him of faking his injuries even while he was hospitalized.
“I was challenging the narrative that they had, the dominant narrative that they had within both the local press and therefore in the national press, as well,” he said.
Earlier this year, Ngo told The Epoch Times that Antifa isn’t merely an ideology, as some U.S. intelligence officials have said in recent years and months. FBI Director Chris Wray told a panel in 2020 that it was more of an ideological movement than an organization.
Antifa is “more than an idea,” Ngo said. “It’s also a movement.”
It has groups that are organized into formal groups, he said, and that includes Rose City Antifa, “the oldest Antifa organization in the U.S.,” which is based in Portland, Oregon, the epicenter of the movement’s violent activity.
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