Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Jeff Crouere —— Bio and Archives—August 23, 2020

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is headquartered in Akron, Ohio, where it was founded in 1898. Since that time, it has grown to be a massive corporation with operations all over the world. Today, it is the third largest tire company in the world with 63,000 employees. In addition, Americans have become accustomed to seeing one of the nine Goodyear Blimps at major sporting events across the country.

Unfortunately, this company with a very patriotic image is led by left wing activists who are doing their best to squelch free speech, especially if it is promoting conservative causes.

“Unacceptable” causes included “All Lives Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter” and “MAGA Attire

This week, audio from an instructor and a slide from a diversity training demonstration at their facility in Topeka, KS were leaked on social media. In a discussion of the company’s “zero tolerance” policy, an unnamed area manager declared that wearing clothing for certain causes was “acceptable” but for others it was “unacceptable.” Among the “acceptable” causes were “Black Lives Matters” and “LGBT” pride; however, “unacceptable” causes included “All Lives Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter” and “MAGA Attire.”

The employee who leaked the slide said that the instructor claimed the “zero tolerance” policy emanated from corporate headquarters. The unnamed employee was fearful of being fired, so remained anonymous. This courageous whistleblower claimed the policy was “discriminatory” and clearly did not like the left-wing bias of the training seminar, and leaked portions of the presentation.

Once the policy was revealed, there was an outcry on social media from supporters of law enforcement and President Trump. This led to an initial statement from Goodyear representative Melissa Monaco that the company allows employees to “express their support on racial injustice and other equity issues but ask that they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of political campaigning.”

Her statement did not quell the criticism, instead it intensified. Soon thereafter, the Chairman, CEO and President of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Rich Kramer, clarified the official corporate position. He said, “The slide in question was created by a plant employee to try to explain what is acceptable to wear in the workplace. The slide was not approved or distributed by Goodyear Corporate or anyone outside of that facility.”

It is good that the company will allow “Blue Lives Matter” apparel; however, the continued ban on “All Lives Matter” and “MAGA Attire” illustrates the leftwing mentality of Goodyear executives. Kramer said the company will continue to support “equal justice,” which is why the “Black Lives Matter” apparel is allowed. However, if the company truly supported “equal justice,” then clothing supporting “All Lives Matter” would be permitted. Nothing is more equal than wanting the life of everyone to matter.

Clearly, Goodyear is doing what so many corporate and political leaders have been doing in recent months, espousing support for “Black Lives Matter” at the exclusion of other racial and ethnic groups. In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, there has been a rush of large corporations expressing encouragement for “Black Lives Matter.” Despite the stampede, nothing changes the reality that the founding organization, created at the infancy of this movement, is extremely left wing and overtly political.

The “Black Lives Matter” organization was created by individuals who continue to espouse a radical ideology. In fact, they have admitted that they were trained Marxists. It is also an organization which is anti-nuclear family among other extreme views.

If wearing “Black Lives Matter” clothing or showing support for that cause is “acceptable,” then showing support for a political cause that is pro-family and pro-capitalism should be “acceptable” as well. Unfortunately, displaying any attire revealing support for President Trump or with a “MAGA” insignia is not allowed by Goodyear.

In the warped and woke corporate headquarters of Goodyear, supporting all lives or President Trump or making the country great again is a political statement, whereas support for “Black Lives Matter” is just an “equal justice” issue.

Not surprisingly, at his Wednesday press conference, President Trump directly addressed this issue. He said he would be “very much in favor if people don’t want to buy there.” He also tweeted, “Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).”

It is time that Trump supporters followed their President’s lead and fought back against discriminatory corporate policies. In this case, after initial criticism, Goodyear made slight modifications to their policy to allow pro-police garb. If the pressure continues, the company might relax their ban on “MAGA Attire” and other political clothing.

If “Black Lives Matter” is allowed, support for President Trump must be allowed. Either we have a First Amendment, or we do not. The arbiter of what is permissible free speech is not Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, it is the United States Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—August 22, 2020

Now that he can sniff the power of a Democrat presidency rather than women and children’s’ hair, Joe Biden says the first thing he’ll do after his January inauguration is to “shut the country down” in order to stop the spread of what the media terms as a runaway pandemic.

Rip Van Wrinkle Biden is seemingly unaware that the country has already been shut down, albeit in various stages, for the past six months.

Impossible to know first hand how intrusive the virus has been on lifestyle if you’ve been spending most of your time snoozing in a Delaware basement.

“Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” Anchor David Muir on Friday that as president, he would shut the country down to stop the spread of COVID-19 if the move was recommended to him by scientists. (ABC News, Aug. 21, 2020)

“I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden told Muir Friday, alongside his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., during their first joint interview since officially becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees”.

Make that Democratic president and vice president nominees—not president and vice president—yet.

“Yet” to Biden and Harris means waiting for the Democrats to steal the election through the universal Mail-In Vote.

If they lose what they consider to be their inevitable shoo-in, then they’ll spend the rest of their lives denying that President Donald Trump was re-elected—which is just another means of “shutting the country down”.

The coronavirus is not just robbing people (most of them elderly) of their lives, it is robbing people of jobs needed to support families.

Biden, as America’s 46th, would quell the masses by telling them that the government well is deep enough to keep them in pocket for life’s necessities.

Unlike Mother Hubbard’s cupboards, the government well never runs dry.

As president, he will become the quintessential “Uncle Sugar” with “Auntie Sugar” Kamala Harris as his backup.

This from the same 47-year-long political failure who claims he will “end the darkness” of Donald Trump’s presidency, when it is his party that is causing the darkness in the first place.

“Joe Biden promised Thursday to end the “darkness” of Donald Trump’s presidency in a speech accepting the Democratic nomination with an impassioned call for unity and a return to optimism. (Yahoo, Aug. 21, 2020)

“The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger, too much fear, too much division,” Biden said.”

A call for “unity” and a “return to optimism”?

How so, when the Democrats have clung to the same “Hate Trump” whine for the last four years and vow to deny him the presidency should he win for the second time running?

A shut down country is a dead country

“Biden also criticized what he argued is the “fundamental flaw” of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, that the nation cannot begin to recover economically until the virus and public health emergency is under control. (ABC News)

“I will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving, until we control the virus,” Biden said. “That is the fundamental flaw of this administration’s thinking to begin with. In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing, and people employed, you have to fix the virus, you have to deal with the virus.”

But a shut down country is a dead country, and there’s no getting around it.

Meanwhile, let’s hope that not being president and vice president “yet” is forever for charlatans Biden and Harris.

With any luck Joe Biden who seemed to have had the benefit of some kind of elixir when he dropped all gaffes during his Thursday night acceptance speech will go back to where he’s been all along: sound asleep.