Wait a second, I thought the owner of Home Depot was a scumbag with terrible political leanings and Lowes was neutral. Meh, my local home depot never has any employees around to answer questions, but my Lowes does. For that matter, I try to avoid both like the plague, because I don’t want to be doing home improvement anyways.
Thrag
10178
Anyone want to play “Guess who the one senator to vote against the anti-Asian hate crime bill is?”
Back in the day they were advertising on Rush Limbaugh’s show and pulled ads from TLC over a Muslim show and I wrote them off. No idea now what’s going on with them I guess.
Lowes, TurboTax and Netflix sponsor Rush Limbaugh #standwithsandra | The Confluence
Thanks for the clarification.
Looks like it’s all over the place now, this is a good article:
The Home Depot political action committee on the other hand has contributed a total of $1,495,000 to both Democratic and Republican federal candidates in 2020, with 44% of those contributions going to Democrats and 56% to Republicans, according to the campaign transparency tracking tool Open Secrets.
Meantime the political action committee for Lowe’s donated a total of $540,500 to federal candidates in both parties, with 30% going to Democrats and 70% to Republicans, per Open Secrets.
Political action committees (PACs) associated with corporations are separate organizations that are funded by employees or owners of the company (but not the company itself). These PACs donate money to political candidates and organizations they believe to be “aligned with their financial goals,” explains Open Secrets.
LockerK
10182
Ooh, got it on the third guess! I guessed Cotton, Cruz, then Hawley.
Gah, I’m just going to stop fixing stuff period.
jpinard
10185
The 2x4’s at my Home Depot and Lowe’s would be great for making anything that’s not straight. Like a wood igloo.
Republican Matt Gaetz was the only NO vote on the Anti-Human Trafficking bill. Turns out he was participating in human trafficking himself.
Republican Josh Hawley was the only NO vote on the anti-Asian Hate Crimes bill. Hawley is well known for directly pandering to the racist elements of the GOP constituency.
Arguments over the D.C. Statehood bill in the House this week included Republicans insisting that the people in the metro D.C. area (mostly working class minorities) would not “represent a well-rounded, working class state”, and that the over 700,000 people who live in D.C. (just under 50% of whom are black) aren’t deserving of the representation statehood brings because “they don’t have a landfill, car dealership or airport within their incorporated boundaries”. Note that Vermont and Wyoming have lower populations than Washington D.C., but apparently because they don’t outsource their trash dumping they’re more deserving of statehood.
Republicans aren’t even trying to hide the greed, grift, hypocrisy, racism and pure evil that drives them anymore. This new “Trump Republican” party is cartoonish levels of evil and incompetent combined. How in the hell are people not seeing right through this by now? How does 30% of America wake up every morning and think to themselves “Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley, Majorie Taylor Greene, Donald J Trump, Mitch McConnel, Lindsey Graham, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity…YES, these are my people!” ?
I know, because they’re racists/idiots/religious/economically anxious or a combination of all of those.
KevinC
10187
They’re really not. I think they watched Trump and realized if you say the quiet parts out loud, you get more Republican votes than any of their candidates in history.
Of course, they might be missing the fact that the opponent of such a candidate got millions more votes than that.
Not surprised, just angry
I learned recently that voter turn out was ramping up right before the Civil War. So. That is a fun fact.
abrandt
10190
Right, because they are convinced he only got those millions more votes via cheating.
I guess I’ll put this here. Caitlyn Jenner running for CA governor.
Thrag
10192
Don’t blame me, I voted for Gary Coleman.
And don’t forget that she endorsed Trump.
Menzo
10194
As dumb as I think it is that Caitlyn Jenner is running for Governor, I kinda like the idea that the result of the Trump Right’s recall effort would be having a transexual Governor elected in Newsom’s place.
Timex
10195
Not sure if this would go into the wtf 2021 thread or what, but seriously, wtf is wrong with Josh Hawley?
RichVR
10196
And she has that wart on her chin with the stiff hairs.
UGH.
