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Yesterday MLB who I was prepared to forgive for last season decided to throw in with the left and thus has lost me as a potential customer to go to games, watch games listen to games and or buy any MLB paraphernalia over Georgia’s new elections law.

In their haste to please and appease the left and throw away a good chunk of their customer base they have neglected to answer a most important question, one that the Democrat left has not answered either, concerning this law: Here it is:

How does the new Georgia Law actually stop any voter who legally voted in 2020 from casting a legal vote in any election that follows?

Now as a person who believes that election 2020 in Georgia was stolen and that hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots were counted I will readily concede that this will law will help prevent false votes from :

• People who didn’t actually vote
• People trying to cast multiple ballots
• People who are not legally allowed to vote (out of state residents, illegal aliens)
• People who don’t exist

What I want to know however is how it stops a legal voter from casting a ballot.

Now note that the question isn’t a question of convenience, for example if a drop box is 1 mile away vs 100 yards away that doesn’t prevent a person from voting any more than a Wendy’s 1 mile away prevents a person from getting there, particularly with the full power and resources of the Democrat party to get a person that mile and the number of days allowed for a person to vote. I’m asking how does it actually stop a person who voted legally last time from doing so again?

The answer to that question is really easy:

It Doesn’t!

If I was a person on the left and believed that the last election was clean, I’d welcome the scrutiny this law provides because it would prove their win was legit and silence folks like me who maintain that Joe Biden is only president due to magic ballots provided by corrupt democrats in the dead of night in multiple states.

But I submit and suggest that the dirty little open secret is that the left knows they can only win if they cheat and this law makes cheating more difficult, which is why they are screaming bloody murder. I further submit that once enforced some of the offices they have held for a very long time in the state in districts considered unwinnable by the GOP might not be so secure once votes are counted honestly.

I challenge the left in general and MLB in particular to prove me wrong by answering the question I just asked.

Oh and if you want to ask MLB to answer that question and / or to offer your objection to their move the phone number for MLB off their web site is: 866-800-1275. Why not take the time to give them a call and let them know what you think.

Oh and when you call be nice, none of this nonsense was the idea of the person answering the phone.

Politics continues to infect every facet of American life, with Major League Baseball now chiming in on the “controversial” Georgia election law by removing its All Star Game and 2022 Draft from Atlanta. This comes just days after MLB announced a partnership with Chinese conglomerate Tencent. Apparently MLB is fine with doing business in China, where they systematically rape Uyghur women, and also fine with punishing fellow Americans in Georgia, where they require you show ID to vote. Just like they do in pretty much every other democracy in the world.

And most other European democracies ban mail-in ballots, too. Will MLB also be boycotting the Toronto Blue Jays? It’s always striking how the Left, which loves little more than to pine for European-style socialism, ignores European levelheadedness.

But that’s the state of things. Corporations continue to choose the woke Left’s call to politicize everything over middle America’s cry to shut up and play ball. Writer Roger Simon argues that it’s time for conservatives to build an alternate world, and there’s something to be said for that.  It’s unfortunate, because it further divides Americans when that’s the last thing we need, but to otherwise surrender to emotional bullying is likewise unacceptable.

Which makes what investor Balaji Srinivasan recently launched sort of interesting.  Srinivasan is the former Chief Technology Officer of major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, and a founder of multiple startups. He also holds a MS in Chemical Engineering and an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering, all from Stanford University.

One of those guys.

But he recently launched a project called 1729, which he calls “the first newsletter that pays you.” And that’s what it is — a newsletter. Its goal is to create a “cloud community” of “technological progressives” — people interested in “cryptocurrencies, startup cities, mathematics, transhumanism, space travel, reversing aging, and initially-crazy-seeming-but-technologically-feasible ideas.” And with the newsletter, he provides incentives – typically, cryptocurrency, at least so far — for subscribers to achieve goals based around certain concepts, such as new business ideas, health-oriented goals, educational goals (subscribers could earn $100 in crypto by learning some computer coding).

It’s an interesting attempt at creating a unique community, and as the online and virtual worlds make remote or cloud communities possible, there will likely be more of them.

Worth keeping an eye on, perhaps especially as an example for conservatives.

At least, so long as the overlords allow it.

Today is Good Friday the single most solemn day in the Calendar of the church and one of only two days when the Holy Sacrifice of the mass is not celebrated.

It’s also the best example of the importance not making instant judgments.

Consider the situation. On Good Friday what would someday be called “Christianity” found it’s founder under arrest by the Jewish authorities and elders who where in charge of religious worship for the entire Jewish race. The primary officers had all fled, one killed himself and the leader of the group had publicly denied even knowing said leader multiple times. And if that wasn’t enough the single greatest power in the known world publicly had said leader executed and to put an exclamation point on it, had his tomb sealed and put a roman guard on it to make sure it stayed that way.

Any objective observer seeing this situation would naturally conclude that the small sect of followers of Jesus Christ would soon disperse back into the population and to their former lives expect perhaps for Matthew the tax collector , who was unlikely to get his former position back. He and they would be a footnote in history if he was remembered at all.

What a different a few days, and then a few years would make.

Within three days Christ would be alive and the tomb would be empty. Within two months the cowardly apostles of Christ would suddenly become fearless, defying the Jewish elders, escaping from prison and preaching all over the the place. Within several ,month Romans soldiers were being baptized. Within a year one of their greatest foes in Judaism would not only convert after Christ appeared to him but would travel throughout the Roman Empire spreading the faith even to Rome itself. Soon the man who denied Christ in public the day of his arrest would be leading the Church in Rome itself. Even when threatened with execution adherents would suffer death rather than renounce their faith. Within a few centuries the faith would be the official faith of the empire. It would spread education, medicine, and be the basis for western civilization and, in my opinion become, along with British Common Law the single most beneficial social change in the entire world.

No person seeing Christ pierced by a Roman lance with blood and water with his mother wailing at its foot would have anticipated this.

The lesson that is often taught from this is that the glory of Easter is always preceded by the horror of Good Friday.

And that brings us to Coke and Delta.

As you know by now Joe Biden is President of the United States. the Democrats hold, however tenuously the majority in both the house and the senate and are currently pushing their agenda. The left holds the media, the tech giants, people from Steven Crowder to Donald Trump are being pushed off platform after platform and the voices of the woke are being amplified.

So when Georgia which was unwilling to stop the steal in their state decided to pass a laws to make sure that elections are decided by actual votes rather than by magic ballot, the left took a fit and things being how they are they put pressure on companies.

Coke-cola’s CEO, based in Atlanta came out against the law, Delta Airlines spoke against it and now Major league Baseball is considering moving this years All Star Game from Atlanta.

Now if you think of the events of the last two months this might seem a rational move. The left currently has power, the right is being silenced, all the public media and platforms keep proclaiming their strength and power and with the brazen steal of the last election there is every reason to believe that the next one will be stolen as well.

These corporations as well as those on the right who have given into despair would do well to remember the lesson of Holy Week and Good Friday before they associate themselves with the left throwing away the tens of Millions of Trump votes who unlike the mythical Biden voters who cast their magic ballots in the dead of night when no one could see these people actually exist.

They should recall that conventional wisdom is always correct…right up until the moment it isn’t.