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CVS Caves To Leftist Mob

Updated: Jan 25, 2020

In a nefarious public-private partnership, the anti-freedom leftist movement has been using their political capital to pressure major corporations who fear PR nightmares to endorse their gun control agenda. The left has been working on this plan for decades, but modern social media technologies have drastically increased the speed at which businesses could lose money due to public catastrophes. Condemnation by the leftist mob, which conveniently controls nearly all of education, media, and social media can pin a scarlet letter on any entity that does not submit to mob rule.

On Thursday afternoon, CVS Pharmacy said in a Tweet that they request that customers no longer carry firearms into their nearly 10,000 stores unless they work for organized crime (also known as the government). It is unclear as of yet whether this new policy change is a polite request or a legal warning that carrying a firearm in the store will lead to charges. It’s also unclear how CVS plans to inform its non-Twitter customers about their new anti-gun policy. Considering that I often shop at CVS and that I always carry, I’ll be finding a new pharmacy to patronize. This policy change comes just days after Walmart prohibited open-carrying of firearms in all of their 4,000 US stores and decided to stop selling handgun ammunition. Dick’s Sporting Goods has been a gun-free zone for a while, and they have proudly announced that they will ‘no longer sell assault rifles’.

A commenter on the Tweet raised a good point: Why are ‘law enforcement officers’ exempt from the gun ban when they are statistically much more likely to commit murder and other violent crimes than we so called ‘terrorists’?

As we have been warning for years, at the core of the freedom issue is the culture war. The left has been gaining influence in the most important institutions for decades, while the right has been working their jobs and raising their families. Over the past few years and especially the past few days, the radical progressive left is seeing their long-term investment pay dividends. We have spent a lot of time discussing the multi-pronged approach the left uses to push their anti-gun and overall more anti-freedom efforts. One of these methods involves using media and leftist mobs of protestors both online and in-person to coerce the largest businesses (which know they have the most to lose in the PR battle) into adopting anti-gun policies such as becoming gun-free zones, stopping sales of ammunition, or supporting gun control legislation. Clearly, the leftist mob’s pressure got to CVS. We could only imagine how much pressure the progressives have been putting on their leadership and for how long.

Democrats in Congress held an immature protest in 2016 to demand that guns be removed from citizens and given only to cops, soldiers, and themselves. Progressive leaders figure that once free citizens can’t legally carry in half of the places that they visit throughout the day, they’ll stop carrying pistols altogether. Once they derail the incredible momentum of the concealed-carry culture which has been growing throughout the US, they have won a major battle in the war against civilian ownership of firearms.

A major leftist progressive anti-freedom publication, ThinkProgress.com published an article in 2018 about the businesses that have a deal with the NRA which involves giving discounts to their 5 million members. A graphic in the article seems to show 32 such businesses, with a red line crossing out all but 8 of them, indicating that their leftist mob has coerced 24 businesses to cut ties with the NRA due to public pressure. We are in a very real culture war, and the pro-freedom right is being beaten badly, largely due to their poor strategy to fight the battle on thousands of fronts. Due to the right not having widespread influence that the left enjoys in the form of Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, and the like, pro-freedom individuals must concede all of California, all of New Jersey, downstate New York, all of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the other progressive strongholds and focus only on saving a few super-free states or areas such as Wyoming, New Hampshire, and parts of Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Florida, Idaho, and a few other areas.

Those who support property rights, the right to self-defense, and freedom in general must make their voices heard, as well. We can vote with our dollars by totally boycotting CVS, Walmart, Dick’s, and any other company that has opposed freedom and condemned our lifestyle. If these companies lose enough money, they may change their ways, or even go out of business, making way for a pro-freedom business to take their place.

The long-term strategy MUST involve a total separation from the radical anti-freedom left, politically, culturally, and even geographically. Until we understand this and until we implement this strategy, we will continue to be beaten into submission. We tried to be ‘civil’ and co-exist with Democrats. Radical, dangerous, anti-freedom individuals have proven repeatedly that they are hellbent on destroying us, and that they will support the use of organized criminals (AKA government enforcers with guns) to take our money, guns, freedom, and to impose their will on us. We cannot live among people who want our freedom gone, our lifestyle destroyed, and who often call for us to be killed simply for our beliefs. We must live in our own Republic among people with which we can at least co-exist peacefully.

Among the businesses which have publicly supported anti-gun policies and or legislation are:

Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, Head of Community and CEO , Airbnb

Keith Mestrich, Presidentand CEO , Amalgamated Bank

John Connaughton and Jonathan Lavine, Co-Managing Partners, and Josh Bekenstein and

Steve Pagliuca, Co -Chairmen, Bain Capital

Ethan Brown, Co-Founder and CEO , Beyond Meat

Peter T. Grauer, Chairman , Bloomberg LP

Ric Clark , Chairman, Brookfield Property Group

Fritz Lanman, CEO , ClassPass

Roger Lynch, CEO , CondéNast

Ken Lin, Founder and CEO , Credit Karma

Edward Stack , CEO, DICK ‘S SportingGoods

Tony Xu, Co -Founder and CEO , DoorDash

Doug Baker, Chairman and CEO , Ecolab

Richard Edelman, President and CEO, Edelman

Julia Hartz, Co-Founder and CEO , Eventbrite

Art Peck, CEO ,Gap Inc.

Eddy Lu, CEO GoatGroup

Ben Lerer, Co -Founder and CEO, Group NineMedia

Yannick Bolloré, CEO, Havas Group

Bill Koenigsberg, President, CEO and Founder, HorizonMedia

Patrick O . Brown,MD, PhD, Founder and CEO , Impossible Foods

Michael Roth, Chairman and CEO , Interpublic

Rob Frohwein, Co-Founder and CEO , and Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder and President,

Kabbage Inc. and Drum Technologies

Chip Bergh, President and CEO , LeviStrauss & Co.

Logan Green, Co-Founder and CEO, and John Zimmer, Co -Founder and President, Lyft

Dev Ittycheria, Presidentand CEO , MongoDB, Inc.

Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree CapitalManagement

Todd McKinnon, Co -Founder and CEO, Okta

John Wren , Chairman and CEO , Omnicom Group

Ben Silbermann, Co- Founder and CEO, Pinterest

Bastian Lehmann, Co-Founder & CEO , Postmates

Hamid R . Moghadam , Chairman and CEO , Prologis

Arthur Sadoun, Chairman and CEO , Publicis Groupe

Steve Huffman, CEO, Reddit

Richard Fain , CEO , RoyalCaribbean Cruises Ltd.

ScottRechler, Chairman and CEO , RXR Realty

Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO , Shutterstock , .

Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square and Twitter

Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO, Squarespace

Zander Lurie, CEO, SurveyMonkey

AriannaHuffington, Founder and CEO , Thrive Global

Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, and Jim Alling, CEO , TOMS

Jeff Lawson, Co-Founderand CEO Twilio

DaraKhosrowshahi, CEO , Uber

Mark Read CEO, WPP

JeremyStoppelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Yelp

Organizations with fewer than 500 employees:

Kevin P . Ryan , Founder and CEO , AlleyCorp

Travis Truett, Co-Founder and CEO , Ambition

John W . Rogers, Jr., Founder , Chairman and Co -CEO , and Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO &

President, Ariel Investments , LLC

Mike Steib , CEO , Artsy

Sean Knapp, Co-Founder and CEO , Ascend

Andrei Cherny , Co -Founder and CEO , Aspiration

Abdur Chowdhury , CEO , Aura

Fahim M . Aziz , Founder and CEO , Backpack

Abrams, Chairman and Co-CEO, and Katie McGrath , Co-CEO Bad Robot

Ari Paparo , CEO , BeeswaxIO Corporation

Ryan Block , Co -Founder, Begin

John Borthwick , Founder and CEO , Betaworks

Raphael Crawford -Marks, Co -Founder and CEO , Bonusly

Darren Lachtman , Co-Founder , Brat

Trevor McFedries , CEO , Brud

Sameer Shariff, Co -Founder , Cambly

Analisa Goodin , Founder and CEO, Catch & Release , Inc.

Andrew Feldman , Founder and CEO , Cerebras Systems

George Favvas, CEO , Circle Medical

Alex MacCaw , CEO , Clearbit

Tyler Bosmeny , CEO , Clever

MattMartin , Co-Founder and CEO , Clockwise

Othman Laraki, Co -Founder and CEO Color Genomics

Jager McConnell, CEO , Crunchbase , Inc.

Apu Gupta , Co-Founder and CEO , Curalate , Inc .

David Oates , Co-Founder and CEO, Curtsy

Brian Ree , Founder and CEO , DAILYLOOK

Saurabh Ladha, CEO , Doxel, Inc.

Andy Coravos , Co -Founder and CEO , Elektra Labs

Laurene Powell Jobs, President, Emerson Collective

Pradeep Elankumaran , Co-Founder & CEO Farmstead

Desiree Gruber , CEO , Full Picture

Jared Hecht, Founder and CEO , Fundera

JudeGomila , Founder and CEO , Golden

Rick Nucci, Co-Founder and CEO , Guru

Kara Goldin , Founder and CEO , Hint, Inc.

Jeff Sellinger, Co -Founder and CEO , HipDot

Prerna Gupta , CEO , Hooked

Cyrus Massoumi,Managing Partner, humbition

Kristin Savilia , CEO , JOOR

Pierre Valade , CEO , Jumbo Privacy

William Martino, Founder and CEO , Kadena

Jake Perlman -Garr, CEO , Kanga

Warren Shaeffer, Co-Founder and CEO , Knowable

Jack Altman , CEO Lattice

Aaron N . Block , Co-Founder and Managing Director,MetaProp .

Afton Vechery , Co-Founder and CEO ,Modern Fertility

Dan Parham , Founder and CEO , and Tee Parham , Founder and CTO Neighborland

Shafqat Islam , CEO , NewsCred

Sarah Friar, CEO , Nextdoor

Athan Stephanopoulos , President, NowThis

Varsha Rao, CEO , Nurx

William E . Oberndorf, Chairman , Oberndorf Enterprises

Steven Rosenblatt , Co-Founder andGeneral Partner, Oceans

Nick Huzar, Co-Founder and CEO , OfferUp

James Segil , Co -Founder and President, Openpath

Jordan Husney , CEO , Parabol

Doug Aley, CEO , Paravision

John Milinovich , CEO , Plato Design

Rajat Suri, CEO , Presto

Christopher Gavigan , Founder and CEO , Prima

Adam Regelmann , Founder and COO , Quartzy

Nate Maslak , Co-Founder and CEO , andNate Fox, Co-Founder and CTO , Ribbon Health

Zachariah Reitano, Co-Founder and CEO , Ro

Gary Beasley , Co-Founder and CEO , Roofstock

Stephen Ehikian , Co -Founder and CEO , Ruist

Brian Schechter, CEO , SelfMade

Olga Vidisheva , Founder and CEO , Shoptiques Inc.

Dan Doctoroff , CEO , Sidewalk Labs

Jason Tan, CEO , Sift

Matt Cooper , CEO , Skillshare

Grant Jordan , CEO , SkySafe

Josh Guttman , CEO and Florent Peyre, President , Small Door

Michael Carvin , Co Founder and CEO SmartAsset

Aaron King, Founder and CEO , Snapdocs , Inc.

Neil Capel, CEO , Solve. io

Ben Hindman , Co-Founder and CEO , Splash

Evan Beard , Founder and CEO Standard Bots

Stanlee R . Gatti, Founder, Stanlee R . Gatti Designs

Bradford Oberwager, CEO , Sundia Corporation

Ross Feinstein , CEO , Sunlight Health

Paul Budnitz , CEO , Superplastic

Ron Conway , Founder , SV Angel

Heidi Zak, Co-Founder and Co-CEO , and David Spector, Co-Founder and Co- CEO ThirdLove

Yashar Nejati, CEO , thisopenspace inc .

Joshua Kushner , Founder and Managing Partner, Thrive Capital

Chris Wang, CEO , ThunderCore Inc.

Corbett Kull, CEO , Tillable

Meghan Jewitt, CEO , Uniform Teeth

Nicholas Goldner , Co- Founder and CEO , and Christopher Bulow , Co-Founder and COO

Viosera Therapeutics

Ken Chong, CEO Virtual Kitchen Co

Irv Remedios, CEO , Voxer

Oliver Cameron , Co-Founder and CEO Voyage

Chase Adam , Co-Founder and CEO , and Grace Garey , Co-Founder and COO , Watsi

Liz Wessel , Co-Founder and CEO , WayUp

NeilWaller, CEO , Whalar

Bismarck Lepe, CEO , Wizeline

Dennis R . Mortensen , Founder and CEO , x .ai, inc.

Geoff Ralston, President, Y Combinator

Shan -Lyn Ma, Co -Founder and CEO Zola

Yeti

Krogers

Dick’s Sporting Goods

Levi’s

Google

Costco

Starbucks

Panera

Whataburger

Chipotle

Sonic

Chili’s

Alamo

Avis

Budget

Uber

Gap

Delta Air Lines

Dollar Rent A Car

Enterprise Rent-a-Car

Hertz

L.L. Bean

MetLife

National Car Rental

REI

Symantec

Thrifty Car Rental

United Airlines

Allied Van Lines

Chubb

First National Bank of Omaha

North American Van Lines

SimpliSafe

Starkey Hearing Technologies

The Mountain Equipment Co-op

TrueCar

And many more anti-gun businesses could be found by visiting 2Acheck.com.




The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views held by The Liberty Block or any of its contributors or members.



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