Georgia has responded to the slaughter of 17 people in a Florida high school with a certain lack of empathy.
Republicans in the Georgia state Senate followed through on their threats after Delta airlines, one of the state’s top private employers, stopped giving National Rifle Association members a special discount. The state Senate Republicans voted down a tax break on jet fuel for flights at Atlanta’s airport, where Delta is based, and Gov. Nathan Deal will sign it, although he’s not happy…
Governor Deal wouldn’t veto the bill because it includes tax cuts for ordinary Georgians but he says he’ll try to figure out a way to restore Delta’s discount jet fuel. That’s his political calculation and he isn’t facing reelection so he can do whatever he wants to do.
The rest of the country is recoiling in horror, and that certainly includes corporate executives who might be considering Atlanta as a good place to locate their headquarters. The airport is probably the city’s best selling point. I know Amazon has to be less inclined to put their second headquarters in Atlanta now.
I shouldn’t be shocked after the Republicans’ response to two dozen first graders being gunned down at Sandy Hook was to launch a wildly successful national offensive to loosen gun restrictions. But I still retain the ability to be surprised by this kind of inhuman behavior. You can feel however you want about solutions to mass shootings, but if your first instinct is to punish anyone who questions the National Rifle Association, that’s sociopathic.
Georgia Republican’s just increased the significance of Delta’s actions and kept this in the headlines for another week or more. All for ending of a discount program.
They also probably just gave a “We’re not anti-gun, but government/interest group can’t do this to an American Business” excuse for other company’s. So the boycott could expand.
I’d love to sit in on Delta’s Emergency WTF meeting with Gov. Deal that is probably being held as we speak.
. . . previous comments I’ve seen from you).
But I just could not get past
Just in case it’s not obvious: “boooo”s are for correctly using ” ‘s ” when you mean to create a plural noun (with the rarest of exceptions: NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!).
“Yaaaay”s are for using ” ‘s ” correctly to denote possessives.
This ain’t rocket surgery. Standards, people. Again, with the rarest of exceptions, ” ‘s ” does not a plural make.
Didn’t I see a reference to an advanced degree from you somewhere? How, with such egregious howlers? Really good editor intervened between you and committee? (As I’ve been known to suggest before, the “preview” button is your friend. Failure to take advantage of it seems inconsiderate and disrespectful of the potential readers you presumably seek here.)
. . . “wrongly”! Corrected:
And if that’s the basis of your “3” rating, marduk, then touché, well-deserved.
Yah. Started to write some elaborate bullshit but decided the 3 rate was more succinct.
Committing a typo when lambasting someone for a typo just makes it art.
It’s best at times like this to show great sympathy. It’s a very serious disease called Grammatical Pendantry Syndrome .
They literally can’t help it.
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From the linked article,
“But with the shuttering in recent years of many of our mental health facilities, and an increased focus on patients’ rights, more and more compulsive grammar correctors are roaming our streets unchecked. GPS goes a long way towards finding, explaining, and helping us deal with, their obsession with enforcing on the hapless public an idiosyncratic and often undertheorized idea of what’s right or wrong in speech and writing. If defining this kind of intrusive purism as a psychological syndrome helps us find a cure, then ultimately both society, and language itself, stands to benefit. Or is it that they stand to benefit?”
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Heh. I’m a sufferer of that syndrome, alas, but I’ve managed to channel it into my profession as a proofreader.
Aaaaahhhhhh, it’s so satisfying to slap that neglected comma into place….
Would very much like to see Amazon cross Atlanta off its list of possible locations. Doubt they care, though. They’re still carrying NRATV, right?
Amazon’s just looking for the biggest subsidy.
Georgia just demonstrated that you can’t trust Georgia. GG, wingnuts.
Also, corporations are learning not to get involved with the NRA as they will end up in no-win situations. If Delta had never given the NRA that discount in the first place, they’d have gotten their tax break without trouble.
Yes, one hopes this is a lesson learned for the CEOs of our corpocracy. When the NRA comes knockin’ at yer door, don’t answer it!
Save yourself some headaches, haha.
It ought to be amusing when Delta relocates it’s hub.
Nope. They will just pass along the cost to their customers. This is the inflation Wall Street is fearful of as high inflation will bring higher interest rates.
Conservatives are the biggest victims on the planet.
17 children were just murdered, and they read Delta as attacking conservatives.
. . . 2-3 adults, but otherwise, yeah, what you said.
Gotta love Cuomo chiming in with hey, relocate to NY we’ll give you all kinds of breaks!
The Governor of Virginia did as well.
Even less inclined than they would be by the typical commuter’s daily experience? Sure, Atlants’s got MARTA, but some non-trivial part of their putative Atlandta workforce is going to attempt to drive to work.
MARTA is only relevant if you live along I-20 and I-75/I-85.
Don’t get me wrong. I took a bus and train/train and bus to school and back home for a year and a half while going to school. But I live right next to I-20 and GSU is downtown. Unless you live in key locations it’s relatively useless.
And it’d be almost guaranteed that any Amazon HQ would be outside the perimeter (OTP) making MARTA absolutely irrelevant for the people working there.
So, horrid, stand-still traffic is a given.
THAT SAID… Atlanta is a bright blue heart beating in the dark red south. So, don’t totally shit all over us. Increased jobs here means more money and more blue votes in a traditionally red state. Not a bad thing.
We here in Atlanta can’t help what the OTP representatives do with their stranglehold over the state.
When they talk about Georgia being almost a “swing state”, what they’re really saying is that Atlanta and its suburbs have almost as many voters as the rest of the state. We here in Atlanta will, eventually, turn the state purple/blue.
Don’t root for Atlanta to eat shit. Atlanta IS the way Georgia’s EC votes go to the less-evil party.
Somehow I think it may be the State of Georgia that ends up on the short end here.
I really hate republicans. Is that wrong?
I enjoyed hearing GA’s Cryin’ Conservatives on NPR gnashing their teeth over this. “When Delta targets[!] conservatives they can’t expect us to lie back and take it!!” In the politics of resentment one must be always be the victim, of course. So the victimhood necessarily must become ever more preposterous.
This little squabble is enjoyable on several levels, but I especially like that it splits the “conservative” right by forcing a wedge between the barbaric gun nuts and the corporate welfare queens. One assumes the gun nut faction is long in ascendancy in GA and that the GAGOoP have calculated that most ordinary Georgians prefers their right to a home arsenal that a panzer division would envy over Jobs, Jobs, Jobs(tm). Gotta have priorities.
But have the GAGOoPers really made the correct analysis here? What do the Atlanta suburbanites think about shitting on Delta for no longer wanting to grant goodies to the architect of our weekly semi-automatic massacres all over GunNation? One would think that if GA Repubs lose the suburbanites as decisively as we now lose the hinterland (gun)hicks, that it’s game over for the “conservative” regime(s) of misrule. But apparently the coaches of Team Conservative (GA division) don’t think this likely. Has this been run up the food chain to Conservative Central? Interesting times—Go Kids!!
“In the politics of resentment one must be always be the victim, of course. So the victimhood necessarily must become ever more preposterous.”
Excellent.
It makes perfect sense. Who’s paying the legislators’ bills? Who’s keeping them in office? They’re just doing what their real employer demands.