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Pemulis_DMZ's avatar

Leftists will try to financially ruin you if you don't comply. Dave Portnoy - a guy I'm not a big fan of - raised millions for small businesses during Covid and held a pizza festival last week. He also has said nice things about Trump in the past. The Washington Post contacted the pizza festival sponsors to say “We are planning to write about the festival and how some of the sponsors and participants have drawn criticism by seeming to associate themselves with Dave Portnoy, who has a history of misogynistic comments and other problematic behavior.” The Washington Post tried to shame sponsors from supporting a pizza festival for local vendors because they don't like the organizer's politics. These people are zealots.

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AyaLou's avatar

I read that NONE of the sponsors or participants pulled out. Maybe Dave Portnoy, much like Joe Rogan, is that rare breed that cannot be cancelled!

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Shane Gericke's avatar

They're not only zealots, but extortionists.

I read about the Post's decision. If the details are true, Portnoy should ask the state to file criminal extortion charges against the Post, and file a civil lawsuit himself. What the Post did was no different than a mob boss saying, "Nice business ya got here. Shame to see anything happen to it."

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Lynne Morris's avatar

Then the "journalist" lied about doing it. Once caught she justified her conduct by saying that it was a common journalistic tactic. No wonder journalism is dead.

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Comprof2.0's avatar

What Dave Portnoy has said/done shall not be discussed.

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Steven N.'s avatar

What, expose the WaPo as a group of liars, cheats and thieves?

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Comprof2.0's avatar

But that didn't happen, did it?

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Albert Loveland's avatar

Sadly, zealots with power. I love how Portnoy went after the journalist afterward. In this article, Coleman Hughes is not taking it lying down, either. Portnoy's strategy is a good one: go after them. Make them uncomfortable as their arguments don't hold water, and they need to get defeated soundly at some point. How that happens is going to make the next few years very interesting.

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Kevan Hudson's avatar

Hopefully they defeat themselves as Antifa thugs beating up feminists (several times in San Francisco), and Muslim teens (September 20th in Canada) is a really bad look. Also, applauding Nazis (Prime Minister Trudeau) looks bad too.

The hard part will be getting the leftist authoritarians out of all the institutions.

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Hulverhead's avatar

don´t forget Trudeau SR USED TO RIDE A MOTORCYCLE WITH A NAZI HELMET IN THE 40Ś AND 50Ś plenty of pics omline

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Bruce Miller's avatar

"Zealots?" Or dangerous lunatics?

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Pemulis_DMZ's avatar

those terms are definitely not mutually exclusive

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JudithM's avatar

So glad you have brought this travesty to light. We have a tyranny of the minority, made possible by the cowardice of decision makers. Those people need to be shamed into standing up for free speech.

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