Joe Schaeffer
Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20-plus years’ experience. He spent 15 years with the Washington Times, including eight-plus years as managing editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. Striving to be a natural health nut, he considers staring at the ocean for hours to be an act of political rebellion.
Bud Light, Target, Kohl’s – there’s something they have in common beyond mere wokeness. The owners are all members of a George Soros-funded business association that has partnered with Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum and the United Nations to form a corporate coalition “committed to leveraging … individual and collective advocacy to accelerate LGBTIQ+ equality and inclusion globally”.
Outraged conservatives swearing off the two popular retail giants and the once-iconic Anheuser-Busch brand due to Pride campaigns that aggressively promote transgenderism, even to children, should know what they are up against. An extremely powerful network is at work and it is protected by major platform media giants.
‘We Would Like to Thank’ George Soros
Business for Social Responsibility’s (BSR) “mission is to work with business to create a just and sustainable world”, the organization’s website declares. “Our work is enabled by long-term relationships with a growing member network of more than 300 of the world’s most influential and dynamic companies.” Abortion and climate change are key planks of the group’s agenda. Among the exhaustive list of major brands on board with this radical group are Kohl’s, Target and AB InBev, owners of Anheuser-Busch [and] makers of Bud Light.
In 2019, BSR released a report titled “Human Rights Policy Engagement: The Role of Companies”. The paper serves as a guide to corporations backing controversial social issues. Written while President Donald Trump was still in office, it was primarily devoted to encouraging companies to actively oppose his administration. “We would … like to thank the Open Societies Foundations for the grant under which this report was written,” an acknowledgment note at the top of the report reads. OSF is the flagship “philanthropic” operation of globalist billionaire Soros.
Business for Social Responsibility is tightly aligned with major globalist institutions via its offshoot group, The Partnership for Global LGBTIQ+ Equality (PGLE), “a project of BSR, the [United Nations] Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the World Economic Forum”, its website states. “The Partnership was announced at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting on January 22, 2019 in Davos, Switzerland. The founding members were leading multinational companies Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, CISCO, the Coca-Cola Company, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, [Ernst & Young], Edelman, Johnson & Johnson, Mastercard, Microsoft, P&G, PepsiCo, PwC, Salesforce and Scotiabank.”
The organization’s mission is eye-opening:
“Partners will work together to:
- Operationalize the United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business Tackling Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) People by providing tools and resources for companies to advance and implement LGBTIQ+ inclusion globally.
- Leverage the World Economic Forum’s platform to support committed business leaders in accelerating LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion and promoting human rights for all.
- Organize and raise awareness of best practices and benchmarks to assist companies in meeting their commitments and responsibilities to global LGBTIQ+ equality.”
There is a clear importance placed on corporations in enacting this agenda that has the full support of the Biden administration.
Biden: ‘You Companies Can Change the World’
Twitter poster Lisa Logan on May 29 published a revealing thread on BSR and PGLE. The series began by highlighting a quote made by Beth Brooke-Marciniak, who served as a Treasury Department official during the Clinton administration. Brooke-Marciniak later went on to spearhead diversity practices at global accounting super-firm Ernst & Young, one of the founding corporate members of the partnership.
Her words at the organization’s 2019 annual gathering amount to quite the power flex. “There’s strength in numbers,” Brooke-Marciniak asserted. “With the platform of the World Economic Forum, the power of the UN and then finally the strength of the companies working together… when you combine the corporate economies of those [core member companies as of 2019], we’re bigger than a lot of countries.”
“In Davos a couple years ago, Vice President Biden met privately with those of us working behind the scenes,” she continued. “And he sat down with us and looked us in the eye and he said, ‘You companies can do what we [in] government cannot and will never do. You have to change the world on this issue.’”
Media to Americans: Corporate Boycotters Are Extremist Totalitarians
Bud Light, Target and Kohl’s are part of something far greater than woke corporate fashionableness. They are documented members of a globalist movement to change social norms. As such, they can rely on a fully allied big-box media to come to their aid when consumer blowback dents their financial bottom lines.
“Experts warn against canceling Pride campaigns after extremists threaten Target,” read the headline to a May 30 ABC News article on the boycott effort against the retail goliath. The message delivered by ABC: If you no longer wish to give Target your money, you are an enabler of domestic terrorism.
“Extremism experts and LGBTQ advocates warned that removing [Pride] merchandise [in Target stores] could be seen as a success by anti-LGBTQ extremists and violent protesters, which could lead to copycat behavior threatening the already marginalized community,” the network wrote.
CNN political commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is hilariously presented as a “conservative” voice, warned her “friends on the right” that they were way out of line. “You have a right to not buy things at Target,” she conceded in a May 24 appearance on the cable network. “You do not have the right to tell other kids you can’t read this book or they can’t talk about their gay friends or they can’t buy this shirt at Target. That’s not a conservative position. That’s frankly a very totalitarian position. We are going way too far.”
Not to be outdone, Rolling Stone writer Jay Michaelson, in the same CNN segment, said opposing Target’s effort to promote transgenderism in the kids’ section of its stores amounts to “stochastic terrorism”.
Extremist. Totalitarian. Terrorist. This is how the establishment media labels Americans angered by transgender propaganda sold to kids as merchandise. Naturally, this rigid yardstick is not applied to those on the cultural left who oppose things they don’t like.
The Los Angeles Dodgers created a firestorm last month when the MLB team invited a Catholic-mocking group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to be honored at its annual Pride Night. Following complaints from Catholics and others, the club disinvited the troupe, only to reverse course once again with deep apologies after absorbing an avalanche of criticism from progressives.
Los Angeles Times sports columnist Dylan Hernandez was outraged that a Catholic group dared to consider the Sisters hateful. He specifically defended the group’s “mocking” of Catholicism. “The Dodgers should know better than to listen to the bad-faith arguments of CatholicVote President Brian Burch, who called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence a ‘hate group’,” Hernandez wrote May 18. “There’s a difference between mocking one’s longtime oppressors – even if that includes sexually charged language used by the Sisters – and inciting violence against them.”
None of this is happening in a vacuum. It is being organized by enormously influential global figures. Big-brand corporations are fully on board, and a complicit dominant media apparatus is there to provide cover whenever the American consumer feels he has been pushed too far.
