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Goodyear, Bad Day

One of the interesting news stories of this past week came out of Topeka, Kansas. Personally, I was not aware that anything of interest could come out of Topeka, but how wrong I was. The story starts with a slide presentation at a Goodyear diversity training session. A particular slide was captured by an employee who shared with a local news station in Kansas. This slide showed a list of acceptable and unacceptable phrases under Goodyear’s “zero-tolerance policy. The slide listed “Black Lives Matter” and “LGBT” under acceptable phrases, while “Make America Great Again” and the pro-Police slogan, “Blue Lives Matter” we’re listed under unacceptable phrases.

Our president did not view this kindly and tweeted “Don’t buy Goodyear Tires.” He then further stated that if the Radical Left Democrats can play this game, so can we. 

After the President’s tweet, shares of Goodyear fell 2.4%. A bad day for Goodyear.

Backtrack . . . backtrack! Very quickly the CEO of Goodyear, Rich Kramer, was on Twitter to “clarify Goodyear’s position,” and quite a tap dance it was.

What Goodyear’s Chairman was trying to sell everyone was that this was a local Topeka thing only . . . blah, blah, blah. Hmmm. Today, I read that LeBron James came out and said something positive about Akron based Goodyear. Yawn . . . zzzzzz.

Anyway for me I will not be buying any Goodyear tires in the near future … just like I will never buy Nike again. BTW, today my wife went to the store and bought eight cans of Goya beans. As some of you may recall the chairman of Goya was at the White House a few months back, and in some sort of ceremony praised the President. The left didn’t like that, and do they advocated a boycott of Goya products. That boycott didn’t work. Goya sales increased, and the eight cans purchased today are going to keep the Goya surge going.

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