A new frontier in “cancel culture” is looming on the horizon: Banking and financial services firms could ban conservative customers and others from industries targeted by the left, warns North Carolina Republican Rep. Ted Budd, a member of the House Financial Services Committee.
The targets appear to include Republican members of Congress who voted to challenge the 2020 election results (just as some Democrats did in 2017, 2005 and 2001 without facing financial backlash). Additional possible targeted industries range from fossil fuels and firearms to for-profit colleges and payday lenders.
Affirm, a company extending installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase, confirmed to The New York Times last month that “it severed ties with MyPillow.” MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a prominent supporter of former President Trump, has come under fire for his disputed claims about election integrity during the 2020 election.
Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), a member of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, told “Just the News A.M.” television program on Friday morning that financial institutions are coming under pressure from the left to deny services to customers, calling it “the next frontier for the radical left.”
Redlining! Let the law suits begin.
the solution in my heart is prayer for these lost fools but the human in me says slayer
But you do see where if this is allowed to continue will lead
“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name”