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Title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: mystery-ak on July 10, 2020, 01:49:50 pm
July 10, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
By Monica Showalter

Here's a man-bites-dog story:

The president of Goya Foods, America's largest Latino-owned food company with $1.5 billion in sales, did something virtually every other U.S. CEO has been way too chicken to do:

He praised President Trump. And for far-leftists such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that was ample reason to put the successful minority-owned company out of business.

Here's what the man said to merit the socialist death sentence.

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Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue: "We're all truly blessed... to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder."

He praised Trump for all the right reasons, too:

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...We're all truly blessed, at the same time, to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder. And that';s what my grandfather did, he came to this country, to build, to grow, to prosper. And so we have an incredible builder, and we pray, we pray, for our leadership, our president, and we pray for our country, that we will continue to prosper, and to grow. ...

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/goya_the_bravest_ceo_in_america_praises_trump__and_alexandria_ocasiocortez_loses_her_lunch.html (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/goya_the_bravest_ceo_in_america_praises_trump__and_alexandria_ocasiocortez_loses_her_lunch.html)
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: Applewood on July 10, 2020, 02:16:38 pm
Someone should cancel this chippy.

As an aside, I use Goya's canned black beans -- no salt added.  They are very good. 
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: mountaineer on July 10, 2020, 02:19:01 pm
I don't recall having seen Goya products at our local supermarket, but I'll certainly be on the lookout henceforth, and support the company whenever I can.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: Applewood on July 10, 2020, 02:22:17 pm
I don't recall having seen Goya products at our local supermarket, but I'll certainly be on the lookout henceforth, and support the company whenever I can.

Don't know about where you are, but here, the Giant Eagle chain has Goya products in a separate aisle for various ethnic/international foods -- obviously, in the Hispanic section. 
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: mountaineer on July 10, 2020, 02:32:50 pm
Good to know. Now if only I could shop at the Iggle without having to wear a face mask ...  :laugh: I'll be in the Burgh soon and will check it out.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: Applewood on July 10, 2020, 02:39:05 pm
Good to know. Now if only I could shop at the Iggle without having to wear a face mask ...  :laugh: I'll be in the Burgh soon and will check it out.

 :thumbsup:

Alas, in this state, I think face masks are required everywhere now.  If a mask wasn't required, I wouldn't wear one. 
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: Applewood on July 10, 2020, 02:45:29 pm
FWIW -- Goya's website:

https://www.goya.com/en/products (https://www.goya.com/en/products)

And some products are sold online or through Amazon.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: mountaineer on July 10, 2020, 06:11:15 pm
Great idea!
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Mike Opelka  @stuntbrain
My brother came up with a terrific idea and I am encouraging all to join me in purchasing $10 worth of @GoyaFoods
 products and donating them to your local food bank. Let's push a BUY-cott, not a boycott. Let's show the #Goyaway people what compassion can do.

7:00 AM · Jul 10, 2020
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: Night Hides Not on July 10, 2020, 06:47:58 pm
FWIW -- Goya's website:

https://www.goya.com/en/products (https://www.goya.com/en/products)

And some products are sold online or through Amazon.

Products are also sold at Walmart, I'll look for them on my next visit. I'll try out their black bean burgers, see if they're as good as Morningstar's.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: aligncare on July 10, 2020, 06:57:10 pm
Goya has good products. I’ve thrown many a meal together at the last minute using Goya canned beans, sauces, fresh veggies, some rice and a little imagination.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: LegalAmerican on July 10, 2020, 07:04:25 pm
There is something mentally wrong with this woman.   Why does media give her any time....at all?  She WANTS COMMUNISM. 
No person in their right mind, would want this.  Socialism..same thing, lead to full fledged communism.  We lived STARVING SOCIALISM.  THIS AOC IS SOME KIND OF TYRANT.  This is not a game. Live's are at stake.   She must have it, TOO GOOD..in her life, to be this way. 

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Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: ironhorsedriver on July 11, 2020, 11:50:00 am
To be honest, I've never had GOYA products. But what bothers me the most is how this mans free speech and right to his beliefs are condemned by the libs. Free speech and your beliefs only count when you say what they want you to say. It is heartbreaking to watch our country slide into the abyss!
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: mountaineer on July 11, 2020, 01:22:30 pm
To be honest, I've never had GOYA products. But what bothers me the most is how this mans free speech and right to his beliefs are condemned by the libs. Free speech and your beliefs only count when you say what they want you to say. It is heartbreaking to watch our country slide into the abyss!
They absolutely cannot tolerate anyone disagreeing with them. Maybe it's because they were so coddled as children, who knows. The snowflake generations, which I believe includes X, Y and Z (what's going to come after Gen Z, I wonder?), throw tantrums whenever they don't get exactly what they want or whenever anyone dares point out the error in their beliefs.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: Gefn on July 11, 2020, 01:26:55 pm
Local take.

https://nj1015.com/goya-oh-boya-nj-food-company-slides-into-trump-culture-wars/

Interesting
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: Applewood on July 11, 2020, 01:48:12 pm
I'm going to guess that this boycott will end up like the one the perverts launched against Chick-fil-A. -- a massive failure.  During that "boycott," CFA made  a ton of money in sales to people who thumbed their noses at the malcontents and lined up for blocks at CFA restaurants to get their chicken.  I think Goya will have the same success if people ignore those who want to dictate what constitutes free speech and purchase their products.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: mountaineer on July 11, 2020, 01:50:59 pm
Some lefties are virtue-signaling by posting photos of Goya products in their trash cans. "See what I think of Goya, so there! Nyah!"

Of course, they aren't donating them to food banks instead of discarding them.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: FeelNoPain on July 11, 2020, 02:01:08 pm
They absolutely cannot tolerate anyone disagreeing with them. Maybe it's because they were so coddled as children, who knows. The snowflake generations, which I believe includes X, Y and Z (what's going to come after Gen Z, I wonder?), throw tantrums whenever they don't get exactly what they want or whenever anyone dares point out the error in their beliefs.


Target, Beyonce, Dixie Chicks, Keurig, Nordstrom, NFL, Nascar, Kellogs, etc were boycotted by the Right. Some I agreed with, others I thought was every bit as infantile as the Left.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: aligncare on July 11, 2020, 08:45:49 pm
It shouldn’t matter that Goya is Latin owned. But, I’m afraid it’s too late to talk about that now. Society has already accepted the Left’s premise that race does matter, that Americans are grouped and hyphenated and no longer just equal Americans under law.

And now we’re learning from BLM that one’s race can place you socially and politically above others—a hierarchy of racial worth. Black lives matter. Whites? Meh.
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: truth_seeker on July 11, 2020, 09:10:09 pm
Goya has good products. I’ve thrown many a meal together at the last minute using Goya canned beans, sauces, fresh veggies, some rice and a little imagination.
I asked my Italian wife, "what about these chick peas?"

My wife and daughter in unison, say they are Garbanzos. Almost a staple for a decent Italian style salad.

Checking Wiki, and I find a variety of  these delightful globes, coming from Apulia, where my wife's family originates.

Anyway I think the foods, flavor, spices of the Med are similar.

Cheers for Goya Brand. My wife says she finds them at Aldi.

Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: LegalAmerican on July 11, 2020, 09:16:40 pm

Target, Beyonce, Dixie Chicks, Keurig, Nordstrom, NFL, Nascar, Kellogs, etc were boycotted by the Right. Some I agreed with, others I thought was every bit as infantile as the Left.


You don't understand right from wrong do you?   Those who are boycotted by the 'right'...are EVIL. ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-CHRISTIAN.  Target, wants grown MALES in bathrooms with little children, girls.  NFL?  ANTI-AMERICAN.   IT IS NEVER INFANTILE TO BOYCOTT.....EVIL!   It needs to be done.  You support pedos? 
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: LegalAmerican on July 11, 2020, 09:18:41 pm
It shouldn’t matter that Goya is Latin owned. But, I’m afraid it’s too late to talk about that now. Society has already accepted the Left’s premise that race does matter, that Americans are grouped and hyphenated and no longer just equal Americans under law.

And now we’re learning from BLM that one’s race can place you socially and politically above others—a hierarchy of racial worth. Black lives matter. Whites? Meh.


 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: sneakypete on July 11, 2020, 09:24:05 pm

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There is something mentally wrong with this woman.   Why does media give her any time....at all?  She WANTS COMMUNISM. 

@LegalAmerican

You answered your own question.


Title: Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to 'cancel' Goya, America's top Latino-owned food company
Post by: sneakypete on July 11, 2020, 09:31:25 pm
It shouldn’t matter that Goya is Latin owned. But, I’m afraid it’s too late to talk about that now. Society has already accepted the Left’s premise that race does matter, that Americans are grouped and hyphenated and no longer just equal Americans under law.

And now we’re learning from BLM that one’s race can place you socially and politically above others—a hierarchy of racial worth. Black lives matter. Whites? Meh.

@aligncare

They are calling for nothing less than a race war. They NEED it AND a Dim President in order to be able to declare "A State of Martial Law exists for the duration of the emergency".

And THAT,my friends,is how America ends. The DNC will be the ONLY ones with the authority to declare the end of Martial Law,and they won't. No more elections,no more Bill of Rights,it is the Leftist Dream Come True.