Coca-Cola Faces Boycott Calls over Not Allowing ‘Trump 2024’ or ‘Jesus’ on Cans
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Coca-Cola is facing boycott calls after people on social media revealed that the company was not allowing “Trump 2024” or “Jesus” to be placed on the cans.
While people attempting to personalize cans with messages such as, “Trump 2024” or “Jesus loves you,” have received messages stating that the name is “not approved,” other messages such as “Harris Walz 2024,” “Satan” and “Allah” were reportedly allowed, according to the Daily Mail.
Messages supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, satan, and Allah were reportedly allowed prior to the company fixing a “glitch,” according to the outlet.
The X account for Libs of TikTok posted photos showing that “Harris Walz 2024” had been an approved message on a can, while the message “Trump 2024” was met with a warning that said, “The name you requested is not approved.”
“Names and phrases may not be approved if they are trademarked, political in nature, names of countries, celebrities, religious figures, as well as anything that could be considered offensive for other reasons,” the message from the company continued. “Oftentimes, a name might be accepted if you add a last name to the submission.”
“Coca Cola won’t let you personalize a can with ‘Jesus’ …but allows satan and Allah,” comedian Tim Young wrote in a post on X. “Why do they discriminate against Christianity?”
“Is it time for Coke to get the Bud Light treatment?” another person wrote in a post on X.
“Sounds like a Coca-Cola Boycott is in order,” another person wrote in a post on X.
Other people were quick to post photos showing that messages supporting Harris, satan, and Allah also received the same messages that Trump 2024 and Jesus did.
The alleged glitch by the company, which was first reported by Antwoine Hill, and has been “circulated widely after” the Libs of TikTok brought attention to it, according to the outlet.
In a video on Facebook, Hill shared how “at the Coke store” you were able to personalize the cans with, “Allah loves you,” but not Jesus.
Upon typing the name Jesus, Hill was met with a message that said, “Sadly, we cannot automatically allow this text on the can.”
“Everything else is good though,” Hill says in his video. “Even if I put, let’s see, satan. Satan loves you. You could put that. You could put satan loves you, Allah loves you, Buddha loves you. But, when you type in this word, you can’t even type the word in.”
In an interview with the Daily Dot, Hill explained that he would “support the boycott” as long as it sent the message that Christians “stand for the name of Jesus.”
“I support the boycott, if it sends the message that we stand for the name of Jesus,” Hill told the outlet. “I’m also very conflicted with the whole thing because I’m in the streets daily seeing the much bigger issues, drugs, violence, homelessness … so for me this just doesn’t seem nearly as big as these issues, but nonetheless I won’t support any company that doesn’t support Jesus.”
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With ads on IGN, Harris and allies make a push for the gamer vote
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In an ongoing outreach effort to young male voters, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s campaign bought advertising space on IGN, the world’s biggest games media outlet.
Static and video ads will appear on the site beginning Wednesday. Two static ads promote Harris as “fighting for a new way forward” and “a fighter for the American people,” presented in pixelized fonts and imagery. Two of the ads raise alarms about Project 2025, a policy tome created by the conservative Heritage Foundation whose wish list of far-right policies have made it a central target of the Democratic campaign — including in its outreach to young voters.
Another 15-second ad spot highlights how Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used racially insensitive words tying the pandemic to Asian Americans, and stating that the former Republican president “unleashed a wave of hate” with those words. IGN attracts about 35 million Asian American visitors a month, and about 80 percent of the site’s audience is male, according to the Harris-Walz campaign. These ads will display only in battleground states.
The ads, and a separate “Geeks & Nerds for Harris” fundraiser held online Tuesday, highlight a tussle — played out across streaming, social and gaming platforms — over a potentially decisive slice of young male voters. The Trump campaign has courted them aggressively as it lags with women voters.
Trump’s campaign ramped up its outreach to young male voters through similar targeted digital advertising, as well as appearances with notable and controversial content creators such as YouTuber Logan Paul and Adin Ross, a popular 23-year-old streamer banned from Twitch for “unmoderated hateful conduct in chat.”
A spokesman from the Trump campaign said Wednesday that the Democratic candidate needs to pay to reach these audiences, while enthusiasm for Trump within gaming communities is organic. The campaign cited support from Ross, Xqc, Nickmercs and Faze Banks, some of the most popular and controversial streamers. Each of them has millions of followers and subscribers across multiple platforms.
IGN did not respond to a request for comment about its history with political advertising. The company’s advertising specs sheet online specifies that if it does accept political ads from one candidate, “we may accept advertising from all others” in a race “on comparable terms and conditions.”
IGN is the most influential news site in the gaming world, boasting about 250 million monthly users worldwide. That position has made it a lightning rod for controversy and conversation, as culture wars and the country’s political climate have roiled games communities online.
Harris has similarly appeared on other platforms with predominantly male audiences, including a recent video for Wired Magazine’s popular “The Web’s Most Searched Questions” series that has gained more than 1.3 million views in four days. She’s also appeared with content creators such as Track Star, which quizzes celebrities on music. The Harris campaign started a channel on Twitch, Amazon’s live stream service, to stream rallies and public events. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Some celebrities with roots in comics and gaming fandoms have joined the fray.
While the Trump campaign boasts organic enthusiasm for Trump, Harris fundraisers were also started at a grassroots level. In July, a “White Dudes for Harris” event raised about $4 million for the Harris campaign, and it drew more than 190,000 people, including stars such as Star Wars hero and voice of the Joker, Mark Hamill.
Efforts like that and the “White Women for Harris” Zoom call inspired TV’s Wonder Woman and Washington resident Lynda Carter to organize her own effort, “Geeks & Nerds for Harris.” Carter’s late husband was Robert A. Altman, founder of ZeniMax Media, which was the parent company of legendary games studio Bethesda Softworks in Maryland. In 2017, Carter was the face of a Bethesda marketing campaign highlighting single-player games.
Carter’s fundraiser featured many guest stars, including Hamill; the cast of “The Boys”; veteran Superman, Wonder Woman and Deadpool comics writer Gail Simone; and geek-inclined lawmakers Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) — the latter known for swearing into office on the Library of Congress’s copy of the first issue of Superman. It had a competitive twist, assigning celebrities to teams of Earth and space to face off against each other to raise money. Her communications team sparked the idea when they considered how “fandoms” of superheroes and video games are activated in community-organizing events such as conventions.
“At the heart of comics and the popular arts is this idea of social justice,” Garcia said during Tuesday’s live stream.
“When you look back over time, why did people in power want to put their faces everywhere, why did they build statues and need to promote themselves with images everywhere? That was fan activism,” Carter told The Washington Post. “It was really to endear themselves to the people. Fan activism has become something different, and it has in our current times morphed into a voting bloc, as we’ve witnessed in a disturbing way.”
Rep. Tom Tiffany Reveals Duplicate Absentee Ballots Have ‘No Barcode’
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Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) revealed that thousands of duplicate absentee ballots contained “no barcode” on them after officials in Madison City said the duplicate ballots had the barcode.
In a post on X, Tiffany wrote that officials in the Madison Clerk’s Office had stated that because the duplicate ballots had identical barcodes, they would not be allowed to be submitted. Tiffany’s post came a day after he called for an “investigation” after Madison officials revealed that 2,215 duplicate ballots had been sent out to roughly 10 wards.
“DEVELOPING,” Tiffany wrote. “Although the Madison Clerk’s Office claims, ‘The voting system does not allow a ballot with the same barcode to be submitted,’ my office has proof that there is no barcode on the actual ballots.”
Tiffany included a photo in his post that showed a ballot without a barcode.
In response to the news that more than 2,000 duplicate ballots had been sent out to several wards, Tiffany wrote a letter addressed to Maribeth Witzel-Behl, the clerk of Madison, stating that he was “alarmed” at the news.
“Like many Wisconsinites, I was alarmed by recent reports that ‘around 2,000’ duplicate ballots have been sent out by your office,” Tiffany wrote. “The Clerk’s Office has since issued a six-sentence statement claiming, without providing any significant details, that this ‘error’ affected ‘an isolated number of voters’ in a single ward and ‘was quickly caught and corrected.'”
Tiffany continued on to question how the “error” had been “discovered,” what the “exact number of duplicate ballots” sent out had been, and whether the Clerk’s Office had reached out to law enforcement officials “to investigate whether this ‘error’ was the result of simple incompetence or a deliberate nefarious act.”
“This can’t just be swept under the rug,” Tiffany told Fox News in a statement. “The people responsible for this need to be held accountable.”
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