© Expensify/Reuters/Tom BrennerExpensify CEO David Barrett • US President Donald Trump
David Barrett, CEO of the San Francisco-based company, said in an email blasted out to all of Expensify's customers on Thursday that the US is "facing an unprecedented attack on the foundations of democracy itself." Anyone who votes for President Donald Trump, votes for a third-party candidate, or doesn't cast a ballot is showing that they are "comfortable standing aside and allowing our democracy to be methodically dismantled, in plain sight," he added.
Barrett didn't detail how he thinks Trump is destroying democracy, saying only that he believes the president is trying to suppress votes. As a provider of expense-management software, he said, "Expensify depends on a functioning society and economy. Not many expense reports get filed during a civil war."
Barrett made no effort to reconcile his doomsday views on Trump with the fact that Expensify is able to rank as the world's most widely used and fastest-growing expense-management platform while the current president is in charge.
Ironically, his mass email may jeopardize that position more so than Trump's re-election. In reaction, Newsmax TV host John Cardillo said he's deleting his Expensify account and will never use the software again. The Hill TV host Saagar Enjeti called Barrett's email "completely insane for a $100+ million financial services company and the logical end point of woke capital."
Another Twitter user said that, when he notified Expensify that he intends to cancel his long-time subscription, the company's response was, "To clarify, are you leaving because you dislike democracy and don't want to defend it, or is there something else?"
Barrett's email could go beyond losing some customers and alienating voters with woke capitalism. Other Twitter commenters pointed out that making a political statement to a verified list of 10 million customers has great value to a campaign, and that value would likely need to be reported as an in-kind contribution under US election laws.
"Woke tech is shooting for new heights," tweeted Aaron Ginn, co-founder of the Lincoln Network tech policy group. "Does this count as an in-kind contribution?" "I love watching woke CEOs tank their companies," said another observer.
Others supported Barrett's approach, however, saying he may benefit from "free advertising" generated by the email controversy.
There were also executives who applauded Barrett's move. CleanChoice Energy CEO Tom Matzzie, who promotes Black Lives Matter on his Twitter profile, called Barrett a "hero." Another BLM-backing entrepreneur, Thomas Fuchs of the software firm Noko, thanked Barrett and said, "I'm in the same boat - I depend on a functioning society on being able to run my business."
Reader Comments
R.C.
Because Trump = Tyranny and Biden = Freedom. Obviously those are the only two possibilities in Exclusify's binary world.
[I forgot the actual name of the company but I kinda like 'Exclusify' so I'll leave it there as an excellent, although unindended, corruption of the company name]
While most are distracted by these constant endless illusion issues, this elite continues furthering their global power, moving secretly forward towards a totally submissive world.
If you haven't read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion [and the 'hidden tyranny'], you will not understand what's going on and even less the cunning nature of their game.
Stick this on your brain, the elite isn't interested in what happens with elections; America isn't the world.
Their aim is global domination and an ultimate spiritual enslavement into the lucoferian cabala!
But by all means...carry on distracted with Biden vs Trump...and the thousands of little useless petty issues around it! Keep sleeping!!!
I do not believe that its result is been set in stone. Do you feel that Killary failing in 2016 was an 'as-planned' result caused by the PTB / Team FUKUSraHell? If so, I disagree. I do believe that that election did keep things from changing faster for the worse, because, if she had won, I am fairly confident that America and the world would now be in a far, far worse place than otherwise.
I agree with your biggest issue and also with what E. Goldstein wrote in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. If, from here, all we get is yet another classic battle of the lower, middle, upper classes performing musical chairs, then we're almost certain to get the same old result. In order to avoid that, truth and awareness and wisdom must exist in the proles.
It has been my experience that the only way to awaken the folks who still need it (and who are proverbially 'legion') is to teach them provable and undeniable facts that are irreconcilable with the official story.
Trying to get unawakened folks to awaken to your level / the SOTTite level, when they are still not actually and permanently aware that something as, in the big picture, relatively minor event of 9/11/2001 was an obvious lie and scam has never worked yet. (After all, look how much so many of them have gone 'all in' with this C-1984 BS.) I've successfully opened a lot of minds with the FACTS of WTC-7. (But, I grant, it feels that all too many have a tendency to 'backslide into groupthink', a sad thing.)
So, I detect that you've long been awakened, but it seems a leap to expect folks to hop from first slightly questioning the narrative (when they are frankly unaware of it) straight up to having learned the big picture, as you have.
FWIW. RC