Vermont lefties Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame are out with a new flavor dubbed “Empower Mint.” Featuring peppermint ice cream with fudge brownies & fudge swirls, it may sound yummy, but the reasons behind it may leave a bad taste in your mouth.
It seems Ben & Jerry’s cannot stop mixing the sticky games of ice cream and politics, announcing a new flavor Tuesday to battle voter ID laws: Empower Mint.
The Vermont-based company will use a proportion of the proceeds from the new flavor to benefit the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP.
According to a statement from Ben & Jerry’s, co-founders Cohen and Jerry Greenfield chose to launch Empower Mint, which features peppermint ice cream with chunks of fudge brownies and fudge swirls, in Durham, North Carolina because the state’s recent passage of voter ID laws makes it “the epicenter of the fight for voting rights in the United States.”
“Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights law, a number of states have passed unacceptable voting access laws that make it harder for people vote – particularly Black people and their allies in the rising new majority such as young people, students, and other people of color,” says the company’s website.
Via The Boston Globe
Yes, they’ve really created an ice cream – and an entire campaign – to defend voter fraud. I guess Ben & Jerry really don’t like the idea of one person, one vote – because voter ID laws help uphold that standard.
Ben & Jerry’s and their ice cream have always been infamously leftist. In the past they have created flavors to support “global warming,” gay marriage, and Bernie Sanders. Even Hillary Clinton is too far to the right for them to make a flavor for!
It’s a shame because their ice cream tastes SO good, but supporting them makes my stomach turn.
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