Political discussions about everything
By elklindo69
#92758
Several U.S. chief executives had been considering resigning from Donald Trump's business advisory councils for months after the president said he would pull out of the Paris climate accord and ban transgender people from the military, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, long before Trump's comments on racial violence this week pushed them over the edge.

Trump disbanded two high-profile advisory groups on Wednesday, after the head of his Strategic and Policy Forum advised the White House the group was breaking up, and a trickle of departures from his American Manufacturing Council threatened to become a mass exodus.

"He was at 95 percent already," a source close to Larry Fink, head of investment firm BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), said of Fink's leaning toward resigning from the Strategic and Policy Forum.

"I think that (Trump's latest comments) just made it 120 percent."

A number of CEOs started to consider more seriously whether to disband after Trump's initial remarks blaming violence at Saturday's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on "many sides," which was taken to include not only white nationalists but also anti-racism activists who opposed them.

Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) CEO Kenneth Frazier, an African-American, was the first to leave the manufacturing council on Monday over Trump's weekend reaction.

Trump then attacked Frazier on Twitter, prompting other CEOs to consider quitting also. Frazier's resignation was followed by the CEOs of Under Armour Inc (UAA.N) and Intel Corp (INTC.O) later on Monday.

Trump's fiery comments on Tuesday, doubling down on his initial response to the Virginia rally, unnerved CEOs already doubting the utility and public relations value of remaining on Trump's councils, sources close to several of the CEOs told Reuters.

Soon after Trump's comments on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) CEO Jamie Dimon, who serves on the Strategic and Policy Forum, started pushing for the forum to take some kind of action, a person close to him said.

Dimon had previously expressed exasperation with politics in Washington, saying in July that it is "almost an embarrassment being an American citizen traveling around the world."
By johnforbes
#92765
What Trump said about Charlottesville was totally accurate.

It takes TWO SIDES to have any fight.

The interesting thing is that corporations have almost become like nations, and that these CEOs are now like Politically Correct politicians.
By Clownkicker
#92776
"What Trump said about Charlottesville was totally accurate.
It takes TWO SIDES to have any fight."-johnflubs

Here we see an example of johnforbes putting the U.S. on an equal moral footing with Nazi Germany. LITERALLY.

After all, there would have been no WWII for the Allies if they hadn't been the second party to the fight with the Axis. Without TWO SIDES, there would have been no fight, right?
If johnforbes had not been in Vietnam, there would have been no war there either. It takes two, after all.

As the morally bankrupt Right is telling us, standing up to evil only makes you morally equivalent to the perpetrator of that evil. :shock:

johnforbes, you really need to look at yourself in the mirror and be ashamed of your foolishness. You of all people have no excuse for it.
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By RealJustme
#92781
Here we see an example of johnforbes putting the U.S. on an equal moral footing with Nazi Germany.
The left are the ones acting like Nazi's who want to target and silence conservatives. If the left could, they would indeed open gas chambers to rid the United States of anyone who doesn't think like them. The conservative marchers were the good guys in that clash, sure they had one or two bad apples, but all the ones in the liberal groups were bad apples.
By Clownkicker
#92785
No, Tool, the ones acting like Nazis are the ones with the swastika tattoos, swastika flags, and giving the Nazi salute.

Are you really that dimwitted? Serious question. Do you not see guys with swastika tattoos and espousing Nazi ideas as "acting like Nazis"?

You're actually trying to smear the guys you don't like by calling them by the name used by the guys you support. :shock:
"Acting like Nazis" is a slur to you, but it doesn't occur to you that the guys giving the Nazi salute are the literal embodiment of people "acting like Nazis."
By Dogzilla
#92795
"Are you really that dimwitted?"

Did you really need to ask? Their minds and eyes are blinded by their hate. They're doing the best they can.:(
By johnforbes
#92796
Folks who want to preserve historic statues, they are fine people.

My relatives, of course, were among the many who fought the Nazis.

The simple truth is that TWO SIDES got into the fight in Charlottesville.

But the Left Wing press in America doesn't know Antifa well, but will learn what scum they are.
By Dogzilla
#92812
If you come and stand in the street in front of my house and rant supremacist bullshit, I'm gonna try and break the most number of your bones that I can.
By sillydaddy
#92813
CEOs joined the council to increase their bottom line ....
They figure the events in Charlotteville were going to attack their profits
So they said fuck the little people needing jobs...protect the wallet first... :o
By Clownkicker
#92818
"They figure the events in Charlotteville were going to attack their profits
So they said fuck the little people needing jobs...protect the wallet first..."-sillydaddy

sillydaddy is just now learning the motivations that drive corporate capitalism, and he's surprised.

I've been telling him this for years, but would he listen?
It's like he never heard of the Carrier plant/Trump incident.
By johnforbes
#92871
The amusing thing is that corporations which are large tend to behave like nations.

They almost have their own "foreign policy."

Corporations also have their own little Political Correctness spindoctors.

Trump explicitly denied placing both sides on the same moral plane, but the Left began the lies anyhow.
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