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Trump Ends Business Councils as CEOs Turn Against President
Bloomburg ^ | 08-16-2017 | By Zachary Tracer and Matthew Townsend

Posted on 08/16/2017 10:40:11 AM PDT by Red Badger

President reverses course after saying he’d replace quitters ‘I am ending both. Thank you all!’ Trump says on Twitter

(Excerpt) Read more at bloomberg.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: ceo; corporateamerica; snowflakes; trump45
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To: JME_FAN

That one is easy — all the R’s voted for ObamaCare repeal except for three. Two defections were usual suspect RINOs who regularly vote with dems. The 3rd defection (McCain) was likely due to Trump personally pissing him off with his stupid statement during the primaries. Trump failed to cut a deal with the 3 RINOs and get them on board.


101 posted on 08/16/2017 1:05:39 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Great idea. How about he cuts taxes on small and medium size business and increase them on some of these Fortune 500 - that will cook their goose.


102 posted on 08/16/2017 1:09:35 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: EagleUSA

They are all rent seekers anyways. Screw them.


103 posted on 08/16/2017 1:09:56 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Red Badger

You know, many people’s jobs will be replaced by robots soon enough. These moguls want that.


104 posted on 08/16/2017 1:14:13 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: combat_boots

If massive amounts of people are unemployed, who will be able to afford to buy their crap?..................


105 posted on 08/16/2017 1:25:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: plain talk

1.) The 3 “R’s” acted as cover for other “R’s” who were in states having primary elections in 2018.

2.) McCain would never support Trump - or any other individual who is non-establishment. McCain is a treasonous ass wipe, and those who are not deluded understand at least that much.

3.) Cutting a “deal” with the 3 RINOs? Really ... Like going pro-abortion, keeping PP funded, etc? Yeah, sure - betray both principle and the conservative portion of your base to “compromise” with the same people who are committed to back-stabbing you no matter what. Please - even you should know better than trying to feed me this crap sandwich!


106 posted on 08/16/2017 1:28:40 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: JME_FAN

Of course -— it was possible to cut a deal and get ObamaCare repeal passed. It takes someone who knows how to persuade and cut deals. It’s been done throughout the history of this country.


107 posted on 08/16/2017 1:43:33 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: lodi90
Here's the part that I can't grasp, and I don't know why our president is missing it: he is saying that the 1A rights of the NeoNazis/Alt-Right/white nationalists are the same as for anyone else. Heck, even the ACLU defended them in this affair. This is not the same as saying they are as good people as anyone else, just that they have the same rights.

Recommended soundbite: "I am only agreeing with the ACLU that these people had the same right to organize as anyone else."

108 posted on 08/16/2017 2:06:26 PM PDT by Riflema
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To: Red Badger

Good for him. That was nothing more than an organization for favor-gathering and rump-kissing.


109 posted on 08/16/2017 2:21:28 PM PDT by ALongRoadAhead
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To: plain talk

Like I stated previous - the deal the 3 RINOs wanted was funding for Planned Parenthood. That’s a deal breaker. Your insistence otherwise is plainly obtuse ... Moreover, your Never-Trump slip is showing, just as much as it was obvious during the primaries. I’m not blind.


110 posted on 08/16/2017 2:30:00 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: LS

“Not one single Trump voter I know has changed his/her opinion.”

That’s what I see in my microcosm, here in the suburbs north of Philadelphia. In fact, the resolve is even stronger with the Trump people I know.

By definition, Trump supporters are independant thinkers, and they don’t like being constantly lied to and lied about by the RINOs and the MSM. On top of that, Trump has turned out to be the real deal for true conservatives. Trump has exceeded the expectations of even his staunchest supporters.

If anything, it’s the lefties that seem reluctant to bring up politics nowadays. They still hate Trump like good little lefties, but they seem almost ashamed of the gibberish that comes out of their own mouths. They can never back anything up so all you have to do is ask “like what?” and they shut up.

So, I think many democrats will not vote at all in future elections, Republicans will pick up seats in 2018 and Trump will easily get reelected in 2020. I’m not sure how much of his agenda he’ll get passed - there are so many Dems and RINOs out to get him and the MSM is nothing but a DNC propaganda ministry.

My big question has to do with this escalating war between Trump and the lying MSM. It seems like for Trump to win this war, the MSM needs to be destroyed in some tangible way. They can’t go on serving as the propaganda arm of the DNC and still continue to be trusted by the public to report “The News”. Something has to crack.

I know, polls show they are not trusted, but people still watch, people still read it because despite the Internet, the MSM is a monopoly. Even here on FR it is mostly recycled MSM stuff being discussed.

But is that even possible? Can Trump actually break the MSM monopoly, make them go away, or shame them into being honest and objective?


111 posted on 08/16/2017 3:05:48 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: JME_FAN
If RINOs “feared their voters,” then one of the various Obamacare Repeal bills would be signed into law by now.

The last one got stopped by a guy who will probably die before he has to face the voters again...a guy who has always hated Trump ever since Trump questioned his "heroism".

McCain is a douche-bag who put his petty pride before the needs of his country.

112 posted on 08/16/2017 3:15:32 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: enumerated

Correct. They need to be destroyed.

To understand who they are, however, is key: they do NOT need “profits” to survive. They don’t need viewers to survive. They are supported, just as the papers in Andrew Jackson’s time were, by the Dem Party. 100%. It may be funneled in through other corporate kickbacks, but however it comes in, it’s not because people VIEWING them like their message or even like their advertisers.

So the goal is to take out the sugar daddies & corporations subsidizing them, to make them squeal so badly they must cut the “news” organizations loose. This can happen, but it will take a dedicated offensive to strategically destroy advertisers and bombard them with lawsuits until they just leave.


113 posted on 08/16/2017 4:11:43 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Interesting - glad I asked!


114 posted on 08/16/2017 4:25:46 PM PDT by enumerated
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