Posted on 12/14/2016 6:30:49 PM PST by drewh
On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump added three more high-profile CEOs Pepsi (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk to his Strategic and Policy Forum.
My Administration is going to work together with the private sector to improve the business climate and make it attractive for firms to create new jobs across the United States from Silicon Valley to the heartland, Trump said in a statement.
With Pepsis Nooyi on board, expect there to be plenty of discussion about some serious issues.
Just two days after the election, Nooyi, a Hillary Clinton supporter, spoke at the Dealbook Conference.
Is there a box of tissues here? Nooyi responded when asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin for her reaction to the election results. Ill tell you, first of all, I want to congratulate President Donald Trump. Because the election is over, I think, we should mourn for those of us who supported the other side, but we have to come together and life has to go on.
She added that she had to answer a lot of questions from both her employees.
They were all in mourning. My employees were all crying. The question that they are asking, especially those who are not white Are we safe? Women are asking, Are we safe? LGBT people are asking, Are we safe? I never thought I would have to answer those questions.
She continued: So, I think that the first thing that we have to do is to assure everyone living in the United States will be safe. Nothing has changed because of this election. What we heard was election talk and we will all come together and unify as a country. So, the process of democracy happened. We just have to let life go on.
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*LOL* That makes it even BETTER!!!!!!!!
It was indeed a sad day. And a very depressing eight years.
Perhaps I shed some years; don’t remember...but I didn’t call in sick to work or engage in protests.
Conservatives may be sad at a unfortunate turn of events, but they pick themselves up quickly and move on, as you did, FRiend. :)
All? Liar.
I agree LOL.
Lady, you are safer with an alpha male in charge than the metro sexual that have been in charge for the last 8 years.
Comic books and rubber bands
Climb into the tree top
Falling down and holding hands
Tricycles and Redpop
Pony rides and Sunday nights
Roller skates and snowball fights
Climbin’ through the window
Remember when you were a kid?
Well, part of you still is
And that’s why we make Faygo
Faygo remembers
Flying kites and funny shoes
Easter eggs with speckles
ABCs and counting by twos
Washing off the freckles
Kissing a hurt to make it stop
Startin’ school in September
So many things you almost forgot
Tryin’ to remember
Remember when you were a kid?
Well, part of you still is
And that’s why we make Faygo
Faygo remembers
No, Bambi, you’re not safe! You are in grave danger now! Danger of hearing that people disagree with you, that they don’t have the same values as you, that you will sometimes speak and hear no soothing words of validation, that there will not be someone standing by to hold your hand... Oh, my, the world is becoming a dark, dark place, little fluff ball. Better curl up and hide.
Maybe if you hired people who had an IQ higher than 20, you wouldn't have to.
A predatory environment where individuals are misled into believing the only “safe place” is that of the captor’s.
“No Pepsi! Coke!”
She can take Nikki Haley with her.
In that case, we’d be separating the wheat from the chaff.
Not that I want a depression or big war.
[...] She added that she had to answer a lot of questions from both her employees. They were all in mourning. My employees were all crying. The question that they are asking, especially those who are not white Are we safe? Women are asking, Are we safe? LGBT people are asking, Are we safe? I never thought I would have to answer those questions.
I have a question for Nooyi. Since 50% of the country would be happy Trump won, and as you said, your employees were all in mourning, do you think you have a problem with diversity at Pepsi?
Exactly!!!!
xlnt
Cr*p! Certainly have shed years (off my lifespan), but I meant tears!
I am so sick and tired of these damn foreigners who want to run this country.
Nikki, Noori, Rubio, Cruz, and the Supreme Court Justice of MA Maggie Marshall who brought us same sex marriage. She should go back to south africa.
They all need to go home and stop trying to change us into some unicorn fantasy land.
I've been drinking Pepsi all my life, and I'm not about to switch just because some moron CEO supported Hillary.
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