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Merck CEO resigns from Trump council after Charlottesville
Reuters ^ | 8/14/17

Posted on 08/14/2017 7:27:39 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Merck & Co Inc Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, saying he was taking a stand against intolerance and extremism.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; kenfrazier; manufacturing; merck; nonsequitir; pharmaceuticals; posing; race; resignation; seeya
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To: ptsal

All I know is that Merck has been involved in a whole bunch of mergers and acquisitions in recent years, and has actually relocated its headquarters in New Jersey TWICE in the last four years.


21 posted on 08/14/2017 7:50:11 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Williams

Or how violent white liberals are . . .


22 posted on 08/14/2017 7:53:20 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg'sB)
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To: Moonman62

Perfect.


23 posted on 08/14/2017 7:53:58 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: SoFloFreeper
His statement has the same flaw Trump's statement is criticized for - not singling out white racists.

He expresses the same sentiment Trump did ...

We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!

Trump's statement irked Frazier so much, that he is making a noisy exit while putting distance between himself and Trump and the American Manufacturing Council.

America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.

As CEO of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.


24 posted on 08/14/2017 7:58:24 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: SoFloFreeper
Merck--oh yeah, Merck. The company whose strategy was to get government contracts where states would require little girls' parents to get them shot up with their drug, Gardasil--to prevent a disease that's acquired almost exclusively from sexual promiscuity. Merck was doing this--paying off the governor of Texas through his campaign fund--even after its own scientists found that the drug was ineffective if a girl got the vaccine before puberty. Duh. She would have to get (at taxpayer expense) the whole program of shots after puberty as well. Sweet. For Merck.

Oh yeah, and Merck's scientists also found that, since viruses mutate, Gardasil was ineffective 80 percent of the time.

25 posted on 08/14/2017 8:02:30 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SoFloFreeper

Leftists own the corporate world now. It wouldn’t surprise me if other CEOs will resign now and cite Trump’s tweet.


26 posted on 08/14/2017 8:02:38 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

They were just looking for any excuse.


27 posted on 08/14/2017 8:03:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Big picture of the Merck guy on CNN now. So predictable. We’ve seen this propaganda movie a million times before.


28 posted on 08/14/2017 8:05:35 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: SoFloFreeper

Not to mention Merk has moved their manufacturing offshore for even cheaper manufacturing while still raising prices in the US.


29 posted on 08/14/2017 8:11:53 AM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: SoFloFreeper
So... he resigned his honorary position on a do-nothing committee, so that he could look good to his liberal friends?

What a bold statement. /s

30 posted on 08/14/2017 8:20:56 AM PDT by wbill
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To: SoFloFreeper
(KY. Mayor wants to remove...)

(Councilman formally calls for Baltimore's Confederate monuments to be destroyed)

It looks like the War of Northern Aggression is being fought over again....the American Negros rewriting history to suit themselves rather than tell (the historical truth.)

"Black Confederate military units, both as freemen and slaves, fought federal troops. Louisiana free blacks gave their reason for fighting in a letter written to New Orleans' Daily Delta: "The free colored population love their home, their property, their own slaves and recognize no other country than Louisiana, and are ready to shed their blood for her defense. They have no sympathy for Abolitionism; no love for the North, but they have plenty for Louisiana. They will fight for her in 1861 as they fought in 1814-15." As to bravery, one black scolded the commanding general of the state militia, saying, "Pardon me, general, but the only cowardly blood we have got in our veins is the white blood."

" Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest had slaves and freemen serving in units under his command. After the war, Forrest said of the black men who served under him, "These boys stayed with me.. - and better Confederates did not live." Articles in "Black Southerners in Gray," edited by Richard Rollins, gives numerous accounts of blacks serving as fighting men or servants in every battle from Gettysburg to Vicksburg."

" Many knew Lincoln had little love for enslaved blacks and didn't wage war against the South for their benefit. Lincoln made that plain, saying, "I will say, then, that I am not, nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races ... I am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

Lincoln had much more to say about Blacks North and South....he was never "the great emancipator".

31 posted on 08/14/2017 8:27:19 AM PDT by yoe
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good. Pharmas are big and rotten business.


32 posted on 08/14/2017 8:31:57 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: SoFloFreeper

Self draining swamp. You always can tell who is a never-Trumper by the instant knee-jerk. Trouble there is, these pieces of crap always jerk their knees up so far that they punch themselves in the face.

Good riddance to this POS backstabber. It’s best to out yourself before you’re found to be a traitor. Now we won’t have to waste time undoing the damage he could have done.


33 posted on 08/14/2017 8:38:19 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: rktman

Do you know what sarcasm is??


34 posted on 08/14/2017 8:40:52 AM PDT by Herodes
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To: Williams

“People don’t want to recognize how racist blacks are.”

Sociology 101
A young black kid asks his mother, “Mama, what is Socialism and what is Racism?”
“Well, Child.....Socialism is when the white folks work every day so we can get all our governmental entitlement stuff for free. You know....like our free cell phones for each family member, rent subsidy, food stamps, EBT, WIC, free school breakfast, lunch, and in some places supper, free healthcare, utility subsidy, and on and on.....you know, that’s Socialism.”
“But, mama, don’t the white people get pissed off about that?”
“Sure they do, Honey. That’s called Racism.”


35 posted on 08/14/2017 8:50:37 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: SoFloFreeper
Whether he is a poser, or simply better at analyzing the pharmaceutical business than he is on social & ethnic issues, I cannot really say. That he is mistaken, very sadly mistaken, is obvious.

The way to answer the war on the American heritage is to address the enduring virtues of the American heritage, not to get sucked into side issues.

Tactics For Victory

36 posted on 08/14/2017 8:51:09 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: SoFloFreeper; All

An Affirmative Action CEO of a Big Pharma company that poisons millions with their toxic drugs and overcharges sick desperate people for the privilege, tells us that rather than work with the president’s request to lower prices and develop safer more effective treatment and cures for our deadliest diseases, chooses RACE FIRST over everything else to show us his true colors, and they’re all black.


37 posted on 08/14/2017 9:17:48 AM PDT by Main Street (Stuck in traffic.)
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To: Maskot

Self draining swamp. You always can tell who is a never-Trumper by the instant knee-jerk. Trouble there is, these pieces of crap always jerk their knees up so far that they punch themselves in the face.

Good riddance to this POS backstabber. It’s best to out yourself before you’re found to be a traitor. Now we won’t have to waste time undoing the damage he could have done.


Never Trumper? This guy is a Dem. Probably got a personal call from the kenyan suggesting it be wise for him to quit.


38 posted on 08/14/2017 9:18:11 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

More than likely. I truly wish obama would just curl up somewhere and die. The amount of damage he’s done, and continues to do, will not be fully known for a very very long time.


39 posted on 08/14/2017 9:30:31 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So, he is accusing the POTUS of intolerance and extremism?

Isn’t that cute.


40 posted on 08/14/2017 9:33:29 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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