Posted on 08/15/2017 2:00:07 PM PDT by ColdOne
In the most instance, the CEOs of Merck and UnderArmor stepped down from the White House manufacturing council following Trump’s initial response to the Charlottesville violence that was widely panned in the media as insufficiently tough on white nationalists. Both CEOs’ decisions to step down received applause from public figures, including in the media. “I’m going out to buy Under Armour,” declared MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
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The state government pension funds that are the largest shareholders.
Not the people whose money (earned retirement income) is being used to buy the shares.
Those corps can go to Hell. Fight them with your wallets.
If the new standard of morality is “what’s good for business?”, God help us all.
Virtue signaling—Stockholders be damned.
If you want to beat socialism....
Stop buying stuff from the big fortune 500 companies and global corporations.
Buy only from small companies, private companies.
These big firms were extorted into leftism by Clinton and Obama over the years.
Take away the money!
The Left hates both WalMart and Merck. Who are they “playing” to?
Idiots.
Today I called Walmart as a very longtime customer to pass along the same message (about the Doug McMillon Message) to their CEO and told Walmart goodbye if they don't stay out of politics. I also commented that it's interesting he started his message with 'Respect for the individual is one of our core beliefs at Walmart' when Walmart sell products from factories in China with the Chinese workers issues. Will see what happens.
There’s fortunately or unfortunately another angle on this; and that is, that often Trumps’ tweets or comments move stock markets. Provably so, by statistical analysis, by numbers of occurrences.
For this reason, CEOs of publicly traded companies *could* be sued on grounds that their continued participation or non-participation on Trump’s Jobs Council represents an item that *could* affect the company’s stock price and said influence may not be disclosed within the companys’ 10-Qs. So you say “refile the 10-Qs”. Well, this could be a $350,000 event. So therefore this represents a piece of legal liability to the company and I can see why they wish to ease away from the exposure.
Funny ... No corporation has yet to come to my face and tell me what to think, say, do, or feel.
Ain’t gonna happen.
YouTube can’t shut me because i do NOT allow ads to be attached to my videos.
Google ain’t gonna stop me, ‘cause I been hating them since they started.
Yahoo already been hacked. Oops. Federal OPM already hacked. Oops. The regional newspaper can’t stop me ‘cause I’m already retired from it, too.
I’m so confused. I thought Hollywood was telling us that all corporations are evil. Isn’t capitalism bad? How can evil capitalists have any morals?
I’ll probably get laughed at for this, but it seems that buying from Amway is the only way to avoid supporting leftist causes anymore.
I decided not to order Under Armour. Easy decision.
The main control they have over the public square is that they pay for it.
Media makes it’s revenue from their ads.
To the media what’s morally right is what gets the most revenue from advertisers.
If the advertisers don’t like it the media don’t do or say it: including ‘news’.
More like the new arbiters of leftist group-think.
As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists. His remarks today were a step in the right direction and we need that clarity and consistency in the future.
Corporations and government are filling the vacuum vacated by the church.
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