The End is Nigh
As a politician when you lose the confidence of big business across the board in one fell swoop, even if you are the President your days are numbered.
Donald Trump was forced to disband two White House business councils disintegrating around him on Wednesday in the wake of his controversial remarks about the weekend violence in Charlottesville.
The Strategic and Policy Forum and the White House Manufacturing Jobs Initiative were both dissolved as corporate leaders continued to resign.
Good to see that the CEO's still worry about what their consumer base thinks of them. The major shareholders would have been on the phone non-stop.
It's all about the profit stupid.
Obviously running away from the Presidential toxic glow seems a better idea to them than any profit to be gained by playing along.
The owners are not happy, expect the Republican and Democratic Parties to react.
Just a matter of time now.
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I'm sure that President Pence will be much better
-- except, of course, for the rest of us.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
No he wont, not the point really.
Never liked either of the turds.
The problem is of course --
well the problem is us. The problem is one of how do we withdraw from the circle of enabling and start to do things for ourselves, from within the Matrix here.
So right now:
The cops enable the neo-Confederates.
The Republicans enable the cops.
The Democrats enable the Republicans.
The liberals enable the Democrats.
Your nice business reps, who would destroy the planet if it meant they could claim it as their asset, have decided Trump isn't their cup of tea. Maybe they would be happier if Trump wasn't such an obvious enabler of neo-Confederates? I can't say I care too much about their happiness. Put an end to capitalism, and the nice business reps can join the union of free producers like everyone else.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
Its the problem all along, I've spent ages trying to
convince, but no, they still insist on going for the least bad.
Perhaps the absolute worst will wake some up.
Sadly,
Trump is not the absolute worst. He's just the latest in the long line of leaders of the declining American empire. I predict there will be worse to come.
That may be the single most depressing post I've ever read.
Mostly because, although that thought had not occurred to me, now that I see it, I realize you may be right.
there will be worse than Trump
ooowwww!
this is a breakthrough.
thx,I think.
I suppose we could have Vlad the Impaler - D next
W himself once said
that (in the long view I guess) he might not be the worst president . . .
Macron?
Macron is a Jackass
But, the "lesser of two evils," apparently, even though there
was a third candidate.
Looking at that list of corporate execs
I'm happy some of them left and wish that none of them were in a position to craft policy because it is all about what is best for their respective corporations, not the general Public at large but look at the names that chose to stay, giving support for Trump's views. The war profiteers on the list are no surprise being on the list that are sticking with Trump, but the problem is bipartisan.Big time.
• Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical
• Bill Brown, Harris Corporation
• Michael Dell, Dell Technologies
• John Ferriola, Nucor Corporation
• Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool Corporation
• Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
• Greg Hayes, United Technologies Corp.
• Marilynn Hewson, Lockheed Martin Corp.
• Jeff Immelt, General Electric
• Jim Kamsickas, Dana Inc.
• Rich Kyle, The Timken Company
• Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
• Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup
• Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing
• Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar
• Michael Polk, Newell Brands
• Mark Sutton, International Paper
• Inge Thulin, 3M
• Richard Tumka, AFL-CIO
• Wendell Weeks, Corning
In fact if Obama rounded up the same group to form a policy for jobs people should be protesting all over the Country, but oh wait a minute one of the worst on the list, in terms of outsourcing American jobs, was Obama's man on leading a 'job creation' effort, Jeff Immelt. Or Mr. China China China China China (5x)in the words of Bernie Sanders in his famous filibuster speech against Jeffery Immelt.
Here is the comment I posted at DownWithTyranny....http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/
Amazing, look at the names/representatives that have no problem with it all, no surprise with the war profiteering corporations, but there is one name on the list that shows how bipartisan it all is, and that is Obama's man, Jeff Immelt...
"In January, President Obama named General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an economic advisory board focused on job creation." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-defends-embrace-of-ge-ceo-despit...
Remember him? You should as Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a famous filibuster of his nomination.
"GE is, of course, one of our major corporations. The manufacturer's recent disclosure pointed out, the taxpayers of this country, through the Fed, provided $16 billion in bailout to General Electric during the recent crisis. This is what the head, the CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, said in 2002, December 6:
When I am talking to GE managers, I talk China, China, China, China, China. You need to be there. You need to change the way people talk about it and how they get there. I am a nut on China. Outsourcing from China is going to grow to 5 billion. We are building a tech center in China. Every discussion today has to center on China. The cost basis is extremely attractive. You can take an 18-cubic-foot refrigerator, make it in China, land it in the United States, and land it for less than we can make an 18-cubic-foot refrigerator today ourselves.
Gee. A couple of years ago when GE had some difficult economic times, and they needed $16 billion to bail them out, I did not hear Mr. Immelt going to China, China, China, China, China. I did not hear that. I heard Mr. Immelt going to the taxpayers of the United States for his welfare check.
So I say to Mr. Immelt, and I say to all of those CEOs who have been so quick to run to China, that maybe it is time to start reinvesting in the United States of America."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suN-9FrBi7E
Thanks aliasalias!
Research is good.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
Trumka resigned. I don't know about Lee.
I'm thinking
Pres Ryan before 2020.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Pence will succeed Trump and appoint a Vice President.
I would bet my home that a Republican Congress, maybe not even a Democratic one, will impeach two successive Republican Presidents. However, if I lose that bet, his VP will succeed Pence (and I'll be apartment-hunting, sadder and poorer, but wiser).
Pence is just the same as Donny
Only he doesn't have insanity as an excuse. Not that Trump does either, but in his case the claim could be made.
They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
They say that life's a game and then they take the board away
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
And leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret-- A. Moore
The vultures are circling
LOL:
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
So, I'm supposed to like Hillary
How many fucking years are they gonna keep hammering this shit?
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Hillary was entitled to your vote.
All the nice Hillbots believe that. Perhaps the Sanders people believed it too, in varying degrees, in a spectrum from Daily Kos to C99%. And they'll all continue to believe it in 2020. "Lesser of two evils blah blah blah..."
Where is the fair estimate of cognitive dissonance in its power over the human brain?
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
In short, he sucks.
So impeaching Trump will give you Pence, and hating Trump is of no import until you actually restore hope to the group that didn't vote for President at all because they had no interest in Clinton. They're not going to vote for Booker or Cuomo or whomever feels entitled to your vote in '20.
Okay so how do you do that? "Rebuilding the Democratic Party" is an easy opportunity for co-optation or election fraud. Starting a new party might have been a good idea had Sanders done it last year, but Sanders really isn't interested.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
Drumpf Doesn't Mind Discrimination Against Gay People. Pence
wants to stone them.
These fucking people tilting at red herrings and jeering at whipping boys are morons.
I'm so sad about all my smart liberal friends losing their political and social minds.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Trump was always meant to be the fall guy
Everyone knows another financial crash is coming.
Best to distance yourself from the patsy beforehand.
I thought he would get us into a major conflict or even
a proper good old fashioned crusade first.
Oh, he probably will
A financial crisis doesn't preclude a disastrous war. In fact it makes it more likely.
Yeah, this Whackjob might
let the nukes fly just to teach us all a lesson for criticizing him.
I'm kiddin' (kinda).
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
I will bet the CEOs
will be more than happy to snuggle up to Trump to pass the Infrastructure Bill line items he described yesterday. I doubt OSHA will survive that bill. Screw the environment. Screw the worker saftey and health protections. Workers are just tools -- like a screw driver.
These CEOs just want to appear pure on the race issue in the public eye. I doubt they really give a sh1+ when in gets in the way of profits.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
@Citizen Of Earth
That won't be all. The infrastructure bill will be the exchange for the massive tax cuts for corporate taxation/repatriation, estate, etc . And the neoliberals of all stripes will go for it. And of course, there will be no money for social services because of the effin' MIC.
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.--Tennyson
Look at who comes in
to "clean up" Donny's mess. These are the ones we should've been watching from the start.
They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
They say that life's a game and then they take the board away
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
And leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret-- A. Moore
Congress has the power to set us on the right track
They have the power to make Senator Sanders, "the most popular politician in America", President. If Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan really wanted to put Country over party, they would do a double impeachment of Trump and Pence. Ryan would be the next in line and he could either make Bernie the VP and then resign, or Bernie could be given the fourth position of succession, Orrin Hatch's President Pro Tempore position, and Ryan could defer to Bernie by not accepting the Presidency.
The fact that Bernie is technically neither a Republican nor a Democrat could make that a little easier, but ... why would the spineless GOP do that?
Beware the bullshit factories.
They could, but they never will
That's not the way they play the game. It's "Loot, loot, loot" by the home team, all the time.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I'm hoping the investigation of Trump
uncovers tendrils to Pence, most or all of the Corporate Criminal Cabinet Cabal, and even take down a fair chunk of Congress. The last six or seven years have demonstrated we can function without a congress.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
For all practical purposes, we just had our Reichstag fire.
Who's getting the blame, after all? That's right, the "Alt-left"...
The socialists... the people who refused to hold their nose and vote for the nice, friendly corporate candidate. So, not only will Trump be a Nazi, he'll also be referred to as the darling of the left, further discrediting the left in American politics.
People are already suggesting that much stronger actions need to be taken, and lucky us, the cops are standing by to smash those hippies heads...
While the fascists smile.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Yes.
I saw some folks on Twitter trying to give these companies credit for "doing the right thing" lol these companies dgaf about the right thing, the protests and boycotts were ramping up and it was going to affect their bottom line, period.
#NaziSoup (used to pressure the Campbells CEO to drop out) was the best hashtag to come out of it all.
He's not done yet. Mr. Trump vs Bezos, stock drops 5 bil
Love what he says about Amazon but of course you cannot trust a single thing he says.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
WaPo=Amazon
DT has finally figured it out. The guy ain't as dumb as he looks. He's hitting Bezos where it hurts.
That's about 0.5%
which is not a typo. That's right, half a percent. $5B may sound like a lot, but the company's market cap is about $470B.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Losing confidence of "big business"
Wouldn't an elected socialist loose the confidence of "big business" right off the bat? I mean who cares, that should be a plus...
Peace
FN
"Democracy is technique and the ability of power not to be understood as oppressor. Capitalism is the boss and democracy is its spokesperson." Peace - FN
Worse than that, it is very doubtful if a socialist could get
elected with the current process, see what happened last year.
We're just enjoying the
fact that many in his "establishment" base will not be too happy with what they've put into office right now since business "isn't happy." The business types really could care less, they only cared what he could do for them, but can't have him tarnishing their brands, now could they? It also let's some of his voters join with those wealthy CEO's and convince themselves that race had NOTHING to do with electing him. This may very well be an "oh shit" moment for many of his voters. I wish it so.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
I still wonder why rMoney didn't run
Was he bought off, scared off, told off, kissed off, or what?
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Poor Amazon
Sounds like they missed a payment. Donnie don't like you missin' a payment.
People have been saying
Trump's days are numbered, ever since he first became a candidate. But nobody's come up with a firm figure yet.
native
Thanks for that!
It's only my opinion but that's the best response to the diary.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
"But nobody's come up with a firm figure yet."
Including Trump!
this is the man who criticizes women for extra weight.
hugely sad, butt funny.
please keep the picture & post from time to time.
useful to see the kind of ass we are dealing with.
Chronic venous insufficieny coming up
and a solid a1C of about 12.
I've had goldfish with higher charisma n/t
Fighting for democratic principles,... well, since forever
Well said, LaFeminista
Worse than impeachment, Trump's days are numbered as far as him losing influence in foreign and domestic affairs.
Betty Clermont
Queen of England cancelled his visit.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Pence is worse
I don't believe Trump will be impeached...but will remain in office crimpled