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2020-11-18 Home Front: Politix

Fortune 500 CEOs Will Intervene if Joe Biden Isn't Inaugurated by January 20

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 The puppet masters grow impatient.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-11-18 00:51|| 2020-11-18 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Puppet masters?

More like China-whores

Posted by Flash Ulamp1400 2020-11-18 01:03|| 2020-11-18 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 I do what - send their company security goons to remove Trump from WH?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-11-18 05:32|| 2020-11-18 05:32|| Front Page Top

Just because he won't take OUR money, doesn't mean we won't take theirs !

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 05:38|| 2020-11-18 05:38|| Front Page Top

#5 American Thinker - Tucker Carlson on Biden’s coming corporatocracy

A corporatocracy is a government that represents a fusion of the state and corporations. Once upon a time, the left feared the notion. However, now that the left controls corporate America, it is embracing that fusion. Biden’s presidency will represent the apex of the left’s desire to create the perfect government-corporate partnership.

Tucker Carlson’s opening monologue describes the way in which the Biden government is inextricably intertwined with woke corporations (all of which are staffed entirely with graduates of American’s hard left colleges and universities):

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 05:49|| 2020-11-18 05:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Corporatocracy? Didn't Il Duce try that?

Posted by Clem 2020-11-18 06:22|| 2020-11-18 06:22|| Front Page Top

#7 ...nah, it was the other guy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-11-18 06:36|| 2020-11-18 06:36|| Front Page Top

#8 No it was Mussolini who coined the term "corporatism." From Encyclopedia Britannica's entry:

Corporatism, Italian corporativismo, also called corporativism, the theory and practice of organizing society into “corporations” subordinate to the state.

According to corporatist theory, workers and employers would be organized into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and controlling to a large extent the persons and activities within their jurisdiction. However, as the “corporate state” was put into effect in fascist Italy between World Wars I and II, it reflected the will of the country’s dictator, Benito Mussolini, rather than the adjusted interests of economic groups.

Posted by Don Vito Platypus9461 2020-11-18 07:02|| 2020-11-18 07:02|| Front Page Top

#9 All 500 agreed? And this one guy arranged it?

More fake news.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-11-18 07:17|| 2020-11-18 07:17|| Front Page Top

#10 More like China-whores

Posted by Woodrow 2020-11-18 07:30|| 2020-11-18 07:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Two sayings that go together....

1. Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

2. L'etat c'est moi.

The beating corrupt heart of the Left.

Posted by AlanC 2020-11-18 07:44|| 2020-11-18 07:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Following up to comment #7. Yes Anna, you will recognize many of the names.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 07:46|| 2020-11-18 07:46|| Front Page Top

#13 corporativism, the theory and practice of organizing society into “corporations” subordinate to the state.
Synonym - fascism.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-11-18 08:50|| 2020-11-18 08:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like criminal Antitrust violations to me.

Maybe they need a refresher course on the Sherman Antitrust Act, etc., etc.

LOCK THEM UP

Posted by cingold 2020-11-18 09:11|| 2020-11-18 09:11|| Front Page Top

#15 From a former colleague and military historian whom many of you know:

More evidence that our constitutional republic has passed away. We are now a corporatist and increasingly fascist sate – the corporatist state includes big tech, the media, academia, and the Dems. Critical race theory, cancel culture, BLM, Antifa, etc., are the fascist means of control. Antifa are the brown shirts of the Dem Party.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 09:18|| 2020-11-18 09:18|| Front Page Top

#16 What was that DDE said way back in the 1950s about threats to our Republic; something about the military-industrial complex? Might have to update that to include some of the domestic enemies.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-18 09:28|| 2020-11-18 09:28|| Front Page Top

#17 ..and the following paragraph of equal warning of the scientific technological elite.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-11-18 12:29|| 2020-11-18 12:29|| Front Page Top

#18 ..said Yale Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld...

Posted by Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-18 13:06|| 2020-11-18 13:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Yum! Foods, Amazon, Big Box, yeah sure.

But which chamber of commerce - the one who advocates the flesh trade to bring in more lettuce pickers, or the one which thinks that is too expensive and have the chinese slaves do it instead?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-11-18 13:36|| 2020-11-18 13:36|| Front Page Top

#20 concentration of power in US economy
Banking: 5 banks dominate
Internet Search: 1 company dominates
Social Media: 1 company dominates
Broadcast Media: 5 companies dominate
Pharma: 5 companies dominate

We're already molto corporativissimo

Funny innit how the guy they called the Mango Mussolini was the only leader of the last 40 years who showed any interest in breaking the stranglehold of corporatism on our economy

Posted by Andy Whiper5191 2020-11-18 13:38|| 2020-11-18 13:38|| Front Page Top

#21 Puppet masters never reveal themselves, they act through intermediaries. In this case the curtain has been pulled aside for some time. Remember the NBA? So yes, these CEOs have whored themselves out to the CCP and are doing what is being requested of them.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-11-18 13:42|| 2020-11-18 13:42|| Front Page Top

#22 Because the people who thought Space Jam 2 was a good idea should choose your president?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-11-18 14:13|| 2020-11-18 14:13|| Front Page Top

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