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2017-08-16 Home Front: Culture Wars
Three CEOs walk away from Trump after Charlottesville
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Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 These people feed off the taxpayer through the government.

June 15, 2017 Awards to Intel.

I think it is time to spread the wealth to others.
Posted by Spike Spomoter7482 2017-08-16 00:29||   2017-08-16 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Richard Trumka is a domestic terrorist himself. He should never have been allowed to be there in the first place.
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-16 00:35||   2017-08-16 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 They pay lobbyists millions, but walk away from far better free access.
Posted by phil_b 2017-08-16 02:50||   2017-08-16 02:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Virtue Signaling
Posted by N guard  2017-08-16 07:01||   2017-08-16 07:01|| Front Page Top

#5 If Trump said nothing they would criticize him for not speaking out. If he spoke out, it wouldn't be good enough or it was too late. Or they would say he didn't condemn enough.

Trump was right, there were two opposing groups with violent-prone people within both groups. You have a mayor and a governor who did little to prevent this situation. There's plenty of blame to go around.

There was little criticism of the left when Occupy Wallstreet, BLM and AntiFa were out in the streets destroying property, beating up people and killing cops. The neo-Nazi are a recent addition to the mix. They are few in number and a sad reminder of another time. Their numbers are made up of malcontents, misfits and mental problems. If you look at the background of 20-year old James Alex Fields or Dylan Roof, the Charleston church shooter, they fit in one or more of these categories. Fields and Roof are the types of people who the MSM hope they will find at the root of violence perpetrated during the orchestrated chaos; right wing, white male screwed up extremists. James T. Hodgkinson, the Republican ballgame shooter fits the description except he was a left-wing nut. The left-wing press was not so interested when they discovered he was one of them. No one blamed Bernie Sanders because Hodgkinson was a supporter. If people had not been killed at Charlottesville, today's neo-Nazis would be a joke (the same with the KKK).
Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-16 08:44||   2017-08-16 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Losing the support of Richard Trumka, something akin to the sudden disappearance of lawn moles.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-16 09:25||   2017-08-16 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Burning the flag, panhandling and nude dancing have been declared free speech by the Supreme Court in past rulings. This looks like an act that can be construed as free speech also. A well crafted case needs to be sent to the court asking what speech is not to be considered 1st amendment protected. Like many 2nd amendment cases, the court will sidestep. Then Congress should pass a law that says, when the court sidesteps, it's a free fire zone. Of course, the court will strike that down and the cycle of insipid spinelessness can begin again.
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-08-16 10:06||   2017-08-16 10:06|| Front Page Top

#8 AFL-CIO? Go ahead and walk. You've done more to kill American jobs than just about anyone else.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-16 10:29||   2017-08-16 10:29|| Front Page Top

#9 To all those so called CEOs and leaders that resigned and walked away from Trump's manufacturing council. What would you have done instead?

Instead you gave me the impression of toddlers having temper tantrums!
Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-16 10:46||   2017-08-16 10:46|| Front Page Top

#10 #4 has it
Posted by Frank G on the Road 2017-08-16 11:04||   2017-08-16 11:04|| Front Page Top

#11 "I am going to push my views and agenda by quitting a council created explicitly to listen to my views and agenda."

Both virtue signaling and professional negligence.

So ya, go take a knee, plenty of younger, faster, stronger players to play that position.
Posted by swksvolFF 2017-08-16 11:10||   2017-08-16 11:10|| Front Page Top

#12 They're lucky Obama isn't in power. They would be facing IRS audits and Regulatory backlash
Posted by Frank G on the Road 2017-08-16 11:16||   2017-08-16 11:16|| Front Page Top

#13 They only signed on to make headlines when they eventually walked away (and be able to claim they gave him a fair shot, etc).
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-16 12:24||   2017-08-16 12:24|| Front Page Top

#14 And AFL-CIO? Really?
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-16 12:24||   2017-08-16 12:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Waving the Nazi flag means that you are supporting the world's most deadly terrorist organization.
Posted by European Conservative 2017-08-16 16:43||   2017-08-16 16:43|| Front Page Top

#16 That there was such a council in the first place only indicates that the government has too much power and / or are oblivious to business in general. Cut taxes & regulations and get the hell out of the way - it's that simple.
Posted by Raj 2017-08-16 17:04||   2017-08-16 17:04|| Front Page Top

#17 both the manufacturing and the strategy/policy council have, as I understand it, been abolished

good riddance - these councils are about 40% window dressing and about 50% a forum for cronyism - the other 10% help the executive branch recruit appointees in the Commerce, Treasury, etc. Departments
Posted by lord garth 2017-08-16 17:19||   2017-08-16 17:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Jobs and economic indicators are good from what I heard. These guys may not have been needed anylonger.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-16 18:19||   2017-08-16 18:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Yes.


Posted by Creang Stalin6662 2017-08-16 18:20||   2017-08-16 18:20|| Front Page Top

#20 The Manufacturing Council wanted them to curb their carpetbagger practices.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-16 20:41||   2017-08-16 20:41|| Front Page Top

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