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MFennVTCongresscritter calls just made, asking <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bernie</a> and <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Welch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Welch</a> to work and vote against the <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/SAVEAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SAVEAct</a> when it reaches the <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Senate</a>. I also called <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/BeccaBalint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BeccaBalint</a>, thanking her for voting against it, and also for everything's she's done since this nightmare began. Almost cried at the end of that one. <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vermont</a>

Chuck DarwinFor all Trump’s success in winning back reluctant conservative billionaires, many of them have seen firsthand the ways in which his erratic behavior and anti-market ideas could disrupt their businesses and the wider economy. After Trump became President, he asked Schwarzman to enlist high-profile business executives to serve on an advisory council. The participants included <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a>; <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jamie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jamie</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dimon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dimon</a>, the C.E.O. of JPMorgan Chase; <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mary</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barra</a>, of General Motors; <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bob</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Iger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iger</a>, of Disney; <a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Larry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fink</a>, of BlackRock; and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jack</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Welch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Welch</a>, the former C.E.O. of General Electric. It was a perfect Trump setup: the biggest brand names in American business would come to the White House, kiss his ring, and offer free advice. But, as one of the panel’s members recalled, the first session quickly devolved into an argument between Trump and several participants over his false allegation that China was manipulating its currency. In the summer of 2017, following Trump’s comments about there being “very fine people on both sides” of the white-supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, the group convened an emergency call and decided to disband. After Schwarzman conveyed the news to the White House, Trump preëmptively tweeted that he had decided to shut the group down.Early this summer, Trump’s campaign surprised the Business Roundtable, a members-only organization of corporate C.E.O.s, with a last-minute acceptance for the ex-President to appear at the group’s quarterly meeting in Washington. Andrew Ross Sorkin, the Times’ financial columnist and a host of “Squawk Box,” on CNBC, reported that even C.E.O.s at the meeting who were sympathetic to Trump had found the former President 🔸uninformed and ♦️“remarkably meandering.” A source in the room told me that Trump’s digressions included complaints about his court cases and “crazy rants about Venezuelan immigrants.”Soon after the event, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at Yale University who tracks the political preferences of America’s corporate leaders, wrote in an op-ed for the Times that not a single Fortune 100 C.E.O. had donated to Trump by June of this year, something he called a “telling data point.” In fact, Sonnenfeld argued, the lack of giving to Trump from traditional Republican donors in the business community was the real fund-raising story, “a major break from overwhelming business and executive support for Republican Presidential candidates dating back over a century.” Sonnenfeld told me that such giving “fell off a cliff” when Trump became the Party’s nominee —going from more than a quarter of Fortune 100 C.E.O.s in 2012, when Mitt Romney was the G.O.P. candidate, 💥to zero in 2016. In 2020, he noted, only two Fortune 100 C.E.O.s had given to Trump —someone in the energy sector who is no longer running his company and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Safra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Safra</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Catz</a>, the C.E.O. of the Oracle software corporation. One lobbyist who speaks with many corporate C.E.O.s told me, “Unanimously, they hate the Biden Administration’s policies. But I think almost unanimously they would much rather deal with that than the risk of catastrophic disaster from a Trump Administration.” By fall, the only Business Roundtable member publicly backing Trump was Schwarzman.

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://lemmy.ca/u/Sunshine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Sunshine</a> Last week Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he had introduced legislation to block a $20 billion arms sale to Israel.The Joint Resolutions of Disapproval would 👉prevent the delivery of 💥offensive 💥weapons that the State Department approved in August, just days before ceasefire talks were set to resume. The package includes fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles.“Sadly, and illegally, much of the carnage in Gaza has been carried out with U.S.-provided military equipment,” said Sanders in a statement. 🔥“Providing more offensive weapons to continue this disastrous war would violate U.S. and international law. The sales would reward Netanyahu’s extremist government, even as it continues to cause massive destruction in Gaza, undermine the prospects of a ceasefire deal that would secure the release of the hostages, and advance its effort to illegally annex the West Bank. Congress must act to save lives, uphold U.S. and international law, and stand up for U.S. interests. We must end our complicity in Israel’s illegal and indiscriminate military campaign, which has caused mass civilian death and suffering.”The effort was cosponsored by Senators Jeff <a href="https://c.im/tags/Merkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Merkley</a> (D-OR), Peter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Welch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Welch</a> (D-VT), and Brian <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schatz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schatz</a> (D-HI).

John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Thank you BBC for teaching me that in Wales a microwave oven is called a popty ping.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Welch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Welch</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a>

Chuck DarwinBoeing is America's last aviation company and its single largest exporter. After the company was allowed to merge with its rival McDonnell-Douglas in 1997, the combined company came under MDD's notoriously financially oriented management culture. MDD CEO Harry #|Stonecipher became Boeing's CEO in the early 2000s. Stonecipher was a protege of Jack <a href="https://c.im/tags/Welch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Welch</a>, the man who destroyed General Electric with cuts to quality and workforce and aggressive union-busting, a classic Mafia-style "bust-out" that devoured the company's seed corn and left it a barren wasteland:<a href="https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112366979097305884#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112366979097305884#</a>.

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