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After Losing Support, Trump's Business and Manufacturing Councils Are Shutting Down (theverge.com)
Over a dozen anonymous readers share a similar report: Two White House advisory councils that once included tech leaders like Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick have dissolved, after several members resigned over President Donald Trump's weak condemnation of white supremacists. A member of the Strategic and Policy Forum told CNBC that it wanted to make a "more significant impact" by disbanding the entire group: "It makes a central point that it's not going to go forward. It's done." Soon after, Trump took credit for shutting down both that group and a separate Manufacturing Council, "rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople." The councils' members came from a range of industries, including several major Silicon Valley companies. Besides Musk and Kalanick, executives from Intel, IBM, and Dell had joined. It's been controversial from the start -- Musk and Kalanick both left months ago -- but a major exodus started this week, after Trump issued a vague statement blaming "many sides" for violence at a white supremacist rally that left one woman dead. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigned on Monday, saying that politics had "sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America's manufacturing base." Axios has more details.
It has nothing to do with the Left. When dozens of CEO's of American companies representing billions of dollars of shareholder value are running away from the supposed "leader of the free world".... well, you have to ask yourself did America seriously fuck up in choosing a President? I think the answer is pretty obvious.
If you don't want to be called a Nazi, perhaps don't act like a fascist, and don't defend those who do by providing shade for them to hide in.
Give me a break. This is a tech story. The president of the fucking United States has killed two boards, which consisted of several top CEOs, whose companies produces tech products and services that the vast majority of people in the fucking world use. If you think it's a left vs right issue, or a political issue, maybe you're not nerd enough to know the difference. Stop the whining. Open any news outlet's site and you will see a ton of Trump stories there. Look at Slashdot's front page, and in the last five hours, all they have run is a math article, a few Science-related stories, a story about Microsoft Office and another story about Google's services. That's a fucking fair balance.
Plenty? How many? Provide a number, along with full citation and reference to the polls and/or studies used to derive the data. Go on, you've made a claim, now actually back it up.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
1. Hillary won the votes by 2.86 million, remember that always
2. Russia's fake news, blog bombing and comment robots created astroturf in the flyover states for Trump.
3. That's called Campaign Donations In Kind, and when done by a foreign government, as the CIA says, is a felony.
If anyone at Trumpland coordinated with this campaign donation, that is a separate felony AND an act of sedition.
Remember when Republicans called Democrats "commies" for 30-40 years, so all the Democrats nominated and elected President a watered down Stalin?
Me neither.
Must be a Republican thing, if you call them something they become it out of spite. Those sick, bed wetting, gun breaking, running-around-on-gravel-with-no-shoes-on, punching themselves in their own testicles if they're male, Democrat-voting, Republicans.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.