A slow awakening amid conservatives?… Is there hope?… This guy gets it. American majority CEO Ned Ryun discusses the distinct difference between corporatism and capitalism and points out how JoeBama’s big government model is based on the principle of letting the multinationals erode civil liberties.
This might sound familiar if you have read THIS HERE and THIS HERE. Watch:
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Multinational corporations do not like capitalism because within the process of capitalism they do not have control over the financial outcomes. Capitalism breeds competition; multinationals abhor competition, they are totalitarian in ideology and want the entire pie under their control. Multinational corporations do not like capitalism; underline it, emphasize it, do not forget it.
Boy howdy is there a disconnect amid the outlook of most ‘conservatives’ when it comes to corporations and capitalism. This tweet is a great place to recognize the distinction between the objectives of multinational corporations and their hatred of capitalism.
First, they were not “corporations” on the call, that is not an accurate description. The assembly was a group of “multinationals” discussing their objectives, goals and outlooks on politics.
There is a difference between an ordinary corporation and a multinational corporation. Multinationals hate capitalism.
When I say most multinational corporations hate capitalism many people look confused.
Multinationals want control; some call that corporatism…. but the names are moot. Multinationals want control, and capitalism does not allow them control. Multinationals use lobbyists to generate legislative regulations that stall competition.
Multinationals do not want competition; they are, by nature of their interest, anti-capitalists.
This misunderstanding is everywhere.
Let me help by sharing a short video that explains why:
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The first myth busted in that video explains why corporations do not like capitalism. That’s why Big Tech is also against capitalism.
Capitalism is based on the principles of a free market. Multinationals do not want a free market, they want a controlled market. Their efforts toward a vaccine passport are an example of yet another control they can manipulate for maximum financial benefit. It really is that simple…..
…. Meanwhile the crew of totalitarians behind JoeBama know they can benefit from their corporate allies. The multinationals will pay the politicians for control and the politicians will construct defensive legislative outcomes that protect the multinationals. That is what is happening in exponentially increasing sunlight.
Unfortunately the multinationals are also the funding mechanism for the UniParty. Democrats and Republicans both benefit from the financial process of payments by the multinationals for control of legislative outcomes. This is the entire purpose of K-Street. In third-world countries we call bribery of elected officials “corruption”; however, in the United States we call bribery of elected officials “lobbying”, the process is exactly the same.
Can you see it now?….
The federal government is lost amid this sordid soup of corporate interests. Republicans and Democrats are benefiting from COVID financial opportunities provided by the multinationals.
How will this play out?… Well, follow it to its natural conclusion.
It will be up to the individual states to block vaccine passport requirements initiated by the private sector. Unfortunately their track record on mask requirements is not a good precursor for what needs to happen. States will need to initiate legislation that prohibits private companies from demanding vaccinations in order to participate in their commercial enterprise (airline flights, venue entry, tickets, etc.).
Some states will do this, other states will not; that’s the problem. We are going to have “free states” and “control states”.
Ideological banks may stop doing business in free states. Ideological airlines may stop doing business in free states. Ideological companies like Amazon may stop doing business in free states. Everything will fracture and the Alinsky crew will be high-fiving themselves. Then issues like the postal service will come up…. Eventually the federal government will step-in to play a role and… they will likely support the corporations because that’s who pays them.
The worst part about all of this is the origination is a fraud. The entire functional narrative of the COVID virus is based on a fraud. It’s not about a virus; nothing about this has anything to do with a virus; it is all about control.
Wow spot on!
Boycotts, target, one at a time.
Force them to make public statements denouncing just like the left does. If we do nothing and the left does, we give them all the power.
That’s right. We have to boycott ONE of these, to start.
Coke would be the best bet.
(If we can’t even do that, we have to give up on the idea of “boycotts”.)
But if we can get their sales to drop even 10 percent, that would get their attention.
From what I heard, Coke and Delta are feeling the boycotts on them from Conservatives, that they are starting to backtrack on what they came out and said. I hope we continue to make them feel the pain and they get on their knees and beg for mercy.
I wish that were true! However, I have question…These companies are huge multinational corporations. If every “sane person” in the U.S. boycotted them, how much would it affect their bottom line? Especially Coke. Someone recently posted a list here of all the products Coke makes and sells in The U.S. No way could I keep track of them all, let alone all other corporations ‘we” are trying to boycott. I fear they are just too big to care. U.S. stock holders, maybe, but then again, they have stock holders all over the world. Example: Nike doesn’t seem to be hurting too much…
If we simply stop ordering any “Soft” drink at restaurants/fast food joints (The #2 Meal Deal); and stop purchasing them at the markets, we would cut into the profits of ALL who make such products.
We don’t have to “Topple” “Coke”!
We need only use “Coke’s Wokeness” to drag down the profits of everyone else in the “Soft Drink” bidness BECAUSE of “Coke’s Wokeness”.
Go Alinsky on them.
It is NOT enough to target “Coke”…
TARGET “Soft Drinks”.
If those in the “Soft drink” bidness wish to remain silent about “Coke’s Wokeness”… so be it.
They can lose profits of equal measure.
You can be almost certain, (in today’s world) that no matter the name on the outside of any packageing, profit finds it’s way to the “Big Guys”.
Much like “Cable”…
it matters not which channels you watch/don’t watch, ALL channels receive their predetermined “Cut” of your “Cable” bill. All advertisers have an audience to sell to (even if there are only two ‘folks” watching channel #4,539…
Advertisers have a platform and WILL SELL to those (2) “folks”.
To stop “Supporting “cnn”, it is not enough to stop “Watching” “cnn”..
you must stop supporting “Cable”.
You must stop “Buying” “Cable”.
Simply STOP purchasing any “Soft Drink” of any kind from anywhere.
Use the combined strength (hubris) of the “Big Guys”…
To our advantage.
good summary.
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this strategy could create the perfect environment for an American Product to rise up.
Steal Coke’s recipe – call its a different name, not be a piece of shit company, and convert all coke customers to yours.
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repeat this model for EVERY industry and product.
WhiteBoard, imho, Cokes “Secret” to their “Recipe”, is nothing more than Coke having figuring out how to get folks to ingest “7” teaspoons of sugar (per can) without “Hurling”.
It’s not just sugar water…
It’s SUGAR water….
With all the concern over diabetes and the deleterious effects of SUGAR on so many…
It’s a wonder Coke and similar products are allowed to exist At ALL.
Sweet peach tea at our house!
@LafnH2O
I thought the whole point of the boycott was to convince corporations not to punish states that support election integrity.
Boycotting Coke’s competitors who stay out politics will simply create more enemies.
That is a valid point, fred2w.
If only we knew which competitors are “Actually” staying out of politics; and which might be in agreement with Coke and are simply letting Coke take the heat/lead. “Publically”.
It seems to me, this situation with “Coke-ness” presents a GOLDEN opportunity for “Coke-ness” competitors to “Distance” themselves from “Politics” – and grab considerable marker share “from Coke” – by “Publically” stating their only “Intetest” is to provide products their customers enjoy and trust…
And NOTHING MORE
So far, I haven’t seen that “Public” statement from anyone.
Have you?
True.
Best strategy is to focus on just ONE.
Also, telling conservatives that they cannot drink *any* soda
does NOT send the message to Coke that they need to stay out of politics.
Instead, it tells everyone that conservatives are on a nutty health-kick.
Don’t let up EVER! Bankrupt them!
I quit Woka-Cola and I won’t ever buy it again. The color of Coke appears to be racist now. Lol
I hadn’t noticed it before but now that I do, I’m going with 7UP.
I wonder if Delta is cleaning those planes after they fly those infected illegals all around the country.
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And Coke is entering their busy time (summer). They make their money in hot weather (natch) and the Christmas holidays. A wintertime boycott would be doing Coke a favor (an excuse for layoffs).
I haven’t bought coke products, not flown united, etc., in a long time. I also will not patronize amazon, never have and hopefully never will. I try my best to patronize local small business’s, mom and pop shops, small farms or grocers for food. If millions of us vote this way with our dollars, we can maybe break the back of these multinationals.
Already have.
So-called conservatives haven’t even boycotted NFL, NBA or MLB. I just heard that Jacksonville Jaguar fans just gathered enough funds to buy EVERYTHING on the wedding gift registry of the newest player PLUS an extra $7k. This is for a guy that will be immediately rich.
Bill Cunningham, so-called conservative radio personality in Cincinnati, still devotes a large part of his program to NFL and MLB.
One of my very best friends who has been conservative, voted for Trump both times, recognizes that the dems are snakes, got her jab because she wants to fly.
So-called conservatives remained silent and apathetic throughout the past 16 years and even now.
Do we have enough committed patriots for boycotts to affect anything at all?
Only 6% were on board with Revolutionary War. They boycotted Britain 15 years before first shot was fired.
I agree many conservatives cave, but many of us DO NOT.
Never give in and never now yo evil,
One-at-a-time is an effective strategy!
If we all agree to boycott “all” of them, but only sort-of follow through,
the pain will dissipate and the boycott falls apart.
These are multinational companies. Boycotting will make us feel better but will barely make a dent in their bottom line. We need to take back our country one city and state at a time. This begins on the local level. Our state legislatures need to be pressured to work for we the people by enforcing the laws on the books. Many have not done so in years. Taking away the tax incentives given to these big corporations if they mandate masks, vaccines, etc. would be a good way to address this issue. If the corporation does not comply, then they need to leave the city/state. This will get their attention since they make many, many millions of $ on these tax incentives and then they will also risk the loss of millions of customers; in one big swoop a massive ‘boycott’ that will make a real difference.
Good luck.
We can’t even get Republican controlled States to enforce open and shut election rules when criminal breeches by Democrats were obvious……
Now the nation’s lowest rent politicians in State Houses and Senates are going to uphold American values?
Bwaaaaaa…….
Right, write. We live in one of the dirty half dozen states (WI) that sat on their bottom end with their thumbs inserted and did not enforce the rules and laws currently on the books (both houses are Repuke controlled). As of today nothing has changed. Right now all they are doing is squabbling like a bunch of kids arguing with the parents on who gets to delegate the federal money granted to the state (the state house or the Governor). Pathetic.
These people have usurped the constitution, destroyed our electoral process, and continually pose a national security risk. As individuals, there really isn’t much we can do. Our democratic process has been hijacked. What we need is our military to uphold our constitution they swore to protect. We cannot move on from a stolen election and pretend to make things right again. This stolen election must be resolved and those involved must face justice before this country can return to being a Republic. As much as I liked DJT as President, it’s not about him. It’s about us and our country.
“What we need is our military to uphold our constitution”
Sorry to disappoint you but the military is just as corrupt and dangerous as the crony capitalist corporations who supply it with weapons and equipment. This is also true of the police, who will gladly use what ever force is necessary to disarm and subjugate us to the neo-fascist order.
If you have or know young people who contemplate a military career do everything you can to discourage that. If you don’t they will become our oppressors in the very near future.
You are very much mistaken, and dangerously so. If you discourage constitutional patriots from joining the military then you assure the result you claim to fear.
And when they enlist and/or graduate OCS, and express their patriotic motivations, you will be there for them at their dishonorable discharge event? You continue to worship a hollowed out gilded idol.
You are 20 years out of date.
Patriotic young men joining the military are often low information individuals today.
If you want to expose your son to possible death or maiming in another pointless minor war, where the Harvard boys running it would rather one American boy from flyover country dies instead of 100 enemy because mass enemy dead is an impolite dinner party conversation for them, go ahead.
Fixing ISIS took PDJT changing the rules, that meant obliterating their camps and villages, men, women and children, from the air. Not much written about that anywhere. It was a one off.
I would not advise a decent young person to go through the crazy crap going on in the military now.
I am a vet and I would advise a young person to definitely not join the military now.
military is a bad idea . . . a very bad idea . . . imagine for a moment mad dog maddis (sp. intentional) holding all the cards . . .
All three gov. branches have been corrupted . . . checks and balances is no longer working. That is the problem.
Don’t look for easy solutions or a single savior . . . they are not to be found. Nevertheless, remain hopeful . . . we are WINNING this WAR. . . not every battle but the WAR! Remain positive and speak truth to power.
Here is a small snippet of how this will be accomplished . . . it’s depressing at first blush but . . . resistance is rising . . .
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
Very well said m, frogtongue. We The People hold the key
Right, just look at the current Sec of Defense.
Although hilarious, that is actually spot on!
Republicans and Democrats are on the same team
Political Polls
@Politics_Polls
Do you support or oppose American companies using their public role, position, or events to influence political, cultural, or social change?
Support 36%
Oppose 57%
@maristpoll/@NPR/
@NewsHour, Adults, 4/7-13
And that’s from NPR listeners. It must really be much higher.
Shareholder suits
Rico statute
Plato, not to steal your thunder, but I’ve been saying this for years! Looking at the statutes, corporatism falls into RICO. Of course RICO was designed to go against organized crime, not the global corporatist. I’ve also said all along that I literally have more respect for the mafia than I do those holding office. Mobsters pretend to be nothing more than who they are. Besides, they stay in their lane as long as you stay in yours. John Gotti once explained the reason why he had so many supporters against the Feds….
“Because I’m f***ing the same people who f**k them everyday”
While I do not approve of Gotti’s activities, he was unvarnished about who he was and about how the sausage is made. Gleeson, one of the prosecutors against Gotti, is the same smug SOB, who helped to drag out the agenda against General Flynn. During Gotti’s last trial, he paraded himself to be a pillar of virtue and justice. He was neither. He deserved prison more than Gotti. But once again….
“Rules for thee, but not for me”
One other thing, the mob does not put up with the ? in their organization that we do from our so called public servants. There is “skin in the game”….and their members know it
To sum it up, it’s as Michael Corleone told the senator….”Senator, let’s not LL fool ourselves. We are both a part of the same hypocrisy”.
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The FBI and DOJ fall into RICO. If they were honest we would not have these problems. This is the true Clinton Legacy.
President Trump tried but McConnell would not allow an honest nominee for those agencies to come to a vote. This is because McConnell is corrupt also.
Excellent idea in a Republic with an oath-keeping law enforcement and judicial system. We are not that Republic. Sorry to say, while legal maneuvering definitely enriches more of the professional liar class it will do nothing to restore the Republic to a healthy state. Evaluate the current and historical actions and environment. It does have its place though once the humans infecting the Republic have gone to God. The humans are the problem, whether in the corrupted Judicial and law enforcement systems or the domestic international corporate cultures. They’re not going to simply stop. That’s not how it works with power mongering humans. Never has, never will. Perhaps someday we’ll evolve out of that barbarism before we destroy ourselves.
I’ve been boycotting such entities and their humans at all levels for decades, I’d say ever since working in the oil industry in the 70’s and seeing corporate culture up close and personal. Here’s the deal, our lives are meaningless to them. It’s not personal, it’s business. We’re just numbers. If we are killed or die or ‘boycott’, they simply replace us with other humans, tens of millions being replaced each day.
Back to RICO, anyone wonder why Trump never fired Christopher Wray and Biden kept him in charge of the FBI, the one in charge of the nationwide dragnet op to instill fear in Patriots and spin them as terrorists? A boycott won’t solve that. Sorry.
Corporatism … now where have we heard that term before … ah yes, in the fascism of Benito Mussolini’s Italy. And let us not forget that good ‘ol Benito and Franklin Delano were best buds at the beginning … they shared the same belief system, a belief system that haunts us to this very day, where large companies use the government to pulverize small businesses, directly and indirectly.
and Peron in Argentina.
Meanwhile it’s the corporations that also polluted the earth and wiped out hundreds of species.
Not exactly, it’s the forever exponential increasing population’s demand for corporate products for their happiness that pollutes.
Eventually human population will climax, not because they can’t be fed, but more because you will have a once in a lifetime lottery to flyfish the Madison once, and that degraded lifestyle will eventually not be acceptable
Species destruction mostly happens in 3rd world countries who don’t give a cr*p if profits are awaiting.
All organized governments are corporations.
There are several different forms of incorporation. To generalize, it is a partnership agreement with the incorporating state government to collect and pay taxes of every required kind, and also share the income with the issuing state.
Corporations ARE government.
To allow them to engage in politics and electioneering is to allow government to vote for itself.
This is essentially how Biden stole the 202o election with brazen indemnity and the full support of censoring corporations in an apparent criminal conspiracy to hijack the American commons and subordinate the American citizen human person to the demands of unelected usurpers of individual citizen rights and liberties.
Originally a company had to prove it was usedul to the community annually to be able to incorporate every year.
Time to reinstitute this. States must bring coperations into alignment with the community or pack it in and get out.
Originally corporations were quasi gov private companies for a public good only such as water companies or fire companies
As actions of our inept federal government and multinationals destroy small businesses, the overall economy will decline. That in turn will cause the multinationals to lose money as well. The whole financial realm and real economic activity will spiral down. But, as in past situations, people at local levels finally take necessary actions to survive. This is where the small businesses can make a comeback.
State and local governments will play a role in this grassroots economic revival, and will gain power at the expense of the federal government, who has lost the people’s trust.
Sundance, I used to say this in a joking manner, but now I’m dead serious…in Trump’s next term, I would hope you would be serving in a significant capacity. You are a relentless ass kicker. I love and respect that! Thank you for all you do! Truly an incredible Patriot!
Unless we all become relentless asses in the eyes of the Beast we will not count. It’s time for some real kicking.
I’m right there with you and couldn’t agree more. I’m chomping at the bit to stop reacting. It’s time to go on the offensive, with a plan, and stomp their ass relentlessly, to the point that they have personal skin in the game, with significant, immediate consequences
Well, no disagreement there. Based on POTUS Trumps bad input for cabinet etc the first 4 years, he will be sorely pressed to go way outside the box if he wishes to make changes in the next 4 short years! His VP choice will be critical to continue his MAGA force.
I dont disagree that Sundance would do some good serving in any capacity.
That being said, if the voter fraud and voting rules are not fixed, then there would be no chance of Trump or any other MAGA person winning. As it stands right now, 2016 was the last fair and free election. I do not see how we ever have our votes count again. The criminals who stole the last one are still running the show.
And I believe they tried fraud in 2016. I distinctly remember a significant pause in announcing votes and wondered what was going on. Well, now we know what was going on. But somehow they couldn’t pull it off. I head later that some white hats contacted the black hats (CIA) and told them to knock it off or there would be severe consequences. Who knows what the truth is. All that matters is that they were stopped from perpetrating the fraud.
So become a precinct committeemen and help fix it.
Rudy Giuliani stated it best on Bannon’s War Room today: In the past capitalism (a la Adam Smith) was the pursuit of profit but kept in the correct lane by values and morals.
What passes for most “capitalism” today is almost unbounded such old-fashioned considerations. Hence they are quickly becoming more and more like the Communists who actually fund them and their totalitarian enablers.
While crooks, thieves and tyrants appear regularly throughout human history, these post-postmodern times are seeing a new low in crime—organized or not, incorporated or not, tax-paying or not.
Hey, try a little history. Corporations did not “stay in the correct lane.” They were out for control from the beginning. Someone – political will; commitment to limited government and competition — had to set limits.
“Correct lane,” “values and morals”!!! He is too sentimental about red-blooded, raw American history. Human nature does not change; only an agreement, a compact to set limits and the will to enforce it enables and protects a Republic.
Remember good old U.S. Robber Barons – 19th C corporate titans? What was the Sherman Anti-trust Act all about? American Progressive movement was about main street vs corporate control. Populism was about independent farmers against corporate control, especially railroads.
Why 17th Amendment? Because American corporate “totalitarians” at the time had bought up and controlled all local and regional governments.
Death instinct? Repetition compulsion? Do we finally get it?
I think it is up to the states, and state-citizens gathering the forces to get an election that counts – but the forces against are horrendous.
5th Column. Multinational corporations are a 5th Column.
Their corporate officers have a duty to their shareholders to betray America and plot against American interests wherever and whenever the interests of the corporation diverge from the best interests of America.
We need states willing to cancel their corporate charter; revoke their corporate standing.
They need to be punished for meddling in our elections. No corporation (for profit and non profit, religion, union, media, etc.) can walk into a voting location and lawfully cast a vote.
All corporate advocacy/funding in elections should be forbidden under penalty of law unless specially licensed to do so, such as a registered political party or registered campaign. It’s sedition for entities to do so.
The criminality, usurpation and sedition that consumes the lawful human citizen domain of the American commons are a direct product of promiscuous and predatory involvement by non-human persons in our political and election processes.
Our political and election process are the singular domain of the lawful American citizen human person.
Arcane as it sounds. This is as basic as it gets.
Our politics and legislative processes have been infiltrated and taken over by entities that cannot lawfully vote and their agents, officers and assigns.
Scalia, imo, helped to perpetuate this by ruling that corporations were people. This was echoed by Mittens. Many so called conservatives, were/are compromised.
@sonoftrump
You should check out podcasterSonnie Johnson (Did She Say That?) who has delved into the negative consequences of corporations being ruled as people.
Corporations are a collection of people (owners) just like unions (members). Yet the commies looked to outlaw corporate activity in an election while empowering unions because they were for their side. I am pretty sure with the commie pressure on the multinationals and their shift left they hold more favor with these America haters now.
Yes. Communism is monopoly. A criminal syndicate monopoly.
Part of the rhetorical problem is the conflation of “capitalism” with free market enterprise. Capitalism and free enterprise are in fatal conflict.
Free enterprise is what it says it is. Capitalism is first and foremost a monopoly on the access to capital.
Non human alien person. This is a reasonable construct. Corporations are a person in the law, but they are not a citizens, per se. Particularly when it comes to voting.
They are alien. They may be domesticated aliens that are present in the nation by license (corporate charter) under the jurisdiction of American law, but they are not Citizens of The United States.
These boundaries work, but cannot be effective if ignored and unenforced.
The original Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act held executives personally liable for the actions of their corporations. That has been converted with substantial immunity and indemnity.
This gives the corporation great advantage. Worse, it gives the corporate officers a type of “super citizen” status.
Allow this imperial malignancy to infiltrate our electoral politics and the right and lawful commons of the American Voter is rendered a mere formality. The unincorporated mass is effectively reduced to neofeudal subject status. Subjugated so, we then exist to be taxed and to serve the imperials, to be relentlessly driven by monetized disinformation until the preponderance become disoriented lemmings who vote by trigger word upon command.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Corporations are a extension of the political direction of whoever is leading their country. They will simply go along to succeed. Did that in Germany, Italy, Soviet Union, China et al. They will do as expected, no less. They must be channeled.
Too many in power have their hands in the pie.
A lot more people are seeing the corruption. PDJT has exposed all of it for years, yet nothing is done about it.
Big tech is dedicated to silencing anyone that goes against the machine. Even some high profile democrats.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/02/11/966902737/instagram-bars-robert-f-kennedy-jr-for-spreading-vaccine-misinformation
A brilliant friend of mine once observed that the capitalist ethic of free and unfettered competition is one that many a competitor wishes to apply to everyone except himself. He wants to be able to hobble his competitors, while they’re unable to do the same to him. When a company becomes large enough, it begins to look for ways to prevent competitors from threatening “its space.” In our era, the most common mechanism for this has been regulatory capture: the infiltration of allies into regulatory bureaucracies, who will thereafter bend the rules in the infiltrator company’s favor. George Stigler won a Nobel Prize for his work in this field; sadly, it’s been almost completely ignored.
Francis – maybe this is why Bezos is seal clapping for a corporate tax rate hike up to 28%. The squeeze will allow him to pick up low hanging fruit competitors that suffer with a 7 point hike.
In truth, corporations do not make money. Their shareholders and employees do.
What is taxed as income are retained earnings. Whatever money the corporation has left at the end of the income tax reporting period is removed and paid from what would otherwise be retained earnings. This is not income but capital being seized; operating capital that must otherwise be borrowed at additional cost of interest and fees.
This makes it a terribly regressive tax. This seizure of capital also occurs to individual income tax payers. Contemplate the impact of income tax upon your loss of retained earnings over the years.
There must be a better way to do this, but that is another discussion.
Non profits are allowed statutory exemption from income tax if they submit a plan to spend otherwise retained earnings upon allowable contributions as defined by statue. In theory, they are allowed to accumulate retained earnings untaxed provide they spend certain monies in a certain manner.
They are not really non-profits whatsoever. They may hoard monetary intake and pay huge salaries and benefits to insiders, and grant preferable contracts unethically or at exorbitant fees, hire consultants at great salaries and otherwise fund syndicated or cartelized interests, provided they fulfill the requirements of disbursing retained earnings according to statute.
The first lie the Foundation and Philanthropy hucksters tell you: “We’re non profit.”
The evidence of true non profit is enterprise abandoned.
Exactly!
In the name of environmentalism GE got the incandescent light bulb banned so they could all be replaced with GE manufactured compact fluorescent light bulbs containing mercury.
Thankfully, the more efficient LED bulbs became available.
Actually, Capitalism breeds monopoly and syndicate networks.
Free Enterprise breeds competition.
What good is Freedom if you have no Liberty?
These multi nationals brazenly offend their American customers with their woke actions and have no consequences because the United States is only four percent of the worlds population. The few that boycott them won’t affect their bottom line. It’s far more profitable for them to pay off our corrupt politicians to get the legislation that benefits them and destroys their competition. Thank you Sundance for all the sunshine you brighten our lives with.
Your foray into statistical analysis is alas a bust. America generates 25% of the economic output of the entire world. Americans possess some of the highest per capita incomes worldwide as well. When talking dollars and SENSE (in your instance), America does indeed count.
You should always consider why every manufacturer or service provider worldwide seeks to provide their product in the American marketplace. It is because it is the largest and most profitable market in the entire world. Money stills speaks when you are talking business activity,
Shut down your business
Forced you to lock down
Forcing thier drug on you
What could go wrong!
It wasn’t always thus and it won’t continue unchallenged indefinitely. Americans won’t allow that to happen.
Here’s a quote from President Coolidge regarding the motivations of the American people that closely aligns with Henry Ford’s opinions I posted yesterday:
““They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing, and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are moving impulses of our life.
“Wealth is the product of industry, ambition, character, and untiring effort. In all experience, the accumulation of wealth means the multiplication of schools, the increase of knowledge, the dissemination of intelligence, the encouragement of science, the broadening of outlook, the expansions of liberties, the widening of culture.
Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief means of existence. But we are compelled to recognize it as a means to well-nigh every desirable achievement. So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it.”
From: Calvin Coolidge, Foundations of the Republic (1926)
Posted this before , probably post it again .
For anybody that needs a primer on globalism .
Calling Kelly Turnbull………
Eventually the federal government will step-in to play a role and…
Of course the federal government will step in–they have to. After all, its ALL about power and control and the feds can’t allow states to thwart that power.
In almost every scenario where states buck the feds, I come back to the same thing: CWII.
It’s gonna take raw, brute, merciless force to take back our country–as the saying goes, you can vote yourself into socialism, but can’t vote yourself out.
I don’t see this ending any other way than a breakup of the Union. I predict in 20 years there will be Texit followed over the next decade by other rural states forming an L down the middle and across the bottom of the country.
We have to be honest with ourselves. These freedom-loving states are actively hated by the multinationals, the politicians, the entertainment industry, the press, academia, and honestly by a heck of a lot of common people in the liberal urban areas.
They don’t just think we’re funny or weird or stupid. They hate us and want to dominate and destroy. How do you fix that? I don’t have much interest in telling CA or NYC residents how to live their lives, I just want to be left the hell alone. They however insist that they should get to tell me how to live.
This evil cannot be allowed to destroy our country. If it takes lead and blood in the streets to crush them, so be it. Too many have made the ultimate sacrifice to allow this vermin to destroy it.
I agree sonoftrump. We must do whatever it takes or we will have betrayed not only the founders of this great country who gave their lives, sacred honor, etc. but the many who have given their lives to protect it since.
Help take over the Republican party so that lead and blood in the street is not required.
Charles, I agree at present. But it will take a patriotic military based in the states, along with a citizen militia to enforce “borders.” And it will take honest elections. Without this base, everything is up for grabs by the most corrupt and sociopathic – and there are too many around these days with an astonishing amount of money, much of it taxpayers’ and drug and baby-parts and human trafficking. Probably “foreign governments” – Chinese – are “contributing their fair share,” too.
Corparotism – easy money slavers.
They should have never taught us to read.
As incompetent as they are, a fourth grade educated , mover and shaker, could compete with them.
He knows how to be on time, calls when he can’t.
He has to finish his chores at home.
He likes to win, tell the truth and doesn’t cheat.
He is honorable and honest, something the left doesn’t recognize.
Accepting any contributions from any big tech corporation by a political candidate should be an instant disqualification.
Yes indeed Caleb. We need to have a updated list of these traitors.
Notice how some Senators only meet with representatives of institutions, industries or corporations, for profit and not.
They are not representatives of the people.
They do not meet with American Citizens. They only meet American Citizens or other people in their role as an agent, member or employee of an organization, institution or other corporate entity, foreign and domestic.
Corporations ARE government.
They want a government of governments. They are anti-mutual. They are anti-individual.
This is fundamentally anti-American.
Last year I read a book called Google Archipelago by Michael Rectenwald.
It is an interesting read and fits in handily with this discussion and how the left moved from its old playbook of representing the economically disparaged to the societal disparaged and shifted the means to their end from governments to multinationals that benefit from the same intersectional identity divisions that has become the golden rule of leftist politics.
Sundance nails the difference between corporations and multinationals. Multinationals are the head of the snake that must be cut off. That is going to require much more than simple boycotts that never reach the critical mass to hurt a multinational’s pocketbook.
“The most dangerous animal on the planet is not the cape buffalo, but the intellectual with “a plan”
Many intellectuals despise capitalism then not because it is undemocratic but precisely because it is democratic: Capitalism responds to the inelegant tastes of the marketplace rather than to the more “progressive” judgements of its resentful critics. In the process it places economic power in the hands of crass business people who, in the activist’s opinion, are less enlightened, less intelligent , less well-educated and less worthy than he is.
“The most dangerous animal on the planet is not the cape buffalo, but the intellectual with “a plan”. Quoting Paul Johnson he says “So, one of the lessons of our century is: Beware the intellectual. Not merely should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice.”
https://mailchi.mp/goodandprosper.com/why-are-entrepreneurs-always-depicted-as-dodgy
This is exactly why they hated me in my occupation, now retired, as a small business banker. Small businesses sometimes grow into large businesses that compete well with corporate behemoths. It is why W tried to take down the industry by tanking the SBA through the efforts of the Heritage Foundation and the RINO GOP. Fortunately we were able to get enough help from non-Bushies, despite uni-partiest John Kerry’s best efforts to sabotage, to restore the industry that is a lifeline to small businesses.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
True then, truer now.
WHY does Tucker Carlson start his story with:
“We’re sad to report tonight that the venerable NY Post newspaper crossed the line this week.”
More generally –
Why do conservatives insist on adopting the language of the Left?
Yes, I understand Carlson was being sarcastic.
Here’s the problem –
The morons whose minds must somehow be change DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT.
All they know is that they hear EVERYONE talking like this, so it must be “normal.”
Don’t let the multinationals do business in your state if they are woke.
Don’t forget the ideological factor in this. Multinationals are governed by their boards of directors. They are fully committed leftists. Think Bezos. Think Gates. Their ideology dovetails in helping their individual wealth. But they would still support the leftwing agenda even if it means their US operations are financially hurt.
The multibillion dollar sports industry, Hollywood, cable TV, news media, and other industries have seen large reductions in their business and yet their response has been to double down. They would love to rake in more money but they value their ideology more.
Up till now, these corporations could use the power of corruption (especially with Republicans) to do their bidding and lock out or destroy any competition. That is why it is vital that alternative companies are politically supported by individual conservatives. The example is Chic fil A. They were targeted by the left but saw significant business growth.
Alternative companies must be encouraged and supported. Conservative entrepreneurs should establish a startup association so they can market themselves to conservative consumers. In turn, we must be willing to accept higher prices while they establish themselves and grow to a size where they can generate economy of scale.
We need action. Talk is getting us nowhere. Conservatives must individually cut their purchases and support for fascist leftwing multinationals. This will show the demand side of the market. It will stimulate the supply side of the equation and finally do something to fight back.
BREAK THEM UP!
Anti-trust and price fixing laws are already on the books, but not enforced because the Kleptocracy has bought off a majority of the stooges we incorrectly call ‘Representatives’.
I believe it was in 2009, Jeff Immelt, then CEO of GE, and later head of Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (the council never met once), posted a letter on the GE internal website for employees. Jeff stated that the new way going forward was for companies in the US to form partnerships with the government.
GE was in serious trouble when the credit markets froze in 2008 and GE Capital couldn’t refinance the billions of dollars in commercial paper they floated. They were bailed out and the hooks were planted.
One brave employee objected and pointed out that this was classical fascism as defined by Mussolini himself. A few of us didn’t think it was a good idea either, but most of the overseas employees who commented, especially in India, thought it was just a great thing.
Later GE started sending appeals to salaried employees for donations to a GE PAC so “our voices could be heard”. They actually had donation suggestions based on your salaries employee classification. It felt like a shakedown and I never contributed.
I could spend an hour on how bad Jeff Immelt was, but that’s another topic.
Here’s an old Daily Beast article that highlights some of the Obama corporatism.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jobs-boss-jeffrey-immelt-illustrates-obamas-entrepreneur-problem
“A slow awakening amid conservatives?… Is there hope?”
Sorry, Sundance, I am just stunned you should even pose that question.
This is not the time to waver and doubt the American people and their ability to rise up and defend the Republic. This is a time for leaders to step forward, not stand on the sidelines wringing their hands.
Throughout history there have been struggles around the world as people finally rise up and throw out the tyrants who believe they are the governors and the people exist to be governed.
China in the dynastic era is an example. Even then the people were canny. There was saying in those days: “The emperor is far away and the mountains are high.” That was an era when the emperor literally ruled everything.
As an example, when the first mechanical clocks began to appear in Europe, one was taken to China to be presented to the emperor. He was hugely delighted with it. To him it was a wonderful toy and no more. You see, he ‘owned’ time itself. The comings and goings in the palace were all arranged according to the emperor’s schedule. There was no other time allowed to any other person.
As crazy as things are today, as much as those who think they ‘own’ everything show their contempt for We The People, they haven’t yet reached the extreme of the Chinese emperor.
Remember – Washington is far away and the hills are high. The people know the time.
THE TIME IS NOW!!!
Gosh….all this time I’ve been laboring under the misapprehension that WE, YOU and ME, pay those DC A$$es salaries. /s
This makes my heart hurt.
Benito Mussolini said that Fascism should be called Corporatism. Let that sink in.
I recommend the following action because it is the only one that will render a good result. History proves this.
When Israel got out of line and forgot about God, they were cut down in various ways.
God rescued Israel, but only after Israel repented of sin and asked God for help.
God did not rescue Israel until that happened, until Israel repented and asked God for help.
It is tragic to see America with Marxist hands around her throat. We are being throttled.
But we have not repented. In fact, many do not even begin to understand how sinful a nation we have become.
That’s going to make it that much harder to understand the answer. We cannot vote ourselves out of this. We cannot find a magic leader who is going to give us the answers.
Only a repentant nation that turns to God and asks for His blessing and help has a chance.
So the answer, turn to Jesus Christ and ask. Repent. Change your ways. Stop sinning. Ask God to help you and our nation.
All else is human folly. God has the answer, and amazing things will happen, answers we could not have foreseen and victories we could not have imagined, but not for an unrepentant nation.
Yes, evangeline, we should all be praying for forgiveness. God has not asked that the entire nation pray this but has called all who bear his name to repent. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2nd Chronicles 7:14 We do not deserve it but we can pray for His mercy.
That is a cop out. The answer is to take action and rely on ourselves. Help take over the Republican party.
The process…
Years ago the assault on government maintenance and government services started….
Services like garbage collection is my example…
So the salesman comes in and says..to the city managers I guarantee privatizing garbage collection will save the city money…. at least 10%…
So the city takes a gamble and puts it out for bid..
Sure enough the company bids 10% below their operating cost..
So I asked how can you do that..
He replied.. in two years the city will re-assign the workers and sell the garbage trucks… once that is done we can raise prices and the city is helpless.. because they no longer have the means to collect the garbage..
Public health is no longer controlled by the public.. public health no longer work for the citizens..
Any problems is not politician fault…
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Billion dollar contracts from our government to Bezos.. Microsoft..big Pharma . who will bribe/corrupt officials to not go back to the old system where government answered to its citizens.
FDA officials go from government positions to high level pharma companies..
Dr Scott Gottlieb often seen on CBS.. is presented as a former FDA commissioner.. commenting on the vaccine and other issues.. they forget to mention.. he works for Pfizer.. regulation/compliance..
link https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/09/dr-scott-gottlieb-pfizer-covid-vaccine-wont-help-immediately.html
Link https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/dr-scott-gottlieb-sees-role-for-digital-covid-vaccine-passports-.html
It also appears he is involved with the cruise industry requiring vaccine passports..
Yes private companies .. running a nation for private profits ..
These corporations aren’t taking these woke positions because they believe it will increase sales, they are doing it to avoid boycotts and lawsuits from the left. Until conservatives learn to play this game, we will continue to lose. We need a few strong leaders to organize boycotts and target one or two corporations at a time and destroy their sales. The other tactic is to buy stock, in say Coke, and when these CEOs make stupid decisions, sue them. It will take thousands of conservatives to be effective but there are millions of us who can afford to buy a few shares of stock. Once you own the stock, you have standing to sue.
Stop buying “Sugar Water”.
Many “Big Corporations”
Many “Big Suppliers”
Many “Big Positions via the Markets”
Many Buy/Sell commissions/profits
Many TAXES
UNTOLD EXFILTRATION of WEALTH…
Cuz of “Sugar Water”.
Sugar (7 teaspoons in “1” can of coke… not to mention ALL the rest)
SUGAR!
Simple SUGAR!
Think of the links…
suppliers, processors, transportation, taxes, portfolio managers, taxes, bonuses, private jets, State/Country GDP’s, taxes, private getaways, private islands, private meetings, taxes, private handshakes…
in the chain leading to a can of “Sugar Water”!!
How many links will quiver if WE start rattling The SUGAR Chain?
STOP BUYING…
SUGAR WATER
Nothing Personal
It’s just Bidness
What these multi-national, globalist corporations really want, and what we increasingly have, has a name. It’s called FASCISM!
Anyone who knows anything about the political-economic structure of Nazi Germany will recognize this.
The Cruise industry dilemma
So I’m a cruiser.. love it ..
And after a year of forced closure it looks like ships can plan to taking passengers again..to those great destinations..
But what about those vaccination requirements..
Those vaccination passports..
Well there is a little bit of a problem..
pResident Biden says no vaccination passport required.. Gov DeSantis says ships can’t dock in Florida if cruise lines requires them..
Ex FDA Commissioner Dr Gottlieb now working for Pfizer and a consultant to several cruise lines is recommending people to have vaccination passports.
Link https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/dr-scott-gottlieb-sees-role-for-digital-covid-vaccine-passports-.html
So I booked a cruise.. with no clear indication if I have to provide proof of a vaccination…
But I read that Covid is so smart that cruise ship passengers under 18 will not be required to provide proof of vaccination..
Funny I don’t need proof of vaccinations to go into Wall mart with all those shoppers…
I don’t need a vaccination to go and eat at a restaurant..
I don’t need a vaccination to fly from Florida to Seattle..
So if my desire is to go and enjoy some days at sea with good service what do I do..
I bet that a high percentage of cruisers will not get vaccinated just to cruise.. are cruise lines willing to loose 50 percent of their clientele..
So what will cruise lines do..
Offer non required vaccinated cruises..
I will cancel my cruise before I succumb to this tyrany.. I like to cruise I DONT NEED TO CRUISE.
I think that will be very apparent.
MAGA
I think the free market will tap into those that don’t want to get vaccinated, but for Cruise Ships and the like, you may need to sign a liability wavier should you contact the virus and suffer a bad outcome. Which I’m fine with.
Ironically even those that have taken the low duration experimental synthetic pathogen injection may need to sign the very same liability wavier for Cruise Ships that require it.
Think of the underlying economic philosophy of multi-nationals in terms of a business math model. Managers, Bankers and techno-crats who understand these models put major emphasis on key terms and factors that are the inputs resulting in a bottom line out put AND just as importantly there is focus on the volatility and variation that can impact the INPUTS.
When the models are discussed, of course time is spent on the outputs to make the managers happy but most of the time is really spent by the smart guys (Bankers and technocrats) in the room focused on the inputs and CONTROLLING variation and volatility.
Capitalism = a potential for varying levels variation in inputs (RISK), which BANKERS and Financiers HATE.
Bankers and Finaciers who own and pay for everything demand as near zero variation (RISK) as is possible in the cost and in expected profits.
This is the cold hard mathematical basis of Corporate fascism and the actions taken by their puppets to control the inputs.
States speaking up differently would result in alliances like we have never seen.
the biggest question is – can americans in blue states win their state over – or are blue states conquered and tyranny will just get worse when “states speak up”
Marxism is the virus. The CCP, Democrats, Red Pope, etc… and all their attacks on the West are the delivery vehicle.
Sundance is correct about control. Thinking about this, I wonder if the left has changed tactics from trying to push socialism communism through government processes, which has failed, to now using the corporatism?
An example of the control thing has been shown this very week. Fauchi refused to give “metrics” as Jimmy Jordan put it, for when this will all end. Fauchi either is stupid or is refusing to put numbers on things. He says when the risk is low. Well, when is that? It can be measured and likely will show itself when the vulnerable have hit herd immunity. Estimates have been 50-80 percent vaccinated and or gotten the virus.
He purposefully did not throw out a number because when those numbers get here restrictions should end, which ends the control. Leaving it open ended allows them to continue control.
I would suggest that when the covid death rate is equal or less than the flu death rate, we’re done, it’s over. Otherwise they have no basis to continue the control unless you put the same controls in place for the flu. Obviously those rates will be argued but again, if we are at the point of debating similar numbers, it is also over.
Life is risk. Driving to get your vaccine shot is probably more chance of dying than getting covid.
Balkanization is coming.
Speaking of nazis, corporatism is exactly what went on in nazi Germany under the likes of IG Farben, Bayer, Mercedes Benz, Siemens, et al.
Corporate multi Nationals play the game of Government picks the winners. Voters better get smart fast. Why is it that when Trump wrote an executive order there was always a judge ready to stop him. Now, biden writes 50 executive orders and NOT ONE judge attempts to stop him. WHY?
This is not about hating capitalism.
It’s about imposing one party rule and compelling everyone to parrot the party line.
Democratic Party rule and the Democratic Party line.
Fascism, as defined by Mussolini, is the merger of state and corporations.
It’s not that MNCs don’t like capitalism. Of course they like capitalism.
It’s that Big Tech is aligned with the Democratic Party. Big Tech and the MSM are a tool of Democratic Party political elites.
Dems have chosen to target, stifle, and criminalize the opposition. They are using the MSM and Big Tech toward this end.
Separately, many corporations have jumped on the “Woke” bandwagon. They’re virtue-signalling and trying to out-woke
one another with gestures that appeal to subscribers to CRT. Corporations mimic one another. It’s called “institutional isomorphism.” If one corporation successfully implements some change, all the others imitate it. Currently, the trend is to show how “woke” the corporation is. Quality standards / metrics are out the window.
But, please, don’t mistake this for “hating capitalism.” No, it’s about implementing fascism.
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The corporations over time folded to the demands of the demirats because they were threatened with litigation for racism, diversity, and anything else the demirats would dream up. The demirats also provided protection of their interests if they complied. It’s all a big quid pro quo and payoffs to serve each other in the pursuit of the liberal marxist agenda. The fact that so many CEOs lack courage and morals to do the right thing is now fully exposed. Many corporatism are now part of the marxist agenda. They are no longer good American citizens.