West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore lead the way earlier this year in removing Wall Street financial firms from holding state funds due to ‘Environmental, Social and Governance’ or ‘ESG’ climate change ideology driving investment decisions.
West Virginia had been the tip of the spear since early 2021 {link} removing Blackrock in January of 2022, and even removed banking contracts from multiple investment firms during the battle and asked other states to join in the effort {link}.
Today, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced the DeSantis administration would be following the lead from West Virginia.
[FLORIDA] – […] State Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced Thursday that Florida will immediately freeze about $1.43 billion in long-term securities and about $600 million in short-term overnight investments managed by BlackRock because of the firm’s use of “Environmental, Social, and Governance” standards — known as ESG.
Patronis in a prepared statement said he doesn’t “trust BlackRock’s ability to deliver” and “BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is on a campaign to change the world.”
“Whether stakeholder capitalism, or ESG standards, are being pushed by BlackRock for ideological reasons, or to develop social credit ratings, the effect is to avoid dealing with the messiness of democracy,” Patronis said.
Republican leaders in Florida and across the country have targeted ESG ratings, which can involve considering a wide range of issues in investments, such as companies’ climate-change vulnerabilities; carbon emissions; racial inequality; product safety; supply-chain labor standards; privacy and data security; and executive compensation.
Patronis said the state Department of Financial Services oversees about $60 billion and that the money with BlackRock will be moved “elsewhere.” (read more)
As part of the ongoing 2024 positioning effort, the ConInc influencers in/around Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to claim Florida had led the way on the initiative. However, the reality of DeSantis as a bandwagoneer is brutally obvious to anyone who followed the previous effort and the backlash against West Virginia.
It’s good to see Florida join the effort.
I’m glad Florida followed West Virginia’s lead in pulling money away from BlackRock.
Thank you @RileyMooreWV for leading the way on this many months ago. pic.twitter.com/aTh8LfilC0
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) December 1, 2022
Thank you @JimmyPatronis!! Florida now joins a growing list of states who have moved money out of BlackRock.
WV was the first to do this almost a year ago and now the list just keeps growing. This is how win!! https://t.co/VntubHPzgh
— Riley Moore (@RileyMooreWV) December 1, 2022
It is about time normal people and normal states hit back like the left does.
It may be cynical by DeSanctimonious but somebody has to do it.
Again, Ron leads from the safety of behind.
Abbott will follow suit in about 3 months after carefully calibrating his finger to the wind direction
Talk about leading from the safety of behind…Abbot has a PhD in that field.
Abbott also has an enormous hat, although I’ve yet to see any cattle in his herd.
True…but a veritable drover compared to O’Rourke, whom he should have beaten by much more than he did.
“All Hat, No Horse”.
Incorrect, “All hat, no cattle.”
It’s the effort that counts! :>)
Or, I never knew a creek had water until I left Texas. My personal favorite.
Abbott could have balled up and shut down the border 2 years ago instead of allowing the costly disaster to happen. Now we’re toast. I blame him in part. F the Federal govt. Take care of the border.
But John Cornyn will be no where to be seen or heard, hidden behind Turtle’s coattails.
On gun control you’ll hear him plenty.
We will hear him on amnesty or upping the immigration visas allowed way too much as well. ugh!!!
He’s working on that now. He calls it “bipartisanship”.
I call it whoring for the Chamber of Commerce, his paymasters.
The Senate point man on H1-B visas is the recently re-elected Mike Lee (R – Mumbai).
Former judge, that says it all. Worthless Rino.
Speaking of the turtle, Levin is reporting tonight that he is leading a charge by liberal (I use the term very loosely) Republicans and dems to get Upton, a GOPer who voted for impeachment, to be the new Speaker, who would decide all the chairmanships.
Damn, I despise that creature!
I thought Fred Upton was packing it in after the current Congress concludes?
In addition to divestments from South Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, West Virginia, and Utah, the government of Texas said that BlackRock and nine other firms had violated state law by “refusing to deal with” companies involved in the production and use of fossil fuels “without an ordinary business purpose.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-pulling-2-billion-from-blackrock-as-company-pushes-social-engineering-with-taxpayer-dollars
Maybe…
What has happened since he “Declared an Invasion” on the Southern border?
Abbott claims he did this months ago.
Hmm…great minds…
DeSanctimonious leads from behind the poll testing
Ron DeSantis is a Swamp Rat HIDING BEHIND a Maga Mask.
He’s from the network.
JD from Harvard.
I hate to generalize, but look what the politicians that graduated from Harvard and Yale have done to our republic in the last 35 years. They have been a disaster to the fabric of the nation.
FDR
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
This needs to be regularly highlighted.
And that’s just the presidents.
Start with Schumer in the congress, and then look at the courts and the bureaucracy. The network has been destroying the country for decades.
They are embedded everywhere, including the media. Next time you hear Never Trumper Ben Shapiro shilling for DeSantis, know he has JD from Harvard too.
They’re all Freemasons or Skull and Bones who take their paths to their “craft” (witchcraft) They have NO allegiance to the Constitution and will cover all of each other’s crimes.
I saw General Flynn cover his eye then flash the 666 symbol on Wardroom with Steve Bannon. We are in a true physical and spiritual battle globally.
Oaths
Shapiro is one who really gets under my skin….I cannot listen to him…and don’t and won’t.
I think after losing Rush….the ‘younger’ generation is aspiring to such greatness, scrambling to ‘make their mark’……and it will never happen….
Rush was “On loan from God”…
Plant and Pags are doing an excellent job. Plant knows the media inside out and Pags never wavers from MAGA.
See my upthread post…LOL…
Or as the irreplaceable and estimable Thomas Sowell said…
“Whenever there is a disaster, you can always find a man from Harvard in the middle of it.”
I love that man, a true national treasure.
Hi Betsy…I am awake at 0149 CST, with a nice cup of coffee…I posted the same thing upthread, sorry for the repeat, Treepers…but truth, no matter what….
This little furball oh my gosh…He has a set of lungs on him…woke me up howling…I thought he was a huge dog for a minute…anyway, puppy now sleeping, me…not so much!
The Ivy League, home to all of those satanic secret societies perpetrating evil upon the world.
All of the above clowns are alumni.
PS: FDR was a tad bit earlier than 35 years ago….
A wise man once said…:
“In every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.” -Thomas Sowell Want more quotes, articles, …(googleedeegoo).
US and Them
Pink Floyd
PF forever.
“Florida Governor Follows West Virginia…” Who should be second? Let’s not throw out the good because it isn’t perfect. It’s a good move regardless of Ron’s ‘DeSanctimoniousness’.
Gag me
I will give credit where due…he must be for Florida right now, so he has a narrow path to drive he gubernatorial limo—
Turnpike versus Wall Street.
Keep in mind though, he is being ‘developed’ right now, by marketing experts…he is very slow and cautious to take a stance on anything (like the raid on MAL…)…
The marketing people have a tough job for now…
And RDS, is a ‘disruptive competitor’…
.The “disruptive competitor’ follows on the coat tails of the product they are ‘trying’ to emulate while also trying to ‘capture’ a portion of that ‘market’.
for the record, I pay property taxes in the sunshine state.
Addendum….
RDS is carefully crafting a ‘legitimate’ “Executive” resume…
To be used at a later date.
So … the 2nd man behind the man leading the charge doesn’t deserve any credit? Someone comes up with a great idea and I copy it … I’m worthless?
You people have DeSantis Derangement Syndrome.
I’m totally a President Trump supporter but you people need a life.
Every president up until Trump was not mega wealthy, they had to get funding from someone. That someone we may not always like but after Trump moves on I see no one who will not be beholden to others as has been done until a man who could fund himself came along, DeSantis is doing the standard drill.
Another argument in favor of doing something about the excesses spurred by Citizen’s United, as Sundance suggested a few days ago.
Just my opinion, but taking $100 from 30 million of us is acceptable, even desirable. (beholden to the voters)
Taking 100 million from any Wall Street/multi national corp type will never be acceptable.
If votes and voters really counted more than ballots, I think most of the money could be removed from campaigns altogether. A representative either serves the people or they serve special interests. I think the result is determined by where the money “required” came from.
Same people who yell that DeSantis got cash from a Chicago Hedge Fund will blissfully ignore Trump’s deep ties and favors to Larry Fink’s BlackRock. DeSantis has yet to provide any sinecure to that big donor but Larry Fink has pocketed a few billion from business Trump shuffled his way when POTUS. I do not ignore hypocrisy because “my guy” did it. That is one of the core sources of the corruption.
I agree completely. I still support Trump but this strange DeSantis Derangement is simply hypocrisy since Trump somehow gets slack for the exact same thing. Trump filled his admin with swamp creatures but I’m supposed to just ignore that and hate on DeSantis.
What exactly do you think his motivation is for doing this?
Judging by your monicker, you are a Led Zeppelin fan?
I was going to say the same thing! FollowSantis is what he is
Eh? Trump was/is tied to BlackRock. He gave them the UST bond selling business amongst other goodies. Stop forgetting who plays with who when it is Trump. It is just as important as who plays with DeSantis. Do not be hypocrites.
Both sides Trump told us that in the first debate. Watch the Chris Rock clip if it’s forgotten.
Bumper sticker:
No Risk Ron.
Meanwhile Trump got rolled by Milo and a tool named Ye.
Yes, next thing you know Ron will invite Ye and Nick to dine with him.
Similar to his gloaming onto Gregg Abbott’s immigrant bus delivery program. Haven’t heard about additional buses from FL going to NYC, DC or Chitown.
I don’t see the point in snarky attacks on Gov. DeSantis. Many acitivists worked to get him elected. Insulting him is insulting us. For what purpose.
NO ONE is abandoning Trump for DeSantis or anyone else. Please, dividing the activist base is NOT HELPFUL
Agree. We support who we support and nobody on a website is going to change our minds. It’s not like we’re lo-info or anything. So why bother?
Gettin’ lots of headlines as if he’s the first, too, I’ve noticed. And when PDT said to vote for: and announced all the people he endorsed during his last rally, in OH, poor Eric Schmitt got barely a lukewarm clapping– people don’t know he’s leading the charge for what Tracy Beanz calls the “most important case of its kind” AND the one that has “gotten further in the courts than any so far.”
Even Abbott got more applause. God bless our strong state officials!
Pence in a Skirt (Noem) would have run away from this like a scared school girl.
She is nauseating.
why?
See: scared of NCAA over allowing men to compete in women’s sports. Just as Pence walked back his religious freedom bill as soon as it was signed.
See: callous attitude towards workers who lose jobs over vaccine mandates.
See: her 50 some ACU rating in Congress.
She is actually very attractive for a governor!
She is physically attractive in general. But so are the Ca. Gov. and a whole bunch of leftists in New York and Hollyweird.
You think hair gel Newsom is attractive? I thought he was alone in that opinion.
He looks like the Batman Joker, an evil projection, incarnate.
What exactly is it that makes you call Noem Pence in a skirt?
Casting people off the Island is all the rage. And likely will be until just about no one is left.
I see your still here, lol.
Trying to cast him off the island via snarky and smarm, looks good on ya as a reply. He is dead assed right on. The Republican party will be a left a hive of carpetbaggers and rockefeller “muh war stocks are paying dividends” repugs, hoodwinked and reactive zio-evangelicals and political idol worshippers. The purity tests are bogus and I have watched the lot of such shitcan one ally after the next in their quest for the rainbow unicorn of the perfect conservativism ideologue. The ism’s are out the door in this century. Rugged individualism is the only philosophy that will survive this century.
Zio-evangelicals is a very interesting description that packs a lot into one hyphenated word.
Pence is in a class of his own.
I would not use “class” in the same sentence with Pence.
Minus the c and l.
Good one.
Pence sat for an interview with Greta earlier this evening (Newsmax). I decided to take one for the team and forced myself to listen to the exchange.
Conclusion: IMO VP Pence’s dereliction of duty on 1/6/21 had far less to do with his limited understanding of VP duties embedded in the Constitution, than it did with following the marching orders given him by the RNC’s Wall St donors determined to rid themselves of POTUS DJT.
Pièce de résistance: Pence has written a book! From the interview topic thread surfaced the jewel that he is back to extolling the virtue of the depth of the sincerity of his supreme Christian-ness. Wow. So the Murdoch’s have paid De Santis – I wonder who is bank-rolling His Supreme Incomparable Highness Pence.
Thanks for that, I couldn’t do it.
Judus Pence will never change.
He ain’t Christian. He is a classic zio-evangelical. They love to wear their faux xtianity on their shirtsleeves and pray on the streetcorner so all will know of their righteousness whilst dark deeds are done dirt cheap on the side. Dude smells like a gay pedo to me.
Hey! Pence-in-a-skirt just banned TikTok from all S.Dakota government devices. That move will definitely bring the inflation down, the oil production up, and the threat of government totalitarianism gone in a short time.. /s
https://www.foxnews.com/media/south-dakota-governor-ban-tiktok-state-agencies-warning-security-threat
It’s not a zero-sum thing Are you saying she should not have banned a Chicom espionage tool from government devices (like the Biden regime will not)?
That’s not even close to what I was saying. I’m saying that she apparently expects big kudos over this move but in comparison it means relatively very little to MAGA or Main Street.
It only affects devices used by SD government employees. Of course it’s a positive move by and of itself, but that’s ALL she’s done recently. She has been AWOL with all the MAGA / anti-MAGA controversies with which the GOP is internally embroiled and for which the MAGA side she could have voiced support but didn’t.
Yer violating Dept. of Agroculture hogwashing regs.
Didn’t Trump ban TikTok? Chinese company making kids stupid with short attention spans while China restricts their kids from social media/ video games?
No one is as brave as Trump but this is a good move, and I hope it includes schools. She was also the ONLY governor who did not shut down her state.
It’s everything – we’re being attacked from all angles. I hope more Governors ban evil TikTok
No one who I know is saying it is not a good move but by itself it means very little to MAGA. What else has Noem done to promote MAGA / Main Street / middle class non-woke values?
What the hell is this molarkey that every bloody politicaL move has to have an explicit MAGA agenda. Keep shooting yourselves in the foot and tighten those ideological blinders. The enemy is terrified of the decimation by friendly fire taking out our own ranks.
If it isn’t MAGA it isn’t any different from the same old lame GOPe / Uniparty go-along-to-get-along garbage that got us to this miserable totalitarian state we’re currently dealing with.
If you don’t understand the critical importance of the entire range of policy changes and departure from appeasing Wall Street and refocusing the economy back to Main Street (exactly what “MAGA” represents), I can’t bring you up to speed in a single comment. It would require a book. The one Sundance has written over the past 7 years chapter by chapter.
It would be fine if she did one thing that had a MAGA agenda and didn’t worship at the altar Koch.
From what I’ve come to understand, she wanted to shut the state down but the legislature said no and was going to prevent it.
She took the credit though.
To be fair, banning TikTok is sound policy. Plenty of other reasons to dislike/distrust Noem on other grounds.
Again, no one including me said it wasn’t a sound policy in and by itself. My point, again, is that this alone fails to qualify Noem as pro-MAGA / America First, or deserving of our trust and confidence. She has taken several isolated actions over the past 3 years that were positive but she also passed up several rather obvious opportunities to prove her anti-corporate GOPe loyalties.
She has apparently fooled a lot of Treepers into believing she’s a full-on supporter of President Trump and MAGA policies. This is incorrect.
LOL , she is not impressing the CTH crowd now is she ?
Not in a long while.
We don’t ask to be impressed. We want real substantive actions that positively impact the people and correct the major issues of Uniparty corruption.
It’s a tough crowd that expects perfection and total devotion to Trump
Not to Trump. To what Trump stands for. To MAGA.
Yeah..and the 200-300 posting here are no indicative of the wider audience on our side. Read comments sections on other sites and the attitude here is not prevalent so don’t get into back slapping till victory over the massed forces arrayed against you is n the rear view mirror. Yer gonna need allies. Even ones who can’t hit the bullseye every time they shoot.
These are people who appear to be aiming for the target when in fact, they are not and never will.
They are the Judas kiss
Looking for genuine conviction, honor and integrity.
Dont want, or need another sidler
Just a reminder….John Cardillo, Kurt Schlicter and Jesse Kelly are fake MAGA. That is all. Thanks.
Agreed on Kurt. Crap he’s writing about Trump via Town Hall and giving D the nod.
Ron D is leading at the moment in one thing…… outing the RINO side of the swamp
*inadvertently* (I suspect)
Didn’t Kurt have some financial issues a while back?
I wonder if that problem “resolved itself”?
Didn’t Trump have some financial issues that Soros and Larry Fink and a few other Khazarian Mafia Capos helped him out of? Do not pretend that your white sepulchre is not of bones either. Or could t be that money does not make on beholden. Guess it depends how one runs their own life to make decisions about what other men would do in their shoes. Could be that those who see corruption via cheque would do so in their own lives.
I don’t think you understand MAGA. The more you smear it the leader of the movement, the more its followers see the smear tactics for what they are. They’ve seen ’em for six years and counting and are gettin’ real good at pickin’ ’em out. It’s kinda like MAGA’s so ornery that the more the smear, the more we know we’re on the right track. This just isn’t a good place for MAGA-smearin’…
It’s not going to work. Six years of thinking over our positions is not going to change because of another TDS sufferer or Never Trumper. We’re in it until WE see the actions for ourselves, not until somebody on a website posts a smear.
Okay, said my piece…more than once. Now I’ll go back to my usual preaching about why RDS needs to be the prototype for a new kind of GOP strong state official so we can walk away from tyrannical federal actions like covid mandates that threaten our health and freedom and bragging about Eric Schmitt.
Sorry, off-topic. Irrelevant opinion and speculation.
Flag on the field….10 yard penalty…!
Another chuckle for the day
<Flag on the field….10 yard penalty…!>
Roughing the poster 🙂
Nah…check Sundance’s twitter feed.
Never liked Kurt, Bannon, or Tricker.
This whole long mess of covid, stolen election, ESG, global effort of communism all now seems like just a bad dream that I cannot wake up from. Good, hope Black Rock and friends fail at this effort.
We are experiencing the intensification of the angelic conflict…….
Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
All those unrighteous people who tirelessly work against us and against the common good, are under the influence of those forces mentioned above.
Thanks GB
AMEN!
Praise the Lord!
Much more has been loosened in the last few decades.
It is ramping up quite rapidly.
Anything can happen Dee.
Got that right.
If a State wanted to be really radical it would step away from investing in multinational corporations! How about being the 1st state to invest ONLY in AMERICAN COMPANIES.
What a concept. Invest in America First.
Only if Congress gets their 10%
plus another 10% for the big guy…
Invest in Main Street brick and mortar only on US soil, English plus native language spoken by US employees working under US employment laws, US sourced ingredients, components; and a Made In America label. What’s wrong with winning? What’s wrong with Politicians and Corporations who want to win and have the most money but don’t want America to be first or rich?
January 1, sell all retirement accounts and cash out all bank accounts. If a few million people did only that, combined with some solid infrastructure hits like a rail and truck strike, then we could get the music started. Why Jan 1? New tax year. Sand in the machinery.
Doesn’t take one bomb, bullet or bioweapon. Those are the purview of the enemy; that’s what they use on us, and have been. Completely non-violent for those who eschew perpetrating violence on the Communists. Need overwatch? Let us know.
Already cashed out of banks and in a credit union and out from under our mortgage by seriously downgrading house. But I like the way you think. Starve the multinational corporations, every single day.
Buy used, make do, use what you have and try to fix what you have.
Done that all my life, but sure am glad someone buys it and breaks it in, then I’ll take it!
Excellent advice.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without— Mom, my growing up years, heard it a million times. (You can tell what era she grew up in)
Plans in place Dunes! Yep, time to starve the beast.
IF, and only if, folks have the means to do so, it’s time to move your very hard-earned money out of the major so-called banks.
I have also made plans for Jan 1, 2023…no one, including any judiciary or the SC is going to stop what’s coming in a few short weeks.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting anything I’ve not already done personally. I’ve done much, much more but that’s not within the topic of this thread.
We have power in numbers. Heck, it looks like the soldiers are going to be in masks again. Opportunity abounds. If only we’d use it and not get lost in the bread and circuses. Then again, I’ve never been a political debater or wordsmith. I built widgets my whole life.
Do you have a widget to avoid taxes?
Downsize and divest until they leave you alone. It can be done. Not particularly comfortable in many respects, but it’s my goal.
Thanks, I’ve been waiting for a plan. I no longer trust our elections. I’ve put away the belief elections represent the Will of the People. They do not. Free speech is the only legitimate vote of the People. We must not trust enemies to deliver mere pieces of paper.
I’m not waiting for 2024. Nor am I voting in 2024. Done. I’m no longer a supporter of Democracy. Or of Republicans, though I’ve been a life long conservative Republican. Winners are pre determined by how much money they can deliver in four or eight years to their Donors.
I’ve allowed the tumor of Democracy to be severed from myself. Democracy; infiltrated and corrupted. Like a tumor, Democracy has taken on a life of it’s own, we are it’s Host.
The unexpected value of today’s elections is the diagnosis that our Politicians and elections ooze corruption like Prostitutes trading themselves for money.
Our gain is the uncovering of dirty money, secret clubs, disrespecters of our sovereign borders, collusion with foreign powers, we didn’t vote for, to remove our laws, degrade US Citizenship, sell off our land to foreigner’s who give away nothing back, give away what is ours to strangers and criminals and change your will (vote) to their will.
Our votes are being hi-jacked by the dutiful minions of the Puppeteer Klaus Schwab, his boyfriend and his “Disciples” who indeed, worship Schwab as he awards nations to them to rule over. That should sound familiar to some of you.
The illusion has a short life span while the Actors are still auditioning for titles, land and whole nations. Wardrobe is dressing winners of the auditions. Lead roles are being developed for compliant Stars who bring in “the audience” who pays for a Party membership or donates to cover the costumes, lights, cameramen, script writers, private jet travel and elaborate banquets that have little to do with your will but everything to do with your ballot.
2024 is more of 2020, 2018, 2022. The plan has already decided which contestant to be America’s Ruler gets the money.
The flow of billions of dollars has already begun two years before you vote.
I’m reminded of the definition of insanity is doing the same thing the same way over and over expecting a different outcome
Are three elections evidence enough?
Why will you vote for those who barter us?
“West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore lead the way earlier this year in removing Wall Street financial firms from holding state funds due to ‘Environmental, Social and Governance’ or ‘ESG’ climate change ideology driving investment decisions.”
Riley Moore, leading from the front.
“As part of the ongoing 2024 positioning effort, the ConInc influencers in/around Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to claim Florida had led the way on the initiative. However, the reality of DeSantis as a bandwagoneer is brutally obvious to anyone who followed the previous effort and the backlash against West Virginia.”
Ron DeSantis leading from the behind.
WV did lead the way though I have to bet that the money FL pulls out of BlackRock has to be a significantly bigger hit. Will TX and other states follow?
Texas already did it months ago.
And other states.
Obviously now so are any others of the 48 governors who will be leading from behind if they do a correct thing but aren’t the first. Circular firing squads can apparently be formed outside Mordor on the Potomac.
You miss the point. It’s not in what order these governors do it, but that RON seems to do it best, according to MSM anyway.
Trump gave all the UST bond sales business to Larry Fink of BlackRock. I guess he was leading from the front? You people are…fill in the blank..
Recent good decisions by a Republican presidential hopeful:
Ron Disantis pulling Florida money from BlackRock over ESG.
Recent bad decisions by a Republican presidential hopeful:
Donald Trump having Ye and Fuentes to Mar a Lago.
Just sayin’ (whether you folks like it or not).
That whole thing was a setup. West is manic right now. Everyone should stay clear. The other two were grifting on West’s previously good relationship with President Trump.
Nonetheless, it was bad mocus.
I see a man early in his Christ acceptance journey and what is happening to him is what Christ said would happen when you proclaimed him your savior. He is being attacked by Satan and minions. I ain’t joining in the attack. My bread is buttered on the other side of that slice. The hypocrisy of those who pray on the street corner being his biggest critics shows me they do not understand the faith they profess.
Unforced error that could have been stopped at the door if not sooner. No one can tell me that anybody gets within 20 feet of sitting down with PDJT for dinner without being vetted and scanned. If Trump’s gatekeepers did not let him know exactly who was there before they sat down then I assume they are fired. If they did let him know and Trump let them sit down then the error is entirely his own.
So you think Trump should have told Ye Ya Yo he didn’t consider him a suitable dinner quest?
What do you think would have happened then?
@offcoursenation
Trump would have proven he had discernment as a leader.
Ye had spouted off lots of anti-Semitism for weeks. So, an anti-bigot like Trump should have declined having dinner with Ye, which have avoided the Fuentes debacle.
Trump would have made the same decision if he controlled government investments. Decisions on dinner companions are not of the same magnitude as government funds investment decisions.
Exactly! Magnitudes of fallacious comparison apart.
Umm. He didn’t. He gave BlackRock a few billion pocket money in business when he was POTUS.
Wow, how many times are you going to repeat this?
1)
WV started the parade
2)
Florida tried to steal the thunder
1)
Ye came invited
2)
Fuentes crashed the party.
(like it or not)
Ye invited Milo to come along. Milo brought Fuentes. At least that’s the story I seeing out there. And from what I’ve read, Milo had a vendetta against PDJT and was intent on sabotaging him.
Can’t blame Trump for a guest bringing clingers on.
But you can blame Trump for having dinner with an anti-Semite like Ye.
If Trump had politely declined that dinner, he would have avoided a lot of headaches.
Isn’t that just a wee bit nitpicky — as in any way to slyly take yet another jab at Trump? Please!
With what this Congress did to Trump, I wouldn’t mind if Trump dined with Satan himself.
this thread isn’t about Trump
just more evidence that
Trump lives RENT FREE in people’s heads!
Never voting for Uniparty Ron.
”Just sayin”
LOL dude. (not in a good way)
Ron DeSantis pulled Florida money from BlackRock over ESG, but then BlackRock is not a DeSantis donor. So, his campaign people told him he could do this.
DeSantis must hate it that Twitter and Apple got their interests straight because he was planning on a week or more of photo ops on the back of his criticism of Apple (who is also not a DeSantis donor).
But you sound like a DeSantis establishment Republican who wants to shaft the American people on behalf of the multinational corporations and banks.
How did the Mar-a-Lago dinner affect you, or anyone else for that matter?
I removed mine last year. What took DeSantis so long?
Trump gave BlackRock all kind of business. They pocketed a few billion from Trump policies. This long haired 65 year old white boy is wondering why the snarkfest over DeSantis doing the right thing but not a squeak about how Trump was in bed with them. I was never much for worshipping men and overlooking their foibles to give them holy status.
Waiting for Brian Kemp to join in…..long wait…
I’m with you on that! (both parts)! 😉
He’s checking with Mitch McConnell on it.
Maybe but I’m guessing he’s checking with his Chinese counterpart also.
Blackrock is inundating with commercials featuring folksy themes and soft music. The kitchen table discussion needs to include the depth of perfidy and actual goals of outfits like Blackrock.
Regardless of keeping score on what Florida did when, I’m glad it happened – good for them. More faster, please.
Everybody join in!
Good, Ron is doing Governor type things
Great move. Won’t change my Trump vote in 2024 but it is the right decision that any state employees in state pension funds should support.
BlackRock also manages the fed retirement program TSP. They should be fired but won’t under any dem administration. Heck, several founders of B’rock are co-conspirators in the FJB regime.
Every red state should dump BlackRock.
He’s a good governor for Florida but Trump is the right man for the white house. I will not allow the RNC to choose who I want in the white house.
I’m pretty sure the Utah treasurer did it at the beginning of the year.
Maybe earlier.
Well, well, well. Is this a strategic move for appearances sake?
The polls must have leaned in one direction this time…
And then there’s the issue of who Mrs DeSantis works for (worked for?) Hhmmm. connecting tiny dots
What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
Riley Moore is my neighbor, and a good guy. He’s running for Congress in 2024.
Montani semper liberi!
Ditto Jim on Montani Semper Liberi. (Mountaineers Are Always Free)
I think Riley Moore is doing a good job for us in WV as a first term Treasure. I heard that he was running for Congress in 2024 as Alex Mooney is going to challenge that sellout Senator “How Low Will You Go Joe” Manchin.
Personally, as a first term Treasurer, I think Riley is trying to jump offices too quickly. At this point, it appears that he has the Moore family political opportunity ambition to me. Ron DeSantis syndrome? However, we shall see.
Another thing, I certainly can’t say the same “good job” for Aunt Shelly Moore Capito as our other Senator. She is one of Mitch McCuckles cloture vote sellouts and committee appointment sucks. IMO both Shelly and her swamp partner Manchin need to go and good riddance.
Jury still out on Riley, be he’s looking good so far.
Aunt Shelly is a huge disappointment. I know her personally and am appalled that she’s turned into a McConnell toadie. She and Manchin both need to go.
Looks like Shelly Moore Capito has a son running to be the next governor of WV. Same swamp families been controlling WV politics for decades.
Would that be Moore Capito ? I say WV needs Less Capito.
Capito met with four female Ukrainian Nazis in September. I called her office and her aid was rude. I asked who vetted these woman and was told to have a nice day. She had no business meeting with Right Sector women. Adriana Susak has known ties to Islamic Jihad and has been meeting with Pelosi since the Maidan.
I don’t want to lose Mooney to the Senate. I would take Riley as my congressman should Mooney win. I will not vote for Moore Capito for governor.
Again we see the POSITIONING, as from a PR firm, contrasting the reality.
As I have pointed out, RDS enjoyed the benefit of having no REAL MAGA Governor, to challenge his title as “Americas Governor” and unofficially as a “MAGA Governor” which he is not.
Were KL to be sworn in in Jan, by March no one would be talking about RDS, he would have been relegated to obscurity.
As we DID just have our first truly MAGA Governor elected during the recent midterms, there is still the potential for RDS to be shown up for the fraud he is, and I am anxious for Jan, when our first MAGA Governor is sworn in.
I am expecting GOOD things from her,…and no I ain’t talking about KL.
her father is a WEF sellout..
I expect RinoRon 2.0
Hummmm what, or who am i missing?
SH Sanders
GO SARAH!!!
Oh, Sarah Huckabee!
Sarah Huckabee?
Yes, of course. Successful behind the LIMELIGHT!
She is MAGA all the way!!!
#MeToo
whaaat ??
Stop the bus
Sundance the RinoRon basher/hater posted something GOOD
about RinoRon!
for the whiney Rontards
maybe its about the truth!
Stop saying sundance hates DeSantis! That’s an ignorant statement.
just going from what the Rontards say!
sorry. I forgot sarcasm is a lost art these days
my bad
will label it next time..
It’s not that it’s a lost art. It’s just that everything is so screwed up now that it’s really really hard to tell people who are serious from people who just repeat silly tirades over and over and over and over and…
August 4, 2022:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and West Virginia:
BlackRock Letter.pdf (texasattorneygeneral.gov)
Apparently, Florida was a bit late in getting the message.
Great post. As Sundance alluded to, “…the reality of DeSantis as a bandwagoneer is brutally obvious…” with your specific link showing that the Florida CFO was the 20th among other state AG’s to pull Blackrock funds understates it as being, “a bit late”.
Our AG, Leslie Rutledge, has done a fine job for Arkansas. Though a GOPer due to time, place and circumstance, we couldn’t have asked for a finer Attorney General than Ms. Rutldege has been. She has done a fantastic job against all odds and we’re proud of her 🙂
Then maybe she will withdraw funds. Juzta was wrong. Only 6 states have taken their money out of Blackrock and ARK is not one of them
Totally! I’ve heard her joining our AG– MO, AK, and LA– those three working together on a lot of issues, and the three of them have really done a great job– I know there have been others–lots of these have been mult-state lawsuits. (BTW, for others who don’t know, it’s the treasurers who are pulling the $$ from Black Rock, not the gov’s or AG’s…)
As my Gen Z son would say, he’s a poseur…
Exactly. Glad Florida joined in. There are still states left that should join in. However, Florida did not lead in this. There have been many articles about other states:
Texas…
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3876423-texas-blacklists-blackrock-other-financial-firms-for-boycotting-oil-and-gas
Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah, and Arkansas :
https://www.esginvestor.net/live/republicans-withdraw-us1-billion-from-blackrock-over-esg/#:~:text=Republican%2Dgoverned%20US%20states%20have,billion%20in%20funds%2C%20it%20said.
Texas has not withdrawn their funds. They are just making threats.
6 states have actually pulled the trigger
https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-pulling-2-billion-from-blackrock-as-company-pushes-social-engineering-with-taxpayer-dollars
As noted above, I was wrong. My Apologies. Thanks for setting this detail straight.
That letter is not a withdrawal of funds. Only 6 states have taken their money out & it appears to have won a small concession
In addition to divestments from South Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, West Virginia, and Utah, the government of Texas said that BlackRock and nine other firms had violated state law by “refusing to deal with” companies involved in the production and use of fossil fuels “without an ordinary business purpose.”
As the efforts from conservative state officials and broader concerns from the marketplace made headlines, Fink recently announced that institutional clients would be able to vote their shares rather than allow the firm to operate as a proxy.
BlackRock has taken “voting action on climate issues” against dozens of its portfolio companies, according to an investment stewardship report, leading other officials to note that such activism might work against their state economies and could raise nationwide energy prices.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-pulling-2-billion-from-blackrock-as-company-pushes-social-engineering-with-taxpayer-dollars
ESG means woke.
ESG = control
ESG = slavery
Because the Climate Change death cult ideology of “Environmental, Social, Governance” is antihuman, totalitarian, anti-freedom. It’s nothing but the incremental enslavement of all humanity. Its’ implementation is a crime against humanity. Ever listen to and read what they say they want? It’s nothing more then a rich man’s cult.
When they say they want zero carbon as their goal they mean the eradication of all life on planet earth. No photosynthesis for plants to grow to create food. Nope. They want synthetic grub as well as forcing you to eat parasite laden bugs to weaken and drastically reduce your life span as well as its quality. Which is why they’ve instituted euthanasia, assisted suicides run by the state, and all of it is owned, run, endorsed by Blackrock, Vanguard and every other corporatist member of the WEF cult.
With, of course, all of that reserved for THEIR use— they’ll still have THEIR jets, THEIR steak and lobster, THEIR whatever-they-want— it’s just US they want to “divest” of the goodies…
Blackrock controlls $10 trillion in investments. Florida’s $600 million is .006% of that. But it is a good start.
You beat me to it
I was going to make precisely the same point
I may be wrong, but I think Texas blocked UBS & Blackrock from public pension funds quite a while ago.
More States need to pull their money.
John Schroeder, the State Treasurer of Louisiana was the first I heard doing the same thing by taking millions out of Blackrock. Every Republican led state, police pension, and any other conservative backed company needs to get their money out of BlackRock. This evil of the Left all begins and ends with money. As Sundance often says, there are trillions of dollars at stake. Make them pay, the only way that hurts – In their pocketbooks! https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_eaf64493-cf74-58ba-9c76-27c831e66fdd.html
Back ground – Riley Moore is Sen Capito’s nephew. Before he got in politics he was VP of Podesta Group working with Ukraine. He just announced he is running for US House in 2nd district. Capito son, Moore Capito is running for Governor in 2024. We need to rid WV of the Moore – Capito clan and Manchin.
Ouch! Podesta group? Can’t get much sicker than that, cheese pizza and all. No matter what you think/believe, those paintings (and the hanging sculpture!) in the brother’s house are sick, sick, sick.
If anyone has not seen these, take a look:
https://www.sott.net/article/334002-Progressive-liberal-values-Tony-Podestas-creepy-taste-in-art-the-creepy-people-he-hangs-out-with-and-Pizzagate#
FL needs to enact a patients bill of rights and a pharmacy bill of rights giving people maximum control over their treatments.
FL needs to enact an Internet User bill of rights giving people total control of their privacy. I just read a story about google giving the cops the names of 6,000 people in the vicinity of J6 activity. The bill of rights would ban tracking, expand personally identifiable information to include digital devices, etc.
One of several positives about CTH is that it is not a dishonest echo chamber.
If it was, sundance would have played it safe and “pretended not to see things” about Gov. DeSantis’ pending POTUS candidacy. The evidence SD is exposing here is a rare insight into how major political candidates (except PDJT) might have been swooned, groomed and funded by billionaires and then directed and advised how to behave by their operatives.
Similar methods have probably been used on all the Uni-party GOP members and other politicians in the West but without a step by step exposure about how it actually occurs. These articles are quite remarkable as they will likely rile and turn off some CTH readers here that fully support and trust Gov. DeSantis.
I have no idea what Gov. DeSantis’ true thoughts, goals and aspirations are and he has been an excellent governor. But I also have no idea how much his intense urge to become POTUS and make history has affected his principles and attitudes–pro or con. The grooming process of every politician that has eager billionaires doling out cash and ebulliently praising and encouraging them is bound to affect them if they are willing to fully accept “their generosity.”
Have they revealed to him what they expect in return for their generosity or can we believe the hefty donations and so on were handed out with no expectations and that DS is still free to govern as he sees fit?
“The catch about not looking a gift horse in the mouth is that it may be a Trojan horse.” – David Seller
Your caveat about Trump is false. I see all kinds of huge financial favors n his background that he leveraged when POTUS. The tme a rally member yelled “what about Soros” and his reply was “Ahhh..leave him alone..he has enough troubles.” His giving BlackRock the UST selling platform put mega-billions of bucks in Larry Fink’s personal account.
I will not lie about or ignore what I know and blatant hypocrisy will get us all killed.
https://redstatewatcher.com/aggregate.asp?id=211405
Good gosh.
Excerpt:
The Biden administration has quietly finalized a rule allowing employers to funnel workers’ 401(k) funds into investments that support woke causes that address issues such as climate change and diversity.
The Labor Department approved the rule last week, just two days before the Thanksgiving break. It will affect roughly 150 million workers and $10 trillion in assets covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
The rule says asset managers and retirement plan administrators should consider environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments.
No kidding. TFA’s post is a turning point. I wouldn’t put .02$ on the new house turning this around. It really puts the Onus on those of us with 401’s to try and manipulate our investments avoiding these Woke Broke Jokes. My employer is owned by a larger company that has Vanguard managing our 401’s. Time to dig in.
States is where the action is. Screw DC. Cancer on the country.
Strong state officials. My sentiments exactly.
Will corporate boards plunge head long down the path to bankruptcy in order to please their WEF masters, or will they pull back from the precipice in order to keep their shareholders from bringing suit for failure of fiduciary duty? I suspect that there are very few true believers at the corporate level, so the ones that can keep their bank lines in good order may welcome this as an excuse to bail on the build back better agenda.
Lets see if it goes to Citadel in some way.
“FREEZE?”
What does that mean? They are frozen at Black Rock?
Weird language.
I don’t know the amount of each state’s effect, but it is a couple billion from Florida alone….
about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and about $600 million in short-term investments.
Laura Ingraham just had the WV Treasurer on so she is not pushing DeSantis propaganda (yet?)
Great decision! Once again the DeSantis administration makes the correct decision.
My question is, why is any state giving a dime to a such financial giant in the first place?
Why did Trump throw them all kinds of fed gubmnt business is a pointed question needing answered and not just ignored due to ideologues throwing hissy fits that something true yet negative was spoken about the father of the Warp Speed.
Texas has also banned companies that discriminate against oil and gas and that would include Black Rock.
It’s almost laughable how RDS is getting his name on the marquee every other day. He’s a CONtender, count on it.
It reminds me of how I didn’t care one way or another about the vaxx…tho’ I wasn’t going to get it…till they kept pushing it at us…that’s when I REALLY turned against it.
Strategy–a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major overall aim.
Tactic–action or strategy, carefully planned, to achieve a specific ‘end’.
Nothing he does is not without great thought towards the future…he is crafting an Executive resume to present to the American people, in the future.
He is a disruptive competitor treading on the coat tails of another product…which is WHAT the disruptive competitor does…(I give Apple Iphone and android/LG/Samsung/Google phones as an example)…
Right now, he is presents as focused on the Turnpike…we shall see if he drifts onto Wall Street.
If I am repeating, am sorry…lost one of my responses…
While I don’t trust DeSantis’ national motivations, he IS doing a great job in FL.
I know, and that’s what’s such a shame. He’s really needed to be the prototype there and then to run in 2028, and it would show great character, and if he blows it now, he’ll be blowing it for himself later…such a shame for all of us. And the RINO/establishment knows that, too, and for THEM, that’s a feature, not a bug!
Next dissolve the satanist FED out of your state.
You know who hasn’t pulled funds from Blackrock? Ukraine.
https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/news/ministerstvo-ekonomiki-ukrayini-pidpisalo-memorandum-iz-najbilshoyu-investkompaniyeyu-svitu
The commenters below are mostly morons without a clue. They are being led by the swamp to attack true conservatives and cause dissent. We need a united front to defeat the scum on the left.
This is an utter BS gesture …. so now Florida has $2+ Billion in assets earning ZERO.
One question shows the the utter absurdity of this act. So, where is the money to be invested??
ALL the investment companies have the very same BLUE CHIP ESG loving Companies in their ETF’s. They are jumping with joy to see the #1 dog and competitor Blackrock take the ‘public” heat for the very same behavior.
This only gets fixed via enforcement of the LAW, which is not happening. in fact ESG is being encouraged by those resposible for policing Investment and Financial Actions.
Is Florida going to hire enough staff to support these CFO’s assessing, picking, creating and updating portfolio’s??
State level investments are meter money compared to the flow of necessary capital controlled by the Investment and Financial Companies (Supported by the US Government and FED) needed by companies issuing stock.
Where are the law suits and filing with the SEC and FTC to actually highlight these actions?? Action like this is needed to actually force sunlight on ESG and complicity between the Financial Institutions and US Government. Force the courts to act one way or the other.
Riley Moore was my State Rep and has become a great Secretary of the Treasurer. He is a welder by trade. When he first ran for office, he was going door to door. We are the only house upon this stretch of road but he stopped anyway. He has had my vote ever since. Secretary Moore has an amazing understanding of the fight we are in against ESG, the WEF, and our own party. Right now, I believe I have the best State representation ever. Justice aside. Our Senators are awful but state wide I believe we are leading.
Ripple and the XRP Ledger are ESG, and every financial institution will eventually use it at some point as a part of the backend settlement layer infrastructure.
Anyone who supports this subversive ESG is an enemy of democracy and America.
ESG = Fascism
Good
I don’t see the point in snarky attacks on Gov. DeSantis. Many acitivists worked to get him elected. Insulting him is insulting us. For what purpose. NO ONE is abandoning Trump for DeSantis or anyone else. Please, dividing the activist base is NOT HELPFUL