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Home Front: Politix
Fortune 500 CEOs Will Intervene if Joe Biden Isn't Inaugurated by January 20
2020-11-18
They’ll make themselves ill, carrying on in this hysterical way.
[Breitbart] Executives from Fortune 500 corporations say they are planning to intervene if Democrat Joe Biden is not inaugurated into office by January 20, 2021.

A report by CBS News states that in a conference call late last week, Fortune 500 executives were planning to step in on behalf of Biden to pressure Republican lawmakers if President Trump holds up the former vice president’s transition.
CBS News reports:

But if Mr. Trump tries to undo the legal process or disrupts a peaceful transition to Biden, the CEOs discussed making public statements and pressuring GOP legislators in their states who may try to redirect Electoral College votes from Biden to Trump, said Yale Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who convened the meeting. [Emphasis added]

"They’re all fine with him taking an appeal to the court, to a judicial process. They didn’t want to deny him that. But that doesn’t stop the transition," said Sonnenfeld. "They said if that makes people feel better, it doesn’t hurt anything to let that grind through." [Emphasis added]

The CEOs decided to wait for the November 20 certification of votes in Georgia before meeting to decide their next moves. Action could include threats to stop donations to political action committees or even corporate relocations, Sonnenfeld said. [Emphasis added]

The big business lobby and Wall Street have been looking to undermine Trump’s economic nationalist agenda for years. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable — both representing some of the nation’s largest multinational corporations and fighting Trump — congratulated Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) days after the November 3 election.
Probably no way these fallas would pressure individual state legislators.
"The U.S. Chamber stands ready to work with the Biden administration and leaders on both sides of the aisle to restore public health, revitalize our economy, and help rebuild American lives and communities," the Chamber’s statement reads.
Posted by:Besoeker

#22  Because the people who thought Space Jam 2 was a good idea should choose your president?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-11-18 14:13  

#21  Puppet masters never reveal themselves, they act through intermediaries. In this case the curtain has been pulled aside for some time. Remember the NBA? So yes, these CEOs have whored themselves out to the CCP and are doing what is being requested of them.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2020-11-18 13:42  

#20  concentration of power in US economy
Banking: 5 banks dominate
Internet Search: 1 company dominates
Social Media: 1 company dominates
Broadcast Media: 5 companies dominate
Pharma: 5 companies dominate

We're already molto corporativissimo

Funny innit how the guy they called the Mango Mussolini was the only leader of the last 40 years who showed any interest in breaking the stranglehold of corporatism on our economy
Posted by: Andy Whiper5191   2020-11-18 13:38  

#19  Yum! Foods, Amazon, Big Box, yeah sure.

But which chamber of commerce - the one who advocates the flesh trade to bring in more lettuce pickers, or the one which thinks that is too expensive and have the chinese slaves do it instead?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-11-18 13:36  

#18  ..said Yale Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld...
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705   2020-11-18 13:06  

#17  ..and the following paragraph of equal warning of the scientific technological elite.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-11-18 12:29  

#16  What was that DDE said way back in the 1950s about threats to our Republic; something about the military-industrial complex? Might have to update that to include some of the domestic enemies.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-11-18 09:28  

#15  From a former colleague and military historian whom many of you know:

More evidence that our constitutional republic has passed away. We are now a corporatist and increasingly fascist sate – the corporatist state includes big tech, the media, academia, and the Dems. Critical race theory, cancel culture, BLM, Antifa, etc., are the fascist means of control. Antifa are the brown shirts of the Dem Party.



Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-18 09:18  

#14  Sounds like criminal Antitrust violations to me.

Maybe they need a refresher course on the Sherman Antitrust Act, etc., etc.

LOCK THEM UP
Posted by: cingold   2020-11-18 09:11  

#13   corporativism, the theory and practice of organizing society into “corporations” subordinate to the state.
Synonym - fascism.
Posted by: Glenmore   2020-11-18 08:50  

#12  Following up to comment #7. Yes Anna, you will recognize many of the names.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-18 07:46  

#11  Two sayings that go together....

1. Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

2. L'etat c'est moi.

The beating corrupt heart of the Left.
Posted by: AlanC   2020-11-18 07:44  

#10  More like China-whores
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-11-18 07:30  

#9  All 500 agreed? And this one guy arranged it?

More fake news.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-11-18 07:17  

#8  No it was Mussolini who coined the term "corporatism." From Encyclopedia Britannica's entry:

Corporatism, Italian corporativismo, also called corporativism, the theory and practice of organizing society into “corporations” subordinate to the state.

According to corporatist theory, workers and employers would be organized into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and controlling to a large extent the persons and activities within their jurisdiction. However, as the “corporate state” was put into effect in fascist Italy between World Wars I and II, it reflected the will of the country’s dictator, Benito Mussolini, rather than the adjusted interests of economic groups.
Posted by: Don Vito Platypus9461   2020-11-18 07:02  

#7  ...nah, it was the other guy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-11-18 06:36  

#6  Corporatocracy? Didn't Il Duce try that?
Posted by: Clem   2020-11-18 06:22  

#5  American Thinker - Tucker Carlson on Biden’s coming corporatocracy

A corporatocracy is a government that represents a fusion of the state and corporations. Once upon a time, the left feared the notion. However, now that the left controls corporate America, it is embracing that fusion. Biden’s presidency will represent the apex of the left’s desire to create the perfect government-corporate partnership.

Tucker Carlson’s opening monologue describes the way in which the Biden government is inextricably intertwined with woke corporations (all of which are staffed entirely with graduates of American’s hard left colleges and universities):
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-18 05:49  

#4  Just because he won't take OUR money, doesn't mean we won't take theirs !
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-18 05:38  

#3  I do what - send their company security goons to remove Trump from WH?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-11-18 05:32  

#2  Puppet masters?

More like China-whores
Posted by: Flash Ulamp1400   2020-11-18 01:03  

#1  The puppet masters grow impatient.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2020-11-18 00:51  

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