[johnbryanpeters]

Tracking Corporate America’s revolt against the Electoral College objectors

CNN asked 280 major US companies if they would continue supporting Congress members who challenged the 2020 election results. Here’s what they said.

www.cnn.com

 

[Colonel Angus]

Kidsqueeb and Pesqwoo will be here shortly to share their expertise on this topic.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Kidsqueeb and Pesqwoo will be here shortly to share their expertise on this topic.

Insightful as always.

 

[kidwoo]

 

[Colonel Angus]

so predictable

 

[DaveW]

so predictable

Ahh so you're back to talking about you are you.

 

[Pesqueeb]

You may "enjoy" a book called "The end of the free market" by Ian Bremmer.

Of course, I'm sure our resident expert on whose allowed to be an expert can tell us all why an expert who litterally wrote a book on this subject isn't expert enough to have an expert opinion.

 

[Changleen]

Not sure this totally fits, but seemed most relevant. @johnbryanpeters might like this one.

Trump is gone – can we now talk about fake news at the NYT?

Trump is gone – can we now talk about fake news at the NYT?

The ‘Grey Lady’ is in deep trouble – like it has been so many times in its 169-year history.

aje.io

 

[kidwoo]

Not sure this totally fits, but seemed most relevant. @johnbryanpeters might like this one.

Trump is gone – can we now talk about fake news at the NYT?

Trump is gone – can we now talk about fake news at the NYT?

The ‘Grey Lady’ is in deep trouble – like it has been so many times in its 169-year history.

aje.io

fuck the new york times

One of the biggest single forces for cultural stagnation in the united states.

 

[Changleen]

Yes it is pretty frustrating sometimes. However, tell me a better one-stop news shop for the US and it’s attitudes. A hard ask I know...

 

[Changleen]

Something that has been bothering me generally since Biden has got in is yet again this new round of sort of casting around for whosoever is going to be the new enemy for the US. Is it Russia, is it China, is it Iran?

Seriously the US political/military industrial system can’t exist without a major enemy at all times, and if there isn’t one you have to pretend there is. It’s infuriating and childish. As we’ve seen since WWII the US loves to be binary about these things and the first instinct for your foreign policy is the hammer.

I was hoping this could one day change, maybe there was enough humility going round after donnie dickhead but apparently not.

 

[Jm_]

Something that has been bothering me generally since Biden has got in is yet again this new round of sort of casting around for whosoever is going to be the new enemy for the US. Is it Russia, is it China, is it Iran?

Texas

 

[Westy]

Texas

The jewish space lasers made Texas cold

 

[kidwoo]

Yes it is pretty frustrating sometimes. However, tell me a better one-stop news shop for the US and it’s attitudes. A hard ask I know...

reuters, aljazeera and AP

You said news not "stories"

 

[Changleen]

Yes, I read all of those. But they are all ‘external’ to some extent.

 

[kidwoo]

Yes, I read all of those. But they are all ‘external’ to some extent.

Well to be fair, american capitalism is just as external to americans.

Here's a good one

www.bellingcat.com

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Well to be fair, american capitalism is just as external to americans.

Here's a good one

www.bellingcat.com

bellingcat's OK, microfocus on analysis, seldom updated. AP more often than Reuters, sample NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, and a pile of others Won't read opinion in any of the U. S. majors, will in Al Jazeera and others. NYT seems to be dying of age

 

[kidwoo]

bellingcat's OK, microfocus on analysis, seldom updated. AP more often than Reuters, sample NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, and a pile of others Won't read opinion in any of the U. S. majors, will in Al Jazeera and others. NYT seems to be dying of age

all the stuff I was thinking but too lazy to type

 

[Changleen]

Time for Jeep to stop using Cherokee as a vehicle name, tribe's chief says

Chuck Hoskin of the Cherokee Nation says company ‘does not honor us by having our name plastered on a car’

www.theguardian.com

Kristin Starnes, a spokesperson for Jeep’s parent company, the Amsterdam-based Stellantis, said in a statement that the vehicle name was carefully selected “and nurtured over the years to honor and celebrate Native American people for their nobility, prowess and pride”.

One has to ask, if they intend to honour these people, why is the car such a piece of shit?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Time for Jeep to stop using Cherokee as a vehicle name, tribe's chief says

Chuck Hoskin of the Cherokee Nation says company ‘does not honor us by having our name plastered on a car’

www.theguardian.com

One has to ask, if they intend to honour these people, why is the car such a piece of shit?

Because Jeep? @Pesqueeb can probably confirm.

 

[stevew]

call me crazy....corporate America should be kept the fuck out of american politics...

 

[JohnE]

call me crazy....corporate America should be kept the fuck out of american politics...

Quoted for damn rightedness.

 

[Jm_]

Quoted for damn rightedness.

But corporations are people too.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Healthcare reform thread X-post

Nonprofit launches $1 million TV ad buy against Colorado Democrats’ public health insurance option proposal

Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, whose members include hospitals and private insurance companies, spent nearly $5 million in 2020 to attack a similar measure abandoned after coronavirus struck

coloradosun.com

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Healthcare reform thread X-post

Nonprofit launches $1 million TV ad buy against Colorado Democrats’ public health insurance option proposal

Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, whose members include hospitals and private insurance companies, spent nearly $5 million in 2020 to attack a similar measure abandoned after coronavirus struck

coloradosun.com

We need to eliminate corporate "free speech" once and for all.

 

[eric strt6]

did you say NYT?

The McConnell family Grift

Inspector General’s Report Cites Elaine Chao for Using Office to Help Family

The Justice Department under the Trump administration declined to open a criminal investigation into the actions by Ms. Chao when she was transportation secretary.

www.nytimes.com

 

[kidwoo]

did you say NYT?

The McConnell family Grift

Inspector General’s Report Cites Elaine Chao for Using Office to Help Family

The Justice Department under the Trump administration declined to open a criminal investigation into the actions by Ms. Chao when she was transportation secretary.

www.nytimes.com

Bout 12 years overdue

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Yes, I read all of those. But they are all ‘external’ to some extent.

I get most of my news from the economist, financial times, washingon post, slate, dw; and then a few local influencers on fb.
Sometimes i tune into abc news or cnn, but I have grown to dislike the nagging/dramatism from them.

Lately I find myself liking dw a lot.

 

[kidwoo]

dw

donkey world?

dicks weekly?

 

[DaveW]

Dick Wad

 

[Changleen]

I’m having a break from the Graun and the Old Grey, and having a focus on RNZ, AlJazeera and Reuters for a bit. I don’t mind a bit of DW also.

 

[Changleen]

The Graun was pissing me off because the UK left is so fucking pathetic, and so much of the opinion content was just fucking me off with its middle class pointless nothing-bullshit. It is also becoming blind to its own prejudices, and is stuck in a state of constant weakness.

The NYT still thinks equivalency is a thing, despite being slapped across the face with the opposite of that. Grow some balls, NYT.

 

[kidwoo]

Dick Wad

literally never heard of them until just now


I think I know why. I live in the US

sincere thank you

 

[kidwoo]

Old Grey,

 

[DaveW]

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it.

Fuck Jeff Bezos and every shitty company he controls..... Fucking economic vampire!

 

[kidwoo]

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it.

Fuck Jeff Bezos and every shitty company he controls..... Fucking economic vampire!

fuck our government for incentivizing his failure

 

[Changleen]

Has anyone noticed that two of the recent large corporate hacks have succeeded at an oil pipeline and a meat production company? Both large contributors to climate change? Not saying I think this is a good thing — actually nope, I totally think this is a good thing if this is indeed a ‘feature’ and not a function of old, outdated industries being easy targets, which unfortunately is probably actually the case.

Has anyone else read Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest; Ministry for the Future?

 

[rideit]

Yes, my first thought was “this is the ELF next generation at work”.

 

[Pesqueeb]

I'll confess I hadn't heard about the meat industry hack and had to look it up. "Environmental terrorists" is an interesting angle. Possible? I suppose so, but I'd like to see some evidence to suggest this is more than rouge state probing/practice for bigger hits.

Yes, my first thought was “this is the ELF next generation at work”.

Probably beats wandering the hills and spiking trees. That shits dirty work, yo!

 

[Jm_]

Meh, it's probably the "meat industry" that is stifling research on growing meat in labs, which is a better idea.