Marco Rubio's "Woke Capital" Tantrum

[DrLove]

Excellent response to Little Marco's two-faced screed from Michelle Goldberg. I get the feeling this guy has a double-digit IQ (not a compliment)

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Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for “bending a knee to woke progressive craziness,” and he’s going to do, well, something about it.​

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On Sunday, in a fulminating New York Post opinion article, Rubio wrote that “corporate America eagerly dumps woke, toxic nonsense into our culture, and it’s only gotten more destructive with time. These campaigns will be met with the same strength that any other polluter should expect.”​

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This is what most Republican populism looks like. (A possible exception is shameful insurrectionist Josh Hawley, who has a genuine trustbusting plan.) Rubio is following a model pioneered by Trump: Rail against big corporations, occasionally bully those that defy you, but ultimately put their profits and influence first.​

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On issues of race and sex, the disjunction between the values of the Republican Party and those of big corporations are a function of our counter-majoritarian politics.​

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Because of gerrymandering and the small-state bias in the Senate, Republicans can afford to antagonize young people, people in cities and most people of color. Consumer businesses cannot. The Republican Party doesn’t have to care what the majority of Americans think. Public-facing corporations largely do. This creates a tension between Republicans’ foundational economic interests and ideology and their cultural grievances.​

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Republicans no doubt find this incredibly frustrating, but not frustrating enough to ally even momentarily with Democrats. After all, Republicans are angry at corporations in the first place because they think corporations should be on their side in political fights. Democrats would love to have Republican support for reining in corporate power, even if Republicans were motivated by revenge.​

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But Republican threats are empty. No matter how much they hate what they call “woke capital,” they know they can’t own the libs by teaming up with them.​

Full:

Michelle Goldberg: Marco Rubio’s ‘woke capital’ tantrum

Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for “bending a knee to woke progressive craziness,” and he’s going to do, well, something about it.

www.berkshireeagle.com

 

[Moonglow]

Excellent response to Little Marco's two-faced screed from Michelle Goldberg. I get the feeling this guy has a double-digit IQ (not a compliment)

<snips>

Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for “bending a knee to woke progressive craziness,” and he’s going to do, well, something about it.​

​

On Sunday, in a fulminating New York Post opinion article, Rubio wrote that “corporate America eagerly dumps woke, toxic nonsense into our culture, and it’s only gotten more destructive with time. These campaigns will be met with the same strength that any other polluter should expect.”​

​

This is what most Republican populism looks like. (A possible exception is shameful insurrectionist Josh Hawley, who has a genuine trustbusting plan.) Rubio is following a model pioneered by Trump: Rail against big corporations, occasionally bully those that defy you, but ultimately put their profits and influence first.​

​

On issues of race and sex, the disjunction between the values of the Republican Party and those of big corporations are a function of our counter-majoritarian politics.​

​

Because of gerrymandering and the small-state bias in the Senate, Republicans can afford to antagonize young people, people in cities and most people of color. Consumer businesses cannot. The Republican Party doesn’t have to care what the majority of Americans think. Public-facing corporations largely do. This creates a tension between Republicans’ foundational economic interests and ideology and their cultural grievances.​

​

Republicans no doubt find this incredibly frustrating, but not frustrating enough to ally even momentarily with Democrats. After all, Republicans are angry at corporations in the first place because they think corporations should be on their side in political fights. Democrats would love to have Republican support for reining in corporate power, even if Republicans were motivated by revenge.​

​

But Republican threats are empty. No matter how much they hate what they call “woke capital,” they know they can’t own the libs by teaming up with them.​

Full:

Michelle Goldberg: Marco Rubio’s ‘woke capital’ tantrum

Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for “bending a knee to woke progressive craziness,” and he’s going to do, well, something about it.

www.berkshireeagle.com

He does have big ears for his age...Marco had better worry about da party split...

 

[DrLove]

He does have big ears for his age...Marco had better worry about da party split...

He'll grow into them soon. Either that or the rest of him will melt and he'll wind up looking like Ted Cruz -
A fate I would wish on no one

 

[Moonglow]

He does have big ears for his age...Marco had better worry about da party split...

He'll grow into them soon. Either that or he'll wind up looking like Ted Cruz -
A fate I would wish on no one

He doesn't want that since Cruz has to pay a "drag" fee when riding on a commercial airline.

 

[DrLove]

He doesn't want that since Cruz has to pay a "drag" fee when riding on a commercial airline.

Ted's daughter is still looking for him

 

[Moonglow]

He doesn't want that since Cruz has to pay a "drag" fee when riding on a commercial airline.

Ted's daughter is still looking for him

Trump said he didn't have a penis which got him out of the paternity case.

 

[marvin martian]

He does have big ears for his age...Marco had better worry about da party split...

He'll grow into them soon. Either that or the rest of him will melt and he'll wind up looking like Ted Cruz -
A fate I would wish on no one

Translation: All Hispanics look alike to me because I'm a crazy BlueAnon.

 

[DrLove]

Trump said he didn't have a penis which got him out of the paternity case.

Ted's real Daddy is Grandpa Munster - Definitely NOT the Cuban dude who helped Oswald murder JFK

 

[22lcidw]

He does have big ears for his age...Marco had better worry about da party split...

He'll grow into them soon. Either that or the rest of him will melt and he'll wind up looking like Ted Cruz -
A fate I would wish on no one

You should have vetted the Prog politicians first. Between having missing or extra chromosomes and/or genes it is not a good picture with many of them. Some have just aged to show how ugly they are as people in their life's tapestry. Comedians of course tread lightly on Prog politicians. At least in vicious circles.

 

[BertramN]

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Rubio’s “warning” is laughable, because it’s over thirty years too late.

Where was this GOP concern when Ronald Reagan began promoting subsidies and corporate tax cuts to finance the exodus of U.S. manufacturing to China? Conservatives and centrists are in their fifth decade touting Reagan and his snake oil known as trickle down as saving America’s parasitic free market economy.

Rubio is finally yelling, “FIRE!” But, his alarm is decades after the ashes have cooled. It’s too late now, the ability of Big Business to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. is gone. For U.S. corporate leaders their focus, for the past thirty years has not been on growth, but instead, limited to next quarter’s profits. So, the solid assets needed to offer banks as collateral to finance the rebuilding of factories here at home, is nonexistent.

Of course, there is always the federal government to provide the unknown trillions-of-dollars to rebuild factories. But can the feds find suckers willing to extend that kind of credit to a nation that refuses to collect delinquent taxes owed by its billionaires? Not a great credit risk, considering the trillions the U.S. already has on the cuff.

It would seem the corporate representatives during the 1980s, who carried the bags of cash to U.S. politicians in Congress, and to Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the White House, started a ball rolling that is now rolling over the owners and top executives of Big Business.

Rubio’s statement that, "China is stealing between $300 and $600 billion a year of American technology and intellectual property." That is not really true. To enable the Chinese to manufacture the many household electronics, and certain electronic components used to assemble products here in America, Big Business hands the Chinese the “American technology and intellectual property” freely. After all, to keep profits rolling in, the Chinese contracted to build these hundreds-of-millions products and components, must have all the info necessary to deliver, on time.

What the vast majority of Americans refuse to admit is, Reagan and his federal team, which includes most of the politicians that have served from then until this day, joined with the greedy billionaires and heads of business, to make China the manufacturing giant it is today. The endless warnings from progressives, economists historians... throughout the years, went ignored by the politicians, business leaders, the press, conservatives, centrists, and everyone else that eagerly swallowed Reagan’s snake oil.

There is little the U.S. government, U.S. billionaires, or U.S. Fortune Five Hundred companies can do. Not Biden, not Jeff Bezos, not Bill Gates, and certainly not trump (China’s president laughed at trump nearly as much as Putin).

China can defeat the United States, and never fire a shot. China need only stop shipping the products manufactured there for U.S. corporations, for one month. America’s economy would quickly grind to a stop.

And, it took the Republican Rubio until 2021 to realize this. Anyone with a B in fifth grade arithmetic knew by the early 1990s this situation would inevitably develop. Naturally, that level of education is far beyond that of the trump Nazis.




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[OKTexas]

Excellent response to Little Marco's two-faced screed from Michelle Goldberg. I get the feeling this guy has a double-digit IQ (not a compliment)

<snips>

Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for “bending a knee to woke progressive craziness,” and he’s going to do, well, something about it.​

​

On Sunday, in a fulminating New York Post opinion article, Rubio wrote that “corporate America eagerly dumps woke, toxic nonsense into our culture, and it’s only gotten more destructive with time. These campaigns will be met with the same strength that any other polluter should expect.”​

​

This is what most Republican populism looks like. (A possible exception is shameful insurrectionist Josh Hawley, who has a genuine trustbusting plan.) Rubio is following a model pioneered by Trump: Rail against big corporations, occasionally bully those that defy you, but ultimately put their profits and influence first.​

​

On issues of race and sex, the disjunction between the values of the Republican Party and those of big corporations are a function of our counter-majoritarian politics.​

​

Because of gerrymandering and the small-state bias in the Senate, Republicans can afford to antagonize young people, people in cities and most people of color. Consumer businesses cannot. The Republican Party doesn’t have to care what the majority of Americans think. Public-facing corporations largely do. This creates a tension between Republicans’ foundational economic interests and ideology and their cultural grievances.​

​

Republicans no doubt find this incredibly frustrating, but not frustrating enough to ally even momentarily with Democrats. After all, Republicans are angry at corporations in the first place because they think corporations should be on their side in political fights. Democrats would love to have Republican support for reining in corporate power, even if Republicans were motivated by revenge.​

​

But Republican threats are empty. No matter how much they hate what they call “woke capital,” they know they can’t own the libs by teaming up with them.​

Full:

Michelle Goldberg: Marco Rubio’s ‘woke capital’ tantrum

Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for “bending a knee to woke progressive craziness,” and he’s going to do, well, something about it.

www.berkshireeagle.com

We don't need to own you commies, but we can adopt your play book. We can make our opinions known at shareholder meetings, elect new board members and have a vocal majority of employees to make their opinions known to execs. Plus as consumers we can also make our opinions known to the companies through their consumer affairs and investor affairs offices. We can also attend county, city and local school board meetings, remember the Tea Parties attendance at town halls? You ain't seen nothing yet.

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[DrLove]

We don't need to own you commies, but we can adopt your play book. We can make our opinions known at shareholder meetings, elect new board members and have a vocal majority of employees to make their opinions known to execs. Plus as consumers we can also make our opinions known to the companies through their consumer affairs and investor affairs offices. We can also attend county, city and local school board meetings, remember the Tea Parties attendance at town halls? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Oh good - Can't wait for Teabaggers 2.0!