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SWBTATTReg

(22,046 posts)
1. Then someone should make a list, and distribute the list to others, so others will...
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:18 PM
Sep 2021

not give these 477 businesses to the tune of at least a minimum of $10 million (and preferably more than $10 million), these businesses need to know the true cost of supporting these sedition caucus members / thugs.

Here's a partial list...

Boeing ($274,000), American Crystal Sugar ($230,000), Koch Industries ($180,500), General Dynamics Corporation ($174,500) and Lockheed Martin ($150,500) are the top corporate donors to insurrectionist political groups and campaigns.
Lockheed Martin, General Motors, Cigna, American Airlines and Aflac have done the same thing: reevaluated their guidelines after the insurrection, but continued to support seditionists anyway. Together, companies that committed to halt and reassess their support for the Sedition Caucus have since contributed $1,005,000 to members of the insurrection caucus.

Other companies like Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Comcast and Verizon, which also made commitments, have cut off donations to these members, but continued to support the party groups that exist to support them, effectively circumventing their commitments. Companies and industry groups that committed to hold the Sedition Caucus accountable but continue to give to the NRSC and NRCC have given $745,000 to the two party committees. These committees exist to support Republicans in Congress, more than half of whom have voted against the election results.

-- snip -- there is more at the article that I copied this from, but I suspect that these companies giving probably gave via their PACs,which in a corporate environment, usually give to all candidates in order to be impartial (but I could be wrong, I'm speaking from the corporate pac that I was involved w/, and we literally gave to all candidates, regardless of party affiliation).

RKP5637

(67,082 posts)
2. Corps could give a shit. It's all about making money for them.
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:19 PM
Sep 2021

If they think seditionists will be profitable, then that's where their money goes, of course. It's all so truly fucked up.

DBoon

(22,336 posts)
3. Like Fritz Thyssen and the Nazis
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:21 PM
Sep 2021
Fritz Thyssen inherited the business empire in 1926, the same year that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke, the gigantic German steel trust, was formed. Herr Thyssen headed this organization, which controlled 75% of Germany's iron-ore production and 50% of coal-mine output and which listed among its properties 33,000 acres of mines and factories, a 1,200-mile railway system, 14 private ports, 209 electric power stations, numerous cement factories, and tenements housing 60,000 employes' families. His total number of employes rose to 200,000.

Fritz Thyssen became the first big industrialist to believe that a young, up-&-coming agitator named Adolf Hitler was fundamentally safe & sound for Big Business. Thyssen's first contribution was indirect -about 100,000 gold marks to Ludendorff for a Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the Nazis were hard put to pay for the Brown House they had bought in Munich. Thyssen arranged a loan through the banks.

Fritz Thyssen joined the Nazi party in December 1931 and in his autobiography, "I Paid Hitler", admitted backing Hitler when the National Socialists were still a radical fringe party. In the 1933 election, in which the Nazis finally won, he contributed some 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) toward the Hitler campaign fund. Thyssen grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. Like countless others, Herr Thyssen saw clearly enough a dangerous revolution in Soviet Russia (he financed the Nazis as a bulwark against Communism), but failed to detect a social upheaval in Germany.


https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/thyssen-1.htm

The Peter Thiel of Weimar

RKP5637

(67,082 posts)
6. So true, and not unlike many in the US who are just out to make a buck. Thanks for posting this!!!
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:52 PM
Sep 2021

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
4. Just another reason to ban all lobbyists and publicly fund elections.
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:24 PM
Sep 2021

Money has never made a democracy better.

kimbutgar

(21,030 posts)
5. I never get how their voters continue to re elect these politicians who do nothing to
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:24 PM
Sep 2021

Help their constituents. Their voters are suckers. I heard a guy on the radio with a American Taliban rep who said they never answer when he called their local offices and they offer no constituent services or help.

ananda

(28,828 posts)
8. I've been saying for 20 years, we are a Corporate Fascist country.
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 06:42 PM
Sep 2021

And the corporations have unleashed a monster among us
called Magat.

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