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The CEO of IBM wrote an open letter to Trump soon after the election. IBM had a long tradition of staying out of politics, but I don't see any way to interpret this letter that isn't some sort of endorsement of Trump's administration, partly because it barely alludes to the latest buzz-phrase "cognitive solutions in the cloud", At the optimistic end, maybe it's just saying IBM doesn't care as long as Trump lets the corporation make bigger profits, but at the pessimistic end it could be taken as a warning to IBM's employees and business partners to keep their mouths shut if they don't like the Donald.
Has your employer done anything along these lines? I'm guessing that Ginny Rometty's letter was emailed to all hands and posted on the intranet, as well as the public posting at https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/ibm-ceo-ginni-romettys-letter-u-s-president-elect/ for everyone. Can anyone inside IBM confirm? If you've gotten something along these lines from your employer, do you care to speculate about why? Or even say how it made you feel?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:27PM
He is appointing Washington and Wall Street insiders to his cabinet.
Who?
I was bored so I looked around and so few have been appointed...
Yes you probably are correct that the Sec. Treas. almost has to be a white collar criminal under the existing economic system.
In terms of those actually appointed so far I guess you mean Haley? Not exactly your average Mr Burns character...
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday December 01 2016, @03:45AM
Transportation secretary? Did you notice that she has worked in previous administrations? Did you see who her spouse is?
And there are others. Trump is filling his cabinet with insiders. Remember all that talk of draining the swamp?
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:44AM
Actually, people like you make me very angry.
You were warned about Trump, yet you voted for him. Now that he is doing the opposite of what he said he would do, where is your outrage?
You wanted change, you are getting more of the same. Yet you don't seem to care. You have saddled the country with someone who is probably going to make life worse for all but the 1% of the population, but you don't care. You voted for someone who has stated his goals of taking away civil liberties.
You think that Trump is consistent, but you haven't bothered to watch what is going sufficiently to realize that he is the opposite of consistent.
I was going to say that Nero would be proud of you, but that's not true: you haven't been watching.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:27PM
Read this and then consider what the Trump presidency is likely to do for anyone who isn't mega-wealthy:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/30/donald-trump-is-assembling-the-richest-administration-in-modern-american-history/?utm_term=.b99454e0b442 [washingtonpost.com]
You were sold a pup.