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posted by takyon on Wednesday August 16 2017, @05:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the pressure-relief dept.

Following a number of CEOs pulling out of President Trump's American Manufacturing Council and Strategic and Policy Forum, President Trump tweeted that the initiatives have been ended:

Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!

The CEOs of Merck, Intel, 3M, and other companies had already left:

3M Co. Chief Executive Officer Inge Thulin stepped down from the White House's manufacturing council, adding to the corporate exodus as the backlash grows to President Donald Trump's ambivalent response to racially-charged violence in Virginia over the weekend.

Thulin joined the White House panel in January "to advocate for policies that align with our values and encourage even stronger investment and job growth -- in order to make the United States stronger, healthier and more prosperous," the CEO said Wednesday in a statement tweeted by 3M. "After careful consideration, I believe the initiative is no longer an effective vehicle for 3M to advance these goals."

Update: The members of the Strategic and Policy Forum reportedly disbanded the group before President Trump's tweet:

The quick sequence began late Wednesday morning when Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of the Blackstone Group and one of Mr. Trump's closest confidants in the business community, organized a conference call for members of the president's Strategic and Policy Forum. On the call, the chief executives of some of the largest companies in the country debated how to proceed. After a discussion among a dozen prominent C.E.O.s, the decision was made to abandon the group altogether, said people with knowledge of the details of the call.

Also at Bloomberg:

Trump made the announcement on Twitter, less than an hour after one of the groups was said to be planning to inform the White House that it would break up. [...] Trump appeared to be making an effort to get ahead of the news as the councils began to disintegrate. The strategy forum, which is led by Blackstone Group LP's Stephen Schwarzman, planned to inform the White House Wednesday before making the announcement public, according to another person familiar with the matter, who wasn't authorized to discuss the news publicly.


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  • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday August 17 2017, @03:40AM (2 children)

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Thursday August 17 2017, @03:40AM (#555122)

    "E.g. their belief in magic affiliates them more with the current left than the right."

    Uh, the right is the magic man in the sky promoters, far more so than the left. What 'magic' is it that the left promotes?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:18AM (#555145)

    The day he links to a legit citation for one of his silly opinions will be a day of note.

    He has a skull full of mush and has never had it formed in a proper fact storage/retrieval mechanism.
    ...and never mind actual analysis of that data.

    I've seen 13 year olds with more cognizance.
    Frankly, he seems very Trumpish.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:56PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:56PM (#555424) Journal

    People normally distinguish between religion and magic. I'll agree that there are usually lots of underlying similarities, but there are also differences. E.g. a religious person usually attributes the rules to an invisible absolute monarch. Believers in magic are much less unanimous about that, often believing "that's just how things are", and sometimes believing in a multitude of underlying reasons why magic works (would work?). Some, e.g., are pantheists. The belief in authoritarianism isn't baked into a belief in magic, where with most religions it is. OTOH, most magical systems aren't exactly ethical systems, more ritual-taboo, where most successful religions have an ethical system.

    There are lots of similarities between religion and magic, but they sure aren't the same. And then there are things like Confucianism and Buddhism which aren't really either, at least in their original forms. (Some forms of Buddhism get pretty religious. At least it appears so from the outside.) The original doctrine of Karma, e.g., was basically that when you do something you create ripples in reality which spread. This isn't quite F=MA, but it has certain similarities. The doctrine of reincarnation was also not a part of the original doctrine, but something that got added. The Tibetans added a whole pantheon of gods and demons, but those were additions. It's plausible, though I don't know, that they were originally intended as metaphors and got out of hand. Possibly "theologists" still think of them as metaphors.

    The thing is, people have certain biases in the way they think, and some things are just difficult for them to wrap their minds around. One example is "There's nobody to blame.". This is often true, or at least so nearly true that it might as well be, but people keep insisting that somebody has to be blamed. Just consider how hard a time no-fault insurance had in being accepted.

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