Highly unusual list includes 533 businesses and trade organisations

Donald Trump has drawn up a scorecard for corporate America, ranking companies based on their loyalty to his administration.

The highly unusual list ranks 533 businesses and trade organisations based on their efforts to champion the US president’s “one big beautiful bill”, according to reports.

Companies that have fared well deployed a variety of tactics – often trumpeting the benefits of an individual policy, such as Uber’s celebration of Mr Trump’s “no tax on tips” proposal.

The scorecard, which Axios said will aid decision-making on corporate requests, comes as part of Mr Trump’s “America First” agenda and protectionist policies.

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    Boy, the US is in for a super rude awakening into the rest of the world when they come back after this guy is done.

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      do you understand how little the normal american cares about the rest of the worlds opinion is? most americans are just working to survive right now, having near zero time or patience to consider the thoughts of anyone else because literally no one is thinking of them right now

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    We really taught him a lesson about quid pro quo, didn’t we? As in, he won’t ever get in trouble using influence to get anything he wants.

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      Biden hiring Merrick Garland as AG is probably the thing that ended up putting the final nail in the coffin that was American Democracy. There were literally 100s of crimes to choose from and he just slow walked prosecution on any of them. Still not sure if that’s because of cowardice or just loyalty to the Republican party on his part.

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    It won’t happen within my lifetime, but I wish I could be alive when all these assholes face the barrel end of a gun in some sort of revolution.

    Sadly I give it probably another 50 years to happen, at best, and I’ll be long gone.

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      Be the change you wish to happen.

      On my part, I am practicing with my gun. Way I figure, the antifa states will need soldiers, and someone has to be meat for that grinder. I might as well be among them, so that skilled people are free to do what must be done, whatever that may be.

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        Yeah, I don’t have kids myself and my wife and I have no plans or desire to…

        …but we have friends who do and I’m legitimately worried for their future. Or lack thereof. Some think things will “just work out” - but I think that’s wishful thinking and dumb.

        I’d love to believe otherwise, but I don’t think anything short of strategic, aggressive pushback, likely violent at times, will change things.

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          Yeah, having kids has given me lots of hope and optimism. I could always see opportunity for improvement. Even if I can’t improve the world, they can. …… it’s getting tough to hold onto that optimism.

          It helped that I thought we were pretty well insulated from some of the worst actors, but especially after being hit with financial aid changes affecting their education, their future, the hope of someone able to build a better tomorrow

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          That whole “it’ll work out” is such an incredibly privileged mindset. I can’t imagine anyone with that belief has ever really struggled in any way.

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            1000%. I feel like everyone my parents age has that mindset though and it immediately makes me think, “yeah so you’re an ignorant idiot”.

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              I’m almost certainly older than your parents and my view is that nothing works out unless we make it work out. The system doesn’t run itself and it’s not self-correcting, either. And the fact that it allowed Trump to seize power is a sign that it’s deeply defective.

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            Millions of people live that way because that’s thronlu way they get through the day.

            No one cares. That’s why

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            Stop the pollution first. Geoengineering is at best speculative, and at worst, may be a cure that’s worse than the problem.

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              Stop all pollution today and we’re still done and over with, as will about 90% of all species. Geo engineering is our last chance. I particularly like blocking sunlight as a solution. Any solution will have drawbacks. Huge amounts of water vapor above parts of the ocean sounds tempting to me too.

              Edit: for all the down voters: https://presearch.com/search?q=accidental+geo-engineering+experiment
              Edit 2: Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People

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                Blocking sunlight? Like the one nearly limitless energy source we have?

                How about stuff like… Planting more trees, ending deforestation of the Amazon? How about reducing automobile usage?

                Like, these all have no negative impacts, but blocking the sun does, in fact.

                Plants don’t use heat to make energy, they use sunlight. And you’re discussing cutting off the energy source of the one type organism capable of cleaning our atmo…

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                  Those are indeed much better examples of changes we need but we are rapidly approaching the point where those changes are too late. Given the severity of the likely impact, we need the urgency to act in greater desperation. By all means we need to go all out with renewable energy, net zero, walkable cities, and so many more transformation of modern society. It is the only sustainable approach. But is it too little, too late? At what point do we need to take more desperate measures?

                  We need to at least develop a better understanding of terraforming earth because that may quickly become our best hope

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      The upvotes are diminishing. Two more weeks and people will have moved on. It’s fascinating to see how the mind works.

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    Mr Trump has signed an executive order requiring banks not to discriminate against clients on political ground

    … while also releasing a list of his support for companies ranked on political grounds …

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        I mean surely the whole article is just a typo and the writer is confused? They can’t possibly mean Donald Trump, the failed businessman, failed casino owner, failed university operator, convicted felon and best friend of convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein is corrupt?!

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          The guy monetizing the presidency? Turning the White House driveway into a car sales lot? The guy manipulating crypto to launder bribes, even trying to make the us treasury guarantee his profits? Surely you jest

          Look over there: There are no Trump/epstein files.