In Reply to: How about the 25 companies that gave us our current SCOTUS? posted by HasBen on January 03, 2025 at 15:26:41
Home Depot has always been very conservative.
See Reuters:
"Republican mega-donor Bernie Marcus said on Tuesday he would likely still give money to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid if the former president was convicted of a crime - but the billionaire does not plan to be one of his biggest financial backers.
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Asked in an interview with Reuters whether he would still support Trump if he were convicted, Marcus replied, "I think so. Because I think it's all trumped up."
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Marcus and his wife Billi Wilma Marcus were the seventh-largest individual Republican donors in the 2020 election cycle, giving nearly $25 million to Republican campaigns, according to OpenSecrets, a nonprofit group that tracks money in politics. Business magazine Forbes estimates Marcus' net worth at around $8.8 billion."
If you look at what Gates Foundation in lobbying the CSU and Community College systems, they have basically gutted, English, ESL, and Math. If you can't do transfer-level courses in those topics walking onto a CSU or CC campus, they are simply pushing you into a minimum-wage trade like bus driving.
They have also pushed support away from re-training older students to focus mostly on recent high school graduates. If you come from a poor neighborhood with poor skills, Bill Gates doesn't think college is the right pathway for you.
NBC is about making money. They are the ones who overpaid for Megan Kelly. Her issue isn't that she's an open bigot. Her problem is that she didn't make money for NBC. Before Tucker Carlson went to Fox, he had a nightly program at MSNBC.