2024 U.S. Presidential Election Thread: Donald Trump wins & will return to the White House; GOP wins U.S. Senate & U.S. House
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i probably listen to more CNN than anyone here, and i'm entirely sure who every single anchor is voting for. it's a liberal, trump-hating channel
not sure this checks out
How the fukk us cnn far leftnot even remotely. weird thing to lie about
let me guess, this stems from some bullshyt ass idea that CNN isn't far left enough for you
they're down the middle as it gets right now. They ain't even bother to check trump during his debate, aided him with lying for 2 hours
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Kim jong?
i forget that you use some weird european scale, instead of american politics. my badHow the fukk us cnn far left
it is blatantly obvious, watching CNN for 5 minutes, that every single anchor is a liberal who hates trump
Most people who aren't open white supremacist hate trump, or pretend to hate trump. Doesn't mean they're some far left leftist. Nothing is left leaning about cnn, they don't even push left leaning agendas. I'd consider the majority report far left/progressive, cnn is NOT far left. They're cowardly centrist channel
JD Vance’s ‘Jobs for Hillbillies’ Start-Up Employed Migrants Instead
‘Weird’ wonderboy Vance’s Kentucky venture AppHarvest collapsed into bankruptcy last year after staggering along against a slew of complaints over dangerous working conditions.
JD Vance’s ‘Jobs for Hillbillies’ Start-Up Employed Migrants Instead
KENTUCKY FRIED CATASTROPHE
‘Weird’ wonderboy Vance’s Kentucky venture AppHarvest collapsed into bankruptcy last year after staggering along against a slew of complaints over dangerous working conditions.
Will Neal
Freelance Reporter
Updated Aug. 13, 2024 1:51PM EDT / Published Aug. 13, 2024 11:47AM EDT
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For a self-proclaimed ‘hillbilly hero’ it seems JD Vance doesn’t much care for the little man, if new revelations about one of the vice-presidential candidate’s former ventures are anything to go by.
Before collapsing under the weight of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of debt, AppHarvest was touted as the herald of a new, tech-savvy era of farming in Eastern Kentucky. Last year, the firm filed for bankruptcy after years of pursuing aggressive growth, in part by prioritizing migrant workers from Central America despite early pledges of employment opportunities for impoverished local communities.
By that point, the company had already come under a slew of complaints over unsafe working conditions, such as employees being provided with poor quality gear and insufficient water breaks while toiling in greenhouses where temperatures are alleged to have regularly soared into triple digits. “It was a nightmare that should never have happened,” as one worker told CNN.
AppHarvest’s failures further tarnishes the image of a working man’s champion that helped catapult Vance to the top of the Republican campaign alongside Donald Trump. “I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands and loved their God, their family, their community and their country with their whole hearts,” Vance told the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last month. “But it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America’s ruling class in Washington.”
Such comments stand in stark contrast to testimony from AppHarvest’s workers. “Eastern Kentucky is well-known for people coming and going. They start up companies, then they disappear,” Anthony Morgan, a former worker at the firm, said in the recent CNN report. “They didn’t care about us.”
“Making the decision to go work at AppHarvest, like many of us made, the livelihood just went right down the drain,” Morgan added. “I blame all of the original investors.”
A senior company manager told CNN: “The allegations made against AppHarvest do not reflect matters discussed at board meetings during JD’s tenure — for obvious reasons. AppHarvest implemented robust heat policies when temperatures rose in the summer, months after JD’s departure, continued to cover 100% of employees’ health insurance premiums until mid-2022, and maintained a workforce dedicated to Appalachia throughout its existence.”
Riding hot off the back of the tearaway success of his bestselling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Senate filings indicate Vance joined the board at AppHarvest in 2017, though the firm’s own documents state he joined three years later. He would go on to help channel millions of dollars worth of investments into the company, with its stated mission of creating local jobs by developing vertical, self-contained farming hubs in the Kentucky heartlands.
Farm worker Morgan says that by late 2020, the working culture underwent a significant shift, with cuts to healthcare benefits and longer hours in a push to meet ballooning production quotas. Bleeding employees, AppHarvest turned to hiring migrant workers in a bid to keep up the pace, eventually finding itself slapped with shareholder lawsuits over steady losses from the beginning of 2021.
A spokesperson for Vance, who left AppHarvest’s board that April but continued to hold $100,000 in the firm, said in response to the recent report the vice presidential candidate was “not aware of the operational decisions regarding hiring” and that “like all early supporters [he] believed in AppHarvest’s mission and wishes the company would have succeeded.”
man, Pink MAGA is such an apt description, you guys love being victimsimagine CNN not being liberal enough for you
There is a certain irony in your protests against violence potentially directly helping bring more violence to the people you're worried about
Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
Very curious if Trump's people try to get RFK Jr. to drop out. Haven't heard much non-fukkery from RFK Jr. for a minute.
I heard Trump was going to “buy him out”, RFK to drop out and endorse Trump prior to the RNC but they couldn’t get it done. Art of the deal my ass
RFK mentioned Trump is “angry” about him running, it’s known he’s siphoning mostly Trump votes at this point. An L all around
Exonerated fiveBringing on ths central park 5
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The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Not according to some ads a certain orange shytgibbon put on the paper calling for their execution. If we took that mans lens of justice at his word with the rapes he's probably done shouldnt he be executedExonerated five
