An arrogant, entitled poster leads me down a path to remembering the Clinton Ties to Hillary being on Walmart's board, the money she has been given by them and their questionable practices!
Like many of you in Trump and Q groups, I try to interact across different platforms to get a feel for what the political atmosphere is and how We the People are feeling.
Perhaps all the added work to the Christmas season makes me a little testy, but I'm not going to sit back any longer while the entitled think they can put other generations down!
Alright, that's IT! Who else is Sick and Tired of this kind of a demonstration of poor character and arrogance? Complete lack of Respect! Comes from the top down and a Globalist, Progressive Curriculum!
I get some pertinent news on Voat. I realize people on there are not saints, I don't expect them to be. I will interact with you no matter how much we disagree even tolerate your foul language, but I don't cotton to belittling and name calling! I DO expect Respect for generations who have gone before us!
I get this garbage after chiming in where someone was talking about Walmart. I reminded people the Clintons were integral in furthering the Walmart agenda. I don't always shop there, but I have at times, so made sure I didn't imply otherwise. I get this punk response. . .that I wasn't looking for. He should have kept his smart aleck remarks to himself!
"It's not hard to never shop at Walmart, unless you are a retarded f****** Boomer."
Now I'm used to the language. . .Jesus interacted with those who weren't prim and proper as His heart is that None perish. . .so just how it is. But I Don't like the arrogance and disrespect!
Here was my answer. Let me know what else I should have included.
Not a Boomer, but I know a lot of good people who are.
I work 7 days a week like many others. If I don't have time to go across town, I will use them.
Especially if they're the only store that hasn't run out of distilled water. That's right. . .I take the chance of them poisoning me! My call, no one else's!
It's a Free Country still, so I go where I want When I want without the millennials who think they Know All telling Me what to do! (Not saying all Millennials are bad, I know many who have their head screwed on straight and don't constantly put others down just to make themselves feel better). There's a cure for that. . .start respecting yourself more then you will have the capacity to value others!
I purchase most items from other retailers, but despise hypocrisy so didn't want to pretend I too haven't shopped there.
My daughter has friends in HS who work there. A job is a job! I applaud All who seek employment rather sitting in mommy and daddy's basement as I've seen some do Gaming and Shooting off their mouths all day while being arrogant and condescending to others!
You know, the Other kind of Entitled on the Other side of the spectrum from the Elitists!
I believe those Boomers can spot them a mile away Every Time!
The name they have for them rhymes with Sunk!
Then because I'm a mom, I had to have another word. . .so I did, as MOM stands for "My Opinion Matters" more than your's until you are My Age!
My Response
Also, get a clue. . .you could end up incapacitated, your brain functioning set back or as you like to say. . .retarded.
You better pray someone loves you enough to care for you.
You might end up having a child whose brain functioning is regressed, or they could have developmental challenges. . .you might think it's no big deal now, but when it's Your Child, you see it as horrible that others are so cruel.
And no, I don't have a child who has been labeled mentally challenged, but I know those who do. You shouldn't be so cavalier with your language.
It doesn't make you appear as superior as you Think it does! Quite the opposite. It exposes your lack of character.
Just because God made you fully functioning. . .doesn't mean things couldn't change.
You should try to put yourself in other's shoes. God's Kingdom will come and you will have to give an answer for how you treated others.
Now if I were his parent I would have told him I have no more time for his disrespectful, misplaced arrogant remarks.
As I won't be "gaming" today, I have to work a job. And when I go to put all my orders in at the post office, if I feel like bulking up my distilled water supply from Walmart. . .I WILL!
So the kid writes this back to me, (at least he's a sharp one who does his homework).
Youz sounds crazy, but I was just looking into Wal Mart and learned that Sam Walton started and ran the chain from none other than...Little Rock Arkansas.
Also found this:
Walton joined the military in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, supervising security at aircraft plants and prisoner of war camps.
My response,
I already mentioned the Clinton connect to someone else earlier.
Yes, you are correct. Guess what the platform you are using was built upon?
That's right, we're in Satan's world. We know satan with his AI and orchestrators like Schmidt, Brin, Page, Dorsey and the Zuck all run us about with their Social Engineering.
Yet we Choose to engage. Why? Because we can't just let them Win. We all go silent. . .where is the light? We live in satan's domain, but we are here to expose their corruption and Fake sense of virtue signaling while attempting to control us all. Do we just throw our hands up and say "oh well, in defeat, " or do we Choose to deal, engage, expose?
Do I Really soundz crazy now?
You sound like someone who's misplaced attitude isn't put in check enough.
You need to come down off of your self built Perch and realize your hide's in the same jeopardy as everyone else's no matter Where you shop!
Good find on the Army Intel Corp. and the Prisoner of War Camps' connection.
You don't suppose he made sure with his whole "intel" background that he built the foundation with great access to the underworld do you?
What Prime Real Estate for the globalist to set up their trade deals to benefit China and other foreign interests with NAFTA that all the progressives have been up in arms about when Trump won't tolerate the unfair treatment of his own people! Boy did that set up a Great foundation for China and all the Clinton Cohorts!
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82426
You're right, he purchased his first Ben Franklin in none other than Newport, Arkansas. He eventually owned them across Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas.
The first Walmart opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
He did start out trying to use American Made products.
He died in Little Rock.
Initially his second hand plane and learning to fly aided him in acquiring goods.
BTW I'm sure it's likely a typo, but in case you're not aware. ..you want to use the plural verb for "you sound crazy." Not you sounds crazy. Since your subject is singular.
You seem pretty sharp so likely already know.
Now I make typos and inadvertent errors in my writing constantly because time is short, I have to work and if I fretted non stop about how many errors I made, then I would be rendered paralyzed in getting any info out. So not judging, you are sure to find plenty of errors in my writing and perhaps that's all it was and you already understood subject, verb agreement.
You should keep poking around into Walmart. Fascinating subject. Would be glad to hear your findings!
This is for my steemit readers,
More fascinating tidbits about Sam Walton
We will start with the first piece of info that was aptly pointed out by my commenter,
Walton joined the military in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, supervising security at aircraft plants and prisoner of war camps.
In this position he served at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City, Utah. He eventually reached the rank of captain.
Walton spent approximately 18 months with J. C. Penney
he worked at a DuPont munitions plant near Tulsa, Oklahoma
Walton was an Eagle Scout
served as an Army captain during World War II, was an avid hunter and outdoorsman, and lived humbly.
He had a hard-charging, demanding style,
often starting work at 4:30 a.m.
Bought a second hand plane and he and his son learned to fly so they could locate goods for his stores
More in sources below.
These are some interesting Facts from The Balance,
Quick Facts
Walton opened his first store, a Ben Franklin franchise, in Newport, Arkansas, on September 1, 1945, after his wife insisted she would not live in a town of more than 10,000 people. In less than two decades, he owned 15 of the franchised stores.
Even after becoming a billionaire, Walton drove a pickup truck and wore clothes from his own discount store, Walmart.
In 1984, Walton bet his store managers they could not earn a pretax margin larger than 8 percent. He said if he lost, he would dress in a grass hula skirt and floral shirt. They did. He lost. He did.
The most recent in news for Walmart is this,
Walmart Says Global Ethics and Compliance Chief Jay Jorgensen Is Leaving
Interesting right?
From the New York Times,
In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, had a problem. He was under growing pressure from shareholders — and his wife, Helen — to appoint a woman to the company’s 15-member board of directors.
So Mr. Walton turned to a young lawyer who just happened to be married to the governor of Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is based: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton’s six-year tenure as a director of Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest company, remains a little known chapter in her closely scrutinized career. And it is little known for a reason. Mrs. Clinton rarely, if ever, discusses it, leaving her board membership out of her speeches and off her campaign Web site.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html
Also this from Sexual Misconduct,
Flipkart CEO Resigns After Personal Misconduct Probe; What's Next For Walmart?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittainladd/2018/11/13/flipkart-ceo-binny-bansal-resigns/#7639034e43c1
This happened last year,
Longtime Walmart Executive Announces Departure
last February of 2017
https://www.4029tv.com/article/longtime-walmart-executive-announces-departure/8700324
This is also interesting, not all are aware that Hillary Clinton sat on the Board of Walmart for 6 years.
Why? According to various sources which I Will cite,
In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was under pressure to appoint a woman to the company’s 15-member -all male- board of directors. So, Mr. Walton asked a young lawyer, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who just happened to be married to the governor of Arkansas at the time, where Wal-Mart is based, to be the sole female member of the board.
During six years (1986 -1992) as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against the labor unions seeking to represent store workers.
John Tate who was one of Clinton’s fellow board members, was leading Wal-Mart’s anti-union efforts. Tate was also Wal-Mart’s executive vice president and served on the board with Clinton for four of her six years. Tate favorite phrase was, as he admitted himself, “Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people who work for a living.”
You be the judge.
http://www.progressivepress.net/hillary-clinton-was-a-wal-mart-director-for-6-years/
Obama attacked Clinton’s one-time membership on the board of directors of the world’s largest retailer, saying, “While I was watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.”
It’s true that Clinton sat on the Wal-Mart board for six years while her husband was governor of Arkansas, where the chain has its corporate headquarters. She was paid about $18,000 a year for doing it. At the time, she worked at the Rose Law Firm, which had represented Wal-Mart in various matters.
But according to accounts from other board members, Clinton was a thorn in the side of the company’s founder, Sam Walton, on the matter of promoting women, few of whom were in the ranks of managers or executives at the time. She also strongly advocated for more environmentally sound corporate practices. She made limited progress in both areas. In 2005 she returned a $5,000 contribution from Wal-Mart, citing “serious differences” with its “current” practices.
This is a very interesting read back in 2016 of the Washington Times,
Alice Walton, the daughter of Sam Walton, the founder of the chain of big box stores, gave Mrs. Clinton’s Democratic National Committee Victory Fund $353,000 in December, a contribution just made public last month. Before that she contributed $25,000 to the Ready for Hillary political action committee.
Mrs. Clinton gave critics a new target last week when her campaign treasurer traveled to Mexico to host a campaign fundraiser with some of Walmart’s top brass.
Progressive websites like the Daily Kos, have been questioning Mrs. Clinton’s Wal-Mart ties and her blatant refusal to admit she’s swayed in anyway by corporate donations.
“One of the greatest issues of the coming election for president of the United States and perhaps the most burning issue for progressives in this nation is the involvement of corporate money and how it corrupts the system,” the Daily Kos said in a January article titled “Hillary, Wal-Mart and the Revolving Door.”
Mother Jones, The Progressive Press, and the Huffington Post have all followed up with like articles, detailing Mrs. Clinton’s troubling ties to Wal-Mart.
Mr. Sanders hasn’t attacked Mrs. Clinton specifically, but has taken aim at Wal-Mart, blasting the company’s owners in a campaign speech in Keene, New Hampshire, earlier this month.
“Today Wal-Mart is the largest private sector employer in America. Yet many, many of their employees are forced to go on food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing that you pay for through your taxes because the Walton family refuses to pay their workers a living wage,” Mr. Sanders said.
Paired with Mr. Sanders‘ broader economic message, the attack is paying off in the Democratic primary. Mr. Sanders walloped Mrs. Clinton by double digits, winning most voter demographics including the coveted middle-class white worker.
Neither the company nor Mrs. Clinton’s campaign returned messages seeking comment.
Wal-Mart is based in Arkansas, where former President Clinton was governor for years. The Walton family and the Clintons ran in the same social circles.
According to multiple reports, it was Ms. Walton, the recent donor to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential bid, who lobbied her father to give Mrs. Clinton a seat on Walmart’s board of directors. It was while Mrs. Clinton was serving as first lady of Arkansas and was a lawyer at the Rose Law Firm. Mrs. Clinton held the director position from 1986 to 1992, earning $18,000 a year with a bonus of $1,500 for each quarterly board meeting she attended. During the time Mrs. Clinton amassed $100,000 in Wal-Mart stock.
In addition, the Walton Family Foundation has donated between $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, with their latest contribution recorded in the fourth quarter of last year. In return, Mr. Clinton has often praised the corporation and its activities.
Last year, the Clinton Foundation interviewed Sarah Thorn, senior director of Federal Government Relations at Wal-Mart, for a glowing feature of what the retailer is doing to empower young women, which is still posted on their website.
And last week Mrs. Clinton’s campaign treasurer, Jose Villarreal, attended a fundraiser discussion and dinner hosted by Ivan Zapien, Walmart’s vice president of corporate affairs in Mexico. Mr. Zapien, who previously served as the company’s top lobbyist in Washington, maxed out in personal contributions to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign last year.
Mr. Villarreal also has his own deep ties to Wal-Mart, having served on the company’s board from 1998 to 2006.
It was during his tenure, later detailed in a New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, that Wal-Mart management suppressed an inquiry into whether there was a widespread campaign of the company of bribing Mexican elected officials to more quickly obtain store licenses in possible violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). It is unclear whether Mr. Villarreal would have known about the scandal at the time.
After the story broke in 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice started an investigation into the matter. Mr. Zapien was serving as Walmart’s top lobbyist at the time and convened a group of outside consultants to brainstorm how the retailer could blunt the federal investigation and minimize the public relations fallout.
Wal-Mart has yet to settle with the DOJ over the issue.
One month after the Times report, Mrs. Clinton, who was State Department secretary at the time, lobbied government officials in India to reform their foreign direct investment policies to benefit American retailers like Wal-Mart. Later that same year, she brought Wal-Mart executives on a trip to South Africa to increase their access to that country’s consumers.
Mrs. Clinton’s long-standing ties to the retail giant have caused her issues in the past — most notably in the 2008 presidential election when she was running against then then-Sen. Barack Obama, who criticized her for the connection.
“While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board of Wal-Mart,” Mr. Obama said to Mrs. Clinton during a January 2008 debate.
A 2007 New York Times article found Mrs. Clinton failed to advance union causes during her time on the company’s board, and a 2008 ABC News review of videotapes from Wal-Mart meetings found that “Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers.”
Mr. Clinton defended Mrs. Clinton’s Wal-Mart seat, telling ABC News that they “lived in a state that had a very weak labor movement She knew there was no way to change that, not with it headquartered in Arkansas.”
In his various stump speeches, Mr. Sanders often uses Wal-Mart, and the Walton family, as a prime example of the billionaire class, those who have rigged the federal government to their own financial benefit, while offering little to nothing to the working class.
Read more here,
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/17/hillary-clintons-wal-mart-ties-breed-mistrust-amon/
Interesting chain of people leaving,
December 14, 2018
Daniel Trujillo
Walmart Inc. announced today that Jay Jorgensen, its executive vice president and global chief ethics and compliance officer, is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. He will be replaced by Daniel Trujillo, the company’s senior vice president and international chief compliance officer, on Feb. 1.
In a memo to Walmart associates Friday morning, Chief Legal Officer Rachel Brand announced the changes, saying, “Under Jay’s leadership we designed Walmart’s program to manage compliance risks associated with 14 diverse subject areas ranging from anti-corruption to food safety. . .We also established a chief ethics and compliance officer and centralized compliance team in every international market.”
Both men joined Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart in October 2012 with marching orders to build a world-class compliance program, shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened investigations into allegations that Walmart personnel systematically bribed Mexican officials so it could more quickly open stores in that country, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Brand’s memo said Jorgensen and Trujillo “have worked closely together at every step” of the program, and that their shared experience “will provide continuity and a smooth transition.”
Jorgensen was a partner at Sidley Austin before he joined Walmart. He also had served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Before Trujillo was hired at Walmart, he was deputy general counsel and director of compliance at Houston oil services company Schlumberger Ltd., where he worked for 15 years.
This happened prior that same year in Feb. of 2018 as the yahoo finance article was in Dec. 2018
According to the the yahoo finance article,
“I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Daniel over the past nine months,” Brand’s memo said, “and have seen first-hand his ability to lead strategic change and strengthen our business. His integrity, high expectations and passion for the business and our associates will ensure our continued success in leading a strong ethics and compliance program.”
The announcement came as Walmart prepares to settle its lingering, seven-year FCPA investigation with the SEC and DOJ. In November 2017 the company announced that it had set aside $283 million to settle the case with the federal government.
According to the local Fox station via CNN newswire,
A source familiar with Brand’s plans said she is going to accept a job with Walmart. A second source said she is leaving DOJ “because she got a great job.”
Brand, the associate attorney general who was confirmed last May, has been a prominent Trump administration official working on the reauthorizing of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
She served under Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is currently overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Brand previously worked in the administrations of both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama as the head of the Justice Department’s office of legal policy and as a member of an oversight board for privacy and civil liberties.
The New York Times first reported her resignation Friday afternoon.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
A friend close to Brand told CNN she wasn’t looking to leave and said she was offered the type of job you “don’t turn down” at a fortune 500 company. A second friend close to Brand told CNN she was being heavily courted for some time and was wrestling with the decision on whether or not to leave the Justice Department, describing the job as a “once in a lifetime job.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-says-global-ethics-compliance-151430533.html
More on Rachel Brand
- Combating human trafficking was one of Brand's stated priorities as Associate Attorney General.
*At the Department of Justice, Brand authored a memorandum entitled "Limiting Use of Agency Guidance Documents In Affirmative Civil Enforcement Cases," which was called the "Brand memo".
The document forbade DOJ litigators from bringing enforcement actions based on unenforceable guidance documents.
On February 9, 2018, the New York Times reported that Brand, along with her assistant Currie Gunn, had resigned from the Justice Department. The New York Times indicated that Brand oversaw "a wide swath of the Justice Department" and helped lead the department's effort to extend Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act that "authorizes the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program.
On February 12, 2018, NBC News reported that Brand had quit the Justice Department over fear she might be asked to oversee the Russia probe and had taken a position with Walmart as EVP of Global Governance and Corporate Secretary. As executive vice president of global governance, chief legal officer, and corporate secretary, Brand is in charge of the legal department, global ethics, compliance, and investigations.
On February 12, 2018, NBC News reported that Brand had quit the Justice Department over fear she might be asked to oversee the Russia probe and had taken a position with Walmart as EVP of Global Governance and Corporate Secretary. As executive vice president of global governance, chief legal officer, and corporate secretary, Brand is in charge of the legal department, global ethics, compliance, and investigations.
UPDATE from Bloomberg Law Oct. 2020
Walmart Inc. has made two more notable legal and compliance hires, the latest in a string of additions by the retail giant.
John Kinton, who since 2012 has been a patent litigation partner at Jones Day in London and San Diego, joined Walmart this month as lead counsel for intellectual property litigation. Walmart has also welcomed aboard Emily Buchanan as a director of ethics and conflicts of interest.
Neither Buchanan nor Kinton responded to requests for comment.
Both hires follow Walmart’s recent recruitment of international general counsel Deborah Vaughn, who will start her new role Nov. 2. All three in-house lawyers are based out of the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
The moves come as Walmart agreed to acquire a stake last month in embattled social media platform TikTok.
#Walmart, #HillaryClinton, #RachelBrand, #TikTok
Other Sources,
https://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-history
http://www.progressivepress.net/hillary-clinton-was-a-wal-mart-director-for-6-years/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82426
https://www.thebalance.com/sam-walton-aka-samuel-moore-walton-358040
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