You can't make this shit up.....liberal logic strikes again: - The TPP sucks because it helps greedy multinational corporations get rich off of Chinese slave labor while killing American manufacturing jobs. That's why I'm voting for Bernie/Hillary. - Holy shit. New Balance just came out in support of Trump's opposition to the TPP? Fuck them! I'm burning these shoes that I already paid for! LOL. Check out these aspiring rocket scientists- As protests against U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump roil cities across America, people have found a corporate logo to symbolize their anger and dismay. It’s emblazoned on the side of their shoes. New Balance, the privately held Boston shoemaker, found itself in consumer cross-hairs after declaring that Trump’s imminent ascension to the White House is a move in the “right direction.” The backlash was sparked by a tweet from the Wall Street Journal’s Sara Germano, who quoted a New Balance spokesperson saying President Barack Obama’s administration had “turned a deaf ear” to New Balance. That didn’t go over well with the public. After all, more than half the electorate didn’t vote for Trump. Furious shoppers converged on New Balance’s Facebook page to rail against the brand and call for boycotts. On Twitter, they shared photos and videos of their New Balance sneakers thrown in the trash or tossed in the toilet. Some even lit their kicks on fire. “I will not buy New Balance again ever,” one outraged customer wrote. “I am finding as many people as possible to spread this news.” New Balance says it’s being unfairly vilified. The company contends that it supports Trump’s opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free trade deal that Obama negotiated with 12 countries on the Pacific Rim. TPP would lower various trade barriers, both tariff and non-tariff, among member nations. Opponents of the deal warn that it serves corporate interests and would endanger U.S. jobs. Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent in the general election (and the winner of the popular vote by more than 200,000), also opposed the deal. “As the only major company that still makes athletic shoes in the U.S., New Balance has a unique perspective on trade in that we want to make more shoes in the U.S., not less,” the company said in a statement on Thursday. “New Balance publicly supported the trade positions of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump prior to election day that focused on American manufacturing job creation and we continue to support them today.” fighting free trade agreements for years, since it manufactures or assembles more than 4 million pairs of athletic shoes each year at its five factories in Massachusetts and Maine. The company backed punitive tariffs that make it more costly to import footwear. Across the continent, in Beaverton, Ore., Nike has pushed for more free trade, since it does its manufacturing internationally. source
It's almost like these hysterical protestors are not well-informed and just reacting childishly. Perhaps they are afraid that if Asian slave labor cannot be used, they might have to get an actual job themselves. The horror.
New Balance has been the only sneakers I will buy for the past several years, close to a decade I guess. I like that they do manufacturing here in the US and this wont change that. That said, it blows my mind that a spokesperson is dumb enough to say politicians names in a quote like that. Guaranteed to piss off half your customers. Why not say "We feel the TPP will now die, which will help us maintain our jobs here at home."? Sure, what they said was correct, but still they will lose customers. This is about the same level as celebrities using their fame to promote their own views. It would be ironic if the protest has an effect on jobs in Massachusetts, where they have some plants I think. Probably the only state in the country where every county was blue.
Reminds me of an ad I saw in the newspaper years ago..... For Sale. French rifle, from WWII. Never fired. Dropped once.
Hook, line, and sinker... Trump supporters call to boycott Pepsi over comments the CEO never made by Shannon Gupta @shannonfgupta November 16, 2016: 9:27 PM ET "Donald Trump supporters are angry with Pepsi -- over something that never happened. "The President-elect's supporters are threatening to boycott Pepsi (PEP) over fabricated statements circulating on social media. Twitter users, many citing debunked news articles, claim PepsiCo (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi told Trump fans to "take their business elsewhere." "Sites designed to trick people, including Truthfeed and Gateway Pundit, published the fake quote while encouraging readers to stop buying Pepsi's products. Gateway Pundit also incorrectly claimed PepsiCo's stock plunged 5% because of the comment that Nooyi never actually made. "Nooyi never told Trump's supporters that Pepsi doesn't want their business and she even congratulated the president-elect on his victory. But she condemned the ugly rhetoric of the campaign. "How dare we talk about women that way," Nooyi actually said at the New York Times Dealbook conference in response to a question referencing the election and domestic violence in the NFL. She also discussed the impact of the election on her employees. "I had to answer a lot of questions, from my daughters, from my employees, they were all in mourning," Nooyi said. She called for unity. "The election is over. I think we should mourn, for those of us who supported the other side. But we have to come together and life has to go on," she said. "PepsiCo would not comment on the threatened boycott, except to say that Nooyi was referring to "a group of employees she spoke to who were apprehensive about the outcome of the election." Related: The plague of fake news is getting worse -- here's how to protect yourself http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/16/news/companies/pepsi-fake-news-boycott-trump/index.html