Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So...PEOTUS just sent out a tweet thanking LL Bean for its "support" (big campaign donor) and telling people to bu LL Bean. I am no government ethics expert but promoting a specific company in exchange for their support has to be an issue.

Literally everyone I know who shops at LL Bean, down to the girls wearing Bean Boots, are republicans.

Huh? Maine is a blue state.

I'm a flaming liberal, and have so much LL Bean stuff, it's crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:L.L. Bean has demonstrated good sense. I'm going to its Website now to dump a ton of money.

Your rubles won't go far.

I legit LOLed at this

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So...PEOTUS just sent out a tweet thanking LL Bean for its "support" (big campaign donor) and telling people to bu LL Bean. I am no government ethics expert but promoting a specific company in exchange for their support has to be an issue.

You are crazy.

Maybe not an issue now, but it will be next week.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/314103-trumps-ll-bean-tweet-breaks-wh-policy

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So...PEOTUS just sent out a tweet thanking LL Bean for its "support" (big campaign donor) and telling people to bu LL Bean. I am no government ethics expert but promoting a specific company in exchange for their support has to be an issue.

You are crazy.

Ok...thanks for that insightful response.

To be fair, it was a really efficient attempt at gaslighting

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So...PEOTUS just sent out a tweet thanking LL Bean for its "support" (big campaign donor) and telling people to bu LL Bean. I am no government ethics expert but promoting a specific company in exchange for their support has to be an issue.

Literally everyone I know who shops at LL Bean, down to the girls wearing Bean Boots, are republicans.

Huh? Maine is a blue state.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a minimum, Trump should avoid talking about companies in his Twitter feed. It's really unfair to companies and their workers. He may think he's helping them out, but too many will make knee-jerk decisions, like not buying.

This guy is a reckless fool.

I sure hope there're not enough of those idiots to tip the scales and actually hurt anything.

I wouldn't worry, real Americans will still buy LL Bean.

"Real Americans"? What makes you think you get to decide who is a "real" American? Maybe I think you're not a "real American" because you blindly support a treasonous shill for a foreign dictator?

how many more product endorsements will he do?

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. I like LL Bean. This makes me not want to give them any of our business going forward.

It's only one stupid member of their board of directors. The right has blown up this nothingburger into an "OUTRAGE!!!!!!111!!!11!!"

#victimcomplex

Kind of like the left is blowing it up here?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So...PEOTUS just sent out a tweet thanking LL Bean for its "support" (big campaign donor) and telling people to bu LL Bean. I am no government ethics expert but promoting a specific company in exchange for their support has to be an issue.

You are crazy.

Ok...thanks for that insightful response.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. I like LL Bean. This makes me not want to give them any of our business going forward.

It's only one stupid member of their board of directors. The right has blown up this nothingburger into an "OUTRAGE!!!!!!111!!!11!!"

#victimcomplex

+1000
Just more of what another poster correctly labeled "outrage porn." Such silly people.

Well, I was the one who raised the issue and I am not a liberal or a Dem. Maybe it is me being silly, but I think it smells funny for the newly elected PEOTUS to be urging people via social media to patronize the business of a donor. It sends a terrible message and leaves him and the administration open to legitimate criticism.

We should least pretend to care about perception and ethics. This is an unwelcome distraction and it seems that he cannot avoid them.

You're a little late.

Anonymous wrote:So...PEOTUS just sent out a tweet thanking LL Bean for its "support" (big campaign donor) and telling people to bu LL Bean. I am no government ethics expert but promoting a specific company in exchange for their support has to be an issue.

You are crazy.

Eddie Bauer and Land's End just lost 10% off their quarterly earnings, as all the right winger sales flock to LL Bean. The employees in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Illinois will all suffer to feed Trump's ego.

American businesses need to start trying to get PEOTUS to pimp their products. How long before Eric and Don Jr. start licensing the Trump name for profit? Kleptocracy begins.

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Anonymous wrote:Will all the lefties in Martha's Vineyard have to change the LL Bean bedsheets at their cottages?

Mic drop. So good.

Uh no. Lame ass cultural appropriation, Buffy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. I like LL Bean. This makes me not want to give them any of our business going forward.

It's only one stupid member of their board of directors. The right has blown up this nothingburger into an "OUTRAGE!!!!!!111!!!11!!"

#victimcomplex

+1000
Just more of what another poster correctly labeled "outrage porn." Such silly people.

Well, I was the one who raised the issue and I am not a liberal or a Dem. Maybe it is me being silly, but I think it smells funny for the newly elected PEOTUS to be urging people via social media to patronize the business of a donor. It sends a terrible message and leaves him and the administration open to legitimate criticism.

We should least pretend to care about perception and ethics. This is an unwelcome distraction and it seems that he cannot avoid them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So...PEOTUS just sent out a tweet thanking LL Bean for its "support" (big campaign donor) and telling people to bu LL Bean. I am no government ethics expert but promoting a specific company in exchange for their support has to be an issue.

Literally everyone I know who shops at LL Bean, down to the girls wearing Bean Boots, are republicans.

Look, maybe you just know a lot of Republicans.

Until Trump becomes President, he is an American with a twitter account. He is making statements about a privately held company.

No, dingus, he's the PEOTUS. Like it or not, that comes with responsibilities.

Of course it does. But, for the love of Pete, look at the bigger picture. Does Trump appear to you to be someone who embraces real or implied responsibilities?