Former P&G CEO: "I'll never vote Republican again"

[StarfishSaver]

Link to tweet

[FakeNoose]

1. Make sure your employees know how you feel

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

It's about time they start waking up to the fact that the republican party is hurting them long term. And hurting all of us all the time.

[CrispyQ]

3. A day late & billions of dollars short.

Go fuck yourself, asshole. ~insert flip-the-bird smilie here

[StarfishSaver]

7. You're way out of line here.

First, it sounds like you didn't even read the article. If you had read it, you would know that he's a good, fair-minded man who was never a political idealogue, has often supported Democrats over the years and whose son is the chair of the Ohio Democratic Party. He's also donated millions of dollars to civil rights causes and is respected and loved by blacks and whites in his community.

Assuming the worst about him because he's wealthy and was a Republican represents exactly the kind of narrow-minded, information-free, binary thinking we abhor and mock in Trump supporters. We're better than that.

[hibbing]

11. Thanks for this info

My immediate thought to the OP was to post a kneejerk response without reading the article. I'm always a cynic at heart.

Peace

[StarfishSaver]

12. ...

Peace to you.

[bsiebs]

23. ... ok ... but still fuck him for being a republican ...

peace

[kiri]

28. excellent post

eom

[CrispyQ]

32. I'm out of line? Why, because I disagree with you? LOL.

And yes, I read the article. It sounds like he was a republican & supported republicans until 2015. I'm not feeling very forgiving toward unhappy republicans who didn't see or didn't care what their party has turned into over the past 40 years. Trump didn't spring from nothing.

Where were all the disaffected republicans when Ronald Reagan claimed that government WAS the problem? Or when Newt Gingrich started GOP combative politics back in the 90s? Or when the GOP stole the 2000 election? Or when Bush lied us into a war AND gave out tax cuts? Or when Sarah Palin fired up her crowds with her racist rhetoric & cross hair graphics? Or when the republican congress tried to repeal the ACA - how many times now? Fifty? Or when McConnell refused to have a hearing for Garland? These were all lead-ins to the current criminal president & his enabling senate but all these unhappy republicans, who are now calling for their party to return to decency, have been crickets for the past four decades.

So this guy finally saw the light. What took him so long? In the meantime, it will be decades undoing the Trump/republican damage, while climate change is barreling down the pike, so yeah, fuck him.

[elleng]

4. Good to see. Ridiculous when Democrats don't clearly APPRECIATE such,

and work to take advantage of it/them.

[still_one]

5. Thanks. I really cannot understand the attitude of some here.

[pangaia]

6. Because he was to chicken shit and selfish to say that while he was CEO !

Just like republicans afraid to say anything so they quit and THEN say something.

Or former republican anythings...

[StarfishSaver]

10. Maybe you should read up on John Pepper before you call him names

He hasn't been CEO since 2002.

John Pepper has been speaking up - and putting his money where his mouth is - for years.

https://freedomcenter.org/content/exposing-implicit-bias-john-pepper

[pangaia]

15. thanks i stand corrected...

[StarfishSaver]

16. ...

FYI - I wouldn't have posted this if I thought Pepper was a "screw everyone else, what's in it for me" type Republican. I posted it because he's someone I truly admire.

[cstanleytech]

19. The problem with the party goes back decades before 2002 and even before Nixon which

you would have thought would have been enough of a wake up call.

[elleng]

8. Thanks.

[still_one]

14. ...........

[brer cat]

9. I hope he is the leading edge

of a massive wave. From his blog:

When will, I ask, responsible Republicans return to the principles that marked the Republicans I respected? When will they stop standing aside to let the meanness and cruelty and lying and rumor-mongering of Donal Trump go unchallenged? When will they again insist that their candidates, especially for the Presidency, embody the highest values of our nation. starting with integrity and respecting the dignity of everyone.

[elleng]

18. Ditto

[radical noodle]

13. Decency deserted the GOP long ago

I'm glad he's speaking out. More need to do so.

[cstanleytech]

17. Well the party need not have taken the path it took but it did and people like him helped

make it possible.

[StarfishSaver]

20. Do you also blame Elizabeth Warren for the direction the GOP has tsken?

Or do you recognize that the party went a different way despite not because of some of the decent people who were Republicans in the past?

[cstanleytech]

24. Partly, yes. I mean its not like the Watergate scandal was not well known so yes

if you joined their party even after that and did not try to fix it then you would share some of the responsibility for what its become.

[912gdm]

21. This was LAST week.

This week we had a POTUS trying to buy Greenland, cancelling a trip to Denmark cause the PM said buying Greenland was absurd, POTUS wanting to give himself a medal of honor, Den Jews are disloyal, did the mostus of any president in history, "Chosen one", Jared and little Ivanka on the prairie are hard working, and Captain Industry Tycoon ordering all ceos to move production out of china.

[Skittles]

22. newflash

repukes have been mean and cruel for a long, LONG time

[sellitman]

25. Too late MFer

[live love laugh]

31. Yep fuck him and all the rest who looked the other way

for way too long. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

[Hoyt]

26. Better late than never, I suppose.

[Norbert]

27. Read this to the end please

While he had been a Republican donor in decades past, his most recent donation to a Republican at the federal level appears to have been in 2015. He was a frequent donor to Democrats after that, including 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Voting records show he has voted in Democratic primaries in recent years.

Yes, he was a republican at one time but so was Eisenhower and I have deep respect for the man.

By the time he completely washed his hands of the Republican party it was before Dick Head 45 rose to the top of the large group of deplorables. I'm not privy to who he voted for in 2016 but I will bet every last dollar I have that it wasn't Dotard.

It is mentioned that his son is Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. If you look up David Pepper on Twitter you will find he is probably THE most critical of the tRump crime family as any politician in the state of Ohio.

[StarfishSaver]

29. This!

Thank you!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. K&R for a breath of fresh air.

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