McKinsey & Company
Tucker Carlson
How did the world’s richest democracy become dependent upon a hostile foreign dictatorship like China? The leadership class in the United States allowed it to happen. They became wealthy from doing so.
Which brings us a consulting firm called McKinsey & Company. McKinsey is the recruiter of choice for many graduates at our most selective colleges. Chelsea Clinton worked in McKinsey out of Stanford. Pete Buttigieg did out of Harvard.
McKinsey makes money selling advice to companies and countries. And now, to the Governor of New York.
Ex sends, via Skippy.
Cuomo’s Handpicked Consulting Firm Has A Shady Past With China
The Mid-atlantic states have tapped McKinsey and Company to assist in reopening efforts, but its ties to China are troubling.
By David Marcus
The consortium of Mid-atlantic states led by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which is creating a plan to reopen their economies, has hired consulting firm McKinsey and Company to help with their efforts. As the New York Post reported last week, officials close to the process say the McKinsey-aided plan is an attempt to thwart Trump’s efforts at quick reopening, one official called it “Trump-proof.” But McKinsey is very close to another part of this story too, the nation that brought us the coronavirus, China.
A brutal expose in the New York Times from 2018 showed a deeply troubling relationship between McKinsey and Communist state-owned companies in China. Some of the projects they worked on, including a set of artificial islands in the South China Sea are at direct odds with stated American policy goals.
In 2018, the consulting firm held a corporate retreat in Western China just a few scant miles from the sites of concentration camps where the Communist government imprisons upwards of a million Uyghur Muslims. This humanitarian crisis was no secret at the time. As the McKinsey executives took camel ride selfies, the world knew that an entire ethnic minority was being systematically erased just down the road.
McKinsey’s excuse is the same as every company that kow tows to the communist regime in China, that it’s easier to fix China’s humanitarian problems from the inside. That is unadulterated neoliberal hokum, which has been proven wrong over, and over, and over. Making China more wealthy has not made China more free, it has only made it more powerful. Now it is using that power to challenge American interests and to spread deadly lies about a pandemic it created.
So Cuomo has hired this shady firm to try to slow walk Trump’s reopening of the country. This is clearly aimed at the November elections, and the Dems are perfectly willing to crush the economy during the pandemic, common folks be dammed. Nice, but completely in character. Read the rest of the article here: The Federalist
Thanks, Ex and Skippy.
Category: 2020 Election, Blue Falcons, Democrats
Think the Dumbocrats are NOT looking at absentee voting, if they can swing it? Sure, why not? They let dead people vote, don’t they?
There was a fuss about that a week or so ago. Waiting to see what happens come Fall.
I heard the term “proxy” voting being used by
Pelosi.
God help us.
“Poxy”
Fixed it for you.
Traitorous fuckers. ALL of them.
At some point, that section of the Constitution can no longer be overlooked, or hand-waved.
I hope to see a good stockpile of hemp rope put to appropriate use at some point in the future. It used to be that the only place one could acquire real hemp rope was Russia. With wacky weed, its cousin, legal everywhere, maybe it will make a manufacturing comeback here.
Interesting….
https://www.mckinsey.com/locations
https://shipabagofdicks.com/collections/all/products/bag-of-dicks
Some assembly required.
This reminds me of when the Halliburton name hit the news. Enormous corporation with massive influence in the halls of power and we peons have never heard of them. From your link: “McKinsey has offices in 130+ cities in 65+ countries”
Holy shite! That’s a huge company. Twenty-seven thousand employees according to the Wikipedia.
These are the shadowy power brokers who use the ventriloquist dummies in Washington and statehouses across the country to do their bidding.
I don’t think anyone outside of the Wyoming oil patch heard of Halliburton until Dick Cheney became VP.
You obviously never lived near any oil patch or Houston.
I did not. I try not to talk about things I’m not familiar with. There are plenty of others that have that covered.
What I should’ve said was “nobody cared about Halliburton until Dick Cheney…”.
The less power a government has, the less incentive to “lobby” for market manipulation, or other rent-seeking behavior.
The whole lobbying industry needs to be outlawed. Companies pay politicians for government money. The more money the government gives them, the more resources they can use to lobby. Endless cycle of cronyism and corruption.
These teh stoopid mofos are buying the rope from the Communist Chinese that the Communist Chinese will use to hang them with…or the bullet to shoot them with; whichever.
I still have those bridges and that ocean front property for those that still don’t believe that the Communist Chinese and the domestic enemies of our Republic are hell bent to destroy our way of life.
Wake up America, they know how many votes they need to steal this time.
Pitchfork? Torch? Tar and feathers? We’ll use the rope they already have.
Chicoms are always up to no good. “Don’t let the handshake and the smile fool ya, take my advice I’m only trying to screw ya,” could be their tagline (“Smiling Faces,” Undisputed Truth, ’71).
I’m no fan of McKinsey, but still, let me make sure I’ve got this right: Cuomo is an asshole (or traitor, per above comments) because he hired one of the most prestigious accounting firms in the US, and that firm has also done work for Chinese state-owned interests, right?
But the guy who owes the Bank of China -state-owned, yes- tens of millions of dollars because his real estate partner got the first ever American loan from them for one of his most prized assets is .. somehow totally fine, and the most patriotic guy ever.
That seems like a bit of selective outrage. If it’s bad for Cuomo to contract with a company that worked for state-owned interests in China, isn’t it also bad for POTUS to partner with a company that does the same?
Article: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
Point taken, LC. Although I’d say circumstances with China have changed a bit since 2012, which is when his partner was seeking to refi a $1B building. $211M doesn’t seem quite so much, given the context.
Well, I’d guarantee that’s a lot less than Cuomo is paying them, no?
But here’s another angle – if hiring McKinsey is bad, it’s also bad when the Trump administration hires them, right? As they did for part of their coronavirus response (yes, playing both sides, apparently)[1], part of their ICE strategy [2], and with the VA [3].
[1] : https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/jared-kushner-coronavirus-response-160553
[2] : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/mckinsey-ICE-immigration.html
[3] : https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-world-health-organization-china-kushner-mckinsey-coronavirus-task-force-984437/
Again, I’ve got no love for McKinsey (mostly because I think they’re overpaid and rely on prestige, not skill), but this just seems like a big double standard to me, that’s all.
Disengaging from China’s Communists seems like good hygiene.
If you want clean hands, first put down the turd.
LC my outrage is selected to any and everyone that is attempting to destroy our country. I’ll state again, Trump was not my FIRST choice in the primary races, but then, again, neither were any of the other professional politicians that were running. And I’ve had absolutely no use at all for that Bitch of Benghazi, the murderous skrunt, trash from hell das Hitlerbeast. That goes all the way back to the very early ’70s. I also totally despise the Communist Party and all that they stand for. Chinese Communist will never stop trying to destroy us and we are helping them.
We should completely disassociate ourselves from them and watch them like hawks. Trump should cut his business ties with China, put down his phone, start charging/locking up domestic enemies of this country and continue to put America FIRST. We didn’t get into this mess overnight and will not get out of it quickly.
Follow the money.
I didn’t actually mean to have my response come off as anti-Trump – more just, “That’s what everyone does”, per my link above in reply to AW1Ed.
Hiring McKinsey -or any other high priced set of consultants made of green-behind-the-ears graduates of top-rank schools- just seems to be what government and industry does. Probably in no small part due to connections. Call it evil, call it the ‘free market’, call it ‘good policy’, call it whatever you like – just make sure the accusations or accolades are leveled at all players equally. Almost socialist-like. (I’m kidding on the last bit.)
LC are you seriously going to tell me you don’t see any difference in Trump’s private real estate transaction involving a billion dollars and state government deals likely to amount to tens, if not hundreds, of billions of taxpayer dollars???
Or how about the chronology? Trump’s deal took place when the Obama administration was doing every thing in it’s power to encourage and enhance such US-China dealings. This current deal is taking place under much different geo-political circumstances.
And you fail to discern those distinctions?
Oh, I forgot–with you it’s Trump. Always…
Nope, this had nothing to do with Trump except to point out a double standard. Everyone hires McKinsey. Should they? That’s a good question. But picking on Cuomo for doing so when I listed just three examples above of where the Trump administration did too, which will likely garner less wrath here, seems disingenuous.
Some of us don’t like it at all. Hiring folks for their lineage/anticipated influence instead of their actual credentials is crap. Yes, it seems to be the way it’s done these days. In the swamp.
” one of the most prestigious accounting firms in the US,”
“accounting”? I took a few accounting courses and I don’t remember coming across anything that would apply to “opening” an economy. Maybe they are to keep track of the billions of dollars Cuomo et al. are going to spend doing so?.
My mistake; I meant consulting. They’re a huge consulting firm.
It’s pretty obvious. Chelsea was a consultant, not something so pedestrian as an accountant.
I’m all for absentee voting. I’m also all for 100% voter ID, no exceptions.
If a person can’t figure out how to scrounge up the $10 for a state ID or how to approach their local political party for help getting the ID, I’m not sure it’s in the country’s best interest to have them vote anyway.
Some of the states are providing free ID, yet that isn’t enough for the dems.
Didn’t know that but not surprised. Perhaps the fed should’ve considered putting in a line item on the RealID legislation that would’ve allowed for providing ID’s if someone is at or below the federal poverty level.
Nah, can’t do that. Gotta stuff in unrelated pork.
Ami Horowitz does a great man on the street video about this. Plays videos of all the Democrat politicians claiming minorities can’t get IDs to minorities in Brooklyn. They universally say that such a statement is racist and insulting. They also all have ID and say it’s one of those things you absolutely need if you’re going to be walking around. They also all knew where the nearest DMV was to procure said ID.
I can tell you from working the street, that I never encountered anyone 19 years or older who hadn’t had at least one ID photo on file. Some 18 year olds hadn’t gotten one yet, but it seems like the universality of needing one to live as an adult in America forces them to find one right quick.
“If a person can’t figure out how to scrounge up the $10 for a state ID or how to approach their local political party for help getting the ID, I’m not sure it’s in the country’s best interest to have them vote anyway.”
Been saying this for YEARS …
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk?start=1&w=560&h=315%5D
Finally some sunshine
I was wondering if anyone was ever going to talk about this
With you AND Ex ganging up on me on this? I didn’t have much choice.
*grin*
I’ve been on the road for half the day
Now I can respond finally
Word ^^^^
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There’s all kinds of shady crap going on in this country – has been for decades – possibly for generations in some cases.
Trump needs a second term, or this becomes a near certainty:
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
… when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
As my former brother-in-law once so succinctly stated many years ago, “A bullet is the final no vote.”
The Founders understood this, hence the above text found in the Declaration of Independence, and the Second Amendment.
Truly, truly, I do not desire for this to happen, but more and more, it seems inevitable.
I’ve been reading some books by Kurt Schlicter, set in an America that has been split into the red and blue states. They are shockingly realistic. I can only pray that this doesn’t happen.
We cannot, and must not, tolerate the disenfranchisement of American citizens that would occur if some areas claimed secession.
First, the American folks there, who did not choose to surrender to a foreign government, have -unalienable- rights, and “move elsewhere or lose them” is -bullshit-
Second, we cannot, and must not, tolerate the creation of a hostile un-free state adjacent to us that would be dedicated to our destruction, and through its built-in failed-state progressivism would create crisis and havoc in unending stream. Venezuela on a larger disaster scale, alongside us.
Third, it would immediately give a major foothold to China, Russia, and other hostile foreign powers eager to “help” it, and harm the USA.
Fourth, war would be inevitable. That is what happens when a free nation exists alongside a slave nation, or just one headed that way. The oppressive regime cannot long tolerate its most clever and most productive folks skipping over the border to freedom.
Better to defeat stupid/evil now than metastasize it into a lethal threat. No.
Indivisible
Yep.
Kurt has become a regular on the Howie Carr
show out of Boston.
I tried to read some of his stuff on Town Hall
but they have a pay wall.
To paraphrase an old cultural phenomenon:
“Listen, and understand! Those Leftists are out there! They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until America is dead!”
Many members of the left would suck the Barbed Cock of Satan if it put another dollar in their pocket.
Unfortunately, that is not something that is exclusive to the left.
There are many on both sides that would sell our souls for profit.
Hey, where’s Lars about this?
Exactly