Trump knocks 'Radical Left smear machine' after Goya boycott calls

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

President Trump knocked the “Radical Left smear machine” on Wednesday after several people called for a boycott of Goya Foods after the CEO praised the president last week.

The president tweeted that the company “is doing GREAT,” adding that “The Radical Left smear machine backfired, people are buying like crazy!”

Goya Foods has faced scrutiny in the past few days after the CEO Robert Unanue said during a speech at the White House last week that the U.S. is “truly blessed” to have “a leader like President Trump.”

Unanue’s speech sparked the hashtags #BoycottGoya and #GoyaFoods to trend on social media after people criticized the company known for selling Latin American supplies like garbanzo beans.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/507410-trump-knocks-radical-left-smear-machine-after-goya-boycott-calls

[bluedye33139]

1. I can't believe it, but I'm still shocked by the scumminess if this Administration

And I never thought that my household would be boycotting Goya! Who would have thunk it.

[NurseJackie]

3. Our family STILL isn't buying Barilla for their CEO's anti-gay comments.

It was an opportunity to try new products and we found that DeCecco is actually better tasting (and better texture) than Barilla.

And if DeCecco doesn't have what we need, I'll buy the store-brand or other "off brand" before picking up Barilla again.

[soothsayer]

7. Oh good, hate barilla, love DeCecco

Barilla is the Budweiser of pastas

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. This was a (pleasant) eye opener for me regarding the Barilla boycott. Very worth noting:

Barillla has had one of the best company turnaround stories I've ever seen. When I stumbled upon it I wrote this DU OP:

"OK, I'm willing to start buying Barilla Pasta again"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213301106

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Thanks for that. It proves boycotts can work. On to Goya. . . . nt

[NurseJackie]

21. Yes. I'd seen that already. Thanks.

[snowybirdie]

17. Ha, me too

Adding Goya to my no buy list now.

[LiberalFighter]

33. I think it bought it once but I prefer Muellers.

[NurseJackie]

2. RW nut-jobs will buy Goya in droves... to compensate for our boycott. HOWEVER...

RW nut-jobs will buy Goya in droves... to compensate for our boycott. HOWEVER... they'll quickly forget and it will fall by the wayside. We, on the other hand, will remember.

[tanyev]

4. Yep. Goya was a brand I favored, mostly because it is based in a blue state

and because it targets Hispanics, I assumed it would be a better choice than a brand based in a red state. Now that I know I was 100% wrong, I will not be buying from them again.

[bluedye33139]

6. "I have a hankering for arroz amarillo y tostones," Trump people will be saying

Y mafongo.

[Squinch]

20. Right wing nut jobs don't have a lot of recipes that call for sazon.

[Flaleftist]

26. Yep.

A RWinger on my FB posted a picture of him holding up a can of Goya beans with him smirking. I bet that's the only can he ever buys.

[NurseJackie]

28. Ivanka loves Goya, too.

[marble falls]

30. Spokesmodel. One more thing Ivanks does in a half assed manner. What do you bet she's never used ...

a can opener in her life.

[NurseJackie]

31. She's no Carol Merrill, that's for sure.

[marble falls]

32. 'Course Carol Merril had some things going for her: personality, charactor, warmth, depth ...

you know, human qualities.

[Flaleftist]

35. So that's a thing? lol That's just going to strengthen the boycotters' resolve

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The brand is dissolving before our eyes

No recovery from this. It will not be forgotten.

[jimfields33]

8. The workers will suffer

The CEO is probably a millionaire. I’m sure he cares buts it’s the workers who will lose their jobs. And in this economy? Yieks.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Hypartisanship from the President is an untested gambit

They will all campaign in a partisan manner. THIS is over the top, and I doubt Americans, other than MAGAzis, will be receptive to such caterwauling.

[Kris Mac]

11. Meanwhile in Crazy Town Ivanka tweets this.

[link:

Link to tweet

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[Backseat Driver]

14. Hmmm...perhaps using a psychology of revenge???

https://www.fooddive.com/news/report-goya-foods-rejects-sale-to-retain-family-leadership/568146/


Report: Goya Foods rejects sale to retain family leadership

New Jersey-based and family-owned Goya Foods decided it will not sell the company to the Carlyle Group, according to The New York Post. The newspaper quoted sources saying the Unanue family wanted to continue running the Latin American food giant after the sale, but the private equity firm wanted to take over and take Goya public.

[Squinch]

19. I think I see the devil seeping out of Princess Bodybags's eyes.

[marble falls]

22. She meant to say Goya is all "right".

[Backseat Driver]

12. Then again...Some of Goya's bean products/ingredients have been tested for glyphosate

Lab results: ND (not detected). While other brands and ingredients therein show huge ppm

https://www.ewg.org/research/glyphosate-hummus/

[bringthePaine]

13. there is not - indeed cannot be - anything "radical" in categorically rejecting Trump and his ilk

[ck4829]

16. Isn't Goya a private company with free market competitors?

I wonder how they must feel with the govt pimping them and giving them free advertising? Free market, right?

[Squinch]

18. LOL! If he says they're doing great, they must really be hurting.

I know my latino friends AND Jamaican friends are heartbroken about not using Goya any more (Really. It's a real "home" thing, a "mom's cooking" thing, that a few of my friends have said is very hard to give up.) but they are determined to boycott and not go back.

[marble falls]

24. I'm an Anglo trying to figure out what other brands to use. I've been useing dried beans instead ...

cans, but in a pinch its nice to have a can or two of their black beans or red beans to go to. I've been a major fan for three decades, I am willing to go cold turkey, I've got AOC's adobo sauce recipe, I can use more expensive organic ingredients. But I admit this is tough because they make good and inexpensive products. I sure hope another Hispanic source pops up.

[greenjar_01]

23. The Hill always finds a way to amplify Trump quotations while pretending to journalism

Amplify, amplify, amplify.

Put it in the headline.

Not everybody was born yesterday.

[marble falls]

25. I thought I was the only one. I am tired of them being headline only. The stories almost ...

never live up to the headline.

They could save a lot of money if they just posted bullet point headlines and no story.

[greenjar_01]

27. It's a strategy of amplification

You put the content you want to repeat over and over again in the headline (in this case "Radical Left Smear Machine" ) , then write whatever anodyne content you want about it. The headline repeats in newsfeeds and in places like this (it helps if some folks always post these stories), and gets that amplification and traction. Over and over and over. It's not a bug, but a feature.

Note how many The Hill headline include specific content that the Trump campaign wants repeating across networks. They do it deliberately.

[marble falls]

29. I'd never go to them for in depth or breaking news. They do seem to write their headslines ...

pro-Trumpishly.

[ouija]

34. Funny

I thought he just called this free speech?