Toyota Leans In Amid Furor Over Donations To GOPers Who Challenged Election Results | Talking Points Memo

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Toyota on Sunday responded to the furor over data showing that the automaker is a top corporate donor to Republican lawmakers who opposed certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1379172
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The Cilantro Growers Association of the Americas is secretly funding experiments on puppies they kidnap from small children.

Pass it on.

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“Toyota supports candidates based on their position on issues that are important to the auto industry and the company. We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification,”

Hmm was something lost in translating the Japanese into English? Because dear Toyota you don’t get to vote in our elections.
And now where the journalist looking at all the tax incentives that Toyota has taken advantage of over the years?

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That’s why drive Hondas.

Toyotas suck ASS.

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Is $55,000 to 37 Republican lawmakers a lot?

I think L. Boebert writes that off in mileage.

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We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the attempted government overthrow electoral certification”

This is not going to go well for them.

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“Toyota supports candidates based on their position on issues that are important to the auto industry and the company. We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification,” a Toyota spokesperson told Axios.

I imagine those issues important to the auto industry involve keeping unions out of auto plants located in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, among other states.

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“Toyota supports candidates based on their position on issues that are important to the auto industry and the company.

We’re strictly in it for the opportunity to purchase political influence, toyota continued. We could care less about the advance of fascism or the death of fairness and political freedom.

well, toyota, you’ll never sell me one of your products - but then again, you obviously don’t care. see ya.

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i.e., At Toyota we don’t care HOW they get into Congress. If they are there and are doing things advantageous to us, we’ll support them.

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I see what you are up to and approve.

Next up, the Eggplant Cartel.

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Toyota is dead to me.

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“Toyota supports candidates based on their position on issues that are important to the auto industry and the company. We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification,” a Toyota spokesperson told Axios.

Ordinarily, I’d agree with this in the abstract: not everyone is going to vote as we’d wish 100% of the time. But surely some votes count for more than others, and the refusal to vote to certify the past election, and doing so in the face of the certainty that the election was legitimate, simply because you wanted to (try to) keep Trump’s favor (and maybe escape the wrath of the very people storming the Capitol on that day) is one of those votes that should supersede any other. It transcended politics; it signaled those GOPers’ insistence on calling into question the very mechanism by which they’d taken office, too.

You’d think companies that benefit from doing business here because of our relatively-stable political process would want to affirm that process by withholding support from those who don’t do what they can to maintain that stability. I guess not.

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"Toyota supports candidates based on their position on issues that are important to the auto industry and the company. We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification,” a Toyota spokesperson told Axios.

I see that same response caught everyone’s eye. I find it to be a refreshing breath of fetid air. Of course corporations have no moral scruples whatsoever unless those “scruples” enhance their own profits- and if we are going to depend on corporations to exert benign influence in our political system, we will deserve every resulting Black Mirror type result that we get.

Corporations should not be making donations - period.

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‘issues that are important to the auto industry and the company’ depend on DEMOCRACY. Unless of course, you think that Toyota will be the official car of the new ‘Regime’???

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Which ever company does public relations for Toyota probably needs to be fired. That was an awful response. Completely tone deaf. This will cost Toyota WAY more than what 55,000 in donations would get them in influence.

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Meh, is it really news that the same people who attacked Pearl Harbor don’t mind contributing to an attack on America’s Capitol building?

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ACTION PLAN
1 / Let Toyota know that you do not support their support of the neoConfederate forces in America and the growth of their cancer thru re-election : https://www.toyota.com/support/#!/app/ask
2 / Remind Toyota that you and your many family members who support American Democracy are freely going to buy Ford, GM, or BMW, etc. cars to show your dismay with Toyota and so vote with your money, too.
3 / Remind them that they are NOT supporting the neoFascists of Japanese politics, so don’t do it here.

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Yeah, that’s a tone-deaf statement. Expect a major walking back once they get the tsunami wave about to hit. Just a guess, but Toyotas are probably owned by more Democrats than Republicans.

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My 1995 T-100 (Toyota’s first full-size pickup) will have no brothers or sisters.

How sad.

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Paraphrasing Maya Angelou:
“When a corporate entity shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

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