Goya Foods CEO falsely says election was illegitimate, Trump is 'the real, the legiti

**Joe Capitalist** · 03-01-2021, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by signalmankenneth

Goya Foods CEO falsely says election was illegitimate, Trump is 'the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president'

Washington (CNN)The chief executive officer of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue, made a series of false claims about the 2020 election at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday -- a little more than a month after the company board took action to limit his polarizing public political remarks.

In 2020, Unanue's compliments of then-President Donald Trump generated controversy and calls for a boycott of Goya, which markets itself as "the premier source for authentic Latino cuisine."

After Unanue

in a Fox Business interview in January 2021, Goya's board voted to prevent Unanue from speaking to the media without board permission, according to a source familiar with the board's action.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/28/polit...pac/index.html

Trump is my president too!

Thanks to him, Goya will go the way of My Pillow. This just proves you don't have to be smart to be a CEO.
You can be a fucking Looney tunes whacko and still run a company.

**Blackwater Lunchbreak** · 03-02-2021, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by Legion

Nobody has proved that it's legitimate and that's the real issue.

it's actually proven illegitimate.

**Blackwater Lunchbreak** · 03-02-2021, 04:57 AM

Originally Posted by Legion

Legitimacy is a crucial aspect of all power relations.

Without legitimacy, power is exerted through coercion; with legitimacy, power can be exerted through voluntary or quasi-voluntary compliance.

This holds for both power exerted by a state (Levi, 1997; Beetham, 1991; Hurd ,1999; Tyler, 2006; Kelman & Hamilton, 1989) and by armed non-state groups (Maher, 2012).

Thus legitimacy can be understood as an acceptance of authority by both elite and non-elite groups, although not all citizens are equal in their capacity to confer legitimacy.

Legitimacy lies at the core of state-citizen relationships and thus of the whole state-building agenda. The logic used in the state-building agenda is that an authority which lacks legitimacy will be challenged, resulting in increased instability.

If states are legitimate, they use fewer resources to coerce, have more resources to devote to improving governance and can rely on citizens’ consent even when certain groups disagree about policies. Levi and Sacks explored the relationship between citizens’ perceptions that government is relatively effective, competent, and procedurally just, and their stated willingness to engage in quasi-voluntary compliance.

https://gsdrc.org/topic-guides/the-legitimacy-of-states-and-armed-non-state-actors/key-language-and-concepts/the-importance-of-understanding-legitimacy/

the goals of the elite must resonate with the subjects to some degree.

the corrupting influence of too much power, for too long, in the hands of too few, leads to a moral bifurcation that eventually bifurcates the society.