Ok, what ad is it tweeting about?

[soothsayer]

Link to tweet

?s=21

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Another one of many Fake T.V. Ads, this one about the Tennessee Valley Authority, which for years has paid its top executive a ridiculous FORTUNE. Not run by the U.S., but I have long been fighting that crazy “salary” & its polices. Strange ad paid for (?) by “U.S. Tech Workers”.

[Tanuki]

1. This will explain it:

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2020/jul/13/commercials-tva-outsourcing/527402/

"A national organization opposed to importing information technology workers has taken to the airwaves to try to convince President Trump to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from outsourcing much of its IT division.

U.S. Tech Workers, a three-year-old nonprofit that wants to limit visas given to IT workers coming into the United States, is blasting TVA for laying off its own IT workers and replacing them with contractors who are using foreign workers with H1-B1 visas to do the computer work in Chattanooga and other parts of the Tennessee Valley.


Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, called TVA's decision to lay off 64 IT workers last month and consider additional job cuts later this summer "really audacious" in the current market. Lynn and the ads his group developed target TVA CEO Jeff Lyash, who was paid more than $8.1 million in his first six months of the job at TVA last year.

"Of all the federal workers in America, Trump's highest paid employee should know better than firing American workers, and giving their jobs to foreign workers, especially at a time when the Tennessee and Alabama job markets have been devastated by coronavirus," Lynn said. "President Trump promised to put American workers first. Here's his chance."
....(more at link)

[soothsayer]

3. Ah. Thank you

[soothsayer]

2. And how is the TVA not run by the US?

Does he mean not by the feds?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The TVA is is a federally-owned corporation created by congressional charter,

not technically a government agency. It's more like the post office.

[StarfishSaver]

6. A whole.lot of his supporters have the TVA to thank for their grandparents and great-grandparents

getting electricity and running water back in the day ...

I never understood how these people, who, without the government, would still stuck in the horse-and-buggy days with no electricity, no running water, no telephones, no passable roads, turned so anti-government and sold their souls to the Republicans..

No, that's not true. I understand why. But it's stupid.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Yes, it was a New Deal thing from about 1933 or so,

originally created to bring electricity to that area.

[StarfishSaver]

8. Yes

[soothsayer]

9. Right, I used to rail against Marvin Runyon, who went from tva to usps

Drumpf’s wording is screwy

[captain queeg]

5. Not exactly sure. Somewhat like the Bonneville Power Agency in the NW

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They are government employees and receive standard government salaries, but have a lucrative bonus scheme. Still I doubt any of them make anything near their counterparts in private power companies.