Dana Mathewson

From Newsmax: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/russia-return-edward-snowden-gift/2017/02/10/id/773077/?ns_mail_uid=95809690&ns_mail_job=1711070_02112017&s=al&dkt_nbr=xkjwhai5

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Jack Kemp

This morning my comment had risen to 39 Upvotes. Someone remarked that I was honest to return my late dad's last check and I replied that the German govt. required him to show up at their consulate in NY (or perhaps send a notarized statement once a year) to prove he was alive. If I couldn't provide that, an inquirycould start and I could be in a sleezy story in the NY Post. The Germans understood the obvious - many Holocaust survivors would have no qualms about getting extra money from the Germans, even if they had to lie


http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/bibi_tells_off_uk_prime_minister_

I said:

I have a unique personal perspective on this. My father was a Jewish Prisoner of War by the Germans in WWII Poland. After the war, the Germans had to pay him actual slave labor reparations each month. The checks had to stop with his death - by law. I mailed back the last reparations check in because he died before the first of month, when the check arrived. My dad's reparations were not a multigenerational family annuity.

As the Bible says, Jews were slaves in ancient Egypt. Should I be demanding a reparations check from the Egyptian government as well these days? At a certain point, these demands for reparatons are nothing but a form of welfare - if not a shakedown racket - for descendants of those who were wronged earlier in history.


http://pamelageller.com/2017/02/netanyahu-demands-u-k-belgium-quit-funding-anti-israel-groups.html/

Britain funds anti-Israel Non Government Organizations. Netanyahu asked the Brit Prime Minister May, "How would you like it if Israel funded Scotish Nationalist groups?"

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Dana Mathewson

But then again, I often do. And this is one of the times when I do.

He says here that Trump must break judicial power, and backs up his statement with examples of when some other presidents did. Some of the examples aren't all that good, an example being FDR's attempt to pack the Supreme Court.

And Pat doesn't say how he thinks Trump should go about the job. He also brings up the latest lunacy of the 9th Circus Court of Appeals but doesn't get specific enough about how to fix THAT bunch of clowns.

http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2017/02/10/trump-must-break-judicial-power-n2283830?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

A NOTE FROM JACK KEMP:

Yes, I agree too. The problem with spelling it out in public is that the left would then organize to thwart the plan. I'm reading today about leftists making endless calls to legislators and causing near riot conditions at town halls with politicians. This is a near civil war and the idea of posting the plans in an article is something from another time in history - or maybe there was never such a time. Maybe it's just that I thought there was civility when I was a kid and I was just naive.

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Wil Wirtanen

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/ted_cruz_is_right_about_the_democrats_and_racism.html

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Jack Kemp

Kellogg's first wanted to boycott Breitbart and got a backlash boycott of their own by many of the half of America that voted for Trump. Now Jimmy Hoffa (jr.) is angry at Kellogg's. Kellogg's is losing money, has a boycott - and now has the Teamsters after them. And Kellogg's headquarters is in a state that voted for Trump. I love it! Maybe Kellogg's can get all the upscale Whole Foods customers to switch from natural whole grain, sugar free cereals to Kellogg's - not likely.

It looks like Tony the Tiger soon won't be able to even afford cat food.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/11/teamsters-president-hoffa-kelloggs-turned-back-working-families/

Jim Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says his organization will "fight”Kellogg’s decision toshift from direct delivery of its foods to stores, a move that will result in the firing of more than 1,100 full-time workers atKellogg’s facilities across the country.

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Jack Kemp

Kellogg's stock is up $2.78 today because of the cost savings. The management isn't hurting that much yet - but the workers ("the deplorables") are out of a job.

Jack
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/09/kelloggs-shutter-39-distribution-centers-layoffs-loom/
Kellogg’s to Shutter 39 Distribution Centers as Layoffs Loom
Kellogg’s is shutting down 39 distribution centers across the country, the embattled cereal giant announced this week.
"While this is the right move for the company to achieve our long-term objectives, it was a difficult decision because of its impact on employees,” company spokesperson Kris Charles said<http://cnycentral.com/news/local/kelloggs-to-cut-jobs-in-syracuse-area>, according to CNYCentral.
The Michigan-based company did not specify how many jobs would be lost during its year-long layoff plan, part of an initiative to shift toward a "highly efficient warehouse model.” Though as many as 1,100 full-time workers could be impacted, given Kellogg’s estimation that an average distribution center employs 30 full-time workers.
Kellogg’s stock saw a decline and its brand perception online took a deep negative nosedive last year following the cereal maker’s politically-driven attack on Breitbart News and its 45 million monthly readers. The company complied with demands from obscure left-wing advocacy groups, who pushed a social media campaign to coerce companies away from advertising on Breitbart.
Charles<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/kellogg-pulls-ads-from-breitbart-amid-concerns-about-hate-speech> said Breitbart News and its tens of millions of readers "aren’t aligned with” the cereal maker’s "values as a company.”
Breitbart News launched its #DumpKelloggs petition<http://www.breitbart.com/dumpkelloggs/>, which has been signed by more than 430,000 people.
Kellogg’s beef with Breitbart News came amid widespread allegations of racism toward factory workers<http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/12/01/dumpkelloggs-minority-employees-accuse-kelloggs-of-racism-subjecting-them-to-n-word-photo-of-a-baboon/> and profiting from the use of child labor<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/30/kelloggs-child-labor-amnesty-international-wilmar-indonesia/>.
It was also reported that Kellogg’s politically-motivated nonprofit has close ties to radical anti-American billionaire George Soros<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/06/dumpkelloggs-fidel-castro-black-lives-matter-george-soros-breakfast/>, hate group Black Lives Matter<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/06/dumpkelloggs-fidel-castro-black-lives-matter-george-soros-breakfast/>, and deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/06/dumpkelloggs-fidel-castro-black-lives-matter-george-soros-breakfast/>.
The left wing campaign to coerce companies to pull their ads from Breitbart News has had "little to no impact” on the organization, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said at the time.

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Timothy Birdnow

Sorry for light blogging, folks; I'm having great technical difficulties. I should be back in the saddle in a couple of days at most. 

Tim

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Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/02/target-scrap-new-projects-transgender-bathroom-backlash/
Target To Scrap New Projects After Transgender Bathroom Backlash

Cristina Laila Feb 9th, 2017 6:08 pm 77 Comments

Retail giant Target has announced that they have scrapped two high priority projects after a public backlash in response to a proposal to introduce transgender-friendly, mixed-sex, bathrooms and fitting rooms.

According to RT:

The retailer shut down its ‘Store of the Future’ concept before it kicked off. The project was aimed at promoting a new outlet design combining a smaller upfront retail store fronting a warehouse and robots picking items for the customers up front.

Another project the corporation has decided to scuttle is ‘Goldfish,’ which was intended to set up an online marketplace where other retailers and manufacturers could sell products to customers through Target.
The public backlash was triggered by the company’s April announcement it would welcome transgender customers to use any bathroom or dressing room that matched their gender identity.

Target’s shares have fallen almost 23 percent since last April. The stock price drop has washed out about $10 billion from the retailer’s value. The measure comes as part of the normal ebb and flow of business, according to the retailer.

Of course Target won’t admit that their decision to cater to an infinitesimal demographic of people who identify as transgender affected their financial earnings. Nothing to see here, folks it’s just the normal ebb and flow of business even though over 1 million people boycotted Target.

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Dana Mathewson

Tell me you're surprised. I dare you!

I thought you might be interested in this article America's kids got more stupid in reading, math and science while Team Obama was in charge.

American school kids became more stupid under the Obama administration, according to rankings released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://pamelageller.com/2017/02/netanyahu-demands-u-k-belgium-quit-funding-anti-israel-groups.html/

Britain funds anti-Israel Non Government Organizations. Netanyahu asked the Brit Prime Minister May, "How would you like it if Israel funded Scotish Nationalist groups?"

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Wil Wirtanen

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/not_so_fast_un_the_us_owes_no_reparations_to_blacks.html

A NOTE FROM TIM:

This is a good article, although he fails to mention that we have had reparations, in the form of affirmative action (which discriminates against white and Asian groups in favor of blacks, primarily) and in terms of the numerous social welfare programs that were put in place primarily to help the black community. Billions have been spent on AFDC, SSI, Section 8 housing, Medicaid, etc. and while these are available to everyone they disproportionately benefit blacks, which was by design. Despite rampant crime and drug abuse the black community is still seeing its life expectancy increase - somethingnot true of white males.

Reparations have been and are still being paid. I don't think anything more is owed.

And another point; who exactly owes what, and who has what coming? There are many African Americans whose parents immigrated well after slavery ended, and there are a huge number of white people who immigrarted after slavery. Why do they owe this - or have this coming - when neither they nor their ancestors had anything to do with it? And we don't punish people for the sins of the father, which is what this is about.

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Jack Kemp forwards this piece by Selwyn:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/25323-coffee-wars-vet-owned-coffee-company-targets-politically-correct-starbucks

Monday, 06 February 2017

Written by Selwyn Duke

 

 

When Starbucks isn’t peddling four-dollar cups of coffee, they’re peddling leftist policy. Now a veteran-owned rival is taking aim at the caffeinated neo-communists with what they say is better java —and better principles.

Responding to Starbucks’ pledge to hire 10,000 (mostly Muslim) migrants during the next five years in the 75 countries in which it operates, Black Rifle Coffee Company (BRCC) has decided to see the virtue-signaling bet and raise Starbucks some patriotism: It will hire 10,000 veterans.

Starbucks’ arch-liberal CEO, Howard Schultz, made his migrant-hiring pledge on Sunday in response to President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven terrorist-spawning nations. It quickly inspired the social media campaign #BoycottStarbucks. But it also moved BRCC’s founder, former Green Beret Evan Hafer, to make his counter-pledge on Wednesday and inveigh against his rival. Calling it Hipsterbucks, Hafer accused the coffee giant of putting marketing ahead of proper principles and wrote that it was guilty of "intolerance” and "hypocrisy.”

As Hafer told website Task & Purpose (T&P), "It’s a publicity stunt. It’s also a middle finger directed at everyone who voted for Trump and consumes their product or is invested in their company."

Starbucks pointed out in return that it pledged to hire 10,000 veterans or their family members many months ago.

Hafer replied: "And when Schultz says he’s going to hire 10,000 veterans, that’s a publicity stunt.”

Starbucks' veterans-hiring plan aside, its migrant-hiring move certainly does smack of moral preening. After all, its pledge — 10,000 hires over five years and 75 different countries — amounts to taking on just 27 migrants per year in each nation. Furthermore, with the company having 21,366 stores, this equates to less than one migrant per every 10 stores annually. A vow to hire 200,000 migrants would be more impressive.

In contrast, Hafer’s pledge has significance. He currently only has 52 employees, and while he’s planning a major expansion, it still will require just 15,000 additional hires. Yet the move accords with longstanding BRCC policy: 75 percent of its current employees are veterans. As T&P writes:

"I’m a company of 52 employees and I’m trying to hire 10,000 veterans,” Hafer says. "That’s a lot different than a company that says, ‘I have 200,000 employees and I’m going to try to convert 5% of my workforce.’ And this isn’t a support mechanism. This isn’t a hand out. …This is who I’m preferring to hire because I know the veteran subculture and I know the veteran work ethic. I know that this is the best men and women that our country has produced after a decade and a half of war.”

Starbucks has long been political, having made a 2013 decision to vigorously support homosexual "marriage" and telling shareholders who took exception that they could sell their "shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company.” On a silly note, in 2015 Schultz encouraged his baristas to initiate discussions with customers on race (because, of course, baristas are such experts on social matters).

Likewise, however, Hafer isn’t shy about expressing his views. As T&P further informs:

"I’m open with the fact that if you don’t like my company or my politics, I’m okay with sacrificing that market share,” Hafer says. "You don’t have to drink Black Rifle coffee. But I want people who voted for Trump to know that there is another option for you. Howard Schultz doesn’t want your business. I do. I’ll be proud to take it. And I’ll give you a better product from a group of men who truly believe in this country.”

What Starbucks believes in is very different. Note that the company’s original logo featured a mythological siren that was presented, as commentator Mark Dice put it, as "a naked woman … with her legs spread like a prostitute.” He continued, ”It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks."

Some claim the company’s coffee also has poor taste, but its taste for making money is a different matter: Years ago, Starbucks changed the logo and now presents the siren in a decent pose.

And the coffee wars illustrate how our country has changed. Americans today are fractured, disagreeing profoundly on fundamental issues such as the existence of Moral Truth, marriage, sexuality, sex roles, and the nature of sex itself, with some even believing that being a boy or girl is just a state of mind ("transgender” agenda). Consequently, we now have companies that seem not just as if they cater to different tastes, but as if they belong in different civilizations.

It’s a divide approximating the pro-slavery/abolitionist rift of antebellum days. Let’s hope it doesn’t have to be settled the same way.

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By Selwyn Duke

Does our current status quo make our Constitution a suicide pact? Thomas Jefferson certainly said as much, warning that accepting judicial supremacy would make our founding document just that, a felo de se, as he put it in Latin.

Acceptance of judicial supremacy, by the way, is precisely why President Trump’s temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations is on hold. Imagine that, Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist, No. 78 that the judiciary is the "least dangerous” branch of government because it "has no influence over either the sword or the purse,” yet it’s trumping the man with the sword, the president. But does it have to be this way?

No, Trump could simply ignore the court ruling suspending his ban.

Outrageous!? Unconstitutional!? Actually, it’s wholly constitutional.

In his dissent from the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges marriage ruling, late Justice Antonin Scalia warned that with "each decision... unabashedly based not on law,” the Court moves "one step closer to being reminded of [its] impotence.” What did Scalia know about courts’ power?

That it’s basically an illusion.

Let’s do a civics quiz. Why does the legislative branch have the power to make law? Why does the executive branch (presidency) have the power to enforce law? The answer in both cases is because the Constitution grants it.

Okay, now how is it that the judiciary has the "power” to rule on law and have its decisions constrain not just its own branch, but the other two as well? How have the courts become king? Because the Constitution grants…no, stop. It’s not in the Constitution — anywhere.

Rather, this "power” was declared by the courts themselves, most notably in the 1803 Marbury v. Madison decision.

That’s right, the Supreme Court gave the Supreme Court the supreme power to have the final say on laws’ meaning.

It’s a great con if you can pull it off.

The point is that the judiciary enjoys this power at the executive branch’s pleasure. As soon as the latter says, to paraphrase Andrew Jackson, "The courts have made their decision; now let them enforce it,” that power goes bye-bye. The judiciary is reminded of its impotence.

So it isn’t just that the courts lack the sword or purse, the possession and exercise of which could simply amount to might making right. They also have no constitutional claim to judicial supremacy. In fact, the power is a violation of everything for which America stands. Jefferson explained why in 1820, writing that "to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all

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Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/time_to_get_the_va_out_of_medical_care_delivery.html

February 5, 2017
Time to Get the VA Out of Medical Care Delivery
By Mike Ford
To all my fellow veterans, I'm about to tip a sacred cow here. I would ask that for the sake of our many fellow warriors who need relief ASAP, please read this with an open mind and a willingness to offer tweaks, embellishments or outright different approaches:
Many of us can agree that the Veterans Administration has done a less-than-stellar job in delivering timely, high-quality and cost-effective medical care, especially when it comes to "wait times," for veterans injured serving this great nation. However, there is one piece of good news in this situation: The American public is outraged and sincerely wants to help. This gives us a window of opportunity and leverage to achieve major changes, something historically, very difficult to do in the D.C. bureaucracy.
An intermediate solution now in place, has its own issues. In response to the public furor over Veterans' Health Care, the Obama Administration initiated the "Veterans Choice" initiative, which allows Veterans to seek service outside the VA, if there is expected to be a long wait period for internal service. A longtime friend and fellow vet wrote the following about this:
If you are considering Veterans Choice with the VA, think long and hard. I am out and here is why.
1. Referrals: The system is totally broken. Requests for referrals are sent by the primary care VA choice doctor to the VA, and then supposedly approved and placed in your file so you can schedule an appointment.
I had one sent in October, never happened. Then I got the actual phone number for the person who should have approved it. I called and reached her. She approved and said the referral would be in my file the next day. Two weeks later, still no joy.
2. Primary care VA choice doctor: I had 24 visits approved for him as just a regular doctor. I made an appointment for Friday and was told he dropped out of the program. The reason was he never got paid.

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A.J. Cameron

I don't know if this is fake news, but I'm confident that there is a huge network of pedophiles. The ring in Omaha was active when GHWB was in office, so this is not just a Democrat Party issue.

Let's hope that the ring will be exposed and no one has been able to cut a deal over the past 3 weeks. All perps must go down!

http://yournewswire.com/fbi-pizzagate-arrests-washington/

A NOTE FROM TIM:

I don't think we're going to find big D.C. names like John Podesta in this, if there is anything to it at all, although considering Jeffrey Epstein's access to Washington (including Bill Clinton) and the flights of the Lolita Express to Slave Island, one wonders. I DO know pizza seems to be a locus of pedophilia, as I pointed out in my stories about Dojo Pizza in St. Louis. (By the way, the guy who ran the place was charged with multiple sexual offenses including rape and sodomy and probably kidnapping.) I can't say this is fake news, but I won't say it isn'tither. Time will tell.

Here is an update on the story from the St. Louis Riverfront Times.

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Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://nypost.com/2017/02/06/wtf-was-84-lumber-thinking-with-its-super-bowl-ad/

What was 84 Lumber thinking with its Super Bowl ad?
By Kyle Smith
February 6, 2017

Uplifting and patriotic ads are a staple of the Super Bowl, so last night the astonishing cynicism of that 84 Lumber ad really stood out. "Come on, illegal immigrants: Risk your lives, drag yourself across the harshest terrain and endure the most agonizing hardships. We need the cheap labor!”

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Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2017/02/06/the-importance-of-language-leftist-thugs-are-terrorists-not-protesters-or-snowflakes-n2282113?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
The Importance of Language: Leftist Thugs are Terrorists, not Protesters or Snowflakes

Jack Kerwick
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While violence has always had a home on the political left, and while the left in America has been engaging in violence from at least the time of the late 1960s, forces on the thuggish left became emboldened during Obama’s tenure in the White House. Within the last year or so, they have become especially brash and merciless toward Trump supporters.
This came to a head recently at Berkeley when "protesters” prevented provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from delivering a planned speech. Mobs of anti-Milo and anti-Trump demonstrators were on the scene. No small number were self-described "anti-fascists” (or "antifa”) clad in black with masks concealing their faces. Things turned feral as fires were lit, Molotov cocktails were thrown, property was destroyed, officers were assaulted, and innocents were tear-gassed and beaten up with various weapons.
And the police arrested…no one.
While it’s true that most of those on the left do not physically engage in violence, for two reasons this is neither here nor there.
First, it only took 19 terrorists on September 11, 2001 to murder nearly 3,000 innocent Americans while causing pain and suffering to many more. Within an hour or so, fewer than two dozen immigrants brought the country to a standstill and irrevocably altered its history. A minority of rotten apples, however small it may be, can ruin the bunch.
Second, those leftist Democrats in political office, the media, academia, and Hollywood, those who aren’t literally initiating violence against innocents, are hardly off the hook. The rabble in the streets functions as their strong-arm wing, the Democrats’ foot soldiers. Those Democrats who object to this characterization of their relationship to the thugs, who explicitly disavow violence while qualifying their denunciations with the very same anti-Trump vitriol that gave rise to the violence, want to have it both ways.

The Democratic left’s demonization of President Trump and his supporters—after all, it was the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who described "half” of those backing Trump (over 30 million Americans) as "deplorable”—created the climate of hatred, irrationality, and thuggery that is now consuming cities and college campuses around the country.

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Jack Kemp

Greenfield has outdone himself by writing a fine article with great insight into America and elsewhere.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265668/elites-protest-new-revolution-daniel-greenfield
Elites Protest a New Revolution
"We deserve to be in in charge.”
February 6, 2017
Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox. It will be brought to you by BMW. The German luxury automaker is a key advertiser at GQ. And GQ is the headquarters of the Resistance. That's a vlog by Keith Olbermann who returned from his exile at an ESPN Elba to denounce Trump.

"I am Keith Olbermann," Keith Olbermann barks to the peasants and workers of GQ who are taking a break from reading an article on '$100 Cologne that Smells Like Nothing', "This is the Resistance."

The Resistance is Remy Martin and Coach. It’s the ‘Best Silver Nail Clippers for Men to Buy Now’ and ‘7 Skincare Treatments Men are Asking for in 2017’. It’s the SAG Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.

It’s the self-important people and the beautiful people rising up against the democratic oppression of the working class and proclaiming courageously in one voice, "We deserve to be in in charge.”

When the revolution isn't at GQ (The Most Radical Dress Socks to Wear Right Now), it's at Vanity Fair where Graydon Carter denounces Trump (Donald Trump: A Pillar of Ignorance and Certitude) with a byline photo of himself taken by Annie Leibovitz smiling smugly from his skyscraper office.

Maybe the resistance is Reed Hastings, the billionaire CEO of Netflix, who used his wealth catering to the tastes of urban elites, to lobby to raise the taxes of the middle class. Hastings whined that President Trump's moves to protect Americans were "so un-American it pains us all.”

Who are these 'us'? It might be Warren Buffett, Google's Eric Schmidt and Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, with whom Hastings had joined to support Hillary Clinton. Or it might be the CEOs of Lyft, Airbnb and Twitter, to name a few, who have jointed the anti-Trump "resistance” of wealthy elites.

It's no coincidence that the most vocal outcries against President Trump's measures have come from urban elites and the corporations that cater to their whims. It's easy to spot the class divides in the scoffing at Andrew Puzder, CEO of the company behind Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, getting a cabinet position instead of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg who had been tipped for Treasury Secretary by Hillary.

Carl's Jr and its 4 Dollar Real Deal are a world away from Facebook's Gehry designed Menlo Park headquarters. As much as a WWE tournament is from Conde Nast's Manhattan skyscraper.

It's hard to imagine a clearer contrast between coastal elites and the heartland, and between the new economy and the old. On the one side are the glittering cities where workforces of minorities and immigrants do the dirty work behind the slick logos and buzzwords of the new economy. On the other are Rust Belt communities and Southern towns where working people actually used to make things.

Facebook's top tier geniuses enjoy the services of an executive chef, treadmill workstations and a bike repair shop, all walled off from East Palo Alto's Latino population and its crime and gang violence. But who works in Facebook's eleven restaurants or actually repairs the bikes in the back room? Or looks through the millions of pictures posted on its timelines to screen out spam, pornography and violence?

Behind the illusion of a shiny new Facebook future are Mexicans getting paid a few dollars an hour to decide if that Italian Renaissance painting you just shared violates its content guidelines.

Read the entire excellent article!

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Dana mathewson

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