Posted on 07/20/2017 12:31:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ladies and gentlemen, there’s a trend that is taking a new form, a new direction. But it’s an old trend. And it’s spotlighted here in this story from a website called WattsUpWithThat. The headline here: “U.S. Government Declines to Attend Zuckerberg’s Green PR Stunt — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently had to visit Glacier National Park by himself last Sunday, after the U.S. government reversed a decision to send a climate scientist to attend his presence. ‘Trump administration pulled top climate expert from Mark Zuckerberg’s national park visit. A climate change expert at the United States Geological Survey was set to join Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in Montana last weekend to discuss the impact of global warming at Glacier National Park –‘”
Here’s what’s going on. Don’t doubt me on this. It’s a relatively new trend in the direction that it’s going. Zuckerberg is headlining it, and it’s causing people to think Zuckerberg is running for president. What Zuckerberg is doing, Zuckerberg lives out in Silicon Valley, by way of Harvard.
But over the past month or so Zuckerberg has secretly and privately fled the privacy and security of his compound and has shown up unannounced at state fairs in the upper Midwest or knocking on doors of average, ordinary Americans in suburban Minnesota, Chicago. And ostensibly he’s doing this because, as the founder and CEO of Facebook, he’s got to know how people are thinking and what’s important to them. He’s got to venture out there, and he wants to do it privately with no lead time so people don’t know that he’s coming, so that people don’t artificially prepare for his arrival.
He wants to meet them au natural. He wants to meet them on their own terms. And this is causing people to speculate that Zuckerberg is preparing a presidential run himself. But Zuckerberg is not the only guy doing this. What leftists do — the media does it, too — they leave the safety of their homes and businesses in secure enclaves surrounded by leftists, and they venture out into the foreign lands of middle America. Very crucial. They flee what they know. They flee their friends.
They abandon all of their familiar, safe surroundings, and they take this giant risk of going out into flyover country in an effort to discover why people there do what they do. Why did people in Ohio and Pennsylvania, West Virginia, why did they vote for Trump? It’s disguised as why do they like or dislike Facebook. What it really is is to try to figure out why Trump is president. And they are portrayed — it’s almost comical. They’re portrayed as brave explorers, a modern era of Lewis and Clark.
Lewis and Clark after the Louisiana Purchase struck out, they went all over the western part of the United States where nobody had ever been before, other than the Indians and Native Americans to find out what was out there. Well, this is akin to what’s happening now. Zuckerberg and his leftist buddies venture into the Midwest. They go out there in flyover country and they take great risks, they engage in great bravery to try to find out who these rubes that live there are! To try to understand why these knuckleheads would vote for somebody like Donald Trump. Very, very brave explorers.
Now, years ago this trend manifested in different ways. It was popularized by Madonna. Madonna would go to a country in Africa and adopt a couple of kids. And this led to several other Hollywood actresses saying, “You know what? I like sex, but I don’t want to get pregnant. I don’t want to deal with that. Don’t want the guy hanging around.” So they venture off to these places and they adopt babies, minority babies from very poor countries.
And it’s almost like they’re accessorizing with jewelry. It became, after Madonna did it, it became the hip thing, had to go adopt one of these poor babies, minority babies, preferably from Africa. Now that’s been replaced by brave explorers leaving the safe confines of Silicon Valley and New York and venturing into the unknown territories of flyover country and the great upper Midwest to find out why people are there so stupid!
It isn’t just in America! Once a year, whether we like it or not, we can count on a visit during the second week of July, by leaders of all federal parties. Like flies to excrement, the (mostly) Eastern based ‘leaders’ of political parties arrive at the Calgary Stampede. Perhaps with all that the horses leave behind, the pols feel a kindred spirit! Suckerberg would have felt right at home amid all the horse@#$& and pols.
Beg your pardon, but what's the difference?
Imagine the real culture shock if he “dropped in” McPherson, KS, Muskogee, OK or Zint, AR instead of places like Glacier Nat’l Park!
I hear his next stop is Vail, Colorado.
Guys! Did you all those people who said they love me and want to vote for me?
Oh, the horror - how can he stand to lower himself to such a degree???....
Lil Markie is like the kid who goes to a baseball game see a player hit a one run and says “Hey I could do that” Sorry Markie that ain’t happening money didn’t get Trump victory his message did. If Markie thinks he’ll just “the! Want they want to heat it will be a short campaign.
Lil Markie is like the kid who goes to a baseball game see a player hit a one run and says “Hey I could do that” Sorry Markie that ain’t happening money didn’t get Trump victory his message did. If Markie thinks he’ll just “the! Want they want to heat it will be a short campaign.
Imagine the culture shock this worthless,talentless,punk
As a businessman I will have to disagree with your opinion of him, his net worth is pretty high, he clearly has run a large business for 13 years, I do not know any punks running international companies with 18000 employees and worth $60 billion. Just a different of opinion of the guy.
I spent a "serious" career of about 30 years working at one of the world's finest hospitals.I've rubbed shoulders with (IOW,worked for) physicians,surgeons and researchers who have re-written the book on their specialty of expertise.While very few of these men qualified for food stamps during the later part of their career none of them ever came close to making tens of billions.
Then take Bill Gates.He,like Zuckerberg,has made billions.
The difference...the very,*very* big difference... between these men and Zuckerberg is that they've all done something,produced something,that's of real value to society.The physicians and surgeons: healing patients who,just about anywhere else on earth,would have died.Gates: Windows,Word,Excel,Outlook,Powerpoint and,very probably,other things that I,a computer novice,have never even heard of.
Zuckerberg? "Facebook"...the hula hoop,the pet rock of the 21st Century.Utterly useless...utterly frivolous...utterly worthless.But,it would appear,fantastically popular.
His politics and his social philosophy combined with his breathtaking lack of contributions to society is what makes him a useless punk in my mind.
Just sayin'...
The health care experts you mentioned contributed high value but their income was limited because they had to perform the work themselves. They were constrained by time.
Gates and Zuck were able to pay others to develop products that could be used by the masses across the globe. They made money while they slept ... a lot of it. They were able to use leverage.
utterly worthless
Sixty four billion dollars - we can talk character and “real value to society” but saying worthless I must disagree with.
As far as society I partook of Facebook about a month or two and that was enough, but my Mother gets to visit with her grandchildren on a daily basis and be much more involved in their life than I was with my grandmother, that is not worthless.
Is he taking his wall with him?
I,unlike some, don't measure "worth" using a decimal point.
Yup...along with his cadre of ex-NYPD marksmen.
No social worth employing 18,000 people?
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