Posted on 11/09/2017 2:45:26 AM PST by MarvinStinson
The bicyclist who was fired after being photographed flipping off President Donald Trump's motorcade last month recounted the gesture that has made her a liberal hero on Wednesday, telling MSNBC it was a "spur-of-the-moment decision."
Juli Briskman was photographed on Oct. 28 extending her middle finger toward Trump's motorcade as it departed the Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Va. She flipped off the whole fleet, and then she repeated the gesture when she caught up with the cars again, according to the New York Times.
The pictures went viral, and she posted them to her social media accounts. She was then fired from her job as a marketing analyst at Akima LLC because of its rules against posting "obscene content."
"It was a spur-of-the-monent decision," she said. "Lots of things were going through my mind about how disappointed I am with this administration. I didn't really have any other way to express my opinion to Mr. Trump, and so the finger was what I had at the time."
Briskman said she was treated differently than other Akima employees who had posted "lewd" political remarks on their social media accounts. MSNBC host Katy Tur pointed out multiple times that the network had reached out to Akima for comment, but had received none from the company.
Briskman said she did not regret her actions.
"I don't think that he respects the office, so I don't respect the office," she said. "Luckily, I don't live in a country where I must respect him or there are severe consequences for me."
"We do have free speech. You're right," Tur said.
Briskman added that she's not sure what she'll do next, and she didn't think she wanted her old job back since the company did not share her "values."
"I really just wanted to go for a bike ride," she said.
She recounted that, following the photo going viral, she received more than 1,000 Facebook friend requests and her Twitter account went from 24 people to more than 15,000.
Tur asked Briskman if she felt "vindicated" by the results of Virginia's gubernatorial election, where Democrat Ralph Northam soundly defeated Republican Ed Gillespie in what analysts are calling a rebuke of Trump.
"I do," she said. "I received a text on my way down here, a friend of mine said ‘I think all of Virginia was riding the bikes with you to the polls yesterday,' and I'm very proud of my state."
Leftists are perpetual adolescents.
Briskman added that she’s not sure what she’ll do next, and she didn’t think she wanted her old job back since the company did not share her “values.”
I know, Right? She reminds me of the brave soul who stood up to the tanks at Tiananmen Square. Also, the guy who flashed the bingo bus at the corner of Maple and Broad.
The company that hires this self absorbed clown will rue the day. To think she may be someones mother.
Liberalism is a MENTAL Disorder.
Trashy woman.
If a white male had done this to obama, this woman and the media would be acting totally differently. They would think the man should be fired.
Yes, a nation of 350 million is all about you, snowflake.
Yes, a nation of 350 million is all about you, snowflake.
The reality was that she posted them to her Fakebook account that got her fired, not the act of flipping off the president’s motorcade.
But like a true adolescent she had to be “Hey Look at Me”...and in this case it was look at what a jerk I am and it cost her....in spades.
Remember Adam Smith, the SJW who filmed/auto-loaded a video of himself berating a nice Chik-Fil-A drive-thru attendant?
He lost his $200,000 a year CFO job and $1 million in stock options. Nobody wants to hire him. At last look, he and his wife and four children were on food stamps and living in an RV.
Ms Briskman, here's your sign...
The Leftists lost whatever minds they had when a rodeo clown put on a Barry mask.
That's their real level of "tolerance" and "values".
How many of us Freepers predicted that the pos dipstick would be invited on TV?
From that she’s proven that she’s dumb enough to be a panelist on “The View.”
Bingo.
It’s the posting.
“HERO”
Another important word misused, misapplied, misappropriated and on the way to being rendered meaningless by liberals.
“Leftists are perpetual adolescents.”
Yet they consider the anti-PC crowd to be crude, vulgar and immature. Having double standards must be another of their perceived entitlements, or is it that they’re just oblivious and not at all concerned with how they’ll look from historical perspectives of the future.
Wow. What a stupid loser.
Another one buried by social media attention...
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