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Confrontation at Starbucks over ‘MAGA’ hat erupts (Palo Alto CA)
The Palo Alto Daily Post ^ | April 3, 2019 | ALLISON LEVITSKY

Posted on 04/04/2019 9:07:44 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

A south Palo Alto activist has been fired from her accounting job at Gryphon Stringed Instruments after chasing a man wearing a Make America Great Again cap out of Starbucks and then posting about the confrontation on Facebook.

Rebecca Parker Mankey, 46, was fired on Tuesday (April 2), the day after she yelled at a man with a bushy gray beard named Victor who regularly visits the Starbucks at 361 California Ave. in Palo Alto wearing a red MAGA hat. Mankey didn’t return the Post’s requests for comment.

“Anybody in Palo Alto know this freak?” Mankey asked in a widely shared Facebook post that included two photos of the man at Starbucks. “He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever again. If you see him in this hat, please confront him.”

(Excerpt) Read more at padailypost.com ...


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To: Tudorfly

>>>God has blessed you with the wisdom of discernment.<<<

Maybe, but I pretty much just lost my appetite. All I could think about was, “what kind of foreign antibodies will be crawling around in any sandwich he makes?”


101 posted on 04/04/2019 10:08:25 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Jemian

Small town.

In one small town I lived in, if you got a DUI, or did something despicable, everyone would know it.

Plus, if she has her employer’s name or such on her FB page or other social media I, and many others, think she has dragged them into such a fiasco.

In a smaller town, an employer is known by their employees, ta least in my observation, and PA is not that big.


102 posted on 04/04/2019 10:12:01 AM PDT by RedStateRocker
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To: Reno89519
And she's married? Wonder what he she looks like? A freak as well?
103 posted on 04/04/2019 10:13:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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"...perfect doo for cleaning overhead light fixtures"

104 posted on 04/04/2019 10:18:59 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Tudorfly

And by her picture, she should never call another human being a freak...unless she is looking in a mirror.

That’s what I was thinking. I didn’t see a picture of the guy she was bullying but I wondered what this evolutionary dead end would consider a “freak”.


105 posted on 04/04/2019 10:21:49 AM PDT by spudville
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To: rdl6989

That picture puts the F in Fugly!


106 posted on 04/04/2019 10:24:13 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Doogle

ROTFL!!!!


107 posted on 04/04/2019 10:29:30 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Navy Patriot

“Anybody in Palo Alto know this freak?”

I’ve come to believe that one of the defining characteristics of a Progressive is the lack of a sense of irony.


108 posted on 04/04/2019 10:29:53 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: rlmorel

109 posted on 04/04/2019 10:33:24 AM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Fired from her job and receiving harassment and death threats because she wanted her friends to get a guy fired from his job, give him harassment and death threats.

Gotta savor the irony.


110 posted on 04/04/2019 10:36:29 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: PTBAA
I’ve come to believe that one of the defining characteristics of a Progressive is the lack of a sense of irony.

It's a condition known as "irony deficient."

111 posted on 04/04/2019 10:39:14 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Don’t need to buy anything! New Starbucks policy ... just sit, drink their water, and use their free wifi and toilets. They literally CAN’T harass you because of that incident back east. Corporate policy says LEAVE FOLKS ALONE even if they don’t buy anything.


112 posted on 04/04/2019 10:40:22 AM PDT by gtwizard (Income Inequality is called INCENTIVE!)
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To: Jemian

As expected......

The incident has had repercussions not only for Mankey, who said on Tuesday she’s received death threats and was fired from her job as an accountant, but also for her former employer, Gryphon Stringed Instruments. Staff at the store said they were inundated with angry phone calls and emails Monday and Tuesday.

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Matt Lynch, retail manager at Gryphon Stringed Instruments, said the store has also been caught up in the politically fueled maelstrom. The business received many emails and phone calls Monday and Tuesday about Mankey’s comments. People from all over the world have been posting negative Yelp reviews about the store — people who have never been customers, he added.

“It’s been a tough day,” he said, wearily. “What she said in no way reflects Gryphon or how the company feels.” He added that “100 percent” of the calls have been against what Mankey said.

Mankey had worked for the company for four years. She is no longer employed there, he said.

“It’s a big shock to us,” he said.

https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/04/03/political-polarization-sparks-confrontation-at-starbucks-triggering-online-fury

If you had a mentally deranged bigot working for you and they created all this drama for your business - you’d fire her also.


113 posted on 04/04/2019 10:51:08 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: Tzimisce
Fired from her job and receiving harassment and death threats...

While I appreciate the irony, I suspect that most threats to her are Hoax or False Flag.

114 posted on 04/04/2019 10:58:44 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: PTBAA

<<“Anybody in Palo Alto know this freak?”

I’ve come to believe that one of the defining characteristics of a Progressive is the lack of a sense of irony.>>

And a high sense of projection.


115 posted on 04/04/2019 11:01:04 AM PDT by demnomo
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To: Navy Patriot

Yea, wearing a red hat is a freak.


116 posted on 04/04/2019 11:02:11 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: All
Victor, a 74 year old technical writer, was the target of this out-of-control radical Leftist, here is the Daily Post article that focuses on him: Man who was berated over his MAGA hat speaks out
117 posted on 04/04/2019 11:07:10 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Jemian

So Navy ... if you served you know how the chain of command would have felt if you had berated a civilian or said disparaging things about your commander, or anyone really except a Marine of course. LOL It reflects on your employer if you publicly do bad stuff!


118 posted on 04/04/2019 11:13:29 AM PDT by gtwizard (Income Inequality is called INCENTIVE!)
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To: Tudorfly

That hair “style” hit its’ peak around 1979. She probably thinks she’s edgy, anyhow! ;)


119 posted on 04/04/2019 11:16:44 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: rdl6989
A picture is worth a thousand wordsAir Sickness Bags !!!
120 posted on 04/04/2019 11:34:13 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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