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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.”

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To: Navy Patriot
Hit or no?


81 posted on 04/04/2019 9:42:09 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: stinkerpot65

No argument there.

SHE has enough hostility to choke the whole stabe.


82 posted on 04/04/2019 9:43:16 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Navy Patriot

And yet if she walked into a Chick fil a they’d serve her with pleasant smile and a “My pleasure, ma’am!”


83 posted on 04/04/2019 9:43:35 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: fwdude
Elderly people are sacrosanct, and you take your life into your own hands when you deliberately harm them.

Assaulting the elderly gets you a felony charge in some states.

84 posted on 04/04/2019 9:46:05 AM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Looks like the Democrats have found their 2020 candidate!


85 posted on 04/04/2019 9:46:37 AM PDT by RedStateRocker
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To: Navy Patriot

She is following her masters orders.


86 posted on 04/04/2019 9:49:57 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: Jemian
I am going to go against the current. Her being hired or fired by Gyrphon Music should be unrelated to her conduct outside of her employment.

Maybe Gyrphon Music is not a subdivision of the Democrat National Committee.

87 posted on 04/04/2019 9:50:04 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: Mr Ramsbotham
And yet if she walked into a Chick fil a they’d serve her with pleasant smile and a “My pleasure, ma’am!”

Best point on the thread.

88 posted on 04/04/2019 9:52:03 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: gtwizard
"We must resist sinking down to their level. We must hold out our hand and help pull them out of the muck.”

Sinking down to OUR level? I'm not aware of Trump supporters harassing people in restaurants because of their political views. I'm not aware of Trump supporters shutting down the speeches of liberals.
89 posted on 04/04/2019 9:52:10 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Jemian

Nah, when you have an employee who is unable to control herself to the point she harasses and threatens an elderly man who is just sitting by himself, then goes on Facebook to try and encourage others to form a mob to harass him, you can’t just sit back and pretend you have a normal employee. Not only is there the risk that she might lose control at the work place, but it also makes the company look bad to the public (and the store received lots of angry calls).


90 posted on 04/04/2019 9:53:16 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Jemian

I am going to go against the current. Her being hired or fired by Gyrphon Music should be unrelated to her conduct outside of her employment.

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Wrong. Here’s why.

She likely has her Employers name on her FakeBook page. By going public with her idiocy and bigotry, she has also brought shame and disgrace to her bosses. No doubt her doxxing this poor guy got herself doxxed at work. She created a problem at work.

She deserved to get fired.

She ain’t the first to use Social Media and thereby harm her employers. She won’t be the last.


91 posted on 04/04/2019 9:55:20 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: Navy Patriot

It doesn’t matter. It should not be a matter for public opinion to determine. It is a matter between the business and her. I simply don’t see that Gryphon Music has an obligation to monitor employee’s off-hours behavior. I see her employment is a non-issue.


92 posted on 04/04/2019 9:59:13 AM PDT by Jemian (Walls work and Walls Save Lives.)
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To: Navy Patriot

She’s (its?) already been hit, multiple times, and hard, with both an ugly stick and a stupid stick. The brain damage with this one, is severe. I guess that she/it is building her bona fides with the ‘Just-us Demonrats’ in Calfornia. Brain damage probably severe enough to warrant a successful run for Office on the Dhimmi ticket in CA.


93 posted on 04/04/2019 10:00:24 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: RedStateRocker

“Gryphon Stringed Instruments fired her rather quickly (they are, by the way, a really good little music store).”

The article calls them:

“...a company that sells, rents and repairs used and vintage instruments from guitars to mandolins.”

Since you seem to know them, tell me: What comes between guitars and mandolins?


94 posted on 04/04/2019 10:01:59 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Navy Patriot

GAH!!!

If I were a man, there are not enough bullets, pills, blindfolds or torture methods that would make me get an erection after seeing that.


95 posted on 04/04/2019 10:02:01 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

God has blessed you with the wisdom of discernment.


96 posted on 04/04/2019 10:05:10 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
LOL ... AMen Brother!

I AM SPARTACUS!

97 posted on 04/04/2019 10:06:11 AM PDT by gtwizard (Income Inequality is called INCENTIVE!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Can’t blame the troglodyte for being an angry savage. I would be too if I were this ugly. I’m betting the cobwebs in her nether region are another source of angst. Who in their right (or wrong) mind would touch this thing?


98 posted on 04/04/2019 10:06:54 AM PDT by bathousebarry_kenyan_cokehead (Socialism means slavery)
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To: Navy Patriot

Anyone seen this freak?


99 posted on 04/04/2019 10:06:59 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: KrisKrinkle

Hammer dulcimer.


100 posted on 04/04/2019 10:08:03 AM PDT by RedStateRocker
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