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Young Turks employees vote to unionize over Cenk Uygur’s strenuous objections John SextonPosted at 2:41 pm on April 10, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Young Turks is a progressive media company co-founded by Cenk Uygur. When a group of employees announced plans to form a union earlier this year, CEO Uygur suddenly started sounding like a conservative union-buster. He warned that a union couldn’t make a magic pot of money appear and begged employees to reconsider. Thursday, over his objections, the employees voted to unionize: We have voted again and have reaffirmed our decision to organize. We...

Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot is on the defensive Tuesday after a Chicago hair stylist revealed on social media that she’d given the mayor a haircut in violation of Lightfoot’s own stay-at-home orders. Illinois was one of the first states to institute a full shelter-in-place program to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and has been warning its residents to stay home at all costs unless they need necessary items like food or prescrition medication. The state had some of the first cases of coronavirus in the nation and, so far, around 11,000 Illinois residents are infected with the...

Bernie Sanders makes global warming and inequality worse by spending his campaign donations on private jets Bernie Sanders has repeatedly spoken out against global warming and income inequality.However, I just came across this Politico article from last year:In his campaign launch video last week, Bernie Sanders singled out the fossil fuel industry for criticism, listing it among the special interests he planned to take on. But in the final months of the 2016 campaign, Sanders repeatedly requested and received the use of a carbon-spewing private jet for himself and his traveling staff when he served as a surrogate campaigner for Hillary...

Full title: EXCLUSIVE - Revealed: 'Rank hypocrisy' of globetrotting Extinction Rebellion jet setter's lifestyle after she shed 'crocodile tears' over climate protest that stopped son seeing his dying dad Zoe Jones cried when she heard that a man couldn't see his dying father in hospital because he was stuck in traffic caused by a climate protest in Bristol Extinction Rebellion activist apologised for 'affecting his life in that way' - but added: 'I still believe we are doing the right thing' Now the 23-year-old English graduate, from Shropshire, faces claims of hypocrisy over her jet set lifestyle Photos have emerged...

Vox Media rooted for the passage of a California gig economy bill that is now forcing Vox to lay off hundreds of its own freelance workers. * Vox Media is laying off hundreds of freelance workers as California’s gig economy rights bill takes effect. * Vox cheered for the gig economy bill on its own news pages. Now it’s letting freelance workers go because of the new law. * This is a painfully ironic, cautionary tale against the broader labor movement represented by politicians like Sen. Elizabeth Warren. California AB-5 takes effect in 2020 after passage by the California state...

Global warming hypocrite Al Gore says he supports the Green New Deal, but his actions are the exact opposite Al Gore just spoke out in favor of the Green New Deal.However, his actions are the exact opposite.This video is called, “Hitler gets mad at Al Gore’s global warming hypocrisy.” The video’s description includes links to sources to verify the statements that are made in the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfr37Xn9IL8

Greta Thunberg is an environmental hypocrite Greta Thunberg wants the whole world to think that she cares about the environment because she traveled across the Atlantic ocean by boat instead of by airplane.However, in the real world, multiple yacht crew members flew on an airplane from Europe to New York in order to bring the yacht back to Europe.Furthermore, the yacht itself was made from propane and petroleum – the very same things that Thunberg was protesting against.Of course, this whole environmental movement is far more about virtue signaling than it is about actually protecting the environment, which is why pretty...

Hypocrite liberals who claim to care about illegal immigrants are against letting them live in their own neighborhood Now this is just rich.A bunch of liberal Democrats who live in the Washington D.C. area, and who claim to care about illegal immigrants, are trying to prevent the construction of new shelters for them in their own neighborhood.The Washington Post recently reported:… nearly uniform outcry from Washington-area politicians incensed at federal plans to build new shelters for migrant children in Northern Virginia and the District . The shelters, state-licensed and similar to scores across the county in operation since before President Trump...

Hypocrite Bernie Sanders says it’s “not acceptable” that some of his employees have complained about getting paid less than $15 an hour Bernie Sanders has repeatedly said that he wants the minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour.However, he pays some of his own employees only $13 an hour.And he said it’s “not acceptable” that some of his employees have complained about this.These are Sanders’s exact words:“It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media. That is really not acceptable. It is really not what labor negotiations are about, and it’s...

Hypocrite Nancy Pelosi says she supports illegal immigrants, but opposes Trump’s proposal to send them to her own Congressional district Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said that she supports illegal immigrants.However, she opposes a recent proposal by Trump to send them to her own Congressional district.Ashley Etienne, Pelosi’s spokesperson, said of Trump’s proposal:“The extent of this administration’s cynicism and cruelty cannot be overstated… Using human beings – including little children – as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable.”This reminds me of how Ted Kennedy said he supported wind power, but opposed the proposed offshore Cape...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says amazon’s salaries of $150,000 a year for 25,000 new jobs in New York City constitute “scraps” and are not “dignified.” Meanwhile, she only pays her own interns $15 an hour. In November 2018, CNBC reported:Amazon will pay HQ2 employees an average of $150,000On February 16, explaining why she opposed amazon creating 25,000 new jobs in New York City, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said:“We need to create dignified jobs in New York City”and“We do not have to settle for scraps in the greatest city in the world”I wonder how high those amazon salaries would have to be in order for Ocasio-Cortez...

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President Trump is working around the clock during the government shutdown trying to negotiate with Pelosi and Schumer to secure border wall funding. The Democrats however, are partying at a beach resort in Puerto Rico on day 22 of the government shutdown. The Democrats don’t care about the 800,000 federal workers who are currently not receiving a paycheck. Democrat Senator Bob Menendez was spotted hanging out with a bikini-clad “colleague” on the beach in Puerto Rico three weeks into the shutdown without a care in the world. The Hispanic Caucus of liberal Democrats is holding their retreat at a posh...

New York state fines Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign for not having workers’ compensation coverage Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims to support worker rights.However, according to this article that was just published by the New York Daily News, the state of New York fined her campaign $1,500 because it broke the law by not having workers’ compensation coverage.I guess Ocasio-Cortez supports workers’ rights for all workers except her own.

Hypocrite labor unions are exempt from the very same local minimum wage laws that they helped to pass Labor unions are responsible for passing local minimum wage laws in cities all over the U.S.But in many of these cities, unions are exempt from the very same minimum wage laws that they helped to pass.According to this article from the Washington Examiner, hypocrite unions are exempt from the local minimum wage laws in Chicago, Illinois, SeaTac, Washington, and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, as well as the California cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach, San Jose, Richmond, and Oakland.Why would unions support...

The way that Planned Parenthood treats its pregnant employees is cruel, illegal, and extremely hypocritical The New York Times just published this article, which is titled, “Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees.”The article cites numerous examples of how Planned Parenthood has given absolutely horrible treatment to its pregnant employees.Not only are these actions on the part of Planned Parenthood cruel, some of them are also illegal, and all of them are extremely hypocritical.If there’s any one organization that should treat its pregnant employees with kindness and respect, as well as obeying the laws regarding pregnant employees, it’s Planned Parenthood.Here...

Hypocrite Ellen Pompeo wants OTHER white people (but not herself) to lose their jobs so there can be more diversity I had no idea who Ellen Pompeo was when I first read this news article about her that just got published today, so I looked up her wikipedia article. This is how is starts:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_PompeoEllen PompeoEllen Kathleen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is one of the highest paid television actors, having signed a $20 million annual contract with the American Broadcasting Company in late 2017. She was honored with the 2007 Special Achievement in...

I have always regarded men who make a big deal out of supporting feminist causes as potential exploiters and phonies. When Harvey Weinstein, with his track record of vocal and financial support for pro-abortion groups was accused of extreme abuse of actresses, I was not in the least surprised. While some people are attracted to activism or charity out of pure motives, I have seen enough corruption and hypocrisy to make me suspicious of the motives of every male, especially a showboater who proclaims his love of women’s causes. So, it comes as only a slight surprise to learn that...

1) After Obamcare was passed, unions that supported its passage requested and received special exemptionsWithin months after Obamacare was passed, Obama gave some organizations an exemption from some of the requirements of Obamacare. As time went on, more than 1,300 organizations received these exemptions.More than half of the people who are covered by insurance plans that received these exemptions are in union insurance plans. These unions supported the passage of Obamacare. But immediately after Obamacare was passed, these unions wanted exemptions from the very same law that they wanted to force everyone else to obey. This reveals an extreme level...

Global warming hypocrites fly private jets to global warming conference in San Francisco Global warming hypocrisy at its finest!Every single time they have one of these international global warming conferences, there’s a always a huge number of attendees who arrive on private jets.The most recent example of this hypocrisy just happened at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, California. The San Francisco International Airport said that corporate jet traffic was 30% higher than normal, and that much of this was due to attendees of the environmental conference.Why not fly commercial air travel instead?Or better yet, why not stay home...