Sunday, July 31, 2016

1 BIG REASON to never buy another Apple product

Apple's CEO Tim Cook Hosts $50,000-per-Ticket Hillary Fundraiser

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Despite Hillary Clinton's convention outreach to Sen. Bernie Sanders's supporters over campaign finance reform — "Your cause is our cause," she said — Apple CEO Tim Cook is hosting a fundraiser for Clinton at up to $50,000 a ticket.

Sanders's man-of-the-people campaign raised $228,556,686 from over 7 million individual donors, contributing an average of just $27. Small individual contributors that gave less than $200 accounted for about 60 percent of Sanders's donations.

Hillary Clinton told Sanders supporters that as a woman of the people, "Our country needs your ideas, energy and passion." But according to the non-partisan OpenSecrets blog, Clinton hasn't been wasting much time focusing on $27 contributors.

Of the $264,374,319 Hillary raised directly from small individual donors during the primary season, only $50,842,138, or 19 percent, came from small individual donors under $200. Clinton, unlike Sanders, also benefited from fatcat political action committees (PACs) that raised another $110,211,121 to show her love. Adding the two funding bases together, less than 14 percent of Hillary's donors gave small bucks.

Silicon Valley earned the nickname "Valley of the Democrats" from the TechCrunch blog, because over 83 percent of presidential campaign contributions went to Democrats during the 2008 and 2012 campaigns.

Silicon Valley continues to be the "Valley of the Democrats" in the 2016 presidential campaigns, with over 99 percent of Silicon Valley's $8.6 million in contributions going to Democrats. But Hillary Clinton's average Silicon Valley contribution was $1,276, compared to just $178 for Sanders.

The size of Hillary Clinton's average Silicon Valley donation is about to spike much higher on August 24, when Cook hosts a fundraiser for the first woman in American history to lead a presidential ticket of a major party.

Cook is officially raising money for the Hillary Victory Fund PAC, according to an invitation obtained by BuzzFeed News. The HVF PAC is a joint fundraising committee that will contribute Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and 38 state parties. The HVF PAC is keeping the event location secret until payments are received.

In keeping with Clinton's focus on big-hitter contributors, Cook's fundraiser lists three different contribution levels: $50,000, $10,000, and $2,700.

The secrecy surrounding Cook's efforts on behalf of the Hillary Victory Fund PAC event may be tied to the WikiLeaks July 22 release of 19,252 Democratic National Committee emails and the July 27 release of 29 DNC audio recordings that appear to raise questions about whether the Clinton presidential campaign potentially "laundered" money through the Clinton Victory Fund PAC, according to lawyers representing a class action of Sanders contributors against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Shultz.

Apple, Inc. and the Clinton campaign declined comment to BuzzFeed.

Recently, Cook held a fundraiser for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan — an act for which he was slammed by prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

I'm With Her

Dummy


Friday, July 29, 2016

Hillary to raise taxes on Middle class.

HighTaxHillary.com

Hillary Clinton has made clear she intends to dramatically raise taxes on the American people if elected. She has proposed an income tax increase, a business tax increase, a death tax increase, a capital gains tax increase, a tax on stock trading, an "Exit Tax" and more (see below). Her planned net tax increase on the American people is at least $1 trillion over ten years, based on her campaign's own figures.

It's no wonder that when asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos if her pledge was a "rock-solid" promise, she slipped and said the pledge was merely a "goal." In other words, she's going to raise taxes on middle income Americans.

Hillary's formally proposed $1 trillion net tax increase consists of the following:

Income Tax Increase – $350 Billion: Clinton has proposed a $350 billion income tax hike in the form of a 28 percent cap on itemized deductions.

Business Tax Increase -- $275 Billion: Clinton has called for a tax hike of at least $275 billion through undefined business tax reform, as described in a Clinton campaign document.

"Fairness" Tax Increase -- $400 Billion: According to her published plan, Clinton has called for a tax increase of "between $400 and $500 billion" by "restoring basic fairness to our tax code." These proposals include a "fair share surcharge," the taxing of carried interest capital gains as ordinary income, and a hike in the Death Tax.

But there are even more Clinton tax hike proposals not included in the tally above. Her campaign has failed to release specific details for many of her proposals. The true Clinton net tax hike figure is likely much higher than $1 trillion.

For instance:

Capital Gains Tax Increase -- Clinton has proposed an increase in the capital gains tax to counter the "tyranny of today's earnings report." Her plan calls for a byzantine capital gains tax regime with six rates. Her campaign has not put a dollar amount on this tax increase.

Tax on Stock Trading -- Clinton has proposed a new tax on stock trading. Costs associated with this new tax will be borne by millions of American families that hold 401(k)s, IRAs and other savings accounts. The tax increase would only further burden markets by discouraging trading and investment. Again, no dollar figure for this tax hike has been released by the Clinton campaign.

"Exit Tax" – Rather than reduce the extremely high, uncompetitive corporate tax rate, Clinton has proposed a series of measures aimed at inversions including an "exit tax" on income earned overseas. The term "exit tax" is used by the campaign itself. Her campaign document describing this proposal says it will raise $80 billion in tax revenue, but claims some of the $80 billion will be plowed into tax relief. How much? The campaign doesn't say.

This proposal completely fails to address the underlying causes behind inversions: The U.S. 39% corporate tax rate (35% federal rate plus an average state rate of 4%) and our "worldwide" system of taxation, which imposes tax on all American earnings worldwide. The average corporate rate in the developed world is 25%. Thirty-one of thirty-four developed countries have cut their corporate tax rate since 2000. The U.S. has not. Hillary's plan moves in the wrong direction.

ATR is tracking Clinton's full tax record at its dedicated website, HighTaxHillary.com

 

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Pass The Baton

"I told them that by every economic measure the country is doing better..."

Facts, over the last 7 1/2 years:
  • INCOMES HAVE FALLEN!
  • POVERTY HAS INCREASED!
  • LABOR FORCE HAS DECREASED!
  • HEALTHCARE COSTS HAVE SKYROCKETED!
  • AND $20 TRILLION IN DEBT

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Mexico WANTS to build a wall

It turns out that Donald Trump's proposed border wall is not such a bad idea after all. Though Mexico's current and former Presidents have both lambasted Trump for implying that a wall would curb immigration, it turns out that Mexicans like the idea.

There is one small caveat, however. Mexicans don't want to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, but rather, they want to stem the tide of immigration into their own country  by building the wall on their southern border with central America:

One of the largest newspapers along Mexico's border with Texas is calling for a border wall with Central America, similar to the one being promoted by Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump.

The editorial board of El Mañana, one of the largest newspapers in the border state of Tamaulipas,  penned a piece called "Yes to the Border Wall … but in Mexico's South." The piece praises the idea of border wall, not on the border with Mexico, but on the border with Central America. 

"Along the Mexican border peace and quiet came to an end, Central Americans played a large influence," El Mañana's piece claimed.

The Mexican border newspaper provides a controversial view on the Border Wall; which is one of the main topics in Trump's campaign. 

"Mexico's southeast has two borders; one with Guatemala and one with Belize, that do not provide any benefit, but on the contrary only problems are brought by these crossing points that are being used for the new invasion. The one use by Central American's looking for a way into the United States. " El Mañana's editorial board wrote.

One of the issues mentioned in the editorial piece points not only to the hordes of Guatemalans, Salvadorans and Hondurans that flock to Reynosa in an effort to get to the U.S., but also to the large number of Central Americans that are left in Mexico after deportation.

Full report at Breitbart

Eastern European countries are expanding their border fence networks to keep middle east refugees from crossing into their countries, a strategy that has cut illegal immigration by over 90% in those nations.

President Obama made the one in front of the White House even higher and more elaborate.

Prisons tend to build them, too.

The Mexicans want one.

And now even the Democratic National Committee has decided that fences work to keep out the riff-raff. They've built an 8 foot high, 4 mile long fence around their convention.

It seems like these days everyone wants to build a wall.

But according to former DHS chief Janet Napolitano, walls don't work to keep people out and are ineffective immigration policy, so we're not sure what all the fuss is about.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Sped-up video of the March for Bernie Sanders protest in Philadelphia


Sped-up video of the March for Bernie Sanders protest in Philadelphia -- it was pretty massive, not gonna lie https://t.co/a8DpPE5Pil

Downtown Philly

Weather forcast shows it'll be 100° in Philly for the convention this week.
It's gonna be like hell!

Plus it'll be hot.

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Trump craigslist ad for hot assistant


WikiLeaks Emails: DNC Approved Fake Trump Ads For 'Hot Women' Comfortable With 'Gropes Under The Meeting Table'

by ALLUM BOKHARI
22 Jul 2016

The WikiLeaks cache of 19,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee has only been online for a couple of hours, and already it's revealing some of the party's dirty tricks.
In an email dated May 18, 2016, Christina Freundlich, Deputy Communications Director at the DNC proposed that the Democrats impersonate the Trump Organization on Craigslist, placing a fake ad for "hot women" aimed at making the Republican candidate look as sexist as possible.

The email, which can be read below, contains the full text of the fake ad. It includes requirements for employees to "not gain weight on the job," to "evaluate other women's hotness," and be comfortable with a range of illegal workplace sexual harassment including allowing the boss to "grope you under the meeting table."

The fake ad closes by calling on interested applicants to send their cover letters to "jobs@trump.com."

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:09 AM -0700, "Freundlich, Christina"  <<FreundlichC@dnc.org<mailto:FreundlichC@dnc.org>> wrote:                                                                       Mark and Luis – digital created a fake craigslist jobs post for women who want to apply to jobs one of Trump's organizations. This will be a microsite and we still need to send it to Perkins. Since we will be pitching this, need your approval please. Thanks

Multiple Positions (NYC area)

Seeking staff members for multiple positions in a large, New York-based corporation known for its real estate investments, fake universities, steaks, and wine. The boss has very strict standards for female employees, ranging from the women who take lunch orders (must be hot) to the women who oversee multi-million dollar construction projects (must maintain hotness demonstrated at time of hiring).

Title: Honey Bunch (that's what the boss will call you)

Job requirements:

No gaining weight on the job (we'll take some "before" pictures when you start to use later as evidence)
Must be open to public humiliation and open-press workouts if you do gain weight on the job
A willingness to evaluate other women's hotness for the boss' satisfaction is a plus
Should be proficient in lying about age if the boss thinks you're too old Working mothers not preferred (the boss finds pumping breast milk disgusting, and worries they're too focused on their children).
About us:

We're proud to maintain a "fun" and "friendly work environment, where the boss is always available to meet with his employees. Like it or not, he may greet you with a kiss on the lips or grope you under the meeting table.
Interested applicants should send resume, cover letter, and headshot to jobs@trump.com
After sending a reminder to her superiors, Freundlich's ideas was eventually approved by DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda. His response is copied below.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:29 PM -0700, "Miranda, Luis" <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote: As long as all the offensive shit is verbatim I'm fine with it.

"Yes it is" responded Freundlich.

This is just one of the 19,000-plus Democratic National Committee email files released by WikiLeaks earlier today. The full archive of emails can be browsed at WikiLeaks' site.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Well said...

"For too long, our country has ignored its problems, punting them down the road for future generations to deal with." - @DonaldJTrumpJr

"For the first time, parents no longer think their kids will be as well off as we. We've lost the confidence in our leaders"- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"I know that when someone tells my father that something is impossible, that's what triggers him into action."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"For my father, impossible is just the starting point."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"His unrelenting determination is why he's going to become our next president"- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"His unrelenting determination is why I know that when my father says he can fix the country he means it."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"He's promoted people based on their character, their street smarts and their work ethic, not simply paper or credentials."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"His true gift as a leader is that he sees the potential in people that they don't even see in themselves..."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"Potential that other executives would overlook because their resumes don't include the names of fancy colleges and degrees" @DonaldJTrumpJr

"We didn't learn from MBAs, we learned from people who had doctorates in common sense."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"The other party don't tell you that it was their policies that caused the problem / their policies have no accountability"- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"It was Bernie Sanders himself who warned that a large tide of new workers keeps wages low and poverty high."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"The other party gave us public schools that far too often fail our students, especially those who have no options."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class, now they're stalled on the ground floor."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"...That's called competition. It's called the free market. And it's what the other party fears."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"They fear it because they're more concerned about protecting jobs of tenured teachers than serving the students in need."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"The other party gave us a regulatory state on steroids. Dodd-Frank is consumer protection for billionaires."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"If Hillary Clinton were elected, she'd be the first president who couldn't pass a basic background check"- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"We're going to unleash the creative spirit and energy of all Americans."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"We're going to put Americans first, all Americans, not a special class of crony elites at the top of the heap."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who knows we can't simply delete our problems, but that we have to tackle them head on."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who won't allow PC culture to put the safety and well-being of our children and our loved ones at stake."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who will secure and defend the borders of the United States."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who will appoint judges who believe that freedom requires a limited government."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who won't use the highest office in the land as a path to personal enrichment."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who's actually created real jobs, who has actually signed the front of a paycheck, [not the back]"- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who speaks his mind, who doesn't have to run a focus group or use data analytics to form a simple opinion."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who says what needs to be said and not just what you want to hear."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"A president who will unleash the greatness in our nation and in all of us."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

"And when we elect him, we'll have done all that. We'll have made America great again, greater than ever before."- @DonaldJTrumpJr

https://twitter.com/dphotomeister/status/756192645521735680


Wednesday, July 20, 2016

REPORT: As President, Donald Trump Could Purge U.S. Government Of Obama Appointees

Nice!

Reuters published an exclusive report today which suggests that if Trump is elected president, he would take legal steps to purge the federal government of Obama appointees.

A point the media surely misses, is that this idea would be heartily embraced by people who support Trump. In fact, it's one of the keys to Trump's success in this election.

From the report:

Exclusive: Trump could seek new law to purge government of Obama appointees

If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.

Christie, who is governor of New Jersey and leads Trump's White House transition team, said the campaign was drawing up a list of federal government employees to fire if Trump defeats Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.

"As you know from his other career, Donald likes to fire people," Christie told a closed-door meeting with dozens of donors at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, according to an audio recording obtained by Reuters and two participants in the meeting.

Christie was referring to Trump's starring role in the long-running television show "The Apprentice," where his catch-phrase was "You're fired!"

The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump's transition advisers fear that Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants, who have more job security than officials who have been politically appointed. This would allow officials to keep their jobs in a new, possibly Republican, administration, Christie said.

"It's called burrowing," Christie said. "You take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up … roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House."

Read the rest here.

A related topic that the Reuters report doesn't mention, is that since so many of Obama's actions as president have been based on executive orders, the next president could virtually erase much of Obama's legacy.

If and when that happens, the outcry from the left will be a thing to behold.

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Christie Prosecutes Hillary: Lock Her Up!

CHRIS CHRISTIE: Tonight, as a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold her accountable for her performance and her character.

We must present those facts to you, a jury of her peers, both in this hall and in living rooms around our nation.

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, let's present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Clinton. She was America's chief diplomat. Look around at the violence and danger in our world today every region of the world has been infected with her flawed judgment.

But let me be specific so you can render your verdict. In North Africa, she was the chief engineer of our disastrous overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya.

Libya today after Hillary Clinton's grand strategy? Libya's economy in ruins, death and violence in the streets and ISIS now dominating the country.

Hillary Clinton, as a failure for ruining Libya and creating a nest for terrorist activity by ISIS guilty or not guilty? In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

What happened because of this reckless action by the candidate who is the self proclaimed champion of women around the world? These terrorists abducted hundreds of innocent young girls two years ago.

These schoolgirls are still missing today.

What was the solution from the Obama/Clinton team? A hashtag campaign! Hillary Clinton, as an apologist for an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Nigeria resulting in the capture of innocent young women guilty or not guilty? She fights for the wrong people.

She doesn't fight for us. She doesn't get the real threats America faces. In China, Hillary Clinton praised the Chinese government for buying our debt to finance President Obama's bloated stimulus plan.

So desperate for Chinese cash, she promised to oppose the Buy American provision in the stimulus bill in exchange for the cash to finance his huge expansion of government spending.

Hillary Clinton, putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of jobs for middle class Americans guilty or not guilty? In Syria, she called President Assad a "reformer" and a "different kind of leader".

With 400,000 now dead...think about that.

Four.

Hundred.

Thousand. Dead.

At the hands of the man Hillary defended.

We must ask this question: Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator-butcher in the Middle East guilty or not guilty? In Iran, she led the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Let me be clear: America and the world are measurably less safe and less respected because of the Iran deal Hillary helped cut.

Period. After she launched those negotiations, she became the biggest cheerleader for it at the end.

A deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure and much more dangerous Middle East.

Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history guilty or not guilty? In Russia, she went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them the symbolic reset button.

The button should have read, "delete" she is very good at that because she deleted in four years what it took 40 years to build. The next year, she said our goal was to strengthen Russia.

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What a dangerous lack of judgment.

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty? In Cuba, Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice.

Chesimard murdered a New Jersey State Trooper in cold blood, fled to Cuba and lives there to this very day.

How do you live with your own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? Hillary Clinton as coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen Trooper Werner Foerster guilty or not guilty?

Finally, here at home, in one of her first decisions as Secretary of State, she set up a private e-mail server in her basement in violation of our national security.

Lets face it: Hillary Clinton cared more about protecting her own secrets than she did about protecting America's secrets.

Then she lied about it over and over again.

She said there was no marked classified information on her server.

The FBI Director said that was untrue.

She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director said that was untrue.

She said all work related emails were sent back to the State Department.

The FBI Director said that was untrue.

As to Hillary Clinton, putting herself ahead of America guilty or not guilty? Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment guilty or not guilty? Time after time the facts, and just the facts, lead you to the same verdict both around the world and at home.

In Libya and Nigeria guilty.

In China and Syria guilty.

In Iran and Russia and Cuba guilty.

And here at home on risking America's secrets to keep her own and lying to cover it all up. Guilty. Her focus group tested persona, with no genuineness to be found, is a sham meant to obscure all the facts and leave you able to vote for her. We cannot promote someone to Commander-in-Chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment she has made.

We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people.

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualifies her. We in this hall agree with all of this.

But I want to talk to all of you at home, in your living rooms. You are the ones who will decide this election. We have an alternative.

We have a man who is unafraid.

We have a man who wants to lead us.

We have a man who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

We have a man who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, ethnic or religious background. We do not need to settle for less.

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

We know exactly what four years of Hillary Clinton will bring: all the failures of the Obama years, but with less charm and more lies. It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her within 10 miles of the White House again.

It is time to come together and make sure that Donald Trump is our next President.

I am proud to be part of this team.

Now let's go win this thing.

Christie Prosecutes Hillary: Lock Her Up!

Words, just words

Words, just words.

Amazing to see the actual plagiarism!

https://youtu.be/M_CNYJGbVwg

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

"We're Not As Divided As We Seem"

Thursday, July 14, 2016

‘Silicon Valley’ Writer Sounds Off on Tech Ageism

http://insights.dice.com/2016/07/12/silicon-valley-writer-sounds-off-tech-ageism/

In 2007, a fresh-faced Mark Zuckerberg famously ruffled feathers among some older colleagues when he suggested that tech companies should not hire people over 30. "Young people are just smarter," the Facebook chief executive, then 22, told a crowd at Stanford University.

Nearly a decade after the public gaffe, some say little has changed in terms of how older workers are perceived in the tech industry. Despite making recent attempts to diversify their workforces through aggressive initiatives to attract more women and minorities, Silicon Valley firms still wear their disproportionately young ranks like a badge of honor, proudly flaunting a youth-focused culture in which 28 is seen as middle age and 35 over the hill.

While workers over 40 are protected by federal civil rights laws in the United States, the plight of older employees so rarely enters into conversations about workplace discrimination in tech that one would be forgiven for not realizing it's an issue at all.

In fact, ageism is very prevalent. Just ask Dan Lyons, a technology journalist and writer for HBO's "Silicon Valley." As notably chronicled in his recent best-selling book "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble," Lyons lost his longtime position at Newsweek magazine when he was in his 50s and decided to switch gears by taking a marketing fellowship at the software company HubSpot. In his book, published earlier this year, Lyons describes the startup's culture as a frat-like circus filled with Nerf gunfights and hookup dens.

To complement the book, Lyons also wrote a LinkedIn post in which he called out tech industry executives for their defiantly ageist rhetoric, including his old boss at HubSpot, who he said once called gray hair and experience "overrated." The LinkedIn post went viral, and Lyons said it was at that moment that he realized how widespread the problem really is.

"I got this outpouring of emails from people," Lyons told Dice Insights. "I don't mean to toot my own horn—I don't think it's that the article was so good. It's just that there are a s–tload of people out there who experienced this. It was upsetting really."

We spoke with Lyons last week about what it might take for the tech industry to become more welcoming, but don't expect a happy ending: The characteristically cynical author said Silicon Valley still has a long way to go.

Dice: With such an emphasis on youth, people forget that older workers are a protected class. Why do you think there's not more awareness about this issue in the tech industry?

Dan Lyons: I don't think there's any real protection, though. That's the thing. At HubSpot it was like, "We can do whatever we want. We can fire you at will." HubSpot didn't even have an HR department for the first six or seven years it was in business. They didn't really care about that stuff. And let's face it, everybody knows you can't really bring an age-discrimination lawsuit. You'll never win—I don't think.

Dice: It's a hard thing to prove. It's one thing to have a law, but it's another thing to prove that's why you were fired.

Dan Lyons: I recognize that there's a law, but I don't think tech companies feel it at all. Google just got hit with an age discrimination lawsuit. I don't know if it'll go anywhere.

Dice: Is there any remedy to this? Are you hopeful that discussions about this will change the culture?

Dan Lyons: I'm really not. I wish I could say I was. If these guys came to believe that it was in their own self-interest to hire more older workers—if they thought they would make more money with older workers—they would. But I think they've just decided they can make more money with young kids. I wish I felt otherwise, but I don't see any sign of it changing.

Dice: That's pretty grim.

Dan Lyons: I just did a story for Boston magazine about this topic, and I talked to some tech companies trying to manage what they call a multi-generational workforce. I mean, maybe there's a glimmer of hope there. There are definitely bigger companies out there—if you have 50,000 employees, you need people of all ages. But overall in tech, with the venture-funded companies, it's the venture capitalists driving this. And they're driving it based on their own desire to get the biggest return in the shortest time possible.

Dice: Makes sense. If you're investing in a company, you want the best return.

Dan Lyons: And as cheaply as possible. I think it starts with those guys—the investors, what they want and what they push for. I think they've all decided that the optimal return is young kids: Burn them out, get rid of them, replace them.

Dice: There also seems to be a perception that older people are out of touch when it comes to technology, that they don't adapt as quickly. Is that a misconception?

Dan Lyons: I think that there's probably some truth to that. Like all of these things, there's some grain of truth in it. But I think the way it's described, people talk about "digital natives" like they're a different species, like they have some gene. I get that young kids are more comfortable with social media, they're earlier adopters. But I don't think that means a social media manager at a company has to be a young person. Where it gets weird is on the issue of engineers. Can an older engineer who already knows a bunch of languages learn Python? I don't think there's any other field where people say at age 40 you just can't understand this technology anymore.

Dice: If you're in the workforce, you evolve with it. That's how it works.

Dan Lyons: I guess I'm of two minds about it. On the one hand, I kind of feel like I'm better at what I do now than I was when I was 35, but I also get that I'm probably not as "opted-in." I haven't used Snapchat. I don't give a s–t about it.

House Flag

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Tuesday, July 05, 2016

FBI Recommends "No Charges" Against Hillary Clinton

Clearly the law is only there for the 'little people'...

And I'll bet FBI director Comey wants to keep his job once the Hildabeast is president...

"To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now."