When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
HIGH TECH'S GLOBAL EXPLOITATION TO PUT MORE MONEY IN THEIR GREEDY POCKETS
Bokhari: Ricky Gervais Called Out Big Tech’s Sweatshops – The Details Are Even Worse
In his evisceration of Hollywood virtue-signalers at the Golden Globes yesterday, Ricky Gervais touched on an important point: A-list celebrities increasingly find themselves employed not by studios, but by tech companies with deeply questionable global business practices.
That’s not to say their traditional employers, the big Hollywood studios, are angels. But they’re less likely to come with the baggage of a smartphone manufacturer that assembles its products in Asian sweatshops.
That was the charge Gervais lobbed at Apple (with CEO Tim Cook in the room), which recently launched the Apple TV+ streaming service the hardware giant’s answer to Netflix.
Gervais was referring to Foxconn’s assembly lines in China, where workers earn around $3.15 an hour to produce iPhones — a far cry from the $15.00 minimum wage demanded by many of the Democrat presidential candidates backed by Hollywood stars.
At the largest of these factories, in Shenzhen, Foxconn had to install body-catching nets to prevent its employees from committing suicide by throwing themselves off the facility’s roof.
Movie stars have long been criticized for complaining about climate change while they swan around the world in private jets, and it’s easy to see another narrative of Hollywood hypocrisy emerging. Here are Bernie Sanders and AOC patrons who work for companies that rely on sweatshops and suicide nets.
Amazon, another company with a growing number of Hollywood A-listers producing shows and movies for its streaming service, is even more notorious for the working conditions at its facilities in the first world.
If Hollywood thought the writers’ strike made them look bad, wait until they’re attached to the workers’ rights horror-show that comes attached to Apple and Amazon. Pretty soon, people might start to think that Hollywood stars don’t actually care about ordinary people at all!
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Ricky Gervais Wonders How Teasing Corporations, Elite Hollywood Is ‘Right Wing’
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Ricky Gervais is hitting back at mainstream media criticism of his performance as host of the Golden Globes, pointing out that he took humorous aim at targets that liberals usually love to hate, like large corporations and the super wealthy.
Gervais tweeted Monday that people have been calling his Golden Globes jokes “right wing” despite the populist angle of his routine.
“How the fuck can teasing huge corporations, and the richest, most privileged people in the world be considered right wing?” Gervais asked.
Gervais appeared to be responding to comments like those from Vanity Fair writer and former Entertainment Weekly editor Mark Harris, who complained in a Twitter rant Monday that making fun of hypocritical celebrities is a “right-wing talking point.”
Here's my Ricky Gervais problem: The idea that celebrities are not only pampered babies but hypocrites who cause the problems they make speeches deploring and should therefore shut up and act/sing/be grateful is a right-wing talking point, and an especially stupid one. >
Harris, who is part of the showbiz elite by virtue of being married to Oscar-nominated screenwriter and celebrated playwright Tony Kushner, also called Gervais’s jokes about privileged celebrities “tired.”
“It’s not an act of speaking truth to power or of bravery to attack celebs on that front — it’s a tired way of scolding people into silence because you don’t like what they’re saying,” Harris wrote.
It's not an act of speaking truth to power or of bravery to attack celebs on that front--it's a tired way of scolding people into silence because you don't like what they're saying, and saying that he's "calling out" the hyperprivileged is just the same thing in a new guise. >
You'll never go broke ending a night scowling at celebrities and saying, "Get drunk, do your drugs, fuck off," which I think were his last words on the show. There will always be people to say, "Yeah! You tell 'em!" But tell 'em what? "Fuck off" isn't a stance. It's a tantrum. >
At the Beverly Hilton hotel on Sunday, “the mood was already sober thank to an impeachment, the threat of war with Iran, and devastating bush fires in Australia,” a Times critic wrote.
“The last thing anyone needed was for the smirking master of ceremonies to reprimand them for having hope, or taunt the room for trying to use their influence to change things for the better.”
During Sunday’s telecast, Gervais took aim at Apple, which recently became a major Hollywood player thanks to its new ventures Apple Studios and Apple TV+. Apple CEO Tim Cook was in attendance on Sunday.
“Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb show,” Gervais said. “A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China.”
Addressing the ballroom full of celebrities, Gervais continued: “You say you’re ‘woke,’ but the companies you work for Apple, Amazon, Disney… if ISIS started a streaming service you’d call your agent, wouldn’t you?”
“You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg,” he told the crowd.
“So, if you win, come up, accept your little award tonight, come up, accept it, thank your agent and your God, and fuck off. No onecares about your views on politics or culture.”
Gervais told the Golden Globes audience on Sunday that this would be his last stint hosting the annual ceremony after four previous shows.
In a tweet after the ceremony, he said: “Thanks for all your amazing comments about my Golden Globes monologue. Best reaction ever and that means a lot to me. I had a blast but thank fuck it’s over.”
Thanks for all your amazing comments about my Golden Globes monologue. Best reaction ever and that means a lot to me. I had a blast but thank fuck it's over, so I can get back to my real job of editing #AfterLife2 and touring #SuperNature. Make Jokes, Not War
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You'll never go broke ending a night scowling at celebrities and saying, "Get drunk, do your drugs, fuck off," which I think were his last words on the show. There will always be people to say, "Yeah! You tell 'em!" But tell 'em what? "Fuck off" isn't a stance. It's a tantrum. >
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