Yup, rich white guy throwing his racist weight around.
Not surprisingly, he’s also a member of the Trumpsketeers.
If black people are the only racists left in the US, and black people keep getting shot by white officers and white gun toters, then does that mean that all this violence against a specific group is because these fine anti-racists are going after the only remaining racists in America?
Because if that’s the case - that open season on so-called racists is now a-okay - I’m going to have to rethink some things…
“…a member of the trumpsketeers.” ???
Robert Mercer and his bleeping daughter bankrolled Donito Cheetolini’s entire campaign!!
They installed the head nazi, Bannon, onto the senior staff.
The Mercers are tRump’s personal version of the goddam `Koch Bros’
There is no organization that will let an underling call the racist, egomaniacal boss a racist to his face. Unless he had an iron-clad contract protecting him, he should have expected to be fired.
What he should have done is gather incriminating dirt on the guy (and his scary data-collection, propaganda-dissemination political program) and leaked it to the media system. Rightwingers love leakers, correct?
I would have to see the employment contract to build a valid opinion.
““began to go in the wrong direction after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s” and said black people are the “only racist people remaining” in the U.S.”
Normal people’s heads would ring as if hit with a bat when attempting to contain that level of cognitive dissonance…I mean, look what it did to Busey…
There is not one thing good about Donald Trumps Presidency.
If there is one positive side effect, it is that Americans who were naive before about the negative effects Government overreach can have, they will have to blind themselves to not see the the blatant evil on display by Trump and his backers.
Personally, I believe Putins Russia is behind this company’s 39% annual rate of return. Because it seems everything Trump leads back to Russia.
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Mercer said the United States “began to go in the wrong direction after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s” and said black people are the “only racist people remaining” in the U.S.
“Black people are the only racist people remaining”
Yup. Sounds like classic Trump voter: Group a people by race while calling the whole group “the only racists remaining.” Nothing inconsistent about that unless the one who reads it has half a brain.
Edit- It is almost like Mercer is the least racist person Trump knows besides himself.
Which is interesting since Bob and daughter first backed Cruz, so we have crazy as a given and we can add religious nut and racist for the trifecta.
Yeah, dem pu$$y-grabbing raci$t$ gotta stick up for each others.
This is a stick up, puns intended. Up what?
Depends
Mercers inserted Bannon and Conway into the Trump campaign.
This is quid pro quo without the pro.
Perhaps TPM can devote some more of their reportage to a further investigation of Mr. Mercer; he is a bit of an éminence grise in this whole affair. Interesting how he has kept such a low profile…for now. Perhaps this post is just the tip of the iceberg?
The Mercers are the subject of a March 22 Fresh Air show. Podcast is available here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fresh-air/id214089682?mt=2&i=1000382981338
The Mercers are dangerous fruitcakes with a lot of money.
“he was fired for calling Mercer a racist” Yeah, well, calling your boss a racist (unless he’s proud of being the Grand Kleagle) is a good way to get fired. There’s no reason why anyone not in government or maybe academia has to employ (and pay) someone who criticizes his morals or his lifestyle, reprehensible though they might be.
The good side of this is that they guy doesn’t have to work with Mercer any more.
Doesn’t seem like wrongful termination.
Which was done because of Jane Mayer’s piece for the New Yorker.
But here’s what the mainstream media won’t tell you: Robert Mercer and his daughter have also funded a gigantic stockpile of human urine in Oregon.
The urine stockpile is the project of Arthur Robinson, a chemist and founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Starting in 2005, the Mercer Family Foundation contributed at least $1.4 million to OISM, enabling Robinson to buy freezers to store his 14,000 samples of urine. Robinson wants still more urine, as much as possible, and issues frequent appeals to the public to contribute. According to the OISM newsletter, Robinson is collecting it in order to “calibrate analytical procedures that can revolutionize the evaluation of personal chemistry — and thereby improve our health, our happiness and prosperity, and even the academic performance of our children in school.”
How exactly this will work is unknown. Robinson told Bloomberg earlier this year that “We’ve completed experiments here, which we could easily publish, but we want to wait until they are perfect.”
[A] onetime senior employee at Renaissance recalls hearing Mercer downplay the dangers posed by nuclear war. Mercer, speaking of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, argued that, outside of the immediate blast zones, the radiation actually made Japanese citizens healthier. The National Academy of Sciences has found no evidence to support this notion. Nevertheless, according to the onetime employee, Mercer, who is a
proponent of nuclear power, “was very excited about the idea, and felt that it meant nuclear accidents weren’t such a big deal.”
Mercer isn’t pulling his unorthodox opinions on the effects of extreme radiation out of thin air. Arthur Robinson, his go-to guy for climate change denialism and human urine experimentation, was apparently the one who disabused Mercer of the notion that nukes are bad for humans: Robinson holds a degree in chemistry from Caltech, but his work is not respected in most scientific circles. (The Oregon senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, has called Robinson an “extremist kook.”) Robinson appears to be the source of Robert Mercer’s sanguine view of nuclear radiation: in 1986, Robinson co-authored a book suggesting that the vast majority of Americans would survive “an all-out atomic attack on the United States.”
http://dealbreaker.com/2017/03/robert-mercer-pumped-for-nuclear-annihilation/
More on Mr. Urine: GOP Candidate Asks Residents to Mail Him Their Pee – Mother Jones
Robert Mercer looks like a corrupt casino owner in an episode of “CSI: Las Vegas.”
Well, at least now we know why Donnny Derpo likes his showers golden.