“One of the co-founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement has called on Barack Obama to resign as president, and “appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America,” Alex Hern reports for The Guardian. “”
“Justine Tunney, a self-styled ‘champagne tranarchist,’ is now a software engineer at Google, but remains involved with Occupy Wall Street, through the occupywallst.org website, which she created,” Hern reports. “In the petition, which currently has two signatures (a far cry from the 195,000 who follow the Occupy Wall Street twitter account Tunney started in 2011), she calls on Obama to arrange a national referendum to: Retire all government employees with full pensions; Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry; Appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America.”
Hern reports, “Yasha Levine, a reporter for Silicon Valley publication Pando Daily, noted the seeming discrepancy between Tunney’s former anarchist beliefs and her current role at Google. Since her arrival at the firm, he writes, ‘she has become an astroturfer par excellence for the company, including showing up in a comment section to bash my reporting on Google’s vast for-profit surveillance operation.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Fruit Loops aren’t just for breakfast anymore.
Well, at least the Fruit Loop made one good suggestion.
Justine Tunney = Self delusional fool
Isn’t there a place to send these people for Mental rehabilitation?
I thought that’s what Google was for . . . .
Justine Tunney seems to have some problems, obviously. It’s too bad that credulous new-critters believe whatever she says. If nothing else, the idea that she is the founder of Occupy (or even that it makes sense to use the word “founder” for what came together through large groups of organizers and participants) is ridiculous.
Then there’s what she is now doing: being a corporate shill for a company that has almost no respect for privacy. OWS specifically fought against giving power to large corporations. Government corruption via legalized bribery is one of the big problems that OWS activists oppose.
I thought she was an Obama fan, you know, ‘Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs’!
Justine says “Barack Obama to resign as president, and “appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America,”
I say a waste of a suggestion. He does not seem to understand how things work in the USA under the constitution. Rules of succession and all…
so that would make him just another idiot with a big mouth.
Who happens to work at Google. Hmmmmm????
Why do you keep changing the Years on your name? What happened to 2012, loser?
Occupy is a “movement,” alright – a bowel movement.
Occupy did attract a lot of flies, the over-the-edge loons of the left. But I know some incredible people who have been involved that have very high and excellent ideals for my country. Occupy was not entirely poop. The best of Occupy are the folks I’d enjoy replacing our current government puppets and whores.
And then there are the masses in Oakland . . . .
Yeah, I remember that. Hmm.
I know I’m showing my age but that Fruit-loops comment is priceless!
In my day, the Fruit Loop was the small hook-like band of material on the back of a dress shirt, that begged to be pulled off.
G4,
I commented on one of your articles in a previous post.
If you remember those shirt (fruit loops)….you are an old guy like me!
Justine Tunney: Google’s Artificial Stupidity beta.
Here, in the dark, I chuckle at that. Heh heh heh. Artificial stupidity. Heh heh heh.
Just what we need, a Commander in Creepiness
But . . . but . . . he would do no evil!
/s, in case anyone missed it.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
There has to be some substance abuse inspiring these statements. Just has to be.
The only real substance is Google and the comments are typical fare from the knee-jerk crowd; fan boys.
I think you can drop the “cognitive” part of that statement. There clearly is no cognition going on in her head.
How Schmidt would run America:
1. Try hundreds of different ideas at random and see if any of them work out.
2. Steal a few good ideas from other countries.
Hmm, yes, He would sanction Russia over the Crimea mess by forcing them to view ad’s. I can see his CEOness now saying “Yes, we’ll show them Ruskies whose boss by slowing down their economy with Google Ads.
Whats the next problem to solve?”
US and NATO economic sanctions are far more devastating then most people realize. It makes it harder people affected to get money or food or medicine, and causes many children to suffer malnutrition and die of starvation. Economic sanctions hit civilians and children much harder than military or government targets. Sanctions can last for decades, and tend to remain enforced long after the original reasons for imposing them are relevant. Theoretically, there’s protection for food and medicine, but in practice the sweeping economic sanctions affects all aspects of life. It’s fucking brutal. It’s far more similar to war than people realize. Sanctions only sound less brutal and more civilized because of that’s how politicians want them to sound.
Yes, that’s the whole point of sanctions. Make the citizens suffer so they demand change in the country’s politics.
Ah, yes, collective punishment – the sign of an enlightened civilization. /s
Seriously, sanctions are almost always a terrible idea. Punish those who have little power to make the change you supposedly want. Most of the time, sanctions crush the already-suffering, while keeping the powerful relatively even more powerful.
Sadly John, your method sounds better than anything I’ve seen from any President since Reagan,
Reagan: Thespian!
The Berlin wall was scripted. Everyone knew the wall was coming down long before Reagan made his candy-coated proclamation.
When 230 of my Marine brothers died in their beds in Lebanon, Reagan retreated, against the advice of the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
He was financing an illegal war against Iraq and suppling military arms to Iran. WTF over?
He dragged his feet over the AIDS issue. See the movie, And The Band Played On.
Reagan believed in astrology and wouldn’t make a move until Nancy said so.
Reminds me of my brother who practically overnight went from Maoist producing his own Che Guevara T shirts to extreme capitalist as soon as he got a proper job and started earning real money to feed his dope habit. Of course like this bozo these people can never quite bring themselves to escape from the idea that they are still working for the people.
When your brother was producing his own Che t-shirts he was already a budding capitalist.
Well, Schmidt would be great at spying on everyone, violating their Constitutional rights without remorse.
But, if we don’t have a president, who will go golfing while America loses their doctors and their health, gives up and goes on food stamps, Iran goes nuclear and Putin annexes whatever he damn well pleases?
There might be some merit here. I doubt Schmidt could be as much of a stupid, worthless, lying pussy as Barack Obama.
Eric T Mole would be far worse!
Careful what you wish for.
Yes, think of the golf course employees.
Fascist Corporatism (from Wikipedia)
Fascism’s theory of economic corporatism involved management of sectors of the economy by government or privately controlled organizations (corporations).
Shmucks.
Obviously her performance review is coming up. My mark for intelligent use of company and personal time – ZERO. GET A LIFE.
Oh, God!
Take that however you like, but it fits.
I knew google’s hiring practice isn’t what it used to be, but it’s obviously far more worse than I thought if they hire a nut job like this. Yikes.
Just a little bit of a discrepancy. Why it is that people in the Valley don’t view Google or even Apple as the corporations they are makes the head spin – Google IS Wall Street, dear.
Though I’m all for change, this also sums up my feelings about Occupy at the time (I was in the business district in Manhattan the day it began): it’s very easy to be an ‘anarchist’ when you are in college and not responsible to or for anything or anyone else. Then, the day comes when you realize you don’t want to live your adult life in a tent and you too must somehow pay the bills. There are better ways than being a Google shill, though, that’s just pathetic.
Maybe the Prez will call the dogs off Apple and switch over to Gaagle.
Didn’t I see this Justine Tunney next to Obama when he was being interviewed on that show ‘Funny or Die’? Why yes, I believe I did, posing as one of the two ferns!…
Gotta love watching the left eat itself.
It’s nearly as disgusting as watching the right eat itself.
I have no use for either extreme end of the idiotic 1 dimensional political spectrum. Lop off both ends of the log.
At least the Left has table manners.
I’m trying to think of anything insightful or useful to take away from this story… but the more consider it, it seems this every single aspect of this story too stupid to be worth considering or commenting on. She’s really just saying things for attention, and her political views are confused and unappealing, to say the least.
Can we just ignore this and move on to something else?
Agreed. The extremists are using the premise of the article to make their case against their opponent, as though the author were credible.
Who in their right mind would ask a President to resign and then proffer a notion of appointing his replacement? Would they also tear up the Constitution?
Hey, Google. Great business model. I guess saying “don’t be evil” was good enough.
Sometimes things happen and it takes a minute to realize what is really going on.
One can sympathize with someone who is currently long term unemployed or maybe who has racked up a large amount of debt from school, trying to figure a way to pay their bills. God knows, I’ve been there, no doubt about it.
However, do not fooled by the leaders “occupy wall street” or any such group. They are neither capitalists nor do they respect the representative republic structure of our government. The do not respect private property rights. The thing about a capitalist system coupled with a representative republic system with property rights is that everyone can strive to reach their own dreams and everyone has a fair shake. Sometimes it might not seem like it, but in the long run everyone benefits. Dreams, if you work hard enough for long enough, do, in fact, come true.
Somebody must have spiked her champagne with more potent stuff.
SERIOUSLY. I almost spit my coffee out with this headline. LOL!!!
Giving the roles of government to corporations is no different than the government taking over corporations and industry. It’s a big mess either way.
Look at Russia. Would you want to live there? Free speech anyone? Do want daily beatings?
Someone got more than a little drunk:
…called on Barack Obama to resign as president, and “appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America”.
As a ‘positive anarchist’, I must point out that this sort of ‘tranarchist’ offers nothing in which I am interested, except of course for the great idea of Obama resigning. The Corporate Oligarchy crap, she should keep to her drunken self 😛
I think she’ll be asking for a raise tomorrow.