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    MissNormaDesmondAndy Cush
    3/11/16 4:36pm

    Good for him. I probably disagree with this guy about all sorts of things, but I respect what he’s doing here. It’s an example I wish more people would emulate.

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      SpectralDoormanMissNormaDesmond
      3/11/16 4:37pm

      That was my reaction as well. Bardella comes across as far more reasonable than I’d expect for someone connected with Breitbart.

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      rjudicataMissNormaDesmond
      3/11/16 4:53pm

      Some of the best days in my professional life is firing a client upon learning that he has lied to me. I see too many other lawyers just suck it up, which ends up hurting them and their clients in the long run. Also, hello from one old school Gawker commentator to another!

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeAndy Cush
    3/11/16 4:35pm

    Do folks connected to Trump and his circus know how to conduct themselves like grown-ups or is that entirely out of the realm of possibility?

    Being a stupid adult is far from noble, but it’s more respectable than being a stupid, temperamental child that sees physical confrontation as the best form of conflict resolution.

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      yvanehtniojHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      3/11/16 4:37pm

      They’re escalating by attacking even their supporters now, is my read.

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      Hip Brooklyn Stereotypeyvanehtnioj
      3/11/16 4:38pm

      Noted! I removed that bit because it was a dumb observation anyway (though, most of mine are).

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    Collapsed ConversationAndy Cush
    3/11/16 4:50pm

    I’d love for someone to weigh in on this, since I don’t know the answer. Was it a wise course of action for Bardella to resign?

    First off, you can’t receive unemployment benefits. Perhaps he’s highly employable, and an exception, but the general rule I think is that for many people in that field (PR), it would take a while for them to find a job that’s a good fit. Shouldn’t he have just stood by his convictions and did what he believed was the right thing and let them fire him? Wouldn’t he at least have a better chance of prevailing, legally speaking, if he were to bring a retaliation case? As it stands now all he could try to do is sue them for constructive discharge.

    TL;DR - in short, wouldn’t he be better off to let them fire him first?

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      BuffaloRudeCollapsed Conversation
      3/11/16 4:56pm

      If he’s a contractor he wouldn’t get unemployment anyways.

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      frankwalsinghalmCollapsed Conversation
      3/11/16 4:59pm

      Answer: You only need to know where one body is buried to get unemployment. You can set fire to the boss’ desk and do a naked joy dance around it singing bad Aerosmith covers and you’ll still get unemployment.

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    Jujymonkey3Andy Cush
    3/11/16 4:34pm

    Andy, I’m assuming the headline is meant to say “Won’t”?

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      mustlovebuttJujymonkey3
      3/11/16 4:36pm

      Give the poor high man a break

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      ImjustacavemanJujymonkey3
      3/11/16 4:36pm

      No, the guys name is “Wons” and he is standing behind Brietbart.

      Seriously, can't anyone at gawker media get a headline right?

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    emooAndy Cush
    3/11/16 4:55pm

    What is the endgame here for Breitbart? Trump has demonstrated that he hates the press, creating bizarre rules and pens for them to make it impossible for them to actually cover his events, and making them the target of vitriol and anger at his rallies. Are they thinking they’ll be somehow immune to this treatment if they just play along? When did our media succumb to battered wife syndrome?

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      Tyrant Bigglesemoo
      3/11/16 5:44pm

      Ideological validation and a front row seat in President Trump’s press room.

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      Germantownieemoo
      3/11/16 5:53pm

      What is the endgame here for Breitbart?

      Increased profits from their role as preferred propagandists for the regime.

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    CAPTAINOHAndy Cush
    3/11/16 4:36pm

    I pray for the day that I'm so financially secure that I use that last tweet as a reason why I'm quitting my job :(

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      PalpitewdzCAPTAINOH
      3/11/16 4:47pm

      had the same thought!

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      dolemiteCAPTAINOH
      3/11/16 5:01pm

      Jesus creampying in an unwilling cunt Christ I fucking hate you and this whole company, I quit.

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    99Telep☺dpr☹blemsAndy Cush
    3/11/16 4:52pm

    Excellent. Keep cannibalizing each other. I hope before this is all over, all the noxious shit that has been festering in this party for decades spectacularly ignites and they are left in a million smoldering shards.

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      Mortal DictataAndy Cush
      3/11/16 4:39pm

      Dear United States of America,

      Trump was funny for a while but this is getting scary now. Please deal with him or find yourself alone in shit creak.

      Yours Sincerely,

      Most of the World

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        emooMortal Dictata
        3/11/16 5:50pm

        If your shit creaks, you should really see a doctor.

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      Free Market Party CompanyAndy Cush
      3/12/16 2:58am

      He’s right about that “ugliness contaminating the public discourse”. What he may not get is that this is precisely the point.

      Trump wants to derail public discourse. I’m not sure to what end, but part of the premise here is that the current discourse is “too politically correct” and needs to be radically altered.

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        Mr. Know It AllAndy Cush
        3/11/16 4:39pm

        More examples of how Breitbart’s strategy to clap louder is not exactly a winning one. Their dead founder would have been proud though.

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          marmeladeMr. Know It All
          3/11/16 5:11pm

          The sad thing is that Andrew Breitbart—who I knew, slightly—-was not an evil, stupid guy. He was a reasonably clever and in his own way oddly decent guy. He just happened to do a whole lot of evil, stupid things.

          He’d been thoroughly hoodwinked by the whole “South Park conservative” meme floating around back in the day, it reeled him in at a time when he was in desperate search of an identity. It was a meme nurtured, I might add, by a whole lot of dark money contaminating the system even then.

          So yeah, I’m not so sure this would make him proud. I’m not at all convinced he so much as dimly understood the real endgame of this dreadful movement, or what it was he’d gotten himself into. That doesn’t give him even a millisecond off his time in Purgatory, but it’s a fact.

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