{"id":80125,"date":"2021-11-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80125"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:13:40","slug":"times-er-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80125","title":{"rendered":"Time&#8217;s, Er, Up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Feminist&#8221; organization &#8220;Times Up&#8221; &#8211; established with the help of progressive plutocrats with deep pockets in the wake of the &#8220;#MeToo&#8221; movement &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/staff-fumes-ashley-judd-weeps-as-times-up-lays-off-everyone\">has collapsed, very publicly, very messily:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The vast majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/times-up-ex-staffers-say-problems-run-deeper-than-cuomo\">Time\u2019s Up<\/a>\u2019s remaining staffers were laid off Friday in what they described as a debacle that began with leaders revealing they gave the news to the <em>Washington Post<\/em> first and ended with board member Ashley Judd breaking down in tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/outraged-times-up-backers-call-for-ceo-tina-tchen-to-resign-after-cuomo-scandal\">embattled organization<\/a>, limping since its CEO and entire board resigned this summer, announced Friday that it would lay off the vast majority of its remaining staff. Leadership informed staff of the decision in a virtual meeting that started 15 minutes before the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/times-up-report\/2021\/11\/19\/362070a0-4876-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html\"><em> Post<\/em> article<\/a> made the pink slips national news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out that while Big Left doesn&#8217;t care about morality, there are certain levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi9_fKcrrH0AhWQkokEHZNKA4kQFnoECA8QAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ftimes-up-cuomo-harassment%2F2021%2F08%2F25%2Fd4f9616e-05b9-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html&amp;usg=AOvVaw2sbJ5p__P8kxhPooikPtaJ\">hypocrisy<\/a> that even the left can&#8217;t stomach &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/08\/09\/times-up-leader-roberta-kaplan-resigns-amid-ties-gov-andrew-cuomo\/5540934001\/\">sometimes<\/a>, anyway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The attorney and women&#8217;s advocate Roberta Kaplan resigned Monday as chair of the prominent #MeToo group Time&#8217;s Up over the over fallout from her work advising Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s administration when the first allegations of sexual harassment were made against him last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Kaplan cited her work counseling the administration last winter and her more recent legal work representing Melissa DeRosa, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/08\/08\/melissa-derora-new-york-andrew-cuomo-resignation\/5534687001\/\" target=\"_blank\">a top aide to Cuomo who resigned Sunday<\/a>, nearly a week after a report by the state attorney general concluded that the governor had sexually harassed 11 women.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Justice&#8221; means what they say it means.  No more, no less, no different. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Feminist&#8221; organization &#8220;Times Up&#8221; &#8211; established with the help of progressive plutocrats with deep pockets in the wake of the &#8220;#MeToo&#8221; movement &#8211; has collapsed, very publicly, very messily: The vast majority of Time\u2019s Up\u2019s remaining staffers were laid off Friday in what they described as a debacle that began with leaders revealing they gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80131,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80125\/revisions\/80131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}