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TexasTowelie

(116,765 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 02:44 AM Jul 2018

Trump supporters tried to get 'Baby Trump' balloon activist fired from homeless shelter

Trump supporters tried to get a Hillsborough man fired from his job at a homeless family shelter over his activism. But it backfired, and is instead motivating Didier Jimenez-Castro to make his protests go even more viral.

Jimenez-Castro, an organizer of the movement to bring the Baby Trump balloon to New Jersey, said his job was in jeopardy after defenders of the president contacted his employer, alleging he was misrepresenting the organization in his activism.

However, the 29-year-old said he never brought his places of work into the protest, or named them. He believes Trump supporters may have found his employer through Facebook, and began calling and emailing the organization, where he works with homeless families.

When his higher-ups first spoke to him about the complaints, he "thought it was going to blow up" and he'd lose his job, Jimenez-Castro said.

Read more: https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/07/trump_supporters_tried_to_get_baby_trump_balloon_activist_fired_from_homeless_shelter.html

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Trump supporters tried to get 'Baby Trump' balloon activist fired from homeless shelter (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2018 OP
Hey Texas, you do cover everything. rusty quoin Jul 2018 #1
The best part is that it will be quadruplet baby Trump blimps. TexasTowelie Jul 2018 #2
What upsets them more, Scarsdale Jul 2018 #3
This is an Awesome story, TexasT.. Mahalo for the update! Cha Jul 2018 #4
Won't one of these nuts ejbr Jul 2018 #5
There is good and bad in this story... GetRidOfThem Jul 2018 #6
I'm getting more confirmation that dropping FaKebook was the right thing to do lambchopp59 Jul 2018 #7
Bedminster is in Somerset County --- hot air ballon territory. Wouldn't it be nice.....? 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #8
 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
1. Hey Texas, you do cover everything.
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 03:03 AM
Jul 2018

It’s like what does Trump care about the homeless. And I love the baby trump blimp.

TexasTowelie

(116,765 posts)
2. The best part is that it will be quadruplet baby Trump blimps.
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 03:40 AM
Jul 2018

Hopefully they will get placed on the road to Bedminster so that Donald will have to admire the scenery. The only thing that seems to be missing is that Trump needs to pee in those diapers.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
3. What upsets them more,
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 03:58 AM
Jul 2018

the balloon or the fact that this man helps the homeless? Both are no-no's with tRump supporters. The balloon is GREAT. Full of hot air, just like tRump.

Cha

(305,402 posts)
4. This is an Awesome story, TexasT.. Mahalo for the update!
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 04:04 AM
Jul 2018

I read it about it last week when they had raised their goal of $4,500 bucks and now it's $19,000 more!

Poor Fraud fans

Jimenez-Castro said now, he's shifting his focus back to the balloon to make sure it's available for a coast -to-coast tour by mid-August.

"We're using it for primaries, and timing is everything to winning primaries," he said. "We're back to working as hard as we can."

I only knew Jimenez-Castro last week as "the activist".. and now we learn who he is and how dedicated!

GetRidOfThem

(869 posts)
6. There is good and bad in this story...
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 05:06 AM
Jul 2018

The bad is what they were trying to do to him for getting the blimp organized.

The good is that it shows the blimp is really getting under their skin.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
7. I'm getting more confirmation that dropping FaKebook was the right thing to do
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 05:23 AM
Jul 2018

My "facebook" profile was a bit of an oddity anyhow, since nearly 10 years ago I worked an extended contract in a very "red" area. Facebook was all the rage there, I finally got convinced to join up, and for a fewyears it seemed some harmless fun.
I tended to post environmental activism petitions, equality and gay humor stuff.
I wasn't bothered previously when some of them "de-friended" me, after I mentioned what poor taste their highly racist anti-Obama posts were. Still, most of the left/right banter was largely amiable.
Then Trump got *ahem, cough*... elected.
and ostracized would be the friendly term for my "facebook" status. My postings went from fledgling interest at best previously, to crickets, crickets, crickets, and the left-bashing posts from some people I used to know were overwhelming and astonishing any time I linked in.
I believe the last straw for me, however, between the Facebook commandants constantly demanding I fill out my profile with every detail of where I presently live, work and did, was seeing how between the Trumpers, someone who achieved some stupid contrived "status" on the "Farmville" game garnered 89 "likes", while truly dire consequences of global warming were patently ignored.
I jumped off, de-activated my profile, will not return there and marvel how much more useless the "facebook link" below each DU posting has become.

3Hotdogs

(13,394 posts)
8. Bedminster is in Somerset County --- hot air ballon territory. Wouldn't it be nice.....?
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 07:04 AM
Jul 2018

It is possible that S.S. might declare the baby balloon a hazard if it is flying next to his shitty golf course while he is in residence.

A diapered, orange-assed baby, hot air balloon would be legal and visible to his orangeness.

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