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Can woke actually be going broke?
Justice Democrats, a progressive group founded in 2017 following the failed presidential run of socialist Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, in mid-July let go 9 of its 20 staffers, Politico reported. The group works to help elect far-left candidates and is largely credited with helping create the “Squad” of House lawmakers that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
It’s not just the Justice Dems.
The Sunrise Movement, a climate action group closely aligned with Justice Democrats that was influential in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, began laying off 35% of its 100-person staff in April 2022.
Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club, pillars of the center-left infrastructure, have laid off significant percentages of their staffs this year.
The Planned Parenthood layoffs of 14% of its staff infuriated a major leftist union.
“At a time when abortion rights are being curtailed across the country and Planned Parenthood’s advocacy and community-based healthcare services are more important than ever, PPFA should not be letting go staff members whose contributions have been crucial to the movement,” said Veronica Turner, Senior Executive Vice President at 1199SEIU. “These are leaders and activists and who are facing their own financial and health challenges, and we condemn PPFA’s lack of collaboration with its employees and their unions in navigating a major restructuring. We call on PPFA to urgently reassess these damaging layoffs.”
The Sierra Club claimed that there was a $40 million shortfall and got into its own union fight. Hilariously, Sierra laid off its ‘equity’ department.
PWU found out this week that layoff notices were sent to a major part of @SierraClub ‘s Human Resources Investigations Team and the entire Equity Department. These teams were undergoing review of many internal investigations of toxic behavior.
That probably refers to the rape allegation involving a top Sierra figure.
But enough internal lefty drama. The lefty media blames declining revenues and there’s probably something to that. In a tight economy, there’s less money and more cutbacks, not just for big companies, but also for the lefty groups being subsidized by them. And, like Amazon and Google, lefty organizations spent too much money and became too ambitious during the Trump years. Without Trump, they have less fundraising power.
Additionally, lefties tend to sour of their shtick a lot sooner. The exciting gimmick from 5 years ago no longer plays in the Bay Area or Manhattan. Equity people are getting fired, abortion isn’t as exciting, drag shows are where it’s at now. Put away your BLM shirts and get out your ‘Don’t Ban Graphic Pornography in Kindergarten’ shirts.
Welcome to the right side of history.
Well, that’s some good news, for a change.
The Sierra Club used to be an environmentalist group, then someone put in a bunch of moola and they switched from opposing immigration on environmental grounds to supporting it. Opening the floodgates in California.
It has been that way for quite a while. In the mid-1990s my son was a college student member of the Sierra Club and was sent to a summer training camp in Vermont. He came back completely disillusioned finding out that the organization was little more than a Dem Party affiliate that would support bad on environment Dems over good on environment Reps.
“Save the whales and spotted owls!” While the Swedes and Japs are busy killing whales and it’s illegal for Americans to do that, and spotted owls don’t even exist.
The Sierra Club is a sad joke. Illegal aliens do massive damage to the environment the Sierra dorks pretend to care about.
Destroying the United States is more important than the environment. The preservation of the environment is a useful tool to get idiots to accept the destruction being done to Americans. The environment is actually being destroyed by climate loonies.
As long as George and Alexander Soros remain active socialist philanthropists and Republic spoilers (or, more importantly, their bank accounts do), the left will never run out of money. Evil always has a backer.
There’s a whole bunch of lefty billionaires, millionaires corporations. Not to mention hijacked foundations.
And the left has been going through a lot of money m
As long as there are lefty tech billionaires (and there are a lot of them), the left will not run out of cash. It sounds more like a pre-election house cleaning than a signal that the groups are floundering.
I sure hope that Karl Marx is feeling the intense heat in that Lake of Fire with Hitler, Stalin Castro and Mao
No worries, George Soros will soon swoop in and rescue these organizations.
My thoughts exactly. Look also for the Ford Foundation, and The Tides Foundation to step in and bankroll these Marxists.
I would speculate, that it is possible that the leftist moola bubble has burst. When leftist bazillionaires were handing out lots of moola, lots of grifters hopped on the leftist gravy train. Maybe it has reached saturation point, and the bazillionaires have decided to cut back on the flow of moola.
Yes, pockets are only so deep and people get sick of wasting their money.
Not Soros, though. That guy is a demon.
Yeah, he’s trying to win as many demon points as he can, before the Grim Reaper catches up with him.
He’s earned a butt-load, that’s for sure. If Hell truly exists (I fear it very much,) that’s where he’s bound.
Even Lefty Billionaires demand a certain amount of “bang” for their “buck”. It’s not like they are supporting causes out of altruism, they need to turn a profit or cut losses and change tactics.
SEIU – Corruption and Progressives working hand in hand.