{"id":179724,"date":"2017-11-14T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/14\/crowdfunding-site-launched-for-woman-who-gave-trump-the-finger-fortune\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:15:00","slug":"crowdfunding-site-launched-for-woman-who-gave-trump-the-finger-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/14\/crowdfunding-site-launched-for-woman-who-gave-trump-the-finger-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdfunding Site Launched for Woman Who Gave Trump the Finger | Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wiGv6NX.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wiGv6NX.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Remember how I wrote about Julie Briskman, who was bicycling and was passed by Donald Trump&#8217;s motorcade, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen.html\">gave him the bird<\/a>?<br \/>I noted that she had been fired by Akima, a government contractor.just <\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/11\/14\/juli-briskman-gofundme\/\">she crowded-funded <s>over $50,000<\/s> <s>$75,000<\/s> $96,355 and got a job offer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Juli Briskman was fired when the picture of her flipping off the presidential motorcade went viral. But she\u2019s doing just fine these days. <\/p>\n<p>After word spread that her employer, government contractor Akima LLC, had terminated her, supporters quickly rallied and set up a fund-raising campaign in her name. To date, she has received pledges for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/thank-you-juli-briskman\">nearly $75,000 in donations<\/a> from people she has never met (and likely never will). <\/p>\n<p>Over 3,000 donations, ranging from $5 to $250 have rolled in over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Briskman hasn\u2019t yet announced a new job, but \u2014 rather predictably \u2014 she does have at least one offer. Porn company xHamster put an open offer on Twitter for her to join their marketing and social media team, following the long tradition of adult entertainment companies trying to catch a ride on pop culture events. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am very amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how I wrote about Julie Briskman, who was bicycling and was passed by Donald Trump&#8217;s motorcade, and gave him the bird?I noted that she had been fired by Akima, a government contractor.just Well, she crowded-funded over $50,000 $75,000 $96,355 and got a job offer: Juli Briskman was fired when the picture of her flipping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,450,418,374],"class_list":["post-179724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-employment","tag-photographs","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}