{"id":180462,"date":"2017-04-13T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/13\/this-is-brilliant-2\/"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:50:00","slug":"this-is-brilliant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/13\/this-is-brilliant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <i>Pando<\/i>, they have a <a href=\"https:\/\/pando.com\/2017\/04\/12\/rachel-whetstone-leaves-uber-because-lack-appetite-drama-lol\/6bea86510c99e9d2e4469da1a89b47fea9efcfba\/\">positively brilliant take-down of Rachel Whetstone&#8217;s exit from Uber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short form is that the senior vice-president of communications and public policy for Uber is a rat, and knows when a ship is sinking, and this is brilliantly brutal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Okey dokey. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/pando.com\/2015\/05\/17\/ubers-bright-young-flacks\/\">regular Pando readers will know<\/a>, the idea that Whetstone would leave Uber to avoid drama is so far beyond laughable that it has travelled the entire circumference of the globe and returned back to laughable again. Rachel Whetstone started out in Westminster &#8212; where she and her husband Steve \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/steve-hilton-backs-donald-trump-over-hillary-clinton-for-us-president_uk_5819d2e0e4b0e43b59acd2f3\">I support Donald Trump<\/a>\u201d Hilton helped reinvent the UK\u2019s \u201cnasty\u201d conservative party as the friendly, lovable, electable party that regained power and brought the world\u2026 Brexit. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Having left London, for a variety of dramatic reasons, she then headed to Google where she is most famous for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/mar\/30\/google-news-corp-gif-rupert-murdoch-wall-street-journal\">picking <\/a>a very public and highly dramatic fight with (her old pal) Rupert Murdoch. Finally she ended up at Uber where she immediately began bringing even more drama to the already dramatic company, starting with the infamous dinner at which Emil Michael pledged to spend a million dramatic dollars dramatically smearing Pando\u2019s own Sarah Lacy.   <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Simply put, Rachel Whetstone hates drama like David Mamet hates drama, like Shakespeare hates drama, like Ru Paul performing Tom Stoppard at Devin Nunes High School For Thirteen-Year-Old Girls hates drama.  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">No, Rachel Whetstone didn\u2019t leave Uber because she hates drama. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">For Rachel Whetstone to leave Uber there can only be one reason: Uber is totally, irreversibly f%$#ed. So irreversibly f%$#ed that anyone left behind when the other shoe drops will be so irreparably damaged by association that <b>THE PERSON WHO MADE THE TORIES ELECTABLE AGAIN<\/b> doesn\u2019t want the karma.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Paul Bradley Carr owes me a screen wipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Pando, they have a positively brilliant take-down of Rachel Whetstone&#8217;s exit from Uber. The short form is that the senior vice-president of communications and public policy for Uber is a rat, and knows when a ship is sinking, and this is brilliantly brutal: Okey dokey. As regular Pando readers will know, the idea &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":[464,654,486,471],"class_list":["post-180462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-propaganda","tag-schadenfreude","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180462"}],"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=180462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}