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Sam Horn, author of Take the Bully by the Horns, a book on workplace bullying, pointed out that flouting the norms of decorum is nothing new for Donald Trump: In a 1989 interview with Larry King, he bluntly told the CNN host that his breath was bad, then admitted that throwing people off-guard was a tactic he used to shift the dynamic of power.

This is classic bullying behavior, Horn said. They will do or say anything in order to knock the person off balance in order to get control, she said.

A person going on the offensive solely to protect their ego is exhibiting a hallmark of narcissistic behavior, Spain said. Narcissism is largely about dominance. Its about making yourself feel big and important by making other people feel small and unimportant. In other words, a colleagues feelings or reputation arent collateral damage they were the target in the first place.

The example Trump sets is particularly likely to embolden bad bosses, according to Spain. Because narcissism is largely about dominance, its worst features are shown in hierarchical relationships, he said.

While this is bad news for the people stuck working under egomaniacs, these bosses also reinforce the nice-guys-finish-last ethos embraced by Trump in their own workplaces.

When we see behaviors in our leaders, its permissive, said career coach Brenda Abdilla, who said she has more clients today trying to cope with hostility or belittlement, particularly from bosses. It can encourage more bad behavior over time, she said.

A backlash against political correctness a favorite target of Trumps, both before and after the election also is shaping this dynamic. When the Workplace Bullying Institute surveyed employees on the prevalence of bullying at their jobs, it found that nearly one in 10 believe that other peoples perception of what constitutes bullying behavior is overblown a figure more than double what it was just three years ago.

Namie said this willingness to label others as overly sensitive accelerates a normalization of abusive behavior in the workplace. Thats the attack on civil behavior by calling it political correctness, he said.

Its setting a precedent where it becomes impossible to discipline people for standards of behavior, Horn warned. Companies and leaders arent holding bullies accountable.

But while a mere plea for civility in the office might fall on deaf ears, an appeal to the bottom line is another story. Experts say the best argument for not tolerating tantrums, tirades and takedowns is the negative effect they can have on a companys performance. While companies might tacitly condone boorish or inappropriate behavior in workers who possess key skills or bring in significant revenue, they wont be able to overlook collateral damage these employees inflict on the business.

The time it takes to address those situations takes away from other work to move strategic initiatives forward, said Robert Farmer, a human resources professional and a member of the Society for Human Resource Managements special expertise panel. From there, its going to start to impact productivity and performance, he said.

Obnoxious behavior has a ripple effect, Horn said. We think its only the person involved whos being hurt, but everyone witnessing it is also being affected by this behavior, she said. In families, sometimes theres a problem child and the problem child is often the one who gets all the attention [and] the good kids get ignored.

When good workers become disengaged or leave the company, dealing with the inevitable fallout wastes resources. With more turnover, the cost to train people multiplies, Cohen said. You have to pay a lot more to recruit and train people so they can be productive employees.

Companies need people to work together and share ideas, but employees wont do so if they face things like profanity and personal attacks. It shuts down communication so theyre no longer a team, Abdilla said.

Thats kind of scary, especially in an environment where youre trying to build collaboration, Letizia said. We need fresh innovation in American business. Businesses dont thrive if everyone is held under the thumb of a bully.

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If you enjoy cartoon frogs, New Balance shoes, traditional architecture, or milk, you may just be an alt-right bigot, at least according to some prominent members of the media.

In order to help prevent readers from inadvertently expressing the wrong opinion, The Daily Caller News Foundation has assembled a list of items and activities best avoided if one wishes to remain in the good graces of the media and liberal elites.

The Movie Death Wish

The media slammed director Eli Roths film Death Wish, starring Bruce Willis, as racist and catering to the alt-right in August 2017.

In moving the setting [from New York] to Chicago, a city where gun violence is both well-documented and highly politicized, and setting the trailer to Back in Black, the remake tips its hand: 2017s Death Wish comes off as a work of cowardice and opportunism, authorJoshua Rivera said in GQ,piggybacking off hard-right fear-mongering and a government thats completely and utterly disingenuous in its rhetoric about violent crime when nationwide, crime rates despite rises in cities thanks to mass shootings like the Pulse massacre in Orlando remain historically low.

Alan Zilberman, a writer for The Washington Post and Salon, said alt righters will have an erection because of the apparently fascist nature of the film.

The Term Cosmopolitan

CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta criticized President Donald Trumps immigration proposal at a Wednesday White House briefing, suggesting that the proposal conflicted with the Statue of Libertys claim that America would take your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. In response, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser for Trump, said that Acosta had a cosmopolitan bias.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat of CNN labeled cosmopolitan the loaded word of the week,making similar fascist and communist parallels while calling Miller something of an alt-right whisperer.

Politicolinked cosmopolitan to antisemitism throughout history.

One reason why cosmopolitan is an unnerving term is that it was the key to an attempt by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to purge the culture of dissident voices. In a 1946 speech, he deplored works in which the positive Soviet hero is derided and inferior before all things foreign and cosmopolitanism that we all fought against from the time of Lenin, characteristic of the political leftovers, is many times applauded. It was part of a yearslong [sic]campaigned aimed at writers, theater critics, scientists and others who were connected with bourgeois Western influences. Not so incidentally, many of these cosmopolitans were Jewish, and official Soviet propaganda for a time devoted significant energy into unmasking the Jewish identities of writers who published under pseudonyms.

Pepe the Frog

The unwitting face of the alt-right movement, according to Vox.com, a hate symbol, according to the Anti-Defamation League, and a symbol associated with white supremacy, according to Hillary Clinton, Pepe the Frog is a widely-used meme that the left denounced as bigoted after internet trolls deliberately tied it to extremist positions.

We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc, Twitter user @JaredTSwift toldThe Daily Beastin May 2016. We built that association.(RELATED: Heres How Two Twitter Pranksters Convinced The World That Pepe The Frog Meme Is Just A Front For White Nationalism)

When writer Ian Miles Cheong defended Pepe the Frog in a 2016 Heat Street article, the websites former editor, Louise Mensch,followed up with an article of her own, entitled, Hillary Clinton is absolutely right, Pepe meme is Antisemitic An apology.

WikiLeaks unveiled that Mensch had written an advertisement for Clintons presidential campaign.

Wendys came under fire in January 2017 for tweeting out a mashup of its red-haired mascot and Pepe, with The Verge publishing an article entitled Why Wendys tweeted an anti-Semitic hate symbol dressed as its mascot.The fast-food chain later deleted the tweet and apologized, stating that the employee who tweeted it did not know the meems[sic]new meaning.

OK-Hand Gesture

Fusion journalist Emma Roller slammed the OK-hand gesture as racist in April 2017 after she spotted 2 pro-Trump media figures displaying it at the White House.

(Credit: Twitter/Emma Roller)

Others thathave displayed the sign include former President Barack Obama, comedian Hasan Minhaj, and actor Mr. T. (RELATED: The Shimshock Show Ep. 3: Meet The Newest Racist Hand Gesture [VIDEO])

Milk

Media also ran with headlines tying milk to the alt-right after a viral video from Shia LaBoeufs He Will Not Divide Us protest and alt-right figureheads Richard Spencer and Tim Treadstone added a milk emoji to their Twitter profiles.

The Forward and Metro News ran with headlines Got Nazis? Milk is new symbol of racial purity for white nationalistsand Secret Nazi code kept hidden by milk and vegan agenda.

Traditional Architecture

JournalistAmanda Kolson Hurley conflated the NRA and InfoWars commentator Paul Joseph Watson with the alt-right after the two sources published video criticizingmodern architecture and favoring traditional architecture.

Hurley suggests that elements of the far right are deliberately making architecture a front in the Trump-era culture wars in an editorial entitled Why is the alt-right so angry about architecture?

New Balance Shoes

The Obama administration turned a deaf ear to us and frankly, with President-elect Trump, we feel things are going to move in the right direction,American shoemaker New Balancesaid, referring to Trumps stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a November 2016 interview with The Wall Street Journal.

In response to this remark, people burned their New Balance shoes, trashed them, or attempted to flush them down the toilet.

Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer hailed New Balance as the official shoes of white people, an announcement which led to New Balance feeling compelled to reject hate and bigotry.

New Balance does not tolerate bigotry or hate in any form, the company said in a statement, before proceeding to boast of its employment of individuals with diverse identities.

Investigating McMaster

CNN anchor Jake Tapper associated the alt-right with The Daily Caller and TheDCNF after the latter two outlets published pieces in which former NSC officials alleged that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster opposed Trump on everything.

The alt-right/alt-light attacks on McMaster are joined by former NSC aides slamming him to Daily Caller, said Tapper. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Everything The President Wants To Do, McMaster Opposes, Former NSC Officials Say)

Breitbart had previously published articles detailing reports alleging that McMaster had become increasingly volatileand that the adviser was deeply hostile to Israel and Trump. Blogger Mike Cernovich also shared a cartoon depicting a hand labeled Rothschild controlling a puppet George Soros, which in turn controlled McMaster. The Anti-Defamation League described the cartoon as blatantly anti-Semitic.

You, the reader, now have 30 seconds to delete your offending tweets, disavow, and swear fealty to the almighty MSM before you end up the nextHanA**holeSolo. (RELATED: Extremely Unethical CNN Draws Backlash After Threatening To ID Reddit User Behind Trumps WWE Video)

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Fidget Spinner Simulator, an absurd $1 Steam game that lets you virtually experience the joys of fidget spinners, has added a new piece of DLC that is 30 times more expensive than the game itself.

The "Premium Member DLC," as it's called unlocks the "Premium Member" achievement and gives you a "Premium Gold Plated" fidget spinner and a gold plated vape pen. Here's what those items look like in the game (via NeoGAF):

In the comments of the DLC announcement post, a developer responded to criticism of the content, saying, "Why? It's easy not to buy the DLC right? Nobody is forcing anybody." A emoticon of President Donald Trump's face was attached to the comment.

The Premium Member DLC is listed at $30 after a price drop from $50. In announcing the DLC, the developer said, "Ayyyy lmao," with a pepe the frog emoticon.

In Fidget Spinner Simulator, you use the arrow keys or W A S D to move around on a hoverboard. Pressing the Space bar activates/deactivates the fidget spinner.

Fidget Spinner Simulator was released at the end of July. It has a "Mostly Positive" critical reception on Steam after more than 240 reviews. For more, head to the game's Steam page here.

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Photo: L to R, the "Egyptian Jon Stewart" Bassem Yousseff and "The Daily Show's" part-Mexican Al Madrigal took part in the "Is It Funny or Offensive? Presents: Humor, Satire & Speech in the Age of Trump | Ed Rampell

PASADENA, Calif.Featuring heavy hitters from the realms of cable news and punditry, Politiconwhich is to politics what Comic-Con is to superheroes and comic bookstook place July 29-30 at the Pasadena Convention Center. This politi-palooza attracted prominent speakers, performers and audiences from across the liberal and conservative ends of the spectrum. Highlights of the chattering classes chitchat at Politicon included:

Po-Crazy

One panel I attended at Independence Hall was entitled Trump: Genius or Lunatic? Sally Kohn, an openly gay, reliably lefty commentator who has opinionated on Fox News and CNN, moderated the discussion with pro- and anti-Trump participants. Referring to the president and his, uh, state of mind, Kohn set the stage for the weekend talkfest by paraphrasing the old Gershwin Bros. song Lets Call the Whole Thing Off, quipping: You say potato, I say po-crazy.

Coulter interrupta

Next up at Independence Hall was the Censorship on Campus panel, featuring author and professional provocateur Ann Helter Skelter Coulter. As soon as the venomous Frulein was introduced, two activists costumed as brownshirts with swastika armbands disrupted the panel to Heil our Hitler! giving their furious Fhrer the stiff-armed fascist salute. To the consternation of what appeared to be a majority of the crowd composed of Coulter acolytes, who started shouting USA! USA! and to the amusement of others, the ersatz Nazis shut the shrewish loudmouth up for about five minutes before they were peaceably ejected by security.

But as soon as Coulter started spewing her hate speech, Refuse Fascism leftists (presumably linked to the Revolutionary Communist Party) unfurled an anti-Trump red banner and shouted her down. After another five-minute pause that aggravated the righties in the audience, the two Reds were led out. As the saying goes, The show must go on.

Coulter boohooed about how her right to freedom of speech was short-circuited at Berkeley by far-left militants. This was rich coming from someone whos made a career out of denouncing oppressed minorities for complaining about their victimhoodyou know, little things like poverty, racism and other societal injustices Coulter has never had to confront. Now that she is being held accountable for her outrageous comments, Coulters playing the victim card herself. Poor little orphan Annie!

Fellow panelists, comedian Greg Proops and weblogger Xeni Jardin, begged to differ with Coulter. Jardin inconveniently reminded the rightwing ranter and raver that speakers are responsible for what they publicly say. Coulter pretending to be a First Amendment champion is rather hilarious, considering how she slimed anti-Iraq War notables as unpatriotichey, Annie-get-your-gun, where are them thar WMDs anyway?and she wrote Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, lauding one of the most tyrannical U.S. politicians and tramplers of free speech rights of all time, Sen. Joe McCarthy, who to Coulter was just a poor misunderstood little boy.

Of course, now that its a rightwinger being charged with conspiring with Russia, Coulter doesnt have much to say about the Trump camps alleged Kremlin cavorting and colluding: But when that shoe was on the left foot during the 1940s/1950s, it was them gosh darn treasonous liberals! Coulter and her campus censorship panel also had nothing to say about infringement of First Amendment rights for critics of Israeli government and military policies and restrictions of the rights of professors, students, guest speakers, etc., who support Palestinians and the BDS movement. Wheres your outrage, Ann?

At the end, Coulter was treated like a rock star by her fans as she dispensed autographs amidst Nuremberg-like adulation; but not everybody was buying it (or her books) or belonged to the Hitler-Jugend. Elizabeth Ortiz, journalism student at California State University, Long Beach, expressed anger at Coulters typically elitist, disparaging remarks about community college students.

Like a rolling Roger Stoned

Day Two of Politicon was also well attended, despite the fact that now-you-see-him-now-you-dont Trump mouthpiece The Mooch was, mysteriously, a no-show for his scheduled Anthony Scaramucci Splains appearance. (The Mooch has some splaining to do about his disappearance, but I guess loyal Donald told him Scooch, Mooch! and the pooch hit the road.) However, another professional Donald Kool-Aid drinker (apparently accompanied by bodyguards) was in the house for a talk titled Roger Stone Holds Court. Former MSNBC host/author Tour tepidly interviewed Trump trickster extraordinaire Stone, who jokingly compared the outgoing Mooch to comedian Andrew Dice Clay, interestingly, two fallen figures whom Stone seems drawn to.

The oppo research meister cut his political teeth working on Tricky Dicks Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). Stoner showed himself as a profane jumble of contradictions: He supports marijuana legalization, opposes Americans [being] surveilled for strictly political reasons, and ballyhoos Nixon as a great peacemaker and bastion of progressivism. Perhaps Stone was too stoned from imbibing all that wacky tobacky to remember Nixons mass murder of millions in Indochina and Chile?

In any case, in a similar fact-denying way, spinning like an out-of-control dreydl at Hanukkah, Stone, the apprentices apologist, praised his pal Donald. A young female Muslim questioner would have none of it, confronting Stone about Trumps Islamophobia. A short-haired young man immaculately groomed in a suit and tie (was he en route to a funeral?) expressed admiration for Stones sartorial splendor and viewpoints but asked him to please refrain from using obscenities. Not without a sense of humor, Stone wryly replied, Ill take that under advisement.

Its ironic that Stone, who wrote the book The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, is such a big Nixon booster. Stone is probably praying that when his buddy Trump makes his anticipated departure from the White House before the end of his term, hell do so the way Milhous didinstead of how JFK did. Roger that!

Young Turks vs. Young Jerks

In a spirited debate attended by hundreds, The Young Turks Cenk Uygur debated reactionary provocateur Ben Shapiro in the capacious Civic Auditorium. Their respective supporters enthusiastically booed and applauded their respective champions, but nobody in the house came to blows. Closing out the tte-tte, the lack of violence amongst a crowd with strongly differing opinions prompted moderator Steven Olikara, founder of the nonpartisan Millennial Action Project, to comment, Thats what Politicon is all about. And in referring to the fervor expressed by those leaning left and right for Uygur and Shapiro, Olikara added, Now we know who the 2020 candidates should be (assuming, of course, that the Republic survives long enough for another rigged presidential election).

Something for everyone: C Comedy Two Nights!

Following the debate the Civic Auditorium was the site of Politicons grand finale, Sunday Night Comedy, featuring part-Mexican, former Daily Show correspondent Al Madrigal (currently co-starring in Showtimes Im Dying Up Here) and two current Daily Show correspondents, feminist Michelle Wolf and Roy Wood Jr., plus lefty Greg Proops, performing political standup that, among other things, excoriated El Presidente. Pro-GOP comic Adam Yenser, a writer for NBCs The Ellen DeGeneres Show, also delivered a funny set.

Politicon had a heady dose of comedy, ranging from the right to the left ends of the laugh-o-meter spectrum. In addition to performances there were also comedy-oriented panels, including Sundays GOP-tilting Conservatively Unplugged! Presents Right Wing Comedy in These Trumptastic Times in Equality Hall. Panelists included comic Evan Sayet (who wrote for Bill Maher until he saw the right), Al-Sonja Rice-Schmidt, Eric Golub and Yenser, a Republican who was not a Trump supporter and stressed that when it comes to comedy, humor should trump ideology.

This panel was moderated by Judd Dunning, co-host of Conservatively Unplugged! a new righty weekly political entertainment news program that was screened prior to the Saturday Night Comedy program headlining Trae Crowder, the Liberal Redneck. I watched the 20-minute Conservatively Unplugged! video and found this wannabe righty counterpart to programs such as The Daily Show to be pretty droll. In it, Dunning comes across like a dunce and to tell the truth, I actually thought Conservatively Unplugged! was spoofing Republican-leaning comics. The following day, when Dunning moderated the Right Wing Comedy in These Trumptastic Times he actually called comedian Louis C.K. C.K. Louis, so maybe Dunning not only plays a doofus on TV but really is one offscreen, too.

Also on Sunday the Egyptian Jon Stewart, Bassem Yousseff, Madrigal and other comics took part in the Is It Funny or Offensive? Presents: Humor, Satire & Speech in the Age of Trump, moderated by Norman Golightly, CEO and Founder of https://isitfunnyoroffensive.com/ at Liberty Hall. (For my similarly themed feature in the Progressive, which includes original comments by Yousseff, Trae Crowder, Stephanie Miller, Dean Obeidallah, etc., go to: http://progressive.org/magazine/follow-the-funny/.)

Chelsea handles the Prez

On Saturday Chelsea Handler merrily made mincemeat of The Donald in a hilarious interview with Jake Tapper at Democracy Village. The CNN reporter asked her about humor being less balanced since the Jay Leno era of late night comedy. The Netflix talk show host forthrightly replied: Now if you dont speak up youre going to regret it later. We have to be held responsible. Trump scares the shit out of me. Im authentic [If Im considered] divisive I dont care. Im more informed and responsibleI have the Trump family to thank.

As for Trumps tweets against transgender people being allowed to serve in the military, Handler snapped, Please shut the fuck up. Take more Viagra. When Tapper avowed that he didnt take Viagra jokes personally, Handler quipped, You will, adding: Trump should worry more about transfats than transgender. Hes unstable, he has late stage syphilis. Handler proceeded to list symptoms of the venereal disease she attributed to Trump, claiming, Im an M.D. so I know. When Tapper reminded Handler that shed admitted to never completing college she laughed off being caught in her white lie (and could there be any other kind when referring to the white-supremacist-in-chief?). Chelsea also advocated in favor of allowing Syrian refugees into America, even offering to let them stay at her housealthough humorously admitting shed move out if they did.

The Presidents Show of Shows

For me, the highlight of Politicon was Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik of Comedy Centrals The President Show, wherein The 45th and final president did an hour-long riff bluer than Lenny Bruce or George Carlin on Trump, Bannon, Mooch, Priebus, et al, culminating with him being interviewed by Bassem Yousseff. The in-costume Atamanuiks impersonation of The Donald gives Alec Baldwin a run for his SNL money. Indeed, Atamanuiks wickedly insightful lampooning and harpooning of the great white whale of comedy is reminiscent of Charlie Chaplins spoofing of Hitler in the 1940 satirical masterpiece The Great Dictator and also of Hawaii comedian Frank De Limas mocking of Imelda Marcos in full drag during his Waikiki nightclub act after the Filipino tyrants fled to Oahu.

In person, Atamanuiks no holds barred sarcasm is more risqu than on his Comedy Central Thursday night laugh riot. At the Civic Auditorium, dressed as Trump, he daringly joked about The Donald trying to finger my daughter (Ivanka, not Tiffany), then turning to the audience, dementedly saying, Im not sick, right? Im the guy with the nuke codes. Me! Can you believe it? At one point Atamanuiks character falls into a sort of trance, wherein he lays out a very, clear concise, sophisticated analysis of contemporary capitalism setting the stage for Trumps rise. Then he snapped out of his momentary lapse into lucidity and seriousness and in a Q&A with Yousseff, under the Egyptians questioning, Trump reached the conclusion Im a secret Muslim!

A splendid time was had by all

Politicons panoply of politics for news junkies featured much more during its Pasadena weekend. Many others notables participated, including Daily Show writer Lizz Winstead, America Ugly Betty Ferrera, Grace Parrara of Larry Wilmores Comedy Central The Nightly Show, actor/director Rob Reiner, MSNBCs Joy Reid, etc. There was a cavernous exhibition hall with booths sponsored by ACLU, Muslims for Progressive Values (supported by Pakistani-American comedienne Mona Shaikh), MSNBC, Young Americans for Freedom, medicinal marijuana, etc.

If I have one complaint about Politicon its that in future, the gathering should also include panels, speakers and booths of the farther left to present a socialist perspective and alternative to liberalism and the Democratic Party. After all, libertarians, who are to the right of the Republican Party, participatedso why not Marxists, anarchists, Antifas and others on the left?

Despite the presence of thousands of liberal and conservative activists, while interactions were passionate, Politicon remained civil, with peaceful coexistence prevailing. Living in Los Angeles, I never saw so many Trump supporters, although the left-leaners may have outnumbered the righties. Yet, in the spirit of free speech and democracy, comity and tolerance won the day, bridging the partisan divide by allowing freedom of expression for all. Perhaps Politicon is a model for our divided nation.

Because while you may say potato and I say potahto, hearing all viewpoints in the free marketplace of ideas is a quintessentially American ideal. And if one side deprives the other sides freedom of speech, we may find, in the Gershwins words:

But oh, if we call the whole thing off Then we must part And oh, if we ever part Then that might break my heart.

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