Poor Google. They just could not understand how on earth Donald Trump got elected in 2016. And company morale was so bad after the election that they actually devoted an entire all-hands meeting to mourn and lament – the video of which has now been leaked to Breitbart News, who posted it in full.

The bottom line is that Google just can’t even with all the “low-information voters” out there who simply didn’t follow what Google was trying to get them to do.

The video of Google’s all-hands staff meeting following the election, which was provided anonymously to right-wing news site Breitbart News, shows executives including co-founder Sergey Brin comparing Trump voters to “extremists” and authoritarian movements.

In the hour of video footage, Brin is shown saying he is “deeply offend[ed]” by Trump’s election due to his status as an immigrant, and added that Trump’s politics conflict “with many of [Google’s] values.”

“Most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad,” Brin says near the beginning of the meeting.

Google’s senior VP for global affairs Kent Walker went on to characterize Trump voters as governed by “fear,” which he said was “fueling concerns, xenophobia, hatred, and a desire for answers that may or may not be there.”

Asked later on in the video whether any of the executives saw a positive benefit from Trump’s election, the group laughed before Brin responded: “Boy, that’s a really tough one right now.”

This does not paint Google in a flattering light at all.

It’s not just that the Google execs in the video are sad/angry about the election results – they begin to brainstorm ideas to leverage their platform to stop it from happening again https://t.co/GOLC6FSXvi

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 12, 2018

#googletape pic.twitter.com/UIoSWDOHGv

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 12, 2018

#googletape pic.twitter.com/uc8WbvBaEs

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 12, 2018

Short version: Sergey Brin is upset so many voters were Trump-voting bigots. pic.twitter.com/oP5LpJQ9Mb

— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) September 13, 2018

And though you might have issues with Breitbart News as the source, Google’s statement confirms that 1) the video is legitimate, and 2) they don’t see the problem with it.

Here’s Google’s statement on that video Breitbart got its hands on pic.twitter.com/Sw5TTukJYw

— John Paczkowski (@JohnPaczkowski) September 12, 2018

The complete statement reads as follows:

At a regularly scheduled all hands meeting, some Google employees and executives expressed their own personal views in the aftermath of a long and divisive election season. For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings. Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products. To the contrary, our products are built for everyone, and we design them with extraordinary care to be a trustworthy source of information for everyone, without regard to political viewpoint.

Paging James Damore – Mr. Damore, please call your lawyer immediately.

Good news man, @jamesadamore, Google clarified that you WERE IN FACT able to "freely express [your] opinions."

It says it right here in this memo. All this time we thought you were fired for wrongthink. https://t.co/8OK12R5MZU

— Brett MacDonald (@TweetBrettMac) September 12, 2018

Yeah James Damore was able to freely express his feelings wasn't he google? Such a lie…. https://t.co/BSOQv93ZQS

— Wilson (@ctbaz) September 12, 2018

Imagine having any conservative Views and trying to work at this place. Ask James Damore. #GOOGLETAPE https://t.co/iWz28Ow6sQ

— family man (@jtreehouses) September 13, 2018

This was Google's response. Yesterday i pointed out how callous it was in light of the James Damore situation proving Google's statement to be effectively hogwash. pic.twitter.com/RLDNHY5dis

— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) September 13, 2018

I mean, really, Google??

Google says, "Political bias doesn't influence the way we operate."

Isn't that the same thing Peter Strzok said? https://t.co/q2rRr0IFgX

— EJ Weeks (@earl_weeks) September 12, 2018

I can think of several gun hobby YouTube channels that would like a word, as well.
https://twitter.com/Kansei13Kansei/status/1039985788782620672

Shorter Google: "Who are you going to believe about over-the-top bias problems, us or your lying eyes and ears that heard all about it in extraordinary detail for a solid hour?" https://t.co/Rxn5quqpvg

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 12, 2018

And we come back to the crux of the problem. Google believes that they represent “diversity” and have a duty to engineer their platform to guide those minds who would turn to them for information. However, they are about as diverse as the person who buys 12 different colors of the same shirt and calls it a complete wardrobe. Google is full of groupthink, and any wrongthink will be punished. After all, can you imagine an all-hands meeting at Google lamenting the election loss of Mitt Romney in 2012? Of course not!

After all, the public are just the dummies who need to be taught better, in the mind of the corporate lock-step at Google.

And just for fun, here is a parting shot:

Do all @google meetings look like bad Star Trek parodies?
In every episode if your uniform was “red” you were sure to be killed if you were on the “away team” but those wearing blue and gold were always safe. Coincidence? @benshapiro @EricRWeinstein @notaxation @RubinReport pic.twitter.com/630dUlcJgl

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) September 13, 2018

It just might explain so much about how Google thinks about itself!

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