Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

[Norvic]

Does anyone have a source on where Brianna claimed to attend Bush's inaugural ball, or an inaugural ball?

Google is your friend.

As a side note, you can make a decent estimate of her revenue on the iOS version of R60 from that article. About 90K dollars, pre-tax. A single developer who'd been working for a year wouldn't be displeased with that amount, but a small team for 3 years, that's a huge loss. Plus, even if you're going to write off the amount of money Frank chucked at the game, she's eaten all the phony profits by taking a year and half to port the fucking thing to PC.

LOL.

 

[Luminous Being]

That just reminds me, if you attended College/University for that long and in the end didnt graduate, would you list the University you sometimes admit to not graduating from on your linkedin page? Especially if you say you enrolled for Journalism and Political Science but then work in the software industry?

The education you may have received over those ten years is at that point a) probably gone anyways, b) not relevant to what say you've been applying all your focus to (game development) and is c) not easily verifiable because you don't allow them to send out records anyways. To me it doesn't really make sense to include other than having the name of a reputable University on your profile.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

John isn't looking for work though, so I don't think he cares.
It's just to stroke his ego.
He is fine living off of Frank's money.

 

[Solzhenitsyn]

Pardon me if it's already been discussed (can't go through 1000 pages, alas) but is Wu ever off Twitter? From what I've seen of his Tweets, they seem to be posted at every random time you can think of. Does he travel a lot or does he just not sleep?

 

[the Borg]

is Wu ever off Twitter?

No.
He tweets on planes
He tweets as a judge for a competition
He tweets when giving talks
He's that bird outside your window that starts tweeting at 3am and doesn't stop until he crashes into slumber at 1am.
You know that he's pretending to work when he doesnt post a tweet within 15 minutes of the last one. Really, he's playing a game or eating something, which he will tweet about after.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

No.
He tweets on planes
He tweets as a judge for a competition
He tweets when giving talks
He's that bird outside your window that starts tweeting at 3am and doesn't stop until he crashes into slumber at 1am.
You know that he's pretending to work when he doesnt post a tweet within 15 minutes of the last one. Really, he's playing a game or eating something, which he will tweet about after.

Apart from that you can argue that Wu's entire 'career' is based on Twitter. Twitter is where she makes the most ruckus and where the most people listen to her lies.

I guess if her Twitter account would be banned, she would probably just implode or wither and die in a matter of seconds, like that nazi from Last Crusade. The only other things where she steps into the light are the talks and panels she is invited to, and everyone who has half a brain - no matter if you have any knowledge of the topic or not - instantly senses something odd about those and Wu. I would also argue, that without all her Twitter followers believing her harassment claims, she wouldn't even have spoken at a children's halloween party.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

By the way, have people seen these weird little video snippets?

Holy shit her opening anecdote is so fucking bizarre and so fucking telling (and also probably didn't happen, but let's say it did). Instead of chastising people for being retarded and looking at their phones while on vacation in a historical city, John thinks that this is the sign of the "digital frontier". Yes, great work, John, all of humanity's achievements prior are shit and mere foundation for the pinnacle of creative media known as REVOLUTION 60 (availbility: never) because Montesquieu didn't have access to an iPhone so fuck that faggot.

 

[AnOminous]

Hmmm... An Unreal Engine expert... Now where could we find one of those... Oh! I know! In this talk:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pUVhF3jDG08

What a bug-eyed lunatic. How can anyone even pretend to take this weirdo seriously?

 

[Smutley]

It doesn't actually list a degree though - it's clear what she's doing, implying that she went to school and graduated in these fields, but I'm sure she's just going to point out that she never actually claimed a degree.

My memory is getting faulty these days - I know there have been some op/ed pieces from here where she dances around it. The only place that I can currently find that specifically states she got a degree was her wikipedia page.

The language is still squirrelly because it could be read that she returned to finish her degree, never did, and then became a journalist. But since she and Frank and a friend wrote the whole thing, they knew what they were doing.

 

[Jaimas]

Does anyone have a source on where Brianna claimed to attend Bush's inaugural ball, or an inaugural ball?

Minor point, but there is no one "inaugural ball" that fancy or connected people get to go to. After a presidential election, there are literally hundreds of inaugural balls across DC -- it's just an excuse to have a party.

There are "official" inaugural balls, but that just means the president ducks his head in for a few minutes and then moves on. There were eight official balls for Bush's first inauguration and nine for his second.

So best case scenario, she went to one of eight or nine events that were probably $100 per ticket; worst case, she pretty much just went to a regular party.

Wu's claims of being invited to the Bush inaugural ball via her parents come from multiple statements she's made herself. She originally had them on her Wikipedia article, but took them down. They are, however, still embedded in her interviews on Inc.Com:

"At Ole Miss, Wu studied journalism and wrote for The Daily Mississippian, but she never graduated. She left school the first time to start her own video animation company, came back, and dropped out for good in 2001 after getting swept up in the excitement surrounding George W. Bush's election as president. Her parents were big donors, and they got her a ticket to an inaugural ball. That led to a stint working in Washington--long enough to become disillusioned with Republican politics as well as dangerously dependent on Ambien, a sleep aid. Her parents, in a final act of support, brought her home to Hattiesburg and paid for a bed at Pine Grove, where Tiger Woods would later be treated for sex addiction."

The Inc article is the only article that:
A) Establishes that Wu never graduated from Ole Miss (instead suggesting she graduated from Millsaps)
B) That Wu got into RNC politics via her parents.

This is backed up by the John Flynt Resume and Socially Unconscious Productions debacles.

Interestingly, the Resume also establishes the many courses Wu failed at and then claimed she had qualifications in anyway. Wu tends to aggrandize, but I don't think any of us realized to what degree until recently. We knew she lied about being in Laugh Factory in her resume, as well as having multiple animation patents related to Socially Unconscious.

Special thanks to @Optimus Prime, @Smutley, and @Francis York Morgan for these particular revelations. @AnOminous as well.

With this in mind, I'd really like a Kiwi with RNC connections to question any staffers with Lott's former office or interns/GOTV people/letter-stuffers/call-center friends in Mississippi if they had any encounters with our favorite tranny. I can virtually guarantee that her claims here are at least embellished, if not outright lied about.

IDLE NOTE: I just realized, I called Wu not having any engineering credentials almost a year before we knew it for certain. I didn't even expect that to be a legit thing, I took a shot in the dark. Color me surprised.

 

[Count groudon]

I've commented on it before, it's just her MO. She seems to think that lying by implication is basically OK in a way that just flat out telling the lie isn't. Perhaps as if she could plausibly deny claiming to have a degree because it's totally unreasonable to take her statements at face value or something.

By the way, have people seen these weird little video snippets?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4TIScNqAWN8
There's a whole series of them. I've never noticed before, but she's got a big scar up at her hairline. I guess from cosmetic surgery, and her hair has since receded enough to uncover it. Also, brush your fucking hair before you go on camera, jeez.

I swear to god she has to have autism or something. She almost never stared at the camera, and when she did it was a horrifying wide-eyed, gaping-mouthed stare. She seems generally uncomfortable with social interaction, which is unfortunate when you're a massive attention whore.

 

[AnOminous]

Interestingly, the Resume also establishes the many courses Wu failed at and then claimed she had qualifications in anyway. Wu tends to aggrandize, but I don't think any of us realized to what degree until recently. We knew she lied about being in Laugh Factory in her resume, as well as having multiple animation patents related to Socially Unconscious.

It's a fairly safe guess that pretty much anything Wu says is unlikely to be true.

 

[Jaimas]

I swear to god she has to have autism or something. She almost never stared at the camera, and when she did it was a horrifying wide-eyed, gaping-mouthed stare. She seems generally uncomfortable with social interaction, which is unfortunate when you're a massive attention whore.

Wu is a sociopath, not an Autist. She does not understand how normal human interaction works.

 

[Quasar]

Pardon me if it's already been discussed (can't go through 1000 pages, alas) but is Wu ever off Twitter? From what I've seen of his Tweets, they seem to be posted at every random time you can think of. Does he travel a lot or does he just not sleep?

I'm not sure how far back it was in the other thread, but I recall someone fairly recently posting some graphs showing Wu's tweeting habits. Broken down by day of week, and IIRC by hour of day too...

 

[DragoonSierra]

Some states in the US require software-engineers that want to use the title to become licensed. Mississippi is, sadly, not one of them. However, after searching around a bit it seems that it is generally frowned upon by the community to call yourself a software-engineer when you don't have enough experience or the eduction to substantiate using the title.

Skirting around the issue like Wu does is not taking away the fact that it's kind of dishonest.

Wouldnt that be regulated by the state shes currently living in? Like the state she lives in when she made the claim?

No.
He tweets on planes
He tweets as a judge for a competition
He tweets when giving talks
He's that bird outside your window that starts tweeting at 3am and doesn't stop until he crashes into slumber at 1am.
You know that he's pretending to work when he doesnt post a tweet within 15 minutes of the last one. Really, he's playing a game or eating something, which he will tweet about after.

What does Frank get out of this relationship? Is it to say his wife is someone special and is a celebrity?

 

[AnOminous]

Wu is a sociopath, not an Autist. She does not understand how normal human interaction works.

Wu isn't a very successful sociopath, as Wu does not pass as normal at all. I don't mean appearance-wise, either. There's just something off in all Wu's interactions.

 

[Byr]

If you look at her entrepreneurwiki page, there is the following quote, "Brianna completed undergraduate school and received a degree in Investigative Journalism".

http://entrepreneurwiki.com/Brianna_Wu


As for the RNC connection, someone in the last thread claimed to have asked sources in the RNC, resulting in no record of her doing anything. This seems like it would be almost impossible to prove definitively though. There are lots of jobs and volunteer positions she could have had, so proving she never had any connections is tough, but whatever they were, Wu is certain to have inflated their importance.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

If you look at her entrepreneurwiki page, there is the following quote, "Brianna completed undergraduate school and received a degree in Investigative Journalism".

http://entrepreneurwiki.com/Brianna_Wu


As for the RNC connection, someone in the last thread claimed to have asked sources in the RNC, resulting in no record of her doing anything. This seems like it would be almost impossible to prove definitively though. There are lots of jobs and volunteer positions she could have had, so proving she never had any connections is tough, but whatever they were, Wu is certain to have inflated their importance.

I was one of the people who looked into her DC background and found nothing. However, that was when we were looking into her claims of having been White House staff (god, remember that guys) and/or working with a campaign office. However, now that we've got a senator's name, I should take another look at what Flynt was doing in the area.

 

[Byr]

I was one of the people who looked into her DC background and found nothing. However, that was when we were looking into her claims of having been White House staff (god, remember that guys) and/or working with a campaign office. However, now that we've got a senator's name, I should take another look at what Flynt was doing in the area.

Her resume says intern to Trent Lott and lists some basic duties. This makes me think it was probably an unpaid internship. Maybe you can enlighten us on how well kept the records would be for that kind of the thing.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I doubt they'd have kept extensive records on a random envelope-stuffer that did part-time work one summer over a decade ago.