Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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The FEC has fuck-all for power, they have to catch you in a clearly obvious unavoidable campaign finance violation (and a fairly big one) for them to do anything more than slap you on the wrist. You can thank the last 20-30 years of politics for the gutting of the FEC.

So for those of you hoping this will be the nail in the coffin, it probably won't be. But on the bright side, that means Brianna can continue this campaign grift for a while longer, so the laughs will keep on coming.
 
Keystone said:
So the FEC audit we've all been looking forward to is probably very soon then? Excellent.

This tard is going to reeee at the FEC on Twitter and expect it to work, isn't he?
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I mentioned well before this became a reality that FEC shit is almost all formalities and you can get away with a lot of shit so long as you cross every t and dot every i. Look at Jill Stein's hijinks with the recount money, all of which is entirely legal (so long as they filled all the right paperwork the right way that is).

Citizens United (and a lot of other legal developments of the last couple decades) have eviscerated a lot of the substantive law the FEC has to enforce, so the jobsworths there are very, very persnickety about the technicalities that are left to them and can be relied on to go after people who cut corners and just, in general, fuck up.

John is very good at fucking up and doesn't give a shit about details. I'm surprised Frank would fuck up this badly, since he is entirely familiar with twiddly little administrative regimes and their fondness for deadlines and details. Maybe he just doesn't give a shit at this point. Maybe he's deliberately throwing John under the bus. It's hard to understand, otherwise, why he thinks they'd get away with just ignoring basic FEC requirements. In the patent world, missing those deadlines gets you reamed, too.

proteus4994 said:
The FEC has fuck-all for power, they have to catch you in a clearly obvious unavoidable campaign finance violation (and a fairly big one) for them to do anything more than slap you on the wrist. You can thank the last 20-30 years of politics for the gutting of the FEC.
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They can throw some pretty big fines at you. These are insignificant to real political parties and real candidates, but can be pretty costly if you're merely a semi-wealthy person like Frank. Frank/John would be on the hook for this, and unlike a lot of their potential defendant joke candidates, actually have assets to collect and wages to garnish.
 
Has wu taken down the donations tweet on twatter?

whats US law on foreigners contributing to wus campaign, im guessing thats a no no?

also if the patreon is being used to prop up the campaign (which it prob is), and non US citizens are donating could this too be an issue?
 
proteus4994 said:
The FEC has fuck-all for power, they have to catch you in a clearly obvious unavoidable campaign finance violation (and a fairly big one) for them to do anything more than slap you on the wrist. You can thank the last 20-30 years of politics for the gutting of the FEC.

So for those of you hoping this will be the nail in the coffin, it probably won't be. But on the bright side, that means Brianna can continue this campaign grift for a while longer, so the laughs will keep on coming.
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TL;DR: it doesn't really matter in the short term. Long term this is just more ammo against Wu during the real campaign season (if it comes to that)
 
Kiras left nipple said:
Has wu taken down the donations tweet on twatter?

whats US law on foreigners contributing to wus campaign, im guessing thats a no no?

also if the patreon is being used to prop up the campaign (which it prob is), and non US citizens are donating could this too be an issue?
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http://www.fec.gov/ans/answers_general.shtml#Can_nonUS_citizens_contribute

Can non-US citizens contribute?

Foreign nationals are prohibited from making any contributions or expenditures in connection with any election in the U.S. Please note, however, that "green card" holders (i.e., individuals lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the U.S.) are not considered foreign nationals and, as a result, may contribute. For additional information, consult our "Foreign Nationals" brochure.
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Oops!

I bet there's been all manner of deranged foreign wokes sending Wu $20.
 
AnOminous said:
They can throw some pretty big fines at you. These are insignificant to real political parties and real candidates, but can be pretty costly if you're merely a semi-wealthy person like Frank. Frank/John would be on the hook for this, and unlike a lot of their potential defendant joke candidates, actually have assets to collect and wages to garnish.
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That's a good point, they may be more willing to go against smaller candidates because it's easier to win cases and make money that way. So I take it back, this could get good.

The FEC is pretty useless against large parties and top-level corruption, but you're right, they could nail the Wus to the wall if they wanted to make an example of them. I still personally think it's unlikely though.

Edit: Although other posts in this thread have got me thinking, there's a lot of new Internet shit that needs to be decided in court at some point in time. For example, are Patreons considered campaign donations? It's definitely possible that the FEC could decide the Wus should be the precedent for future cases, although I wouldn't put money on it or anything.
 
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http://www.fec.gov/ans/answers_general.shtml#Can_nonUS_citizens_contribute



Oops!

I bet there's been all manner of deranged foreign wokes sending Wu $20.
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nice one, even the asshats on bri patreon are using it to donate to wus campaign..

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Wu knows about the foreign donation thing....here's some toilet-slave from the UK attempting to please his trans-mistress -

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That said I wonder what kind of policing the Wu' are doing to ensure they don't receive foreign donations?

Hypothetically if a foreign Kiwi were to innocently deposit $1 into Wu's campaign chest would Wu be liable?
 
Elbe said:
Wu knows about the foreign donation thing....here's some toilet-slave from the UK attempting to please his trans-mistress -

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That said I wonder what kind of policing the Wu' are doing to ensure they don't receive foreign donations?

Hypothetically if a foreign Kiwi were to innocently deposit $1 into Wu's campaign chest would Wu be liable?
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my thoughts exactly...

Im curious of how wu will keep the patreon donations out of all this, bri certainly has foreigners openly donating to that pot..
 
Kiras left nipple said:
my thoughts exactly...

Im curious of how wu will keep the patreon donations out of all this, bri certainly has foreigners openly donating to that pot..
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Total shot in the dark, but I imagine such responsibilities and perhaps liability would be in the purview of the campaign treasurer ... oh, oh no, Frank.
 
Kiras left nipple said:
my thoughts exactly...

Im curious of how wu will keep the patreon donations out of all this, bri certainly has foreigners openly donating to that pot..
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It would be easy for Wu to just open a business account at a bank and keep the money separated that way.

Of course lol no way they'll go through the process of doing that when they can't event file their goddamn simple paperwork on time.
 
Count groudon said:
I think Wu's campaign against Lynch can be compared to a generic anime fight. Right now Wu is coming at Lynch with all these crazy moves totally rushing him down while he just stands there taking it all. Wu starts monologuing about how powerful she is and how her victory is certain, but eventually a completely unfazed Lynch takes a new stance and unleasheshes a single crazy bullshit move that hits Wu dead center and completely owns her and promptly leaves the battleground after quipping about how Wu was never a challenge.
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So what you're saying is Lynch is Senator Armstrong?

I can live with that.
 
Also, Wu has a problem with not being able to spend campaign donations on vidya, restoring classic cars, and Blue Apron.

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Elbe said:
Also, Wu has a problem with not being able to spend campaign donations on vidya, restoring classic cars, and Blue Apron.

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fucking reeks of corruption. "let me use all of my personal income in this campaign, even if it's unreported and hidden by IRS privacy laws!"

fuck no.
 
Elbe said:
Hypothetically if a foreign Kiwi were to innocently deposit $1 into Wu's campaign chest would Wu be liable?
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I think the campaign would just have to return it and there'd be no penalty. Real campaigns get donations from ineligible people all the time and it's not a big deal.

Of course, a tightly run operation like Flynt For Congress would always remember to return ineligible donations in a timely fashion, right? :epik:
 
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