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

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Peace and Harmony said:
He'll be well-received indeed when he side drifts onto construction sites and factory parking lots to rub elbows with the working class of District 8. "How do you do, fellow poor people"
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That's funny, because the joke is that this scenario involves her actually campaigning, right?

Meanwhile, poor Warren is doing all of the work for a few dollars a day.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
I suspect that the food & drink is not the only thing that's going to be "exceptional".

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The Cloud Developer Advocacy team is delighted to invite you to dine together at The Riveter, a beautiful space created, owned, and operated by fierce Seattle-area businesswomen.

Over exceptional food & drink, we'll hear an inspiring presentation on breaking technical and industry barriers by Build guest Brianna Wu – programmer, security expert, and advocate extraordinaire.

6:30pm - Doors Open

7pm - Talk Begins

Dinner brought to us by Ravishing Radish and includes gluten free, vegan, and vegetarian options.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions or additional requests: melanie.mckenna@microsoft.com



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How embarrassing for Melanie McKenna and the "fierce Seattle-area businesswomen" to be conned by the ham-fisted flimflam man John Flynt.
 
Sorry if this is :late:, but I haven't seen it mentioned here, nor was it up last time I decided I needed to introduce more AIDS/cancer into my life.

I notice Bribri's shitty website now includes a bunch of token responses to her platform/stance on various "issues":
https://www.briannawu2018.com/issues

Not surprising, not a single one directly relevant to the voter base she is vying to represent. Though she does at least mention the state once, something about "colored-people only" water fountains not being in good condition or something.


Brianna Wu is a software engineer and a cybersecurity expert. She knows exactly how to secure our power plants, our hospitals and keep our elections free of interference from hostile nation-states like Russia.
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Our children are growing up with irreversible damage to their self and personal perspectives.
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Surprisingly, "Gamergate" appears NOT EVEN ONCE!!! "Lip Service" on the other hand appears about 40 times... How do you spell..... "irony?"
 
ZKWNordman said:
I felt my Torque Vectoring kick in once, and it was bizarre and awesome. I was really pushing through a corner, and underestimated it. Then I felt the rear of the car magically slide and lock back on course. It felt like cheating, but I can really see it saving you when you mess up.
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If that car is smart enough to save itself from getting wrecked by John, maybe it really is worth every penny.
 
Dimethyl Ketone said:
Sorry if this is :late:, but I haven't seen it mentioned here, nor was it up last time I decided I needed to introduce more AIDS/cancer into my life.

I notice Bribri's shitty website now includes a bunch of token responses to her platform/stance on various "issues":
https://www.briannawu2018.com/issues

Not surprising, not a single one directly relevant to the voter base she is vying to represent. Though she does at least mention the state once, something about "colored-people only" water fountains not being in good condition or something.

Surprisingly, "Gamergate" appears NOT EVEN ONCE!!! "Lip Service" on the other hand appears about 40 times... How do you spell..... "irony?"
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This is what they paid that guy in Colorado to do. Pretty sure he was tasked with building out a website since she can't work a simple CMS. The answers are pretty generic stuff.

I do love the part about knowing how to keep power plants safe. You paid some people $400k to make a shitty mobile game no one bought. But you're what's going to stand between China's army of hackers and our power grid.

Also is she still renting? Because spending $100k on a car while you're renting is one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen. Even hillbilly lotto winners who blow through their money buy the house first.
 
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How embarrassing for Melanie McKenna and the "fierce Seattle-area businesswomen" to be conned by the ham-fisted flimflam man John Flynt.
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Let’s look forward to this shindig having some genuine Microsoft or other six-figure-earning software folks from the area in attendance.

My only disappointment is that it’s unlikely to be recorded.
 
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Here are the technical details on my build: Carmine red All leather interior and deletion of all alcantara, which is terrible. Aluminum interior pieces Manual gearbox Torque Vectoring Porsche Connect with Bose Entry and Drive Bi-Xenon Headlights PASM Suspension Lane change assist 18-way sports seats Guards Red seat belts and instrument panel And a few more odds and ends like light design package that were thrown in for free.
Basically, this is the maxed out version of the Cayman, except for ceramic brakes. I watched the entirety of the Porsche “Good to know” videos after ordering, and I’m glad I did. I wouldn’t have gotten Entry and a drive if I hadn’t known it added external sensors for the trunk, trunk and doors.
Overall, it’s a huge upgrade from the base 981. The biggest issue I had with the older version was the absence of torque. At the same time, I wouldn’t say this is overflowing with torque. The PDK I demoed had far more immediate power on demand than my manual. In time, I will learn how to find it - generally it’s one gear down from where I am expecting. But the manual is still a gearbox you will have to finesse to drive at the limit.
Everything about this car is a better than the 981. The seats are better, the PCM is much, much better, the manual gearbox is smooth as butter. The lights are shockingly brighter, giving a near-daylight level of illumination to backroads twisties.
This is a much safer car to drive than the 981. The backup camera is good, on par with everything else in the industry. The forward parking sensors aren’t great. I wish I had a camera to augment the front sensors, because they aren’t entirely consistent in sensing and indicating distance. The Lane Change assistant is a must have. I love that your phone gets locked in the center compartment and forces you to use voice for everything.
The car drives in a surgically precise matter, drastically sharper than my 981. This is good and bad, as a few millimeters of mistake while steering aggressively through corners causes it to veer off the road. I’ll adapt to it, but wow - this car will go where you tell it.
I felt my Torque Vectoring kick in once, and it was bizarre and awesome. I was really pushing through a corner, and underestimated it. Then I felt the rear of the car magically slide and lock back on course. It felt like cheating, but I can really see it saving you when you mess up.
As far as the sound: It’s great. I freaking love it. It’s loud, aggressive and dangerous - constantly asking you to push towards the red line. My SO loves it too, saying it’s the best part of the car. As best as I can tell from videos, the GTS has a different sound than the S version. It’s a weird, visceral mix between low grumbling tones and high tones. I remain convinced that the “outrage” about the sound is much ado about nothing. I strongly prefer this sound to the 981, though I can imagine the low tones damaging your hearing with a lot of highway driving, which are still prominent even in normal mode.
Idling in sports plus mode, you can hear the engine from a block away. It really is loud from the outside. I deliberately put it back in normal mode when driving down my street to be polite to the neighbors.
I think Guards Red looks like a kindergarten color, and the Carmine Red is much better. The striking color is my favorite part about it, but it’s definitely STILL lighter in real life than it is in photos. Also, my door handles are jet black to activate the space on the side of the car, but the air intakes are a matte black. If I reordered it, I would pay for jet black ducts so it matched.
I really like Porsche Entry and Drive, but the front is a little quirky with detecting your hand to automatically pop the trunk. You have to hover it about half an inch over the surface and hold it for a second. The rear is instant and simple. Overall, this is an excellent option.
The 18-way seats are expensive, but if this is a daily driver I would strongly suggest. It really is much more comfortable. Having driven the alcantara version of the GTS, I strongly suggest skipping it - leather feels much much better. The brushed aluminum trip pieces are a massive upgrade over the plastic, but I wish I’d gotten them in black. I’m a little disappointed that even with the brushed aluminum, the notched gear diagram on the shifter is still plastic. This is the part of the car you touch the most, and it still feels cheap.
I also would skip the red instrument dials if I respeced this car. It looks great in pictures, but it makes the tachometer and manual speedometer harder to read at a glance. Not a dealbreaker, but it gets in the way.
Overall, this is an amazing car, and I’m dead certain I made the right choice. In my opinion, the next version of the Cayman/Boxster will be electric in 5 years or so. That makes this the ultimate version of the last era of the gasoline cars. Since there’s no point in an electric car having a clutch, I am betting these are highly sought by connoisseurs in 20 years.
I think for my generation, the Boxster/Cayman is what the 911 is for the generation older than me. The 986 was THE car when I was a teenager, and I genuinely prefer the look and feel of this car over any 911 past the mid 90s. The 911 has gotten too big, and when I’ve driven one it feels like I’m wearing a fat suit. I know the 911 specs are superior, but to me? This is the ultimate daily driver Porsche.
TLDR: I feel great about this car, and feel like I made the right call or most of the options. Still unsold on PASM and Torque Vectoring. The knashing and wailing about the sound of the engine is ridiculous.


Glad that backup camera works. Can’t have any more 23 year old GamerGater concrete poles jump in front of the back of her car.
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I think my favorite part about this is that Wu actually wrote a review later. Think about how many times Wu has promised to write a blog post about something which should arguably be important, especially in the last few months regarding her political run, or if you want to go even further back, the whole patch incident. Really, Wu has a giant history of this, it's one of his biggest cow traits. But, this is the one time he decided to follow through, which really shows what is actually important to him. This feels like a rare instance of Wu managing to come off as a bigger cow because he actually followed through on something he said instead of being his usual lazy self. Wu can't even bother to retweet something Frank writes promoting one of his political events, or get off his ass to go and file his signatures he was equally too lazy to try and get on his own. But, he found time to write a review about his precious new toy.
 
Cyber Bowling said:
I think my favorite part about this is that Wu actually wrote a review later. Think about how many times Wu has promised to write a blog post about something which should arguably be important, especially in the last few months regarding her political run, or if you want to go even further back, the whole patch incident. Really, Wu has a giant history of this, it's one of his biggest cow traits. But, this is the one time he decided to follow through, which really shows what is actually important to him. This feels like a rare instance of Wu managing to come off as a bigger cow because he actually followed through on something he said instead of being his usual lazy self. Wu can't even bother to retweet something Frank writes promoting one of his political events, or get off his ass to go and file his signatures he was equally too lazy to try and get on his own. But, he found time to write a review about his precious new toy.
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Nah, she hasn’t followed though. In true cow form she seems to think people care about her opinions on color and “cheap plastic.” So this is the short review. A longer one is supposedly coming because we definitely need to hear more about her disdain for synthetics over leather in midlife crisis toys.
 
Power leveling, but I do side gigs editing content for politician's websites. This crap is what I get 10 out of 10 times from first time politicians who have never ran for anything, aren't very good writers, only have a vague list of the things they should have a platform about, and have never analyzed anyone else's platform statement. As much as I wish that were a dig at Wu, it takes a specific kind of nerd to sit around analyzing politician's platform statements to decide what's effective, and those of us who do things like that probably lack the social skills to be elected to anything. I rewrite it to make it readable, concise, informative, relatable, and include at least one specific action item that the person would actually be able to do in their elected position.

This crap is amateur hour written by someone who has never run for anything, isn't a good writer, has no idea what she should have a platform about, has done no research into platforms, and has no friends or contacts or real consultants (sorry, Warren) to tell her what the fuck to do. It's a fucking mess, and if I got it from a 28 year old who didn't finish high school running for dog catcher in Lynn, I would swear at it and bitch a little before getting down to work to fix it. From a supposed "journalist"? A career that's about research and writing? Running for national office? It's not redeemable.

Economic inequality is probably the most pressing issue our nation faces. Members of both parties are not doing enough to address the problem, often falling back to the same failed ideas that brought us here. ... Under her leadership, America will invest in a broad array of economic programs for the 99 percent, not the 1 percent. Everything from public transportation, affordable housing, and free higher education must be on the table.
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FFS, never say "probably" in a platform. This is your PLATFORM, not something you're hedging your bets about. You can not hedge your bets in a platform: if you're wishy washy about any topic, it's as simple as not writing a platform statement about it. Also it really doesn't matter what other people are doing in your platform: what are YOU going to do?

Oh. This is what she thinks she's going to do. But anyone who knows enough about politics to seek out her platform statement is asking: What leadership? I thought we were electing her to Congress, where she'll be a junior Representative, and need to work WITH people, not lead them. Does she think she's running for president? (rhetorical question: the answer is clearly yes). How does she think she is going to lead these investment programs?


Brianna Wu wants to spend billions on preparing Boston and other coastal cities against superstorms with protective infrastructure - which will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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Is this her platform statement, or an opponent's snarky radio ad? What the fuck dumbass politician wants to write "I want to spend billions..."? Yes it will take billions, but don't write that out! "I want to invest in research and infrastructure to protect the thriving coastal communities of district 8 from the rapidly worsening effects of Global Warming." Look, I made it a local issue, too.

Additionally, Brianna Wu strongly supports efforts to contest fossil fuel companies in civil court, who hid the science on global warming for policymakers. Brianna Wu understands what’s at stake, nothing less than the future of the planet. Under her leadership, bold progressive legislation on climate change will pass.
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Do you remember your high school English teacher telling you to stand in front of a mirror and read your paper out loud? It's to prevent grammatical abominations like the first sentence. Literally nobody literate proof read this shit. Nothing, on the other hand, can help the hubris and idiocy of the last sentence in that paragraph.

Yes, Cybersecurity is a threat, but it’s also an opportunity.
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This sounded WAY better in her head.

By embracing F/OSS development practices, hundreds of thousands of upper and middle-class jobs can be created. With Brianna Wu in Congress, America will lead the world in information security.

Additionally, Brianna Wu understands that encryption is a right. All too often, this Congress seeks to criminalize encryption - which makes all of us vulnerable. With Brianna Wu in Congress, your privacy and your security will be guaranteed under the law and that's why cyber security is important.
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Nobody cares about creating upper class jobs. Delete that shit. The average person has no idea what the rest of this is saying, and there is no explanation. What is F/OSS? What is "encryption"? The average elderly voter thinks that encryption has something to do with credit card fraud and doesn't understand why she's saying that Congress wants to criminalize it. This is a fucking mess.

As your Congresswoman, Brianna Wu will never waiver on this systemic issue. We can forgive student loan debt. We can cut a tiny bit back on defense spending. And we'll pass single-payer healthcare legislation. This will save our economic foundation. It will stop inflation and that inflation threatens the very system of our Social Security.
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Don't use words that you don't know the meaning of, Brianna. A systemic issue is a problem issue: you're saying that Social Security is good. And where the fuck do student loans, defense spending, and single payer healthcare come into Social Security? And what the fuck do they have to do with inflation?

I can't go on. There is literally not a redeemable sentence in this pile of shit.

This platform is throwing shit on the walls and hoping that something will stick.
 
Kroster said:
Is this her platform statement, or an opponent's snarky radio ad? What the fuck dumbass politician wants to write "I want to spend billions..."? Yes it will take billions, but don't write that out! "I want to invest in research and infrastructure to protect the thriving coastal communities of district 8 from the rapidly worsening effects of Global Warming." Look, I made it a local issue, too.
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Doesn’t “wants to” give the impression that there’s a chance she won’t deliver and she knows it? Wu should at least say something like “Brianna Wu will focus on improving infrastructure blah blah blah”.
 
NotAKitty said:
Doesn’t “wants to” give the impression that there’s a chance she won’t deliver and she knows it? Wu should at least say something like “Brianna Wu will focus on improving infrastructure blah blah blah”.
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Yes, I'd never let a "wants to" slide. "Envisions" is about as wishy washy as I'd let, but it's a word that has a positive aura and people feel positive just reading it. "Will" is the active verb, but it usually needs to be tempered with "will work with..." or "will support..." Someone as politically ignorant as Brianna might think that a junior US rep has the power to lead the charge in their first week in office, but anyone politically literate enough to check out a platform page knows that all they'll be able to do is cheerlead and vote.
 
Kroster said:
Power leveling, but I do side gigs editing content for politician's websites. This crap is what I get 10 out of 10 times from first time politicians who have never ran for anything, aren't very good writers, only have a vague list of the things they should have a platform about, and have never analyzed anyone else's platform statement. As much as I wish that were a dig at Wu, it takes a specific kind of nerd to sit around analyzing politician's platform statements to decide what's effective, and those of us who do things like that probably lack the social skills to be elected to anything. I rewrite it to make it readable, concise, informative, relatable, and include at least one specific action item that the person would actually be able to do in their elected position.

This crap is amateur hour written by someone who has never run for anything, isn't a good writer, has no idea what she should have a platform about, has done no research into platforms, and has no friends or contacts or real consultants (sorry, Warren) to tell her what the fuck to do. It's a fucking mess, and if I got it from a 28 year old who didn't finish high school running for dog catcher in Lynn, I would swear at it and bitch a little before getting down to work to fix it. From a supposed "journalist"? A career that's about research and writing? Running for national office? It's not redeemable.

FFS, never say "probably" in a platform. This is your PLATFORM, not something you're hedging your bets about. You can not hedge your bets in a platform: if you're wishy washy about any topic, it's as simple as not writing a platform statement about it. Also it really doesn't matter what other people are doing in your platform: what are YOU going to do?

Oh. This is what she thinks she's going to do. But anyone who knows enough about politics to seek out her platform statement is asking: What leadership? I thought we were electing her to Congress, where she'll be a junior Representative, and need to work WITH people, not lead them. Does she think she's running for president? (rhetorical question: the answer is clearly yes). How does she think she is going to lead these investment programs?




Is this her platform statement, or an opponent's snarky radio ad? What the fuck dumbass politician wants to write "I want to spend billions..."? Yes it will take billions, but don't write that out! "I want to invest in research and infrastructure to protect the thriving coastal communities of district 8 from the rapidly worsening effects of Global Warming." Look, I made it a local issue, too.



Do you remember your high school English teacher telling you to stand in front of a mirror and read your paper out loud? It's to prevent grammatical abominations like the first sentence. Literally nobody literate proof read this shit. Nothing, on the other hand, can help the hubris and idiocy of the last sentence in that paragraph.



This sounded WAY better in her head.



Nobody cares about creating upper class jobs. Delete that shit. The average person has no idea what the rest of this is saying, and there is no explanation. What is F/OSS? What is "encryption"? The average elderly voter thinks that encryption has something to do with credit card fraud and doesn't understand why she's saying that Congress wants to criminalize it. This is a fucking mess.



Don't use words that you don't know the meaning of, Brianna. A systemic issue is a problem issue: you're saying that Social Security is good. And where the fuck do student loans, defense spending, and single payer healthcare come into Social Security? And what the fuck do they have to do with inflation?

I can't go on. There is literally not a redeemable sentence in this pile of shit.

This platform is throwing shit on the walls and hoping that something will stick.
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Nice analysis. While it seems like the untrained eye would miss some of the more subtle issues with the platform that you brought up, I think you make a very good and obvious point that he didn't bother to even read what he wrote. One other thing that I want to point out is that John uses the phrase "upper class" here in reference to tech jobs. I don't think I have ever heard a serious politician use the specific phrase "upper class" to refer to one subset of their electorate versus another. I have heard the term "working class" which has a very different connotation and carries with it a sense of honest work as well as pride and accomplishment. I've also heard "middle-class". The term "upper class", in this cases, is a reference to some sort of tech elite. This is important because, despite having zero actual accomplishments in the field or any kind of verifiable job history or academic background, John likes to lump himself into this group of people. This statement is less about John helping people get good paying jobs and more about positioning his own purported occupation as "upper class" as opposed to, as John sees them, the unwashed masses if the 8th district, grasping at the hope rising to John's socioeconomic strata. It's about as tone deaf and alienating as a politician bragging about buying a new 100k+ sports car on the same social media account they use to engage voters.
 
He really does believe he's running for the presidency. The ego in that 'platform' is breathtaking. It shows loud and clear the fantasy behind all this - John rabble-rousing the Democratic party into mass support, John's name being put forward for running for the Presidency (he probably already has his 'reluctant' acceptance speech planned out), John sweeping to victory on election day and the whole world's media focusing on him and his amazing technosocialist future for the USA.

There's just the slight problem of the 325.7 million other people to convince. But cookies and Godzilla will surely take care of that, right?

The reality that politics is a career and you work your way up from the bottom with support and a buttload of hard work never even occurs to him. If Trump can do it, so can John! Except even Trump worked for his fortune, and Frank's measly wage isn't nearly enough. At this point in time, Warren has a better political record than John. At least he's been actively involved with local politics for at least a few years.
 
Eli Whitney said:
Nice analysis. While it seems like the untrained eye would miss some of the more subtle issues with the platform that you brought up, I think you make a very good and obvious point that he didn't bother to even read what he wrote. One other thing that I want to point out is that John uses the phrase "upper class" here in reference to tech jobs. I don't think I have ever heard a serious politician use the specific phrase "upper class" to refer to one subset of their electorate versus another. I have heard the term "working class" which has a very different connotation and carries with it a sense of honest work as well as pride and accomplishment. I've also heard "middle-class". The term "upper class", in this cases, is a reference to some sort of tech elite. This is important because, despite having zero actual accomplishments in the field or any kind of verifiable job history or academic background, John likes to lump himself into this group of people. This statement is less about John helping people get good paying jobs and more about positioning his own purported occupation as "upper class" as opposed to, as John sees them, the unwashed masses if the 8th district, grasping at the hope rising to John's socioeconomic strata. It's about as tone deaf and alienating as a politician bragging about buying a new 100k+ sports car on the same social media account they use to engage voters.
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Agree entirely. Hanging out behind the scenes in politics means that you hang out with some legitimate upper class people, and none of them talk or think the way Wu does. They buy fancy cars but would never even dream of questioning why it's tacky to brag about it: that bragging about the trappings of wealth is tacky was hammered into their heads by their parents as children. Someone legitimately upper class would also never look at Brianna's tacky trappings that she obviously can't really afford and think that they had anything to do with true wealth.

Talking about wealth reminds me of something else. One of the first times Wu was on my radar was a tweet she sent out about how lawyers are bloodsuckers or something like that. It was sometime early in 2017, or maybe summer: long before I found this thread, before I'd done any research into her, and other progressives were still excited about her, but someone sent it to me and I knew she didn't have a political career right then with that tweet. District 8 has two types of rich people who donate to political candidates: people in finance, who are Republicans, and lawyers, who are Democrats. I knew that this tweet meant that she either had no clue where the money in the district lies, or didn't care. It was everything wrong with the campaign in one little tweet: hubris, ignorance, an unfunny joke, a complete lack of awareness about the district, a complete lack of awareness about politics.
 
Kroster said:
Agree entirely. Hanging out behind the scenes in politics means that you hang out with some legitimate upper class people, and none of them talk or think the way Wu does. They buy fancy cars but would never even dream of questioning why it's tacky to brag about it: that bragging about the trappings of wealth is tacky was hammered into their heads by their parents as children. Someone legitimately upper class would also never look at Brianna's tacky trappings that she obviously can't really afford and think that they had anything to do with true wealth.

Talking about wealth reminds me of something else. One of the first times Wu was on my radar was a tweet she sent out about how lawyers are bloodsuckers or something like that. It was sometime early in 2017, or maybe summer: long before I found this thread, before I'd done any research into her, and other progressives were still excited about her, but someone sent it to me and I knew she didn't have a political career right then with that tweet. District 8 has two types of rich people who donate to political candidates: people in finance, who are Republicans, and lawyers, who are Democrats. I knew that this tweet meant that she either had no clue where the money in the district lies, or didn't care. It was everything wrong with the campaign in one little tweet: hubris, ignorance, an unfunny joke, a complete lack of awareness about the district, a complete lack of awareness about politics.
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They may be “middle class” with Frank’s salary and bonus but they dress and act like Boston trash. You can buy a $100k Porsche but when your entire outfit is $150, you’re renting a house in a blue collar neighborhood, and you sound and act like trash that Porsche isn’t helping to elevate your status.

People will see right through John as being a hood rich loser who at 40 couldn’t afford to buy a house but has a Porsche instead. Someone who can’t afford to eat out anywhere but potbelly and can’t afford trips to Europe and wears Kate Spade purses lmfao.
 
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