Y'all might not hate me per se, but that feels only temporary. This is after all, a troll and hater site. I get the feeling that as soon as I stop being a novelty, I will turn into a lolcow myself. I am, after all, defensive, short tempered, and have poor impulse control. And I have the kind of optimism y'all love to poke fun at. Yes I will be running for local office myself next year, here is my crappy no-money beginnings of a campaign page:
https://www.facebook.com/WarrenLynchForWard2/
As you can see, I'm pretty silly and "unprofessional". Before Brianna, I made campaign commercials for Vermin Supreme. But deep down, I really do care about the issues.
Trying to generally answer the flood of questions
-If Brianna's transgender, that makes her incredibly brave, and it's a big first for a federal candidate to be transgender, and real petty of you to pick on her about it.
-If Brianna's not transgender, that's extra mean to say that then. I know a lot of tall awkward women who are a lot more mannish looking than Brianna, (a lot of them in politics, in fact!) and I hope you don't say that about them too.
-If Brianna's faking her issues positions, she's some kind of master actor, because she routinely gets asked a battery of random questions from a room full of people about the issues, and comes out looking great.
-I do wish I got paid more, but she pays me enough for it to be super worth it. Most other progressive politicians pay even less. It's the establishment politicians who are sitting pretty like Jay Gonzalez and Charlie Baker, those ones give out the sweet paychecks. Except it feels gross to work for them. Whereas say, Bob Massie gets crowds to scream and cry for him on the regular, but has all unpaid volunteers. But they're glad to do it, because it's Bob Massie and he's progressive!
-Anecdotes about how Giant SpaceKat supposedly was run do not concern me all that much. Everybody has faults in their first business in a field. I care about how this campaign is run. Which is a bit amateurish like a typical first-time campaign, but way more far reaching than any other first-time campaign I have seen. And I'm confident that it's been going well enough to:
A) push Stephen Lynch left
B) make him make a lot of horrified faces
C) make a lot of strides publicizing progressive issues
D) learn enough things to do better next time and perhaps win in 2020
-Yes Brianna can be snobby and have an ego, but so can literally 99% of politicians. It takes a lot of self confidence to run for office, and the line between "self confidence" and "ego" is very blurry. There are some politicians who are semi-poor, or who are humble, or who are humble AND poor, but the field is VERY small. Bernie Sanders comes to mind, and even he's not poor any more. More like upper middle class, a little richer than Brianna even. Maybe Mike Connolly? As politicians go she is shockingly real, personable and direct. We had a good 40 politicians on The Young Jurks, and we liked maybe 1/5th of those. Brianna was one of them. Also Tito Jackson, Bob Massie, Mike Connolly, Pat Jehlen, Sam Hammar, Ayanna Pressley and a few others. Brianna might be the newbie in that bunch, but she knows the issues a lot better than most of the incumbents. Certainly better than Stephen Lynch does.
Maybe she learned all this direct-ness by having every aspect of her life made fun of all the time. But your picture of her as this fake person... it could have maybe been true a couple of years ago, but that's not the Brianna I know in 2018. It's hard not to be fake and detached. But running for office snaps you out of it, with all the people you have to meet. And I bet being relentlessly trolled makes you analyze how you act a lot too, just like being out there shaking hands and fielding questions does.
Stephen Lynch is TEN OR FIFTEEN TIMES as rich as Frank and Brianna are. His buddies in the real estate industry have him set up for life. Even Chris Voehl is more wealthy. So wealthy he could afford to pay $50k on a campaign where no one sees him hardly. He has so far raised like $200 dollars TOTAL, and the rest of his campaign money is tens of thousands of dollars of 'loan to self'. You may think Brianna is "scamming" people by inspiring them to donate, but at least she inspires people at all. Stephen Lynch inspires nurses and teachers to protest outside his house! And Voehl inspires... memes at best? Mystery novels?
Brianna may have some blind spots as regards the working class. I think so did I when I was younger and less poor. Us lower income folks can definitely be "mean" and that can be unpleasant to be around. It's easy to be rich and tell yourself you only like "nice" people, and end up in a classist bubble. But Stephen Lynch, despite his accent, built such an impenetrable diamond-hard bubble around himself when he gave his soul to real estate developers decades ago that he 'thinks' Brockton's jobs crisis is due to "lack of housing". Suuure it is, Stephen. all those boarded up houses are just luxury condos waiting to happen, right?
And Chris Voehl IDK. My theory is he is Bigfoot. I will find out more when I finally meet him on Tuesday.
