Warren Lynch Shitpost General - TRUE and HONEST (former) John Flynt for Congress campaign worker

[Cyber Bowling]

Earth to Kiwi Farms: I stopped working for Brianna nearly a month ago now.
If I cared about "social media capital", I wouldn't be on here at all.
10 messages a day saying "you're a fraud because you're still working for Brianna" are amusing though, I guess?
But maybe asking a question would be less boring?

Nobody is saying you're a fraud because you're still working for Wu. We're saying you're a fraud for continuing to defend Wu despite the fact he has shown time and time again to be lying about progressive values. You've come close to admitting this, but then you say you had fun and don't want to backstab Wu. For that same reason, it's pretty hard to ask you any questions. Anytime we come close to having a real discussion with you, you deflect by saying you had fun, don't want to backstab Wu, or saying "well, yeah, maybe this is bad, but rando candidate X is so much worse." Then you further deflect by trying to do the "lulz teh random I'm so whacky guize" act.

Tone doesn't translate well so I'll preface this by saying I'm not trying to insult you, but you're not particularly interesting to us. We primarily want to talk to you because of your proximity to Wu, if you're not willing to answer questions about him, there isn't too much else to say. I guess in a way it's a compliment because it means you're not a total trainwreck worthy of an actual thread. If you want some unasked for two cents, I think you came off particularly well on here when you were talking about your film thing and the brony stuff. It was clear you were passionate about the topic because you actually spoke like a normal person. You weren't trying to deflect the topic, you didn't load your post with self-deprecating insults, you sounded like you understood the subject matter, and you didn't try and pull any of that "look how hard and forced I'm acting to try and give the impression I'm weird and goofy." If you were willing to treat politics with that same type of grace, I think you'd do a lot better in your local politics, which as I've said before, really should be the area you focus on.

For some more unsolicited two cents, I think you have a problem with bigger picture stuff, which again, not meant to be an insult. You seem much more passionate about smaller, local issues. Honestly, I think it's good to have someone who cares more about local stuff. It feels like lately it is only the big picture politics getting any sort of attention, but local issues are still very important, not to mention big picture stuff takes forever while local politics actually has a chance of moving quickly if you have passionate people on the ground who care enough to keep at it. Let your bro Bernie handle the bigger stuff while you focus on making your district a better place.

Anyway, all that being said, what exactly are you trying to get out of here anyway? You clearly don't want to talk about Wu, so is it just an attention thing?

 

[W person cow]

Then you further deflect by trying to do the "lulz teh random I'm so whacky guize" act.

Maybe you would get further by asking actual questions, instead of saying "you never answer some vague questions I'm referring to over and over"?

Tone doesn't translate well so I'll preface this by saying I'm not trying to insult you, but you're not particularly interesting to us. We primarily want to talk to you because of your proximity to Wu, if you're not willing to answer questions about him, there isn't too much else to say. I guess in a way it's a compliment because it means you're not a total trainwreck worthy of an actual thread. If you want some unasked for two cents, I think you came off particularly well on here when you were talking about your film thing and the brony stuff. It was clear you were passionate about the topic because you actually spoke like a normal person. You weren't trying to deflect the topic, you didn't load your post with self-deprecating insults, you sounded like you understood the subject matter, and you didn't try and pull any of that "look how hard and forced I'm acting to try and give the impression I'm weird and goofy." If you were willing to treat politics with that same type of grace, I think you'd do a lot better in your local politics, which as I've said before, really should be the area you focus on.

Again. You can light a candle or you can curse the darkness. If you want a straight answer to a question, TRY ASKING ONE

For some more unsolicited two cents, I think you have a problem with bigger picture stuff, which again, not meant to be an insult. You seem much more passionate about smaller, local issues. Honestly, I think it's good to have someone who cares more about local stuff. It feels like lately it is only the big picture politics getting any sort of attention, but local issues are still very important, not to mention big picture stuff takes forever while local politics actually has a chance of moving quickly if you have passionate people on the ground who care enough to keep at it. Let your bro Bernie handle the bigger stuff while you focus on making your district a better place.

Thanks I guess?
I know the national stuff is important. But Bernie's said over and over that effecting change on a national level means first getting a lot of people involved on a local level to "build the bench" as it were. So I'm trying to do that. My friends in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania are doing an amazing job at that, and I wish I could get more people in Massachusetts to do it. But I got a bunch in Malden so far, and Acton, and Arlington, and Somerville. It's a bummer that Malden is one of the only blue-collar towns in MA which is getting taken over for progressiveness through grassroots action. But you've got to start somewhere. And it looks like Weymouth, Fall River and Lowell are about to follow suit, so that's pretty cool

"We basically made him into a local version of a lolcow."

Ah,, yes, the Farms are strong with you. Find and seek out lolcows, and bring them here for mockery.

I would love to!
I have a bunch of candidates in mind already! How do I nominate them for lolcow status?
Frankly, the Malden ones are the funniest. Small time politicians get away with the most outrageous antics. There is
Craig "Spanky" Spadafora, who says he "owns the police", and is known for jumping off the stage and threatening people?
John "Littlefinger" Matheson, who is so sneaky that he routinely votes against his OWN motions?
Neil "Darth" Kinnon, disgraced and forced into retirement when people on the internet started publicizing his insane racist conspiracy theories, and known for holding a pamphlet over his face while screaming at people? Already gotten rid of in politics but still fun to pick on.
Barbara "Save the Children" Murphy, my girfriend's current nemesis, who brings up "the children" in every conversation to the point where she sounds like Giuliani talking about 9/11?
Paul "Condonsaurus" Condon, my Ward 2 opponent who falls asleep during key votes, and then wakes up to vote in line with the rest of these shit-birds?
There's also my evil cousin Stephen Lynch, but he's not really that colorful.

 

[The Flynt's Stones]

Warren, I appreciate your involvement in the thread. It's interesting to get your perspective on John Flynt / Brianna Wu. I have minimal interest in your thoughts outside of that area however.

I disagree with your description of yourself as thick skinned. You cried like a bitch when asked about who your parents were by Stephen Lynch and also shit your pants figuratively speaking when a kindly fellow Kiwi put together some artwork for you. These are not traits of thick skinned people, but of those walking a tightrope between insecurity and mania.

I digress. You want questions. We want answers. Here's one; as mentioned above, Frank has a history of alleged spousal abuse. Does this change your opinion of him as a "happy go lucky guy"? Remember, true progressives listen and believe, so I really hope you take his ex wifes word as gospel when formulating an answer.

Finally, I initially admired your principled stance on not shit-talking a former employer (one who, incidently, would not hesitate to do so to you as he has in the past with former even worse paid than you GSK employees). However, on reflection as alluded to above, I think you are just concerned about losing social capital and/or backlash and so your reservations to spill the beans are entirely due to self preservation rather than any moral fibre.

You seem mostly genuine and seem to actually care about the issues, so you've got that going for you.

Some more philosophical questions for you:

If someone claimed to be an engineer and a nuclear physicist but was actually neither (and had not even a laymans understating of these subjects) but was able somehow to lie their way into a job where they had full control over the management and maintenance of a nuclear reactor. Would this be a good thing, a bad thing or a neutral thing? Please just answer "good", "bad" or "neutral".

Would the interviewer or recruitment agency or others in the chain of employment who enabled this person to get the job, would they also be somewhat responsible Warren? Just a yes or no for this one.

I'm interested in your answers to these questions.

 

[polonium]

You seem mostly genuine

I don't see where people are getting this from. He ducks questions like George W Bush ducks shoes, baits people so that he can cry about it on social media, throws out random accusations, if someone asks him a question he ignores it and if they point out he's ignoring the question he says complains that their post isn't a question.

In a contest between John W Flynt's vag and Warran, it's a close call as to which is more fake

I'm interested in your answers to these questions.

Well, good luck. If you remind him that he's avoided answering for page after page, he'll pretend he didn't read it, say something LOLL ZAAAANY!! or complain that reminding him he avoided answering a simple question after demanding that the only interaction people have with him is a question isn't in itself a question.

 

[W person cow]

I disagree with your description of yourself as thick skinned. You cried like a bitch when asked about who your parents were by Stephen Lynch and also shit your pants figuratively speaking when a kindly fellow Kiwi put together some artwork for you. These are not traits of thick skinned people,

I think almost anyone here would agree that I'm very thick skinned sometimes, and very thin skinned other times

but of those walking a tightrope between insecurity and mania.

Haha fair point

I digress. You want questions. We want answers. Here's one; as mentioned above, Frank has a history of alleged spousal abuse. Does this change your opinion of him as a "happy go lucky guy"? Remember, true progressives listen and believe, so I really hope you take his ex wifes word as gospel when formulating an answer.

I have no idea about his spouse stuff. I don't take his word as gospel or hers either. I'm not defending him in general, just saying that the rumors that he is very friendly and nice most of the time are true, and he was always nice to me. If you think I'M an extremely positive optimistic person, you should meet Frank

Finally, I initially admired your principled stance on not shit-talking a former employer (one who, incidently, would not hesitate to do so to you as he has in the past with former even worse paid than you GSK employees). However, on reflection as alluded to above, I think you are just concerned about losing social capital and/or backlash and so your reservations to spill the beans are entirely due to self preservation rather than any moral fibre.

You're welcome to your opinion. I do not shit talk about Brianna (except mildly) because I think that that would be A) boring B) petty C) not very professional. Not that i'm very professional in general, lol. But one can dream.
So I may have to leave y'all thirsty in that regard. I'm not joining the "cult."
But I can answer questions like:
-Does Brianna have a motorcycle: Yes and she enjoys riding it. Never seen street racing or anything but she does indeed drive fast. Drives the car more though. When she drives the motorcycle to political stuff, it makes her hair get all messy.
-Does Brianna smoke: No, and both Brianna and Frank think it is weird that I smoke. They never judged me about it, but Frank did ask me "so why do you smoke?" I said "because I'm addicted to it, no good reason". He said "Oh."
-Does Brianna wear the same black dress to everything: My girlfriend about had a fit over this. We had about 100 conversations about it, and I was worried to actually ask Brianna it. We looked closer at the pictures I took, and it turns out that she indeed has about a dozen almost exactly the same black mini-dresses, like a female Inspector Gadget. With very SLIGHT differences in style. We wondered, is this a socialist humility thing? What's the deal? I never had the whatever to ask her about it directly though. But she recently got some brown, burgundy and other color dresses and started wearing them. So maybe somebody had that conversation. It wasn't me though.

You seem mostly genuine and seem to actually care about the issues, so you've got that going for you.

Thanks?

If someone claimed to be an engineer and a nuclear physicist but was actually neither (and had not even a laymans understating of these subjects) but was able somehow to lie their way into a job where they had full control over the management and maintenance of a nuclear reactor. Would this be a good thing, a bad thing or a neutral thing? Please just answer "good", "bad" or "neutral".

Like that guy who got to be on a government nuclear panel with no knowledge, just by donating money to Hillary Clinton? Bad.

Would the interviewer or recruitment agency or others in the chain of employment who enabled this person to get the job, would they also be somewhat responsible Warren? Just a yes or no for this one.

Yes. You sound like a trial lawyer. I did not get Brianna any job as a nuclear physicist, I got her gigs to talk about the issues, and she talked about some very important issues all over the 8th. Many of which I brought to her attention. Others which she found out about through people I introduced her to. Although getting signatures was the part I got most noticed for, the primary thing I did for Brianna was get her booked to speak at progressive events all over the 8th. About 75 of them. So far I have heard word of Lynch going to about 40-50 and Voehl at about 5. Y'all seen to have noticed maybe 4-5 of them tops, which has a lot to do with my not taking enough pictures I guess. I think what I did was good, and what I got out of it was good. If I was fooled by Brianna in some ways, oh well. Still a net positive, in my view.

I'm interested in your answers to these questions.

Thank you for the coherently phrased questions!

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What's with you and poop, bro?

I think poop jokes are funny. Some people like dick jokes. Others like puns. Some think that all of that is "bad manners". Everybody's different!

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Y'all seen to have noticed maybe 4-5 of them tops, which has a lot to do with my not taking enough pictures I guess.

This is fucking hilarious. If I'm the one sitting here screencapping all of John's social media posts and yet even I only know 5% of the supposed events that John is allegedly speaking at - AND our knowledge of the existence of even those events has been filtered through either you or Frank - how much work on this campaign is John actually doing? Unless of course you're straight up lying to my face but I'm agnostic on that one.

 

[W person cow]

This is fucking hilarious. If I'm the one sitting here screencapping all of John's social media posts and yet even I only know 5% of the supposed events that John is allegedly speaking at - AND our knowledge of the existence of even those events has been filtered through either you or Frank - how much work on this campaign is John actually doing? Unless of course you're straight up lying to my face but I'm agnostic on that one.

I thought the events were pretty exciting and mentioned most of them on social media. But then, I have no qualms about taking a goofy out-of-focus selfie at almost every "tiny" thing I go to. Whitman Democrats at 9am in a police station? Cool, I want a selfie! Raise Up Massachusetts phone banking event where no volunteers showed up? Cool, I want a selfie with the weird Republican dude!

But this is a "new politics" approach. It helped Ocasio-Cortez win, it helped Danica Roehm win, and it's helping a lot of progressives win with much less money than their opponents. The "old politics" approach, though, tells you "don't take a selfie unless it looks 'professional', you're doing something 'prestigious', or meeting with someone 'big'." Most consultants will tell you to do that, and haven't heard of the "new politics" approach. I never got Brianna fully on board with my views on that, although she definitely follows the "new politics" strategy of speaking extemporaneously, which is what first got me interested.

I have no qualms about taking a goofy out-of-focus selfie at almost every "tiny" thing I go to.

Let me amend that. Especially at first, at about 50% of the events, I would just make a snark post about it with no picture. But getting used to the selfies. It's good to document things

 

[ZKWNordman]

That's the opposite of Brianna. She said she wants to withhold federal funding from poor states that don't agree with her. She says it's "leverage". Essentially, rich people should dangle a carrot (carrot being food stamps, health care, etc) over poor people until they do exactly what she wants. How is that remotely progressive?

https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/817818177933574148
https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/817819493783244800

We don't have to talk about how her campaign is built around the tech industry. A predominately white male industry with loads of money. Or how she wants to give them incentives to come to her district. Presumably to gentrify it and price out her lower-class constituents.

You're not a fake progressive, you're a Facebook progressive. You have progressive beliefs, but you're not really going to stand up for them. You just want to take some photos, post them online, and revel in the likes and comments. If social media didn't exist, you wouldn't be involved in any of this.

Deep down you know Brianna is a fraud. But you can't risk losing that social media capital by saying it. Because in the end, that's what's important to you.

Warren, please address this. It’s one of the most recent, easiest to follow examples of Brianna’s fake progressive politics.

Another would be her love of drug courts.
https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/835123962266992642

 

[W person cow]

Warren, please address this.

I very much disagree with Brianna about this, and yes, I agree that punishing the poor is not progressive.

 

[ZKWNordman]

I very much disagree with Brianna about this, and yes, I agree that punishing the poor is not progressive.

Thanks. No more dank Brianna memes, then? This is probably one way in which Stephen Lynch is more progressive. I know you hate the guy, so if you lived in the district you’d probably vote Brianna — but does Brianna still meet your standard of a “true blue”?

Or will any old blue do for you?

 

[Caddchef]

I like @W person cow, he comes the belly of the beast and shitposts with the best of us, but as mentioned earlier he's just not lolcow material - to be frank he's kind of dull and a bit cringy at times.

I respect his decision to not come here and shitpost the Wus but equally it'd like him to see how badly he's been treated by the duo, oh well.

 

[W person cow]

Thanks. No more dank Brianna memes, then? This is probably one way in which Stephen Lynch is more progressive. I know you hate the guy, so if you lived in the district you’d probably vote Brianna — but does Brianna still meet your standard of a “true blue”?
Or will any old blue do for you?

Hmm...
-probably no more dank Brianna memes
-it's a stretch to say Stephen Lynch is more progressive about anything
-I would say that I'm "Bernie blue", which to me is the "truest" kind of blue, because it most resonates with me. But I think different people might have different views about what should be "true blue". To me the spectrum is like:
--radical third party left (Bernie in the early days. Greens. Etc.)
--dsa types, to the left of Bernie (Lee Carter, Bill Cimbrelo)
--Bernie Blue (me, Tulsi Gabbard, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
--More "moderate" progressive Bernie-like Blue (Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey)
--progressive-leaning neoliberals (Brianna, Kamala Harris, Katherine Clark)
--neoliberals (Joe Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer)
--corporate "moderate" democrats (Reed, Whitehouse and most of them)
--"conservative" democrats (Chris Voehl, Paul Condon)
--"DINO" democrats (Stephen Lynch, Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp, Neil Kinnon)
But I think that yes Brianna is much more "true blue" than the other two. Both in the sense of closer to Bernie Blue, and in the sense of "a typical normal non-DINO Democrat".
-No, any old blue will definitely not do, for me.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Have you or anyone else ever seen Frank with his mouth closed

 

[The Flynt's Stones]

Like that guy who got to be on a government nuclear panel with no knowledge, just by donating money to Hillary Clinton? Bad.

Ok, thanks for confirming so quickly. Sounds like we're on the same page here.

Yes. You sound like a trial lawyer. I did not get Brianna any job as a nuclear physicist, I got her gigs to talk about the issues, and she talked about some very important issues all over the 8th

Again, thanks for the quick response. Warren, I'm not suggesting you got her a job as a nuclear physicist. That would be absurd. What I did do, however (although not clearly enough it seems) was to attempt to help you look at what we're talking about from "outside the box" and frame the working relationship with you and John/Brianna by using an easy to understand analogy. In doing so, I hoped you would be able to draw a parallel between the two scenarios and better realise what some of us are getting at.

A person who has no formal training or experience whatsoever with nuclear physics or engineering (despite claiming to do so) and so no business being anywhere near a nuclear power station actually working as the manager of a nuclear power station, is a bad thing. It's also negligent on behalf of the recruitment consultant to actively and knowingly (or unknowingly) misrepresent the candidate as being suitable for the role. They have enabled someone highly incompetent to potentially take the helm in a job that has real world consequences for failure and poor performance. They should have done the necessary due diligence to realise the candidate was not up to the task and it damages their professional credibility as a company in the recruitment industry that they chose to represent such a bad candidate. Yes, the employer is also at fault too for hiring the candidate, but they rely on recruiters to do the necessary background checks and screen candidates that are appropriate for the role. From your answers you seem to have agreed with these statements.

OK. Let's spell this out.

A person who has no formal training or experience IN FUCKING ANY PROFESSION (despite claiming to do so) and so no business being anywhere near Congress actually being a member of Congress, is a bad thing. It's also negligent on behalf of the campaign team to actively and knowingly (or unknowingly) misrepresent the candidate as being suitable for the role. They have enabled someone highly incompetent to potentially take the helm in a job that has real world consequences for failure and poor performance. They should have done the necessary due diligence to realise the candidate was not up to the task and it damages their professional credibility as someone in politics that they chose to represent such a bad candidate. Yes, the voting public is also at fault too for voting in the candidate, but they rely on information from a political campaign to be accurate and truthful so they have the information they need to decide which candidate is appropriate for the role.

Do you agree with these statements also? If not, I'd love to know why.

Also if you're thick skinned sometimes but thin skinned others, you're thin skinned. To give you a scatological analogy since you seem to like poop: If you eat shit on some occasions but not others, you're still a shit eater.

 

[W person cow]

A person who has no formal training or experience IN FUCKING ANY PROFESSION (despite claiming to do so) and so no business being anywhere near Congress actually being a member of Congress, is a bad thing.

Clearly you have not met as many Congress members as I have, lol. These are not intelligent or competent people, they just play one on TV. They have pamphlets to make them sound smart. Written by lobbyists. I have some that the lobbyists in DC were foisting on me.

It's also negligent on behalf of the campaign team to actively and knowingly (or unknowingly) misrepresent the candidate as being suitable for the role. They have enabled someone highly incompetent to potentially take the helm in a job that has real world consequences for failure and poor performance. They should have done the necessary due diligence to realise the candidate was not up to the task and it damages their professional credibility as someone in politics that they chose to represent such a bad candidate. Yes, the voting public is also at fault too for voting in the candidate, but they rely on information from a political campaign to be accurate and truthful so they have the information they need to decide which candidate is appropriate for the role.

I feel like you are imagining Trump in your head here. I did not get Brianna elected President. What I did was help her for a while, find out more about her, and then get myself fired. If it took me a while before I bothered reading this obviously thirsty, edgelord, loldrama board which is covered in "joking racism" and "joking nazi memes", well that might have multiple causes. This board doesn't exactly appear so worth taking seriously to the casual observer, lol.

Also if you're thick skinned sometimes but thin skinned others, you're thin skinned. To give you a scatological analogy since you seem to like poop: If you eat shit on some occasions but not others, you're still a shit eater.

I laugh off criticism pretty easily, and I also cry easily about bizarre things. Describe that with whatever words you want. Maybe I'm "pony skinned"

Have you or anyone else ever seen Frank with his mouth closed

Lol sometimes.

Not trolling are you aware of Bernies history and his wife's thefts?

Lol yes I am well aware of the Burlington College BS. There were no actual thefts, just a local right wing blogger huffing some paint, which people try to make national hay out of. To very mixed success, lol.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Clearly you have not met as many Congress members as I have, lol. These are not intelligent or competent people, they just play one on TV. They have pamphlets to make them sound smart. Written by lobbyists. I have some that the lobbyists in DC were foisting on me.

"Other members of Congress are re,tarded so it's okay if I add another re,tarded person to Congress"

Truly the Kengle of local politics.

 

[W person cow]

"Other members of Congress are re,tarded so it's okay if I add another re,tarded person to Congress"

Truly the Kengle of local politics.

I don't know about what's "okay" or "not okay", but the "experience" and "expertise" arguments against political challengers are pretty thin. Ben Sasse said the Internet is a series of tubes, yet keeps getting re-elected
The fact is that most people who can get into office are there because of family money and ego, and no other reason.
I thought Brianna was different, but maybe she's not. Oh well. On to other, more local things

 

[Norvic]

The fact is that most people who can get into office are there because of family money and ego, and no other reason.

And Wu's trying to fix that by replacing one of the people in congress who doesn't come from money with her own rich, privileged, never worked a day in her entire miserable life ass.

That's worth a slow clap if anything is.

 

[The Flynt's Stones]

Ben Sasse said the Internet is a series of tubes, yet keeps getting re-elected

Ben Sasse doesn't claim to be a highly acclaimed tech mogul though does he? John "BIOS moonrock" Wu on the other hand...

Ben also graduated from Harvard and Yale. John spent 10 years pissing in the wind at ole miss before dropping out.

Ben also has a fairly accomplished resume spanning 15 years prior to becoming a senator. Johns entire resume on the other hand consists of a short stint at gamestop and then founding and subsequently cratering two "vanity project" companies, one in animation and one in video game software development. Both companies were complete commercial failures. Companies fail all the time, but it's important to note that John uses his failed companies extensively as a way of giving himself credibility.

"I am the head of a video game company". This is meaningful if your company had any industry footprint or success. What John actually means is that he sank $400,000 of someone elses money (some godzilla of tech feminism!- his words not mine) into a studio that underpaid and exploited several women in order to release a game on iOS that, despite immense, undeserved coverage from video game journalists, was a massive commercial flop. He then worked for 2+ years to port the game to windows, where it was critically panned and such a failure commercially that within 2 weeks of launch, steam showed zero concurrent players. The game was also so buggy that the final boss is impossible to beat.

Even using your example of an incompetent politician, he still stands fucking lightyears ahead of Wu.

Anyway, you dancing around my question earlier and just going straight into whataboutism tells me more than enough about how delusional you are. This just confirmed it.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I don't know about what's "okay" or "not okay", but the "experience" and "expertise" arguments against political challengers are pretty thin. Ben Sasse said the Internet is a series of tubes, yet keeps getting re-elected

So what you're saying is, purely in terms of qualifications and expertise, you're pretty happy with our current Congress?

Another question for you: what's the most money you ever saw Brianna spend in person, and what were the circumstances?