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

[ZKWNordman]

Was #5 named Dominique? She was listed on the volunteer page and mentioned vaguely on your Facebook. She was my guess as to who the campaign manager was, but no one ever talked about her again. I guess this is why.

 

[Richard Stabone]

By the way, my friend from Weymouth (that I didn't say the name of) just quit the campaign recently too. Now he's working for Bob Massie instead. I don't know details but he says he "left for similar reasons that everyone else left."
He's not the same guy that Brianna yelled at about the car clutch. That was some different guy, who appears to be an unpaid volunteer.

That makes 6 campaign managers who quit or were fired in one campaign. Might be some kind of record?

Campaign manager #1: mysterious person, only heard about him or her in stories, fired after 2 months
#2: Frank. Did all the work of campaign manager but was not given that title. Lasted 11 months, replaced by me, kind of
#3: Imran aka Ponytail Guy. Found by me. Lasted 1 week, was fired.
#4: Me. Did all the work of campaign manager but was not given that title. Lasted... IDK, like 5 months? Depends how you look at it.
#5: ****** *******. A strong Latina woman. Quit after 1 month because Brianna "cannot listen or do simple tasks"
#6: ***** *******. My Weymouth friend. Quit after 1 month saying he "left for similar reasons that everyone else left."
Now I think we may be back to #2, Frank.

#1 doesn't exist.

Which one was Kate Garvey? She got paid a lot (well a lot for a Brianna Wu campaign worker).

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Yeah man you should write a book. It’s the perfect opportunity to steal Michael Scott’s book idea and have a picture on the cover of you shrugging and it’s called Somehow I Manage

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

Everyone says I'm not a cow but I'm classified by the site as a cow. Change my status to "horse" or "oxen"!

No, you're not classified as a cow; you are Verified. That's different. That just means we've confirmed that the person posting under your account and claiming to be you is actually you. You'd be surprised how many times we've had people jump in here claiming to be someone they're not.
Your privileges may have been locked because, and I mean no offense, people like you have an unfortunate habit of making 50 separate threads of content-free garbage in like 2 hours and shitting up the site, which is usually responded to with significant opposition. Sometimes, their ability to do so is removed as a preventative measure to protect them from themselves.
It's really not a slight on you, man, it's just a precaution for your own safety. You don't need 500 tryhards calling you 40 times a day to leave hatemail because you made a bunch of dumb threads on a whim. It's in your best interest.

By the way, my friend from Weymouth (that I didn't say the name of) just quit the campaign recently too. Now he's working for Bob Massie instead. I don't know details but he says he "left for similar reasons that everyone else left."
He's not the same guy that Brianna yelled at about the car clutch. That was some different guy, who appears to be an unpaid volunteer.

That makes 6 campaign managers who quit or were fired in one campaign. Might be some kind of record?

Campaign manager #1: mysterious person, only heard about him or her in stories, fired after 2 months
#2: Frank. Did all the work of campaign manager but was not given that title. Lasted 11 months, replaced by me, kind of
#3: Imran aka Ponytail Guy. Found by me. Lasted 1 week, was fired.
#4: Me. Did all the work of campaign manager but was not given that title. Lasted... IDK, like 5 months? Depends how you look at it.
#5: ****** *******. A strong Latina woman. Quit after 1 month because Brianna "cannot listen or do simple tasks"
#6: ***** *******. My Weymouth friend. Quit after 1 month saying he "left for similar reasons that everyone else left."
Now I think we may be back to #2, Frank.

This is actually interesting.
#5 is particularly of note. What would your response to it be? Would you agree that certain, simple tasks are beyond Brianna to do in a reasonable timeframe? You've mentioned she can't answer emails or phone calls with any regularity. Would you say this is a fair assessment?

Also, you don't need to be so worried about protecting their identities and keeping us off them. We aren't interested in doxing or attacking everyone who ever worked with Brianna Wu. As we've said, Brianna is what we're looking into, but we're not savages. Going around and attacking every poor asshole unfortunate enough to work with her is a bad look and a waste of time.
We've gone on record saying that we believe most of the people she's duped are victims of her, yourself included.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I gotta ask in all sincerity, is there something in the water in Massachusetts? Not to attack anyone, but how could anyone actually meet a Wu and think “this is a winning ticket! Sign me up!” Warren and to some extent Frank are at least appealing in their own way. But Brianna just radiates a degree of fakery that cannot be ignored. How does she get 6 people to buy into it?

You know... it's a fair question. Massachussetts is a weird place, it thinks of itself as extremely liberal but it's got those weird pilgrim roots. It leads to some frankly bizarre politics. You end up with people like Ted Kennedy and Elizabeth Warren. For some reason we like our governors republican, but everything else democrat. When it comes to super racist 'liberals', MA has got it in spades.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

We've always suspected it was this dysfunctional just from the side effects, but seeing what's actually going on has been a real blast. My only question now is how did Amanda Warner and Maria Enderton stick it out long enough to ship R60? What special sauce did they have that enabled them to cope with Wu's ego and micromanagerial tendencies?

You'd be surprised at how much a person can tolerate just for a chance to pursue an interest of theirs.

With Warner, I kind of suspected that Brianna was dangling the golden carrot of Cupcake Crisis. If I remember right, that was Warner's game idea and I imagine the Wus kept her around with the idea that once all the work was finished with Rev60, they'd go right to Amanda's project. Of course, we know how that turned out.

As for this mysterious first manager, didn't Brianna name one of her pals in Oregon or wherever really early on as a campaign manager? I swear, I remember a tweet like that because of how stupid it was to have a campaign manager that:

A. Has no connections with the state or local politics.
B. Doesn't even live in the state.

EDIT: Here's a question for Warren - other than Frank, did anyone have a title given to them?

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

By the way, my friend from Weymouth (that I didn't say the name of) just quit the campaign recently too. Now he's working for Bob Massie instead. I don't know details but he says he "left for similar reasons that everyone else left."
He's not the same guy that Brianna yelled at about the car clutch. That was some different guy, who appears to be an unpaid volunteer.

That makes 6 campaign managers who quit or were fired in one campaign. Might be some kind of record?

Campaign manager #1: mysterious person, only heard about him or her in stories, fired after 2 months
#2: Frank. Did all the work of campaign manager but was not given that title. Lasted 11 months, replaced by me, kind of
#3: Imran aka Ponytail Guy. Found by me. Lasted 1 week, was fired.
#4: Me. Did all the work of campaign manager but was not given that title. Lasted... IDK, like 5 months? Depends how you look at it.
#5: ****** *******. A strong Latina woman. Quit after 1 month because Brianna "cannot listen or do simple tasks"
#6: ***** *******. My Weymouth friend. Quit after 1 month saying he "left for similar reasons that everyone else left."
Now I think we may be back to #2, Frank.

Thanks for the update. It's not surprising at all... really it's surprising that you stuck with it so long. I understand that you really really wanted to believe that despite her being evil and a complete failure at everything and a narcissist to boot, that she actually be able to follow through with all the buzzword topic-of-the-day progressive causes that she pretended to fight for. And you probably didn't have any other options for employment at the time.

Any chance you think on steering these latter workers here to provide their own stories about Wu? Besides entertaining us, the more that gets out about how fake and awful Brianna is, the less chance people in the future have of wasting their time and shitting up their resume by being "on her team." I don't mean forcing anybody to do anything, just maybe make them aware that we are interested in hearing their take on the topic. Might help them to blow off some steam. I imagine they are still shaking every night, waking up in a sweat, having that same recurring dream of a giant troon godzilla of tech trashing their city.

 

[Kosher Dill]

having that same recurring dream of a giant troon godzilla of tech trashing their city.

That was no dream, it was a campaign ad.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

You know... it's a fair question. Massachussetts is a weird place, it thinks of itself as extremely liberal but it's got those weird pilgrim roots. It leads to some frankly bizarre politics. You end up with people like Ted Kennedy and Elizabeth Warren. For some reason we like our governors republican, but everything else democrat. When it comes to super racist 'liberals', MA has got it in spades.

Delving into Mass politics is a great primer for understanding how nearly the entirety of government is based on bringing in money to your constituents and indiscriminate revenge. The most recent object lesson being the Marty Meehan and Tom Finneran shitfight and the sordid fallout that came with it.

Also, the reason we keep getting Republican governors is likely because MassGOP only spends money on the governor's race, except for that special election where the snuck Brown in while the Dems touted that cunt from MassPort. Also, no serious Democrat wants the governor's seat, as that's a dead end job.

And while it certainly appears like a horribly racist place, a lot of people don't take into account that every Masshole hates the people who moved into that new residential neighborhood 20 years ago, everyone that has anything to do with their town government/civil servants, every human being in the six closest neighboring towns, the very existence of those neighboring towns, anyone who lives on the Cape, the New York hillbillies from western Mass, all the Jews in Newton and Brookline, every cop working a detail and fucking up traffic, all the staties, anyone that has ever allowed a car to merge from an on-ramp onto the highway anywhere inside 128 and, finally, every teenager alive. So, while Sully might look askance at the boogies and use the word "Nigger" when he's drinking with the boys, he's really got way too much on his plate to dedicate time to disenfranchising the black race. Also, we learned a long time ago that not burning the hispanics out of the neighborhood allows for some great summer parties.

 

[AnOminous]

Delving into Mass politics is a great primer for understanding how nearly the entirety of government is based on bringing in money to your constituents and indiscriminate revenge. The most recent object lesson being the Marty Meehan and Tom Finneran shitfight and the sordid fallout that came with it.

This may look terrible but is actually a good thing. Everyone hates pork barrel politics when someone else is getting the pork, but if your local House Rep isn't bringing home the bacon you're going to fire that fucker.

This is why incumbents with seniority stick around regardless of what party they are. They have positions on the committees that dole out money to the shit that employs their constituents, and nobody wants to rock the boat. For every crock of shit Congress squabbles about even on its worst day, there are a dozen committee and subcommittee meetings nobody knows a thing about and quite often, that shit is actually going pretty smoothly.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

It's been wonderful having an inside view of Brianna's adventures. Thanks, Warren.

We've always suspected it was this dysfunctional just from the side effects, but seeing what's actually going on has been a real blast. My only question now is how did Amanda Warner and Maria Enderton stick it out long enough to ship R60? What special sauce did they have that enabled them to cope with Wu's ego and micromanagerial tendencies?

I presume being a woman is a big part of surviving Wu, as you skip out on a lot of Wu's hostility to menfolk. I presume another part of it is to never expect Wu to do any work, and just do it yourself wherever practical.

Even more than ever, this campaign deserves a book about it. Seriously consider it, Warren. You've got all these friends you can interview who must have some hilarious anecdotes about working for Wu.

It also confirms that Brianna is a lazy narcissist. I don’t know how she ever managed to ship rev60 when everyone on her team hated her.

 

[$hakerattle]

What information do you want? Her twitter is public and her whole career is based on trolling Gamergate.


Fuck English grammar. Is féidir le gramadach Béarla póg mo thóin!


Aww, thanks!


Well for starters, she's fond of "agile standups". Or at least what she calls agile standups. Whoever invented those should be punished.
Basically her version of an agile standup goes like this:
(phone call wakes me up)
B: Good morning Warren, are you ready for your agile standup?
W: Oh God no. Hold on, I'll just get my coffee.
B: Okay fine but Kate has been up working since 8am. Call me back.
(I scramble to find my notes from the previous day which I spent 2 hours at the end of every day writing. Basically an attempt to prove I was working by listing all the things I did. I call back.)
W: Okay I'm ready
B: Okay, what did you do yesterday?
W: Well let's see, so I talked to the folks at Our Revolution Boston...
B: Why are you still talking to them?
W: Um so that maybe they will endorse you?
B: What good are endorsements?
W: They get you votes, volunteers and sometimes money? So ORMA modified the endorsement process now and here is the procedure and what you need to do...
B: Warren, endorsements are your job not mine. I need to be on the phone raising money. And frankly I don't think they are a good use of YOUR time.
W: Okay well I'm glad to work on anything you send me to work on. What should I work on?
B: What do YOU think you should work on?
W: Well, endorsements, events...
B: Why haven't you set up any events?
W: Well there are actually events every day this week and next week and they're all in the calendar, color coded...
B: Warren it does me no good for you to just dump events in a calendar with no explanation. I need to be able to decide which ones I want to go to and which ones I don't. Which ones do YOU think are important?
W: Well, all of them, pretty much. I can explain them to you right now, I have my notes in front of me here...
B: Warren I spent 2 hours with that Boy Scout guy and an hour back and forth commuting, and it got me nothing. I need you to book me events that are actionable.
W: Well you probably got about 40 votes in Whitman just by sitting down with him. The whole town is talking about it. And if you would call him back about the merit badge thing...
B: Oh right, the merit badge thing. Yeah I should do that. If I don't do that in the next few days, remind me.
W: Okay well here's his number again.
B: I don't know, Warren. He's a right winger. I need votes from Democrats who will vote in the Primary, not long conversations with white dudes trying to tell me that Trump is "sometimes okay".
W: Brianna every Democrat in Whitman, Abington and East Bridgewater knows him. Every Independent knows him. Heck, Republicans. everybody. He got fricking Geoff Diehl elected, who was a fricking sign painter before that. Independents can vote in the Primary too. And they vote based on local issues. The local scouts. Jobs. Teaching the kids to code. You talked to him for two hours about it, I thought you were interested.
B: There's no need for you to be mansplaining at me right now.
W: I don't mean to mansplain. Should I tell you the rest of what I did yesterday?
B: Yes, go ahead.
W: So I talked to the folks at Planned Parenthood. They said that whereas state rep candidates can get a state level endorsement, federal candidates like you have to come by their DC office. They asked when you're "next going to be in DC". You don't have plans to be in DC soon do you?
B: Well I'll go there for Planned Parenthood!
W: Okay. Here's their number if you want to call, or I will call.
B: It's your job to call.
W: Okay so when should I tell them you'll be down in DC?
B: Well I could figure that out if you would SET UP A CALENDAR!
W: I have a very detailed Google calendar which I wish you would look at. And if somebody could please explain to me how to set up iCal, I could do an iCal calendar, I guess?
B: I'm not your tech support, Warren. And I've told you a bunch of times that Google is not secure. I have hackers coming after me literally every day. And if I'm going to work with you, I need you to take that seriously.
W: Are you saying you want to fire me?
B: Well honestly this last month has been very frustrating. I'm paying you all this extra money and I'm not seeing any results.
W: Well so can we either talk about these events or can you call these people back?
B: What people?
W: Well (state rep, name redacted), (progressive organization), (3 city councillors), (another progressive organization)...
B: Warren you can't just fire off these names at me. I need them in an organized list.
W: Okay I'll get to work on that.
B: So that's all you did yesterday? One phone call to Our Revolution Boston and one to Planned Parenthood? That sounds like 20 minutes of work to me. What did you do the entire rest of the 8 hour day?
W: Well okay let's see, so I think I solved the mystery of the East Bridgewater Democrats...
B: What? Why did you do that?
*****
on and on like this for 2 hours each morning. Followed by 4 hours of actual work, and then 2 more hours putting that work into sound bite form for tomorrow's "agile standup" makes an 8 hour day that sounds like 4 hours to Brianna. If she will even listen to it at all. And so then the next day's standup is even more hostile. Rinse, repeat. Most days it was 12 hours. In April it was 16. But at least there were no "standups" then...
I found myself thinking fondly of the previous quarter making 70 cents an hour for 16 hour days that Brianna thought were 6 hour days, and she still had to admit I was being underpaid for even 6 hour days. Because at least back then I was able to get some actual campaign work done and not spend half my time justifying the other half.
***
After a couple weeks of this, Brianna became convinced that "some people are just not cut out for the startup lifestyle". And I guess so, if other startups are like that. Yikes. But she went on to say that startups are high-pressure, very demanding and unforgiving, and I must be just used to ordinary 9 to 5 office jobs. I was like "um, I put 3 shows on television, including one with a 2-week episode turnaround, and I made 4 feature films. I know what a high-pressure environment is like. But in filmmaking, people TRUST each other and HAVE FUN together."
Or actually I hear there is a lot of distrust and hostility on many LA sets. But Boston indie filmmakers are pretty much a koom ba yah hugbox love fest. And despite my exploratory stint into talk radio and politics, which can be very "tough guy" fields, I do prefer an environment of optimism and trust more. Maybe that's spoiled, I don't know. I don't expect to find such an environment in the City Council if I run. But I would hope to have one with my campaign staff.
***
Anyway, long rambling answer I guess. Another thing she did was say I "can't handle taking orders from a female boss."
I know we all have residual unconscious biases. But I'd like to think that if a male boss was like that, I would freak out just as much?


Very nice, they are cute little things. It was just a small nip, no broken skin. They are kind of excitable and Frank let them all in at once and they got all excited and like rushed me, and I bent down for one to sniff my hand and he jumped up and bit my hand.

Wow

What I got from this is that Brianna is just a hateful, narcissistic pos.

You're much better off now. I bet she obsesses over this thread as much as her own, now. I'll be happy when her classist, narcissistic ass finally loses.

 

[W person cow]

Was #5 named Dominique? She was listed on the volunteer page and mentioned vaguely on your Facebook. She was my guess as to who the campaign manager was, but no one ever talked about her again. I guess this is why.

I never met Dominique, although Brianna mentioned her a lot. No, #5 was somebody else.

 

[Karellen]

Any insight on Ward 19 & 11 @W person cow ? Sounds like they didn’t even consider endorsing her at all.

 

[W person cow]

Any insight on Ward 19 & 11 @W person cow ? Sounds like they didn’t even consider endorsing her at all.

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That means she didn't apply. And she fired her main endorsements guy (me).
Which is sad because Wards 11 and 19 are JP. Pretty much the progressive center of the district, about 45% black and 30% white hippies, and the main epicenter of where Stephen Lynch is known as a racist.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

The "epicenter of where Stephen Lynch is known as a racist" but they can't even muster 60% of the opposition to go for an opposition candidate. lol. Guess even being a "known racist" isn't enough to mobilise the core of the progressive bloc, probably because they're too busy shitposting on the Twatter while queueing up for their artisanal lattes.

 

[AnOminous]

Any insight on Ward 19 & 11 @W person cow ? Sounds like they didn’t even consider endorsing her at all.

I know who's ahead, though.

Spoiler

JEB!

 

[W person cow]

The "epicenter of where Stephen Lynch is known as a racist" but they can't even muster 60% of the opposition to go for an opposition candidate. lol. Guess even being a "known racist" isn't enough to mobilise the core of the progressive bloc, probably because they're too busy shitposting on the Twatter while queueing up for their artisanal lattes.

Or maybe, y'know, Chris Voehl did zero campaigning there until a few weeks ago.
If you think progressive blocs should magically mobilize themselves, you have a lot in common with Brianna

 

[Kosher Dill]

Or maybe, y'know, Chris Voehl did zero campaigning there until a few weeks ago.

I'm honestly surprised he showed his face at all.
Any idea what his deal is or why he just dumped 50 grand of his own money into a ghost campaign?

 

[Peace and Harmony]

If you think progressive blocs should magically mobilize themselves, you have a lot in common with Brianna

Fair point, but one that I think is more applicable if one is talking about something like school vouchers or trash ordinances rather than existential and moral threats posed by supposed white supremacists.