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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
the OP really doesn't need to be anything more than "Bernie woulda won"

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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/874781466517016578

https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/874606714678542337

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
has anyone asked Ro Khanna about Pelosi yet?

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

well at least they're admitting he's a Jew now

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/ldrinkh20/status/877550262386401280

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

UHD posted:

still waiting for someone to try my campaign-by-megaphone idea

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EN_VBc98dzg

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

So would a sales tax but for the seller work? That way corporations pay taxes on sales in the country and can't do shenigans to obscure their global profit to avoid taxes

Like most people I don't understand taxes so if this is dumb as hell I am sorry

some sort of tax on the value added at each
layer of the supply chain perhaps 🤔

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
It's also a good idea to have multiple, redundant data centers so that you can continue to provide service if something goes wrong at one of them or there's a weather emergency that takes it offline. For example, Amazon's US East cluster went offline earlier this year due to an employee making changes in the configuration that they shouldn't have, but the US West cluster was humming along all day.


Unless Ossoff was talking about getting rid of the massive facility the NSA built in Utah to store all our phone calls. We can probably get rid of that one.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/YALiberty/status/877904286025367553

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

paranoid randroid posted:

I just googled that second fellow and you guys are never gonna believe what I learned

something about the relative fleet-footedness of certain groups?

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

consumed by normies posted:

wonder where the ron paul blimp is now

“I understand that the money is spent. We had a pretty good run with it. IT was a great endeavor! Now, let's just let the dust settle and move on to other things.” Mike writes, “Let it go. Let's move on. We have politicians to defeat and causes to further.”

So……..why did this story even need to be written? Why can't we “just let the dust settle and move on”? Why should the grassroots or the Freedom Movement even care?

The Freedom Movement spent nearly $600,000 on the blimp. They should know what happened to their money. What's more, Trevor Lyman is now asking for the same people to make him and Rick Williams instant millionaires in an attempt to “Break the Matrix”, Jerry Collette is asking for people to support his newly formed Libertarian Legal without many details as to what the company does or how it is structured and Katharine Memole is starting a 501 (c) (4) not-for-profit organization and asking people to donate to her project as well. The grassroots WILL give money to these people again. Where will it go? Who gets rich? Who gets results?

The Ron Paul Mobile Rally Crew was with the blimp during much of it's journey. Here is what they had to say about the project.

“Throughout December 2007, RPMRC had been working 14-20 hours daily, 7 days weekly, on a low budget stipend. Our crew left their jobs, homes family community and friends to support Ron Paul !

We had been recruited by one of the principle owners/agent of the RON PAUL BLIMP. He committed to us modest salaries and Per Diem to travel and rally with the blimp and/or equivalent media activity – the latter of which we were obliged to attempt without support and adequate resources with which to make it effective.

In short, due to power struggles between Trevor Lyman, Elijah Lynn and Jerry Collette, our mission was doomed as Trevor and Elijah refused to support us.

Finally, we were left stranded 680 miles away from home without funding for fuel for the U-Haul and truck carrying our valuable instruments and equipment and horse. Friend/associate, Kevin Innis placed personal money in my personal account for fuel money to get us home.

Not paid our final salaries, I was left to work an additional 3 days, plus shorted 1000k pay. Two weeks later, Trevor motions to support us cos of contractual agreement, Two weeks too LATE. Meanwhile, I lost my home.”

Ready for some more facts Freedom Movement? I think we need some answers from Lyman…..NOW! Things are starting to look pretty ugly!

“Dear Google Account holder: We've received a request to change the email address associated with your Google Account from: jerrycollette@EDIT.net to: trevorml@EDIT.net.” – December 9, 2007.

“I did not initiate this! Please freeze the account ASAP!!!!” – Jerry Collette writing to Google, December 9, 2007

“If you agree to this and do not freeze the Google account then we agree to forfeit our shares of Liberty Political Advertising, LLC. Once the money has been transferred to AMS we will return control of the Google Checkout Account to your possession.” – Elijah Lynn writing to Collette on December 10 2007.

Most of the people directly involved with the project agree, this is the point where all trust was lost between the principles of Liberty Political Advertising. When Lyman moved the money, Collette called foul and tried to freeze the company account. Lyman and Lynn walked away from the blimp company and gave full ownership and control to Collette.

Lyman then started using assets collected by Liberty Political Advertising to start his own blimp company. A few of the assets misappropriated by Lyman at that time were: The Ron Paul Blimp domain, The SSL certificate , the Liberty Political Advertising legal team and the Project Manager for the Ron Paul Blimp.

“They (Lyman and Lynn) announced that they were doing their own blimp advertising company. They were doing this tortuously interfering with the company's contracts.” said Collette. “Also, if they intended to do this all along, when they did the termination agreement, it was fraud in the inducement.”

On December 18, 2007 Trevor Lyman wrote: “What we intend to do is comply with our written and signed agreement. We'll give you a link as agreed and a link to an explanation of what has happened as agreed. We'll give up control of the blimp as agreed. We'll give you any money we have earned as of this morning at 12:01am and stop using the SSL cert. At this point we intend to start our own blimp advertising business using the domain RonPaulBlimp.com.”

Lyman promised to give Collette access to company transaction records and data-base. Another promise broken…….

“I have been asking for almost two weeks now to see our transaction records of purchases. Why have they not been provided? Nobody has even been willing to tell me what fields we have and what format they are in. Is somebody hiding something?

What about the PayPal account? Where is that money. Has Trevor or anybody else sent any company sales receipt money anywhere else?” – Collette in an email to: James Fosbinder, Trevor Lyman, Elijah Lynn , Joe Amidon and Katharine Memole on January 28, 2007.

Katharine Memole, Project Manager for the Blimp, confirmed the fact that the Ron Paul Blimp project is completely paid for. She and Collette also said the blimp will not fly again. For some reason however, the Ron Paul Blimp website, which is owned by Lyman, is asking for donations to pay off the last of the airship bills and to fund a future trip.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

raandy was responsible for the best troll of 2016, so I support them campaign

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
this is me

https://twitter.com/thebestkiril/status/878420009147617280

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
turns out we do miss him yet

https://twitter.com/gumby4christ/status/878246844551319554

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
my prediction is that neither Hillary nor Bernie will launch a formal 2020 campaign

my track record with predictions in 2016 was extremely good btw

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

anime was right posted:

joementum, real talk, what are your current bets for 2020? i know nothing matters, but you know a lot about politics and have better opinions than most people imo

I think Ted Cruz is going to run. No idea about the Democrats though.

Bernie might if it's like Booker vs Cuomo but I think he stays out if there's someone at least aping his agenda and I think there will be.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
can't wait for Eric Garland to start showing up at random Pizza Ranches

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
oh right, I forgot. it's gonna be zuck and we're all hosed

https://twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/878447102384369668

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
I can't wait to learn why I'm racist and hate women because I'm against the Zuckerberg 2020 campaign. Gonna be wild.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Venom Snake posted:

Virgil Texas has a higher chance of winning the democratic primary than zuck does.

I would vote for Virgil

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
for some, it will be an awful downgrade. I'm talking about people who like to compare plans on the he open market and read their explanation of benefits forms to figure out whether the co-insurance rate is bumping up against deductible limits and maybe they should put more in the health savings account next year for the tax savings.

we need to be mindful of how much single payer will hurt these people.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
single payer would be a huge boon for business which would no longer have to worry about contracting to offer insurance to employees

might result in higher payroll tax tho

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
one thing we need to consider is that single payer won't solve racism

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
I don't want Trump's kids to get free healthcare.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
joy doesn't seem to know that the emo girl is the hero of every one of these movies

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/878656292688199680

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
the teachers are Russia and the evil vice principal is putin, that much is obvious

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/878630411412406272

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

probably not. it's fight for who gets the blame for the school failing between her and her successor who also happens to be the VT Trump campaign chair.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
oh no not ~*~the optics~*~

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

DaveWoo posted:

Nevertheless, I think we can all agree that the Democratic party should now distance itself from Bernie, lest Republicans use him as a way to attack Dem candidates.

but I have heard he isn't a democrat

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

they should be called the Snowflakes

seriously that would be a good name for a left-wing terror group

don't need to be a weatherman to see the snow's white

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
connect the dots sheeple

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/878766740779479041

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/immolations/status/879006766897537029

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
:thunk:

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/879032604539990016

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
would be interesting to know which economic message wall streets favorite senator wants to pursue

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Venom Snake posted:

Honest Question: What do you think caused him to go from "For ever blue collar vote we lose....." to backing Ellison and actually being self aware about the partys failings?

I think he's tactically smart and saw that the previous political strategy wasn't working and that, since he's in the minority and that's not changing for a while, he can afford to be more aggressive about appealing to the party base.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
I am now a Stachebro

https://twitter.com/IronStache/status/878761280546504704

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
these are all me

https://twitter.com/ConnorSouthard/status/879067959557324803

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/879069499487641601

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

loquacius posted:

Wait, are Louise Mensch and Joy Reid beefing, and if so why

If they're not both wrong I have no way of knowing which one is right :ohdear:

Mensch probably said that Joy is a secret Russian agent

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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/IronStache/status/879086983145979905

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