The Nyman Questioner (DFW BOMBSHELL)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

it is a flaming pile of sh*t.

That being said, is there any plan to make a replacement?

Considering the amount of time it took Congress to pass the Voting Rights Amendment, I presume this will be completed in time for the February 2027 elections.

Totally the Senate's fault by the way.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Swamp creatures of the world, unite!

For some reason the last few days I have been suppressing the urge to call you FreMinister or FreMinster. Does this have any connection to your status as a swamp creature?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Why is it that every time we get the Vice President doing his primary job "President of the Congress", someone finds some excuse to label the position "worthless". This was done in 2014 and it was against this backdrop that the rules were changed, the VP's role in the Senate eliminated, thereby creating a self-fullfiling prophesy.


Goldwater was the first Vice President to put forth any real significant effort to actually manage the relationship between the two chambers since the reset and succeed largely because of a bipartisan agreement on the need to reform the rules to 1) comply with the Constitution and 2) facilitate that process.

Also for those people citing the Succession Act, it establishes that the Speaker of the House on down would be "acting President", but does not establish any provision for a special election or limit on the term as Acting President. Meaning instead of an "unelected President for two months", you would have an unelected acting President for two months". Which functionally would be the same.

So the real story here is that Winfield, Poirot and Wells, just wanted me for two months instead of Fhtagn.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Perhaps this would be a good time to point that the Constitution doesn't even require advise and consent for the Vice Presidential appointment.


Yet so evil Goldwater, submitted Fhtagn and Fhtagn submitted PiT for such.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Lets just use it for storage.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

While in my opinion it does not lesson his achievements, nor lesson his deserving of recognition, it is pretty well established that according to his statements anyway, Lincoln was a white supremacist, as was probably a vast majority of whites at the time.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

While in my opinion it does not lesson his achievements, nor lesson his deserving of recognition, it is pretty well established that according to his statements anyway, Lincoln  North Carolina Yankee was a white supremacist, as was probably a vast majority of whites at the time.

Corrected.

Prove it Winny! Prove it!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

While in my opinion it does not lesson his achievements, nor lesson his deserving of recognition, it is pretty well established that according to his statements anyway, Lincoln  North Carolina Yankee was a white supremacist, as was probably a vast majority of whites at the time.

Corrected.

Prove it Winny! Prove it!

You prove it my friend.

You were the first to go down this slippery slope.

I stated a historical fact that is well supported.

You started down the slippery slope of lobbing insults. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So the real story here is that Winfield, Poirot and Wells, just wanted me for two months instead of Fhtagn.

BLATANT SLANDER! I would never want the Swamp King (back) in the executive branch! Not that the Marsh Dutchess is much better.

"It will take a crook to catch those crooks" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

So this begs the true question, why do you hate FDR? Do you like fascism?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So the real story here is that Winfield, Poirot and Wells, just wanted me for two months instead of Fhtagn.

BLATANT SLANDER! I would never want the Swamp King (back) in the executive branch! Not that the Marsh Dutchess is much better.

"It will take a crook to catch those crooks" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

So this begs the true question, why do you hate FDR? Do you like fascism?

I was casting my vote for Franklin with the famous New York governor in mind.

Sure, that is just what I would expect a fascist to say.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Indeed, my sources have told me the staff of Ms Taggins have snuck into Truman headquarters and stole copies on the platform the day before publication

Outrageous! I'm supposed to be the Nixon analogue in this election!

Besides who wants Truman's sloppy seconds anyway.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Indeed, my sources have told me the staff of Ms Taggins have snuck into Truman headquarters and stole copies on the platform the day before publication

Outrageous! I'm supposed to be the Nixon analogue in this election!

Besides who wants Truman's sloppy seconds anyway.

Y'all do, apparently.

If anything you are the ones stealing from us. Your slogan looks remarkably similar to the title of my announcement speech from October 2nd 2016, or was it October 3rd. "The Time is Now", versus "It's Time"

Deeply Disturbing!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Monstrously wrong typically has the same definition of inconvenient truth, especially if you just so happen to be one who finds it exceedingly inconvenient.


And then you realize why some consider me such a villain. 


I know too much. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Once again The Nyman Falsifier has purposely misrepresented the statements by mainstream Federalists into order to push their pro-Labor and pro-radical biases.


Nobody said anything about "holding the whole convention in September", in fact we have stuff planned right through the election. The entire purpose of the early primary was in fact to avoid a repeat of August, in which the last candidate to declare, got in the day before the election and the result was a Labor victory. It was thus mine and our desire, to have all Federal candidates declared and nominated by October 1st and, as you have pointed out, the Labor nomination is basically settled so delaying the nomination until the first week of October would give our candidate precisely a week and a half to catch up to Truman's Month long head start. Having started a Presidential candidacy from almost one month in the hole, I can tell you it is a handicap I don't want to see another Fed have to go through.

As for the matter of voters, I stood up for the recent influx and only relented regarding further registrations out of concern that there would be a flurry of last minute registrants beyond those that have already joined, by those seeking to alter the result so as to better enable a Truman victory by nominating the perceived "Weaker" candidate. On what planet is our party's leadership obligated to stand by and let our noble party with its valiant history be slain by rank subversion and sabotage?

Perhaps I would suggest the planet that this newspaper choose to reside 24/7, but sure as hell is not down to earth. And so I will give you the reality, as down to earth as I can. The Federalist Party is no Nobody's B3^#H. If these people are committed to being Federalists, they can still join and prove they were not just interested in destroying us, otherwise, they can...

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Once again The Nyman Falsifier has purposely misrepresented the statements by mainstream Federalists into order to push their pro-Labor and pro-radical biases.


Nobody said anything about "holding the whole convention in September", in fact we have stuff planned right through the election. The entire purpose of the early primary was in fact to avoid a repeat of August, in which the last candidate to declare, got in the day before the election and the result was a Labor victory. It was thus mine and our desire, to have all Federal candidates declared and nominated by October 1st and, as you have pointed out, the Labor nomination is basically settled so delaying the nomination until the first week of October would give our candidate precisely a week and a half to catch up to Truman's Month long head start. Having started a Presidential candidacy from almost one month in the hole, I can tell you it is a handicap I don't want to see another Fed have to go through.

As for the matter of voters, I stood up for the recent influx and only relented regarding further registrations out of concern that there would be a flurry of last minute registrants beyond those that have already joined, by those seeking to alter the result so as to better enable a Truman victory by nominating the perceived "Weaker" candidate. On what planet is our party's leadership obligated to stand by and let our noble party with its valiant history be slain by rank subversion and sabotage?

Perhaps I would suggest the planet that this newspaper choose to reside 24/7, but sure as hell is not down to earth. And so I will give you the reality, as down to earth as I can. The Federalist Party is no Nobody's B3^#H. If these people are committed to being Federalists, they can still join and prove they were not just interested in destroying us, otherwise, they can...

This is all very convincing, but anything Yankee says is false until proven true. I may be more inclined to believe this if it came from the mouth of someone more respectable, like Doof Liberty Lover.

Of course the real question here is who the hell is feeding you these talking points about Yankee being a liar?

I have known you for like a year, whereas my reputation for being "among the more respectable" operators on the right dates back eight years.

I cleaned up the corruption in the RPP and turned what was viewed as an oppressing elite run party by DWTL into a party where everyone was respected.

When I took over the Federalists I spent six months trying to clean up the "Me first, screw everyone else attitude" that was rampant in the party and was succeeding, until RL took me out of the picture for just long enough to let the cesspool return. But the good thing about "dead parties", the selfish types typically don't stick around so that false narrative did my work for me.

I am generally always the one telling everyone to calm the F down when they start fighting and working out people's differences and trying to get everyone to understand that if you candidate x supports y now, y will support you later on. But some see the backroom wheeling and dealing as more advantageous, even when the party gets screwed. Yet I am the dishonest one?

I spent a year fighting back against the Prairie socialist and his nationalization and centralist (Centralized state) agenda consistently and effectively while some happily endorsed and voted for the candidates who enabled it, only to then turn around and say I was not sufficiently conservative in the fight against socialism, and then in the height of surreal irony, elect even more socialists and centralists to the point where they had a supermajority. On some planet that makes sense, but I know not of it.

For the past four years, most all dishonesty has stemmed from one place and it is unfortunately basically the same source you get all your information, alternative facts and talking points from. When you understand that, you will realize you are being used by the very swamp creatures that always corrupt the system and why they always want to destroy me and the Federalist Party.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

You mean to tell me this pseudo journalistic backwater rag is still in operation?

No offence of course.

I am offended that you would you would use the same insult twice. Be more creative pls. I would suggest calling us the "epitome of fraudulent 'reporting'" next time.

As for the oakvale story, it turns out our source may have been a bit exaggerative. Good thing we didn't like run an entire smear story.

Yankee's most recent post above was also fantastic. He could write for the Questioner if he wasn't an icky lying swamp creature. ; )

Swamp King to you, I killed a lot of people to get this title. I deserve to called such.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Now I just need to find 17 and 18....

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I actually like a lot of this article, but I think we probably disagree on the solutions.

For one thing I would note, the present Chamber is I think overwhelmingly an appointed body because the last election had so many candidates that it spiked the size of the legislature beyond what the region could sustain. Several resignations happened and the end result is a chamber is mostly appointed and therefore all basically coming from the same mindset.

Now I am not sure who said that line about "other priorities" this is where the voters need to step up and say you can spend a couple weeks and put an arrangement in place for healthcare. My polls with Survey Atlasia just finished and there is a lot of different opinions on how to approach this. Regional Legislators need to start looking into this issue now and people need to rise up and demand that they do or run themselves for such office.

People are making a big mistake though, laying blame for this at the hands of the System and this is where Lumine and I fundamentally disagree. The same problem was present in the unicameral Chamber between 2009 and 2013 (I WAS THERE DAMN IT, I SAW IT!!!).  The problem with echo chamber consensus will be made worse if you cut the number of House seats, because it raises the quota beyond where more partisan candidates can compete, favoring moderates. And Regional Senate elections have always favored a narrow range of candidates in the center, with the exception being the Midwest where demographics where overwhelming to the left.

Removing the House, or cutting the house is the most counter productive thing you can do to address echo-chamber consensus.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I actually like a lot of this article, but I think we probably disagree on the solutions.

For one thing I would note, the present Chamber is I think overwhelmingly an appointed body because the last election had so many candidates that it spiked the size of the legislature beyond what the region could sustain. Several resignations happened and the end result is a chamber is mostly appointed and therefore all basically coming from the same mindset.

Now I am not sure who said that line about "other priorities" this is where the voters need to step up and say you can spend a couple weeks and put an arrangement in place for healthcare. My polls with Survey Atlasia just finished and there is a lot of different opinions on how to approach this. Regional Legislators need to start looking into this issue now and people need to rise up and demand that they do or run themselves for such office.

People are making a big mistake though, laying blame for this at the hands of the System and this is where Lumine and I fundamentally disagree. The same problem was present in the unicameral Chamber between 2009 and 2013 (I WAS THERE DAMN IT, I SAW IT!!!).  The problem with echo chamber consensus will be made worse if you cut the number of House seats, because it raises the quota beyond where more partisan candidates can compete, favoring moderates. And Regional Senate elections have always favored a narrow range of candidates in the center, with the exception being the Midwest where demographics where overwhelming to the left.

Removing the House, or cutting the house is the most counter productive thing you can do to address echo-chamber consensus.

I don't wish to disclose who said that since it was asked without being clear that I would use it for the Questioner so I'd feel uncomfortable (it was a question of genuine interest really) but that was someone who was elected, not an appointed member.

The problem of there being just an odd consensus on everything in Atlasia at the moment isn't just the South though; Wells did a study on it and found that there hadn't been a negative vote at all in the game - counting House, Senate and all four regions - in over a week; and that just these lengthy periods of seemingly no one disagreeing with anything surely can't be healthy.  The more concerning thing about the South isn't so much the consensus; its the fact that there have been several bills which have been introduced with support mentioned; then as soon as another delegate mentions their opposition there has been instant moves to table them.  That isn't good for the reasons that I think are very clear in the article.

I don't wish to talk about constitutional or institutional solutions since I wonder how effective they'll be - incidentally I also don't want to be the person moaning about all of this while not trying to fix it, hence why I'm running with a commitment for a full term if elected.  There is certainly a case for it though; considering the amount of double jobbing going around which is fundamentally a bad thing.  I think the fundamental thing is more that, well, its honestly not very interesting if everyone believes the same things and votes the same way, and just that lack of excitement drags away people.  I'd support reducing the number of offices if it also came along with a ban on double jobbing, or certainly having both a state and federal office at the same time.  I do think that its something that we need to have a game-wide debate involving everyone on though; rather than it being a decision of all of the institutions separately.

I applaud you in deciding to run and force a debate on healthcare.

I think it is matter of also the closeness. A lot of people are close to each other and there isn't the kind of passionate opposition because no one wants that to get in the way of shooting the sh**t on Southern chat at the end of the day.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This has actually been a problem that the game has faced for a long time; and is a large reason why people tend to lose interest in serving in the legislative branches of government.

The only major legislative battle; with rival groups being formed, intense whipping, public debates etc that I can recall has been when the federalists (and one former member of Labor) tried to introduce a constitutional amendment to ban abortion; and before that when a very restrictive anti-abortion bill passed through the House on a party vote (but was then heavily amendmended by Cris winning the senate seat)

There's a lack of civic society, or extra activity (pressure groups, trade unions etc) which has always blighted the two party system.

Frankly until a few days ago there has been a lack of any kind of activity on the AFE board and that is not healthy for the game. I have long pinned some of the blame for that on IRC as a lot of the back and forth that would have occurred previously in party threads or poll threads or newspaper threads gets exhausted on IRC.

Even during the first years of Mibbit Chat being a thing, this was not the case. It only came about in early 2015 when the active participants decline in number and those who remained were essentially the same people who frequently posted on Atlasforum. I made several posts noting the deadness of AFE board in early 2015 and the problems that it would lead to if not addressed. Perhaps you might recall them and how they were met with the same scorn and dismissive attitude most everything I did at time was met with by the establishment politics of the day.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I love how if you talk to one group, Yankee is the evil, crazy, manipulative SOB while DFW is the reasonable guy in the room.

If you talk to another group, Yankee is an ineffective old man completely out of touch with facts on the ground or willing selling himself out to the evil manipulative SOB that is DFW. This is the one that creates the odd couple of Adam and Lumine. And you thought the Love Tales of Hagrid and Griffin were bad, wait till you see Lumine-Griffin: 50 shades of Grey Addition!

Both seem to think they are 100% correct and both are willing to collaborate and support each other, despite the fact that these are incompatible theories.