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There Are Ajit Pai 'Verizon Puppet' Jokes That the FCC Doesn't Want You To Read (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission is refusing to release the draft versions of jokes told by Chairman Ajit Pai at a recent dinner, claiming that releasing the drafts would "impede the candid exchange of ideas" within the commission. In December, Pai gave a speech at the annual FCC Chairman's Dinner and played a video that attempts to lampoon critics who accuse Pai of doing the bidding of Verizon, his former employer. The video was shown less than a week before the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality rules, a favorable move for the broadband industry requested by Verizon and other ISPs. The satirical skit shows Pai planning his future ascension to the FCC chairmanship with Verizon executive Kathleen Grillo in 2003, the last year Pai worked as a Verizon lawyer. The video shows Pai and the Verizon executive plotting to install a "Verizon puppet" as FCC chair. In response, Gizmodo filed a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request for "any communications records from within the chairman's office referencing the event or the Verizon executive," the news site wrote yesterday. "Nearly a dozen pages worth of emails were located, including draft versions of the video's script and various edits," Gizmodo wrote. "The agency is refusing to release them, however; it is 'reasonably foreseeable,' it said, that doing so would injure the 'quality of agency decisions.'" The FCC searched for the records in response to Gizmodo's request and "returned no communications whatsoever with Kathy Grillo," the article said.
(or Verizon, AT&T etc delete as appropriate) these will not be released any time short of a Trump election for a 3rd Term.
In otherwords, never.
Never say never
Fucking Corporate Cunts
There Are Ajit Pai 'Verizon Puppet' Jokes That the FCC Doesn't Want You To Read
The real question is: will #4 shock me?
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Governmental agencies have rued the day the FOIA was implemented. Over the years, there have been many attempts to subvert the legislation's intent, from slow response times & outrageous fees per page of document, to redaction of nearly an entire requested page.
This excuse smells like, "We don't even think enough of your request to give it thoughtful rejection."
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
It's a good thing there aren't other people in power positions like that in our government! ;) #ShowUsTheGirthCertificate
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
He's pretty well photographed, they could simply 3D model him and get a weight and height estimate.
The money shot: nobody is willing to vote them out
Nothing else counts until that issue is acknowledged and addressed.
WE are the chairman of the FCC!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Nut nutrality is dead, get over it snowflakes.
New hashtag
# Blank Check Republicans
A bullet may have your name on it, but artillery is addressed to " Whom It May concern"
To quote Gizmodo. "The agency is refusing to release them, however; it is 'reasonably foreseeable,' it said, that doing so would injure the 'quality of agency decisions.'"
^ That implies that Ajit Pai should step down as his conduct has resulted in a situation which has already injured the quality of agency decisions.
The real question is: will #4 shock me?
You wont believe what happens next!
"His name was James Damore."
Looks like you got down-modded by capitalist pigs. Not surprising on this shit site.
Especially when its an admission of huilt to felonny corption and treason! Yay Republicans!!
Obama never had trillion dollar deficits, the deficits during his presidency were holdovers from when the Bush administration was charging things to the national credit card without including them in the budget. Exclude the spending that Obama was obligated to make because of the wars and the economy that Bush crashed and he'd be nowhere near trillions in budget dollars.
Face it, the GOP never cared about the budget, they just get upset whenever people who aren't already massively wealthy get something from the government. The GOP hasn't had a President that left office without debt since Eisenhower. It's always the Democrats that get stuck balancing the budget and paying off the debt while the GOP throws stones and tries to blow it up as best they can.
It's sure a good thing you spent trillions on welfare for the rich and corporates. That'll totally make your healthcare and education systems great again! Topkek.
People get a 2nd vote with their Dollars
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
Somebody could make quite a bit of money selling 'Ajit Pai' string puppets, along with recordings of the advertising jingles of the big ISP's. "Make the FCC dance just like Verizon does" is one possible advertising slogan for the next fad toy. I'll bet Amazon could sell truckloads of them - especially if the toy comes with instructions for making the puppet bend over and spread its cheeks.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
A good start!
#5 Only CNN approved Democrats are allowed to joke around. Republicans can suck it.
Needs to just quit.
Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
Congrats! Looked like you used one simple trick to reap karma the mods don't want you to know about!!1!
Obama's trillion dollar deficits.
Thank God George W. Bush didn't run up any trillion dollar deficits or we'd be fucked, right? And we can all thank our lucky stars Donald Trump would never sing a bill which would add to our deficits because only Obama would do that.
Partisan much?
They can tell whatever jokes they want, but if they want to do it on the clock at an official function then we get to read them.
You forgot "First president to unit the racists across the country together to spread lies and distortions of the truth about him", which is odd because you're doing just that.
Obama isn't in office, so stop trying to use his presidency to defend the GOP's attempts to impose a neo-nazi regime on the country.
Citation Needed
Government officials shouldn't even joke publicly about their potential biases. What if a Verizon competitor would suddenly lose their sense of humor and sue the US government for apparent bias? Do US senators and congressmen regularly joke about ongoing or potentially coming bribery investigations too?
[...] it is 'reasonably foreseeable,' it said, that doing so would injure the 'quality of agency decisions.'"
Know what else could “injure” the “quality” of agency “decisions”?!? Putting Ajit Pai in charge of the FCC, predictably, and sure-enough... when will the incompetent/evil/vicious/stupid/bad-governance-on-purpose/corrupt nightmare END?
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
Uhh, you (USofA) have already overspent and now you and Trump want to shift more burden onto the next generations...
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
This admin to be over. White House Down is much worse in real life.
Essentially all governments overspend. At some point this stops working and there's a currency collapse. Sometimes a major one, sometimes a minor one.
The thing to notice is that it's the Republicans, who talk about small government, who are worst at managing the budget. Occasionally a Democrat will even manage to reduce the deficit. There are two reasons for this (that I know of and believe):
1) The Republicans are less willing to tax the rich, so the income to the government decreases.
2) The Republicans are more tied to those who benefit from the government owing them money. Holders of Treasury bonds, etc.
These two reasons don't seem sufficient, so I'm rather certain that there are other causes. For one thing, the Democrats are much more willing to spend money on social projects, and yet they are the party that has repeatedly decreased the deficit. So something unobserved is going on.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
That's not only predictable, it was predicted.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Congress passes budgets, not the President. Read the Constitution.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
refusing to release the draft versions of jokes told by Chairman Ajit Pai ... claiming that ... would "impede the candid exchange of ideas" ...
(I thought the only bad joke at the FCC *was* Ajit Pai.)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Ajit Pai: If you don't want people to characterize you as an industry puppet, don't be an industry puppet.
It's not that complicated.
Klonopin needed
If you'd read any summary of the law instead of just quote shit frmo Gizmodo,, you'd know that draft manuscripts are specifically exempted as the release of drafts would "impede the candid exchange of ideas." ... that's the phrase they're required, by law, to put on their rejection, as they're not allowed to release draft documents for specifically that reason.
But go ahead, take a quote out of context because the puppeteers told you to.
This is silly. Of course the GOP cares about deficits. They always cause them to increase so they can use it as an excuse to slash social programs.
I know that sounds like a joke, but this is actually a technique which is openly discussed amongst Republican strategists.
Maybe "The boy who cried wolf" effect: Republicans overspend in unnecessary things (Giving money to militia buys their protection) and make most people happy for a time, then when Democrats are in charge is time to pay for it and they start crying for overspending, this makes them reduce the spending, but because most of the things they bought have a crippling rent nature (war and espionage programs, giving public businesses to some private owners for free, etc) anyone in charge still have those obligations, then when things starts to go in recuperation they get elected and start the cycle again.
I know some people can explain it in a better way, but summering up is like if the Republicans are the guy who uses other person's credit card to give tons of gifts to his friends to be liked and keeps making other people to pay for what he spent, all while telling others to be more responsible with everyone's money.
Why is world capital increasing by $30 trillion according to Bain & Company's estimate (see their Macrotrends report, "A World Awash in Money") a year, well on its way to $1 quadrillion?
Money is made artificially scarce for governments while wanton credit creation by the world private financial sector is backstopped in times of crisis by the Fed. And the dollar got stronger as the Fed printed money. Now that the ECB and Japan are printing even more money, and the Fed is tightening, the dollar is going down because markets want more printing.
Oh cool when do I get to read 20k in emails about weddings and yoga?!
It's more like Louis CK joking onstage about jerking off in people's faces then the next day he invites women into his office to... Jerk off in their faces.
"there's a currency collapse"
Why should change in price of an abstract thing like money affect the provisioning of essential goods and services to individuals?
The collapse, if it occurs, is arbitrary, a product of labile traders making bets on rumors and having a hugely oversized effect, dwarfing the traditional explanatory variables, supply and demand. Psychology affects prices more than supply and demand.
The world central bank unlimited currency swap network works as a proxy for one world central bank. The Fed loaned the ECB an aggregated $8 trillion after 2008 at away-from-market, policy-set rates. When there is one bank, there is no run on the bank because it has the best money.
Found the Baby Boomer.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
A sock puppet can be turned back into a sock and put to good use. Ajit Pai has no use.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We never voted Ajit Pai in in the first place.
Ajit Pai: If you don't want people to characterize you as an industry puppet, don't be an industry puppet.
It's not that complicated.
You're assuming he has a spine. Or gives a damn about anyone who's not paying him to do their bidding.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
That was garbage when it was written, and it hasn't aged well. Literally every item on the list is either false, a flagrant lie, a mischaracterization, or an irrelvancy.
1. So what?
2. False
3. So what?
4. False. The President doesn't control the purse-strings, Congress does.
5. Oh, you're just precious.
6. President Obama is not in his own person the Federal Government, and was not held in contempt.
7. Bzzt. Feel free not to pay.
8. Bizarrely false.
9. That was Bush.
10. That would be a lawful executive fiat.
11. See above
12. Uh huh
13. So what?
14. Apparently you don't remember when Apollo ended.
15. America has never been a Christian nation.
16. So what?
17. Lol no.
18. Lies.
19. So what?
20. No, the Feds have sued various states before.
21. It's a permit, not a mandate.
22. Not true, but you say that like it's a bad thing.
23. And yet no one was indicted. Really, the Dems need to step up their corruption game, it's like 200 to 3.
24. So what?
25. Idiotic lies.
26. Five years? Hmm. Maybe you want to update your stats. Ask Trump how he's doing on that record.
27. No, you just didn't believe that he's an American. Because you're a racist fuck.
28. Carter? Wilson? The warmonger T. Roosevelt? Have you seen any of the other people that prize goes to?
29. Obama had a shockingly high global approval rating, and you find some fictional reason to dislike that.
30. Hahaha, oh boy has this not aged well.
31. You did no research on this, it seems.
32. You think the other presidential pooches were upkeep-free? And you somehow give a shit about some other shmuck getting a moderate (for DC) salary? Why are you only a budget hardliner when it comes to trivia?
33. So what?
34. Knee-jerk Islamophobia doesn't even deserve a response.
35. You don't even know what those words mean.
36. False.
It is obvious he is corrupt
Seriously? I couldn't give a rats ass what his "rejected" jokes look like. Is it in our best interest to know what jokes didn't make the cut? Do we ask for all 319 revisions of his speech as well so that we can make fun of the poor grammar and spelling mistakes? Seriously, this shit needs to not even make it on any new sites, legitimate or not. This kind of thing is meant for ONE reason only, and that is to cause more division between people. Just political bullshit.
When stupid people stop being a majority.
I say spend it all now and let the next generation figure out their own way rather than rely on our hard work
That's not how debt works. We're not talking about refusing to leave an inheritance for the next generation to benefit from, we're talking about spending THEIR money before they get it because we like to spend far more than we make.
When the country is controlled by no-holds-barred capitalists and nobody is willing to vote them out, you either play their game or perish, and I intend to outplay them at their own game because most of them appear to be idiots and if your only weapon is lack of morals, I can certainly go ahead and lose mine too.
In other words, "I am happy to be the problem rather than the solution. I am the one who causes the problems."
The thing to notice is that it's the Republicans, who talk about small government, who are worst at managing the budget. Occasionally a Democrat will even manage to reduce the deficit. There are two reasons for this (that I know of and believe):
1) The Republicans are less willing to tax the rich, so the income to the government decreases.
2) The Republicans are more tied to those who benefit from the government owing them money. Holders of Treasury bonds, etc.
3) I think Republicans really do want smaller government, but large, large portions of their base directly benefit from larger government and want government spending that benefits them. The seniors who need Social Security and Medicare. The defense contractors and technology companies who rely on military expenditures. Folks scared of the big bad world outside their borders and want to "kill them over there before they kill us over here." All of these things are incredibly expensive.
Never underestimate the over-55 crowd and how much influence they wield because they actually vote, while immature 20-somethings prattle about how only suckers vote and the system being rigged, etcetc.
The collapse, if it occurs, is arbitrary, a product of labile traders making bets on rumors and having a hugely oversized effect, dwarfing the traditional explanatory variables, supply and demand. Psychology affects prices more than supply and demand.
I wouldn't have used 'currency collapse,' more 'economic collapse often brought on by austerity' when you run out of money, your country's credit rating goes into the dumpster, causing investors in government bonds to not invest which reduces government income even more. The resulting sharp reduction in central spending does not result in a private sector boom and a roaring economy, just an overall economic malaise.