PNC 5/6/20
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Agenda
Please send me suggested agenda items as well as any URLs to articles on COVID-19 authoritarian power grabs. --bosun@wipp.coop
Reports
IT
- jokeefe setup a Loomio Instance
- Silas has this IT Todo List
Other
- Candidate Draft Process - jokeefe will post and add to the wiki
Decision
Attending
Non-Voting
Summary
Minutes
Record of the meeting
[10:00pm] Bosun: Please identify [10:00pm] Bosun: Joseph Klein USPP Chair, Wisconsin [10:00pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Treasurer, Massachusetts [10:01pm] Sayyida: Megan Klein Vice Chair [10:02pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary, Massachusetts [10:02pm] Bosun: Mr Okeefe, and Vicktor? [10:03pm] ViktyrC: Viktyr C Gehrig, observer from Wyoming [10:03pm] Bosun: Cool [10:03pm] Bosun: This weeks agenda looks like last weeks. Any updates? [10:04pm] Bosun: Crickets [10:05pm] Joe: I plan on heading to CT to meet and set things up there. [10:05pm] jokeefe: I haven’t posted the candidate process yet. will get to it soon [10:05pm] Bosun: Good. Please invite them to participate. [10:06pm] Joe: Current hope is to head down there on the 27th but may delay due to current situation. [10:06pm] Sayyida: I say we put out a "things the pirate party pushes for out of the federal goverment" [10:06pm] Joe: Of course. [10:06pm] Joe: Bosun, did we receive any funds from the member states? [10:07pm] Bosun: With brings me to talk about COVID-19 and how people feel. [10:07pm] Bosun: _ I need to check to PO BOX [10:08pm] ViktyrC: My apologies for being out of touch: do we now have a federal organization and accounts to receive donations in? [10:08pm] Bosun: Yes [10:10pm] Sayyida: you have missed quite a bit my friend. Its nice to have you back now though [10:10pm] Bosun: We are incorporated as a DC Cooperative Association with a $1.00 membership fee and one membership per state, district, and territory [10:10pm] Joe: 1 membership = 1 vote [10:10pm] ViktyrC: Thank you. [10:11pm] ViktyrC: For the answer and the kind words. [10:12pm] Bosun: So we can use our 56 dollars when everyone joins to lobby Congress. [10:13pm] Bosun: So let's discuss COVID-19. [10:13pm] Bosun: We had some point at the end of last weeks meeting. [10:14pm] Bosun: How copyright interferes with COVID response. [10:14pm] Bosun: How corrupt the current systems is. [10:14pm] Sayyida: yes. [10:14pm] Bosun: NY Times had a good one on Kushners COVID task force. [10:15pm] jokeefe: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxekgx/hospitals-need-to-repair-ventilators-manufacturers-are-making-that-impossible [10:15pm] papegaai: Title: Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible - VICE (at www.vice.com) [10:15pm] jokeefe: https://sirota.substack.com/p/will-big-pharma-fleece-us-on-a-covid [10:15pm] papegaai: Title: Will Big Pharma Fleece Us On A COVID Treatment That We Helped Fund? - Too Much Information (at sirota.substack.com) [10:15pm] Joe left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 276 seconds) [10:15pm] Bosun: CNN is doing something about how bad the "Federal Stockpile" is/was. [10:15pm] Joe joined the chat room. [10:16pm] jokeefe: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html [10:16pm] papegaai: Title: How Kushner’s Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies - The New York Times (at www.nytimes.com) [10:17pm] jokeefe: https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/reality-endorses-sanders/#covidien [10:17pm] jokeefe: Speaking of Jared: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies [10:17pm] papegaai: Title: Feds are seizing coronavirus supplies, hospitals say - Los Angeles Times (at www.latimes.com) [10:18pm] Bosun: I am certain the corruption is somewhat bipartisan, but the True administration has elevated to a high farce. [10:18pm] Bosun: Trump [10:18pm] ViktyrC: Do we have a statement on the economic hardships of quarantine and the President's stimulus plan demonstrating the need and the efficacy of the UBI, or would that be crass? [10:19pm] Bosun: I think UBI has entered the public lexicon. [10:19pm] Sayyida: ViktyrC, what would be crass would be to prove that it could save the goverement money and time like what happened with single payer health care [10:20pm] Sayyida: *sips tea* but that's not my business right? haha [10:20pm] Joe left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 276 seconds) [10:21pm] jokeefe: Most of the bailout has gone to the 1%. [10:21pm] Joe joined the chat room. [10:21pm] Bosun: Testing, testing, testing. The quarantine is hard to measure or manage without more testing. [10:21pm] jokeefe: A UBI is needed, ViktyrC [10:22pm] Bosun: Yes, the bailout has fed the bigs. [10:22pm] Bosun: Pigs. [10:22pm] Sayyida: well that was an interesing slip [10:22pm] Bosun: Big pigs with topmast. [10:23pm] Bosun: Top hats [10:23pm] Bosun: I am not drunk [10:23pm] Sayyida: 7 min left my dudes [10:24pm] Bosun: Yang made a good argument for UBI. [10:25pm] Bosun: We are probably looking at Great Depression level unemployment world wide by December. [10:25pm] Bosun: The political world will be upside down. [10:26pm] Joe left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 276 seconds) [10:26pm] jokeefe: https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/moloch-demands-death/#no-choice [10:26pm] Joe joined the chat room. [10:27pm] Bosun: China covered COVID-19 cup because they are afraid of the backlash from their own people. [10:27pm] Bosun: .. up [10:28pm] Joe: It seems like Trumpty Dumpty is trying to pick a fight with China as we speak..... [10:28pm] Bosun: Yes. He needs a scapegoat. [10:28pm] Sayyida: his rotting orange ass cant do much else [10:29pm] ViktyrC: China screwed the pooch, but dunking on them only helps our administration escape the blame for their own mistakes. [10:29pm] Sayyida: anyways are we going to request more time? [10:29pm] Bosun: I will scrape last weeks and this weeks discussion and URLs and post something to the main page. [10:29pm] Sayyida: it is 1 min til half passed [10:29pm] Sayyida: or is it past? [10:29pm] Joe: 1 minute [10:29pm] Bosun: Shall we adjourn? [10:30pm] Joe: Please let me know about the funds Bosun. I'll make sure MAPP's contributions are in. [10:30pm] Joe: 2nd [10:30pm] Bosun: OK we just need to go visit the PO Box tomorrow. [10:31pm] Sayyida: ok we are adjourned! [10:31pm] Bosun: Please post the minutes. [10:31pm] ViktyrC: Okay, now that we're adjourned, how can I contribute? [10:31pm] jokeefe: will do [10:31pm] Sayyida: have a great night gentlemen [10:31pm] Joe: Please contact Bosun for the PO Box [10:32pm] Joe: All funds go through the chair before being processed by me, the treasurer. [10:32pm] ViktyrC: So... physical check? [10:32pm] Joe: Please