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What We Can Learn About the Ludicrous Kirsten Gillibrand "Sex Cult" Scandal and What We Can't
Paste Magazine ^ | 2018-Mar-30 | Shane Ryan

Posted on 05/08/2018 6:31:24 AM PDT by ptsal

[snip]Ten Points 1. Kirsten Gillibrand is the junior U.S. Senator from New York and a very likely 2020 presidential candidate.

2. Her father, Doug Rutnik is an attorney and lobbyist.

3. In 2004, Rutnik worked for a company call Nxivm, and Nxivm is an incredibly shady “self-help” company that, when looked at closely, may have seemed like a cult.

4. That’s by 2004 standards, by the way—as Ben-Mathis Lilly pointed out at Slate, Forbes and UPI had already called the place a “cult” and a “pyramid scheme.” Rutnik has no claim to ignorance.

5. He worked with them for a few months in his capacity as a lobbyist for four months, taking in $100,000. Hiring prominent lobbyists was part of the company’s MO, and their roster once included Roger Stone. Per an anonymous source in the NYPost, Rutnik was sued when he left, and had to pay the money back in full and sign a confidentiality agreement.

(Excerpt) Read more at pastemagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; cynthianixon; dougrutnik; ericschneiderman; gillibrand; hertoo; kirstengillibrand; newyork; nvxim; pastemagazine; rogerstone; rutnik; shaneryan; timesup
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To: Enchante
Re: Did you read your article before posting? It tries to totally debunk the idea that Sen. Gillibrand has anything to do with the story. The author maintains that she has nothing at all to answer for here

Yeah. To summarize the article, the sex cult group is admittedly bad, but the really bad people are those evil Republicans who think that a democrat politician whose father was knee deep in supporting the sex cult group as a lobbyist knew what her father was working for. Because apparently it is unheard of fathers to discuss their work with their daughters. And the fact that he left the job and gave back the money is not a reason to tell his daughter why he did such a thing.

21 posted on 05/08/2018 7:13:22 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

I don’t know if Gillibrand has anything to do with the story but the article doesn’t offer anything to connect her with the story.


22 posted on 05/08/2018 7:18:48 AM PDT by Enchante
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To: gubamyster

ping


23 posted on 05/08/2018 7:19:08 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: ptsal

Lots of sickos in politics.


24 posted on 05/08/2018 7:23:31 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: ptsal

Paste magazine?

Paste is liberal left scummy as they come.

That they are hitting Gillibrand for this is notable.


25 posted on 05/08/2018 7:24:39 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Enchante

“Did you read your article before posting? It tries to totally debunk the idea that Sen. Gillibrand has anything to do with the story.”

Makes sense.

But at the same time, normally it wouldn’t be even covered.


26 posted on 05/08/2018 7:27:04 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: tom h

‘She already has the unmarried female latte-sipping vote locked up but that’s only 2%.’

really..? how quickly you forget that Hilary Clinton, a woman who avoided being labelled a ‘crone’ only due to easy access to copious make-up, and who regularly vocalized with a raspy, hectoring snarl, generated 65.8 million votes...you seriously believe that a much younger woman, with more nuanced speech and composure, and who, with an equal amount of Clinton’s touch-ups, will look beautiful, rather than barely presentable, is no threat at all...?


27 posted on 05/08/2018 7:27:56 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade
...you seriously believe that a much younger woman, with more nuanced speech and composure, and who, with an equal amount of Clinton’s touch-ups, will look beautiful, rather than barely presentable, is no threat at all...?

Perhaps you are unaware, there is only empty space between Kristen's ears, lipstick alone won't do it.

28 posted on 05/08/2018 7:30:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ptsal

Didn’t citizen Trump basically have her escorted from his office, when she was trying to get his support.


29 posted on 05/08/2018 7:35:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Seems like there a lot of axes being ground and sharpened in New York.

I did not realize that upstate New York had so much colorful high jinks.


30 posted on 05/08/2018 7:38:41 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: gubamyster

Except when he’s slapping her around, demanding she call him master and kneel in front of him. But he’s a democrat who believes in killing babies so that’s alright.

I hope someone, maybe a lot if people ask her about this. She should have to defend him. All republicans are expected to defend the worst in the party.


31 posted on 05/08/2018 7:41:00 AM PDT by redangus (actually hit her?)
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To: 1Old Pro

‘Perhaps you are unaware, there is only empty space between Kristen’s ears’

perhaps you are unaware that if space between the ears were a invalidating criterium for public service, three quarters of our pols would be doing something else...


32 posted on 05/08/2018 7:45:19 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade
generated 65.8 million votes

Which include 3 to 7 million illegal alien votes, as I like to remind the Lefties on Twitter.

This makes their heads explode every time, especially when I point out that California had ZERO "wrong votes", which is a statistical impossibility in a data sample that large.

33 posted on 05/08/2018 7:56:31 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: ptsal

Thanks to gubamyster for this great pictoral!

34 posted on 05/08/2018 7:57:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: ptsal

She’s considered a possible Presidential nominee. I don’t know who the Dems think they are kidding.


35 posted on 05/08/2018 8:10:32 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Cynthia Nixon, #metoo, #timesup, and the moral and ethical bankruptcy and shallow opportunism of the Demagogic Party, latest edition:
Ex: Schneiderman called me his 'brown slave,' would slap me until I called him 'Master'
The media shills' response will be, "Trump and his supporters are racists who wouldn't date a Sri Lankan in the first place". Thanks ptsal.

36 posted on 05/08/2018 9:44:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://www.truthorfiction.com/clinton-watergate/)
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To: Enchante
A child should not be held accountable for a parent’s crime or involvement in shady dealings. Although Gillibrand’s father worked for the sex cult, she is not responsible or guilty of that alignment. Since her father terminated his association with the group and returned the money he was paid, he presumably was very uncomfortable with the group and realized what was involved. However, I think it would be very unusual for him, if he had any relationship with his daughter not to share some inside information with her, if only to warn her to stay clear of the organization so that it didn’t negatively impact her political aspirations. My point is that she most probably knew about the sex cult and kept quiet about it. Just like all the men and women, Democrats who knew about Weinstein. Just like all the people who knew about Schneiderman. Liberal Democrats again. Champions of womens’ rights, supposedly. People who prided themselves on their leftist feminist views. Who thought it was best to keep silent about the actual abuse of women as long as Weinstein and Schneiderman marched in their women’s rallies and made large donations to Planned Parenthood. So yes, the article’s purpose is to throw a protective cloak over Gillibrand, but it refuses to even ask what she knew about the abusive sex cult that her father worked for. It lets her off the hook prematurely.
37 posted on 05/08/2018 10:00:20 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: IrishBrigade

It’s not just about looks. Senator Cutie-Pie is shallow and, while attractive, has no gravitas. I have detested Hillary since time immemorial, but I can easily see how those on the other side would think she has Presidential bearing — if not in 2016, then back in 2008 when she wasn’t fat or old.

Also, remember that the media was already calling Hillary the “smartest woman in America” when she ran for the Senate in 2000, while Bill was still in office. There is no similar groundswell for a Senator Cutie-pie. How many white, male Democratic Union members would vote for a shallow milf instead of Trump?


38 posted on 05/08/2018 4:28:51 PM PDT by tom h
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