WAY TOO OBVIOUS + WILL ROBINSON GOTTALOT OF FREE PUBLICITY! Despite appearing humiliated after accidentally reading the fake names,
Robinson saw the funny side as he took to Twitter to laugh at the
hijinks.
Florida Rep. Will Robinson Jr. hilariously duped into reading fakes names 'Anita Dick,' 'Holden Hiscock' at meeting
Patrick Reilly
2 minutes
'It was truly a face-palm moment.
A Florida state representative was hilariously duped into reading the
names “Anita Dick” and “Holden Hiscock” into the record during a
committee meeting this week.
Republican Will Robinson Jr., who represents Florida House District
71, read a list of people into the record aloud — including the dirty
fake names — during the House Civil Justice Subcommittee meeting on
Monday, according to Insider Paper.
“Anita Dick,” he reads, pausing and looking around as a woman next to him holds up her hand to her mouth.
“Is an opponent. Waives in opposition,” he finishes.
“Holden Hiscock is also an opponent,” Robinson continued, seemingly unaware of the euphemisms. “Waives in his opposition.”
After video of the gaffe circulated on social media, Robinson invited Ms. Dick and Mr. Hiscock to stop by the next meeting.
Florida state House Rep. Will Robinson Jr. read the joke names into the record at a committee meeting on Monday.The Florida Channel
“Committee does meet again next week! Anita and Holden, please stop by!” he tweeted in response to the clip with a “facepalm” emoji.
Many users wondered how the names snuck in there.
“Did Bart Simpson also testify?” one user quipped.
“This is forever in the Florida records, right?…….right?” another wondered.
Others found the harmless humor heartwarming.
“Thank goodness there’s still a few people left in my home state with a sense of humor,” one user wrote.
Moment Florida state rep is humiliated after raunchy fake names are slipped into legislature hearing
Will Potter
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He's holding WHAT? Moment Florida state rep is humiliated after
raunchy fake names are slipped into legislature roll call - as stunned
officials hide their laughter
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Florida official Will Robinson fell victim to a hilarious prank while chairing a committee hearing in the state legislature
Pranksters
slipped raunchy fake names into the public testimony roll call before
it was announced by the Republican state representative
A Florida
state representative appeared to be hilariously trolled during a
committee hearing as pranksters slipped raunchy fake names into his roll
call.
Republican official Will Robinson fell victim to the
stunt at a hearing for the Florida House's Civil Justice Committee on
Monday, which was debating a bill submitted by fellow GOP state Rep. Tiffany Esposito on residential tenancies.
Robinson, who is chairman of the committee, moved the hearing to
public testimony and began reading the names of those who had come out
against or in support of Esposito's bill.
After several minutes
of regular service, Robinson inadvertently said: 'Anita D***', before
quickly looking around the room in stunned silence.
The mortified
GOP official then moved on to the next name, whilst a female colleague
covered her mouth to hide her laughter. 'Hoden Hisc***' he blurted out,
quickly catching on to the antics that had slipped their way into the
proceedings. . .
'This guy didn’t deserve this masterclass trolling but sometimes we
just gotta sit back and have a good laugh,' said journalist Brendon
Leslie.
Another said: 'It's going to take a minute to get over this one.'
Despite
appearing humiliated after accidentally reading the fake names,
Robinson saw the funny side as he took to Twitter to laugh at the
hijinks.
'Committee does meet again next week! Anita and Holden, please stop by!', he said.
Robinson has represented Florida House District 71 since 2018, winning re-election in both 2020 and 2022.
The former real estate attorney has served on numerous subcommittees during his time in the legislature."
10 hours ago · Florida state Rep. Will Robinson, pictured, fell victim to a hilarious prank during a committee hearing Monday, where pranksters slipped raunchy fake names ..
Since Xi and Putin are not just the current presidents of their two
nations but leaders whose tenures effectively have no expiration dates,
the United States will have to understand that it is confronting the
most consequential undeclared alliance in the world.
Xi and Putin Have the Most Consequential Undeclared Alliance in the World
Graham Allison
March 23, 2023, 5:42 PM
8 - 9 minutes
"Chinese
President Xi Jinping’s decision to visit Moscow this week in his first
trip abroad since his reelection comes as no surprise to those who have
been watching carefully. When one steps back and analyzes the
relationship between China and Russia, the brute facts cannot be denied:
Along every dimension—personal, economic, military, and diplomatic—the
undeclared alliance that Xi has built with Russian President Vladimir
Putin has become much more consequential than most of the United States’
official alliances today.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to visit Moscow this
week in his first trip abroad since his reelection comes as no surprise
to those who have been watching carefully. When one steps back and
analyzes the relationship between China and Russia, the brute facts
cannot be denied: Along every dimension—personal, economic, military,
and diplomatic—the undeclared alliance that Xi has built with Russian
President Vladimir Putin has become much more consequential than most of
the United States’ official alliances today.
Many observers still find this alliance hard to believe. As former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis
put it in 2018, Moscow and Beijing have a “natural nonconvergence of
interests.” Geography, history, culture, and economics—all the factors
that students of international relations focus on—give both nations many
reasons to be adversaries.
On today’s map, large swaths of what was in earlier centuries Chinese
territory are now within Russia’s borders. This includes Moscow’s key
naval base in the Pacific, Vladivostok—which on Chinese military maps is
still labeled
by its Chinese name, Haishenwai. The 2,500-mile border between the two
nations has repeatedly seen violent clashes, most recently in 1969. On
the Russian side, the land east of the Ural Mountains is full of natural
resources but has a population of just 32 million people, while on the
Chinese side, hundreds of millions of people live with few natural
resources.
On the broader canvas of history, Russia was a prime antagonist in
China’s “century of humiliation,” joining forces with Western
imperialist powers to put down the Boxer Rebellion and forcing China to
sign eight “unequal treaties” during the second half of the 19th
century. In recent decades, the status inversion resulting from Russia’s
decline from its position as the second superpower in a bipolar world,
combined with China’s meteoric rise, must cause a leader as
status-conscious as Putin some consternation.
But while history deals the hands, human beings play the cards, and
Xi has defied expectations to masterfully build a relationship with
Putin that matters deeply to both. Putin was the first leader Xi visited
after becoming China’s president in 2012. Since then, the two have held
40 one-on-one meetings, twice as often as either has met with any other world leader. Putin calls Xi his “best and bosom friend,” who, as Putin noted
in 2018, is the only world leader with whom he has celebrated his
birthday. When Xi awarded Putin China’s Friendship Medal in 2018, he called the Russian president his “best, most intimate friend.”
In recent years, Sino-Russian economic ties have grown. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China had displaced
the United States and Germany to become Russia’s No. 1 trading partner
and top buyer of Russian oil and gas. In the past year, China has
provided an economic lifeline for Russia, buying everything the West
won’t and helping Russia maintain access to financial markets amid
sweeping Western sanctions. Chinese purchases of Russian energy last
year were up 50 percent from 2021 levels while bilateral trade hit record highs. China was not only the world’s largest exporter
to Russia in 2022, but it also accounted for the largest year-over-year
increase in export volume to Russia of any country in the world. Last
month, the yuan overtook the dollar as the most traded currency on the
Moscow Exchange for the first time ever, representing almost 40 percent of total trading volume.
And despite Western sanctions intended to eliminate Russia’s access
to critical technologies, Chinese exports of integrated circuits to
Russia doubled
in 2022. Indeed, in every area where China can support Russia without
incurring major costs to itself—unlike lethal arms sales to Russia that
violate U.S. sanctions, which CIA Director William Burns recently said China was “considering” but “reluctant to provide”—it has done so.
Furthermore, while many Americans discount Sino-Russian military
cooperation, as a former Russian national security advisor has put it to
me, China and Russia have the “functional equivalent of a military
alliance.” China regularly participates in joint military exercises with
Russia that dwarf those the United States conducts with its much more
publicized “strategic partner,” India. It sent soldiers to Russia’s
annual Vostok exercises in September and conducts joint air and naval
exercises on a near-monthly basis. Russian and Chinese generals’ staffs
now have candid, detailed discussions about the threat U.S. nuclear
modernization and missile defenses pose to each of their strategic
deterrents. While, for decades, Russia was careful to withhold its most
advanced technologies in arms sales to China, it now sells the best it
has, including S-400 air defenses. The two countries share intelligence
and threat assessments as well as collaborate on rocket engine research
and development. More recently, Beijing and Moscow have collaborated to
compete with Washington in a new era of space competition.
Their diplomatic coordination has also ramped up as Xi and Putin
become increasingly convinced Washington is seeking to undermine their
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Graham Allison
Graham Allison is a professor of government at
the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was the founding dean. He is a
former U.S. assistant defense secretary and the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
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