Yikes. I just got my credit card bill for all my October/November political donations. It’s not pretty.
@evamarie Yeah, same and there was basically zero ROI.
It hurts, spending all that money for nothing.
I’ve hit the same wall.
What sends me into orbit is the daily threats/demands for money when I’m already contributing by autopay to same candidates. Don’t tell me they can’t utilize software that dedupes their contributor list against potential donor list.
It’s not brain surgery.
No more.
Send them a letter. I’m going to.
@LnzyHou @MakerWerks @evamarie
Agree. I'm STILL getting emails and texts. Just not as frequently.
I have to go through another round of unsubscribing, etc.
Not afraid to say I'm annoyed, kinda pissed off, and a little salty about it all.
It's not like I have Elon's money to throw around.
@GeezerWench @LnzyHou @evamarie I just did some more unsubscribing this morning. Does anybody believe sending more money to 'support recounts' is going to actually shift the balance, or have I just pushed past the point of perma-cynicism?
@MakerWerks @GeezerWench @evamarie
Don’t believe it’s their priority. They just want to pay off their share of $16B spent on TV ads that achieved nothing but raising BP.
@MakerWerks @LnzyHou @evamarie Right? How is another 5 dollars going to make a difference in a recount?
Have one senator here in a recount. Well, it's looking like he lost, this is just a formality to make sure he really lost against the carpet bagging, sexual predator from Connecticut.
Seems that was a prerequisite for anyone running: sexual predator.
@GeezerWench @LnzyHou @evamarie Also on the subject of annoying emails, I keep getting the ones whose subjects relate to the same unfulfillable pipe dreams, as if that will distract me. Here's one I just got.
@MakerWerks @LnzyHou @evamarie
DC isn't ever going to become a state. Not as long as any of the white men currently sitting in office are still alive. And quite a few of the white women.
Thank the stars, it isn't just me. I've talked myself out of going and looking, and doing the math, because I didn't want to know how much money I threw away. Then chastise myself for thinking my mere pittance would make any kind of difference. But I figured my mere pittance, plus somebody else's pittance, plus somebody else's... would make quite a haul of pittances. Well, the haul made no difference. In my state, PA, none of the people I voted for won. Not one of them.
@GeezerWench I live in Texas and am quite used to almost nobody I vote for ever winning @evamarie
@MakerWerks @GeezerWench @evamarie
When I lived NC same situation.
@LnzyHou I was really taken with the culture, climate and the beauty of Asheville when we visited last year. I also realized there'd be no point to moving to a blue bubble in a deep red state, because I already have that living here in Austin. @GeezerWench @evamarie
@MakerWerks @GeezerWench @evamarie
Cannot tell you the difference of living in a blue state. The MAGAs hide for the most part in NJ.
There is very little discussion about politics. Most everyone feels the same way.
@LnzyHou @MakerWerks @evamarie I kinda wish it was like that here.
In a way, it is. Trumpmagastan. Everyone thinks you're a maga unless you say different.
I mostly don't talk to the neighbors. I smile and wave, and that's about it. Only idle chit-chat at the grocery store.
I wanted to hang out more at the senior center, but I did the math and probably a good 80% or so voted for orange. I just don't want to be surrounded by that many magas who want my trans son dead, my daughter subjugated.
@GeezerWench @MakerWerks @evamarie
In a convo yesterday, with our wonderful maintenance man, he admitted he voted trump-reluctantly. He also said he was a Marine.
We have a great relationship & I’m broken hearted a Marine voted for trump. I want to ask but can find no actual proof trump called fallen soldiers “suckers and losers”.
My lower self wants to demand an explanation.
My Buddha Nature knows he’s ashamed. So what’s to be gained by me causing a rift in our relationship?
I won’t.
@LnzyHou @GeezerWench @MakerWerks @evamarie a sister-in-law voted for tfg the first time.😟 Not this time.
What gets me is the lady I sent money to in Texas WON!
Jasmine Crockett. We need more people like her. She's a spitfire!
@GeezerWench Yet the Dems seem content with shuffling around the deck chairs on the Titanic.
😑
Jon Stewart is right. Dems need to get off their high horse and fight as dirty as the Repubs. Take advantage of all the loopholes like the GOP does.
Like accidentally release the Matt Gaetz report.
@GeezerWench I agree, the terminus of the high road is apparently hell.
I live in Texas and no one I ever vote for wins. When I lived in Hawaii it was the opposite. Having Brian Schatz as a Senator was the best.
@evamarie Hey Ted Cruz is the best... at running away and umm, outright sedition. @GeezerWench
@evamarie I actually started a recurring donation to Biden way back. I've also been sending money regularly to other candidates. When I look at how much total I've actually contributed these last couple of years, I'm angry with myself for actually believing all that money was making a difference.