Posted on 11/03/2020 4:40:19 AM PST by Kaslin
I don’t know what’s going to happen when the polls close tonight, no one does. Anyone telling you differently is selling something. But I did notice a new level of desperation in fundraising emails from Democrats in the closing days. This could be because the end of the grifter busy season is coming to an end – a ton of money was raised and spent this election cycle and those raising it made a fortune taking their slice – or it could be they’re worried. Whatever the case, I wanted to draw some attention to a few of the more desperate pleas for money.
Fundraising is universally viewed as the worst part of running for office. No one likes to beg for money because people aren’t eager to give what they’ve earned away. That’s why the political fundraising industry has to try to find new ways to motivate people to give. Democrats took that to new depths this election.
From the Biden-Harris campaign came a string of emails swearing it was the last time we’d hear from them before their end of month deadline, middle of the month deadline, end of quarter deadline, filing deadline, etc., etc. I received at least three different emails signed by Kamala Harris assuring me it was the last time she’d be asking me for $25, for example. In a different one, with the subject line, “Please, Derek, a final request,” Harris asked for only $10 that time.
Of course, that “final request” email on Sunday opened with the line “this is one of the last times I’ll reach out before Election Day.” The next morning, yesterday morning, I got another signed by her asking for $25. Because words don’t matter.
That’s just one example of the absurdity of the emails from the campaign and DNC, but they were hardly the worst or dumbest.
When you find yourself on one list, you’re on every list. Campaigns sell and trade their lists to each other, making a fortune in the process. (Keep this in mind as you hear Democrats whine about Facebook monetizing people’s personal information, leftists make big tech look like pikers.)
I somehow ended up on the email list of a group called “Stop Republicans.” Their emails were particularly desperate and hilarious. Here are a few examples of just their subject lines:
“Barack Obama is BEGGING you!”
“We’re abandoning Joe Biden.”
“We’re choking back tears, Derek.”
Each email reads like it’s written by a recently dumped 16-year-old boy desperately trying to win back the girl who ditched him. “We need a WAVE of donations by midnight, or we’ll be forced to tear down our pro-Amy ads… Amy's momentum will COLLAPSE. DO. NOT. DELAY. We owe $1,000,000 by MIDNIGHT,” one email raising money (allegedly) for the Kentucky Senate race of Amy McGrath reads.
The day before that email (just Sunday), they’d sent one with the subject line, “Amy McGrath lost” that read, “After emailing again and again, we thought support would come FLOODING in to destroy Mitch McConnell… and win a Democratic Senate. But we were WRONG.”
Earlier in that same day they’d emailed, “Mitch McConnell COLLAPSES.” It’s like they don’t read their own stuff.
How could they? Not only is it horribly written and full of major disconnects, not only from reality but from earlier parts of the same email, they also churn out so much of it. Just since October 16th I’ve gotten 152 emails from them – everything from “send Donald Trump to prison for his many crimes” to “EVIL REPUBLICAN PLOT: Brett Kavanaugh just said the Supreme Court could STOP counting votes if it helps Trump WIN!!”
Almost every email, by the way, is accompanied by some level of “matching funds” promise – donate whatever and some rich liberal is willing to match it 500 percent up to 1000 percent, depending on the day and the level of hysteria. Makes you wonder why that mythical rich guy’s largess is dependent upon anyone else ponying up; why doesn’t he just cut the check himself?
It’s because he doesn’t exist. It’s all a scam. These groups may run ads or whatever, but they’re mostly in the business of raising money from suckers. It’s a testament to how dumb some people are, and how many of those people there are, that a group like this could rake in enough money to employ such a large (mostly white) staff.
No matter who wins today, people who spent every waking minute trying to separate gullible leftists from their money have gotten rich. Under a Joe Biden administration, that will likely be the only growth industry in the country. Well, that and sacks of cash from foreign governments, but only if your last name is also Biden.
I get texts from the Biden campaign. I don’t know why. They think my name is “Sharon”.
They ask for money multiple times a day, and I never respond. But then last week they asked for $25 (as usual) and I responded: “Joe Biden is a senile old fool and he is going to lose”
Almost immediately I received a text: “Sharon, would you consider sending $10?”
Received the same emails from Republican candidates and surrogates. Probably 60 a day. I imagine the tens of millions the Rats will have left over can go to Commie-La’s future campaigns.
I live in KY and get a TON of Amy McGrath ads on my youtube videos. I always click away as soon as possible, but I’ve noticed something interesting. Even though she’s running as a democrat, she tries to pass herself off as a conservative “mom”. She likes to mention God and Prayer and, of course, that she was a fighter pilot.
But the Turtle has her on video mocking trump in the most harsh ways, and we are a trump state.
Plus, there is a libertarian on the ballot. They Amy’s campaign must have spent oodles of Soros’ money, I think McConnel will win. I’m no fan, but we need to keep R control in the senate at all costs.
Sally is also desperate. I’ve been getting 4 or 5 texts per day from her declaring how badly she needs money. I’m way out here 2000 miles away
Funny.
My texter thinks I'm "Marcia" and that I live in North Carolina.
No and no, respectively.
The FEC needs to take a deep dive into these promises of “Matching” and assure that it is a real thing.
My guess is that at best it is fungible nonsense. Perhaps the DSCC is the matching agent. Or it could be just a lie.
Either way I would like to know.
KY is a conservative state not a GOP state. They’re old line Dems who do vote GOP on the Federal level. Its fried OK.
They need to pay the precinct captains in the cities and they are not cheap anymore.
The thing is (in my admittedly biased opinion) they aren't even very good ads, the one I kept see over and over was all doom and gloom, Biden pretty much saying we would all die from COVID if we didn't elect him and harping about about "if we all wore masks" and he would set up nationwide drive through testing centers and will listen to the science on COVID.
Don’t the chicoms and the muzzies give them enough money? The democrat party has received big money, and is in deep debt to them. If elected, it will pay them back with our money and our safety.
Republicans send the same texts and emails. I get them every day. I ponied up a few fazools.
Yeah they do. I get them too.
Democrats have plenty of money through BLM, but no amount of money is enough for them.
Mitch McConnell, never my favorite has delivered BIGLY:
“We’re going to clean the plate” on judges
With Election Day looming, traditions fall by wayside.
NO MATTER how the Election goes, TRUMP and the Republicans need to carry on till 1/20/2021.
Me too. I would wait for a “900% Match” drop a C-Note and tell my brother I just dropped another $1,000!
A Democrat is typically a person never satisfied or grateful.
Democratic candidates at the federal level have plenty of money, quite often twice that of their Republican opponent.
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