Vent Session

I know that you are, like I am, ripping your hair out with frustration at the saturated poisonous begging streams of political ads, emails, texts, billboards, etc. I can turn the tv ads off. I can turn my head from the billboards. The spam-catcher flips email into spam folder which can be mass-deleted after being screened, or they disappear after 30 days.

The text messaging though! Mofos are flooding me. You see, if you want to donate to a candidate, they ask for your phone number to process payments. Once they get it, they distribute it to all of their party buddies across the nation. I probably get 20-50 texts from them each day. There is no spam folder for texts. Each one must be manually reported as spam, blocked, and deleted. It’s 5 or more clicks for each one to make it go away. Yet, even though that particular text with that particular phone # attached to it is gone, the candidates have an infinite number of numbers to continue to beg and beg and beg. They all come with a lovely portrait of the candidate heading it. Some are holding babies. Some kneeled by their pets. Some in military uniform. Some have arms crossed with an almost threatening expression on their faces.

I haven’t received one text from the opposing party to date :::knocking on wood::: which tells me the party I want to win is the one that is harassing me. Message to party campaigners:

STOP WITH THE TEXTS

Yes, I’ve given you a fair amount of my fixed income over the past so many months. I can’t give you any more. I have home improvement projects on a waiting list. I have ever-increasing expenses for utilities, taxes, insurance, gasoline to visit family, food and household staples, and the occasional night out or lunch with friends.

Your ongoing textual harassment will continue to irritate the piss out of me. I’m even considering changing my phone number, and oh what a pain that would be, but maybe that will give you the gist of how much I don’t want to keep getting harassed by you.

fear drives donations
one less meal on the table
starving for freedom

Mish is today’s host for dVerse’ OpenLinkNight.