Boy, do I get emails! I’ve managed to end up on just about every candidate’s begging list, and it seems to be getting worse every day.
Now, I don’t mind the emails, they’re easy enough to delete. I find the ones from Devin Nunes and Donald Trump endlessly entertaining. I have noticed a theme, though, from all sides, that I find annoying.
They’re all “falling short of their fundraising goal this week (or month)”, and need my immediate donation to reach it. It’s important, they’ll say, that they show how strong the support for their campaign is (I’m assuming they mean for the big, high-dollar donors, the ones they never mention by name).
They’ll go on about how important it is that they reach their goal, so they don’t fall behind in their battle to save the country.
Here’s an idea, folks. Set more realistic goals, if you’re never reaching them. I know you want to give the impression of being the underdog, that you’re the come-from-behind-anti-establishment-only-hope-for-all-mankind who will win in the end… but geez!
Let me give you some free advice.
Don’t run with this “we’re behind” theme in your ads. You’re claiming you’re a loser. Start setting lower goals, and then blow past them! Tell your supporters you’re gaining support across the country. Let them join the bandwagon of a winner! Everybody loves the underdog who comes from behind to win at the last moment, but you can’t *all* be the underdog.
Other email annoyances from the political mob:
Kamala, I *really* don’t need three or four emails *every* single day!
Devin, this “it’s me against the deep state” crap is getting old. Nobody but a few hard-core Republicans really believes it. Also, hold some real town halls in your district. The only places you show your face these days is “pay-for-play” fundraisers, usually in some distant district! Locking the doors to your offices is a clear sign of what you think about your constituents.
Donald, you and Donny Jr. can quite lying to me in every other email. I am 99.99999999% sure neither of you has noticed my name is not on your contributor’s list. If you have, how about sending me a short video of you in the Oval saying “why hasn’t Jim Reeves donated yet?” You have my email address.
So I scan the emails, and hit “delete”. The bits and bytes are recycled, to live again in some other form. Probably another email begging for money.
One thing you can count on, in the battle to get assault weapons off the streets of America, gun owners, specifically those who own (or wished they owned) the AR-15 will fight to the death… to make sure you know AR *doesn’t* mean ‘assault rifle’.
Oh that Trump administration…
I’m on Devin Nunes’ email list, and boy, is it a roller coaster ride!
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
I’m sensing a pattern here…
March 15, 2020
Jim Reeves commentary, News climate change, coronavirus, covid19, Global Warming, mother nature Leave a comment
The planet is warming. This results in coastal flooding, and storms more ferocious and frequent than in the past.
World leadership is trending towards idiocy and greed. Whole groups ignoring science and reality.
I think I know what’s happening.
The Earth is trying to kill us.
Sometime during the fall of the Roman Empire, Mother Nature probably noticed the naked apes were getting a bit problematic. The first attempts to thin the heard were only partially successful, even though the Black Death was staggering in it’s swath across Europe. The only thing the apes liked doing more than killing each other was making more apes, and as soon as they were able, they went right back to those pass-times.
As time went on, the crazy ones led their troops to war, and millions died. But still they made more.
Now, with another pandemic sweeping the planet, what do the apes do? Hoard toilet paper and bottled water. Some of them even claim there’s no threat, and continue to act in ways to make the problem worse, all the time screaming “FAKE NEWS!”
So now the Earth is raising it’s temperature, and mutating flu virus’ as fast as it can, hoping to save itself and whatever other life can hang on.
We can hardly blame it.
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