Hillary's Victory Fund Panhandling At My Mailbox...

Tonight I get home from work and I find a letter from "Hillary's Victory Fund" in my mailbox...

The first thing I had to do was create a checkbox for "No!" They obviously thought everyone would check "Yes, I'll support a criminal running for president."

The next thing I had check off was "Other $0.00 and write that I would support "Worthy Down Ticket Democrats."

Then #BernOrBust

And I stuffed all of the stuff they had mailed into the business reply envelope, even the folded up envelope they had used to mail it to me, with a "Please Recycle." to let them become aware of my environmental concerns...

Of course they will be paying the return mail charge and not me...

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She should know she'll never have my vote...

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As I saw in a similar post, you could've also added bits of junk mail to the envelope making the postage cost more. But hey, I'm sure the grotesque amount of money from the Victory Fund will cover it.

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I've been doing that with junk mail pretty much forever.

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Have you been taken off mailing lists?

I used to write "RETURN TO SENDER" on all those Capitol One mailings but I still get them.

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sojourns's picture

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

I like the way you think...

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
12 years a lurker's picture

I just shove all of the stuff (including the envelope it came in) into the return envelope, after writing something choice on the "personal reply" in big letters, using red marker. Some of the messages have included language that my mother would disapprove of, but I restrained myself on the latest one, and just wrote "PERJURY".

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Hillbilly Dem's picture

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

snoopydawg's picture

But unfortunately, our government doesn't give a shit what WE want, only what their big donors and lobbyists want.
We wanted single payer or a public option, but instead we got what the insurance and pharmaceutical companies wanted.
We want the illegal wars and drone campaigns to stop killing innocent civilians in countries that haven't threatened us, but instead got what the defense industry and Israel wants instead.
We wanted the illegal spying on us stopped but instead we got over 800 outsider contractors wanted.
The list of the things that we want including decent jobs, prosecution of the war and bank criminals and countless other things.
We especially don't want the TPP and the other trade agreements, but the corporations do, so we are basically told to go fuck ourself.
Hillary has been doing large fundraisers that costs $100 thousand dollars just to be in the same room with her.
And what we really wanted was a fair election where Bernie had a decent chance of winning it.

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I've read before that their pitch varies by gender. Bullet points for men, saccharine for women.

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Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

I didn't read through it...
She doesn't have anything to say I'm interested in hearing...
I discount what liars have to say...
But from a sexist pig like Hillary and her sexist pig cohorts I would expect it was...

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
MsGrin's picture

page I open on the intertubes... it's ubiquitous enough (and has enough help from Google) to be Big Sister.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

and only registered to caucus for Bernie as a Democrat. I'm already back to undeclared.

Nevertheless, I got a phone call from the Hillary Victory Fund. After they told me how much they've appreciated my past support (?) she asked for a contribution. I told her "Hell No! I'm not sure I'm even going to vote this year because I believe it is all rigged". She said "By Hillary?" I said by whoever the PTB want. She seemed a little disconcerted by my cynicism. Wonder if she's paid staff or a Hillbot. I suspect the latter, although I'm sure Hillary had a lot fewer volunteers than has Bernie.

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Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

We'll talk until they hang up on me, and it will be a YouTube Upload...

I once had a company selling vinyl siding on the phone for 27 minutes...
Until I told them that they should probably be talking to the property manager of the condo association...
They were mad, but I told them I'm on the Do Not Call List and they were "Fair Game."

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,

Really, it's the worker who was punished - the company not so much.

I tell anyone trying to sell me anything over the phone that no matter how much I like their product/charity/etc. that I never buy anything over the phone because I don't like phone marketing.

Do you ever get those phone calls from some guy with an east indian accent who says he's calling from Window's Operating System? Now him I occupied for quite a while, pretending I was doing what he was telling me to do to my computer. I acted like a real ditz, hitting the wrong buttons or not finding them anywhere to extend the call. Glad I had time to do it!

I have a friend who just asks "what prison are you calling from?" because these for-profit prisons have inmates doing boiler room phone marketing for pennies on the dollar.

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Deja's picture

They kept calling my mom. She put me on the phone with them once. He said their servers were telling them that Mom's computer had a virus. I asked where the servers were located. He said, "Washington DC." I busted out laughing. Then he asked how old I was. So I asked how old he was.

It was fun for a while until I said, "You called a Mac house so stop fucking harassing my mom!" Then I hung up.

He called right back. Mom answered and he yelled, "Fuck youuuu!" Same accent you described. Mom still laughs about that.

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Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

If I have time to spare, to tie up one of their outgoing lines and operators, as long as possible, to save those more vulnerable from being reached...

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
thanatokephaloides's picture

on about every political page I open on the intertubes... it's ubiquitous enough (and has enough help from Google) to be Big Sister.

Don't you use adblockers? BlueHell Firewall (for Firefox) works really well and unobtrusively....

Wink

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

polkageist's picture

I stuffed everything back in the envelope and simply wrote "never any money for Clintons" on the "personal reply" form.

I also got a phone call from the Dem Party and just stopped the poor woman who was starting her spiel by saying, "Wait. Let me save you time. I will give no money to the Democratic Party until they clean up their corruption, get a candidate other than Hillary, and represent regular people."

I've done all of this before and am surprised that I'm still on their donation list. But the Clintons know no shame.

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-Greed is not a virtue.
-Socialism: the radical idea of sharing.
-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

Hawkfish's picture

I wonder what's different.

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We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg

What if we put a negative number for a donation under other? Will the Victory Fund send us money? (Victory Fund? I prefer Victory Gin - at least it gets me drunk!)

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Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

Send a Deposit Slip with that...
And use Red Ink with a "- sign" and parenthesis when you write in the amount of one of her Goldman Sachs speeches...

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,

I like your style

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just so that I can stuff their envelopes full of dead weight and waste the dirty corporate money that funds them.

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bebimbob's picture

I got an begging email from the democratic party. I pressed reply and entered an expression that rhymes with buck flue. They returned my email reply as undeliverable. I guess the only way to communicate with them is to press the link for sending them money. That one probably works.

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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." de Saint-Exupery

and a piece of your mind.

They'll spend far more processing your penny than you can imagine.

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Zinman's picture

I guess you mean sending them a US coin in the amount of 1 cent in their Business Reply Mail envelope, but I'm not sure whether that works. Does it really?

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Be a Friend of the Earth, cherish it and protect it.

they probably wouldn't even look at the amount.

Then later, you can see whether or not it was cashed.

But the coin would work. They'd have no idea what to do with it and spend time trying to figure it out.

Could you then get a tax deduction? More work for them to affirm your penny donation.

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Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

They would comply with any federal laws regarding campaign donation record keeping...

Unless they were caught...

I like the idea though...
I'm the guy that back in the day when they raised the I-95 Tolls in Connecticut from 25¢ to 35¢ carried 35 pennies in zip-lock bags for the exact change lane...
They are legal tender and the machine did process them, but it took a while to count the pennies...

We don't have tolls today...

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Zinman's picture

The machines at the Bay Bridge (on the Oakland side) used to chug through the coins, to my delight. I don't remember if there was any political message meant, except that it would be better to just tax us a bit more and spare us the time sitting in a traffic jam waiting to get our toll payments accepted while we belched out smog and farted.

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Be a Friend of the Earth, cherish it and protect it.

Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

On a summer Friday night commute home I would charge out of one toll plaza for a couple of miles to get into line for the next one...

The tolls in West Haven on I-95 North were the worst...
Typically it was about a 4 mile back up that moved ahead at a snails pace all the way to the toll booth...
Then you came charging out of the tolls to go about 100 yards to get into line for the back up across the Quinnipiac River Bridge out the the Branford Toll Booths...

What exactly was I paying $1.05 to drive on 30 miles of mostly backed up highway for anyway...

Really it goes beyond stupid to stop vehicles or alter the flow of traffic in any way on a busy Interstate Highway...

The death of the tolls finally came a few years after they raised the price 10¢...
It took a Tractor Trailer with failed brakes driving through 4 cars and the toll booth with 7 dead in a fiery crash to be the wooden stake through the heart...

Of course every few years some azzole politician wants to bring them back...

Why can't Darwin's Law apply to the politician species that fails to learn the lesson and adapt?

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,

I added that she and her disingenuous campaign are a major reason I'm leaving the Democratic Party after 40+ years. I'm a Boomer woman, the demographic that's supposed to be blindly supporting her because... gender. Nope. Across the bottom of this appeal--mediocre like most else associated with her (I've done direct mail)--I scrawled #BernieOrBust and #NeverHillary.

This was my 2nd chance to respond to the Hillary Victory Fund at its expense. Nice. Last time I asked to be removed from the mailing list immediately. Her campaign is as effective with that simple request as she is as a candidate and campaigner, US senator, Secretary of State, and every other title she's snagged because she married Bill Clinton. Her record remains one of mediocrity and failures with far-reaching consequences. Soooo ready for both Clintons to Go Away and Stay Away.

Down with dynasty!

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti

Oldest Son Of A Sailor's picture

That $hillary flames out so hard that we'll never see a Chelsea Clinton Campaign...

Do you think we are finally done with the Bush Dynasty?

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
jwa13's picture

long as the PTB have "name recognition" corporate-friendly losers to "nominate", the dance will go on --

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When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.

....they ever have the nerve to send me a solicitation in the mail.

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