Folks, A Proposal, A Statement

Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 8:23pm

I propose, in protest, we go directly to our bedrooms and cut off the "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of the Law" tags from our mattresses and send them to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Let's strive for at least 25,000 mattress tags that will signify:

  • The over 500,000 homeless that don't have a bed to sleep in every night.
  • The empty hospital beds of the millions who cannot afford health care.
  • The empty beds of military fathers and mothers, sons and daughters that never came home to their families.

Although I'm well aware that it's not illegal for consumers to remove the tags, I ask you, is it any more of a stunt than sending 25,000 roses?

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Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 8:37pm

no donations needed.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:16pm
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Simple and oh so sweet. Include this list of things with them. I'm in. How do we get others to join us?

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Submitted by Bisbonian on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:22pm
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@snoopydawg , wait...not that "Me Too." Scratch that. "Ditto". Crap, that one's been used, too. How about, "Great idea, JTC" ... goes to look for scissors.

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Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:55pm

@snoopydawg
It would probably be a matter of sending the idea to sympathetic websites via their contact links. A large site like commondreans would be a good start. Maybe get some well known writers behind it. Maybe there is a .gov page to get the word out.

I admit the idea just dawned on me a little while ago and I haven't really thought it through much.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 12:59am
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@JtC

and I invited them to come visit us and say "hey"

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Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:24pm

the same with pillows?
I hate to acknowledge marky moosetits in this way though.
But a Really Good Idea in its own right!

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Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:57pm

@Tall Bald and Ugly
No "Do Not Remove" tags.

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Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:32pm
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Jesus. When the hell did that come out?

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Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:41pm

@Big Al
mattress sellers to remove them.

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Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:53pm
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@JtC I was just kidding.
But hey, count me in.

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Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:59pm

@Big Al
I've always cut the tags off since I was a wee lad, I was born a rebel.

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Submitted by Pricknick on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:35pm
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Some manufactures (new age foam beds come to mind) will not honor warrantees on your purchase if they're removed. They now call them proof of purchase.
Please send me many thousands of dollars to prove they are wrong. All monetary including bitcoin donations welcome.
Thanks in advance.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 10:07pm
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@Pricknick Water bed of course.

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Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 10:27pm

@Alligator Ed
with swamp water?

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Submitted by Daenerys on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:51pm
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n/t

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This shit is bananas.

Submitted by Sirena on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 10:19pm

so that we can address them directly by name,
and perhaps some bucket warning labels too, for good measure, couldn’t hurt.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 12:00am
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@Sirena Remove the warning labels from the plastic bags and give the bags to the Dem establishment and other Hilbots--let them be test monkeys for a new social darwinism experiment.

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Submitted by pindar's revenge on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 10:45pm

Tape em to postcards. Or scan and print repeatedly on postcard sheets. Security, you know. Seems they're afraid of envelopes.

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Submitted by bobswern on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 1:17am

...how about sending 25,000 BLANKETS, instead? (Lots of folks have an extra blanket 'round the house. And, it's more practical than sending along a mattress tag, especially considering the season. However, it will require a larger package and more than just a single "Forever" stamp. Just a thought...maybe not a great one...but, a thought, nonetheless.)

Anything to counter the Orange Death, would be great p.r. for this site!!!

By the way, in case anyone's forgotten, the DCCC and Pelosi, et al, are (along with the DNC and the DSCC) Daily Kos' biggest paying customers. As Moulitsas, himself, noted (maybe 10+/- years ago): as Google/Facebook/etc. gobbled up all the online ad revenues back in the late aughts (2000's), DK (following Chris Bowers' guidance/suggestion) started the push to supplant DK's lost ad revenues with email/mailing list sales revenues. (Soon after, they also started co-opting a significant portion of all political fundraising money they were sucking up on behalf of Dem candidates, as well.) So, the DCCC/DSCC/DNC (and their official client "referrerals") are now the biggest (indirect) "contributors"/"clients" to DK, where mailing list sales now account for somewhere around 50%-70% of ALL DK revenue (which is somewhere in the neighborhood of $7mm-$10mm annually, overall, give or take).

So, long story short, it's VERY likely that Kos' chalked the 25,000 roses up as a "client business expense"/gift (writeoff), on top of everything else! Or, as Marky Markos likes to say: "FOR REALZ!!!"

(Why am I feeling nauseous after writing this?)

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Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 1:12am

Sticker bushes, what not.

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 3:11am
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Redacted copies of those coal miner's medical bills?

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 10:33am
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Submitted by Granma on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 11:52am
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@NCTim I sincerely doubt he has ever changed a sheet in his life.

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 12:16pm
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@Granma Cleaned up after himself, did laundry, paint, rake leaves, plant a garden, run the sweeper, do the dishes, …

One of my direct report engineers used to brag that he had never changed a diaper. He was not happy when I called him an asshole and said his wife could do better. The other engineers, men, in the meeting all just nodded in agreement.

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