Hey, C99ers. I hate to ask, but I need your help.
I hope this does not violate the terms of use here, but I face a serious dilemma.
Yesterday, I received an email that shocked me to my core. Honestly, I cannot recall another episode in my 58 revolutions of the flat earth that has affected me so greatly. Being a rather smug, sarcastic, even arrogant person, it was and is my habit to recognize a challenge or serious issue, to rise up, to face it, and to confront it and to deal with it head on, but always on my own.
Unfortunately, I am ham-strung on this one. I really do not know how to respond. It pains me to say so, but I am simply incapable of dealing with this issue, at least on my own. So, with hat in hand, meekly, and with great respect to both olde and new acquaintances here, I simply ask that you hear me out, and if you find some fountain of empathy, morality, concern for your fellow human, that you help me out on this problem. You cannot imagine just how important your support and suggestions will be on this issue. And I doubt that you can fully comprehend how hard it is to ask for help, especially on such a sensitive and mind-blowing topic.
Just writing this plea for help gives me more stability, more hope, and dare I say it, merely publishing my request here seems to be an answer to my prayers. To those who have read my works on religion, organized or not, here and at TOS, I would guess that the image of me praying simply reflects how desperate my situation truly is.
You see, this email I got contained very, very shocking news. I simply do not know how to respond. So, the best thing would be for me to just reprint the email, and let you kind and dear folks decide if you want to or if you even can help. Here it is. The most troubling words will be in bold. Oh, and please, no nasty or cutting remarks. This email disturbed my sense of reality so much, that honestly, I could not handle the additional stress, so please be kind, and please help me. Please.
Friend --
I will be honest.Did you see that last week, Bernie’s campaign manager said they will “100 percent, absolutely” push for a contested convention in July -- even if Hillary holds onto her big lead in the popular vote?
There’s only one way to stop that from happening: build an insurmountable delegate lead. To do that, we need a strong result in New York one week from today -- but this is an expensive place to compete, and we were outraised by $14 million last month.
I'll be honest: This is one primary I really want to win.
Thanks,
Robby
Robby Mook
Campaign Manager
Hillary for America
She even said it twice. Imagine Hillary or Robby Mook actually being honest. Frankly I am at a loss. Please, folks, please help me deal with the trauma those words caused me and help figure out an appropriate response,
I thank each and every one of you in advance, and cordially and with high hopes that you can help, I remain,
Very truly yours,
Pastor Agnostic.
Comments
So, do you think I am being played here, when
She says that she and Hillary will be honest?
Thanks in advance.
Nicely played
But I'm referring to you, lol. You really had me worried until I saw the email.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Having given this e-mail some thought,
I think they are honestly afraid that Hillary is not so loved in her 'home' state and they are behind in funds.
If you feel (in your heart) that you want to give them peace and love, sure, send them a $14M challenge grant. Or $27, or an i.o.u.
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Here are some sample replies.
By your choice of tags, I finally got the point of the essay. Yea, you had me going. Thought you were having some sort of life crisis. Fucker.
Off the top of my head...
"Dear Robby,
Thanks for reminding me to send Bernie Sanders another $100."
PA
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"Dear Robby,
Sorry you didn't email me sooner, I just sent Bernie another $100, and I'm tapped out until July. Can't talk now. Busy phone-banking for Bernie Sanders. Good luck anyway."
PA
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"Dear Robby,
If there's anything I can do other than contributing, phone-banking, or canvassing, count me it.
You see, I'm already very busy contributing ($$$$), phone-banking, and canvassing for Bernie Sanders for President.
Best of luck,
PA
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"Dear Robby,
You slimy motherfucker. How can you work for that war criminal? How do you go home at night and tell your kids you're working for a candidate whose sole purpose in life is to enrich herself at the expense of anyone who isn't a millionaire or billionaire? Have you no decency, man? Have you no self-respect?
Respectfully Yours,
PA
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That should be enough to work with for now, PA. Let me know if there's anything else I can do.
Since you play backgammon...
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I LOVE that cube.
Perhaps I will weld one for my self, say two feet by two feet.
And thanks for the responses.
It's for you and your efforts, man.
Sterling silver, 1" on a side, 1976. Soldering it was a beeyatch, lemme tell ya. Enjoy.
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WOW. That is fine
and even finer for its size. A piece of art. You fled that route? So did my late hub, but he was into welds and size. None exist now, maybe in slides (that ancient medium). Rust for the rest.
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my front yard is populated with
steel origami birds, a huge origami deer (I really hated a neighbor's x-miss deer that lit up and bobbed its head up and down), and a bench with my version of the thinking man.
Steel birds in the yard are always good
There is a drive-by sighting on Interstate81, southbound, somewhere after the first US exits off to Clayton and Alexandria Bay and the next one to nothing, of three enormous (6 feet high) steel crows, in varying crow positions, in a field. They are so realistic that there is an altered perception of size and space. I have never gotten a good picture, but know who the steel sculptor is. Holy moly.
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From a commenter on Bill's Cheers&Jeers on TOP...
The War on Christmas!
Gandalf and Saruman unite, demand to bring back Greywolfe359!
Dear Robme
I've got a two word response for you and it's not Happy Birthday.
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PA, I recommend chocolate, and large doses of it. It worked against the Dementors in Harry Potter and I think it will work in this case. The parallels are very similar.
So sorry you had to go through that.
heh
To be honest: My first reaction was that if I was Clinton I'd fire the manager who, by implication, wasn't bothered about the other 49+ contests
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Still, using the word "honest" in the same sentence
that contains "Hillary" causes so much cognitive dissonance, at least one that does not include a sprinkling of "not" or "the opposite of" or "the antithesis of," etc.
Hep me Proletariat
What I do with ongoing solicitations from the DNC is put “ZERO” in the donation blank and include a note such as: “We are on to you! I'm donating to Tim Canova and Bernie now!” I add “Ha ha!”to the little plea on their return envelope, begging that I save them postage by putting a stamp on it, and send it back to them. Petty, puerile, and extremely satisfying
defaultcitizen
I was tempted to fill the envelope with extra junk mail
So it weighed more than 1.0 oz, forcing them to pay the extra postage.
But, I just could not do it.
I'm so confused.
What gets you the nomination - the popular vote or delegates?
What
gets you the nomination?
1. Owning the DNC and having your pet puppy running it.
2. Have the corporate media make sure they don't cover the Democratic Socialist. At all.
3. Have the state parties rig the system so that even if you lose you win.
4. Have your owners stuff millions in your campaign war chest.
I'm sorry, popular vote or delegates? Depends on which one will deliver the goods...
First joo get the money
Then joo get the delegates
Then joo get the POWER.
I'm pretty sure that's how Hillary "Scarface" Rodham Clinton thought it was supposed to work.
Nothing in there about what happens when someone else is getting more of the money than you are.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Is a mook anything like a moog?
Perhaps I should call Frampton. I need to know why when I read the bold words it sounded that way in my head. I will contact you the very second I hear back.
Please don't make any rash moves until we know for sure.
'Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P. Dowd "
Since you asked...
A Mook is a Schlemiel without any endearing features that are due to a schlemiels'--usually hapless--cause of his own befuddlements.
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Send her a check for negative $40 million
And, if my grade-school mathematics is correct, that should zero out her bank account. Done and done!
I was really afraid
your dog needed surgery or something...
unfortunately I see the crisis is horribly worse even than that. Hang in there...
If one were to be entirely cynical
Hillary Rodham determined that she would be POTUS, first female, back in college. From that perspective all of her good deeds were resume stuffing, including marrying a power-hungry Arkansan and then step, step, stuff, stuff to get to be "most qualified".
Like most of us, I can't imagine wanting that position. It takes a special sort to claw the way through, unless one is (un)lucky enough to be dragged into second and then have something bad happen at the top.
Sanders is different, he sees us beside him, and is almost a reluctant figure, a self-sacrifice.
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Which is the root of our problems...
All the people who should have the position run away from it like the wise individuals they are. All the power-hungry selfish people who should never be allowed near the presidency run toward it because "POWER - FOR MEEEEEE!" Its an extremely rare bird who is morally qualified for the presidency and also willing to sacrifice their sanity and peace of mind to try to be elected. That bird is Bernie right now - but they don't come around very often.
GREAT WIG!
That is so cool. Donald, I hardly knew ya.
GREAT WIG!
That is so cool. Donald, I hardly knew ya.
And I thought it was Hillary's
with a bad color job. Whatev.
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I'll be honest with you,
you're in my thoughts and prayers..
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Many thanx
Jimmy Carter may have been
the previous holder of that title, especially if you look at his post-White House career of continuing to work for international peace, and building houses instead of hobnobbing on the golf course. I believe he saw taking in the ailing deposed Shah of Iran as a humanitarian gesture, not realizing how it would blow up in his face.
Dear Robby, To be honest, here is my rule of thumb:
If you say "to be honest," I suspect dishonesty.
If you say it twice in the same short email, my suspicions are confirmed.
And yes, making another donation to Bernie now.
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Dear Robby
I am either sensing fear from your once cocky and over confident campaign, or this is a new lie to trick people, that you worry for a contested convention, that you feel over 200 delegates is not enough? I have just one thing to say.........
FEEL THE BERN!!!!
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Dear Robby,
When can I expect that honesty to begin?
Yours truly,
on the cusp
* I was scrambling to get my credit card to help out on computer repair, vet bill, or penile implant...whatever your crisis was...
Exceedingly well played, sir!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Merci!
And Mercy.
Actually, it was my Veterinarian's Computer whose Penile Implant that failed, leading to a chip off a dock's rod.
Sounds like Mook (lolmook) is telling the truth.
I'm sure he or she would love Hillary to win, otherwise this guy wouldn't be a member of the campaign.
Or maybe Mook is lying, and couldn't careless who wins the presidency, so long as it isn't Bernie. I suppose that much of the professional class doesn't care who's in the White House in 2017.
Hillary wants to be president for her own sake.