Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 28, 2024

The billionaires are the candidates asking you for money.

They’ve taken Pestering to an art form. The only winning move is not to play.

Billionaires going through… 91 counts?

Why would you give any candidate an encouragement to ask for more money, Arlo?

(It’s not just candidates or politics either, these days.)

Thank you, Jimmy Johnson, for drawing public attention to the sad plight of billionaires. They are a gravely misunderstood minority, and we should all be more aware of, and sympathetic to, the problems and difficulties they face daily.

I hear one’s selling a watch for 100 grand.

I donated a car to the Humane Society several years ago and was bombarded several times a year for 10 years after that for more donations. I’m not rich and it wasn’t even a working car!

Yesterday I deleted more email campaign contribution requests than what were in my spam folder.

Giving money to a politician is like feeding one pigeon one time…

Yes, Arlo, but the billionaires (and Party elites) get to say who the nominee is, no matter who the voters choose.

I hope you didn’t give their party your phone number. I had to turn off notifications for text messages for the volume of spam texts that mistake continues to get me.

I know how Arlo feels. But I will continue. A little out of every SS and Military retirement check will go to my candidate.

Nope, not even a dime.

It is like foraging for Mushrooms in the woods. Returning to the places where you’ve been successful a few days ago makes it very possible to get some more. (Always cut them, don’t rip or twist them out – keep the mycelium whole.)

I refuse to pay someone to lie to me.

Poor babies, lol!

Poor billionaires don’t give money to charity campaigns…

Billionaires have foundations and people to handle that for them.

I’ll vote. There’s my support.

Back in 2016, since I am a registered Republican, I got so many requests for donations from the Trump campaign. It’s kind of hard to believe he’s given up on me donating money to his campaign…

And, I’d say most billionaires are poor; poor in spirit, poor in integrity, deficient in humility, I did know a couple people who were millionaires, one told me he had no friends, that was the saddest thing I ever heard up to that point in my life.

Most of them just ignore those requests…….

Happened to me too. First time I’ve donated. Figured it was the least I could do.

I’m not going to give money to anyone richer than me.

Giving money to get more of the ads we complain about already? The undecided’s aren’t sharp enough to find their way to a voting booth anyway.

A week? I wish I’d get that much time between them asking!

As it gets closer to the election, the ads ramp up and some of them can get downright nasty. If you watch ad supported video streaming or frequent ad supported websites, consider using a VPN service at least until after the election and set the country to somewhere on another continent. If your video streaming is through a TV set top device, then rig up a cheap VPN gateway with a Raspberry Pi or equivalent. Whoever serves up the ads for that streaming service or website will think you’re in that country and serve up ads relevant to people living there. There’s a bit of cost and effort involved. I went from getting nothing but some of the nastiest fear mongering ads I’ve ever experienced to ads for regular household products. Though I could have done without that ad for a pain revealing cream featuring nudists in their 60s or 70s riding bikes. That really wasn’t ideal.

Is poor billionaires the best oxymoron you’ve ever heard?

begging and mudslinging. Top skills for politicians’

The difference being that They get to pick the vice presidential candidate. That certainly worked out well for the opponent.

Meow.

Donald get pestering the Koch Brothers for donations but they told him he was too flaky for them and his economics were idiotic.

I’ve never donated to any campaign ever, and I still get pestered.

I Go Pogo.

Some years back, I donated $25 to a candidate and must have received $100 worth of mail in return. So I have never donated to another candidate since. I figure there are $75 ahead by me not donating.

They get the same ask, but with 3 or 4 or 5 more zeros.

I stopped donating to several charities some decades ago. I figured out that they were better off financially if I did not send them money as they would send me “gifts” plus an excessive number of mailings and I figured out that if did not donate and they did not send me anything due to same – they were coming out ahead financially.

I have since come up with an idea, not tried yet, so that I can donate to charitable organizations (or any other group/person) and not be inundated with gifts, requests for donations, etc from them or anyone else as a result. I have – from long ago – software and blank checks to make my own checks. I can print these checks with only my name or even without same and send donations so that they do not have my home info to mail anything to me.

One can also order checks with just a name printed on them – no address, phone number – as I do so for 2 local not-for-profit organizations of which I serve as treasurer. (Since the organizations do not have their own address I use my own address for mailings for them which I do or for others to reply to the organization (as do the other officers of each organization). It would make no sense to put my address on the checks as someone else may (will?) someday takeover from me and my address would be a problem at that time. So the checks have the organizations’ name and no other contact info.) And I could do the same thing with just our names printed on the checks.