Is this all the beginning of the end of the United States?

Nobody, but nobody, wants cold calls from political candidates regardless of their political persuasion. They usually come in around dinner time, and my reaction is always the same as it is to cold calls trying to sell me auto insurance (for a car I've never owned): Talk to the hand.

Thank God for Caller ID. I don't know you? Talk to my voicemail. And if you can't be bothered to do that, you go on the Block list.

And that’s not a problem. As garamet pointed out, the calls go to voicemail. So you leave a polite comment asking them to please vote for a particular candidate and move on to the next one. Just by calling them, you make it more likely that person will vote and that’s a good thing.

So I’m clear now, Federal Farmer does not want to gas millions of Jews. Is that an accurate description of his limits? If so, I should take it off my bingo card.

Yeah, I don't know anyone who actually likes those calls. I got a call from an Army recruiter last week. He thought I attended the local high school, and he was talking to me about how I could make great money by enlisting, and I told him to eat a star spangled dick before I hung up. I despise soliciting calls of any kind, because I often neither have the time to entertain them, nor the inclination to hear the sales pitch because to me they are frivolous. That's not against you, I know folks who believe in their candidate like to make people aware, but unless you happen to call up someone who loves your candidate, you're going to get either static or a cold reception. So my hat's off to you for even trying.

I actually got a call from the car warantee people the day after I bought my last car. They could not even tell me what my name was, or the model car I was driving. She hung up after I told her I would come down and remover her taint to hang on my wall. The gasp of horror before the click was awesome, and I knew that woman would question her line of work for the rest of the day.

Seriously, I have more pity for the people who beg on the road and sleep under bridges than for a person who makes their living as a telemarketer.

I understand, though I do have a lot of sympathy for folks who work as telemarketers. They need to eat, too, so they take whatever job will hire them. It's not their fault their bosses are corrupt leeches looking to suck the lifeblood out of every innocent human being on the face of the planet.

That said, yeah, when I am in the mood, I tend to find more creative ways to confound them, especially the car warranty people. Once I told them I was amish and my horse came with a lifetime warranty, then there was the time I spoke in nothing but French until they hung up in frustration. There are a panoply of options if your irritation runs deep enough.

In the spirit of ... attempting reconciliation. I’ll throw in. First, I’ll state my overall opinion of liberalism ((been called a bleeding heart liberal since I started talking), then you can tell my why everything about those things have been a bad idea for 150 years.
1. I believe in social safety nets.
Everyone has hard times and no one should have to starve or watch their children starve because they end up in circumstances beyond their control.
2. I believe women should have the same rights and opportunities that men have.
This includes total control over her own body and whatever may or may not be happening or growing inside it.
3. I believe destroying the environment for capitalistic gains is ... well just about the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Second only to suggesting not destroying the environment will destroy the economy.
4. I believe all people should be free to live however they want and without persecution. If you don’t like a certain segment of the population, don’t go near them. Don’t try to eliminate their existence because you feel a certain way.

I did it for free. Didn't get paid a dime.

Sss....I dunno, I think the Republicans kick you out of the club for something like that.
Did you steal a baby's lollipop, and sell it on Ebay for a couple thousand by making absurd medical healing claims about it?
That might balance it out.

See, now, if you'd just stick with that instead of jumping on an old fart like @Forbin who's convinced that the Williams' sisters' success in life somehow impinges on his own, you'd be better off.

What is so great about @Forbin that makes him immune to criticism for being a fucking whiny moron?

Oh yeah, if @garamet likes someone then making fun of them should be prohibited no matter how much of a moron they are.

@Forbin's had me on Ignore for years. I just though @Jenee might have had something more coherent to say. Rather like I'm waiting for you to stop scattershotting everyone in the RR and post something thoughtful.

You do, actually, post something thoughtful on occasion. Better than Lubak, but that's not saying much.

That’s too equivocal for me. Keeping “Federal Farmer loves Hitler” on the bingo card.

You've cracked the code. Mods should really name that smilie after Face.

First off, I do not have the time or inclination to figure out your WF history with ignores. Second off, I am not here to please the critics of WF. I am not here to join in your little group of friends. It has been a few years and none of the shame effects of we are just trying to help you conform to our standards has worked. Third, I have my reasons for what I do. they are not your reasons, nor do I expect them to be. when your reasons become important to me I will gladly drink a big old jug of bleach and light myself on fire.

Next time, save yourself a lot of keystrokes.

Did it take you this long to realize I consider myself a troll? I could have saved you some years and pointed you back to my original entrance. Didja miss it or is your memory that gone?

Oh, and I know one of my own, and you may be a weak one but hi little goomba.

Mods, please shut down my @garamet dual. It is getting ollllldddd.

ISWYDT

that's been my experience working for self described libertarians... you get paid in exposure and "experience" a lot of the time.

No.

OK thank you captain obvious. Your work here is done. I look forward to your future adventures.

New username? Excellent choice.

Captain Oblivious would be better.

Sounds like a personal choice. If I 'volunteer', I call it that. When it comes to 'work', I don't work for free. Never have, never will. Legal tender in sufficient stacks, bitches.

Well, it was voluntary so.. It did result in people reaching out to me and wanting me to run for some small county seat, I don't remember what. I did all of the paper work, but nothing came of it and I ended up moving out of MD a year later. I suppose I could have used that experience and exposure to further my political ambitions.

If nothing else, add it to your résumé.

Exactly right. Lanz don't get paid, Lanz don't work. End of line.

Except for WF. Or were you running some sort of Christian scheme you didn't tell us about?