A rule of thumb in the con artist game is don’t repeat yourself – the more you repeat yourself, the more likely you are to get caught, as some of your previous victims will remember what you’d pulled. But in the world of Democrat Party fundraising, there appears to be little interest in this rule, or at least no fear any of their donor will be smart enough to catch on to the scam.
On Saturday, I got an email from the uber-leftist group “Stop Republicans” about the upcoming Senate election in Arizona. The display name attached to the email address was “heart wrenching loss [Arizona]” and the subject line was “There’s nothing left to say.” The problem for this group is I save every email they send, and on March 23 they’d sent the exact same email.
“Derek, there’s nothing left to say,” the email this weekend opens. “When we said Mark Kelly was our only hope at saving our RAZOR-THIN Senate Majority, we thought Democrats would RUSH to boost Turnout in Arizona… But we were WRONG. Not a SINGLE Democrat donated. We’re sobbing.”
The March 23 email opened, “Derek, there’s nothing left to say. When we said Mark Kelly was our only hope at saving our RAZOR-THIN Senate Majority, we thought Democrats would RUSH to boost Turnout in Arizona… But we were WRONG. Not a SINGLE Democrat donated. We’re sobbing.”
That’s a lot of sobbing, right?
In fact, the entire email is a repeat, they didn’t even have enough respect for their donors to change a single thing about it. The paragraph, “We only have ONE DAY LEFT to get 11,875 gifts to save Arizona. If we fall short, we’ll have to pack up and abandon Mark Kelly. Can you donate??” appears in both emails. They couldn’t even be bothered to change the number of fake donations they need before all is lost.
Both close out, “And we’re days from abandoning Arizona because we’re flat out BROKE!” Maybe they’re really, really bad at money management or their donors are a special kind of suckers.
Speaking of tears, another grifting group called the Democratic Strategy Institute is, if you’re to believe their messages, is another emotionally and mentally unstable group. Just so far this year they’ve send 5 emails with the subject line, “we’re crying HAPPY tears!!” Sounds like a chemical imbalance.
What got them crying? One email is about Joe Biden’s agenda where they were “only 2,000 donations short of our 100,000 donation goal. And with only 6 hours left until our midnight deadline, we need you to step up!” In another about “Biden’s majorities,” they were “only 2,500 donations short of our 100,000 donation goal. But with only 8 hours left until our midnight deadline, we need you to step up!” And in still another, this one about the filibuster, they were “only 500 donations short of our 100,000 donation goal. But with only 9 hours left until our midnight deadline, we need you to step up!”
They play with the numbers, but the messaging must work of else they wouldn’t use it in every email under the same subject line. How little recall must someone have to not realize they’re getting the same words, the same sales pitch, repeatedly? How vacant must that audience be if they don’t realize it?
These groups are relentless, nothing will stand between them and their sucker’s, I mean donor’s, money.
When they’re not scamming, they’re crying, and they’re crying a lot, if their words are to be believed. Granted, they’re leftists so their words are not to be believed. It’s just informative about the lengths to which they will go for money.
What do they actually do with that money? That’s a good question. They pay themselves, that much is certain. But ask yourself if you’ve ever heard the names of either group in a tagline on a TV commercial or even at the bottom of a meme? Maybe they’ve produced some, but I’d be willing to bet they haven’t made that many. Someone is getting rich off these scams, which is enough to make their donors sob uncontrollably. So at least some of the tears are real.