"When I was a kid, I lost three fingers on my left hand while working in our family butcher shop" 2023-02-22

Here's a soppy, tear-jerker appeal designed to con you out of your hard-earned money, from a senate re-election candidate who says he pays $12 for what looks to us like a $5 haircut. (I've got him beat: I only pay $11 for a similarly bad haircut, but I do live in a red state, so you would expect to pay less.) This is a great example of a sob-story, identity-politics (let's keep sending him back to Washington because he and his family were too stupid to keep him from cutting off three fingers) appeal for your money. 

This is Jon Tester. "…who lost three fingers on (his) left hand
while working in our family butcher shop."
Despite (or because of) his family's obvious ignorance of 
child labor laws, he wants to be a U. S. Senator. 
Jon also touts his "collection of dirt-stained T-shirts" 
Three missing fingers and dirty shirts are the only 
qualifications he puts forth, and that's after already
serving in the Senate for sixteen years. 

If you send Mr. Tester back to Washington, he promises he will be "somebody who will fight to protect our public lands, create good-paying jobs, and ensure rural communities have hospitals within driving distance in case of an emergency." Sounds good, huh? Until you think about it and realize that "protecting the public lands" includes banning oil and gas drilling on federal leases, forcing us into outrageously overpriced electric vehicles, ruining food businesses that rely on natural gas, and subjecting a large portion of the population to deadly hot summers with too little cooling, and deadly cold winters with too little heat; "creating good-paying jobs" is a non-sense phrase used by Democrats for decades, as the only jobs government can create are government jobs, and we have way too many of those already; and, "ensuring rural communities have hospitals within driving distance in case of an emergency," which I presume would require hospitals close to all farms so that knuckle-heads like Mr. Tester and his parents aren't inconvenienced when a child is given hazardous tasks to accomplish. Ain't gonna' happen. Besides, he has had sixteen years to do those things he promises. But hey, give him another six years and maybe he'll get 'er done.

But in order to win this race so we can keep fighting for families like yours, my team says we need to raise $1,000,000 in the first 24 hours of our campaign launch. So please, will you split $5 between my campaign and the DSCC?

So, Mr. Tester's team, which we presume includes the grifters at the DSCC, NEEDS to raise $1,000,000 dollars in the next 24 hours. That proves the old adage that "there's a fool born every second," and the DSCC is counting on all them, and more, to send money immediately so that someone who seemingly has accomplished very little for sixteen years can have another six years to do the impossible.

At least, as you can see in the quote above, there is one part of today's fund-raising email that verifies something we have been saying all along: When you pay to become a "member" of the DSCC ("member" meaning nothing more than they suckered you into sending them money), your membership dollars are split between the candidate and the DSCC, thereby ensuring that the candidate gets a cushy job that pays him way more money than he could make in the private sector, and the people who run the DSCC are supported for their successful efforts to do nothing more than devise clever emails to get you to send them money. Okay, I lied: They do have one other task, which is to split up the money with the politicians.

If you want 7-Fingers-Jon to continue to be your senator based on the presumption that he has a lucky number of digits, go for it. I want to be able to tell you make a donation directly to his campaign, but it looks like donations are through the DSCC only.