Buyer’s remorse has more than a few Trump donors looking to cancel their recurring donations.
But the Trump website won’t let you. (Hillary’s will.) ‘Tis in vain, says Vanity Fair:
In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Buckley v. Valeo that donating money to a political candidate is a form of free speech. Imagine being forced to scream for an hour once a month, and you get a pretty good idea what disillusioned Trump supporters must be going through.
Here’s the right way to look at it. Your unstoppable donation to America’s Übermensch is part of the hideous Eternal Recurrence in every human existence. Nietzsche argued that the strongest person, the person most able to affirm life, is able to say Everything in my life – all the suffering and confusion and humiliation – if you told me I would have to live it over and over and over again, I would rejoice to do so!
It is only the weak who, like Woody Allen, say:
Nietzsche … said that the life we lived we’re gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.
Your donation to Donald Trump is your Ice Capades.
Be strong.
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UD thanks dmf.
August 6th, 2016 at 7:14AM
glad to add to the mix, will be interesting to see if anyone can find out how much the Donald will be raking in from this campaign when all is said and done, the tragic thing is many of his supporters take things like how he is charging the campaign for services from his own companies as a sign of his genius/fitness, I guess that’s the logical end of so called public/private enterprises, too bad we will all end up like his good friend in Jersey that he stuck with that dying casino…
August 6th, 2016 at 9:49AM
Gotta give him debit.
While one should expect sharp practices from Trump. Democratic donation sites are often guilty of much lower level deceptive practices. The DCCC site (and I believe previously, but not currently, HRC’s) comes with the “make it monthly box checked.” I once ran afoul of this and ACt Blue made it right very quickly after my telephone inquiry. For fully competent people paying attention, there is that quick fix not available to DT’s dupes. But someone somewhat infirm, who decided to make a one shot splurge contribution, may simply not notice or have the wherewithal to make the phone call. It can be a disaster for them or at least terribly distressing. I wrote the DCCC about their fine print default, invoking our own Saint Elizabeth, patroness of consumers. Nada response. I now use Paypal when I can and am always careful. Threatening to withold contributions is a transparently empty threat during this political emergency. Please contribute to HRC and to down ballot candidates too. It would be great to have a Democratic President who is not totally stymied. Just take your time on the websites.
August 6th, 2016 at 9:59AM
dmf: From what I’m reading, people are fleeing his hotels and other enterprises. There’s just something about a man polling lower than David Duke among minorities…
August 6th, 2016 at 10:01AM
Greg: That’s all useful cautionary information, none of which I knew about. Thanks.
FWIW: The whole “recurring donation” thing, for whatever great cause, scares me. I’d never do it.
August 6th, 2016 at 10:28AM
UD, sadly real-estate wheeler and dealers are well served by denigrating, and discriminating against, minorities,
and not surprised that folks who have been already been taken in and are now seeing behind the facades are fleeing but unfortunately the press has been giving him free ad time to lure in many many new suckers, don’t forget that Jim Bakker is back on the scam pitching end-times survivalist propaganda. The real and largely unreported story in all this is the obscene powers that property developers in general have over our cities.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/trump-real-estate-theft-public-land-taxes/
August 6th, 2016 at 11:15AM
Jim Bakker? Is back??
August 6th, 2016 at 1:17PM
in the leathery lifted flesh, need some apocalypse chow for yer bunker?
https://jimbakkershow.com/
August 6th, 2016 at 7:26PM
Coda
Just got home from dinner with my wife. Had two glasses of wine was relaxed. Got an email from Anne Kirkpatrick, McCain’s opponent. Had been thinking all day that, for example, Ryan and McCain put self hugely over country (although in McCan’s case it could be some form of senility). So I contributed $20 + 10% tip. Got thanked for a 12 month *recurring* contribution. Fixed it on line. But, fool me thrice, shame on me. And this just after I warned others this morning.
August 7th, 2016 at 9:59AM
Greg: Thanks for the reminder – so easy to tick the wrong box…
August 8th, 2016 at 9:40AM
Why, if you are a Democratic patronage employee in Mediocrevilleburgton (and there are plenty of them), you are required to donate to Duh Party as long as you care to be employed. 1.9% to 2.1% of pay is the minimum required, but exactly 2% is not allowed. This permits the pretend journalists at the local newspaper to deny that there is a “2% Club.”