Thanks to a reader for this idea.
Do you still get mailings from the DNC or AARP that include a “No Postage Required” envelope intended for you to send a check back to them? Instead of giving the DNC or AARP — two entities we abhor because of their recent behavior — any money, why not start costing them money with those mailings?
Since the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee met on May 31st, 2008 to take delegates away from Hillary Clinton that she won in Florida and Michigan, we’ve sent back every contribution envelope we’ve received from the DNC filled with as many flat rocks as we could fit into the envelopes, hoping to cost the DNC a lot in postage.
Well, SSmith has an even better idea: start sending the DNC and AARP your phone books.
You don’t use them anymore, because most likely you just look numbers up online these days. So, here’s what you do:
(1) Get a box
(2) Put your phone book (and maybe some rocks, too) in the box
(3) Include a note telling the DNC and AARP why you no longer support them
(4) Close the box up
(5) Tape the DNC and AARP’s return envelope to the box
(6) Take it to the Post Office
(7) Enjoy the idea that instead of the DNC or AARP making money off that envelope, you could conceivably cost them a few dollars
Most likely, just like what happened with us, you will soon stop receiving these contribution mailings and will probably go on a crackpot list.
We’ve been to DNC headquarters a few times and know the sort of people who work there. We guarantee this will drive them nuts. Most of them are spoiled, entitled, fresh out of grad school kids who throw tantrums easily and sweat whenever the public rebels in the slightest. Around Mother’s Day in 2008, Hillary Clinton had a big event in DC and most of us went…on the way, we stopped at the DNC’s HQ to scream and shout about the Caucus and Primary fraud. All those people working there looked terrified that people had come to protest…and we were a bunch of well-dressed young gay men and middle-aged nicely dressed women, all standing up for Hillary while driving those people nuts.
One of the best days of our lives, seriously.
You, too, can take part in screwing with these people by mailing them your phone book (and maybe some rocks from your yard).
“Hey, you keep asking me for donations and I keep telling you that I stopped supporting the DNC after what you guys did to Hillary Clinton on May 31st, 2008 at the Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting. You asked me for a donation, but instead I thought you could use a Schaumburg phone book instead. Hope you like the rocks, too. They match the ones you have in your skull. Hope! Change!”
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UPDATE: Another good idea is to save up any religious, hunting, NASCAR, or other such catalogs you receive and send those to the DNC and AARP too. We’re sure they’ll love them and be so grateful they got them “in lieu of a donation”.
“Sure hope these religious catalogs help your cause. I know you will find a good use for them. Please send me more of your pre-paid donation envelopes as a thank you for my contribution. I await more opportunities to help you in this way.”
December 5, 2009 at 3:33 pm
How much do used weight-machine weights made of iron or lead cost to buy? You know, the ones used on the gym machines.
Talk about taking the postage!
December 5, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Hi HillBuzz:
thanks for giving me credit :). But actually I got this idea from other people.
Hopefully people will be able to voice their protests against the Un-DNC and the ration-care promoting AARP this way.
(but is there anyway you can take my “screenname” off the post?(the “ssmith” part), just put down a “HillBuzzer”? or something like that?) Thanks much!
December 5, 2009 at 3:37 pm
*LOL* I started doing something similar years ago when Sears and other companies began including advertisements in their billings. Who wants that crap? So when I sent in my payment, I put all that crap right back in the return envelope with a request to please stop sending that stuff with my bill. I did this for at least a year. Then closed all those accounts with a letter explaining why.
It’s not as good as rocks and phonebooks in a postage paid envelope, but it’s close. :-)
December 5, 2009 at 3:46 pm
The DNC RBC decision is THE REASON I will not support Democratic candidates on a national level.
I even appealed this to my old Michigan blogger buddies but was kickbanned for doing so. It was grotesque. There’s so much more to the Michigan Democrat politician/blogger connection I could tell, but none of the bloggers — NONE OF THEM! — raised so much as a question over the RBC decision.
That was when I left and never looked back.
December 5, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Me 2!
that day, the brazilla came out and brazenly says “my mama told me rules are rules”
BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
after that day I realised there was nothing democratic about the “Democratic” Party, perhaps there never was, and we just saw it for the first time in 2008.
each of those 4 delegate votes presented 1000s of voters who placed their 1 sacred voted for Hillary Clinton, and then to STEAL them from Hillary and give them to the marxist-in-chief, WTH!?!?!?
democrat NO MORE!
December 5, 2009 at 4:02 pm
What happened in Michigan was grotesque and should be raised more often. I wish John Zeigler gave credence to it in his “Media Malpractice” documentary (which is great) to be quite honest.
Michigan 2008 was when Democrats literally sat in a room and re-apportioned citizen votes based on “fairness.” I don’t care who was the beneficiary: if Hillary got to “steal” votes from another candidate, I would have been as equally indignant. That was not democracy: that was “I know better than you” coming from the DNC on an entire State.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) was even booed in Detroit for even making comments slightly positive toward Hillary AFTER this mess happened and AFTER Obama “won” the Primary.
It was such a violation of democracy. I wish the Conservative bloggers would have highlighted this more — “Hillary Hate” aside — because the Michigan issue is the most recent, most clear-cut, and wholly outrageous violation of a vote I have ever witnessed.
December 5, 2009 at 4:10 pm
redistribution of votes, just like they wanna do redistribution of wealth!
conservatives/repubs will never understand what a disgusting speatacle that was.
THEY STOLE VOTES FROM ONE CANDIDATE AND GAVE IT TO ANOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!
never again will I ever be a democrat! EVER!
December 5, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Me 3! I wonder how many torn-up voting cards Herr Doktor Dean received that Monday from we now former Dems.
I’m so psyched for Nov. 2010. Not one Dem will get my vote. Especially since I’ll no doubt be back in Jersey, where loser Jonathan Seagull Corzine GAVE AWAY all Hill’s NJ delegates to Utopia.
People, Left and Right, who are entrenched in the deeeeeeep partisan ruts they’ve dug for themselves have zero interest in the truth. Screw ‘em all. They’ll get theirs….
December 5, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I wish Michigan would do away with the DemoRAT caucus, and go back to the single primary that existed prior to 2000.
I just sent my AARP application back to them marked NO and NEVER all over it in large letters. Didn’t think to weight it.
December 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm
OMG that idea is so funny.
Gee, I’ve got at least six phonebooks laying around.
Got to find some boxes….
December 5, 2009 at 6:04 pm
That’s a good idea. I called AARP last week and asked them to please take me off of their mailing list, as I have no intention of EVER joining that organization, and that I was tired of throwing away all their shit every week. (I have received at least one piece of mail from them a week since I turned 50. And that was 6 years ago!!!!)
The lady on the phone was pretty nonchalant about it, sounded like she does that a lot.
But, she said it would take a month to 6 weeks for stuff to stop coming to me. I think I’ll mail them some old phone books! LOL!!!
December 5, 2009 at 6:26 pm
OH Dudes!! This is genius!! Love you guys!!!
December 5, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Oh Yeah. Land’s End, LL Bean, Coldwater Creek, Harry and David catalogues, old Hemmings books (they are as big as a phone book) Territorial Seed, any magazines that I’ve torn the recipes from, Popular Science…oh man….the list can go on and on.
AND from my business all the old mutual fund prospectuses that I have to throw out at a 13 month expiration date. Out of date variable annuity kits. Those things weigh a ton.
This could be really really fun.
December 5, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Guys-you are making me miss Chicago so much, I separated from DNC when they did their number on Hillary and the 18+ million of her supporters to install the Obama thang.
Could they have dredged far enough down in that cesspool of corruption South Side of Chicago to go even lower than Obama? Obama Jarrett, scum of the earth slum landlords, I hope their evil deeds catch up with them and soon. Their scandals know no end ACORN, SEIU, Climagate, DNC voter fraud the list is looking endless.
December 5, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Guys- this is a great idea!!
December 6, 2009 at 12:12 am
I did that many-many times to LA Times.
December 6, 2009 at 9:07 am
Why aren’t you people heading up the Republican Strategy Committee or something? You are so clever and subversive, have seen how the other side works and are a fount of inspiration and innovation. Just pisses the hell out of me you are untapped talent for the those who seek to take the slowly squeezing yoke of oppression from around our necks. How do we who appreciate who you are get others to sit up and take notice????? At the next big Tea Party event you should try to get your names on a speakers’ list. The crowd would go wild. You are not the prototypical Tea Party activist, at least as we have been portrayed in the Mastadon Media. Add to all your obvious talent you have a fun factor of plus 10. Not only should we be lambasting them but we HAVE TO HAVE FUN DOING IT! Maybe you could head up a Steering Committee for Political Tricks and Comedic Chicanery. Works for me!
December 6, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Being from Louisiana, where we have no rocks in our mud, I apologize that I can only send the mush of the plants frozen to a pulp with our historic earliest (global warming) snow ever just a day ago. Banana trees and elephant ears were particularly hard hit. They are massive, 8 to 12 feet tall. And having to drag them to the street to be carted away I can attest that the mush is quite heavy.
On the other hand, it being Christmas, perhaps just lumps of coal (even if BBQ briquets) might send the message.
December 8, 2009 at 8:24 am
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January 7, 2010 at 1:42 am
I like this idea.
I voted for more R’s than D’s over the years but the corruption is on both sides. The theft from Hillary was noted by those on the right with jaws being dropped – they just weren’t sure of it registering with Dem voters like it should have. It started to look like all Dems were crooked and Dem voters stupid if no one complained.
I’ll never vote R again. Bush1 and Bush2 were just setups for this crap. They took the measures to help us get here and the players from those admins are no different than the current ones except for the lies they tell. Both parties show they want NWO while they say whatever they think we want to hear – no matter how absurd the lie is. Black is white, up is down – because they said so!
If a truthful, sane party shows up I’ll vote for it. Don’t see it yet though.