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Soon, we will receive phonecalls from celebrities, honest to goodness hollywood celebrities. Depending on their political leanings, these sincere celebrities will encourage you to....do what? I'll never know.
Today is California's primary election day, boy oh boy. If only there were a real person at the end of the other line, and I encourage him/her to ...do what? Will he/she hang up on me?
My head hurts. Commercials rip and destroy what our country represents.
But then....Silly me. I thought that elections were about freedom.
American Flag Marines honoring 9/11 on YouTube
Sad, isn't it? By Thanksgiving, we'll all be most thankful it's over.
ReplyDeleteVery thankful.
DeleteHi Susan - thankfully we don't have as many commercials as you do - but it's all so sound-bite ... and thus we get nowhere except vitriol ... I'll be thankful when ours is over ... and yours too!!
ReplyDeleteCheers Hilary
Commercials cost huge amounts of $$$. I wonder if people (like me) leave the room or fast forward on the DVR.
DeleteOne big circus is all it is, this year waaaay more than ever I'd say. Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like a boxing match.
DeleteMy fear is the sensible people will grow so tired they will stay home.
ReplyDeleteNo commercials yet. The phone I never answer.
Have heard that from many people, which saddens me. Even if the choices are who they are, the question is about who do I hate the most.
DeleteIt's so funny this year. Usually by the California primary, it's all over but for the last few states to vote. We actually mattered this time.
ReplyDeleteThe primaries should shake up Hillary. Sanders was right there, a few % point behind her.
DeleteThis election period is def. unlike any other, but some things are still the same...like those phone calls.
ReplyDeletePhone calls, signs stuck along roads...I'll be numb by November.
DeleteWe are in election mode too. And forced to listen to far too many self-serving lies. And liars.
ReplyDeleteFortunately ours will be over in early July.
How lucky for you!! By the time this all ends, brains will be numb.
DeleteI guess now is the time for me to be glad I got rid of the hundreds of TV channels we used to have and only get the networks and a few other channels. I can listen to CSpan for election news and Meet the Press for some talking points if I choose to. It is very freeing, actually. And so far no one has called on my cell phone. Can they? I guess they can, but I have escaped that too.
ReplyDeleteI think cell phones are safe from the ads. During the day while my husband is at work, the tv is off. Blessed silence.
DeleteIt's going to be a looooong five months until Election Day...
ReplyDeleteLord help us!
DeleteI was astonished, truly astonished, last Tuesday, to get a phone call from someone wanting to know what I thought about the election, did I have any concerns that might sway me one way or the other, had I decided who I was going to vote for etc.
ReplyDeleteThis has never happened before, I'm pretty sure this is the first year any of the parties has used phones to contact people. And I don't like it. I answered the phone without thinking to check the number, next time I'll check and if it's a number I don't know, I'll be saying what I posted for my Whimsical Wednesday a couple of weeks back. Then I'll hang up of course and wait for the police to arrive (*~*)
You, TOO! There is no way to block them, since the numbers change. We just let it ring until the voice mail takes over, where the incoming number shuts off.
DeleteThe next five months will be torture.
Hi Susan,
ReplyDeleteThankfully, I haven't received any political phone calls from the USA. Watching UK TV, these days, we might as well be living in America. Sometimes, we actually get our own news as in the European referendum.
And the California Primary did confirm was a political circus you folks are going through.
Gary
Circus--that is an excellent word for politics these days.
DeleteThis has been the worst election season in my memory and I can't believe it's nowhere near over yet. Every election it seems they get started earlier and earlier and it's disgusting because you know that only means more and more money involved. Gary is right, circus is the best word for this mess. It's sad.
ReplyDeleteIt is disgustingly embarrassing to have our nation to have two choices, neither of which is qualified or exceptable.
DeleteI found that I get fewer calls by registering as an independent.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that will be my choice, as well.
DeleteBut who to vote for when neither candidate is ethical?
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