Politics: Helpful Advice before Using Act Blue

I don’t have time for either of the main posts that I should be doing so I guess that I have no choice but to delay them even further to bring you this long delayed update of any kind. Some of you might want to support liberals by donating to money to candidates on Act Blue. You may not even want to support a candidate, but you can support just whatever Democrat wins whatever nomination against the Republican incumbent in that office. I have some advice for you if you want to do that.

 

1- Make sure that you use an email that you don’t care about and isn’t important in any way for signing up for Act Blue. Never use a school email and especially never use a work email. I suggest creating an original one that you want just for this purpose. You won’t have to keep track of checking the emails because the 2 emails you get daily from every candidate you have ever donated money to won’t matter since you won’t have anything important on this email to keep track of. I highly suggest using gmail in case you do want to filter them to delete in the end in the event that there is more that you care about on this email.

 

2- Also avoid giving them a work cell phone number. You can stop any and all of the texts that you get, but try not to give out your phone number to too many. It’s sad that they force you to do this and that they will send you a shitton all on the last day of every month (even New Year’s Day!), but you can at the very stop them. In fact, if you have a landline still or know someone who does and wouldn’t mind having their number in this system, give out that number and know that they will never be able to text a landline.

 

3- Give as soon as possible after the primary results are in. The sooner they have your money, the more they can do with it. So give as much as you want to as many people as you want, just be sure to only give what you want to, as soon as you want to, as much as you can afford, and try not to donate to someone by mistakes.

 

4- Only give to candidates and not pacs. I think that I only once gave to a pac and not because I wanted to but because I was confused by something that I couldn’t really figure out what I might have done wrong. The only pac that might be good to donate to is Operation 147.

 

5- If someone starts sending you emails that you neither signed up for nor donated to, then you shouldn’t ever support them. I have no idea why so much email sharing happens and it can even start to leak out into other emails that you have. But I always hate it when I get emails from a candidate I’ve never heard of and know that I haven’t supported or done email alerts of. In fact, I’m unlikely to ever willingly sign up for email updates from a candidate ever again.

Politics: No Labels’ Weird Quest

There is a political group in the US now that is doing something weird. It is claims that the major third party candidates in the 2016 election are how Trump won and Clinton lost. It then goes on to say that the lack of major third party candidates in the 2020 election are how Biden won and Trump lost. It now feels that the best way to ensure that Trump doesn’t win again in 2024 is by… running a third party candidate. Say, what?

 

I don’t know how much, if any, legit traction this group will get. I’ll have to say that it is weird that enough people are already worried about it, even though it doesn’t seem to have a major impact at all just yet, if it will at all.

 

I’m not convinced that third party candidates are the answer nor that we need them in the 2024 presidential election. There are too many unknowns at the time that we don’t really need yet another one affecting things. But I think that we’ve been hearing about a supposed major third party for a while now that I don’t believe that one will happen now or any time soon.

 

Think about it: the last majory third party candidate in a presidential race was in 1992. It was notable because this person was at one point polling about either of the major party candidates. But then he shot himself in the foot by dropping out of the race at one point. While he got back into it later, by then, the damage that he did to himself was done and he didn’t win a single state in the Electoral College. As for how long it has been since a third party candidate even won a state there, that has been far too long ago to even matter.

 

While I don’t know for sure if this group has any chances of influencing the election in a good or bad way for the country, I don’t think that we should worry about them this yet as it seems like there were too many potential candidates for this party and picking people who should have just been on one side (liberal or conservative) isn’t going to do themselves any good, especially if you mix and match by escentially picking one candidate from each party for one ticket.