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just weird
Oct. 15th, 2020 05:23 pmSo, I still have a landline. You can stop laughing now. I live in a place which loses power frequently, sometimes for extended periods, and I really like to be able to call emergency services. Seen enough times where cell service is imaginary when you need it.
The landline gets scads of spam calls during seasons like this. It used to be recorded robo messages from candidates, but those have mostly fallen out of fashion because people hate them. Now it's generally fake polls (where they ask very leading questions "Do you think Biden prefers pedophilia or coprophilia?") and the occasional real poll (where the questions are much less creative).
But today I got what was perhaps the most misguided call yet. It was a candidate robo call for senate asking me to vote for the candidate. I had to look up the name online. It was the republican challenger from Michigan. Now my area code is exclusive to Maine. All the Maine campaigns have stopped calling because the fact I've already voted is public info. You've got to be some mutha desperate to call every phone in the entire US with a robo hoping that enough people in the other 49 states will be inclined to come to Michigan and commit fraud on your behalf. Or perhaps he's just the one that fell off the turnip truck and didn't run away from the recruiting committee fast enough.
The landline gets scads of spam calls during seasons like this. It used to be recorded robo messages from candidates, but those have mostly fallen out of fashion because people hate them. Now it's generally fake polls (where they ask very leading questions "Do you think Biden prefers pedophilia or coprophilia?") and the occasional real poll (where the questions are much less creative).
But today I got what was perhaps the most misguided call yet. It was a candidate robo call for senate asking me to vote for the candidate. I had to look up the name online. It was the republican challenger from Michigan. Now my area code is exclusive to Maine. All the Maine campaigns have stopped calling because the fact I've already voted is public info. You've got to be some mutha desperate to call every phone in the entire US with a robo hoping that enough people in the other 49 states will be inclined to come to Michigan and commit fraud on your behalf. Or perhaps he's just the one that fell off the turnip truck and didn't run away from the recruiting committee fast enough.
