Most of that money had been invested into a killer field operation.
From her FEC reports, any money John wasn't pocketing went to a few staffers/consultants who did nothing but fire out boilerplate tweets every so often. Then again, John thinks that waking up at the crack of noon to play video games all day is a hard day's work, so I guess that actually is a "killer field operation" in his mind.
We have enough signatures to easily get on the ballot
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I’ve never been shy about picking fights that are hard to win.
I don't know if I want to call this true or not. On the one hand, he sure does tilt at windmills a lot, from Gamergate to the scampaign. On the other, he only ever engages in the safest arenas, and he never challenges anything out in the open, taking softball interviews and staying in his safe space behind his blue checkmark. He's a coward that pretends to be a valiant crusader, a slacktivist to the core.
You cannot turn your ethics off on Monday, and flick them back on Tuesday.
Considering the GG connotations, John probably shouldn't mention "ethics."
The biggest lesson I learned in 2018 is you cannot win a congressional election with digital alone. We tried this in 2018, doing amazingly well for a first time candidate and getting almost half the votes we needed to win.
Translated another way: "in what was effectively a two-man race, my opponent got three-quarters of the vote, so a clear majority did not want to vote for me." If you were actually a threat, the DCCC would bury you since they don't want another Squad situation. Also, pretty sure that if you went out in public more and people saw you for the shambling horror you are, you would have done even worse.
What makes this so difficult is letting this dream I’ve worked so hard for over three years pass. I’ve made over 50,000 calls to people. There have been weeks of sitting in my office fundraising until my brain turned to tapioca. [...] And after hours a day of pouring all my energy into strangers, far too often I’ve had nothing left over for my husband, my dogs and my friendships.
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Math sperg time: I dunno how long political calls usually take, but let's assume two minutes per call to dial, wait for a ring, and leave a message, since most people ignore political calls anyway. Even if we assume he was doing phone calls every single day since he lost the election, it would come out to about three hours of nothing but phone calls all day every day (50k calls/600 days*2 minutes = 166 minutes). The number per day would be even higher since we know he didn't do much with the scampaign right away, making it even more doubtful he made anywhere near that many calls in total. I wouldn't be surprised if he counted robodialing as doing all the work himself though, that's definitely a John move.
Also, you'd think that he would at least have posted images of all these campaign events he's supposedly been doing this whole time. I can think of a couple token appearances he made (like driving his Porsche in a parade), but it sure doesn't scream exhausting campaign to me. It isn't helped by his constant tweeting about video and tabletop games, in which Frank appears basically all the time. I guess he has plenty of free time after all! Why doesn't everyone campaign? It's so much fun!
There are days I get done with campaign events, and my face hurts from smiling.
Well when you smile like this, I'm not surprised:
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