*pinches bridge of nose*
Okay, so he Tweets this poor dude who's just trying to run this foundation, asking for an email address. And when he doesn't get a response, he tags in the foundation's Twitter account as well. Which wouldn't bother me, except both the dude and the charity itself have the charity's website right on their Twitter profile. A website with a rather easily located "Contact Us" form right on the goddamn site.
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Since, you know, it's a fucking foundation that is in the business of handing out grants, it turns out they have a process to apply for grants. Who knew, right? They're not hard to get ahold of. They just don't need or want your stupid emails, Russ. They want you to follow the procedure they clearly lay out on their website, which they link from their Twitter profiles, which you definitely looked at because you could see they have DMs turned off and thus had to @ them.
So the first possibility that comes to mind is that he either couldn't find the link to the site, or didn't read it thoroughly enough to find this contact page. This is pretty likely, and would be pretty funny. Very on-brand for Russ, the king of the comically self-defeating schemes. (Maybe it's just me, but if you can't follow simple instructions like, "please select from this drop down menu why you're bothering me," I'm not in a rush to write you a check.)
But there's also the intriguing possibility that he
did find this form, filled it in, and didn't get a response within 15 minutes offering him a million dollars and his personal team of bikini-clad interns. So he decided to take a more direct approach before leaving them a one star Google review and moving on to pester the Bill Gates Foundation or whatever. This would be even funnier, and I regret that we'll never know if it's the case unless he tries to publicly shame them for refusing a disabled man with plights (please let him try to publicly shame them for refusing a disabled man with plights).
It's not even that I expect better from Russ. It's that he always seems to find a way to fuck up that never occurred to me was even possible. It's entertaining as hell, but honestly some days I need an aspirin after reading this thread.