This is old news, I know, but I don’t believe we’ve had a jackaltariat-wide chance to scorn embattled (a/cliche alert. b/understatement) Senator Martha McSally (R-HoofInMouth) for her latest plea for funds.
Down in the polls and behind in fundraising, Arizona Sen. Martha McSally is telling her supporters to “fast a meal” and donate the money to her campaign instead.
…”If you can give a dollar, five dollars, if you can fast a meal and give what that would be,” McSally told her audience on an audio recording obtained by Arizona’s Family.
Well, sure. I’m going to skip dinner so that I can send a sawbuck to a senator from the party that’s on record as being OK with crushing Social Security. Starve for granny-starvers.
At least back in the day, clueless autocrats would allow us the dream of cake. Now, all we get is wind-pudding.
Open thread…
Image: Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885.
Spanky
Never mind. I’m also an idiot.
Leave it to us ocd Juicers to zero in on the least important part of the post.
Eta: fuck mcsally, and send yon sawbuck to kelly.
Omnes Omnibus
I’ve been told that there is an Evangelical dog whistle in that request – that fasting and then giving to a “good” cause is an especially worthy donation. But I am not an Evangelical, so all I hear is “Fuck you, pay me.”
Anne Laurie
She stole the idea from her Mormon constituents, who are asked to skip a meal on a regular basis and donate the money saved to charities feeding the hungry. *Totes* the same idea!
After sufficient mockery, IIRC, McSally claimed it was a “joke”. Doubt that helped her cred with potential voters, Mormon or not.
Ruckus
I’m having a difficult time understanding how bad her election chances are if she’s asking for her constituents to go hungry for a meal to support her.
I’m having no trouble understanding how she could decide this was a winning strategy. She is a republican after all.
Spanky
@Omnes Omnibus: Well after all, doing all you can to get the granny starver elected would be the Christian thing to do.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus:
@Anne Laurie: Okay, maybe Mormon, not Evangelical. My point still stands.
piratedan
here’s a sample of the fact checking that has to be done regarding what McSally is pumping out in the AZ media markets…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb8NljMru-0
As for McSally, she’s a model Republican, projection and lying are the norms…. and this is despite a distinguished career as a military aviator, I suspect that she had to suffer discrimination and sexual harassment her way up the career ladder, which makes her decisions and choices even more tragic it seems.
greenergood
@Omnes Omnibus: Ha! Don’t get the sense that Talibangelicals would think fasting is part of their worshipful vocabulary, which is why McSally’s request is just so absurd. It’s like she plucked it from a biblical list of ‘things to do’, and decided fasting would help her campaign. Fasting is something done by Muslims for Ramadan, and people who do yoga, for yoga reasons. Used to be Catholics on Fridays many moons ago – McSally’s back in another decade or two or three. Don’t think Hamberder KIng and MickieD’s are going to be shaking in their boots regarding Mc’S’s campaign
gene108
@Omnes Omnibus:
McSally’s plea really reminded of the televangelist prosperity gospel types in tone, and content. I think she was targeting a specific demographic, with this appeal.
Patricia Kayden
Benw
Welcome to the Church of Suicidal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ESWRtaHNU8
namekarB
If your constituents are poor cuz they ain’t got no money, you should make some sort offer of something in return before you ask for a sacrifice. Like a promise of two chickens in every pot or something where the giver knows “if I help you then you’ll help me.”
What McSally actually did is referred to commonly as “begging.”
Patricia Kayden
NotMax
Semi-obligatory.
:)
MoxieM
“Wind-pudding” is an excellent phrase, and I plan to look for opportunities to use it. I’m sure there will be many in the next few months. Sláinte!
(I hope somebody else besides me read about the kid who badly edited the Scots –not Gaelic– Wikipedia. He’s been doing it since he was 12, and, a North Carolina native, had no freaking clue how the language actually works. But he’s done something like half the site by now.) I’m quite sure there is a colorful Scots expression to describe the mess.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
there may be something happening here…
piratedan
well the GOP is really burning cash here in AZ to keep McSally in place…
they’ve run the one with the kindly old lady who says that Kelly is a greedy salesman pitch by him working as a consultant for a company regarding air medical transport (which the McSally refuses to name) and the company has only been “accused”, but because they’ve been accused (by the McSally campaign) that implies that Kelly is guilty and x+y=tangerine.
ad number two features old town family doctor claiming that he’ll never vote for anyone that is looking to make a buck off of people who are in medical need. Overlooking and not mentioning Senator McSally’s votes against the ACA, increased PPE procurement and pandemic sick leave…
prior to these ads, McSally had one where she attempted to portray Kelly as being in the pocket of the Chinese and that she’s working hard to bring back those jobs to Arizona… no indication on how, just that she’s working on it…
Kelly isn’t running attack ads himself, although his dark money PAC ads have hit a sweet spot playing on McSally’s own role, with her on camera, selling the virus as a hoax and that her life is going back to normal, eating out, meeting people and getting a massage. At the end, she responds to a comment about her getting a massage with the response, paraphrased, “you shouldn’t worry about me getting a massage, you should be getting back to work….”
if/when Kelly defeats her, I hope that she will elect to live a quiet life out of the public eye because its readily apparent that she’s not suited for politics…
Robert Sneddon
@MoxieM:
The word you’re looking for is “stramash”.
mrmoshpotato
Has McSally considering skipping a meal herself and donating to her own campaign?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Flip that seat AZ jackals!
And we’ll keep Durbin in office up here.
Benw
@Patricia Kayden: good for the Bucks. NBA’s cancelled all games tonight
gkoutnik
@MoxieM:
I’ts called haggis
ETA – Robert Sneddon beat me to it, but I stand with my choice.
NotMax
FYI.
Robert Sneddon
@NotMax: It’ll take a day to get a generator installed and hooked up and then it’s PARTAYYY! time again.
LuciaMia
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, interesting word choice, ‘fasting’, not ‘skipping a meal.’ Makes it seem more like an uplifting and honorable sacrifice.
DropKicker1
Can someone forward me her address? Was planning on having a baloney sandwich for supper tonight; but I’ll wrap it up and send to her instead!
Mike
Elizabelle
@Patricia Kayden:
Proud of the Bucks, and the NBA. Interfering with the national religion of sports, and of money, is the only way to get some people’s attention.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Party of death
dmsilev
@Robert Sneddon: City has also said they’ll shut off the water. Sure, you can bring in portable toilets, but unless you’re going for a Fyre Festival vibe, that’s not really a party atmosphere.
Calouste
@piratedan:
I wonder how that doctor makes a living if he never charges anyone in medical need.
greenergood
@gkoutnik: Look up ‘clusterbourach’
Ken
@Calouste: Wasn’t it an Arizona Republican who argued against the ACA by invoking the good old days* when people paid their medical bills with chickens? The “doctor” is almost certainly an actor, but if he’s real it would be funny to see what happened if people started showing up demanding treatment and refusing to sully his hand with money.
* a.k.a. the Depression
Roger Moore
@piratedan:
This is something I’ll often hear: some person or some group experienced discrimination, so they should be sympathetic to others who are experiencing discrimination. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way. Some people want to save the others from the bad thing they had to go through. Others use their survival as proof that others should just suck it up the way they did. It all gets back to what kind of person you are. If you have empathy, you’ll apply it; if you don’t, you won’t.
Calouste
@Ken: Nevada nut case who ran for Senate against (or to succeed) Harry Reid I think.
Another Scott
@Ken: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sue-lowden-stands-by-chicken-health-care-barter-plan/
Such “innocent” times, 2010, little did we know…
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Roger Moore
@greenergood:
In fairness to McDonald’s, they introduced (and still sell) their Filet-O-Fish sandwich specifically to give Catholics a meatless alternative on Fridays and during Lent.
Yutsano
I so wish she was speaking at the dumpster fite event. Granted that would probably sink her even deeper into the red* in the polls (saw one where she was down by 19!) but no such luck. Right now she is being thoroughly repudiated and we might end up with two D Senators from Arizona. But we still need to get our votes counted.
debbie
If she can’t starve them one way, she’ll starve them another way. It is the Republican Way.
debbie
@Benw:
Good for the NBA. Now where’s the NFL?
Ladyraxterinok
@Omnes Omnibus:
It is an important part of Evangelicals’ theology!!
evodevo
@Omnes Omnibus: No, actually it isn’t just a Mormon thing…this fasting meme has been making the talibangelical rounds for a few years now…
Quaker in a Basement
Not exactly “a chicken in every pot,” now, is it?
mrmoshpotato
@Quaker in a Basement: More like “Donate your chicken to my (probably losing) campaign!”
Roger Moore
@Robert Sneddon:
It will be considerably harder to get them hooked up to an alternative source of water.
Subsole
@greenergood:
Au contraire. Evangelicals are HUUUGE on fasting. Like, it really is just a dog’s breakfast if mysticism.
It also kinda depends on the pastor. Evangelicalism is a sociopolitical monolith, but also weirdly decentralized. The particular brand of neomithraistic gematria you get fed really kind of depends on the pastor.
MoxieM
@Robert Sneddon: excellent. is that related to the Irish Craik, I wonder? I have an Irish friend who studied the language, and she is fond of craik. Not entirely sure if it’s an adjective, a noun or both.