hey i just wanted to reach out to say i hate tom barrett too. keep bullying him and i'll do my best to do the same ❤️ do you have any guesses as to what he might be insecure about? masculinity has gotta be one of them right? this man needs to suffer.
What an excellent question!! Expect a long answer!
On my VM's and postcards, I know they have to go through an aide first, so I will stress one of these things:
for 22 years sworn to the constitution in the army, because it's constitution first and commander second, he sure has forgotten the constitution and his oath to it-- IN SPITE of him using that same 22 years experience as the bedrock of his campaign and identity
He is FAKE, his email responses to my issues, his email newsletter all contradict what he puts out on X/Twitter, and how he votes; he is one way in private with his constituents trying to soothe them and then when it comes down to it he does not back it up with his vote, he is weak, he is fake, he is false;
For the grandson of the man who put 'under God' in our pledge, Tommy B sure don't seem to remember the word of God, nor how to act in his image, so if I get a bit upsetty and heated, I will literally quote the bible, specifically, I will quote John 3:30, "For him to be greater, I must be less;" then mention something to the effect of "I must quell my human sin and anger so that Jesus may be greater".
He seems to be focused on Veterans, but every Veteran is a Citizen, and before a Veteran is a ServiceMember, they are a Citizen, and every ServiceMember is wowee, stil a 'fluffing' Citizen-- which means I need my Representative to represent me, a regular ol' citizen, because holy crap, who would believe, but that makes up EVERYONE? This one really grates my goat, can you tell?
I also got this man in a hex-jar in my closet, I heavily reference random things in passing just to spark the air with superstition, like how I now wear a St Jude charm because this is one of my hopeless causes, how I "shook a jar with Tom's name in it Lilo-Style but I'm still upset so I just had to call". Never swear, always be somewhat bearable so that the Aide will endure your call.
I've taken it upon myself to literally apologize to the aides when I'm upset- because I would not be this upset if their boss didn't behave this way, and I'm sorry that they work for him, I really am, and I get it, broham, I too have worked for a piece of garbage human who didn't care about others, I'm sorry they had to be his aide, maybe they want to do something else with their life and this is not it. So regularly, I'll mention things of "get yourself a frosty today, reppy tom got you going thru hell, you deserve a treat." I also weirdly leave off some of my voicemails with "love you, do better".
I invoke the Bullying of The South, which is through Christ and "compassion". The aides actually do call me back about my issues, because all my bullying is to achieve a goal, and that goal is usually Right to Own & Right to Repair, so since it is something requiring of response I get to eat up their time with my southern charms and many questions. This has been my main issue since way back in February, and now there are bills coming up in the house about it.
I also have had many a break-down on the voicemails. It's beyond Bullying Tom, it's letting the Aides Understand The Havok At Home. It's like a Psychological Endurance Test, how many weeks can they endure me calling and crying as I pay my bills and/or read them the TOS/User Agreements that have me locked into financial entrapment? I'm also trying to figure out a new housing situation, so this adds to my stress, so I call regularly talking about mortgage rates, affordability of groceries, literally crying as I look over receipts. I have had a full on should-have-called-a-different-hotline type of breakdown multiple times on these aides through voicemail in the dead of night begging them to help me afford the air I breathe because we're in the Lorax and soon they're gonna start charging for it, watch.
EG, "Hey friend, it's your friend Madalynn, Again, at [me address here]. So, I just had to get 3 RX's that I'm lucky to be able to get to a doctor for, in the first place, and I can endure the cost of these prescriptions, but it's literally just because the Canadian wildfire smoke has wrecked my airways this summer... Something no one could have really planned for, didn't even originate in my state let alone country, and it cost me $70. That's about 3 hours worked at my 9-5. Three hours. That's a lot of my time. Should I be working THREE HOURS to be able to BREATHE?! Between this and my insurance premium, we're at $140 for the week, and that's already more than half my car payment; now I need to know, babes, what legislation are y'all working on for this affordability crisis?"
I call and I stress this to the aides, to get them to understand the affordability IS a crisis and that regular Americans are having hours of their labor just yanked from their hands before they can even touch the results of that labor. I ask them for something in return, what legislation is being worked on, how will my reppy vote, can they let me know how my reppy feels toward the bills/issues. I always leave on a request because there must be a point to the bullying.
The anatomy of the call is, I am the fetch quest giver, they are the poor adventurer, Tommy is the Dragon they have to face for me.
I've gotten good at opening myself up and making myself uncomfortable for the sake of some poor aide who thought they were going to Washington to be trauma bonded to me over the voicemails I leave, and if the aide is dragged through this, then that's one step closer to them dragging Tom to where I need him to be.
Also this ended up way longer than I intended it to be.
