Mildly Infuriating

I wish i could block gmail’s \ invited you to view a file “

Good news! It is illegal!

Political campaign-related autodialed or prerecorded voice calls, including autodialed live calls, autodialed texts, and prerecorded voice messages, are prohibited to cell phones, pagers or other mobile devices without the called party's prior express consent.

If you think you’ve received a political robocall or text that does not comply with the FCC’s rules, you can file an informal complaint with the FCC at fcc.gov/complaints. If you are receiving texts that you didn’t ask for, report the sender by forwarding the texts to 7726 (or "SPAM"). Campaigns should also honor opt-out requests if you reply "STOP."

I file a complaint for single one I get.

Reminds me of messages pornstars send "you".

hey baby, I made this just for youuuuuu.

$9.95

Ah, you have an effective county in this regard. In the US, our lawmakers specifically carved out exceptions for political spam.

In my country, Politicians are the ones who write the law so they explicitly carved out "Political speech" as exempt in our very lax SPAM laws.

Technically I should be able to do so in mine too, but they are soo many calls from so many different numbers it doesnt work

Four dots for an ellipsis? What a monster!

Someone out there is hurting bad after expressing themselves.

I will always love you....

What makes you think they are looking for smart voters?

Yeah, they definitely don't need to worry about their non-existent smart voters😂

That’s a typo of the cleverest variety considering the millions of human-hours of misery and self harm that occurred after

• hundreds of athletes were sexually abused at the school where he was a wrestling coach and
• Jordan became aware of the abuse, and even worse than saying nothing, he also begged victims and their families to deny it as well

Does it work if it's always a new number? Nikki Haley sends me one a day. Most of them have some shady link to donate or get free shirts so it's definitely some scam either way

Replying to spam is usually just a way to confirm that the victim is a "life" one.

Democratic candidates send texts too. I don’t go around handing out my phone number but at some point I must have given it to someone, perhaps Bernie when I volunteered for his campaign. Of course they sold it to more democrats who sold it to more democrats. I reply STOP to every single text I get but there are always more because my number gets sold to someone new.

Charities do this too. Give $100 to your local food bank and you’ll start getting donation appeals by mail from 5 other charities.

It should be illegal.

You're talking about people who consider Newsmax and "One America News" to be the only reliable news sources and believe that Donald Trump, who managed to spend 4 years indirectly robbing them blind and would not spit on them if they were on fire, is somehow the most persecuted man in all of history.

They would believe just about anything.

It probably falls under the 'not illegal' category. They got the number somehow, and I would bet it's from some stupid agreement that lets a company sell his number and whoever buys it is allowed to send messages to it.

It's also hard to get harassment charges for these, since realistically it is hard to contact the assholes and tell them to stop sending messages, which is required for most cases. There's also the issue that harassment needs to be a repeated thing (and usually after being told to stop) from the same source/conspiracy. If you could prove all of these different messages were from the exact same organization, or that each entity sending the messages had collaborated, you could possibly get a judge to agree that harassment took place. Then, of course, your issue becomes the question of who did the harassment. If the judge/jury believes that it was a particular individual at the corporation, maybe that person could be prosecuted, but if they only will say that it was the entity, like a PAC or LLC or inc. or whatever, you're boned. No one holds business/political entities accountable.

All that to say... those of us who get these messages are boned, with little legal recourse. I just block the numbers and delete. It seems like it works, because I haven't gotten any messages like OP did for the last year or so. They must reuse numbers to send texts.

Here's the fun part- it's illegal to do that if you put yourself on the national do not call list, BUT- political spam calls and texts are exempt. Something tells me our politicians don't want that to change.

Looks more like someone (a friend or family member) signed him up as a prank. There’s not much you can do about that specifically.

OP, are you signed up to the federal do not call registry? That might help. https://www.donotcall.gov/

The only other thing I do is either block any text from people not in your contact list and/or use a paid service like RoboKiller.

I keep getting spammed by dems, they keep calling me Mark. My name is not Mark...