The unfortunate 'indigents' we're talking about, of course, are the Democratic National Committee staff members laid off last week with 'no notice.'

'What is this, Beege?' you cry. 'How can this be?! Kamala had, like, a billion dollars or something didn't she?'

Why, yes. Yes, she did.

The problem is - as I noted almost two weeks ago - she doesn't have it now. Nor does she have the additional TWENNYMILLIONDOLLARS (and counting) that seems to have gone POOF! into the gauzy ether of her candidacy, either.

WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO

The first thing would be to head to Hawaii to try to recover in quiet solitude and peaceful reflection from the waahgony of crushing defeat.

Vice President Kamala Harris bid “aloha” to Washington, DC, in the wake of the 2024 presidential election—and retreated to a stunning $7 million estate in Hawaii, where she reportedly spent six days holed up with her husband, Doug Emhoff, after suffering a resounding loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

According to reports, Harris, 60, and Emhoff, 60, rented a stunning home in Kamuela to the tune of $1,300 per night, leaving DC on Nov. 19 and returning on Nov. 25.

The property where the vice president and the second gentleman are understood to have been staying is located in the incredibly luxurious resort of Mauna Kea. The resort is home to a large hotel and a number of private residences, many of which can be rented out at staggering cost.

She owes herself that much, at least, no?

In the interest of fairness, I'll admit the DNC has been through cycles like this before, and oddly enough, it was after their first bout with Trump.

Democratic National Committee reports worst April of fundraising since 2009 https://t.co/6CLwAHij3S pic.twitter.com/SnATDXdtCN

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 22, 2017

Though there is really no parallel to the stratospheric numbers they raised in the short period between Kamala Harris's anointment and her glittering, truncated campaign blowing through every last dime and then some.

The DNC had to look for small economies to practice before returning to the tedious and time-honored tradition of stiffing vendors and small business people who are nowhere near as essential for maintaining current accounts as celebrities like Oprah and Beyonce are. 

I mean, you can blow those peons off in small claims court. Who needs 'em?

But Oprah's check bounces, you got problems. She'll run her mouth everywhere about you.

So there is that to start.

Then you have to look at what assets you have on hand and see if you can squeeze any more cha-ching out of dewy-eyed donors to keep some cash coming in the door. The fact that the election was settled so quickly put a damper on those plans, but maybe that blue-haired, devoted, blue-voting granny in Poughkeepsie has an extra $30 left from November's Social Security check she's willing to part with.

If she won't turn loose of it, well...harsher measures are called for.

And that's exactly what the DNC did.

Back on Nov 12th, when I wrote that post, Harris campaign staffers who'd been promised jobs until the first of the year were the only ones really sweating a paycheck through to their promised end date.

By Monday the 18th, it looked as if Conan had gone through the entirety of DNC headquarters with a battle axe and not stopped swinging it until he emerged out the rear parking lot exit door.

No one was spared the instant severing sans severance.

The union representing workers at the Democratic National Committee blasted the party's leadership Monday morning following large layoffs the past several days.

• "The principles we champion on the national stage have been disregarded in our own workplace," the union said in a statement obtained by Axios.

Campaign or committee - no special victim classes.

Driving the news: The DNC dismissed hundreds of employees this past week.

• Most people let go were only hired to work through the election but some were considered "permanent" employees that stay on between election cycles.
• Many DNC employees felt blindsided by the extent of the layoffs and felt that their managers had not been upfront with them about the possibility, eight current and recently fired DNC aides told Axios.

In a statement, the union said: "DNC leadership refuses to disclose to the DNC Staff Union the full extent of these layoffs and whether additional cuts are planned."

• The union called for the DNC to offer "severance to every permanent employee who was laid off" and more for transparency from the party's leadership.

Best quote in the middle of hyperventilating about 'this doesn't represent party values?!?!' and massive amounts of paper-bag-breathing copium?

• A person familiar with the DNC's thinking countered: "The reality is: this is what happens when you lose. We have a generation of people who haven't had to go through a really brutal loss. We aren't trying to hatchet people."

BWAHAHAhahahaha!

But they just did.

So the DNC workers union is trying to squeeze blood from a stone and get severance payments of some nature for all these people - politics is an inherently cruel business - all the while, the world knows they've been kicked to the curb as collateral damage after flagrantly abusing the most ginormous campaign war chest ever.

When word of the latest fundraiser appeared this morning, the scathing scorn came in by the heaping dump truckload.

The DNC had to set up a gofundme to pay staff after Kamala spent over $1 Billion on her failed campaign and ended millions of dollars in debt pic.twitter.com/euTTojGrW4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 26, 2024

Laid-off workers are now 'victims of the party' (Curiously, no blame is attached to the candidate on the GoFundMe entreaty.).

Democratic National Committee workers are asking for charitable donations after  making significant layoffs in a dramatic downsizing after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the election. 

The pleas for donations sparked outrage on social media, as memories of the massive $1 billion Kamala Harris campaign spending spree were still fresh, including millions of dollars spent to host celebrity filled town halls for the vice president.

Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

Who had a clue political campaigns and politics in general were anything but a crap shoot job, entirely dependent on winning, losing, and funds available?

DNC Broke!
Launches GoFundMe Page To Supplement Welfare.😉pic.twitter.com/AzqCaJXgmQ

— MrBill (@mrbr3c) November 26, 2024

None of these people, that's who.

For the fifty thousandth time, it's not a bad thing they lost.

We could not survive their #mathz another year.

Here’s 80 seconds of Donald Trump dancing @realDonaldTrump 🇺🇸

Whatever you do.. don’t share this because it may TRlGGER someone 😆 pic.twitter.com/HhD6Ew6mTc

— TONY™ (@TONYxTWO) July 25, 2024

The whole country dodged that bullet.