Polly'd apparently fuck an alien but wouldn't marry a troon.
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So there's one issue she's not a complete idiot about? Good to know.
The best grifters understand that the person donating money wants to feel a sense of accomplishment, like their donation made a difference.
The "my cat is sick" as a donation scam isn't a bad one and plenty of people have found success with it. If Polissa was smart she'd show some pictures of Gomez as a kitten, maybe some videos of him as a grown up kitty looking cute but in pain. Once people have established a relationship of sorts with the cat, she could post regular status updates on how the donation drive is going. The donation needs to be going up slowly but surely. Too quick and people won't bother donating. If there's zero progress people write it off as a lost cause and won't bother either.
Most importantly though, there needs to be the closure: if not at the time the person donates, at least once the goal is met. A joyful post about how the generous donors literally saved Gomez's life, and look how happy he looks now. Maybe a little clip of him at the vet getting snuggles. The donors get a little hit of good feeling for their dollars. You've also primed them for further, bigger grifts further on down the road. Maybe it's time to get serious about the home for wayward cats and get some toys and enclosures for your kitties. You do however need to have some rest time between grifts, or you risk burning people out.
Polissa is incurably greedy however, and sees nothing wrong with running multiple grifts from the same platform at once. Why would someone chip in five bucks for vet care when in two tweets time they can plainly see Polissa has no plan on how to feed Gomez? Also, she needs a few thousand dollars for home repairs, otherwise the cat will live in squalor. She never makes any serious effort to thank her donors or act like her life has been improved in any way. Polissa broadcasts nothing but despair and demands for further money.
Polissa dreams of some big money donor to pay all her bills, but the reality is she's relying on other poor people to chip in what little spare cash they have to her. I guarantee you the people that have donated to her have forgone some small luxury to do so. They've sent the five bucks they had earmarked for candy or a fast foot treat to Polissa instead. They're not going to keep doing that with what she's providing back, and it's no surprise that the miniscule donations she was getting have stopped.
Successful grifters have at least a rudimentary understanding of others' emotions, and how to present a story that plays on them. It may be a crude story with big holes in it, but as long as it fires off the right emotional responses in the target, there will be a positive response.
Good long-term grifters also understand that each story needs an arc, that each crisis needs to be resolved, that there needs to be an appropriate display of gratitude. They also understand that you need to wait a while between crises, or else move on to a new audience before staging your next one, because repeatedly trying to wring money out of the same people has rapidly diminishing returns (see: Jude Valentin).
Polissa is so far up her own ass, and so lacking in even the most basic empathy, she can't comprehend what makes other people feel sympathy toward another's struggles, and thus want to donate. All she understands is that other people have money she doesn't, that this is unfair, and that they should give it to her because she needs it. That there is a reciprocal exchange that goes on, and that the donor has emotional needs that need to get met by donating, is totally beyond her understanding. So her begging is just a constant refrain of, "Give me money because I need it," and she doesn't understand why that doesn't work.
She didn't mention a thing about Joh. She would have included him and his diabetes for extra sympathy but no, nothing. I think he's gone with the wind.
Had he dumped her and left, he would have inflicted a massive narcissistic injury on her, and thus triggered her destructive Narc rage. She'd be cranking up the histrionics to 11, and intent on destroying him, because how dare he abandon her with all of those animals to fend for themselves.
My guess is that somebody with some authority—such as a court-appointed attorney—has told him to stay off social media, and tell his smug fat cunt of a wife to stop posting about him. Josh isn't very smart, but I think he's just smart enough to heed that kind of advice, plus he isn't the social media junkie Polissa is. And that advice has successfully penetrated Polissa's fat-clogged skull, because she has a lot to lose by continuing to make posts about him.