By David Glenn Cox
Let me first say, I respect Congressman Flood of Nebraska even though what he did was stupid. You wouldn’t catch me sticking my head in the lion’s mouth. Now let’s add to that king Donald being roundly booed at the Professional wrestling match and you have quite a picture. I’m proud to say unlike every Republican congressman running for reelection. I got a good night’s sleep last night. Congressman Flood isn’t in a swing district but was elected with 60% of the vote in ruby red Nebraska.
Ooh, ooh, that smell! Can’t you smell that smell! It illustrates the futility of redistricting in Texas. And might I add, we are only six months in. I’ve been following national politics since 1968 and I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I don’t think picking up five seats in Texas is going to help the Republicans all that much. All the Democrats need to do is offer a genuine alternative and the keys to the kingdom are theirs. It also illustrates one of my favorite points, the veracity of polling. Voters don’t just disapprove; they are angry and pissed off!
To his discredit as the crowd chanted “Tax the Rich!” Congressman Flood went with the old Republican canard that even taxing the rich there wouldn’t be enough money. I bet I could find it! Huey Long once proposed a limit on income. After $50 million dollars you win the grand prize! A 100% tax rate. Or the proposed .25 cent tax per share on every stock transaction to discourage Wall Street meets Las Vegas speculation. A tax on private aircraft over six persons not used for commerce. Raising the goddam Social Security tax. Right now, if you earn more than $176,000, you stop paying into Social Security. Why? Let’s move that decimal point over to after two million dollars and you stop paying in.
Trump says if you tax billionaires, they’ll leave the country! The doors are open, Bubba, and don’t forget to write. If they would rather leave the largest consumer economy in the world than pay their fair share. I say we let them! Just like Huey Long once told Standard oil. Don’t let the door hit you where the lord split you. A minerals tax on every raw material taken from the soil of the public lands of the United States. Those materials belong to the people, and they deserve their fair share of the profits.
Who remembers the Super fund? Used to clean up polluted industrial sites created by corporate America. This odious tax was two dollars per ton on the waste generated. But in 1995 the Republicans in congress repealed this tax because they thought it was preferable that YOU, the taxpayer, should pay to clean up corporate America’s messes.
This is a once in a generation opportunity. Let’s hope Democrats don’t squander it by playing both sides of the street. Talking tough while nodding and winking to Wall Street. Clintonism is dead! Bill Clinton was a NEW Democrat. A Democrat who agreed with Republicans most of the time. Barack Obama offered you hope and corporate America lucrative tax cuts. He offered community college where you pay to learn a trade instead of unions where they pay you to learn a trade. How about an excess profits tax? How about a tax on low-wage employers? I could do this all day!
Repudiate Trump! You know, the last time the Democrats had a candidate who actually fought for the workers. He was elected President four times! Harry Truman raised the minimum wage by fifty percent in two years. John Kennedy proposed sending men to the moon. The project cost $24 billion over ten years and all we got out of it. Was the entire modern world. All the technology it took to send men to the moon is now in your home and your car. In 1963, NASA let out a contract for a computer to fit in a one square foot space weighing less than twenty pounds. How much does your laptop weigh?
Perhaps Democrats should change their national symbol from the Donkey to Kermit the frog. I had suspected that gutting PBS would go over like a lead balloon.
We owe a great debt to Congressman Flood for showing you what the National Media tries so hard to hide from you. It’s not just you! It’s not just me! The people of this country have had enough! As an example, the other day I tried to find the video clip of king Donald being roundly booed at the wrestling match. And the only place I could find it was the Meidas Touch network with a short twenty second clip. Was this not news? Was this not something the American people would like to see? Was this not a story people would like to read about in their newspapers? No, it was not!
The Meidas Touch podcast is the number one podcast on the Internet. Why? Because you can’t get the information from the complicit corporate media and Winston Smith reporting. The other day I heard a TV anchor describe redistricting in Texas was only because the Democrats didn’t like it. No back story or continuity. No mention of unethical or possibly illegal. A story told as an eighth-grade book report.
The Republican Party had sent out an all-points bulletin warning against public town halls. Congressman Flood answered, “No worries! I got this! They love me!” And now it is too late. Pandora is out of her box. All that corporate propaganda and bullshit polling wasted. Now that Mr. Flood accidently pulled back the curtain to expose how Americans really feel about the issues of the day.
This is only six months in, and Trump and the Republicans are facing down doom. If this is Nebraska, what of the purple states? California won’t have to redistrict; the voters will get rid of the Republican seats all by themselves. Wait until harvest season and there’s no one available to pick the grapes. US alcohol sales are down 66% in Canada. Take that Kentucky and Tennessee! How’s that red state working out for you?
Trump’s vindictive firings and his phony foisted investigations of his enemies only adds logs on the fire. The wise path for Trump right now would be to become silent. But alas, that is not possible. It only goes to show what I’ve said before, Donald Trump will be removed from office. IF, if Democrats wake up and smell the coffee. Go left, young man, go left and mean it.
“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By “business” I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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