July 3, 2025
Call me crazy (I beat you to it), but I don’t believe that black people from the inner cities or white hillbillies from Appalachia wake up in the morning and say to themselves, “This is going to be a great day to be poor.” The lifestyles of the rich and famous have nothing over the lifestyles, if you can call it that, of the poor and ignored. What a life. You start your day trying to figure out how you can cheat the federal government and the American taxpayers. Talk about waste, fraud and abuse. You grab your food stamps, and rush down to the liquor store to pick up a six pack of malt liquor. You send your six to eight children off to school for a free lunch. SNAP. If they or you get assaulted or worse, Medicaid will pay for trips to the emergency room. Sweet. Who needs the internet when you can just yell out the window of your stifling hot or freezing cold, rat and cockroach-infested apartment to your neighbors. That’s the Life of Riley.
But the wacky, wadical White wing of the Wepublican Party wants to change all that because they can’t stand seeing people prospering with the help of government. How can we run a country effectively when everyone has their hand out? These people don’t want to be Queens for a Day (that’s the second old TV show reference,) they say. They want to be welfare queens forever, and we can’t have that.
Apparently it’s okay for Elon Musk to get subsidies for his EV’s that White-Wingers say they are being forced to buy. I have actually heard that a couple of times, which leads me to believe that it is a Fox talking point. Oil companies get depletion allowances. Trump hands out special deals to special interests like its Christmas everyday. Thank god we can say Christmas again. The government subsidizes your home ownership by letting you deduct your home mortgage interest. Ghettos don’t get to deduct nothing. Companies pay for your medical insurance allowing you to ignore paying taxes on income. The rulers of the universe don’t have to pay ordinary income taxes on the income they generate from their ordinary businesses because of the carried interest loophole. I am sure that the new, big, beautiful, budget-busting bill that is making its way through Congress is chock full of gewgaw for all sorts of entities that pledged allegiance to Donald Trump, or at least took out a tax-deductible, $1,000,000 membership to Mar-a-Lago.
As the White wing proceeds to throw millions of people off of Medicaid, and strip down SNAP (food stamps,) I think it is fair to ask what does the White Wing have against poor people? Do poor people make them feel uncomfortable? Maybe you can’t feel quite as comfortable with your own success if even some small part of that came at the expense of others. Poor people certainly don’t provide good optics, like handicapped veterans, which is very important to our reality TV President. Is it because many of them are black or brown, which doesn’t quite fit into their color wheels? White is appropriate for summer. Black is not. Maybe they just don’t know any poor people. These people don’t show up at town hall meetings, or volunteer to stuff envelopes. They are too busy grifting off the government. Maybe some White Wingers actually grew up poor, and don’t want to revisit what was a horrible experience? The 800 pound gorilla in the room is that maybe, just maybe, some of these White Wingers just don’t like people of color? I am not saying that. I am just asking the question.
It’s uncomfortably laughable that the White Wing is dead set on protecting us from the abuses and shenanigans that we suffer at the hands of poor people while Trump continues to use his position to enhance his wealth. It has been reported that he has increased his personal net worth, which was in dire straits, handsomely while in office the second time. He just rolled out a new line of perfumes and toiletries, which really stinks. This comes after he announced his new telecommunications venture, which requires FCC approval. I hope he gets it.
For the White Wing, it’s okay for the haves to have more, and it’s also okay for the have-nots to have nothing.
The Spin Doctor 