April 1, 2019 Robert Reich has written an article in the Guardian ...

April 1, 2019

Robert Reich has written an article in the Guardian describing how Trump is the cause of all the evils and travails in the world. He focuses on the lack of lackluster regulation of the evil, profit-driven economic royalists and all-around bounders and cads who want to do away any minimum wage by repealing the Thirteenth Amendment. Honest Injun.

Full disclosure requires me to tell you that he was a favorite pinata of mine when he worked for President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs. Hot Springs, you may recall, was once the nations premier senior citizen time-share nesting spot. It also featured games of chance that really weren’t “games of chance”. I used to use words such as “biblical”, “Homeric”, “ginormous”, “Guinness Book worthy”, “7 league boot”, until I realized he was vertically challenged. Extremely vertically challenged. Brooks Brothers Size 32 extra short challenged. I found this out because the King of the One-Eyed Trouser Snakes was wont to bust his huevos pequenos about his shortness since they were classmates in England. It was Hobson’s Choice for him: Either an economist or a Panamanian jockey. And ponies, really little dwarf, midget ponies, scared him when he was a kid

His work for Clinton always involved either disregarding what used to be the fairly iron-bottomed rules involving gravity or suggesting that they can be repealed retroactively. Such repeal would involve not only reaching the horizon but then leaping over it and landing in Utopia. I’ll spare you the academic joy of discovering the etymology of the word “Utopia” but even then, it was the place where modern American Liberals raised unicorns, offered sanctuary status to any peripatetic T-Rexes, and practiced new versions of Kumbaya. The denouncing of White-Male privilege would have been a bit awkward what with Lying Billy getting hummers from zoftig Monica underneath the desk in the Oval Office while he planned a mosh pit at Camp David. Talk about planning! He had to get Wide-Bottomed Hillary at least to the Ohio River to be safe so he put her in charge of blowing up health care.

In the Guardian article, Wee Robby says that the 2 Boeing 737s, the ones that were owned by non-US airlines and flown by non-US pilots, crashed because after less than 2 months in office Trump, the source of all evil, had castrated the FAA. It is both a well-known and incontrovertible fact that Boeing builds and has built the best airplanes in the world for at least 65 years. Some of the original B-52s are approaching “three score and ten” and still fly combat missions. I am not as up to date with airplane regs as I was when I was in the international airplane parts business but, under certain circumstances, Boeing was able to certify their own planes. And as long as foreign-owned airplanes do not attempt to take off from airports in this country, their parts need not have the FAA granted 8130 Certificate of Air Worthiness, the gold standard in the industry.

Reich says the Facebook’s privacy issues were caused by Trump. If he had the slightest chance of getting away with it, Zuckerberg of Facebook would bastinado Trump on the front lawn of the White House after pissing in his soup. Trump and Zuckerberg will be BFF just as soon as Reich sells his “rainbow stew” farm to Archer Daniels Midland. ADM, by the by, is the company that got a big-time marker on an ex-President, “Clod Populist” Carter, the Boy Wonder from Plains, for less than six million dollars, most of which was debt forgiveness. No wonder the Russkies beat his sad-sacked sorry ass like a rented mule. Speaking of working for foreign governments and possibly against the interests of your own government does, anyone else remember that Billy Carter worked for Moammar Qadhafi?

Reich says that “vaping”, as presented by Altria/Philip Morris, has prospered greatly under Trump. If memory serves, Trump and his children have never smoked anything in their lives. And, if vaping is so bad, why didn’t Obama ban it? That worked with alcohol, didn’t it?

I am not sure what the record for start to finish product liability cases tried in Federal Court is but it ain’t 25 months. Reich says that that Monsanto profited greatly with their carcinogeneous lawn products under Trump. Only if Superman flies around the planet and makes time fly as if it were on steroids. Besides, why didn’t Obama, the Benevolent Protector, bring back the Delaney Amendment?

Reich castigates lobbyists. He eclectically forgets that when Tom Daschle was the Senate Majority Leader his wife lobbied for, and I’ll bet you didn’t guess it, Boeing. Incidentally, lobbying is the only job mentioned and protected by the Constitution. John Podesta lobbied for foreign governments. NARAL has them. Is Reich opposed to all lobbyists or just the ones who shill for things or people he doesn’t like?

It’s tough being a modern American Liberal, particularly if you are a half-assed, half-baked, half-pinted one.

And let’s end on a high note. [in Wee Robby’s case, not that high] I am pleased to announce that DJT, aka il Magnifico, had nothing to do with the whacking of Nipsey Wussel, noted hip-hop artist. I’d check the whereabouts of Jussie Smollett.

Kevin Smith

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