American Consequences - September 2019

chronic truancy” where parents got arrested if their kids skipped school. (My mom would still be in Leavenworth.) And she’s got all the usual left-wing liberal self-contradictions. While Harris was District Attorney in San Francisco, the drug-dealer conviction rate rose from 56% to 74%. Not that I’m saying she put her own voters in jail – because left-wing liberals are in favor of voting rights for convicted felons. She wants a big tax on “the 1%,” although, according to the Washington Post , she and her lawyer husband had a 2018 income of $1.9 million. Not that I’m saying she’s shooting herself in the foot – because left-wing liberals support strict gun control laws. She’s also a political land shark. Between 2004 and 2017, Harris went from being a low-level hack checking civil code violations in City Hall to District Attorney of San Francisco to Attorney General of California to U.S. Senator. (And this had nothing – I repeat, nothing – to do with her dating political powerhouse Willie Brown, Speaker of the California When Andrew Yang comes to my house, takes out the trash, mows the lawn, washes the car, and sweeps the garage... I’ll give him $20. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR “ Andrew Yang. He’s all about a Universal Basic Income. Voters want an allowance? Fine.

Assembly and later mayor of San Francisco.) Then there are the rest of the Democratic candidates... Pete Buttigieg. Mayor of South Bend, Indiana – a very important American city... until the Studebaker factory closed in 1963. Cousin Beto O’Rourke. Sorry about him. Every big Irish family’s got one. Ask William Bulger, former president of the Massachusetts Senate and once the most powerful politician in the state, about his brother Whitey Bulger. Andrew Yang. He’s all about a Universal Basic Income. Voters want an allowance? Fine. When Andrew Yang comes to my house, takes out the trash, mows the lawn, washes the car, and sweeps the garage... I’ll give him $20. (And a lift to the next Democratic candidate debate – where he’ll be ignored.) Democrats just threw that one in there to see if we were paying attention. There’s no such thing as somebody named Hickenlooper... Actually, he was governor of Colorado – the first state to legalize marijuana. Coloradans got high and started saying his name over and over again – “Hickenlooper-Hickenlooper- Hickenlooper” – and began giggling so hard that they elected him governor. Other dropouts include Congressman from an-obscure-California-district Eric Swalwell, Governor of an-obscure-western-state Jay Inslee, and current occupant of Hillary Clinton’s obscure New York Senate seat And the list goes on... although some Democrats are already dropping out. I miss John Hickenlooper. Ha ha, the

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