Schumer, a Flawlessly Constructed Illiberal Lie

The dollars and cents objective reality that unmasks Schumer's smooth prevarications

By

David Gottfried

PREFACE: As I stated in the prefaces of other recent substack pieces, this essay is formally flawed and probably rife with typos and grammatical errors. I am writing this in a hospital, on a phone, without a computer and can barely see. However despite all the formal fogginess of this piece, it endeavors to slice and skewer it's political foes like a sword.

I was not surprised that Schumer voted for the republican sponsored CR. When push comes to shove, corporate Democrats — compliant, cowardly castratos — will always show their true color: Yellow, as yellow-bellied as little Lindsay Graham.

With airy fairy language, they profess to have all the compassion and liberal bona fides of Eleanor Roosevelt, but don't forget what “deep throat” of Watergate fame taught us: follow the money. They are all bought and paid for by the titans of wall street and the Persian gulf.

Democrats weren't always like this. From the 1930's to the early sixties, congressional Democrats were led by a Mr. Sam Rayburn.

SAM RAYBURN STARTED PICKING COTTON AT THE AGE OF 5, AND HE BECAME SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.

(There was more social mobility in America in the second third of the 20th century than there is now. )

Although Rayburn was poor, nobody could buy him. Early in his congressional career, railroads offered him a discount on his frequent trips between Texas, the site of his home and congressional district, and WDC, where he worked. He adamantly refused to accept any discounts because he didn't want to owe the railroads anything.

And in the era of FDR and Sam Rayburn, we forged the SEC to battle wall street fraud, created social security, electrified rural America, enacted the Wagner act which gave workers the right to strike, created the Civilian conversation corps, the agricultural adjustment act, and dozens of other vital agencies and overcame our isolationism and defeated the greatest tyranny the world had ever known, Nazi Germany.

By contrast, boys and girls like Schumer only utter the proper buzzwords to convince us of their liberal purity. Like the other senator from NY, the boring and inconsequential Ms. Gilibrand, he has told us about once a day, for about thirty years, that he has been pro choice (but did he block the selection of any of the supreme court justices who buried Roe v Wade __ of course not. Real, potent action is only the domain of republicans, who did block the appt of Garland to the Court.) and pro gay rights. I am all for a woman's right to choose and gay rights, but without a vibrant economic program for poor and working people, their liberalism is a bastardized mutation from the liberalism that defined the democratic party from FDR until Jimmy Carter.

Schumer is as deaf, dump and blind to income inequality and the egregious excesses of corporate power as a sweet but stupid teenager who thinks the 60s was all about the Beatles and can't locate Vietnam on a map.

SCHUMER’S REPUBLICAN TAX POLICIES

Schumer is one of the biggest defenders of the loophole that makes the tax liability of hedge fund managers less than the tax liability of their secretaries. (They are allowed to treat their huge salaries as capital gains). After all, new york is not the bastion of liberalism it once was. And New York contains the famed “silk stocking district,” the upper east side of new york, the home of Richard Nixon and royal, redolent Jackie Kennedy, a land of gilded palaces whose only god is the dow Jones industrial average.

To an upwardly mobile, insecure white ethnic like Schumer, the approval of lustrous, luxurious old white protestant society is enough to give Chuck, and his Italian soul brother, Andrew cuomo, erections till the day they are lowered into their graves.

But Schumer is smart enough to know that image is everything, and he cons us into believing that he has an egalitarian bent by telling us that he wants to assist the middle class..

SCHUMER’S ODES TO THE MIDDLE CLASS PROVE THAT AT HEART HE IS AS CONSERVATIVE AS RONALD REAGAN.

In Schumer’s quaint imagination, the overwhelming majority of the populace consists of the lovable, if befuddled and benighted , middle class. His construct of the middle class is broad enough to include people who make 20,000 dollars a year and people who make 400,000 dollars a year. His middle class is so broad as to be politically MEANINGLESS0

His politics obscures economic reality: one who makes 400k a year is the class enemy of one who makes 30k a year.

LOOK AT IT CONCRETELY: People who make 300 grand usually own the homes they live in. They benefit from the ability to deduct interest payments on their homes. RENTERS HAVE NO CORRESPONDING BENEFIT . Home owners consequently amass more wealth.

FURTHERMORE: THE increase of wealth of one person ineluctably results in the diminution of wealth of other persons because WHEN A PERSON IS RICHER HE BIDS UP THE PRICE OF GOODS AND SERVICES MAKING IT HARDER FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO AFFORD ANYTHING.

Sometimes I think that what new york really needs is Joseph stalin. (Maybe my nod to stalin is just rhetorical bombast to help you wake up) This town is inundated with spoiled, parasitic scum, half of whom sulk and sneer like that princely pipsqueak, baron trump.

When they aren’t giving us dirty looks, they are spending, with abandon. They seem to reason:

“ I have 17 one hundred dollar bills in my wallet. 17 is such a dowdy, ungainly number. It's not only an odd number; it's a prime number. This out of whack number is giving me anxiety. I will have to spend 700 dollars in seconds flat. I will buy a scarf for 400 dollars, a pair of award winning underwear for 97 dollars and 97 cents, a cup of espresso that smoulders like Sophia Loren for 40 dollars and a few hundred dollars of candies imbued with the grace of the Riviera while being manufactured in Hershey, pa”

And what have they done to prices in places like new york ? Because of these precious, perfumed dingbats driving up prices, a small cup of split pea soup is 7.50, the sort of no frills hair cut to be had in “Andy of Mayberry “ is 75 dollars , and the price of an egg salad sandwich is a blow job done with all the tongue-titilation and sucking savoir Fair of the sveltest prostitutes in Marilyn Monroe’s apt house — pardon my spelling. I am writing on a phone in a hospital. J have no spell check.

This essay may appear to have digressed into a species of pornography light. However, if this is porn at least it is cheerful, albeit adolescent, Smut.

Schumer, by contrast, smacks of another type of sin entirely. He is a bloody liar.

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