Reynolds Rap

Where's the "Trump card"
for the anti-Trump movement?

As pictured above, for nearly three years, when you drive west on I-80 just past the Gretna, Nebraska exit at mile-marker 423.6 you'll come upon singage roughly taking up one-third of a big red barn that boldly posts the name of the 45th President of the United States of America, "TRUMP."

So, are you sick and tired of President Donald Trump? If your answer is no, then relax, sit back and enjoy your support of our President or immediately join President's Trump bandwagon for his 2020 re-election campaign. If your answer is no, then what specifically are you doing - right now - to change the current political canvas for the midterm elections in 2018 and in 2020?

Nothing? Oh, you're doing nothing except to talk, nag, whine, complain, and yada, yada, yada, really? As they did throughout the presidency of former President George W. Bush, comedians Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert constantly and virulently ridiculed President George Bush, but it was deemed "politically incorrect" to constantly and virulently ridicule former President Barack Obama. There's the contradiction. Rather than be perceived as "racist" for labeling President Obama as ineffective, inconsistent, and a complete failure at improving the social and economic status of Native Americans and Black people (he failed "big time") - they left him alone. These White men and White women like Senator Elizabeth Warren AND "Uncle Tom" tokens like Oprah Winfrey are hypocrites.


Bill Maher Comedian / Host Real Time with Bill Maher	Elizabeth Warren U.S. Senator Massachusetts Democrat	Stephen Colbert Comedian / Host The Late Show CBS-TV H

For people of color and poor White people, the constant whining of rich White Democrats vs. rich White Republicans means absolutely nothing, because there's absolutely no difference, these rich people peddle the same ole crap, and as represented by the graph below, nothing changes.

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Democrats want you to believe "those rich Republicans" created and sustain the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites, the constantly increasing financial gap between the haves and the have nots. However, looking at the facts, it's those filty-rich elected Democrats (who do all the whining) who are the real culprits. NEWS FLASH: PARTY OF THE RICH: Democrats Are 7 of the 10 wealthiest members of Congress, not Republicans!

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Source: Center for Responsive Politics

In 2015, the median net worth of Senate Republicans rose 13 percent from $2.9 million to $3.3 million, according to personal financial disclosure data filed by congressional members and reviewed by CRP researchers. Over the same period, the median net worth of the Senate Democratic Caucus, on the other hand, rose 9 percent – still far greater than the 4.5 percent increase in combined net worth of U.S. households and nonprofits in 2015, according to a report this year from the Federal Reserve. In 2015, more than 70 percent of Senators were millionaires, meaning most never needed to worry about the pressures that most middle-class American face – from securing gainful employment to saving for unforeseen financial shocks. At at a time when Congress is considering changes to the tax code and healthcare legislation, this disparity calls into question their ability to adequately represent their constituents. In the House, median net worth of members increased only about 1 percent, from $860,000 in 2014 to $875,000 in 2015.

BOTTOM LINE: THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE MILLIONAIRES OR BILLIONAIRES AND THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF U.S. CITIZENS - ESPECIALLY PEOPLE OF COLOR AND WOMEN!

Given the great disdain so many people apparently have for President Trump, why did the "Stop Trump" movement fall apart? Clearly, despite what comedians say, and despite constant propaganda manufactured by democrats, President Trump is not the issue, because his political rhetoric is not particularly new or unique.

QUESTION: Democrats clearly have the wealth and the poilitical clout to limit President Trump to a one-term presidency, so what's the problem? Are Democrats too afraid, too weak, or not savvy enough to do as Republicans and begin to re-map voting districts and eligibility, or to revise or repeal Citizens United?

RESPONSE: Sadly, the "problem" is that the anti-Trump movement doesn't offer anything better. The #ME TOO movement, the "TIMES UP" movement, the "Black Lives Matter" movement, the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, the Great Recession, and the neverending wars in the Middle East and more all occurred while both Democrats or Republicans ruled Congress. And Donald Trump knows it, he knows just how easy it is to point fingers at such blatant ineptness, which is why he's likely to successfully play his "trump card" again in 2020!

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Accordingly, given the absence of any meaningful opposition (or "Trump card") to President Donald Trump's political agenda, the following remains nothing more than a pipe dream:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"

Martin Luther King Jr.
"I Have a Dream" speech
August 28, 1963

I welcome your feedback.

Trip Reynolds
trip.reynolds@yahoo.com

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