Today's theme—in fact, almost every day's theme on the Daily Parker lately—is a group doing one thing that freaks everyone out to distract from the other thing that they really want to do. For instance:
- In the middle of passing the biggest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history, Republicans are lying about the plight of the working class being all Obama's fault. Because of course they are, and of course it isn't.
- Even though the OAFPOTUS is attacking Harvard to take attention away from the biggest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history, the assault on the country's oldest university is "an astonishing act of national self-sabotage," writes Yascha Mounk.
- Michelle Singletary explains how the "no tax on tips" provision in the bill proposing the biggest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history will function to make the lives of lower-wage employees worse, while enriching gig companies like Uber at their expense. For example, if it becomes law, Uber will immediately move their workers to a tip-only structure and lower ride costs, simultaneously taking a bigger chunk of the ride revenue for the company while lowering the amount that riders tip. Sucks to be an Uber driver if that happens. (Even more than it does already.)
- ProPublica explains the nonsense coming out of the administration about "invasion," and why Stephen Miller is spending so much energy on this fringe legal theory, even as Congress is passing the biggest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.
Did I mention that the House voted at 1am yesterday to impoverish more Americans and create more billionaires with their money than has ever happened in the United States?
Keep this in mind when you vote in 18 months and for the rest of your lives: The unprecedented—and I'm including Harding and Reagan here—corruption and outright theft of your money that the Republican Party are perpetrating on the United States is the culmination of a 60-year program that started when Ronald Reagan was Governor of California. They have been working on this since 1964. I am not exaggerating. So the next time a Republican tells you they have a plan to help the working class or to bring "good jobs" back or whatever lie they're telling you, remember how they have used the power voters have given them.
And if you're a MAGA Republican, take a good hard look at what they're doing to you, even while you're cheering the cruelty they're inflicting on everyone you hate.