“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” Phyllis Diller
January 24, 2024, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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Everybody loves a donut, but no one loves a victim.
And yet politicians think we do.
They think if they say they’re “just like us.” If they claim they grew up poor and barefoot, we’ll buy anything they’re selling.
Joe does it by becoming a confused Everyman.
“I, you might say, was raised in the synagogues of my state. You think I’m kidding. I’m not,” Joe told a group of rabbis before Rosh Hashanah.
“I probably went to shul more than many of you did.”
He does it all the time, identifying with just about everybody.
“Let’s lay one thing to rest,” Joe said at a black church. “I may be a practicing Catholic, but I used to go to 7:30 Mass every morning in high school, and then in college before I went to the black church.”
He said he was raised by the Puerto Rican community. That he had Somali buddies. Ones who drive taxis.
“If you ever come to the train station with me,” Joe said, “you’ll notice I have great relationships with them, because there’s an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I’m not being solicitous. I’m being serious.”
We know he’s serious. That’s the problem.
Joe’s a liar. And a chameleon whose colors change to fit the environment.
We see that a lot, especially with people who can’t cut the mustard.
This week former governor, U.N. Ambassador, and Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley felt it was time to pull the victim card.
She said, because her skin is brown.
That was after she used Misogyny and played the little woman, "If you want something done, ask a woman” card during the August 24 debate.
“We were the only Indian family in our small southern town,” Haley said sadly in an NBC Sunday interview this week.
“I was teased every day for being brown. So, anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I’ve said on how hard it was to grow up in the deep South as a brown girl.”
This could be why no politician in her home state of South Carolina is backing their former governor. And why Dinesh D’Souza is annoyed.
“I came to America from Bombay, India at age 17,” D’Souza tweeted.
“I have never once been teased for being brown, and I’m browner than Nikki Haley. So, what’s going on here?”
Indeed.
Nikki never says how fortunate she has been.
People like her never do. Fani Willis. Stacey Abrams. Letitia James.
These women, black and brown women, never tell you how good they have it, but have no problem telling the world how much they have suffered in America.
Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the congregation of Atlanta’s Big Bethel AME church that the reason she is being criticized for hiring lawyer Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in the Trump case, is because she is black.
Not because she’s corrupt.
Not because Wade, who is basically a slip and fall lawyer, is unqualified for the position, has been paid too much, and has a personal relationship with Fani.
On Sunday, during a Dr. King birthday celebration at the church, Fani portrayed herself as a victim.
“I thought by now, we would all just be getting along well. I said, as much as any time in history, we need a cultural shift as Americans have normalized,” she said angrily.
“Americans have normalized. They’ve normalized cruelty. They’ve normalized bigotry. They’ve normalized hate.”
She spoke about “carrying childhood hurts,” and struggling as a single mother.
But she never addressed what she had done wrong.
Stacey Abrams ran for governor. And lost. And never conceded. She said she lost because she was black. And a woman.
And New York Attorney General Letitia James ran for election on her only platform issue, prosecuting Donald Trump.
As the trial unfolded against Trump, criticism was levelled at her because she wasn’t very good at reading the law.
And it wasn’t because she was black. Like the other women, Letitia, Fani, Stacey and Nikki, they are the face of Racism, not the other way around.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.
*Song by Robbie Robertson