by Pa Rock
Voter
My representative in Congress, Jason Smith, a Republican representing Missouri's 8th district, has spent most his current term being besotted with Donald Trump, wallowing in the notion that Trump's election can only be compared to the Second Coming of Christ. Each week Smith sends out an email newsletter to constituents in which he dishes the GOP's latest canned talking points while giving the party's corpulent leader a lavish tongue bath.
Smith's newsletters always have a focus on what he sees at the good things that Trump is doing for America. The young congressman never misses a chance to post pictures where he has elbowed his way into a group shot with Trump, and in one issue he giddily name-dropped that Ivanka had made a personal visit to his office.
Smith wants to be seen as Trump's main appendage dangling over the Midwest - or at least he did until The Donald began stirring up a trade war with China. Smith's district is primarily rural with an abundance of farms - and Smith himself claims to be a farmer - when he's not busy being a real estate developer, lawyer, and politician. So when the Chinese quickly announced retaliatory measures to Trump's posturing and bluster, measures that hit hard at U.S. farmers, poor Jason was flummoxed.
U.S pork was one of the foodstuffs that China announced it would place a tax (tariff) on - and another was soybeans. (China buys one-third of the United States' soybean crop.) Missouri is one of the top ten states nationwide in the production of pork and soybeans, with a sizable portion of each coming out of Smith's own district.
Trump's trade war with China is going to hurt Missouri farmers - and farmers in the state's 8th congressional district appear set to take an especially hard hit. Could that be why Smith's newsletter from March 31st did not mention The Donald at all? Or why yesterday's newsletter only had two extremely brief references the man who once enjoyed an almost god-like presence in Smith's weekly partisan drivel?
Perhaps Jason Smith should take a few more meetings with Ivanka. None of her Chinese imports have been targeted in the trade war, so she must be a whole lot more politically astute than Missouri farmers - and she undoubtedly has better representation in Congress than they do.
Hog and soybean farmers are not part of Donald Trump's social circle. Most of us have known that all along - and now Jason Smith knows it too!
You've been played, Congressman.
Voter
My representative in Congress, Jason Smith, a Republican representing Missouri's 8th district, has spent most his current term being besotted with Donald Trump, wallowing in the notion that Trump's election can only be compared to the Second Coming of Christ. Each week Smith sends out an email newsletter to constituents in which he dishes the GOP's latest canned talking points while giving the party's corpulent leader a lavish tongue bath.
Smith's newsletters always have a focus on what he sees at the good things that Trump is doing for America. The young congressman never misses a chance to post pictures where he has elbowed his way into a group shot with Trump, and in one issue he giddily name-dropped that Ivanka had made a personal visit to his office.
Smith wants to be seen as Trump's main appendage dangling over the Midwest - or at least he did until The Donald began stirring up a trade war with China. Smith's district is primarily rural with an abundance of farms - and Smith himself claims to be a farmer - when he's not busy being a real estate developer, lawyer, and politician. So when the Chinese quickly announced retaliatory measures to Trump's posturing and bluster, measures that hit hard at U.S. farmers, poor Jason was flummoxed.
U.S pork was one of the foodstuffs that China announced it would place a tax (tariff) on - and another was soybeans. (China buys one-third of the United States' soybean crop.) Missouri is one of the top ten states nationwide in the production of pork and soybeans, with a sizable portion of each coming out of Smith's own district.
Trump's trade war with China is going to hurt Missouri farmers - and farmers in the state's 8th congressional district appear set to take an especially hard hit. Could that be why Smith's newsletter from March 31st did not mention The Donald at all? Or why yesterday's newsletter only had two extremely brief references the man who once enjoyed an almost god-like presence in Smith's weekly partisan drivel?
Perhaps Jason Smith should take a few more meetings with Ivanka. None of her Chinese imports have been targeted in the trade war, so she must be a whole lot more politically astute than Missouri farmers - and she undoubtedly has better representation in Congress than they do.
Hog and soybean farmers are not part of Donald Trump's social circle. Most of us have known that all along - and now Jason Smith knows it too!
You've been played, Congressman.
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