Louisiana Voice

If it seems like I’m obsessing over Brandon Browning’s inappropriate ridicule of the physical handicaps of Joe Biden (stuttering) and John Fetterman (stroke), then perhaps I am.

Browning just can’t seem to get past the fact that Biden beat his boy Trump for President two years ago – two years, and he’s still not over it – and Fetterman was elected US Senator from Pennsylvania last week.

Browning, in case you need to be reminded, lost his bid for Livingston Parish assessor and he’s about to lose again in his announced candidacy for sheriff. Browning can’t even be elected to a parish office and he’s gonna throw darts at a US president and a US senator? Seriously?

It’s fine to disagree with any politician on policy and philosophy. But to zero in on a physical disability is hitting waaay below the belt and Browning should have the decency to know that.

He got into a running Facebook exchange with someone named DeAnna (who is obviously far more sensitive – and smarter – than Browning). The one thing any politician should know is when you start defending yourself or what you said or did, you’ve already lost the argument.

And that’s precisely what he did in their Facebook banter and the more he defended himself, the more absurd his position became, saying finally, that he wasn’t discriminating against Biden and Fetterman because they’re Democrats but that he was discriminating “against a lack of cognitive ability and function.”

Function. Hmmm. Wonder how he feels about Franklin Roosevelt’s being a victim of polio and confined to a wheelchair during his administration while actually making America great again – and not just slapping a slogan on a baseball cap?

Obviously, FDR was limited in his “function,” right Browning? Or do you lack the cognitive ability to comprehend history?

I mean, all he did was pull this country out of the Great Depression by creating all those socialist programs that put people to work – people who desperately needed jobs to put food on the table and clothing on their kids’ backs. And guess what? Those jobs FDR created weren’t just deadhead government jobs; they were actually productive. I’ll get to those in a minute but first, it’s probably appropriate to point out that that crippled president, who was of extremely limited physical function, also saw this country through World War II.

You do know about that war, don’t you, Browning? That’s the one where we defeated Hitler. We thought we’d eradicated fascism from the face of the earth but unfortunately, it’s back but this time it’s in this country. Well, we defeated them once and we can do it again if we have to – even if we have to rely on a president who stutters and a senator who is recovering from a stroke.

Oh, and about those government jobs FDR handed out in his socialist programs: besides roads and rural electrification that they brought to rural America, you might want to check out some of the other projects FDR’s socialist Works Progress Administration (WPA) was responsible for just in Louisiana. You can check them out by going HERE.

And speaking of socialism, Browning, what did you do with your socialist stimulus checks (two in 2020 and a third in March 2021) that you got during the pandemic? Just askin’.