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Trump vs. Harris = White vs. Black.

Mike Weisser
3 min readJul 27, 2024

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So, today Kamala Harris is making a campaign stop in a town which is only 40 miles from where I live, but I’m not going to drive over to attend the event because it’s sold out and I can’t get in.

The fundraiser is being held in a crummy, factory town called Pittsfield, and has already raised a million and a half bucks in a place where even the wealthiest residents don’t have jack shit.

Pittsfield used to be a manufacturing center for GE, until it turned out that the plant had dumped enough PCBs into the Housatonic River to kill just about everyone who lived alongside and drank from that river which flows all the way down through Massachusetts and Connecticut and empties into the Atlantic ten miles from the West Haven beach.

What was the main manufacturing facility for GE is now a plant owned by General Dynamics with a big sign saying the building is being used to make polymers except it looks abandoned and could use a fresh coat of paint.

Kamala’s campaign has raised a million and a half bucks in a shithole like Pittsfield and the fundraiser which will feature performances by Yo Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax hasn’t even begun?

And in this respect, I have to go along with Trump, who wants his supporters to believe that those liberals are all a bunch of goddamn elitist bastards because…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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