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John Cooper has always been a bit of a turd; he was one of those dweebs at GHS who ran for various orifices in the student government and actually believed they were important positions that could effect — I don’t know, the price of his ice cream bar(s) in the Student Center vending machines? — and crushed when he lost, every time.

But over the past decade or so, Cooper’s hysteria has developed into frothing, incontinent incoherence, as his Letter to the Editor, published today, clearly shows. It’s a beauty, declaiming words that must be said, speaking truth to power from a position of smug, moral superiority, and really, quite moving.

Cooper: The oligarchs are at the gate and the lock has just been sprung!

Submitted by John Cooper, Greenwich

To the Editor

Hey folks, get ready for a big 4th of July weekend, because it could be our last as free Americans! If this congress can agree to the reconciliation bill just passed by the Senate, the one that claws back almost every penny of assistance given the less fortunate and indigent poor, [So, $5, $6 trillion dollars then; wow! — Ed] our Republic is in peril. The oligarchs are at the gate and the lock has just been sprung!

There are currently 902 billionaires ($1,000,000,000.00) in the United States, 13 in Connecticut. From them, I have not heard nor read a single interview, article, LTE or op-ed offering to forego the tax cuts that are the raison d’être for the entire exercise. Nether has there been pushback against the bill from the same quarter. This callout of self-interested, uncaring one percenters should include centi-millionaires ($100,000,000.00) as well, of which there are over 10,500 in the US, a statistic that has doubled since 2003.

When the real damage contained in this huge, bloated, ugly bill comes to fore, everyday people will suffer and die. DJT and the creators of Project 2025 insist that this will not happen. When it does, will the 20,000 (by then) centi-millionaires and billionaires’ cash in some chips and lend a helping hand to the poor, the sick and the dying?, not likely… [As unlikely as fat folk living in Greenwich mansions will sell up, donate the proceeds to the poor, and go live on a sidewalk amongst them in a soggy cardboard box — just sayin’ —Ed.]

I am beyond ashamed to be an American today and fear for the lives of so many people I know and care about. Therefore, I cannot think of closing this with “have a Happy 4th of July”, without feeling sick to my stomach.

Well, don’t throw up, John; whatever you do, don’t do that!

Remember what happened the last time you over-ate at the Moms for Gums banquet!