Our Friends, The Bailey's

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Raise your hand- not if you're driving- if you had an imaginary friend when you were a kid. Your imaginary friend was your confidant, the person you told your deepest, darkest secrets to, who calmed you when you were stressed over your school work, consoled you when you skinned your knee on the playground, played with all your toys with you, and reassured you when the booger man was under your bed. Your imaginary friend was your ride or die, your best bud who you would share your life with, that is until you grew out of it.

Meet Joe and Eileen Bailey, a middle-class couple who live in Massapequa on Long Island, New york. According to their friend Chuck Schumer in 2007, they bought in to Reaganomics in the 1980's, even though they didn't really believe in trickle-down economics, and they feared for losing their jobs under Reagan. They didn't believe in a whole lot of government spending, and didn't believe in tax breaks for the rich, but they believed in tax breaks for kids to go to college.

Joe Bailey was an insurance adjuster, earning $50k a year, which according to Schumer was the equivalent to $40k in flyover country. Eileen worked in a medical office, making about $20k, which Schumer characterized as $15k elsewhere. Joe Bailey takes off his cap and sings along with the national anthem before the occasional Islanders game. When Joe's daughter Megan told Eileen her friend was caught cheating in school, Eileen was appalled. Eileen's father had prostate cancer, and Eileen was a church going woman who volunteered at her church's annual clothing drive.

According to Schumer, the Bailey's watched "Sex and the City," and Joe swore he'd never have a goatee. The Bailey's thought all baseball players were on steroids in the 1990's, and when they dined at a Chinese restaurant, they ordered Kung Pao Chicken. The Bailey's weren't anti-immigration, they were anti-illegal-immigration, they didn't like people who burned the American flag, and they were pro-choice. When arguing in favor of a cybersecurity bill, Schumer sold the bill as "protecting the security the Bailey's feel when they go on-line to buy birthday presents." The Bailey's voted for Clinton, Bush, and Trump the first time. In March of this year, Schumer told the Wall Street Journal that the Bailey's split their vote in 2020 and both voted for Trump this past November.

Schumer told C-Span he "guided his political life" by the Bailey's. In his book "Positively American," Schumer mentions the Bailey's 265 times in 264 pages.

There was only one problem. There was and is no Joe and Eileen Bailey of Massapequa, NY. They were a complete figment of Schumer's imagination, both then and now. The Bailey's were Schumer's imaginary friend. While you grew out of your imaginary friend phase, Chuck Schumer never did, and used the lie to advance his political career for over 4 decades. The fact that the Bailey's sounded like an average Trump voter 20 years ago shows you the extremes Schumer will go to in order to retain and expand his power and that of his party.

So why are we just finding out about this? And especially from left wing outlets like the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mediaite and Blue Georgia? Because just like an old horse, Schumer is quietly being put out to pasture on his way to the glue factory in favor of a spry young colt who has all the energy and charisma, AOC. Poll after poll have shown that AOC is the new face of the democrat party, and only trails Bernie Sanders in popularity among democrats.

The energy is behind AOC, and so is the money. If the democrat base has their way, AOC will be the next senator from New York in 2026 and then the next President in 2028. As for Schumer, they won't even give him a stopped watch for his "retirement," because Schumer was never right twice in the same day. Such is the case with the democrats, where the kayfabe is more important than actually doing what is best for the nation.

Perhaps if Schumer had actually had the values of his imaginary friends, the Bailey's, the country would be in a much better place. Instead, he has genuflected to the woke mob and the mob is now out to devour him. The irony is delicious; he is going to be taken down by the monster he helped create, and I bet AOC won't even say "thanks" when she changes the nameplate on the office door. Such is life in politics, which really is like pro wrestling in every single way. Somewhere out in Massapequa, the Bailey's, one of which is a 3-time Trump voter, are laughing. Turns out the imaginary friend was smarter than the Senator.