Today, the Electoral College meets virtually to have the next-to-last word on the 2020 presidential election. The actual last word will come from Congress two weeks before the inauguration.
However, America's Oldest Baby, President Donald Trump, took time out from his favorite pastime, golfing, to claim he's still going to contest the election, even though he and his army of ambulance chasers, led by the living disgrace that is Rudy Giuliani, have lost, save for a minor case in Pennsylvania, every lawsuit they have brought forward.
No, you didn't. You got your pampered butt spanked at the polls, and if it wasn't for your goading your base with your pointless lies and phony conspiracy theories, it'd have been way worse.
As pundits such as Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirschner have pointed out, Team Trump didn't formally bring their suits before judges. Instead, they made one grandstand play after another in front of television cameras in order to inflame his base. Even if they did present their cases before judges, it's not very likely they would've succeeded anyway, and still got smacked down.
And that ain't all.
Trump is also whining about reports circulating that the Cleveland Indians are planning on changing their team name after 106 seasons. Following the lead of the NFL team in Washington, Cleveland is looking for a new team name down the line. Trump's reaction?
Sorry, Dumb Donald, but if you bothered to pay attention to the protests by Native American activist groups that led to Washington changing the name of its football team to a more generic name, and paid attention to the point behind the changes, you'd understand. Then again, maybe not.
Back to Cleveland. It wasn't enough that they retired the stereotyped image of their mascot, Chief Wahoo, two years ago. Ownership decided they had to take the next step. The next move, then, belongs to the Atlanta Braves, who retired their Native American mascot, Chief Noc-a-Homa, several years ago. However, while there has been some complaint over the "tomahawk chop" fan taunt, also used by Florida State University football fans, there hasn't been as much public pressure on Braves management to make a change. Yet.
In case anyone wonders, the NBA's Golden State Warriors do not use Native American imagery, instead putting more emphasis on their home base in the Bay Area (Oakland-San Francisco). As for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, who use the image of a member of the Blackhawk tribe, I've heard no protests over that, either. Various high school & college teams still use "Braves", "Indians", and "Warriors", but also haven't been pressured. And there won't be any pressure on Cleveland from a bloviating baby.....
Listen, Donny, do ya hear that? That's the sound of nobody else giving two squats what you think. Irrelevance is stalking you, and in less than a month you'll just be a regular citizen, a pathetic old racist screaming into the void. Let's see how much fun you have spewing hate-filled garbage when you don't have an executive shield to hide behind. Loser.
ReplyDeleteAs for Cleveland, they could stick to the Native American motif if they did so in a way that honors First Americans rather than portraying them as grinning savages. Why not name the team after an actual tribe that historically inhabited the Cleveland area and make a new mascot that's not a goofy cartoon guy?
There's a prospect that they haven't considered. It's what the NHL's Blackhawks actually do, honoring Chief Black Hawk, which might explain the lack of protest there.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for President Pampers, one of his idiot pals, Stephen Miller, went on Fox & Friends this morning, claiming there are "alternate electors". Another jackass that needs to be smacked down.