Friday evening, the world lost a superhero, Notorious RBG (a.k.a. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg).
Her body had not chilled, and Senator Mitch McConnell announced that he would put forward Trump's nominee for the seat of Justice Ginsburg. Why? There was no one American with common sense who didn't know that he started making phone calls as soon as he heard. Why did he have to announce the obvious? Why could he wait under after she lie in state on Monday and Tuesday? He could have aligned his ducks in quiet. Then Americans had to listen to Lindsey Graham flip-flop on the issue of confirming a nominee a few weeks before an election. Then Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas said Democrats would riot in the street. This genius also claimed that slavery was a "necessary evil."
I heard this Republican crap all weekend. It was exhausting. Then I read about Sean Doolittle, a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. He's staying at home today. He's not seeing Donnie at the White House with his teammates, who won the 2019 World Series. He has problems with the president and has no desire of helping him with what is basically a PR stunt. His agrees with policies of the president, but that's not all. "At the end of the day it has more to do with the divisive rhetoric and the enabling of conspiracy theories and widening the divide in this country," said Doolittle.
Doolittle is no RBG, but he is a baseball hero. He and RBG stand heads taller than Trump, McConnell, Gratham, and Cotton.
P.S.: I almost forgot another hero of our time. Again not a politician. Again a great athlete. "As Jonathan Irons emerged from prison, Maya Moore fell to her knees. It took a moment for her strength to return. Then she got up and embraced him, a free man for the first time in over 23 years.
"Irons' first steps outside that building were also the last on a path the two had been walking together for more than a decade. Once she had regained composure, Moore turned to the phone filming the momentous occasion and said: 'OK guys. It's done. It's over.' This is the story of their extraordinary journey." Read the rest on BBC. There's also an ESPN Films documentary about the two individuals in production.
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