Day 903 Friday June 28, 2019
493 Days until the 2020 election and 571 days until the Inauguration
Megan Rapino visits the White House (a dream).
I have a dream.
I dream that Megan Rapino, co-captain of the Women’s USA Soccer Team visits the White House, along with the rest of her teammates. I dream that when the official photo is to be taken the women gather around the president. That they place their hands on his body and that they rub up against him, and as the photographer gets ready to take the official photo Megan whispers to the president, “You know, you’re not my type.” As she does this she grabs his crotch and squeezes and twists. Simultaneously, two other players give the Donald’s nipples twisties. (That’s where you grab the nipple pinch as hard as you can and twist.) At the same time several other players grab his underwear and hank up on it giving him a super wedgie as other players grab his belt and rip downwards – depantsing him.
Imagine the live action stop photos!
Donald smiling,
Donald making that O-face of pain,
Donald bending over,
Donald being pulled up as the wedgie lifts him back up and his head tilts back in surprise,
Donald standing in his tidy whites and pants around his knees.
I think the women should then yank his pants back up so he’d be standing there with his shirt half way out, his tie disheveled and hair askew.
Megan could say something to him like, “Hey, welcome to the team. You’ve been initiated. Great job!”
Or maybe, “I always thought you were a fucking pussy.”
Okay. That’s my dream.
And I dream that some day, every group that comes to the White House will show the president the respect he deserves by acting in a similar fashion.
Now on to the Democratic Debate. Wow. What a difference to the Republican Debates of 2016. Here candidates addressed issues people were interested in, problems we face, and potential solutions. The first night the attack ads began. There was one of those “What’s he hiding?” scary ads in gray, black and white with yellow overtones. But the best part of the debates were that the candidates on the stage were talking about problems we face as a nation, as a people, as the world and how to deal with them.
My favorite part was when Elizabeth Warren was asked if she had a plan to deal with Mitch McConnell if he was still head of the Senate in 2020.
“Yes.” She stopped there for five seconds or so. I wish she had just stopped. Or waited until the moderators asked her what it was, but still it was great.
Some of the candidates were one note. Some were spouting pat high level answers. Some had really thought about how to solve the problem they were talking about.
I kept thinking about how that compared to the Republican debate when the Fox folks asked the candidates what women they would want to see on a U.S. $20 bill. Some said their wife, or their mother. One said Margaret Thatcher. Wow, how friggin’ stupid. (No living person can be on U.S. currency, nor can a foreign individual be on our currency. Oh well, those are just rules. We don’t need no stinkin’ rules.)*
*Just to spell it out for those who might not follow the logic here. Because Margaret Thatcher is British she could not be pictured on our currency. If a person’s wife or mother is alive they could no be pictured on our currency. So maybe the only possibility would be someone’s mother who died. Great thinking there you all.
Universal health care, protecting our children from gun violence, naming the biggest threat to national security – these were the topics and issues being discussed by the Democratic candidates for President.
I don’t know about you, but somehow this seemed more germane to what we need to be discussing as a nation than whose mother should be on a twenty dollar bill.
Have a nice day!
Remember – Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Thank-you, the management.
493 Days until the 2020 election and 571 days until the Inauguration
PS Rocket Man
This is known as the El Baúl Ballgame Stella. There is a copy of it on the outside side wall at the National Archaeology Museum in Guatemala City, which typically you see as you are leaving the museum. To see the original you have to go to southern Guatemala where you pull up to a twenty foot high gate with an armed guard. You pass by a several rusting large building that are the remains of a sugar cane processing plant. Under a series of open roofed areas there are many sculptures. Some have thorny branches on top of them. Along one of these open corridors is this stella. No one knows much about it’s meaning or origin that I know of. However, this has not stopped the speculation that this is evidence of ancient aliens coming to visit us. I was told that most of these sculptures were discovered when plowing the area for sugar cane fields. Also, in this area of Guatemala are large rounded rocks with faces carved in them.
After speculating as to the meaning of the thorny sticks atop some of the sculpted heads (religious or spiritual interpretation perhaps?) we asked.
The answer? “Naw, we just put the thorny branches up there to keep the birds off of them.” So much for deep spirituality. I wish we could ask someone about the helmeted rocket man.
Kathy says
I wondered into one of this ball field while in Chichen Itza. The field was really over grown. Just as I tried to ork my way to the spot where they were supposed to get the ball through that itty bitty ring. It was a vertical hole as opposed to a basket ball hoop and really small. I must have stepped on a crackly stick and all of a sudden about 20 massive iguana heads popped up. After a lot of hissing I escape!
Elizabeth Warren all the way. Can’t wait to see her debate the big orange ugly!