And The Lunacy Continues

 

I hang my head down in honor of the Atlanta Braves season ticket holder.   I feel your pain.  Truly.   I know the feeling of having the All Star Game...a lasting and rare baseball memory...yanked from you.   Last year, Dodger Stadium was supposed to host the mid-summer classic.  But you know what happened?   A virus leaks out of a Chinese lab.   Some wet market animals are thrown under the bus.  And we are all paralyzed for a year.

At least, we get to see the game in LA come July 2022.  Atlanta is not so lucky.  Now viewed as pariahs and white supremacists and probably even baby killers, the poor baseball fan there has become the unwitting victim to yet another political "travesty."

Or is it?

Regardless of how justified or unjustified the decision, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the new election laws in Georgia are a disgrace and that there is no way the sport could have their annual star fest there.   Of course, you immediately get the support of...well...everybody.  Even LeBron James, the contemptible bastard that he is, is proud now to align himself with his "brothers" in baseball.   James is as stupid as he is rich.   The sooner he has a career-ending injury, the better we will all be.

Of course, this all became a cause celebre when the airhead in the Oval Office compared Georgia's new election laws to Jim Crow.  Or maybe he meant Jim Croce.   You never know with anything he attempts to say.  But that fueled the fires and fanned the flames.   Georgia should burn in Hell.   Well, just the Democrats who live there.

And just what is so racist here?   Tighter regulations to mail-in ballots.   The requirement of a photo ID.    No electioneering on water bottles allowed with people in line to vote.  Seems reasonable to me.  Frankly, I'm all for election laws that make it easier to vote.

And harder to cheat.

But, no, this is Jim Crow...or Croce...on steroids.   

Is this mike on?

The shame of it all is that Georgia's economy probably could have used the millions of dollars that would have resulted from Atlanta being baseball's show place for a week.  And the jobs.   A lot of them that would have gone to lower income folks badly in need of some cash in light of the current economy.  

But, no, this is all about Jim Crow...or Croce.

Now other businesses are pressed to boycott Georgia.  Like Delta Airlines which condemned the racist election laws.   Hmmm.   Try to get on a Delta flight without a photo ID.   Tell me what happens.   It will be ugly.

Our country is off the track right now and I don't see daily derailments stopping any time soon.

So, MLB awards the 2021 All Star Game to Denver.  Guess where a photo ID is required to vote?   Yep.

And then Pa Kettle in the White House opens the NCAA Championship game by applauding the state of Indiana for being fair-minded and equal.

The very first state to require a photo ID to vote?   Yep.

Sad.  So very, very sad.

Dinner last night:  Hot dogs.