auston Matthews is not going to be well treated by Toronto Maple Leafs fans. The numbers saying “Fuck this guy” are legion.
In the next town over from me lives Lauren Holly, the actress, who’s from Pennsylvania, IIRC, but has lived in Canada quite some time and became a diehard, utterly insane Blue Jays and Leafs fan. She is openly debating on social media whether she wants to shred her Auston Matthews jersey or burn it. No Leafs fans are disputing she should do one or the other. Like, not one single objection.
It was bad enough in his last term when he started using the Presidential Medal of Freedom as a political prop, giving one to Rush Limbaugh during a SOTU. But the Congressional Medal of Honor is special. Its prior recipients were honored for some truly hair-raising heroics.
There are a lot of medals that can be given out for “pretty heroic” deeds. CMOH is usually for throwing yourself on a grenade, single-handedly charging German machine gun nests. Stuff like that.
People say this (they come up to me with tears in their eyes, even!) and everyone seems to buy it, but is it even remotely true? And if so, how? People have been illegally crossing the border since, oh, 1836, and nothing seems to have stopped them one bit. The border seems exactly like it has been - lack of constant fence, lack of security, lots of desert.
If by “everyone” you mean “MAGA Morons”. No one else buys it.
It’s like his claims to have virtually eliminated drugs coming in by sea. Has anyone noticed any effects from that? Drugs costing more? Overdoses dropping precipitously? People going into withdrawal in record numbers? Anything?
It’s like everything else he puts a number to. Complete bullshit, to make him look awesome to the people licking his boots.
And it’s so pathetically obvious. And sad. If he made a slightly less grandiose pronouncement, like illegal border crossing were down 50%, it would still be self-serving bullshit, but it would be self-serving bullshit that you’d actually have to stop and think about, and do a bit of research to debunk. But this? Absurd on the face of it, to anyone not already shoulders deep in Trump’s ass.
Well, to be fair, I can’t prove it either way. I haven’t been to the border in a while. I couldn’t tell you if zero people a day cross, or 50K, or what. I’m trusting the people to report right (NOT MAGA!!!) plus “common sense”. If nothing has changed on border security, why would anyone believe illegal crossing has gone to zero? It makes no sense! No one wanting to cross is afraid of trump.
But even here in Arizona, most people have never been to the border. They have no idea. They believe what they are told. They think there is a wall on Mexico’s southern border, and five seconds of looking at Google maps would disprove that. But they believe.
But, in a way, so do I believe what I am told. I just use different sources. But, are they valid?
My wife watched it, thinking she knew what she expected, but felt obligated to just personally experience it to confirm her impressions. Fortunately, I was otherwise occupied from 7-9:30. As I drove home, I heard him on NPR. I got to hear him tell the helicopter pilot to “Come on down!” The fucking moron thinks he is running a game show! When I got home, my wife had turned it off in disgust.
That was me making fun of the Melania movie trailer where Trump asks her if she watched something and she said she’d watch it on the news. I thought it was her way of getting a jab in at Trump.