Bitches get stuff done

When the San Francisco Giants came up to bat in a pre-season game with the Oakland Athletics, Alyssa Naaken was coaching at first base, the first time a woman has appeared in a major league baseball game.   It should also be noted that manager Gabe Kapler and several players took a knee during the national anthem.  It's a real shame most of us have more important things to worry about than sports.

Like Rep. Maxine Waters, who knows how swiftly a traffic stop can escalate to "shots fired."  When she saw a Black motorist pulled over by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, she stopped to witness (and record) the event.  The deputies threatened her with a ticket for being in the wrong place, or something, but what matters is that nobody died.   I can see this becoming a regular event.  Not always the Congresswoman, obviously, but other concerned citizens could decide it's important to keep an eye on things.

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) did not agree with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's views on the connection between poverty and crime, so he confronted her on the Capitol steps and informed her that she was "disgusting" and "out of your freaking mind," because that's how members of Congress debate.  As she walked away he was heard to add, "Fucking bitch," because that's how Republicans talk to women.  On Twitter AOC observed, "Hey, 'bitches' get stuff done."  She will still be getting stuff done next term, when Ted has resumed his veterinary practice.  Maybe a bitch will bite him.

Ghislaine Maxwell hid from the law so skillfully that the judge refused her bail, but she has one supporter:  "I just wish her well," Trump said today, using crime-family code for "if she keeps her mouth shut."  Too bad her trial is scheduled for next July, when he will be in no position to pardon or commute.  But you know, thoughts and prayers.

"As an upper-middle-class white woman in the whitest city in America, I couldn't stand by any longer," said Jane Ullman, explaining why she joined hundreds of "moms" standing up to Trump's storm troopers on the streets of Portland.  It was the killing of George Floyd that radicalized her and the brutalization of protesters that brought her out.  

Liz Cheney is chair of the House Republican Conference and normally of no interest, but today some of the deplorables decided she has to go because of insufficient enthusiasm in supporting Dear Leader.  She actually said she believes Dr. Anthony Fauci.  "We already have one Mitt Romney, we don't need another," tweeted Junior Trump, forgetting in the excitement that he is not actually in Congress and never will be.  I love it when they fight among themselves.  Like these guys arguing about how to make the next covid relief bill somehow benefit the rich.  

Margaret Sanger, who went to prison for dispensing information on contraception, will have her name removed from the Planned Parenthood of Greater New York clinic because she was a supporter of eugenics.  A quick search reveals that other supporters included Helen Keller, W.E.B. DuBois, Clarence Darrow, John Maynard Keynes, Linus Pauling, George Bernard Shaw and Alexander Graham Bell, so get out your markers and start purifying the past.  Anybody up for another round of Balance the Bad With the Good?  Good.  I'd prefer to spend my time getting J. Edgar Hoover's name off the FBI headquarters.  He was a total shit.