Help From Democrats
I want to thank El Jefe for keeping the floors swept and the doors open while I try a heal-up a little. I’m shooting for next week to start letting the anger over Trump replace the sadness over losing Momma. Meanwhile, my friend Scott has a handle on a few things and this is one of them. Knowing that I am going to try to get to Fort Worth in a day or two this week to be at the Texas Democratic Party State Convention, he offered me some advice.
My wife has become quite a hockey fan now that the nest is empty, and wants to adopt TJ Oshie, ever since he ignited her interest in the game when he scored the winning shootout goal against Russia in the Soshi Olympics. He now plays for the Washington Capitals, and she was astounded and elated when they won the Stanley Cup this year. So naturally she had to watch the triumphal homecoming parade and festivities, which seem to have shut down DC for a day last week. I watched it with her to support her team, and because a number of my relatives live inside The Beltway and they’ve needed something to celebrate for a couple of years now. Oh, and also because one of the major sponsors of the team is Budweiser, most of the team is 35, they’ve had to behave since September, and the broadcast was live.
They exceeded my expectations. The crowd packed the monument side of The National Mall (the Post printed a disclaimer that the paper was not going to print any estimate of crowd size, not saying “and y’all know why”), and the players got to come up to the mike and thank the fans and say a few words. Most of them were coherent, but several were obviously not far from not being so.
The team captain, Aleksandr Ovechkin, stole the show and probably caused NBC Sports Network to fire whoever was asleep at the bleep button. Alex is Russian, and speaks passable English, which seems to get better after lord knows how much beer. So he shared with the crowd what he had said to his team at the start of the season to inspire them to go for the trophy: “Thees year, we’re not gonna f***** suck.” With no asterisks, not even Cyrillic ones, and on live tv.
I think this would make a good campaign slogan for all the Democrats in the United States of America. And it has the added benefit of being stolen from a Russian.
OMG, that’s hilarious. Thank you so much for sharing that!!!
1Susan, your Momma would be as pleased and proud of you today as she is every day for maintaining your sense of humor as you cope with her loss. She might allow as you could even be just a little bit naughty. Let’s say something like releasing Alfredo with his skills and magic calculator to estimate how many times the crowd size of the hockey celebration have been retweeted to Orange Foolius.
2I second @Steph! Thanks SO much for the laugh!
3“Immigrants…
We get the job done!”
4Susan, I am most sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you, and also my admiration for your strength and sense of purpose. Give ’em hell at the Blue State of Texas Convention.
5This was hilarious. Thanks for sharing. I offer my deep and sincerest condolences, Susan, for your having to bury Momma.
6By the way, Ovechkin is a buddy of Putin. He started a movement called PutinTeam, made up of Russian athletes and celebrities.
7I am sincerely sorry you have lost your momma and regret she wasn’t around to see Trump backtrack on the border atrocity. On the other hand, she was spared Trump’s stupendously awful bloviation on the subject.
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