30 years as AP sports writer in Columbus, Ohio, before hangin' it up.
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I'm going to watch this on repeat and memorize it like it's the Beach House scene in "GIRLS"
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ترامپ بیننده ثابت شوی جیمی کیمل است و تقریبا هر شب درباره‌اش توییت می‌کند. جیمی دیروز در بخشی از برنامه، مستقیم او را خطاب داد و حرف‌هایی زد که دیگر طنز نبود. این متن بخشی از حرف‌های اوست:
ترامپ [در تروث‌سوشیال] نوشت "من در فهرست رأی‌گیری نبودم، و اگر بودم، با اختلافی قاطع پیروز می‌شدیم."
آه، خفه شو. فقط خفه شو. فقط یک روز هم به ما مهلت بده و آن دهان مضحک را ببند. تو واقعاً یک بچه لوسی.
تا به حال اصلا چیزی درباره آداب معاشرت یا اخلاق ورزشی یا حداقل نزاکت آموخته‌ای؟ هیچ‌وقت هیچ تقصیری گردن تو نیست.
تقریباً همه جمهوری‌خواهان تقریبا در همهجا در همهجا به‌جز عمیق‌ترین اعماق دریای سرخ، [رنگ حزب جمهوری‌خواه] شکست خوردند. این تقصیر تو نیست؟!
همه نامزدهای بزرگ و دست‌چین‌شده‌ات شکست خوردند. دارلین گراهام را برای رقابت در کارولینای جنوبی انتخاب کردی. تام تیلیس را از سنا بیرون راندی. از آن کِن پکسنِ رقت‌انگیز در تگزاس حمایت کردی. همه‌چیزت را روی ویوک باراما‌سوامی گذاشتی و تبلیغ نفرت‌انگیز کمپینش.
و اگر آقای کاریزما، جی‌دی‌ونس را به‌عنوان معاون رئیس‌جمهورت انتخاب نکرده بودی، جمهوری‌خواهان هنوز آن کرسی سنا را داشتند که دیشب در اوهایو از دست دادند.
اما اگر نامزد بودی، با اختلافی قاطع برنده می‌شدی.
این دیگر چه مزخرفی است؟ تو خودت نامزد بودی.
تو مثل موی سگی؛ همهجا هستی. هر گوشه‌وکنار زندگی ما هستی.
تو این کشور را جوری از هم پاشاندی که هیچ‌کس دیگری از هم نپاشانده بود.
تنها باری که واقعاً ما را دور هم جمع کردی، دیروز بود؛ وقتی که همه با هم متحد شدیم تا از شر تو خلاص شویم.
[خطاب به جمهوری‌خواهان] حالا می‌بینید که او به هیچ‌کس جز خودش وفادار نیست. او فقط قرار نیست شما را زیر اتوبوس بیندازد. او خودش آن را می‌راند. او شما را زیر می‌گیرد، و بعد دنده عقب می‌گیرد، و دوباره همین کار را می‌کند.
او هم عقب می‌رود، هم جلو می‌آید و از روی بدنتان رد می‌شود تا وقتی که روی جاده مثل خمیر بازی له شوید. چون نمی‌تواند بپذیرد که هیچ چیزی تقصیر اوست.
کاش امروز والدینش زنده بودند تا می‌توانستیم به خاطر کاری که با او و با ما کردند، آن‌ها را به زندان بیندازیم.
مطمئنم آن شب برای همه در کاخ سفید خیلی شب مفرحی بود. دست‌وپا می‌زد.
این دیوانه‌کننده است: دیشب، پولیتیکو یک برنامه زنده داشت.
آن‌ها در حال بررسی نتایج انتخابات میان‌دوره‌ای هستند و یکی از نویسنده‌هایشان، دَشا برنز، می‌گوید من شماره تلفن ترامپ را دارم.
[ویدئوی پولیتیکو]
دَشا برنز: گ بزنیم و ببینیم جواب می‌دهد یا نه. بیایید با رئیس‌جمهور تماس بگیریم. فکر می‌کنم، فکر می‌کنم وقتش رسیده. درباره‌اش صحبت کرده‌ایم. ببینیم جواب می‌دهد یا نه.
گوشی را برداشت
[از آن سوی خط[
ممکن است بپرسم چه کسی تماس می‌گیرد.
- سلام، من دَشا برنز از پولیتیکو هستم.
یک لحظه، لطفاً.
تدامپ: هی، داشا، حالت چطوره؟
- سلام، آقای رئیس‌جمهور، خوبم. فقط می‌خوام بدونم پیامتون چیه؟ فکر می‌کنید چه اتفاقی افتاد امشب با حزب‌تان؟
- اسم من در برگه رأی نبود و ما هم مردم را پای صندوق نیاوردیم، اما من در برگه رأی نبودم. اگر اسم من در برگه رأی بود، برنده می‌شدیم. خیلی راحت، همه‌چیز را می‌بردیم.
[بازگشت به استودیو جیمی کیمل]
باز هم، آخرش مسئولیتش می‌افتد گردن بقیه.
برای کسی که از اخبار جعلی متنفر است، واقعاً برایشان خیلی راحت است که با او تلفنی ارتباط بگیرند. فقط نشسته خانه و به تماس‌های هر کسی جواب می‌دهد.
بعد از این همه ناله درباره تقلب در انتخابات، ترامپ به نیویورک تایمز گفت نتیجه را خواهد پذیرفت، که خب، این اصلاً چه خبر مهمی است؟ تو نتیجه را می‌پذیری. اوه، ممنون. چه بزرگوارانه.
نتایج برای این نیست که شما آن‌ها را بپذیرید یا رد کنید. این‌ها نتیجه‌اند.
او هرگز در هیچ کاری شکست نخورده است.
چیزی که امیدوارم از این یاد بگیریم این است. دونالد ترامپ برایش مهم نیست حزب جمهوری‌خواه.
او دموکرات بود. در واقع دموکرات هم نبود.
بعد شد جمهوری‌خواه که جمهوری‌خواه نیست. او به هیچ‌کس و هیچ‌چیز وفادار نیست. تنها حزبی که او رهبری می‌کند حزب چُرتی‌هاست. تنها آدمی هم که توی آن است، خودش است.
رأی صادر شده، و فقط یک چیز باقی مانده که گیل‌مورِ خوابالو باید انجام دهد.
[خطاب به ترامپ]
استعفا بده! دیگه کنار بکش. هیچ‌کس تو را نمی‌خواهد. حتی خودت هم دیگر نمی‌خواهی رئیس‌جمهور باشی. آن یک میلیارد دلار ارز دیجیتال را بردار. یک جزیره بخر. شاید جزیرهٔ اپستین.
آیا این پایانِ عالیِ این داستان نمی‌شد؟ و شاید فکر می‌کنی، خب، اگر استعفا بدهد، آیا این جِی.دی. ونس را رئیس‌جمهور نمی‌کند؟
خب، بله، همین‌طور می‌شود. اما دربارهٔ جِی.دی. ونس این را بگویم. فردی که از این‌که دونالد ترامپ هیتلرِ آمریکا است به این‌که دونالد ترامپ بهترین رئیس‌جمهور نسل من است تغییر موضع داد، می‌تواند دوباره هم برگردد.
وقتی ستون فقرات نداشته باشی، این کار آسان است.او خیلی خوب تغییر موضع می‌دهد.
دموکرات‌ها کلی برنامه دارند، درست است؟ آن‌ها قول داده‌اند چندین تحقیق و بررسی آغاز کنند. و راستش، چیزهای زیادی برای تحقیق و بررسی هست:
رمزارز.
فساد.
هواپیمای قطری.
آیس.
ایران.
ونزوئلا.
بخشش‌هایی برای رفقای پولدارش.
سالن رقص.
بال غربی.
مرکز کندی.
استخر بازتابی.
پیت هگست.
سرخک.
جرد کوشنر.
ایلان.
روسیه.
چین.
گرینلند.
کانادا.
و یک چیز کوچکی که دوست دارم به او بگویم: پرونده‌های ترامپ-اپستین، که از دیدنشان لذت می‌بریم.
Rusty Miller retweeted
A wrestling referee says he walked out of the Ohio State showers and told two coaches the team doctor had just touched himself next to him. One of the coaches was Jim Jordan, now one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress. “Jim Jordan looked at me straight in my face and said, ‘It’s Strauss. You know what he does.”
Dr. Richard Strauss examined Ohio State athletes from the 1970s to the 1990s. In 2019 an independent investigation found he had sexually abused at least 177 students. It also found that coaches and administrators knew for two decades and did nothing. Strauss had killed himself in 2005.
Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach there from 1986 to 1994. In the video below, former team captain Adam DiSabato tells Ohio lawmakers what happened when the story broke: “Jim Jordan called me crying… groveling, on the Fourth of July, begging me to go against my brother.”
Jordan says he never saw or heard of any abuse. Former athletic director Andy Geiger testified that Jordan “probably knew.” Jordan’s own deposition is still under seal.
In June, Ohio State agreed to pay $100 million to 279 more survivors. With earlier settlements, the university has now paid more than $161 million to about 600 men, roughly $270,000 each.
“People always call Jim Jordan a fighter,” says former wrestler Will Knight. “I always wonder who he’s fighting for.”
Did Jim Jordan know what was happening in that locker room, or are his old wrestlers blaming the one coach who became famous?
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I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote.
But now that the election is over, I have something to say.
For nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma.
What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics.
They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility.
The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it.
Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election.
Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear.
I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque.
To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone.
What did you teach them about the value of their suffering?
I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure.
Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward.
If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it.
This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears.
Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better.
And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.
Rusty Miller retweeted
In November 1941 the richest man in America drove his twenty-three-year-old daughter to a hospital in Washington without telling her mother, had two surgeons drill holes in her skull and cut into the front of her brain while she sang God Bless America to them, and when the singing stopped she had a mental age of two and the family did not speak her name for twenty years.
Rosemary Kennedy was the third child and the first girl, and she was slow. A nurse at the birth had held Rose Kennedy's legs together for two hours while they waited for the doctor, and the baby had been starved of air. She learned to read and write, but late, and in a family where the boys were being bred for the presidency and the girls for the right marriage, she was the one who could not keep up, the one who had to be coached and watched and given the simpler part in the photograph. She was also, by every account, the prettiest of them, and when the family went to London in 1938 she was presented at court in a white dress and curtsied to the King without a mistake.
Then she was twenty-one, and the trouble started. Moods. Rages. Slipping out of the convent school at night and coming back in the morning and not saying where. The nuns said she might be meeting men. For Joseph Kennedy, who was managing his sons towards the White House and could not have a daughter who might get pregnant or get talked about, that was the end of it. He had read about a new operation. Walter Freeman had promised the newspapers it calmed the agitated, and Joe Kennedy had never in his life been told that a thing he could pay for would not work.
Rosemary was given a mild sedative and kept awake. Freeman and his surgeon, James Watts, opened the skull on both sides and Watts pushed a blade into the frontal lobes and swept, while Freeman asked her to recite the Lord's Prayer and sing, and count backwards, so they would know how far to go. They went until she was incoherent. Then they stopped.
She came out of it unable to walk or speak. Years of therapy got her a few words and a limp. Joe moved her to a private hospital in New York and then to a convent school in Wisconsin, told the family she was teaching the retarded in the Midwest, and never went to see her. Rose, her mother, was not told what had been done until long after, and did not visit for twenty years. The brothers and sisters, including the one who became President, were told she was away. When Joe had his stroke in 1961 and could no longer manage the story, Eunice went to Wisconsin and found a woman of forty-three who did not know her, and came home and started the Special Olympics.
Rosemary lived to eighty-six, in the convent, and died in 2005 with her surviving sisters at the bed. The brother who became President had signed the first federal mental health law in 1963, and the family has said she was the reason.
Freeman kept operating for another twenty-six years. His notes on Rosemary have never been released.
That is what the expert's confidence looks like when it meets a powerful man with an inconvenient child. The science was published. The father was certain. The daughter sang to the surgeon until she could not.
Every institution that has ever decided it knows what is wrong with you and how to tidy it has the same two ingredients in the room, and the person on the table is still the only one who pays.
Rusty Miller retweeted
I can’t believe Abdul El-Sayed would accept a $400 million jet from the largest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Oh, wait. That was Donald Trump.
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Barack Obama decided to hit Pete Hegseth with the elbow from the top rope. Absolutely brutal takedown.
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The problem with Vivek. Filmed 2023. See me on the road for continued Vivek slander and watch my special on Nettlix.
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Gov. Mike DeWine talks about Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s mother saying she is lying about her past - “the ad is deeply, deeply troubling” and that when you know the full story “it makes it more wrong”
Rusty Miller retweeted
This is probably the single best Two minute clip I have seen in a long time.
Anderson Cooper, who is gay, making fun of how gay Donald Trump is.
And I will repeat. There’s nothing wrong with being gay. The problem is hypocrisy.
Rusty Miller retweeted
"For 53 years, I’ve covered & written on Ohio government, politics & elections...
In my judgment, Ohioans never have witnessed a more depraved, amoral political attack than the one just launched by Vivek Ramaswamy against Dr Amy Acton"
Opinion-Mike Curtin
dispatch.com/story/opinion/c…
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Never been a sports fan.
Until now.
Go Bengals!
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spotted by @OhioCrawler over on Facebook, somebody pulled Donna Arthur's criminal records
this is Vivek's closing messenger
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"A man so fiercely modest and private that while at the University of Cincinnati on a basketball scholarship, he didn't tell his parents back in Brooklyn that he was also on the baseball team.
The man whose mother requested one of the first copies of his 1966 autobiography, "Koufax", so she could find out something about her son.
"You never told me anything," she said to him.
The man who in 1968, two years after retiring with three Cy Young Awards, four no-hitters and five ERA titles, mentioned nothing of his baseball career upon meeting a pretty young woman named Anne who was redecorating her parents' Malibu beach house.
Koufax did offer to help her paint, though. It wasn't until several days later that she learned his identity;
And he learned hers:
She was the daughter of actor Richard Widmark.
They were married six months later in her father's West Los Angeles home in front of about a dozen people.
His elbow was shot full of cortisone several times a season.
His stomach was always queasy from the cocktail of anti-inflammatories he swallowed before and after games, which he once said made him:
"Half-high on the mound."
He soaked his elbow in an ice bath for 30 minutes after each game, his arm encased in an inner tube to protect against frostbite.
And even then his arm would swell an inch.
He couldn't go on like this, not when his doctors could not rule out the possibility that he was risking permanent damage to his arm."
Tom Verducci.
