DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Ted DiBiase: Million Dollar Man/Wrestler/Minister/Scam Artist. Religion and rasslin’ are two of the greatest scams goin’ today. Both have seen better days, especially religion. Notable former wrestlers like Tully Blanchard and Nikita Koloff have become ministers. But nobody has made a bigger deal of his conversion to the cause than the Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase. Claiming that he had fallen victim to the temptations of the road, DiBiase founded ‘The Heart Of David’, a Christian ministry. Fast forward to yesterday. DiBiase and his sons were accused of basically pocketing money earmarked for the poor without providing, well, anything:
Both nonprofit groups gave welfare money to a trio of wrestlers, Ted DiBiase, Ted DiBiase, Jr. and Brett DiBiase – some of it for work never performed, some for “unreasonable” travel costs.
I live for stories like this. So, of course, I just had to check out the Million Dollar Man’s website. This word-for-word quote is from that website. Once a scam artist, always a scam artist:
Although he’s not the same guy he used to be, Ted DiBiase is still a wrestler! Invite him to your church. He’ll wrestle with your teenagers and their peer pressure! He’ll wrestle with your congregation and test them to see if what they have is religion or relationship! He’ll wrestle with your men and their ego! He’ll wrestle with your married couples and the problems they face! But know this, Ted is guaranteed to win because now he has the greatest tag-team partner in the universe, Jesus Christ!
In case you’re wondering, yes, there are dozens of Christian wrestling federations. I wonder whether Gog and Magog are still the tag-team champs…
Trump Trumpets Governors Who Recklessly Reopen. At the same time that the White House disowns a report predicting a stark uptick in cases and deaths. Why the spike? Premature reopening of states.
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. US. Global. The latest carnage: 1,180,634 confirmed cases and 68,934 deaths in the United States. Oh, and while the world joins together to find a cure, Trump sits it out.
Gov. DeWine: “Come After Me”. My Republican hero. For today, anyway. Tells protesters to come after him, not to go after reporters and photographers, not to go after the state health director. A rare Republican official who says that the buck stops with him.
The ‘Progressive’ PAC That Apparently Didn’t Exist. A must-read. A phony PAC that ran no ads and apparently doesn’t exist. You can bet that, if we ever learn the truth, there will have been nothing ‘progressive’ about it.
What do you want to talk about?
The race that will flip the Senate?:
Montana poll shows Bullock (D) leading the incumbent Daines (R) by 7 points:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/montana/
The number of deaths seems to be accelerating, did not take long to go from 50,000 to almost 70,000, as noted suspect early opening states are going to ramp up the death toll. Stickin’ with my mask and keeping my distance, suspect we are not going to be done with the virus anytime soon.
Also, credit where credit is due, Hogan is the other decent republican.
The key to being a “decent” Republican governor is having a veto-proof Democratic legislature. Hogan is only able to seem decent because legislators overrode his vetoes of $15/hr minimum wage, “ban the box,” and other measures.
Same in Massachusetts. Only way to keep Republicons on the straight and narrow.
DeWine is the exception. Both houses of the Ohio legislature are controlled by Republicans.
That’s one reason why he deserves an ‘attaboy’.
Our country continues to burn while our unfit, failed and impeached president does nothing. Time for a regime change. And speaking of change, how many times has capitalism failed this nation in the past century?
The plan is there is no plan:
https://pressthink.org/2020/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan/
This piece perfectly expresses the present moment. Thank you.
As you would expect, Trump toured a mask factory while not wearing a mask:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/trump-tours-new-face-mask-factory-in-arizona-but-doesnt-wear-one-idUSKBN22H1YE
While the PA system played “Live or Let Die.”
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1257814281330069504
It’s a crazy world in which we live in.
He claims he’s singing “ever-changing world in which we’re livin’.”
McCartney also has said he forgot which phrase he wrote. He told the Washington Post he thought “we live in” was “wronger but cuter.” The rock ‘n’ roll life makes for hazy memory, if not bad grammar.
So does a decades-long pot-smoking habit.
See today’s Song of the Day.