Conspicuous silence

Four, five days along now, and still I wait. I am not a patient man, but I'm willing to be this time.

Because sooner or later they'll say it, right? They always do, right?

Shut up and dribble.

Shut up and play.

Keep your politics to yourself.

Nobody cares what you think, you're just someone who puts a ball through a hoop or throws one or catches one. And stand up for the national anthem, dammit.

Heard it all before, right? And always from the usual suspects.

But it's been four, five days now since Jack Nicklaus, golfer, tweeted his support for Our Only Available Impeached Diseased President. And since Brett Favre and Jay Cutler, football players, did the same. 

And, look, that's fine, and not at all surprising. Jack Nicklaus is a rich white conservative businessman OOAIDP made richer with his tax-cut windfall. And Favre and Cutler are rich white former football players, and the only voting block more reliably right-wing than that are NASCAR drivers.

And yet ...

And yet not a peep out of Laura Ingraham or Tucker Carlson or some other OOAIDP mouthpiece.

They had plenty to say when LeBron James or Colin Kaepernick or some other jock got political, and see above for what it was they said. But now, a conspicuous silence.

Interesting. 

Not to say illuminating.

Because, listen, we all know if it ain't your ox being gored, everything's copasetic. And so we haven't heard a peep from any right-wing blowhole about a golfer and two football players getting political, because they got political in support of the right guy. And we won't hear a peep of condemnation for what happened in Texas the other day, when a bunch of OOAIDP's goons tried to run a Biden-Harris campaign bus off the road.

OOAIDP loved that, by the way. Thought it was the greatest thing he'd ever seen.

But let a guy kneel to protest people of color getting shot when they shouldn't, or a bunch of other folks take to the streets to protest the same, and boy howdy. Then it's "law and order" from the most lawless president in history. Then they're all a bunch of looters and rioters and firestarters and, oh my God, ANTIFA!, and they deserve it when some psycho kid with a military-grade weapon starts shooting them.

In fact, they'll raise the psycho kid to sainthood, practically. Claim he's the victim, not the people he crossed a state line to shoot. 

In any case, here I am, waiting.

Just to be on the safe side, though?

I won't hold my breath while I'm doing it.