A passport for Pete Rose emphasizes “The Surge” for terrible white men in Trump's America

From a happy hour in the Pentagon for Fox-News-Boy Boy defense secretary Pete Hegseth to a holiday from the USA for the alleged rape and sexual intercourse that Tate Brothers was in 2025 for the worst white men in the world, was a party in the world.

So you did not think that a little thing, like his death last autumn at the age of 83, would end the degenerated player and the accused legal rapists of the baseball, who is known as “Charlie Hustle”, from the head-territory in these monster porridge, as if his well-deserved exile forever was fond of Cleveland Ray.

Do not make a mistake: the apparently inevitable reinstatement of the all-time hit leader Pete, Pete Rose from the Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, cannot be separated from the continuation of the Donald Trump regime The cleansing Films: A four-year get-out-of-jail-free Bonanza for some of the worst people on earth.

(Radio narrator -voice at four times speed). “Do not offer for women, blacks and browns, the LGBTQ community or anyone else who is currently not inscribed as a white, cisgender man.”

About 8% of the way to a Trump 47 presidency, which already feels like an eternity, the incessant drive to rehabilitate the Pete roses of an America, to run the base paths, in order for decades well-deserved cancellations for sexual abuse and misconduct, racism and homophobia and only old-fashioned, immoral behavior, and no strange sublocal, and and not to find a strange sublokal. No, the evil (white) boy restoration is of central importance for the entire MAGA project. And the forced redemption of Rose is his spikes-first call sign.

In 1989, Rose-and then was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, where he had won two World Series rings durable (not “lifelong”, but “permanently”) by the Major League Baseball after the investigators had determined his great racing habits, which contained the bet in his own team, a sin that was ultimately years later.

This crime was a red line for MLB, which for the maintenance of integrity (does someone remember the integrity?) Of the sport after his early history of the fixing games culminated in the “Black Sox” scandal of the thrown world series of 1919. Even if you bet on victories for your own team, there is a rough perversion for a manager because he can possibly make decisions – for example, burn out a revised pitcher to affect the prospects of his team and the health of his players on the street.

At that time the entertainment amount A. Bartlett Giamatti-a Yale scholar with a poetic passion for pastoral sports, which in the middle of the gehapitalism of athletics of the 21st century feels ancient to bring the hammer to rose. But the biggest spray hitter in the baseball with an unprecedented 4,256 career hits did not do itself with a largely unspentant lifespan of autographs with a low class for the cabins for the cabins, which led to a conviction of criminal offenses. And all of this was before the other class fell.

In 2017, at the height of the much to be rejected #Metoo movement, a woman who was only identified as Jane Doe reported in a legal registration that Rose contacted her in 1973 when she was only 14 or 15 years old, and initiated a sexual relationship that lasted several years in Cincinnati and about state lines. The defense of Rose, who was married to two children in the 1970s, was that they had sex, but nobody came before the woman was 16.

“That was 55 years ago, Babe,” said Rose of a woman sports journalist -my esteemed Inquirer colleague Alex Coffey -in 2022, when the Baseball -hits King was returned to Citizens Bank Park after a big debate to celebrate his other World Series victory with the Phils from 1980.

At this point, it will probably not shock you that Roses reinstatement what makes him entitled to the Baseball Hall of Fame if the voters can come by over his off-field posses-greater lawyers than America's head, Donald John Trump.

Trump's initial victory of the White House in 2017 came either – or probably because of – the shocking revelations, with which he had opened openly with forced kisses and sexual assault on women on the notorious judgment Access to Hollywood Band that opened the locks for about two dozen allegations of a series of sexual misconduct. In 2023, a New York jury found that Trump had sexually abused an author of Manhattan, E. Jean Carroll, in a changing stand of a Swank department store.

For many voters – especially young white men who granted Trump's pluralness victory in 2024 – Trump's terrible behavior may have been a feature, not a mistake. The complaint that movements such as #metoo, The Black Lives Matter, who went too far after George Floyd's police order, went too far, is the musk -like fragrance of the Maga Trumpism, and the second coming of his avatar has unleashed a crazy breed to raise any trace of modern persecution of just American American.

The civil rights movement? Second wave feminism? A revolution of rights for gay people or even for the disabled? To quote another icon of lutism in the middle of the 20th century, Mad Men'S Don Draper: “You will shock you how much it never happened.”

The countless examples of the Trump Blace-Rink audience are highlighted by the nibbling of men Elon Musk, the half-Billionär-Doge King, who, among other things, offered a horse in return for sex; And of course Hegseth, who paid the woman who went to the police, paid a settlement that accused him of a hotel in 2017.

Hey, that was eight years ago, baby. For petes sake!

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Roses sins in such a standing world seem to be in such a standing world-today, which today look baseball cards compared to the massive crypto fraud 2025, which not only encourages Trump and his family, but are committed to potus as just trivia. If Rose is immoral, aren't most so -called leaders of today not?

Don't answer that.

Trump, who accepted a signed baseball by Rose in 2016 and was even in charge of his reinstatement, his choice in the Hall of Fame and possibly even a pardon of the President The Driving force in the decision of this week by Manfred. In fact, the Commissioner Trump only hit the Oval Office a month ago and even called the president on Tuesday to inform him about the reversal of the ban that Manfred had previously confirmed in his term.

Look in full disclosure mode I should admit that as a lifelong baseball fan I always hated rose when I was a small child in the late 1960s. His performative and exaggerated “Charlie Hustle” Shtick always felt like a manifestation of his inner creepiness and achieved in the glorified exhibition that is the all-star game of baseball. But even if you love this page of Rose Lieben-Eben-Eben-Eben-like many Philadelphians, who are still grateful for his role in this first title in 1980, it is still worth thinking about how the rose recovery is also a guide for users for the deadly sins of this United States, including:

Cowardice: Manfred of the baseball, like so many so-called leaders in so many fields, the knee bent so hard on a dictatorial trump card that he could now have a ligament tears. This also includes a horrificly reserved and criminal “celebration” of the Jackie Robinson day on April 15, on which the 1947 MLB integration was almost renamed as a DEI-Ooverkill, or the “Diversity” tab from its career website.

Greed: Many have found that Rose's permanent ban was also a thorn in the latest efforts of baseball and its lucrative shipment companies to make peace with today's ever-expanded sports game-difficulty empire, a gigantic source of advertising collar. Unlavated gambling and crypto are all symptoms of the same disease: the feeling that it is the only way to make it with the gross inequality of capitalism in the late stage. Rose's efforts to get richer by relying on his red makes him not a malfunction, but a pioneer, right?

Immorality: Consequences are for losers, in an America in which even a convicted 34-member criminal can dream of presiding this Topy Turvy country, in which a police officer in an uprising of Capitol Hill is no longer a crime, but is a co-authority in a newspaper of war crime in a newspaper. No wonder that Rose's spirit is now sprinting on the first basis on this indecent deliberate walk.

The only good news here is that Trump-Like, as always, there is hope for checks and balances after an American monarchy. Rose still cannot get into the Hall of Fame if he is not adopted with the voters of the Hall, who have previously blocked the recordsetters of the spoiled steroids of baseball.

This is a memory of why baseball is still really our national pastime, because just like the American experiment in democracy, the size of his idea has survived the whole territory and the feasts and segregation and the performance-enhancing drugs that have repeatedly tried to kill it. The arch of the moral universe of baseball is long, but it leans into justice. Let's hope that Rose's rejection from the Hall of Fame is exactly around this curve.

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