Monday, January 25, 2021

The Case Against Steroid Users in the Hall of Fame

 

The National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the 2021 inductees on January 26, 2021. The new candidates are pitchers Tim Hudson, Marl Buehrle, Dan Haren, Barry Zito, AJ Burnett, LaTroy Hawkins, infielder Aramis Ramirez, and outfielders Torii Hunter, Shane Victorino, Nick Swisher and Michael Cuddyer.

Returning candidates are pitchers Curt Schilling, Roger Clemens, Billy Wagner and Andy Pettitte, infielders Omar Visquel, Scott Rolen, Todd Helton and Jeff Kent, and outfielders Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield, Manny Ramirez, Andrew Jones, Sammy Sosa and Bobby Abreu.

Candidates are elected by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). The voters are supposed to consider the candidate’s “record, ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character and contribution to the game.”

Ironically, baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944), a segregationist who opposed the integration of baseball, introduced the character clause. Judge Landis lobbied for Eddie Grant, a good fielding but light hitting infielder, who played in the Major Leagues from 1905 to 1915. He played in less than one thousand games and had a career batting average of .249.  Statistically Mr. Grant does not belong in the Hall of Fame.  But Judge Landis wanted to reward Grant because Grant, after retiring, was one of the first former major leaguers to enlist in the Army when the United States entered World War I.  He was killed in action on October 5, 1918.

Every year, members of the BBWAA debate whether suspected steroid users should be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Starting in 2015, Ken Rosenthal voted for suspected steroid users when he voted for Bonds and Clemens believing other suspected steroid users were already elected to the Hall Fame.

In a column in The Athletic, Mr. Rosenthal pointed out there are other candidates with “character” flaws who are on the ballot. Bonds, Omar Vizquel and Andrew Jones have faced allegations of domestic abuse.  Clemens had a “questionable” relationship with the late Mindy McCready, whom he originally met when he was 28 and a married father of two and she was 15.  Curt Schilling has a history of offensive comments and actions, including the sharing of a meme advocating the lynching of journalists.”  Most recently, Schilling endorsed the insurrection and overthrow of the 2020 presidential election.  Todd Helton was arrested twice for drunk driving.

New York Daily News baseball columnist and J. T. Taylor Spinks Award Winner Bill Madden has not voted for a Hall of Fame candidate suspected of steroid use.

ESPN baseball columnist Buster Olney posted on Twitter, “This needs to be said again and again. The Hall of Fame is a baseball museum. A baseball museum. It’s not a house of the holy.” (1/3/2021)

Mr. Olney is correct, there are a few inductees who are gamblers, domestic abusers, drunks, and racists in the Hall of Fame. 

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Gary Sheffield, Manny Ramirez, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro are not Lord Voldemort, names that cannot be mentioned inside the Hall of Fame.  They are part of baseball history.    Their accomplishments are cited in the Hall of Fame. Denying steroid users induction into the Hall of Fame is not meant to erase baseball history.  Bonds is the career home run leader with 762.  Clemens has 354 career wins and 4672 career strikeouts.  Their only deprivation is immortalization on a plaque.

The pro Bonds/Clemens et al voters argue steroids use was not legislated out of baseball until 2005.  Players who used steroids prior to 2005 should not be denied induction into the Hall Fame.

However, taking steroids without a doctor’s prescription is illegal, therefore baseball players who took steroids without a doctor’s prescription committed a federal crime.  The absence of prosecution/conviction does not absolve the steroid users of sportsmanship and integrity clause of the Hall of Fame criteria.

The Hall of Fame is a museum.  But would you knowingly hang a forgery of the Mona Lisa in a museum?  If you elect a steroid user in the Hall of Fame, you are electing a forgery, not a genuine level of integrity and sportsmanship.  Steroid users violated the character clause as well as the integrity and sportsmanship clause.

The Hall of Fame is more than a museum that chronicles baseball history. The Hall of Fame rewards excellence.  Individual achievement aided by steroids is not individual excellence.

Monday, May 27, 2019

The Pollyana Candidate


At a campaign event in Dubuque, Iowa, former Vice President and current Democratic Party frontrunner Joe Biden said, “History will treat this administration’s time as an aberration.”[1]
At another campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire Mr. Biden said, “I just think there is a way, and the thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House.  Not a joke.  You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends.”[2]
Mr. Biden based this assumption on Republican’s wanting to govern with Democrats.  Either Mr. Biden was asleep during the Obama Administration, or he’s suffering memory loss. 
Trump is not an aberration.  Trump is the result of a political culture of divisiveness.  
The political culture of divisiveness can be traced back to former Georgia congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.  He successfully argued, “Compromise is the art of surrender… Through visible public clashes… [Republicans] can spotlight their agenda and draw a clear distinction between the parties.”[3]
Political divisiveness metastasized during the 2008 presidential campaign and it turned into political intransigence with the election of Barrack Obama, the nation’s first African American president. 
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell proudly stated his goal was to limit President Obama to one term.  Although Senator McConnell could not prevent President Obama from winning a second term, he achieved a second goal, blocking President Obama from filling a Supreme Court vacancy.
If Mr. Biden believes becoming president will break the partisan gridlock, he’s sadly mistaken.  The Senate Republicans have tasted real political power.  They will not abdicate their power.  Senate Republicans don’t need electoral majorities.  Their power is based on land.  A minority of the country elects the majority in the Senate.  North Dakota (population 760,077), South Dakota (population 882,235), Oklahoma (population 643,648) and Alaska (population (737,438) have more political power than California (population 39.56 million) and New York (population 19.54 million).
Republican’s are not interested in governing.  Republican’s want to rule.  The Republicans will set the agenda on their terms: tax cuts, corporate friendly deregulation and appointing conservative judges.
During the Obama presidency, the Republicans weaponized congressional investigations.  In an interview with Sean Hannity, Republican Kevin McCarthy said, Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s un-trustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought and made that happen.”[4]
If Mr. Biden is elected president, what is more likely to happen, the Senate passes legislation fixing Obamacare, or the Republican’s investigate Mr. Biden’s role in stopping a corruption investigation in the Ukraine?
Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani opened Pandora’s box by “encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev to press ahead with investigations that he hopes will benefit Mr. Trump.”[5]
“In March 2016, then-vice president Biden successfully strong-armed Ukraine to fire prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. Biden, who flew into Kiev dangling the promise of a one billion dollar loan guarantee, told Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko the loan wouldn’t be authorized unless Shokin was ousted.
Here’s how Biden himself recounted it: “I looked at them and said:  ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch.  He got fired. 
“At the time, Shokin was allegedly investigating corruption at Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company. Joe Biden’s son Hunter happened to sit on Burisma’s board, a lucrative position which was netting him millions of dollars.”[6]
Would you be surprised if Mr. Biden’s Republican friends in the Senate blocked Mr. Biden from filling a vacant Supreme Court seat?
In 2008 I supported a candidate who said he could reconcile our political divisiveness.  Instead our political differences got worse.  Trump exploited it.
 Mr. Biden is offering nostalgia, a time (1980’s) when centrist Democrats and moderate Republicans worked together to solve problems.  “It’s my job to find them.  To persuade them to vote for it.  And I did,” Mr. Biden said at a campaign rally in Philadelphia.[7]
Mr. Biden’s Republican friends are already turning against him.  “He does have relationships, that’s true.  But he doesn’t sound like the old Joe Biden that most of us knew when he was here in the Senate,” Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) said.  “I love Joe Biden,” said Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina)… “I think he’s been wrong on everything.”[8]  
Our two-party system is a zero sum game.  If Senate Republicans compromise with President Biden and Mr. Biden presidency is successful, it could help Democrats gain seats in Congress.  However, if Republicans obstruct and Mr. Biden’s presidency is unsuccessful, Republicans win.
Our government is broken.  It cannot be repaired.  Mr. Biden is counting on his Republican friends to govern.  If Mr. Biden wins the presidency I suggest he follow Gordon Gekko’s advice, “If you need a friend, get a dog.”    


[1] “Biden Thinks Trump is the Problem, Not Republicans, Other Democrats Disagree,” Shane Goldmacker, New York Times, 5/4/2019.
[2] “Rhetoric or Obliviousness?  Biden Predicts a Post Trump Epiphany for GOP,” Phillip Bump, Washington Post, 5/22/2019.
[3] The Red and The Blue, The 1990’s and The Birth Of Political Tribalism, Steve Kornacki, Harper Collins, 2018, page 41.
[4] “In Context: What Kevin McCarthy Said About Hillary Clinton and Benghazi,” Angie Drobnic Holan, Washington Post, 10/7/2015.
[5] “Rudy Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump,” Kenneth Vogel, New York Times, 5/9/2019.
[6] “Joe Biden’s Conflict of Interest on Ukraine,” Lev Golinkin, The Nation, 5/16/2019.
[7] “Wrong On Most Everything: GOP Smacks Down Biden’s Bipartisanship,” Burgess Everett and James Arkin, Politico, 5/22/2019.
[8] “Wrong On Most Everything: GOP Smacks Down Biden’s Bipartisanship,” Burgess Everett and James Arkin, Politico, 5/22/2019.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Driving in the Dark


JetBlue flight 838 from Aguadilla to NYC was scheduled to depart at 5:02 am on 3/22/2018. I was tracking the latest nor’easter that dropped up to a foot of snow in NYC.  According to ABC News, 650 flights departing from JFK had been canceled.  I was hoping for an extra day in Puerto Rico, but the JetBlue app on my iPhone did not indicate any delays or cancelations. 
The seven days I spent in Puerto Rico wasn’t a vacation, it was a personal fact finding mission to witness the aftermath Hurricane Maria and to listen to the testimonies of from my relatives in Puerto Rico about the catastrophic weather event.  Six months after Hurricane Maria, the electricity along Carretera Numero 2 was not restored from Camuy to Aguadilla.  I was going to drive on a dark deserted highway.  Imagine driving on the FDR Drive or on the Westside Highway during a blackout, and the only lights you see are from other cars.   
I left my uncle’s house at 1:15 am. The drive from Camuy to Aguadilla was only 45 minutes according to Google Maps.  I had to turn in my car rental at 2:30 am and I wanted to give myself extra time in case I got lost on the way to the car rental agency.
Before leaving Camuy, I searched through my music library for appropriate driving music. My first choice was Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album Born to Run, but the eight songs only last 39 minutes. I wanted to pick an album that lasted at least 45. 
I thought about the darkness that I would be driving through and choose Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. 
Also, I thought the album title was an apt metaphor of Trump’s response after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.  In Trump’s limited understanding of the political relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, the island might as well be located on the dark side of the moon. 
The album starts with a beating heart, low at first but getting louder. I turn up the volume and roll down the window to breath in the cool night air.  I hear the ticking clock, the creepy voices from the album, “I’ve been mad[1] for f---ing years, absolutely years probably ages. I’ve always been mad, I know I’ve been mad like most of us are, you have to explain why you’re mad” the sinister laughter on a loop, singer Claire Torry’s mournful wails, and finally the song Breathe.
I like to cut loose when there’s no traffic.  I have rules when I’m speeding.  It has to be an open road with no traffic ahead of me, and no winding roads.  Earlier in the day I drove from Yauco to Camuy at 80 to 85 mph for about 45 minutes. A couple of times it felt like the car got off the ground.  
It was a beautiful cloudless midnight blue night sky.  I merged into the dark and deserted carretera numero 2, step on the gas and hit 60 mph in seconds singing[2] with David Gilmour, “Breathe, breathe in the air, don’t be afraid to care.  Leave but don’t leave me.  Look around, choose your own ground.  For long you live and high you fly and smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry.  And all you touch and all you’ll see is all your life will ever be.” 
The lyrics from Breathe that get to me are, “Run rabbit run, dig that hole, forget the sun and when at last the work is done, don’t sit down, it’s time to dig another one.”  They capture the futility of life.  We work throughout our lives without time for leisure and when we finally have time for leisure, if we’re lucky, our bodies are unable to withstand the grind of daily activities.  Throughout my stay in Puerto Rico, I kept saying to myself I wish had more time to enjoy the island.     
Although there was no traffic on la numero 2, I felt uncomfortable driving at high speeds in the dark. The speed limit was 50, but to me that’s just a suggestion.  I kept my eye on the speedometer.  The maximum speed I pushed the 2017 metallic blue Hyundai was 65 mph. 
The last thing I wanted to do, even with the high beams on, was miss a curve and drive straight into a tree or an electric pole.  I’ll never forgot the story of the junior high school principal and a companion who, late at night, drove straight into Lake Guajataca because they missed the curvature of the road.  As a precaution I drove right on the center lane using the dotted white line as a guide. 
I was forced to reduce my speed a few times. Cars on the opposite side of the road were also driving with the high beams on temporarily blinding me.  Fortunately a concrete divider prevented me from driving into the opposite lane.  I was told the concrete dividers were added to prevent drunk drivers from crossing into the other lane.
Listening to the Great Gig in the Sky, I noticed a truck approaching in the rear view mirror.  Had it been in the daytime, I would have increased my speed to 85 mph until the truck disappeared in the rear view mirror, but the darkness was disorienting and the traffic light went from yellow to red.[3]  I stopped.  The truck was cutting the distance between us and it did not appear to be slowing down.  I was in the right lane.  In the darkness I couldn’t tell what lane the truck was in.  I held my breath as the truck got closer hoping the truck wouldn’t pancake the Hyundai.  The truck roared passed me on the left lane running the red light.
Suddenly I remembered another Puerto Rican driving rule.  It’s permissible to drive through a red light late at night when there’s no traffic in order to prevent a potential carjackings. 
I’m listening to Us and Them (arguably the best song on the album), but I’m unable to concentrate on the lyrics.  For some reason only Google Maps knows, I was directed to an alternate and unfamiliar path to Aguadilla airport.  I felt lost.  There were no road signs, no houses or shuttered businesses, just tall grass as far as the high beams could see. 
I could feel my heart pounding, like the heartbeat in the introduction to the Dark Side of the Moon.  My anxiety level increased with every passing kilometer.   I wondered how much I should trust Google Maps.  I looked at the clock on the dashboard.  It was almost 2:00 am. The deadline to return the car was 2:30 am. 
I thought about making a U turn on the narrow road and backtracking to la Carretera Numero 2 but I decided to stay on the path chosen by Google Maps.
Then, “up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light.”[4]  It turned out Google Maps directed me to Aguadilla airport through a secondary road instead of the main road.
But I still had to find the car rental agency, which was a few blocks away from the airport, without the assistance from Google Maps.   
“The lunatic is in my head,” sang Roger Waters.  I had to trust my instincts and hoped the landmarks I remembered when I drove out of the airport were the same landmarks leading me to the car rental agency.   
I got to an intersection, looked to my left and saw a blue and red van.  It belonged to the car rental agency.
I drove into the lot.  I heard the fading heartbeat and haunting voice at the conclusion of the album that said, “There is no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact it’s all dark.”



[1] Mad crazy, not mad angry.  Although in my case both definitions are accurate.
[2] I can’t sing, that’s why I’m doing it in a car without an audience.
[3] The street lamps were not repaired but the traffic lights were working.
[4] Hotel California

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Donald Trump Reviews Fear the Walking Dead



Recently I saw the season premiere of Fear the Walking Dead and it was disappointing, let me tell you, very disappointing.  The show was low energy, like Jeb, very low energy.  How can a show about zombies be low energy, unbelievable?  If I had directed the show it would’ve been great, much more exciting and the ratings would’ve been tremendous, without a doubt and it would’ve won a few Emmy’s, I guarantee it.   

We don’t win anymore.  We lose to the Chinese, the Japanese, the South Koreans, and the Mexicans.  NATO is ripping us off.  The Saudi’s are taking advantage of us.  Obama negotiated a terrible deal with the Iranians.  We gave them billions of dollars.  Now we’re losing to the zombies in Fear the Walking Dead, unbelievable.

There’s a strange disease that’s turning people into zombies.  The government’s response was a total disaster, like the Ebola epidemic a couple of years ago.  I was the first person to warn how dangerous Ebola was.  I said we should not allow people from Africa into the country, but Obama completely ignored me, unbelievable.  He let those people back into the country.  When they arrived I said we should quarantine them until we’re sure they’re not sick.  We were lucky Obama didn’t get us all killed, let me tell you, he displayed poor leadership during the Ebola crisis, very poor leadership.
 
I noticed one thing right away, no guns.  Where are the guns?  Americans are being attacked by zombies and the people don’t have guns, unbelievable.  Obama hates the Second Amendment, let me tell you, he really hates it.  Obama wants to appoint Supreme Court justices who are going to weaken the Second Amendment.  He’s waiting for the right time to confiscate our guns.  Instead he should be confiscating Qurans.  When I’m elected president, Americans will have lots of guns to defend ourselves against the zombies, I promise you.


The zombie show doesn’t tell us how the disease got started in America, let me tell you, that’s just political correctness.  Political correctness is killing us.  We have open borders, they come in from Mexico and Central America and Africa and Syria, we let all of these people come in and we don’t check them to see if they’re sick and contagious and when they get sick we give them Obamacare, unbelievable, then they blend in with the rest of us and before you know it there’s a terrible epidemic and the government is too weak to respond. 

I have another problem with Fear the Walking Dead, the actors, never heard of them, they’re nobodies, who hired these people.  If I had negotiated the deal for AMC, believe me, I never would’ve agreed to put on a show with so many unknown actors.  How do you expect to get high ratings with unknown actors?  AMC should hire me to negotiate the next contract, let me tell you, I’m a great negotiator, I’ve negotiated billion dollar deals with the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Saudis.  I wrote The Art of the Deal, second greatest book of all time after the Bible.  When I’m president I’m going to sign an Executive Order making it mandatory to teach The Art of the Deal in every school, I promise you.  Anyway, I’ll kill off all the actors, have them eaten by the zombies and replace them with well-known actors like Jon Voight, an Oscar winner, I love winners, wasn’t he great in 24.  We have to bring back waterboarding, let me tell you, on day one I’m going to sign an Executive Order to bring back waterboarding.  We don’t win anymore, the terrorists, they’re winning, they’re laughing at us.  We have to torture the terrorists and if that’s not enough, we’ll go after their families, believe me.  They’ll start talking, I guarantee it.


Other well-known actors who would be great in Fear the Walking Dead, Stephen Baldwin, he was great in “The Usual Suspects,” great movie, and also Scott Baio, you remember the Fonz’s cousin Chachi from Happy Days, great show, let me tell you, great wholesome show, we don’t make shows like that anymore.  Today our TV shows have to be multi-cultural, politically correct.  I’m telling you multiculturalism is a disaster.  We will make America great again, I promise you. 

The actress who plays Madison reminds me of Megan Kelly, terrible journalist, very unprofessional.  She attacked me in the first debate, unbelievable, and she said I don’t respect women.  Nobody cherishes women more than me, let me tell you, I appreciate women more than any other man who’s run for president.  Since the debate, Megan Kelly’s been begging me to appear on her Fox News show, but I told Megan, “Why would I want to be on your show, you have terrible ratings, you’re a third rate journalist, I’m running for president, I can’t waste my very valuable time on your terrible TV show.”   I’m a successful business man, I’ve built a great company, hired thousands of employees, I’ve made billions of dollars and I had a very successful TV show.  NBC paid me millions of dollars, people expect me to be on a high quality TV show, they want to see great attractive people on TV, I guarantee it.  Frankly Megan Kelly is not that attractive.
 
People want a handsome president, I promise you.  Ted Cruz is not better looking than me, I guarantee it.  Lyin’ Ted’s face isn’t presidential, I will tell you.  His own daughters find him repulsive.  Look at me, I’m very handsome, great hair, excellent skin, spectacular hands.  Little Marco Rubio attacked my hands.  He said they were small, but they’re not small, they’re tremendous.  Little Marco implied another part of my body was small, let me tell you, I’m magnificent there, no complaints, I guarantee it.

Nick is Madison’s son and he’s a heroin addict.  That’s another problem we’re facing – heroin addiction.  Mexican immigrants are crossing our unprotected borders in droves.  They’re bringing heroin, getting our young people addicted to drugs, they’re killing us and what is our response, we’re sending millions of jobs to Mexico, unbelievable.  On day one of my presidency, I’m going to sign an Executive Order imposing a 35% tax on all goods coming from Mexico.  The Mexicans, the Chinese, the Japanese, the South Koreans, we’re losing jobs, they’re killing us on trade.  We will get these jobs back, I promise you.
 
It’s bad enough the actors are unknown, but some of the actors aren’t American, unbelievable.  That’s the problem.  Hollywood is giving acting jobs to foreigners.  It’s over when I become president, believe me, if you’re going to make a TV show in America you can’t have foreigners pretending to be Americans.  I’m going to put an end to this, I guarantee it.  We don’t need immigrants to act in our shows.  We have plenty of great actors who can portray Latinos, let me tell you.  Al Pacino, great actor, won an Oscar, “Scent of a Woman,” great movie, I would make Lt Colonel Frank Slade my secretary of defense, we will make our military great again, I guarantee it.  Pacino should’ve won more Oscars, but Hollywood is too politically correct, political correctness is a disaster, it’s going to kill the entertainment industry, I guarantee it.  Anyway, Al Pacino, by the way he always stays at a Trump Hotel when he travels because Pacino knows quality, Pacino’s played a Cuban and a Puerto Rican in movies, very convincing, I’m telling you, he can be Mexican on Fear the Walking Dead, I guarantee it. 


I heard there’s a Mexican on Fear the Walking Dead who ran for president of Mexico and he came in third place.  I have nothing against the Mexican people, let me tell you, nobody loves the  Mexicans more than I do.  I’ve hired thousands of Mexicans to work at my hotels.  They work very hard cleaning bathrooms, doing the laundry, cleaning dishes, but I wouldn’t hire a loser to be in my TV show.  We have to hire quality people, and we have to hire people who reflect our values – winning!  When I’m president, we’re going to win so much, let me tell you, we’re going to win so much, it’s going to come out of our ears and Megan Kelly’s “whatever.”


And I heard the Mexican is a singer/songwriter.  I never heard of him.  How good of singer is this guy if I’ve never heard of him.  People tell me some of his songs, his songs are terrible by the way, his songs are against America, and he writes songs about how terrible America is, unbelievable.  I would never allow someone to sing anti-America songs in any of my venues, let me tell you, I only hire quality people to perform at my venues, not losers.  When I’m president, on day one I’m going to call the FCC and tell them to pull AMC’s license if they don’t fire this guy, I promise you.
 
Fear the Walking Dead shows us how far America has fallen.  The government’s response to a health crisis is terrible, a total disaster, restrictions to our Second Amendment rights leaves Americans unarmed and unable to defend themselves against the zombies, Mexican immigrants cross our unprotected borders, they bring drugs, they use up our resources, terrorists no longer fear us, our weak infrastructure collapses, and the military is no longer able to protect us.  The zombie apocalypse will not happen when I’m president, let me tell you.  I’m going to appoint Supreme Court justices who will strengthen our Second Amendment rights, I promise you.  I’m going to bring back waterboarding, and we’re going to kill the families of terrorists.  We’re going to build a wall along the Mexican border.  The wall is going to be fifty feet high.  It’s going to be a beautiful wall, a magnificent wall, an elegant wall, I’m a builder, I know how to build, the wall is going to more amazing than the Great Wall of China, people are already calling it the Trump Wall, it’ll be better than the wall in Game of Thrones, I guarantee it and Mexico is going to pay for the wall.  We won’t have to worry about Mexican or ISIS zombies coming here to kill us.  We will make America great again, I promise you.