First off, I do consider myself a historian in that I have a history degree and could teach history in this godforsaken place called Oklahoma if I so chose to do so. The thing is though, in a place like Oklahoma…I’m not sure how long I could last given what some of the Deplorables teach their pinheaded offspring at home. I don’t want to be that adult caught on video throwing an eraser at the head of a Deplorable. Even Dave Chapelle wouldn’t do that.
You’d have to change your whole teaching outline to teach history in Oklahoma nowadays. The earth would be flat. Gravity is a fake news myth. Climate change is a hoax because Jim Inhofe said so. Obama was born in Iran. The holocaust never happened. Etc, etc, etc. See my point.
So I guess my blog is my classroom.
So…yesterday, there were three presidential polls conducted rating our presidents from top to bottom. I pretty much nailed it as I knew I would. Know your wheelhouse, baby. My cousin Jan, the Harvard grad, knew never to get near me when I was on the history, sports, or entertainment wedge space when a heated family game of Trivial Pursuit was taking place. Actually, I’ve done some more reading on Laura Graham and her twin Ann Coulter. You have no idea how much I’d like to play the drinking version of Trivial Pursuit with those two. It’s on my Bucket List.
Shit for Brains, aka Donald Trump, was last in the poll conducted by Democratic historians, next to last in the poll by Independent historians, and third from the bottom up in the poll conducted by Republican historians. I have to admit, I was surprised the Republican historians were as honest as they were with their poll. Maybe, as time passes, they’ll claim Caligula actually held Reince Priebus at gunpoint and really wasn’t the GOP candidate. I can assure you, that’s the only defense left for a good trial lawyer moving forward for a GOP history rewrite. The toady little bitch Sean Hannity should read my blog and learn something. He really should. He’s such a predictable fuckstick bore. He’s not worthy of Laura and Ann.
Anyway, I’m throwing out the gauntlet to Laura and Ann. Let’s get together with our vodka shot glasses and tee it up.
You know, even if the FBI had gone to visit the Snead home, nothing would have happened because of 4th Amendment considerations. These two adults were housing this young man and didn’t have a clue. So how could the FBI have done much in a perfunctory meeting when these two adults would have been telling them the automatic assault weapon was locked up and the young man was being taken to therapy. The FBI at that point would have had no legal grounds to do anything except leave their card.
But as adults how do you take a depressed minor to a therapist, consider using anti-depressants, and even have this weapon or any guns in your home? Are you kidding?
These two adults aren’t dummies. They should have known better. Here’s an analogy. You have a kid who’s had three DUI’s in a three month period and yet you still allow the kid to own a parked car in front of your home. Are you kidding? You sell the car.
I will write this though, I think the Sneads’ hearts were in the right place. They were doing something compassionate by allowing Nick Cruz to live with them. But common adult sense would hopefully tell you no guns in the house if for no other reason than you might fear Nicholas Cruz would kill himself.
What a perfect example of the dysfunctional gun culture in the United States. Ask yourself these questions, why is it the United States stands alone as the one nation in the world with all these mass shootings? It’s not just the physical presence of the guns, but the culture which has been fostered in this country in regards to the 2nd Amendment and the possession of guns. Why is it every other free democracy in the world isn’t going through this?
The kids in Florida know. They know. The adults have let them down and the culture in this country has to change. It doesn’t mean you can’t hunt. It doesn’t mean you can’t carry. It means you have to use pragmatic adult common sense and be the adult in the room. Good lord.
It’s President’s Day and I’ve witnessed your presidency for thirteen months, although it feels more like twenty years. Since this is the day we honor our presidents I thought I might drop you a note with a thought or two included.
There are 330 million people in this country and 270 million of them didn’t vote for you. Which means 82% of the country did not buy into your Elmer Gantry grifter bullshit. Even with the Russians trolling their asses off to our dimmest and dumbest white people you lost the popular vote by just under three million votes to Hillary Clinton.
Granted, Mike Pence once compared you to Teddy Roosevelt, and that old GOP rascal Orrin Hatch claimed you might turn out to be one of our greatest presidents–I’d put as much stock in what those two say as what Devin Nunes, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, or Long-Headed Laura Ingraham say to our white mentally challenged in this country.
Anyway, enough of that, let’s get down to business.
Unlike you, I actually read and have a passion for history. I was a double major in college…history/business. So what I’m trying to setup here is that I think know more about this subject than you as far U.S. presidential history. Not for a second would I claim to field superior expertise in furniture store sport fucking or bankruptcy nuance, but U.S presidential history and sports trivia, yes.
So putting Pence and Hatch aside, here’s where you stand after thirteen months on the job. You stand as the worst president in U.S. history to date minus Andrew Johnson. I assume somewhere in the National Enquirer they maybe once mentioned Andrew Johnson… so I’ll assume you know about Lincoln, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and your boy Andrew Johnson. That’s where you stand right now and in a race to overtake Johnson as the worst president in our country’s history if you don’t pull your head out of your ass and ignore the rogue far right.
You’ll notice Jefferson Davis is never mentioned as one of our greatest presidents. You know why? Because he lost the Civil War, dumbass. Put your Sean Hannity Sippy Cup away and at least consider what I’m saying to you.
So…who are our five greatest presidents? I would probably go 1 Washington (he set the executive branch template), 2 Lincoln (he preserved the Union), 3 FDR (he beat the Axis powers), 4 Teddy Roosevelt (he eased us out of the Gilded Age), and 5 maybe Dwight Eisenhower (he kept us out of war in shaky times). Those would be my five.
What each great president must bring to the table is the ability to lead the entire country with vision and courage, not just line the pockets of the white billionaires club. Tell your buddy Mike Pence that Teddy Roosevelt was the original trust buster. I’m not sure he read that part of history. He must have been on the floor rolling around blathering shit doing tongues when that was being taught in high school. Just a hunch.
A great president uses the Bully Pulpit to steer legislation. A great president displays wisdom and sagacity in making pivotal decisions. Somehow…all five of the great presidents never tweeted once, or shared with Billy Bush what it means to be a primo furniture sport fucker, or how it was he came to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 to not have sex with him.
Every one of the great presidents had their personal secrets. Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd was crazy. FDR had a mistress. So did Eisenhower. Teddy Roosevelt worshipped his wife Edith until her death. So…every president has a secret human side of sorts. But they all didn’t tweet to the world every time their dick twitched or they got their feelings hurt. They had thick skin. They rolled with it.
This would be my suggestion to you. Tell the country you’ve decided to not seek a second term…like LBJ. Tell the rogue right to go straight to hell because you won’t be needing their vote in 2020. Tell Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Mike Pence the rest of your presidency will be yours, not theirs. They could care less about you.
I’d then try and build a bipartisan coalition of sorts with say Chuck Schumer, Chris Coons, Lindsey Graham, and maybe John Kasich. I’d replace John Kelly with Dave Chappelle. I’d send your dumbass children and your putz son-in-law back to NYC. I’d huddle with pragmatic middle of the road adults rather than the far right and far left and see if you could get a few things done other than passing the Robber Baron’s Return to the Gilded Ages Tax Reform Act.
You have nothing to lose. You’ve been a terrible president. You’ve been used is what has happened. You were used by Bannon and Breitbart. You were used by the Mercers. You were used by McConnell and Ryan. And you’ve been used by the worst John Birch instincts which still exist in segments of white America.
You know, I’ve now watched the aftermath of Florida and the GOP’s Usual Suspects take is predictable. They will do nothing. They can’t because they’re tethered whores. Charles and David Koch own them. The NRA owns them. They can’t do anything because they signed the Grover Norquist pledge once they took office. If you don’t know what the Grover Norquist Pledge is then you need to google it and smarten up.
They won’t do anything because if they do the right thing their asses will be primaried next time they run for re-election and they won’t be the GOP nominee in Oklahoma, in West Virginia, in Alabama, anywhere…it’s a national network and contrary to what some might think it’s not just in New Confederacy states where as we all know the level of education leaves something to be desired.
Nothing will happen. When you’re a paid for whore if you take the money you spread your legs. Pretty simple. Unless you’re a Trump escort and I guess he still pays $130,000 to not get fucked. What a dealmaker, eh? Oh…I just dropped an F bomb. I hope Laura Ingraham doesn’t ever read my blog. I might be in trouble. Bring it on, bitch, I speak a little better than LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Let’s go. Bring your University of Virginia law degree with you and let’s see what you’ve got when you’re not pandering to the idiots who watch you on Fox. Let’s go. Seriously. But know this…I’m a much sharper dude than Keith Olbermann. She actually had a relationship with the gooberfuck Olbermann and that tells me all I really need to know.
So…these kids in Florida are going to start a national movement and demand the grownups actually behave like grownups. I’m with them for sure. I’d march with them. But from what I’ve observed from my peer adult grownups I’m not sure they’ve got what it takes to do the right things. Weak motherfuckers for the most part the parents. Oops.. another F bomb, sorry Laura. Soft and lazy…the parents, I mean… not Olbermann’s dick. But I’m with the kids. They’re doing the right thing and they give me hope for the future. While you’re marching the gun issue go ahead and bring up the 20 trillion dollar debt your parents seem to have no problem with either.
But I’m with you. Your generation is going to have to do this and I must say I’m incredibly impressed by the students at Parkland.
Leadership requires courage. Show your parents what courage and doing the right thing looks like.
In my lifetime I have never experienced this putrid level of both federal and state government simultaneously. Never. ‘My’ president is Donald Trump. In Oklahoma, ‘my’ governor is Mary Fallin. ‘My’ two U.S. Senators are James Lankford and Jim Inhofe. One is an Elmer Gantry grifter. The other three are complete oil and gas puppets of the Koch Brothers/Grover Norquist holding pen order for bought and owned GOP lawmakers. Color me completely unimpressed.
Then amid this tragedy in Florida, I see this young man Cameron Kasky do this interview and I was floored–in a good way.
I was just so impressed. So taken by his responsible pragmatic manner. If either Donald Trump, Rick Nelson, or Little Marco Rubio had half the grit and smarts this kid had I’d feel so much better about the immediate future.
Cameron Kasky… I hope to see in a position of authority sometime in the future. I really do. You made me feel good. Thank you.
Might need to have this video ready to go at some point down the road. Even though Nixon was a criminal, I still had some empathy for him. I have none for Donald Trump.
Of course, this will be fake news in places like Oklahoma, West Virginia, Alabama, and other outliers of the New Confederacy where books aren’t allowed while Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter shape the minds of the vacant rogue right zombies.
You don’t have to be F. Lee Bailey to see where Mueller is going with this as he connects these rogue Russians to the indictments he already made with the rogue Americans… Flynn, Manafort, Papadopolous, and Gates. What seems inevitable are the eventual indictments of Trump’s idiot son Don Jr. and his putz son in law. The Idiot Twins a.k.a. from this point moving forward if we might. Maybe there’s a caveat of the law of sorts which allows a gross stupidity plea for inherited DNA ignorance.
It’s hard to tell how the New Confederacy types will handle all of this. It really is. We all have friends and relatives who voted for this piece shit regardless of how hard we try to ignore that truth.
My question…what do we do with these people when the smoke has cleared? Do we suspend their right to vote for a decade? Do we sent them to internment work farms in Montana? What do we do with these people? It’s vexing for sure, maybe even more complex than Repeal/Replace or building a wall.
More details to come. This was nice in that it coincides with the NBA and NHL All-Star breaks. I don’t know if I could handled this workload during a normal slew of NBA games.
Just kidding, kind of.
But I think in every family, in every nook and cranny, in every slice of America, what we now need to do is decide what to do with the people who voted for Donald Trump.
What’s truly amazing is that Chris Christie doesn’t seem to be involved. Who would have thought he would be the GOP good guy of sorts?
This won’t be easy.
I’ve waited months to put this video back up. Now would seem to be the time.
My father was both a criminal defense and civil trial lawyer. He graduated No. 1 in his law class of 1963 and in his prime could hang with the best. I thought about becoming a lawyer even clerked somewhat for my dad when I was in high school, but decided to pursue another path when I finished my undergrad degrees. It worked out well for me, but in essence, I was raised by a man who told me bedtime stories on how to conduct voir dire or how to handle a hostile witness on cross examination. Or how to win over a jury or kiss up to a judge or when to plea bargain a sentence. All those things. So, even though I didn’t attend law school in body, I did in essence graduate from the Robert A. Jackson School of Law.
I find myself thinking about my father this morning because he hated Antonin Scalia’s writings for the most part. For those who don’t read the law, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was not a friend of criminal defense trial lawyers.
So, while the far right claims Scalia was/is their godlike constitutional defender of the 2nd Amendment, here’s what Scalia actually wrote in District of Columbia vs. Heller:
“Like most rights, the right served by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. It is… not a right to keep and carry any weapon in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
“Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill on laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
So there it was/is from the mouth of the most conservative member of the Court and a Ronald Reagan appointee at that. How simple can it be? Reagan himself was shot his first year in office in office and would be nodding his head in agreement with everything I just wrote on this post. But like I wrote last night, we are in unchartered waters as far as waters as far as whoredom. We truly are.
Like Joe Scarborough, I was a socially liberal Republican from 1976 -2000. Unlike Joe Scarborough, I left the party in 2000 and became an Independent because of my disgust for the party in that it was clear it was becoming a party for the rogue extreme right. Joe Scarborough left the GOP this year, so give me credit, it didn’t take me becoming engaged to Mika to figure things out.
Unless you’re a complete idiot, there is no reason whatsoever for an American citizen to possess a military automatic assault rifle. None.
This has nothing to do with protection of the 2nd Amendment. It does however have everything to do with the NRA wanting to sell more guns in America and owning the GOP lock, stock, and barrel. Pun intended.
If I hear one more Republican pretend to understand the constitutional legitimacy of possessing one of these weapons as per the writings of the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court…I’m going to puke. Again, this has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment.
This has nothing to do with needing more background information to possess one of these guns. These guns should be prohibited to the public and the possession of one should be a felony.
Am I holding my breath to see if GOP lawmakers do anything? Not a chance. Because once a whore, always a whore. What an absolute disgrace.
Isn’t it interesting when Syrian children were gassed, Trump and Mattis had no problem whatsoever dropping a bomb on a deserted Syrian air base. So…I’m waiting to see if Donald Trump finds as much outrage for American children being murdered as he does for Syrian children being murdered.
Teddy Roosevelt would use the Bully Pulpit with his OWN PARTY IN POWER to get this law enacted. Just so we’re clear…Donald Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt regardless of what Mike Pence drools.
Granted, it was against the horrific Memphis Grizz, but behind Russell Westbrook and Paul George the OKC Thunder had enough pop in their gun to overcome the worst team in the NBA on their floor for a 121-114 win.
On the night OKC’s Big Two combined for 51 points, 19 rebounds, and 19 assists. It was like watching Westbrook and Durant. It really was. Paul George has found his comfort zone with Russell. Now if he can only ignore the Pacific Ocean and decide to stay in Tea Party Oklahoma. Can you believe it, the oil and gas companies volunteered to start paying more taxes to address the budget shortfall in Oklahoma…and it didn’t pass. There were other revenue enchancers attached, but when you rank dead last in education you need to address it. Unbelievable.
OKC went 17-37 from beyond the three point arc and set a team record for the 17 made threes. Of course, none of the made threes were made by Euro three point specialist savant Alex Abrines who has now gone scoreless in his last 45 minutes of play for Sam Presti. It’s one thing when you don’t score a point against the Cavs on national television, it’s another thing when you can’t score the next night in Memphis against this wretched Memphis team. But, hey guys— it’s okay because the Usual Suspects Thunder homers Brian Davis, Michael Cage, Royce Young, and Nick Gallo told you he was the real offensive deal. Are you kidding me? Even Andre Roberson found a way to score 6-8 points on most nights just by fucking running towards the basket. What a novel thought…running towards the basket on a backdoor screen to get yourself going offensively. Maybe a coach might that suggest that?
Even Billy Donovan couldn’t take anymore in this one and finally benched Abrines again in the second half giving Terrance Ferguson the opportunity to make two shots and be a part of the Thunder team record of 17 made threes in a game.
Josh Huestis didn’t score again, but that doesn’t really bother me because he’s a defensive/intangible guy, but not nearly as good as Andre. Anything he scores is gravy.
I wonder if Presti could have traded Abrines for Andrew Harrison heads up at the trade deadline given the fact Harrison went 5-5 shooting threes against the Thunder Wednesday night.
On a positive train of thought…Jerami Grant, Pat Patterson, and Ray Felton all had good nights from the bench. So, in essence, only Abrines really sucked and only Huestis moderately sucked. But Patterson playing well was a nice thing.
So the Thunder improve to 33-26 heading into the All-Star break with 23 games remaining on the slate.
I’ll probably keep OKC at No. 8 on my Power Poll next week, but I was hoping for more this week. Reality can suck at times. But the positive is when play resumes we as Thunder fans get to watch Westbrook and Paul George at least play another 23 regular season games together. See the glass half full.
Time for me to watch my surging Boston Bruins during the NBA All-Star break and read Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn.