Author: Mike

Sigh. Probably the most ‘interesting’ week in U.S history in quite some time as President Obama morphed into Fuhrer Trump. It was stunning. In fact describing it as chilling I don’t think is hyperbole.

I mean, what do you even attempt to say at this point and we’re only one week in? Okay…from 2000 thru 2008, George W Bush deported 2 million people back to Mexico, and as I hope Trump Trekkies remember–Bush is a Texan and has his own ranch in Crawford and you know was kinda the governor of Texas before he became president. Now—from 2009 thru 2016, Barack Obama deported 2.5 million people back to Mexico which gives him the No. 1 rank in that category as a U.S. president…ever. More to the point, illegal immigration from Mexico into the U.S. is at a forty year low.

More to the point, Mexico is the second leading importer of U.S goods and one of our staunchest allies and I would hope even the staunchest Trump Trekkie would look at a map and realize it might be somewhat important that the U.S. and Mexico have a symbiotic partnership of sorts. Quid pro quo per se.

Lawrence O’Donnell is loving all this in a sadistic sort of way. I won’t watch Rachael Maddow—she’s too shrill for me. But I have to say, I do enjoy watching O’Donnell because he’s presenting the case of the U.S Constitution vs. Donald Trump–and doing it like any good trial lawyer would. My father, the trial lawyer, would have been beside himself by now and broken at least one flat screen by hurling something at our Village Idiot President.

I might be putting quite a bit of Lawrence on here moving forward until the Unites States selects the ghost of Vince Bugliosi to special prosecute the impeachment of Donald Trump. Make no make mistake about this, where we’re headed as a nation currently will most likely make the Nixon ending seem tame in comparison. Not even close. There’s a reason we have a Constitution, and if you’re even remotely paying attention Donald Trump could care less. But of course who cares about all that when we have to get to the bottom of birtherism, voter fraud, and crowd size or even if Ted Cruz’s father really killed JFK.

In closing, for the 60 million or so who voted for this pathetic caricature of how far America has fallen, I have no empathy for you, none. You should have known better and were told so by both parties or just reasonable people in your everyday lives. But for the other 270 million Americans who didn’t vote for this clown at least we can take solace that at the very least we didn’t completely turn our backs and succumb to this endless stream of stupidity, vulgarity, and self flagulation. At least we have that even if it feels shallow right now, but you know what—that’s why people have to vote, educate themselves about civics, history, and the world. So if nothing else comes out of this, I hope Americans who didn’t vote come to realize what a precious commodity freedom truly is. Please get smarter and vote.

Just when it appeared the Oklahoma City Thunder finally got Steven Adams, Victor Oladipo, and Cameron Payne all back and healthy–Enes Kanter did pretty much the most stupid thing to date I’ve witnessed during the Thunder era when he fractured his own right arm on his bench seat in an act of frustration as to how bad he was playing on Thursday night. The arm is fractured and Kanter will now miss 6-8 weeks just when you were getting the impression they could improve and make a run at No. 4 seed in the West.

Kanter’s numbers for the season before his self inflicted fractured arm were…14.4 ppg, 6.7 rpg, and a PER of 24.6. But right now he’s getting a -2 on my TSN scale for appearing to be even dumber than the average Oklahoman who voted for Caligula Lite in November. Kanter is OKC’s fourth best player and makes around 17.5 million and in essence is OKC’s bench scoring per se.. Now all of that is gone until the last week of March.

To be honest, depending on what Presti could get for Kanter–it wouldn’t kill me if Presti could trade Kanter for a wing who could score 16 points a game and then maybe find an affordable vet big banger for the stretch run. If you think Enes Kanter is the future for OKC becoming a serious contender then you wouldn’t make a trade, but in the West the name of the game minus Karl-Anthony Townes is going to be who can create the most adaptable small ball or even medium size lineups.

As far as this game against the wretched Dallas Mavs…OKC finally beat them by a score of 109-98. The Mavs pretty much left their starting lineup back in Dallas and the game shouldn’t have been as close as it was.

Russell Westbrook didn’t triple double but did score 45 points on a 16-29 shooting night. Victor Oladipo scored 17 points while Steven Adams added 15 points.

As far as this game goes it wasn’t much to watch as both teams were on the second night of a back to back and OKC was playing its third game in four nights. The Thunder improve to 28-19, but lose their best bench player and any lineups which would have featured Adams and Kanter playing together. One would think this means Sabonis and Lauvernge will get heavier minutes and the always smart Nick Collison could play a valuable role. And then of course, Donovan will have to be very smart using multiple small and medium sized lineups while Enes Kanter and his 17.5 million dollar salary sit as the Thunder hit the most important stretch of the season heading into February and March.

Former Chief Birther Donald Trump’s ‘extensive’ voter fraud probe started today and it netted two more voting fraud violators to go along with Steven Bannon, Steve Munuchin and daughter Tiffany. Today, Trump’s probing investigative net landed son in law Jarrod Kushner and his press secretary Sean Spicer, who like the other three perps registered to vote in multiple states. That’s five so far and all are either related to Trump or work for Trump. I’ll talk about Nieto at a later time. You can only kill so many brain cells in a given post.

I may have to start my own genre related to American Hitler and the transition from the world’s greatest democracy to what looks to be a quasi dictatorship in the shaping. So far, I’ve witnessed three politicians in America somewhat challenge Trump, all three are black. To date, I haven’t witnessed one white politician either Dem or Republican standup to this clown. A lot of white women around the world made a statement, but to date not much from Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Schumer, or even Hillary’s running mate Tim Kane. Hopefully, someone along the line in Congress will have the balls to say something. It’s stunning to witness.

Sigh. Face palm. Whatever. I guess my letter to Donald Trump went unread.

Is this really fucking happening? Right now I’d like to be writing about the Oklahoma City’s Thunder’s 104-95 win in New Orleans last night. It was a nice little win as the Thunder won their second straight road game and improved to 26-17. Russell Westbrook notched his 23rd triple double of the season while Steven Adams had one of his better games of the season in looking like the player we watched last post season. So this is all good as the Thunder host Dallas tonight in Oklahoma City.

Usually, I like to recap with a much longer story, but once again Donald Trump’s Big Adventure in the White House has me cutting my recap short this morning. Honestly, I thought once the inauguration took place–I’d be cutting way back on Trump on here. I just assumed once he took office he’d stop acting like a petulant four year old. Clearly—I was wrong. This is who he is. He can’t help himself. Maybe he’ll just whip it out and jack off at his first State of the Union address. But color me confident on this–Dude Trump is not changing. Maybe this is why Melania is living in New York and damn glad she is. Who could blame either one of them? He had to win the presidency to save the marriage. Move over Romeo and Juliet.

Okay….so. While the Big Donald was telling us the Wall is a done deal and Mexico will pay for it, he then implemented various immigration nuance bans, and just for the heck of it advocated water boarding and other means of torture even though Mattis and Pompei are against torture. But still with a smile, he said he’d still like to torture, but only if they come around with him on this.

He then delved into his voter fraud conspiracy theory even though it appears Steven Bannon, his daughter Tiffany, and U.S Treasury Subprimer Steve Mnuchin are registered to vote in two states. I know…. I live in one of the most mentally regressed states in Oklahoma, but even people in Oklahoma aren’t this stupid. So here’s Lawrence O’Donnell having the time of his life helping Donald Trump figure out his own voting fraud conspiracy. I’m going to throw in the Sweep Home Alabama video as a thought as to what our national anthem might need to become after the first hundred days of Trump. Rock on, Trump America!

From the Dave Letterman Home Office in Deer Creek, Oklahoma

TOP TEN TRUMP TO SPICER ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS FOR THE NEXT PRESS BRIEFING

#10 Shamelessly claim a million new jobs have been created in the Rust Bucket since Monday by Trump.

# 9 Float out the thought the Dow was trending at 2,800 just after lunch because of new Trump policies.

# 8 Reveal an agreement spearheaded by Eric and Don Jr. which will have the U.S. and Russia jointly acquiring Cuba.

# 7 Explain to Dems that Betsy DeVoss was on medication during her only confirmation hearing.

# 6 Say something snarky about Little Marco Rubio just to remind him I own his worthless little ass whenever I need his vote–remember have some fun out there, Sean.

# 5 Be audacious and announce China and Great Britain have forgiven our debt and see how it flows. Remember, it’s always the art of the deal.

# 4 Say something snarky about Ford and let’s see if we can drive their stock price down to a 52 week low.

# 3 Alert the press Lyin’ Ted Cruz was spotted exiting an alien spacecraft on the White House lawn at approximately 2:30am-EST. Our core kooks need to know we haven’t forgotten them.

# 2 Global warming, scmhobal warning. We’re done with the EPA as well. Tell them we’re sending Scott Pruitt back to Oklahoma where he belongs. Are you kidding, I was trolling him like I did with Romney.

# 1 And the #1 alternative truth is, drum roll, please….. Announce the Dept of Energy has been abolished, but Rick Perry will be re-assigned to Dancing With the Stars to Make America Great Again.

Welcome to the Alternate Truth World of the biggest scam in history. Someone shows Trump up and he simply orders Sean Spicer to concoct some story to distract the lost souls who voted for this con artist. You Adolf von Baron Trump supporters starting to feel all warm and cozy?

I came back and edited myself on this somewhat. I shouldn’t have called Sean Spicer a monkey gargoyle. There’s no need for me to be bullying him. It’s just sad watching him have to go out there and make a fool out of himself just to spin Trump’s latest news cycle for his base. I shouldn’t scorn him even though he’s become pathetic in less than a week.

Russell Westbrook hit the game winner from the right wing elbow with 1.5 seconds left to seal a 97-95 road win. But as far as late game heroics go Steven Adams was just as clutch making three keys plays down the stretch which turned a possible third straight road loss into one of the Thunder’s five best wins of the season. It was a game Oklahoma City genuinely had to have if it has aspirations of winning the Northwest Division title.

Let’s start with Russell Westbrook. Westbrook once again showed why it’s an absolute crime he wasn’t named an All-Star starter last week despite getting the votes necessary from players and the media. I’ll address this maybe tomorrow if Donald Trump can act like an adult for forty-eight straight hours. I’d actually like to start writing some basketball stuff on here again if the German unification of Red State America slows down a bit. It’s just such an incongruent thought, Nazis and southern rednecks as one.

Russell Westbrook tripled doubled for the 22nd time this season and the 59th time in his career. He now stands tied with Larry Bird with 59 career triple doubles. I’ll write this though now, I have Westbrook a length ahead of James Harden on my MVP vote sheet and it’s absurd Steph Curry was named a starter over Westbrook given their numbers this season and the fact OKC might have ten wins this season without Westbrook. Steph Curry is basically Steph Curry, but he’s coasted this season with Durant alongside him and the other two All-Stars. Westbrook’s body of work and value over Curry this season isn’t even close.

Overall, this was an entertaining game to watch other than the third period when both teams couldn’t find the bottom of the basket. The Thunder were especially cold scoring only 11 points in the period as Westbrook struggled with an 0-7 shooting period in the third. At one point, Utah put a 13-0 run on Oklahoma City, but coming down the stretch, OKC steadied itself and made the plays on the road to garner a very big game for this basketball team.

The thing I really liked about this game was OKC showed some real mental toughness while Oklahoma City’s five best players all played like their five best players almost in a perfect ascension of what should be their roles on this team. Beyond Westbrook and Adams, Victor Oladipo, Enes Kanter, and Andre Roberson all gave Billy Donovan what he needs if this team is going get better after this brutally tough January schedule lets up and turns into a much easier slate in February.

Oladipo was excellent scoring 18 points and adding a cartload of little things which make Russell Westbrook’s life on the court much easier. Enes Kanter wasn’t spectacular amid his former team’s fan’s still booing him, but he did enough and did it when it was needed in garnering 14 points and 5 rebounds, plus I thought he got a really bad call late when they called him for a foul on his tip play basket.

I get on Andre Roberson from time on here because of his inconsistent offensive game, but he was excellent tonight. To me, if I’m Billy Donovan this is what I tell Andre I expect from him on more nights than not. Roberson scored eight points, grabbed eleven rebounds, and added two assists for good measure. Just an excellent overall game for Roberson. When Roberson makes a contribution in other ways other than just his defense, I honestly think OKC has a chance to be a top three team in the West. When he sucks, not so much.

So a great night for the Thunder in the Rockies as they get out of Salt Lake with a win and improve to 26-19 on the season. OKC now stands 5-6 for the month of January and considering the Adams concussion and the strength of schedule, the Thunder can live with this especially if they can win the next two versus New Orleans and Dallas.

I’ve written this several times on my blog this season, but I’ll write it again now. With Kevin Durant gone the goals for this team this season are obviously going to be massively different. But if you told me before the season started the Thunder would be 26-19 on January 24th I’d have taken it.

The Thunder in New Orleans on Wednesday night to play a Pelicans team which is playing much better since it’s gotten healthier. Should be a good game.

On a sidenote, our family did the Ancestry 23 thing and it turns out I’m somewhat Italian as I thought I might be.. Given that Oklahoma is now Bavaria in the new German World Order, I thought it might be wise to learn how to speak a little German and Italian. So for now, arrivederci.

Four days after the fact and Donald Trump still has toady little Sean Spicer still obsessing about the size of the inauguration crowd. Are you kidding? I’m convinced at this point Donald Trump either has penis envy or penis size insecurity issues. I’m not trying to be Dr. Phil or anything on a blog which ostensibly is about the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team, but he seems almost neurotic and insecure about his penis. If I’m Putin… and I want to rattle this guy before I start taking the Baltics and Eastern Europe…I’d create an alias Twitter account under the name of one of those Russian prostitutes and start sex chatting Trump’s penis size on Twitter with all the world to see while Russia goes about annexing eastern Europe. Tomorrow morning first thing, Kellyanne Conway should show this video to Trump and see if she can work him through this.