I finally got banned on the Daily Thunder message board after trying to do so for three years. I couldn’t take it anymore.
No hard feelings. If I ever come back as a fourth grader in my next life the Daily Thunder message board will be my first stop on my new journey.
Kind of odd it happened on the same day on which Trump refused to shake Nancy Pelosi’s hand. But it is what it is. Even in godforsaken Oklahoma there’s still a First Amendment everywhere still standing except on this message board.
You take it like a man. Move on down the road and learn from it.
Michael Bloomberg has little if any chance in the group of states such as Oklahoma in the far right faction of the Party of Trump. But for others in the country he does present a viable alternative.
If he just won the states Hillary did in 2016, plus Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania he could in essence win the White House using the apparatus of the DNC…especially if he named someone like say Amy Klobuchar as his vice-president.
I detest pretty much everything Donald Trump has brought to the presidency. I’m clearly a person without a party and have zero faith the Democratic Party could execute a national campaign with the nuance and chops to remove Donald Trump from office.
The Dems after three years of complaining about Trump couldn’t even conduct their first primary/caucus in Iowa without appearing to be Inspector Clouseau asking the blind man for the license of his business partner meenky.
No way…would I piss four more years of waiting for these people to grow up and behave like adults.
I do however think Amy K, Pete, and Michael Bennet are impressive individuals who unfortunately belong to a party with too many naive divisive factions working against one another.
My Bloomberg yard sign goes up tomorrow. The Dems in Iowa made this very easy for me.
Out-take from Iowa Dems in recount mode in 2020 caucus. Tell me Trump and Putin aren’t exchanging vodka shots this morning. Idiots…complete idiots. These people are going to overhaul health-care and solve climate change. Don’t think so.
I really didn’t care who won…I just wanted to see a great football game down to the final play as a fan of the NFL. Unfortunately… none of us got it as the Kansas City Chiefs obliterated the San Francisco 49’ers with a 21-0 blitz in a five minute stretch in the fourth quarter in route to a 31-20 win in the Super Bowl.
Fittingly, this Super Bowl championship caps a dazzling season for double MVP winner Patrick Mahomes and legendary head coach Andy Reid.
I like both Mahomes and Reid so in reality this is nice. It’s good to see a coach like Andy Reid get his Hall of Fame moment after all the seasons of almost championships in Philadelphia. He’s an innovative coach who through it all adapted to all of the changes in the NFL these past five years or so.
Who knows with a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes this could be the first of several Super Bowl championships if the Chiefs can somewhat keep their team together.
Tough ending for the Niners, but we must keep in mind this perspective about the one dimensional San Fran offense. If Seattle’s Jacob Hollister had garnered three more inches on the goal line on the last play of the regular season these Niners would have been the 5th seed in the NFC. The argument could be made if Seattle had stayed healthy the Russell Wilson led Seahawks would have emerged as the NFC’s entry in the Super Bowl.
With the exception of Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl championship win several seasons ago in Denver, in my lifetime I’d never witnessed such suspect quarterback play from a team entering a Super Bowl as the Niners were in this Super Bowl with Jimmy G. Maybe Joe Flacco, but even then Flacco was superb throughout his run to his only Super Bowl championship in Baltimore.
I don’t feel Jimmy G is terrible, but he’s not a guy who ‘s going to carry a team with his play. Aaron Rodgers used to carry his teams. Tom Brady used to carry his teams. Patrick Mahomes in the present tense carries his football team.
In closing, what the f–k was Kyle Shanahan thinking in this game? In George Kittles he had the most dominant tight end in the league since Gronk’s retirement and he didn’t use his unique weapon.
Two words…coaching malpractice. How do you not game plan to get Kittles at least seven touches…especially in the second half when Kittles’ physicality wears down opposing defenses. How does this escape a head coach?
As far as the best commercial…this was my winner. This was the first Super Bowl in my life I watched exclusively with women…my wife, my mom, and my diva lab Pauli. We all loved this commercial.
I will wait until next Wednesday at the conclusion of the sham Senate trial to answer my own question. He’s not a coward for sure because unlike weaklings such as Lyin’ Ted Cruz, Sissy Boy Lindsey Graham, Little Marco Rubio, and Runt Rand Paul he has clearly put himself in the crosshairs of the national debate.
He will forever be remembered for this singular vote. This will be mentioned in his obit. This will be his legacy.
So if it was inappropriate action by Trump…then why not censor our grifter rogue POTUS? Why not put up some guardrails? Let him know he’s not Hugo Chavez or Benito Mussolini.
That would seem to be a pragmatic compromise which might hopefully reign in our evangelical pussy grabber POTUS.
Why not be Solomon and judge with some wisdom?
I need to stop myself here until I witness the official conclusion of the sham Senate trial.
I called both of my United States senators twice in the past ten days. I prayed for them as well to summon up some spine, courage, and decency for the first time since Donald Trump took office. I know their souls aren’t evil, just cowardly.
Surely, this vote on witnesses isn’t the way they want to be judged by God and mere mortals when they leave this earth. Surely…there is some basic human decency in these two men other than just aspiring to get re-elected…again, and again and again and reap the secular bounty of the Citizens United PAC.
I’m going to pray for both of my senators this week-end.
Don’t look now but the streaking Oklahoma City Thunder are 30-20 and tied with the Dallas Mavericks for the No. 6 seed in the West one game before the All-Star break. There are still deniers who hold out the hope Sam Presti dismantle the team so they can lose big for the next three years and hope the next Kevin Durant falls their way.
Good luck with that.
But for now five days before the trade deadline the Thunder with this roster have a team which is 23-9 in the months of December and January. Add to the fact the team has now won seven straight road games which I believe breaks the Thunder record for most road wins in a row.
Go a step further and you’ll notice the Thunder are four games out of the No. 3 seed in the West.
Did Lu Dort do all this by himself?
No… of course not, but he hasn’t hurt either.
This is Chris Paul’s basketball team. It is a reflection of Chris Paul’s smarts and attention to detail on the floor. Chris Paul made the All-Star team this week and rightfully so. I have Chris Paul as my No. 3 choice in the West as conference MVP… behind LeBron and Luka.
Without Chris Paul this team might be a 26-28 win type of team. With him—the serious argument can be made the Thunder could contend for a No. 4 seed depending on what transpires at the trade deadline with Gallo.
On Friday night in Phoenix the usual three guard monster was a tweaked a bit as Shai G. Alexander had a pedestrian night scoring the ball.
Didn’t matter though as Chris Paul, Dennis Schroder, and Danilo Gallinari combined for 71 points on 52 shots.
But most of all it was Chris Paul and Dennis Schroder doing what they’ve done ever since the early season west coast road trip when the Thunder were discovering what they hoped they could be at 8-12.
I have no idea what Sam Presti will do on the trade deadline. But I know this group with a healthy Chris Paul and Danilo Gallinari is a pretty good team right now.
Chris Paul missed Monday night’s game versus the Dallas Mavericks as he was trying to get over the shock of losing close friend Kobe Bryant. They were close and in reality the league should have canceled all games on Monday following the tragedy on Sunday in Los Angeles.
In case you doubt the value of Chris Paul to the Thunder this season Wednesday night was a primer on why the Thunder with a healthy Chris Paul are a good basketball team as they rolled the Kings by a 120-100 margin.
With Chris Paul on the floor the ball moves, it flows, and it ends up in spots on the floor where the right player has a shot in their particular wheelhouse spot.
On the night the Thunder had a giddy 32 assists to but 13 turnovers as the Thunder look like a playoff lock if Sam Presti decides to keep the team in place beyond the trade deadline of February 6th.
Lu Dort started for the seventh straight game and the Thunder are now 6-1 in those games with six straight road wins which ties a club record set back in 2013.
For me…I’ve seen enough to write this Thunder team could be a competitive first round team if they can avoid playing the Lakers in the first round. Against any other team in the West—I think this team could conceivably be very competitive.
What Sam Presti has to decide is if a contending team is willing to part with a promising younger player, not a draft pick, to make his team still solid around Chris Paul. I wouldn’t trade Gallo otherwise. If Gallo walks in free agency… then he walks. Kevin Martin walked after the 2013 second round exit versus Memphis, yet the Thunder were back in the Western Conference Championship the next season.
If Sam Presti genuinely believes in rookie Darius Bazely down the road then roll the dice and see what happens. You have to have a set of balls to be the GM in Oklahoma City. It’s not like OKC ever going to be a destination for free agents on the whole because their isn’t any opera and there’s the David Duke-like state legislature.
The Thunder are now 29-20 overall, 14-10 on the road, and close the pre-All-Star Game break on Friday night in Phoenix.
If you live in South Carolina this must be extremely painful to observe. Tragic…would be a more apt adjective.
Lindsey Graham has become a national tragedy almost in scope exceeding the tragedy named Donald John Trump. Perhaps—next hurricane season the first two hurricanes should be named Donald and Lindsey.
As a historian and an ever evolving student of history…I pose this hypothetical aloud to myself and any other who might ponder things such as this from time to time:
‘What if it had been Lindsey Graham who had passed and it was today John McCain still alive and well in the Senate chamber.
Would will still be witnessing this pathetic exhibition of cowardice to this degree inside of what Chief Justice Roberts generously described as our greatest deliberative body?’
I don’t think so.
If one looks at the pathetic half drowned river rat excuse of a man Lindsey Graham of today versus the cool seemingly poised adult sitting next to John McCain in the video….the two Lindsey’s don’t appear to be the same human.
Lindsey Graham should go back home. He should probably retire. Maybe Nikki Haley could nestle him next to her breasts and nurture him back to a level of emotional stability since John McCain isn’t available at the time being.
This is one of the few positives for me in this entire Donald Trump ordeal the past three years. That being, I’ve come to know and admire George Conway’s honesty even though he is married to Kellyanne Conway.
He’s a moderate like me. Even though he’s still a Republican and married to a crazy woman who defends a pathological liar and cheater—he somehow speaks the truth. I have no idea how they even live in the same house let alone have stayed married. To me…their marriage is even more baffling than Trump being elected in the first place. But all I can surmise is the sex must be so Glenn Close/Fatal Attraction over the top he can overlook having to talk to her.
Here’s George Conway on Jake Tapper last Sunday discussing our fifty-three profile of courage Republican senators.