No surprise Joe Biden has a Bobby Kennedy pic in his White House office. Joe Biden is an empath, while Donald Trump is a sociopath—and beyond the dogma of political ideology that is what most profoundly separates these two men.
Joe Biden actually cares about people while Donald Trump could care less about any living human beyond himself.
That’s precisely what was on the ballot in my mind in this presidential election.
It wasn’t a party line vote of any type. Ideology wasn’t on the ballot per se because Donald Trump has no ideology or doctrines being he’s an empty vessel.
The choice was simple. Do you want an empath or sociopath to be the leader of the greatest democratic country in the world?
Do you want a president who wants to empower the American Dream for many or the president who caters to only the very top of the economic ladder?
And, yes, much of this is symbolic.
The fervent hope the American Dream is there to be had by everyone if they work hard and dream big, modest or small.
I couldn’t help but think of Bobby Kennedy today who was loved equally by poor whites and poor blacks alike.
Hopefully…Joe Biden cannot only re-stoke the American Dream, but he can ignite human commonality in all of us which should transcend race or economic standing or political affiliation.
Joe Biden is an empath. Donald Trump is a sociopath. To be clear, that’s what was on the recent ballot.
It’s hard to imagine a mere two weeks ago today Donald Trump’s lawless collection of punks, losers, and thugs were rioting in the very spot where Amanda read her poem to the world today.
It is a stunning contrast not only to two weeks ago…but to four years ago when Donald Trump read from Steve Bannon scripture his take on American Carnage.
Amanda stopped me in my tracks with her beautiful poem which gives me some hope we’re moving away from the historically pathetic four years of Donald Trump.
To think during Trump’s time we witnessed Rush Limbaugh and Jim Jordan be awarded Congressional Medal of Freedom recognition…then in the very first hour of Joe Biden’s presidency went from that bullshit to Amanda Gorman’s poem which will go down in the footnotes of history.
Amanda, thank you for giving someone old enough to be your father… that a ray of hope is on the horizon even if only in symbolism.
Thank you. You wouldn’t last a day in Oklahoma, kid…but thank you nonetheless.
It was refreshing to witness someone from Oklahoma not talking like a blathering idiot in relation to Trump. Hopefully, James Lankford will take some inspiration from Garth and for the first in four years show personal integrity and vote to impeach when we get to the Senate trial.
Amanda Gorman was just incredible. I’ll save her for later in the evening.
I know I got a lump in my throat as Donald Trump made his farewell speech earlier. How fitting the photo from the Shawshank warden was placed on the desk of Trump in the video.
Good luck, President Trump. Job well done, sir. Your four year stay in the White House will forever be remembered. The path of destruction in your presidential wake is historically unprecedented.
Can’t wait for the memoir as you’ll go down as the first ever POTUS who can’t read his own book. Job well done, Mr. President.
Maybe the guy with the horns will be your cellmate.
This is all very surreal to say the least. A lovely ceremony on Tueday to honor the the spirit of the 400,000 to date who’ve lost their lives to the Covid virus. What a unique thought by Joe Biden…to actually display some human decency and empathy the day before being sworn into office.
What a very tough job Joe Biden has in front of him with the nation in essence at war, an unchecked pandemic, an economy in shambles, and race and class division in our country reminiscent of the Civil War.
It is truly stunning to think how far we’ve devolved in slightly less than a century. To the point the exiting president can’t even extend the grace with which the Obama family gave to him four years earlier.
For the first time since Andrew Johnson’s exit from office…a sitting United States president will not attend the inauguration of his successor. I can’t think of any other word other than pathetic.
Not just the worst president in American history, but such an abysmal feckless coward of a human being he should never have held any office at either the municipal, state, or federal level.
Just a punk who inherited $420 million dollars from his daddy and avoided serving his country with some bullshit excuse about bone spurs.
Your brave courageous leader…Captain Bone Spurs.
That’s the person those dumbasses marched for on their attack of our nation’s capitol. If I had the power to close my eyes and throw all of these losers in federal prison it would be done.
This is the human debris Joe Biden has to sift through while rebuilding a country.
Good luck, President Biden. My prayers are with you.(
How far we’ve truly fallen as a nation with any aspirational values. Who’s next on deck for the GOP nomination in 2024?
Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Mike Gundy, Joe Exotic, or maybe Tommy Tuberville? Those are five off the top of my head who would be an immediate upgrade from what just crawled out of the White House.
So much for draining the swamp and the exit of American carnage.
Seventy-four million humans who ostensibly didn’t roll their collective brains in the dirt before voting… voted for this clown after observing this bullshit for four years.
Fourth graders at our worst schools in the country have more common sense.
Grow up and start acting like adults or don’t vote. Good lord.
One of the things I want to do this NBA season is from time to time feature all of our Oklahoma City players who have moved on to other NBA destinations.
Jerami Grant is tearing it up currently with the Detroit Pistons. So I’ll start with him.
I saw a post on the Daily Thunder messageboard by OKC Jim. I don’t think he’d care if I posted the content of his recent post on Jerami so far this young hoops season. Jim’s a good dude and a passionate Thunder fan just like me.
Per OKC Jim…’Just a year ago, his fourth year in the league, he was a 29% 3 point shooter. Crazy how far he’s come. Still a small sample for this year, but he’s had a great start.
Jerami Grant stats this year… 24.8 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 2.2 apg, 1.1 spg, 1.4 blpg, 39.3% from 3 on 7 apg, 85% ft.’
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Great stuff, Jim. Hope you don’t mind I did this.
The next ex-OKC player I want to feature is Domas Sabonis with the Pacers.
Imagine if you will if Sam Presti hadn’t made the Paul George trade or the Jerami Grant trade to Denver… and stuck with Sabonis, Oladipo, and Jerami as the building block foundations of the franchise.
Of course that means Shai would still a Clipper. But consider what the core could have been in Oklahoma City this season.
The Thunder could have been in theory Jerami Grant, Sabonis, Oladipo, Lu Dort, Darius Bazely, Diallo, Mikey Muscala, Theo Maledon, Isiah Roby, and grinder Kenrich Williams …who you know I just love for the TSN he has in him. I’m not sure I rememeber where the second round pick came from which gave the Thunder the rights to draft Maledon. Jim…could you help me out?
Of course with my scenario… OKC wouldn’t have been able to move up in the draft and use a pick on Operation Poku. But still..it’s food for thought.
Anyway…not a bad young team above. And let’s say you added a three point wing gunner like say a Duncan Robinson type to the mix. It seems to me too much volume of moves in Oklahoma City when in theory Presti’s intial personnel decisons could very well have been the right ones to transition away from Russell Westbrook.
Just thoughts. You can do that on a blog when you don’t sell your soul to the Thunder.You just write the truth.
OKC is at Denver tonight as an uber tough stretch of road games begin.
Enjoy the Inauguration tomorrow as the United States transitions back to the quaint notion of reverting back to the last standing example of democracy in the world.
It’s the Tuesday after MLK Day and I’m to assume this will be Donald Trump Super Pardon Day. A mere thirty-four hours or so and Donald Trump will no longer be the sitting Grifter in Chief.
Who could possibly know how much each pardon will be paid to Trump for each pardon granted.
Will he pardon himself?
Will he pardon the clueless dumbasses who listened to him and committed sedition at our nation’s capitol?
The last in office poll by Gallup was released and Trump has a 34% approval rating. Never once in his four years in office did Trump have a Gallup approval rating of 50% or above.
Trump will go down with James Buchanon and Andrew Johnson as one of the worst if not the worst president in American history.
His Slovenian escort first lady who prioritized internet bullying on the internet as her national cause gets an F as well. She should go back home with father Vichtor and finish her Melania’s FLOTUS Secret Diary. I’d love to read that prenup.
Will at some point alpha daughter Ivanka cut ties with her toxic father?
So many questions, but unfortunately there’s that 30-35% of the GOP which makes up the Trump base who are still out there…especially in places like Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi…but quite frankly everywhere in America.
Did Donald Trump originate the race card in American politics?
No…there were clearly others before him. But what he did was politically monetize hate on a Twitter account on a daily basis. What Trump did was give oxygen to hate and bigotry every single day during his four years in office. Otherwise please explain to me what Donald Trump has in common with dudes in Oklahoma and Alabama who own shotgun, a deer stand, and a lab.
Trump doesn’t have a lab. Doesn’t hunt and doesn’t to my knowledge spends most of his time cheating at golf than hunting a deer.
So what was it which drew all thse rural white whites to Donald Trump?
Could it have been when fellow Birther Jeff Sessions became the first office-holder to give Trump the first hint of any political legitimacy by standing on the same stage with Trump at a political rally?
Truth hurts.
Donald Trump and his base will go down as perhaps the most pathetic/tragic footnote in American history to date bar none.
My advice to the Party of Lincoln moving forward would be trying something new circa 2021…like telling your members the truth every now and again.
This will be very short. We’re all in this together as Americans. In these extrodinarily difficult times we find ouselves in we need to aspire collectively to help one another in our joint quest to experience the American Dream from each unique prism.
If we could each remove ourselves from the hate and look for the best in one other that would be a nice starting point.
Have an introspective MLK Day and rememeber what it is to be American.
The breaks of the game. Sometimes a team overcomes a tough break, sometimes they don’t. It’s that intangible you can’t forecast.
You can’t forecast a bad call by a zebra on a missed targeting hit which cost the Browns a late first half touchdown. Nor can you forecast Patrick Mahomes being knocked out of the game early in the second half due to concussion protocol.
It was there to be had by the Browns late in this game, but to the credit of Andy Reid and his team they made just enough plays at the end to hold on and beat the Cleveland Browns by a 22-17 count to advance to the American Conference Champion Game for the third consectutive year.
I vaguely rememeber Chad Henne from his Michigan days. I think Floyd Carr was his Wolverine coach, but I’m not sure. I didn’t even know he was still in the league to be honest. I never imagined Superman Patrick Mahomes would have to leave a game.
But to Henne’s credit after throwing a horrific interception —he steadied and got the Chiefs out of Dodge by doing just enough so Baker Mayfield couldn’t get one last possesion. Eveyone is talking about the fourth down gamble. Nonsense. The play which saved Kansas City was the 3rd and 14 when Henne scrambled to get within a foot of the first down marker. That was the play of the game from my view.
Win, survive, and advance…hope Patrick Mahomes gets out of concussion protocol. Vegas has already said with Mahomes the Chiefs are a home field 2.5 favorite. Without Mahomes the visiting Buffalo Bills are a 4.5 favorite. We’ll see what happens this week with the five steps of concussion protocol. Google it…it’s fairly interesting.
In the nightcap…Tom Brady and his Tampa Bay Bucs got through a shaky first period then steadily took control of this game as their offensive line physically beat down the Saints as the game moved along in the second half.
Plus…it was an opportunistic Tampa defense which picked Dree Brees three times and recoverd a fumble as well. It’s very rare you lose when you can run the ball and you’re +4 on the turnover sheet. Very rare.
It wasn’t vintage Tom Brady, but it was enough given the Bucs’ defense and ability to control the line of scrimmage running the football.
So on to Lambeau Field these Bucs advance for a rematch of earlier this season when Tampa mauled the Packers 38-10. But the Packers of late don’t resemble the team which got smoked early in the season.
The Packers like the Bucs are running the football with physicality and playing some of the better defense we’ve seen in Green Bay in a while.
My Vegas line on this game would be Green Bay at home maybe -3.5. It’s supposed to be cold, but what better quarterback in the NFL to play in cold weather than King Tom Brady of Foxboro. Dude can play in cold weather.
How uncanny this year’s Super Bowl will be played in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay. You think this guy has so much confidence he picked the team beyond Belichick based on where he could have home field in the Super Field?
We now have the three best quarterbacks in the league in Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, and Josh Allen plus the greatest QB who’s ever played in our Final Four. You think the quarterback position is important…ask Chad Henne?
Speaking of Bill Belichick…thank god the Patriot organization didn’t allow him to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor from Fuhrer von Trump. If Belichcik had done so he would have tarnished his legacy by doing something worse then friending O.J. Simpson on Facebook.
On to concussion protocol and our conference championship games.