While they count the votes…I need to take a break from the workload here at okcthunderground.com. Three world championships in three various bubbles and a presidential election. I watched close to a hundred Stanley Cup Playoff games and quite frankly…I’m whipped.
I’m not watching any football for the next month except for OU, Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State games.
My wife was so impressed with my Jeff Bridges Film-Fest… she said, “Why don’t we binge and do a Chick Flick Film Fest?”
On Monday night we did ‘A Good Year’ starring Russell Crowe, Marion Cottilard, and Albert Finney. This is a good film directed by Ridley Scott. It would never make my top ten chick flick list, but it’s nice little sleeper and a well done movie.
Tonight…we’re going big boy britches with Four Weddings and a Funeral. This is No. 2 all-time on my chick flick list. This reminds me so much of my trip to Alabama when I asked my wife to come back to Oklahoma. This scene just blows me away. Be sure and see the movie if you never have before.
Love actually is all around us everyday in various shapes and forms. We just have to take the time to realize it. I feel so much better with the prospect the human junk bond will no longer be our president.
I thought it would be close and its incredibly close. The polls do not reflect the grip Donald Trump has on people from an economic standpoint. He strikes fear in the hearts of the have nots and greed in the hearts of those who have too much. As James Carvell once said…”It’s always about the economy, stupid.”
I wrote on my modest blog to never trust a poll related to Donald Trump and I got that right.
I had Nevada on my key state list and I’m giving myself a pat on the back for that as well. As Nevada goes the country goes.
I picked Joe Biden to win and in poker parlance if I had to pick between Joe Biden’s cards and Donald Trump’s cards this morning I’d say Biden has a pair of kings over a pair of nines while Trump still needs a card to fill an inside straight.
I ‘think’ Joe Biden will be our next president come Friday or so, but I would never ever count out the grifter rogue Donald Trump and what he could pull off at the last hour. Fifty three cards to a deck, right?
A part of me almost wants to see Trump win just to see if he will replace Bill Barr with Mike Gundy as our next Attorney General. Albeit…Gundy never went to law school and can’t beat OU…but what does that matter.
I also picked former Auburn head coach Tommy Tuberville to beat the extremely qualified Doug Jones for a Senate seat in Alabama. You go 7-3 at Auburn over Alabama and you get yourself a United States senate seat. The Peter Principle has never been more alive in the South than this morning after the election. Someone please tell the South they lost the Civil War but got SEC West football and Tommy Tuberville in return.
I also never bought into the notion Biden could win states in the South with a liberal black woman as his running mate. Maybe Georgia will prove me wrong later today, but I’m skeptical. The flip side is Kamala Harris may have stoked black voter turnout in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia. I don’t think so, but that there’s that possibility. When Biden won South Carolina in the Democratic primaries it was evident blacks trust Joe Biden more than either Kamala Harris or Cory Booker. Tell me I’m wrong.
So we sit… watch and wait with the hope we don’t see Trump in a downtown parade in Miami looking every bit the piece of Fidel Castro with orange hair and a Slovenian escort at his side in celebration of his re-election.
How far has America devolved culturally?
You tell me.
Maureen Dowd, that was for you, babe. See you on the beach in Miami soon.
This election is basically for the soul of America moving forward. The rule of democracy and the hope for more decency.
I have no idea how it will go in the battleground states tomorrow once all the votes are counted. No one really does now or did they on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.
I don’t think polls calibrate Donald Trump and how he affects the fears of certain voting blocs.
We can only hope this isn’t a repeat of the courts deciding an election as was the case in the Bush-Gore election of 2000.
We’ve somewhat lost ourselves on what it means to be an American. We spend too much time arguing and not enough time listening to the concerns of one another.
Regardless of party affiliations we all need to experience an inflection point of remembering how fortunate we have been to be Americans.
Our country is the last great hope for democracy. For the freedoms and liberties which make America such a uniquely wonderful place to live.
We are all in this together so we might as well start learning how to live and govern together.
When you add Ronnie Perkins back on defense and you now give the Sooners a legit power run game in Rhamondre Stevenson… I think the Big 12 football season just took a turn.
Especially since both O State and Kansas State lost on Saturday to bring the Sooners to within a game of a first place logjam atop the standings.
I’m not on here writing OU should be pounding their chests and saying they want Alabama or Clemson, but for the sake of the BIg 12 football title chase if this OU roster stays intact the rest of the football season I would say OU is the team to beat after witnessing the the 62-28 win over Texas Tech in Lubbock on Halloween night.
Add to the fact ever since Lincoln Riley sat down Spencer Rattler in the first half of the Red River Rivalry after a shaky start the freshman quarterback has been phenomenal and has quit making costly game changing mistakes.
If this OU roster was in this year’s SEC West they would be the second best team behind Alabama. I would love to see this OU team play Georgia on a neutral field in some New Year’s Day Bowl.
At 4-2 these Sooners should run the table in their last four games of the season even though O State’s defense has been scrappy so far this college football season.
Tommy Tuberville was 7-3 versus Alabama while at Auburn. That’s primarily why he probably will defeat Doug Jones on Tuesday’s election and become a United State’s senator.
Mike Gundy is 2-13 versus OU and Boone Pickens never let him forget it. It would be 1-14 if Bob Stoops hadn’t done something Mike Gundy never did one time that entire Bedlam Game when Tyreke Hill broke loose on the second punt… namely giving the ball on back to back plays to the most explosive player now playing in the NFL. Gundy never considered it. Bubble screen, jet sweep, trick play reverse, quick slant, give and go flag…Andy Reid does it. Gundy should coach like there’s nothing to lose. Turn it loose.
This in no way is a diss of the O State players…especially those on that gritty defense which basically shut Texas down on Saturday. I’d love to have Rodriguez, Peel, and Sterling wearing crimson. But it’s more the feel that with Rhamondre Stevenson and Ronnie Perkins back on the field with Spencer Rattler playing with poise…these Sooners even with the two losses are the best team in the Big 12 for whatever that’s worth in 2020.
During last night’s telecast Tim Brando made a comparison of Rhamondre to Marcus Dupree of the one OU season back in the days of Barry Switzer in 1982. I’m not sure about the speed comparison, but otherwise…maybe.