Author: Mike

Did anyone really ever think the GOP had any real plan for healthcare reform for the American people? After eight years of tough talk and a complete unwillingness to repair Obamacare—the yarn came to a merciful end on Friday as John McCain saved his party and his country from embarrassing itself any further. Who knows, maybe even Mitch McConnell was in on it and knew he had John McCain’s no vote in hand to abdicate the GOP from any allegations whatsoever that they can actually govern beyond giving tax breaks to our wealthiest citizens.

Of course, tough talkers Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz all voted yes as we knew they would. In retrospect, can you really blame Caligula for routinely disparaging these three losers throughout the GOP primaries process. If you put these three in an iron cage you’d have to wonder if it would be a fight to the death or a threesome. I never would have written such a thought a week ago, but now that we live in the Golden Age of Antonio Scaramucci, apparently we need to write things about GOP men doing intimate things to one another.

We would assume McConnell and Ryan, being the ever paid for Koch Brother foot soldiers they truly are, will march forward to tax reform and the sacred holy grail known as the alternative minimum tax.

So we’ll never know. Did John McCain do the right thing for Americans or did he just do the right thing for the GOP by saving his party from itself and the messy prospect of actually doing something beyond just giving out tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

I need a break from the Purger and the Mucher. Nick always calms me. I love listening to him talk Thunder basketball. I do kind of like Scaramucci though in that if I read his recent comments correctly—he pretty much said Bannon sucks Trump’s cock whenever his brand needs a boost. Can’t disagree with that. Enough of that though.

For Rex Tillerson and the Boy Scouts of America

Lessons in Ruthlessness by Frank Underwood

I must admit… I genuinely despise both of these individuals, and in a sick twisted way it almost seems right they are at odds with each other a mere six months into Caligula’s reign of terror.

One, a New York grifter con artist, the other a southern racist redneck who in essence was picked because he was the one senator who most closely connected the dots from Caligula to the idiots who followed the Birther Movement. So–I must admit there does seem to be a poetic beauty to all of this for me.

Is it evil of me to smile?

The boy scouts will love this. A purger and a furniture store sport fucker all wrapped into one. Ironic, the biggest boy scout, Rex Tillerson, is apparently getting ready to resign as Sec of State. He should punch his wife right in the fucking mouth for ever getting him involved in this. Let the purges begin.

Still no word on Carmelo Anthony as to whether he’s going to be a Rocket or a Thunderer. It would be nice to have Carmelo, but either way — OKC has a very nice team in place. So we’ll see. I’ve seen both Westbrook and Harden, and from my perspective, Russell has a more competitive soul. He still has much to prove, and no one in the world wants to beat Golden State more than Russell Westbrook. Just sayin’.

LET’S GO THUNDER!

Hitler speaking to Nazi youth in Thurengia, Germany 1933. Be careful, West Virginia.

Donald Trump, July 24th, 2017 —speaking to 40,000 Boy Scouts at the Jamboree. While Trump has an historically low approval rating of 36-38% nationally–his approval rating in West Virginia is near 70% which is the highest of the fifty states. Yikes. Seriously…yikes. I’m sure Rex Tillerson has never been prouder as a scout. A great moment for Rick Perry as well.

I don’t know, but it’s an intriguing thought because as we all know in OKC the future is now. Maybe what Sam Presti learned from the Hamptons debaucle is that conventional team building per se doesn’t come into play this summer. Russell Westbrook needs to see Presti and Clay Bennett are willing to put a championship team around him.

You’d obviously need to unload Kanter’s salary and another player would have to be traded as well. I’m not sure how it would go down, but if you have Westbrook, Paul, and Carmelo as OKC’s top three players that’s very formidable.

Thunder’s starting five would be Russ at the point, Roberson at the two, Paul George at small forward, Carmelo at power forward, and Steven at center. This would move Patterson to the second unit to team along with Jerami Grant, Abrines, McDermott, and Raymond Felton. But again, not sure who else besides Kanter would have to be packaged to bring Carmelo to OKC.

I’ve seen a lot of Carmelo over the years both at Syracuse and the Denver Nuggets. His ‘Cuse national championship team beat Kelvin Sampson’s OU team in the NCAA Tournament in the Elite 8. OU couldn’t guard him. Period. If you combine Westbrook, George, and Carmelo you suddenly have your top three core averaging around 75-77 points a game. And you know what that does—if starts to make the Golden State math not quite as daunting as you put a team together which can consistently score around 122 points a game and play some defense.

Another twist is OKC’s assistant GM, Troy Weaver, recruited Carmelo to Syracuse.

Note to Sam Presti—the future is now.

One Shining Moment, 2003. I love these. I truly do.

Yikes. The only thing missing here was an accompanying video of Caligula having sex with Ivanka with Jared handcuffed to the bed. The notion that this young man along with Donald Jr. and Eric should have any positions of any influence whatsoever in running this country is even more frightening than colluding with the Russians. It’s just stunning. Simply stunning.

In reality, Chris Christie sitting with a 15% approval rating would look pretty good right now. But of course that would have caused internal angst in the Trump Family since Christie as a federal prosecutor put Kushner’s father in prison. But still… Chris Christie—your country needs you, buddy. Get on the plane and come back.

Even Frank Underwood doesn’t do this.

Who in their right mind would waste their time watching House of Cards anymore?

That was something else for sure. One of the most interesting rounds of golf I’ve ever seen in a major. No way though they should have allowed Jordan Spieth over twenty minutes on the 13th to get that kind of relief on a sight of line ruling. Kuchar with all the momentum, had to sit there and wait and wait and wait.

But I’ll say this for Jordan Spieth—he’s a bonafide bulldog and what the game of golf desperately needed after Tiger Woods decided he needed to screw every escort in the world.

Jordan Spieth now joins Jack as only the second golfer ever to win three different majors by the age of twenty-four. Only the PGA Championship eludes him and of course that comes in August.

After the bogey on the 13th, he promptly turned on the switch going five under in the next four holes. Kuchar didn’t choke—he just was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Jordan Spieth went into full Jack Nicklaus bulldog mode.

Spieth, Dustin Johnson, and Rory are the three guys from this point forward to carry the game of golf. It was good to see Rory get his game back on track. Matt Kuchar is a wonderful golfer, but my advice to him would be—do you want to be the nicest guy on the tour or start winning some majors. He and Ricky Fowler kind of similar in that vein to me.

Golf has its alpha bulldog in place and that’s good for the game. For crying out loud, Steph Curry was tweeting shit about that back nine. Maybe Kuchar and Fowler should ask if they could be traded to Team Spieth. Durant wouldn’t hesitate—we can only be grateful he’s not an elite golfer.

Anyway, great day for golf. Traber doesn’t need to keep ranting about Tiger Woods. Nobody cares anymore. How sad is all that from a human perspective? What a tragic waste of a career and a legacy.

The Arnold Palmer commercial was equally awesome. As a fourth grader I attended by first junior golf clinic in the fourth grade at Lincoln Park and became somewhat of a golfer. Bobby Tway’s family took me out to Lincoln Park that day. I wanted to be just like Arnold and so did almost every other kid out there. Bobby Tway went on to win the 1986 PGA Championship with the iconic holed out bunker shot.

Bobby and his family moved to Georgia several years after that clinic at Lincoln Park. He came back and went to O State and played for Holder. In 1986, he won five tournaments and was the PGA Player of the Year. As much as I loved Arnold, this is my favorite golf highlight of all-time because of how nice he and his dad were to me. I’m grateful they got me interested in golf.

Parts of Arnold’s memorial service. His two biggest rivals, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player loved him like a brother. You don’t see sportsmanship and class like that anymore in sports. Jordan, Dustin, Rory, and maybe Jason Day—you are the present and future of golf.

We’ve watched him go from Wild Thing to Bad Little Dude to scoring champion and now MVP. Only one thing left to add…world champion. The future is now. Why not?

LET’S GO Thunder!