Author: Mike

I’m always honest here on the blog. I was disappointed with the speech. To be blunt…I’d give it either a B- or a C+ given this was one of those historical moments where a speech could not only unite a country, but change the course of the entire world’s history moving forward.

I wish Joe Biden would have let either me or James Carvell write the speech.

As a president, you only have several opportunities to utilize the bully pulpit…and this was one of those times. One of those Teddy Roosevelt moments as POTUS you walk softly carrying a big stick.

A moment like Reagan in front of the Berlin Wall. Or Roosevelt in 1941 declaring war on Japan. Or Bush 41 telling Saddam Hussein his aggression in Kuwait would not stand.

Only the first ten minutes of the speech were directed towards the Ukrainian and American people as to why this moment is so critical to the new world order of democracy

I would have pointed out that of the 195 countries in the world only two as of today are standing with Putin…those being neighboring Belarus and rogue state Venezuela. Think about the magnitude of that accomplishment alone in as far as the Biden administration unifying the world.

Then the troublemaker in me would have come out having Joe Biden rattle his saber towards the dumbest of the dumb in the Trump Coalition.

While having him stare down Marjorie Taylor-Greene and her even dumber cohort Lauren Boebert…I would have had him say…”Even amongst all the various terrorist groups in our very dangerous world…only two in the entire world have sided with Putin.”

“Folks, let me help you out here. The two terrorist groups aren’t the Taliban or Al Quida. No. The only two terrorist groups standing with the war criminal Vladimir Putin are Fox Network and the Trump crazies in the far-right wing of what used to be the Republican Party. Those same treasonous traitors who tried to overthrow our country on January 6th just over a year ago.”

Biden spent way too much time struggling with the middle of the speech. You could tell he was tired. But who wouldn’t be exhausted at this point after inheriting this shitshow clusterfuck dumpster fire from Donald Trump and his children?

But in closing what I would have had Joe Biden say was something like, “Folks—this is one of those rare precious moments as Americans where we have the shared opportunity to show the world why it is indeed special to be an American. To show the entire world the American Dream is still intact and breathing.”

I’d have had him pause, have a tear coming down one of his cheeks like William Hurt in Broadcast News and close with, ” This is our moment as one to show the world America isn’t for sale to one family or governed for just the inherited elite or upper one per-cent. This is our moment as Americans to conquest tyranny and oppression as one America. A moment to show America has returned to being the aspirational leader of the free world.”

“God bless, America.”

Don’t we all wish we were Joe Biden right now.

He inherited a Civil War instigated by our village idiot. He inherited a pandemic where half of Village Idiot’s followers refused to get vaccinated and instead opted to use various horse remedies to protect themselves from Covid.

It gets better.

Village Idiot then cozied up with Putin at Helsinki in an attempt to dismantle the World Order of Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Marshall with the hopes of putting the U.S. in the same sphere as that of Putin and Bubble Boy from North Korea.

Somewhere in there he fired Bulldog Mattis, Reince Priebus, General John Kelly, General McMasters, Jeff Sessions, Rex Tillerson, and accused both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of multiple felony offenses.

And, of course, he completely dissed American intelligence which has to date nailed every bit of the intel leading up to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Whew…that’s a lot of accomplishments for just your basic run of the mill pathological sociopath.

I need to exhale and catch my breath.

Now…where was I?

Village Idiot had a really busy four years there packaged in between chasing eastern Euro escort tail, modifying FLOTUS 45’s prenup monthly, cheating at golf, tweeting with his tweet soulmate/driver Danny Scavino, and basically setting the United States back at least fifty years.

But, you know, otherwise it was fairly uneventful.

Oh, I forgot, Village Idiot set the North American record by getting the most blow jobs ever from Lindsey Graham. That’s 1,460 blow jobs if you need me to do the math.

So… Joe Biden…while I’m fervently praying for the Ukrainians…I’ve got you right there next to them in my 24/7 prayers.

Joe Biden…you need a momentum changing song. Trust me on this.

If the events in Ukraine were not as they are currently, I would absolutely be ripping the Oklahoma City Thunder. But given that would be completely inappropriate as a human being…I’m going to pass.

The Thunder are not worth writing about at this juncture. I’m not sure Oklahoma City deserves to have an NBA team, and I know for a fact charging people to watch this bullshit is borderline commercial fraud…but I’m not going any further than that.

It’s not worth wasting the energy when I could be praying for the Ukrainians in what will surely be a very tough next couple of days.

Clay Bennett, dude…if this is your prism of sustainability, do yourself a karma and move the team back to Seattle. There’s no real window here because no one wants to play here except Nick Collison and Kenrich Williams. The analogy is you in essence have a college football team which will be on NCAA probationary sanctions with scholarship limitations forever which will always keep the team-looking ahead to the next tank.

If you were black, would you want your son raised here? I’m almost white and I encouraged my son to not raise his children here. Dude…not everyone aspires to live in a private school sperm bank paradigm where the hard-core stark truths about American society are brazenly shielded by the entrance gates to Casady and Heritage Hall. Truth hurts.

You gave it a shot. I admire that.

Read my lips…. NBA players don’t want to be here.

I tried watching ten minutes of the Thunder’s game versus the Sacramento Kings and said, “No, Mike…you’re better than this.” If the Thunder screw around and miss on Jabari Smith…I’m not really sure what I would do at this point looking at it from a pragmatic standpoint.

I’m not even sure what I would do calibrating the usage between Shai and Josh at this point.

Baylor was at Texas last night in a real basketball game. I settled in on that game as we’re not all that far from March Madness. Lest we forget…Scott Drew’s Bears are the defending national champions, and they looked every bit the part as they pulled away from Texas on the road.

Baylor went through a few bumps this mid-season with some injuries, but as we near the goal achieving portion of the season…Baylor is trending upward again with a dangerous team.

From the Big 12 heading into March Madness…I see three maybe four teams who could make a run in this order…1 Baylor, 2 Texas Tech, 3 Kansas, and 4 maybe Texas. But Texas is just soft. We’ll see. I don’t think Chris Beard has really instilled in them that same West Texas toughness his Texas Tech teams had in the past.

I still love Texas Tech as a sleeper pick. Mark Adams is my Big 12 Coach of the Year as well…. not really even close. I’d have Jaime Dixon at TCU as second in that category. Coach Adams looks like a preacher, but can flat out coach on the defensive end.

OU hosts West Virgina tonight in what is their next elimination game if the Sooners want to dance in March.

If this is the case, then the team should be moved to either Seattle or Las Vegas as soon as the deal can be done for integrity of the game issues.

Tanking is one thing. Prolonged borderline consumer fraud in a small market where there’s only one major league franchise in any sport is another topic.

Again…unless you’re a little slow, this is what Sam Presti and Thunder ownership did in Seattle when they stripped their team of Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis while doing everything possible to discourage Seattle fans from attending Sonic home games while that entire new arena fairytale/caper was being hashed out with David Stern presiding as judge and jury. Another words…Clay Bennet and Group had them a bought jury.

This part of the Thunder’s migration to Oklahoma City, much like the Donald Trump ascension to power caper, is not an aspirational story.

This is not a new play in Sam Presti’s playbook.

Despite my snarkiness at times for the Thunder…I don’t want them to leave because I enjoy being twenty minutes away from being able to see real NBA teams play in person with real NBA stars who are trying to win championships.

I’ll be right at seven or eight home games attended for this season. I have extremely enjoyed sitting behind the visitor’s bench and cheering for real NBA basketball teams.

Both Klay and Tyler Herro both actually gave me a thumbs-up when they were here in the cultural armpit of all NBA franchises.

If only I could sit next to Mike Gundy at a Thunder game, my Make-A-Wish Thunder game night would be complete this basketball season.

Josh is No. 2 on my ROY ballot and you’re telling me Sam Presti is going to deny his paying Thunder ticketholders this one singular thread of positivity from this season.

That’s total and complete bullshit. That’s borderline consumer fraud is what it is. That’s like paying to see Tony Bennett and you get Justin Bieber thrown out there at the end for the final third of the concert.

We’ll see how this goes with Josh being held out. I clearly have no sources with the Thunder. I’ve never been a paid whore like some in this market who in essence have always been on the Thunder’s payroll.

There’s some Putin the way the Thunder manipulate media relations.

I just hope for the kid and for the somewhat integrity of the NBA we don’t see Sam Presti benching a player who could very well be the NBA Rookie of the Year.

If they’re going to bench him…then maybe Joe C could work out a deal with the NCAA and Josh could be allowed to play for Porter Moser the rest of the season in Norman.

If you put a 6’8″ point forward like Josh on the Sooners’ they could be an Elite 8 team with the right draw.

I really feel for these Thunder fans who were stupid enough to pay full ticket prices this season. I never pay more than thirty cents on the dollar for my seats right behind the visitors’ bench. I even got Steve Kerr’s autograph when the Warriors were here.

Good luck, Josh.

This is the last day of February, thus the last official day of Black History Month.

I wanted to do more on my blog in relation to BHM, but I got sidetracked with everything which is going on in Ukraine and Russia. I may in March do something on both Thurgood Marshall and Barbara Jordan.

But I wanted to close the month with heroic Capitol Police Officer Euguene Goodman before Joe Biden addresses the nation tomorrow night with his State of the Union speech.

I wonder if any of you Trump sycophants even consider the irony of Officer Goodman’s brave actions on January 6th, 2021.

You people probably hate him even more because he potentially saved the lives of Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, and Nancy Pelosi.

We are in a dark, dark place in America right now. Very dark.

But when you see courage and honor from someone like Officer Goodman it should be noted.

That’s it for me right now. I don’t want to depress myself thinking of you Trump people on a Monday. Some of you genuinely sicken me.

Buy maybe in all of this there is the hope there could be a silver lining of some sort.

It must be Antifa pretending to be those Russian troops, right?

I would suggest every GOP U.S. senator minus six watch the following video and observe what it is you do not possess…namely courage, honor, and a sense of duty.

I thought this was a telling interview on Sunday morning by former 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Pretty straight to the point.

I don’t want to carelessly use the words treason, sedition, or criminal at this point. I don’t want to be reckless.

Seventy-five percent of the world does however view what Putin is doing in Ukraine as the acts of a war criminal.

The very war criminal both Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump praised earlier this week.

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I don’t know what to write about you Trump people any longer. Your penchant for shame seems to have no limitations whatsoever.

The WWII generation will always historically be viewed as our Greatest Generation…and rightfully so.

But you people…you are really something.

If you stay on the track you’re currently navigating, you will have a chance to be recognized as the most historically dubious generation of Americans.

Even in the Civil War, history has shown some empathy for the Confederacy and those who defended it. But you group of people not only gave legitimacy to a criminal’s attempt to hang his own vice-president and overthrow the Constitution of the United States. But you went even more yard this week. You out did yourselves this time.

You’ve gone even beyond the O.J. Simpson standard of hall-of-fame shame a mere one year later.

You’re now telling us Donald Trump in his praise of a murderous thug and war criminal is prescient for his praise of Putin.

Mitt Romney called you people idiots and morons today on State of the Union with Dana Bash. Just so you know. I’m not going to disagree with Mitt Romney. Hillary Clinton called you Deplorables…she was right. You’re deplorable human beings.

So why don’t you people do the rest of us a favor. Why don’t thirty- million of you move to Russia and live with your boys Donalt and Vlad.

And in your absence, we’ll find a way to replace you with twenty-million Ukrainians who actually understand what it means to embrace liberty and freedom.

What it means to be an American.

We’ll call this the Romney Doctrine.

‘Your Honor, at this time the prosecution would like to enter the following video into evidence. At a later time, the State would like to comment as to the evidentiary relevance within the context of other admitted evidence.’

‘Granted. Please proceed, Mr. Jackson.’

‘Thank you, Your Honor.’

Footnote: “Putin no doubt has contempt for the weak and malleable orange Mr. Trump with his tiny raccoon-like hands and gerbil-sized genitals.”

Editor’s Note: ‘What I did here was use part of a sentence from Maureen Dowd and a thought of my own in the structure of this sentence. Unlike FLOTUS 45 when she plagiarized Michelle Obama…I want to make sure and give Maureen credit for half of the sentence. No wonder FLOTUS 45 has that dour expression on her face 24/7.’

If there are two more clueless dimwits in America than Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump you would have to think those two would be Mo Brooks from Alabama and Josh Hawley from Missouri.

But right now given their pathetic performance even by the incredibly low bar these two idiots have set… these two are clearly the two runaway winners as the two dumbest white people in America.

For this they both get a Dave Chappelle Oscar for Most Outstanding Achievement by a Fool in a Leading Role.

I’ll be back later today to address why I don’t think the U.S. should put troops on the ground in Ukraine and I’m also going to give Mitt Romney a shout out for the straight up things he said this morning in an interview on CNN.

Bravo, Senator Romney.

Bravo. I won’t ask you to feel between Liz Cheney’s legs. You got a set, bruh. You looked just like Howard Baker with Nixon…finally.

This was the day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor… December 8th, 1941. And of course, this was before Fox had been created to fill the airwaves with humans like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Donald Trump.

I would submit except for a brief period at the conclusion of Desert Storm and the 9/11 terrorist attacks…FDR’s declaration of war was the last time our nation was genuinely unified and aspirational as far as America’s place in the world.

I would think the reports coming out of Ukraine the next several days will be very difficult for us to view as Americans.

I was shocked by the results of the results of the Smerconish Question of the Week Poll Question on Saturday morning. The question was: Should the United States and NATO declare war on Russia for their invasion of Ukraine?

With over 40,000 votes cast when the show went off the air, which is record number of votes for any question, the results were Yes…77%, No…23%. Keep in mind a lot of the viewers on this show are either Independents or moderates like myself. This isn’t a show for the nutjobs on either side of American politics.

I voted no.

I’ll explain why I voted no tomorrow morning.

Marvin Johnson saved the day for OU with a couple of big plays coming down the stretch as OU beat O-State in overtime by a score of 66-62.

Marvin can help the Sooners when he’s healthy. He’s got a great basketball body and can fill in the defensive void created by EJ’s season ending knee surgery. Marvin needs to be playingtwenty minutes a game from this point moving forward.

Marvin is one of those TSN type of players who can make some plays with his hustle and grit. I would compare his role on this OU team as to what Kenrich Williams does for the Thunder when he’s allowed to play in non-tanking situations.

OU came into this game with a net No. 47 ranking despite the tough stretch of late. This puts OU at 15-14 with a home game against West Virginia on tap on Tuesday. I would guess OU will be an ESPN 59-61% favorite win that game.

The loss which will hurt OU the most with the Committee will be the close home loss to TCU. That one hurt. That’s one which might haunt the Sooners when the Committee deliberates their fate.

But if OU could somehow steal a road game at K State to close out the regular Big 12 with a win over the tough Wildcats…that loss could be absolved by the Committee.

OU should have won this game by around six points in regulation, but once again fifth year senior point guard Jordan Goldwire struggled with some bad time and score offensive decisions coming down the stretch.

I thought O-State’s Avery Anderson had one his best games of the season and was the primary reason the Cowboys had a chance to win late in the game.

The Sousse kid is going to be a nice player for Mike Boynton as well once he develops a little eight-foot shot or so. He gave the Sooners fits in both Bedlam games this season with his shot blocking. Of all the excellent defensive players in the Big 12 I’ve seen…Sousse along with some guys at Texas Tech and Texas gave the Sooners fits this Big 12 season on the defensive end.

I love Mike Boynton, but he like Porter Moser needs to go get him a point guard next season for Avery Anderson to play off of on the offensive end of the floor.

I’m just happy these OU kids hung in there today and found a way to win a close game they absolutely had to have to stay alive in the NCAA Tournament discussion.

I still think OU gets in the Big Dance with 17 wins because of the schedule they’ve played.

The key for OU is Jordan Goldwire. Can he settle down and forty minutes where his decision making doesn’t implode for a five-minute stretch somewhere in the game.

Marvin Johnson gets my helmet sticker. It’s just nice to be able to play Boomer Sooner again.

BOOMER!

You have to admire the courage these Ukrainians have and their devotion to remain a free nation. You have to remember though, Ukraine has basically been a free nation since 1991 because of what Reagan and Bush did in the Cold War.

How sad it is we have these Trumplicans who equate freedom with minimal effective tax rates….and to varying degrees racism.

How sad.