Steven Schmidt is a former GOP strategist who among other things ran John McCain’s presidential campaign. He currently now is a Lincoln Project member who it appears finds the human junk bond in the White House even more distateful than I do.
Maybe Carville and Schimdt are wrong. Maybe there are still enough angry white males out there lurking in the abyss of the Silent Majority to elect Trump to a second term.
Twenty-one days to the finish line and not one former Republican president in my lifetime starting with Eisenhower and running through Bush 43 would be caught dead on a convention stage with the Grifter in Chief.
This is how far the conservative movement in this country has sunk in the past four years. Maybe the Trump white militant militia will try kidnapping a different Democratic governor from a swing state other than Michigan in the last week of the campaign. Prominent Dems in either Iowa or Wisconsin would make Electoral College Don’t sleep on Iowa, Nate Silver.
Maybe that’s the game changer this time around. I think that was sarcasm, but I’m not sure anymore.
The face of the American Christian evangelicals. You bought it…you own it regardless of which way the election goes.
Why even attend church? Why go through the pretense? It was always about the tax cuts and loading the Supreme Court plus the federal court circuits. What are you going to church for?
‘Yayest thou we walk through the valley of the shadow of the pussy grabber’. That’s the church you bought. This is who you’ve become. Yikes. Proud much?
I guess you could technically call me one of those Lincoln Project former Republicans who left the party. I love Carville. I’d love to float down the White River with him some day drinking bourbon and catching brown trout.
This is from part of his War Room podcast back in June. It’s being predicted over 150 million voters are going to vote in the presidential election on November 3rd. If so…this will be the greatest voter turnout in an American presidential election since Kennedy edged Nixon in 1960.
BTW…Nixon got somewhat hosed in Chicago and could have turned the election into a war over the electoral votes in Illinois…but opted not to do so because he feared of divsion it would cause in the country. I challenge any Trump supporter to tell me with a straight face that Caligula II would ever display such wisdom.
Just another example of how the con artist grifter human junk bond Trump far exceeds Nixon in the Art of the Grift.
If the Dems lose this presidential election to this dimwit for a second straight time then what should happen is moderate Dems and moderate Republicans should form their own party which should become the second major political party in the country. Enough of the bullshit from the extreme fringe factions of both parties.
Three weeks to go. Nobody should be taking anything for granted.
After the surprising loss in Game 5 the Lakers with ease and a suffocating defense put an end to the Miami Heat’s dream post season with a 106-93 win in Game 6.
Don’t let the final score mislead you—this game was a swift and decisive execution. The Heat were never in this game and in reality it was a standing eight count TKO win for the Lakers even before this game made it to the halftime intermission.
Jimmy Butler looked worn out and spent from his heroics in Game 5 which prolonged the series to a Game 6. But it wasn’t just Butler who struggled for the Heat. It was a team effort in that it would be tough to look at the Heat stat sheet and say any Miami player had an effective game on Sunday night inside the Bubble.
The Lakers came out from the opening tip with a sense of competitive ferocity which had been lacking since they won the first two games of these Finals by double digit margins and easily looked to be the superior team.
LebRon tripled doubled with 28, 14, and 10 on a night when he once again won the Finals MVP Trophy and the fourth ring in his illustrious career.
Anthony Davis was engaged from the get go and played like a man who was determined to win his first NBA ring.
Rajon Rondo was superb with 19 points coupled with his overall floor leadership.
Alex Caruso started in place of Dwight Howard as coach Frank Vogel went small from the opening tip. Anthony Davis played center and the Heat could never get Davis out of the lane in their offensive zone.
Add Kentavious Caldwell-Pope having a nice shooting night and that was all the help LeBron needed as the Lakers ended the longest season in the history of the NBA on October 11th, 2020.
I would think all parties involved are glad its over…especially NBA commish Adam Silver. To just finish this season amid all the challenges our nation faced this year in and of itself was quite an accomplishment.
The Miami Heat have nothing to be ashamed of in losing in six games. They surprised the basketball world by reaching the Finals and for the most part gave us a decent NBA Finals.
We never saw the much anticipated Lakers vs. Clippers matchup in the Western Conference Finals, but what we did see were some good young teams in Miami, Denver, Boston, and Dallas who should all be fairly formidable next season. Plus—the Clippers and the Milwaukee Bucks who were both massive underacheivers in the Bubble.Golden State with the Splash Brothers, Draymond Green, and a lottery pick should be interesting.
At thirty-six years of age LeBron is still atop the mountain as the best player in the NBA. I would think the Lakers are primed to make another serious run at a title next season as long as LeBron James has the passion for the game he displayed this season.
As far as the Oklahoma City Thunder…I don’t think anyone yet knows exactly what Sam Presti is doing until it becomes more clear what the financial template will be for small market teams as they adjust to smaller revenue bases heading into next season until there is a vaccine which allows arenas back at full capacity.
Adam Silver will have many challenges next season reshaping the economic order of the NBA. But so will every other sports entity both college and professional.
I’m pretty well jacked for tonight’s Game 6. I can’t imagine the Lakers wanted any part of a Game 6 inside of a neutral bubble with a Pat Riley team, but here we are with Duncan Robinson and Jimmy Butler coming in after fantastic efforts in Game 5.
I have these six role players circled in red on my game sheet tonight…Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson, Jae Crowder, Kyle Kuzma, Danny Green , and Markieff Morris.
Who out of these six brings something special tonight in what is a second straight elimination game for the Heat?
Since our local CBS affiliate decided to make us watch the feeble 0-4 NY Giants vs. the almost as feckless rabble Dallas Cowboys… tonight’s Game 6 will be my only sporting event to witness in this 24 hour cycle. Watching NFC East games is possibly even worse than watching some of these Big 12 games. But you gotta play hurt to get to the good stuff.
As a passionate NBA fan and blogger—this is why I take the time to maintain and write about ‘some’ basketball on my blog. To be clear this is a life blog with basketball on it…plus some other things.
That’s it for me until my recap of Game 6. I’m going to listen to some Tom Petty and get my game face on.
I love Tyler Herro’s snarl. Shoot the ball, stud. You and AD both went to Kentucky. This should be your night. Duncan did his part.
I feel like shit. Like a semi-truck ran over me and then ran over me again and again. This was not a pretty game. It was the survival of OU’s season to still hang around and possibly win a sixth straight Big 12 banner and keep the possibility intact they could go 9-2 and play in one of those second tier BCS bowls .
But I tell you what…I feel better after having watched Alabama’s pourous defense get lit up by Ole Miss in Oxford. Same thing with defending national champ LSU…they absolutely suck. James Carvelle may be dead this morning. Bill Clinton better go check on him and make sure he didn’t check it in during the wee hours last night drinking hard bourbon.
Florida Gators are a group of posers as well. Same thing with the Aggies in College Station. I saw one team yesterday in the entire SEC who played any defense whatsover… that was Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs. But here’s the thing they have to play Alabama on the road next Saturday. Talk about a Big Boy Brtiches game in mid-October. One of those teams will be playing the rest of the season to avoid a second loss.
After watching the SEC teams yesterday…I’m going to predict right here and now either Clemson or Ohio State will win the national championship if Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields stay healthy.
So the Big 12 now has three undefeated teams… Mullet King State, Iowa State, and Kansas State. OU clearly has no margin for error. But here’s the thing…despite the two lossses I still feel when they get Ronnie Perkins and LaMondre back they’ll have the best team in the conference.
Iowa State concerns me the most as a Sooner fan. I respect their coach. Sharp kid. In fact…if Lincoln had taken an NFL job…the Iowa State kid is who I would have gone after. Not that Joe C confers with me on these matters. But I think he’s a good coach.
I don’t think K-State is all that good. OU literally gift wrapped and gave that football game away.
As far as Mullet King State…they definitely have some talented pieces, but you know what else they have…they have a Mullet King-Breibart head coach who would be 1-14 against these horrible OU defenses if Bob Stoops hadn’t repunted to the NFL’s most explosive player Tyreke Hill.
What I’m saying is that…Mike Gundy better than any other coach in America knows how to not beat OU. He has a PhD in losing to those horrible bad tackling defenses. As long as Holder keeps Mullet King on his and Boone’s sideline…as an OU fan I like OU’s chances.
It’s not that I have anything personal in regards to Gundy. I sat with him in my brother’s Panera Bread restaurant and talked…nice enough dude with a mullet. But he just wouldn’t be my football CEO.
I’m also thinking Spencer Rattler at this point knows if he loses to O State that’s not something you want on your OU resume as a potentially iconic OU quarterback alum.
So all in all…I feel much better about OU’s football season than I did a week ago after the loss in Ames. Winning does that for you. Winning is like a contagious drug in team sports. Your team builds on it and should get incrementally better each week as Spencer Rattler grows a little week by week.
Once that kid figures out his pocket presence at this level and speed of game…OU is going to be a somewhat dangerous team looking down the road.
I’ll be recapping Alabama-Georgia next Sunday morning. Here’s my question of the week…is Alabama’s offense or Georgia’s defense the most dominant unit in college football this mid October?
So… I sat down and watched a full college football game for the first time this season.
Holy shit…Holy Mother of Shit!!!
I was worried Chris Jackson would jump off the ledge at least six times coming down the stretch. He called and told me had to stop watching for awhile and took Perk for a walk in Washington Park in downtown Denver. That was a good decision on his part. They have a great OU alum bar in Denver called Shoney’s. It should be a very happy place just about now. If you’re an OU fan … you have to watch an OU game there at least once in your life.
Chris had a great week…his mens’ league team over at the Denver University rink won their league title 6-5 in the championship game. Two assists.
I guess ‘we’ get Perkins and LaMondre back at TCU. This won’t be a season of hoping to get to the Final Four, but at least OU kept their Big 12 title hopes alive.
I thought the O-line and overall defense were much better. Liked what I saw from Woody Washington in the secondary. Nick Bonitto is going to be a stud hoss once Ronnie Perkins gets back next game. The pass rush should be one of the best in the league. Good to see the D-backs hang on to some oskies.
Rambo needs to toughen up. Otherwise the backs and receivers were solid today.
Obviously they can’t lose again to win the Big 12, but you gotta think Spencer Rattler after what he went through today won’t have anymore late game issues with nerves and the moment being too big.
I still plan on watching a ton of Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, and Clemson games. But this was a step for OU to win another league title and get ready to make a run next year. I would say to Lincoln Riley…more tall defensive backs with physicality should be the recruiting mantra.
If OU had lost this game they’d be in hell right now, but they survived and I don’t think Spencer Rattler will be pulled again in his OU career. Don’t scoff…that kid has Patrick Mahomes in his skill set once his head gets right as far as not trying to do everything in one play.
It’s about winning and OU found a way today.
Not so fast…my Mullet King friend in Stillwater, Okie where Trump Nation beats a very strong pulse with Mullet King flashing his Breitbart wardrobe like a 2-13 Bedlam peacock. I wouldn’t hang a 2020 Big 12 banner just yet. Not so fast, my now mulletless friend. Holder is trying to house train you, but we both know where the Mullet King resides.
I’m at eight so far on my top Van Halen songs. Sixty-five…that’s too young. Is there anyway the Big Skipper in the Sky would let us trade Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham to allow us to have Eddie back with us a while longer?
This has always been my favorite Van Halen song. I’d probably go… 2 Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love, 3 Panama, 4 Why Can’t This Be Love, 5 Teacher is Hot (video), 6 Jump, 7 Running With the Devil, 8 Dance the Night Away.
Anyway…this is my favorite Van Halen song. Video is very applicable to the current times we find ourselves in unfortunately.
Hope you enjoy the Van Halen songs.
Tell my dad hello for me if you see him, Eddie. Tell him he doesn’t have to watch the OU-Texas game. I fear he and Chris Jackson will on a ledge in around three hours from now. I was the always the calm Libra who talked both them off the ledge.
What a great basketball game! I hope some people watched it because the television ratings for the NBA in the Bubble haven’t been good. To the point Ted Cruz has been trolling Mark Cuban with GoWokeGoBroke in a twitter war of sorts.
What Ted Cruz didn’t mention was the NHL just had their worst ever Stanley Cup ratings and they didn’t wear Black Lives Matter on their jerseys. I would guess major league baseball ratings will be abysmal as well given people like me aren’t going to watch this season after the Houston Astros bullshit.
But this was a great basketball game. You have to give Erik Spoelstra and Pat Riley credit—they compete. Their players compete.
Jimmy Butler as in Game 3 put his team on his back with another triple double. But for me it was the Duncan Robinson night. The skinny white kid from Michigan finally broke loose in this series and went off like Mike Miller did in 2012 against the Thunder. Duncan went 7-13 shooting threes and scored 26 points all told.
Tyler Herro was okay, but this game was about Jimmy Butler and Duncan Robinson.
Still no Goran Dragic, but Spoelstra went with Kendrick Nunn and didn’t put either Kelly Olynyk or Meyers Leonard in this game. He went with seven players and it worked.
LeBron scored forty points and Anthony Davis was decent, but the rest of the Laker roster went awol in this classic Game 5 which was won by the Heat 111-108.
So we now have a Game 6 on Sunday night and we still haven’t had a game where Duncan Robinson and Tyler Herro go off on the same night. That’s something I can’t ignore…what happens if these two white dude three point gunners both go off on the same night.
Plus…it appears Anthony Davis might have hurt his heel. We’ll see. I’m happy. I want to see more basketball on the biggest stage even if its in a bubble.
Game 6 on Sunday night. Ted Cruz won’t be watching even though his state of Texas has three NBA franchises. Go Woke Go Broke or whatever, for those of us who love hoops we have a Game 6 and if Tyler Herro and Duncan Robinson both go off we could have a Game 7.
Ted Cruz won’t be watching. He’ll be licking Donald Trump’s balls even after what Trump said about this wife in 2016. Adam Silver will have to deal with this as the new NBA economic model emerges beyond the presidential election. How does Adam Silver keep the league solvent without Ted Cruz?
Answer…he gets past the coronavirus and fills up his stands with humans again. Just like in hockey, baseball, and football.
Tyler, Duncan…shoot the ball. Shoot the damn ball.
Ted Cruz followers basically put this naked pic of the FLOTUS Escort in an attack ad in 2016. I’m almost certain the Slovenian tits have been modified since this pic. Trump then called Heidi Cruz a fat ugly pig. Cruz then whined liked the complete bitch he truly is as a ‘man’. Cruz eventually got down on his knees, took Donald Trump in his mouth….and we all know what happened after that. Both he and Lindsey Graham then went to Moscow with Trump and the POTUS urinated on both of them in a Moscow hotel room. That was for Dan Jenkins up in heaven. I love you, dude.
Whew… I don’t know if I could be a Christian evangelical. It must be exhausting.
We lost a great one this week. Maybe on Sunday morning I’ll do my Top 10 Val Halen songs. Eddie—you were a stud hoss, dude. Panama clearly will be in my top three Van Halen songs. Be at peace, my friend.
The idiot acorn doesn’t fall from the tree does it?
So I guess this is in Panama City, Florida in a closed conference room with little ventilation with people not wearing masks. I’m not sure I would call this a massive rally though. The lines at Chick-fil-A are longer than this.
Sigh.
Little Trump Jr. says his grifter daddy doesn’t have anyone out there in the media campaigning for him. I’m to assume he never heard of Vladamir Putin, Fox News Network, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh or Laura Ingram.
I guess he never was told about the Wikileak dump either or what Comey did a week before the election. In the movie Caddyshack this is where the Rodney Dangerfield character suggests most animals should be eating their young.
So in a gesture of fairness to Junior and the evangelicals– I’m going to run an ad on here for Donald Trump and his braindead son.
I’m a very fair guy at the end of the day. Always have been. I’m a Libra. We’re that way.
This is how the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Bush 41 became the party of a pussy grabbing grifter by the name of Donald Trump on August 15th, 2016.
Mike Pence didn’t talk about the part where he didn’t return Trump’s phone calls for a 48 hour period. This is why I could never teach history in Oklahoma.
Pence and Harris had one of the best rated VP debates of all-time. I mean..right there and then the Holy savior Mike Pence could have talked about this 48 hour period of United States history. Go figure.
Musta been doing some heavy breathing with Karen Pence is all I can surmise, eh. That was sarcasm.
My father was a lieutenant in the United States Navy. He was second in command on a mine sweeper which was commanded by a colorful character by the name of Captain Zook.
This is why I was born in San Diego in 1957. It’s why my heart is always with Navy in the annual Army-Navy game.
My dad went on to become a lawyer and a judge after honorably serving in the Navy. This kind of sucked because I would have loved to have lived in San Diego as much as possible. With my dark skin I would have been a much easier cultural fit in San Diego versus Oklahoma. But it is what it is.
My father was a very non-political person… pretty much like I am. He was a registered Democrat and in 1976– I registered as a Republican. He never once lectured me on this until he saw the street where my wife and I built the house in Deer Creek. He said a few things then.
In 2000… I left the Republican Party and have been a registered Independent ever since. Just so we’re clear…Barack Obama is the president who along with John McCain are the two politicans who have shaped me the most as I’ve grown older and hopefully become wiser as the years have passed.
I’ve always loved the spirit of John McCain and have read several of his books.
I’ve come to love and respect Cindy McCain as well. From my prism of perspective it would appear to me she gets it. She understands what it means to be an American. What price has to be paid.
John McCain wasn’t perfect..none of us are. But in the end he more than any of us understood what it means to be free and an American.
Freedom doesn’t come free. Freedom doesn’t come from cowering from duty because of imaginary bone spurs.