Month: June 2017

When you don’t have the truth aligned in your legal favor then muddy the waters till hell freezes over–The Roy Cohn Doctrine.

Five months into this and not one tangible piece of legislature has been passed or appears near to being passed. Mike Flynn was fired twenty-four days in, not long after, Sally Yates was fired. Then of course, James Comey was fired. Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself from Russiagate, and just this week Mike Pence had to get himself lawyered up. Multiple people associated with the stench of this administration will be getting lawyered up as each days passes forward from this point. Even Newt Gingrich of all people admitted people will be going to jail.

Layers upon layers of government jobs are not being able to be filled simply because even Republicans at this point don’t want their careers disgraced by being associated with this president.

Caligula now has the lowest approval rating ever of a U.S. president five months in. In the past month alone his approval rating just among Republicans has plummeted 17 points. I mention this because it will have to be Republicans who at some point display some integrity as Americans and put country above partisanship as this thing careens towards a Watergate ending or worse.

If you’re a person still defending Donald Trump–then in a way I kind of feel sorry for you. Party trumps country with you evidently–pardon the multiple puns.

As I watched this video the two people I thought most of were Mattis and Tillerson. Mattis was the lone person in the room who actually had enough gumption to not lick Donald Trump’s balls. Mattis along with McMaster appears to be the firewall between Caligula and things becoming much worse. Pray for them and our country as well.

Tillerson…what an enormous embarrassment. I feel sorry for him. He didn’t even want to become Secretary of State. His wife made him do it. She claimed God had a new mission for them which went beyond Exxon stock. He should have ignored his wife and gone home to be near his grandchildren.

Jeff Sessions… how did he ever get through law school? I was raised by a trial lawyer, been around lawyers my whole life, to date I’ve never observed one as stupid as Jeff Sessions. I love his voice though…it’s like listening to Forest Gump try to talk about the law. But I’ll say this…he’s the one I have circled who Mueller might flip the easiest and become the John Dean of the bunch.

It doesn’t matter what your party affiliation is or your ideology at this point. If you’re an American and you love this country you should be praying some people near the top of our government can do the right things at some point beyond just hoping to get a tax break for our wealthiest people and getting Neil Gorsuch confirmed on the Supreme Court.

Even the bloggers in Columbia know better. White people in the New Confederacy…not so much. Somebody make this kid Secretary of State or Attorney General. It would be an upgrade.

Yes, stupid fuck, we do now indeed have a crooked rogue piece of shit president who can’t get anything done because he is the very center of multiple felonly criminal probes being conducted by Robert Mueller. And, yes, stupid fuck, with you clearly at the helm America does indeed have the look of a gongable banana republic with your hapless ass running the show. One might wonder how this laughably dumb motherfucker could find his own dick with his right hand in a dark room.

So, in honor of our total piece of shit crooked con artist rogue president……

Caligula should get rid of Sean Spicer and replace him with Doris Burke. If she could elicit drama at the end of these NBA Finals, then I’m almost certain she could make Russiagate go away for Caligula Light. I don’t know if she was tossing back vodka shots during Game 5 and just got sloppy drunk, but if she can pull this off then she should be Trumpula’s press secretary. No wonder Barkley made the move to hockey.

No big surprise. It’s what we all knew would happen back on July 4th, 2016 after reading of Durant’s departure to the Warriors in the Player’s Tribune. This won’t be Kevin Durant’s only ring if he, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and Andre Iguodala stay together. This is a dynasty of draconian proportions in this salary cap age of the NBA.

Putting aside the other twenty-eight teams in the league, I’m not really sure how LeBron can beat these guys. LeBron James played superbly in these Finals and his team won but one game. The talent gap between these Warriors and the rest of the league is immense. Maybe Adam Silver will have to devise a B Flight champion to give us NBA fans some sense of emotional competitive connection to the league and its seasons moving forward.

I sat dumbfounded watching Doris Burke do her postgame interviews. She appeared to be crying. Why? There was no drama attached to this championship whatsoever. The only drama attached came way back when in the Hamptons when the Warriors won the Kevin Durant lottery.

Kevin Durant is a beautiful basketball player. I watched him play at the University of Texas and I watched every game he played as a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder. He’s a generational player who through hard work has turned himself into an utterly complete basketball player. Plus, I don’t think he’s a bad dude. He was good to the people of Oklahoma. Always polite, always generous with the community, and an easy interview for the local OKC scribes who’d never covered the NBA until the Sonics were moved to Oklahoma City.

I have no problem whatsoever that he left. The words ‘free agent’ imply just that–the freedom to play wherever you want. I’m happy he won a ring, but sad that he ruined the league in doing so by going to the talent laden Warriors. As a fan of the league, it somewhat diminishes the interest of the overall league although from what I’ve read the NBA’s post season television ratings were good.

So while I’m happy Kevin Durant has his ring, I’m sad for the league and the fans of the other twenty-nine teams who pay money for tickets attached to the hope of competitive emotional involvement in a basketball season.

There won’t be any of that with these Warriors intact. Someone please tell Doris Burke there won’t be any need for crying next June unless she’s going to be crying for the fans of the other twenty-nine teams.

Just a great hockey game tonight in Nashville as the Penguins won the Cup for the second straight season with a spellbinding 2-0 win in Game 6. Nothing came easy for the Penguins this post season as they had to struggle through all four rounds of the playoffs, but when it came to crunch time they always responded like champions.

Patrick Hornquist, a former Pred no less, scored the game winner with 1:35 left in the third off an assist from the point by Justin Schultz. Carl Haglin secured the win with an empty net insurance goal. Rookie netminder Matt Murray was stellar with his second straight shutout, and Sid Crosby showed why he’s the league’s best player with a repeat as the Conn Smythe winner as the outstanding player in the playoffs.

A fitting repeat for this storied franchise as they won their fifth Stanley Cup in the salary cap era. The Pens have a great owner in Mario Lemieux and the perfect head coach in Mike Sullivan. And, of course, they have the best hockey player on the planet in Sid Crosby.

These Pens become the first team in the NHL to repeat since the Detroit Red Wings did it in ’97-’98.

From start to finish these Stanley Cup Playoffs were outstanding. Hopefully, Adam Silver along with Charles Barkley was watching.

Of the four major sports, I don’t think it’s hyperbole to state Sidney Crosby now stands at the top of the mountain. I’d go LeBron second, Tom Brady third, and I’m not sure who in baseball it would be.

I laughed my ass off when I saw this. Schumer knows any first year law student worth a grain of salt could ask three questions of Caligula and get three successive counts of perjury from our piece of shit 45th prez. Bring it on. Let’s see if Trump’s challenge to testify falls the same way as turning over his tax returns.

SWEAR HIM IN!

It would go something like this.

Very simple. He’ll simply do whatever he has to do to survive financially and politically. Lie, cheat, steal, break the law, bully, intimidate…whatever it takes to preserve his own position. He could care less about the country.

It was never about making America great again (America was already great), it was always about just Donald Trump’s insatiable ego.

Granted, 99% of Caligula’s supporters probably think mens rea has something to do with mounting Nancy O’Dell in a furniture store (sigh), but with Comey’s testimony this week–I thought it might be an appropriate time to introduce the doctrine mens rea before this goes any further. I know this sort of thing doesn’t appeal to Trump supporters, but in the event you want to learn something…here it is as related to Caligula’s obvious obstruction of justice. In short, what was the degree of premeditated intent to perpetrate the crime in question.

This is me working the Russiagate story for okcthunderground.com. And, yes, if you voted for this piece of shit you are a dumbass.

I love Bobby Costas. He’ll be the Carl Bernstein of this entire sordid yarn when all the story is finally unraveled to the public.

The Cavs finally won a game and averted a sweep. One would think it will be over back in Oakland in Game 5 though. All this in Game 4 made me somewhat sad for Durant. He’s played brilliantly in these Finals and just when I was about to come around and say, ” Maybe Durant and Draymond Green aren’t the biggest pussies in the league’…….all of this drama for no reason whatsoever.

Note to Steve Kerr—I’ve agreed with the things you’ve said about Donald Trump, but as a coach your two players need a little wisdom from you. Just saying.