Month: March 2020

Step 1: Except for Smerconish and Fareed, stop watching cable television and start listening to music again.

I want to think about this today and write about it this evening after more introspection on this topic. The answer of course is yes. But I just want to make sure I think this thru logically to its conclusion.

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So I thought about it all day and into the evening. I even had two different conversations with two friends of mine whose opinions I value greatly.

Here’s the thing…the Trump base in Oklahoma would clearly abandon the concept of gravity if Trump told them to do so. Not even close. Probably by a seventy to eighty per cent margin in Oklahoma.

But here’s the big picture… me ranting about Trump and his followers on my blog is futile. It is what it is. It’s not changing and it wouldn’t change if Tom Friedman from the NY Times was ghost writing on my blog.

It’s the pragmatic reality of the situation.

I mean…I’m sixty-two years of age and I may have eight to twelve more years to live. This is the world I live in. Who knows….four years from now these Trump people could very well be endorsing Mike Tyson, Roger Stone or Charlie Sheen for president. It could actually be worse.

But bigger picture—with the time I have left on this earth I need to work on evolving my own relationship with God within the concept of being kind and preparing for the next level of my soul.

I can’t allow Donald Trump to drag me down to his level. I have to be above that in my daily life and on my blog.

I have to look for the good in every person I come in contact with…even those who no longer believe in gravity.

Not a complex question and an even easier answer.

Because the current American Evangelical Christians as we know them are the most shallow, hypocritical, bull-shitting phony tea-sippers the world has ever encountered.

I hope that wasn’t vague or ambiguous.

Because even a dimwit like Trump knows these people are money in his political bank come this November.

As per my Saturday Smerconish question…Trump knows these Birthers and others especially in the eighteen states I circled in red will be all in on this Easter nonsensical date of his which Dr. Fauci has already nixed.

What do we do with these people?

Could we possibly steer them back to England with the excuse they’ve been religiously persecuted in Obama’s America?

Can we imagine in any possible dumpster fire universe that the ‘human’ above could evoke the holiday of Easter and get away with it?

Only one. The one with the eighteen states, which BTW, are an enormous cash flow liability and the one I listed on Saturday with almost stunning prescience.

Trump’s first real jobs report of his presidency incoming.

I just wanted to take a look back this morning to just kind of remember happier days in Oklahoma City. I’m not sure if people in this state fully understand the ramifications of oil at $25 a barrel, but they will in the coming months.

I’m just optimistic we do get to see this Thunder team this late May or June play again and watch them compete in a playoff series.

I watched this video and it seems like this happened a lifetime ago.

What a great story Oklahoma City got to be a part of front and center on the national stage.

I’m taking a break on the markets today. Tomorrow a jobs report comes out and that will be the first real bell-weather economics wise as to where the U.S economy is at right now.

In 2011 the average price per barrel for West Texas Crude was $94.88. In 2012 the average was $94.05 per barrel. Oil closed at slightly over $23 per barrel yesterday.

Devon and Continental were each companies valued around $80 billion each back in 2012. They could each be bought for around $5 billion right now. I wonder if the average Oklahoman understands the trickle down consequences of this fact.

Oklahoma City has some very significant challenges ahead beyond beyond NBA basketball.

Look out for the elderly and be especially kind to your neighbors.

This is my second tribute to the greatest quarterback of all-time. It’s lengthy and has some good music with it to kind of fill the sports void and lighten the times a little.

Overall it should be a good day as the markets have already climbed 1,800 points on the Dow even without the stimulus bill officially passing as of noon CST. If it passes today it could conceivably steady the markets and give some much needed relief to the people in our country who really need some serious assistance right now in their lives.

I’m in a better mood and I’ll start putting some sports on here as we as a nation start the process of slowly putting our country back together.

I totally agree this last $500 billion in limbo cannot be under the oversight discretion of the Deutsche Boy poster child. That would be acute fiduciary malpractice. No way that can happen.

The correct pronunciation is DOY-SCHE. I learned that from reading Dark Towers by David Enrich. Donald Trump is clearly their boy. That being, the oldest banking institution in Germany dating back to the Nazis. Be sure and read the book and enjoy the Tom Brady video.

I don’t think the NBA will be having any more regular season games this season with fans in their arenas, but I do think there’s a chance you can put together a playoff tournament maybe after Memorial Day.

The regular season is done from my perspective. What I would also do is make the first two rounds the best three of five instead of best four of seven. The last thing I’d do is go too far into deep summer. I’d make sure the health of my athletes is paramount to looking ahead for the 2020-21 season.

But even with no fans in the stands, like Cuban, I think Americans will be craving to see any televised sports by late May or early June and that it would be good for the country’s morale to at the least have a televised abbreviated NBA Playoffs.

With the NHL and the Stanley Cup Playoffs….I’d suggest the same format and hope both NBC and the NBSC sports on cable could do the same on television with no fans in the stands as well.

Maybe by the time both sports got to the championship round they could re-examine the data and possibly allow fans inside the arenas.

I in no way agree agree with what Trump is thinking right now that American life will be normal by next Monday. I think some very steep challenges face the nation the next two months economically and functionally.

But having some sports on television will help get the nation back on its feet. I know this…no one in our family will be flying in the next six weeks at the minimum. We’ll all continue to observe social spacing and I may even eliminate take home restaurant food because in Oklahoma we have no clue whatsoever who does or doesn’t have the virus because there is no testing.

I in no way am blaming Donald Trump for the virus, just the inept manner in which he pissed away three critical weeks by ignoring the data in China, South Korea, and Italy. We’re literally flying blind in Oklahoma. Which is nothing new since this was the state which volunteered itself to sonic boom experiments with Operation Bongo back in the day.

I can’t take my eyes off Donald Trump’s tiny little hands. He’s this huge orange whale with these tiny little hands. I know those tiny little hands are the reason he became a bully and is so mean to so many people at so many different levels. But still…I can’t take my eyes off his hands. I’m thinking at some point maybe Dr. Birx can help him out with the hands with a vaccine or some cream or something.

When Richard Pryor was living he had this story in his stand-up routine about this black character named Mudbone.

This character originally had a friend with really huge feet, but he went to this voodoo lady who had a three-legged monkey to see if she could help him out with his feet.

I always think of Richard Pryor when I’m looking at Donald Trump’s hands. I can’t take my eyes off his hands, and now I can’t take my mind off Richard Pryor telling this story about these huge feet which because of a voodoo lady became really tiny little feet.

But this is my ultimate theory on Donald Trump’s hands. Somewhere in his childhood he got on the wrong side of a voodoo lady in Brooklyn who put a mojo curse on his hands… and ever since they’ve been tiny.

A star is born and it’s not Donald Trump. Even with his face and hair not overtly orange of late, Dr. Deborah Birx is becoming to the coronavirus what General Schwartzkopf was to Desert Storm. That being, a comforting voice to the American public sitting at home watching these updates.

She isn’t unhinged. She’s calm and like-able. And it’s actually nice to see a woman standing next to Donald Trump who isn’t a paid escort. It almost makes those at home feel like there is a competent adult at the podium who knows what she’s talking about.

This video was three days ago. Today she was even better and without Dr. Fauci on the stage at all.

Maybe, just maybe, she can be the Donald Whisperer who will help our country get thru this pandemic which today took the lives of one-hundred Americans.

I would much rather see Dr. Birx than any PSAs from Melania.

Please…more time for Dr. Birx at the podium and much less for Donald Trump.

Our country seems lost. Too much selfishness from our politicians on both sides of the aisle. There is no concept of team or all. We re doomed with this mindset.

Sure…we can blame the Republicans for being a group of brain-dead inbreds who voted this idiot into the highest office in the world. But do any of us honestly think the culture in this country wasn’t already in the sewer before Trump?

Trump is clearly a grifter, a douchebag, and human junk bond, but he didn’t do all this by himself.

Then there’s Elizabeth Warren who I’d like to hit with a two by four across her head given I wouldn’t be arrested.

We have someone who might beat Trump and she spends thirty seconds destroying that in the blink of an eye about some things many years ago said by Michael Bloomberg.

We all as men say under the age of forty-five or do some things and say some other things we’d like to have back. It’s a growing process for us as men. It’s takes us longer to grow up.

Take me for instance. At the prescient age of sixty-two…. I recently got banned from the Daily Thunder message board by saying some non-politically correct things on their boards to their version of Elizabeth Warren which I thought were relatively mild. I understand Michael Bloomberg’s frustration.

We can’t say anything to anybody these days without consequences. No one listens to the other point of view.

So as I watch our United States Senate of late…I feel they need an inspirational pep talk or else we are doomed.

We have to start listening to one another.

Who else could make this shit up on a 24/7 basis? The obsession with being a billionaire when most in the know financial writers have his wealth estimated at somewhere between $875 million and $1.25 billion based on the known assets on his real world assets net worth sheet.

Now..I will admit there is the possibility this con artist, Wilbur Ross, and Deutsche Bank could very well have parked some billions in the Cypriot bank or off shore in Cayman accounts or god knows where with some Russian oligarchs.

But as far as his real world worth he’s not anything beyond a singular billionaire depending on the market prices of his golf courses and hotels.

The thought has cross my mind that when the markets did reach 29,500 in mid February if this POTUS grifter did indeed play the American economy short. He’s done everything wrong in handling this to date. Said all the wrong things. Kind of like when George Costanza did the polar opposite of what should have been the right thing.

In George’s case it worked. With no baseball experience whatsoever he became the traveling secretary for the New York Yankees. With Trump, he said all the wrong things and went from a washed up reality television star to the 45th POTUS.

I’ve wondered if he and Steve Bannon figured this is how it ends in Trump’s presidency with them, the Mercers, and Trump playing the American economy short.