Month: January 2022

So what happened to this person one year later?

Hardball big money politics and dark money is what happened. Lindsey Graham miscalculated as did Mitch McConnell that half of registered Republicans a year later would still believe anything coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth.

Politics is what happened. And probably a year after the election like most Republicans Lindsey Graham realized Joe Biden wasn’t going to govern as a moderate as he promised, but would fold his tent to the far left lane of his own party which he somewhat denounced back in the Democratic primaries of 2020 before James Clyburn saved Joe Biden’s presidential aspirations.

Here’s the truth about Joe Biden’s presidency so far…it’s been more of James Clyburns’ presidency with Joe Manchin acting as a brake from the American political middle.

Take a guess who the most trusted American is at some level of American government currently? It’s Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who currently holds a 65% approval rating. John Roberts is a moderate who was appointed to the Court by Bush 43. You know how he gets to 65%? He gets there because almost all registered Independents like myself and somewhere around 20% of Republicans view him as a non-partisan sane human being compared to the other options available.

Sixty-two lawsuits were filled by Trump’s Legal Dream Team of lunatics and dimwits and by my count only one wasn’t dismissed. Trump’s own Supreme Court of which he appointed three Justices wouldn’t even give him the time of day.

This wasn’t like in Gore vs. Bush where the Supreme Court heard the arguments and then voted 5-4 in favor of Bush.

The Trump supporters still mouthing their claims of a fixed election need to at this point spend their time finding a viable GOP candidate in 2024 who has some integrity instead of wasting their time any longer on this nonsensical Donald Trump bullshit.

The math is very simple as from above.

If the GOP would present a qualified candidate to the American voting public they would probably win rather easily….given what we witnessed with the sloppy withdrawl from Afghanistan, the admission that no one really understands Covid at this point, and the most runaway inflation since Jimmy Carter.

No one I know was clamoring for Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris in 2020. Bernie….maybe, but with someone as a Vice-President who’s actually had to pay payroll taxes at some point in their life.

I like Bernie…I just don’t agree with him on everything. Kind of like with Tom Coburn and Barack Obama. But I ended up voting for Obama after McCain gave me no choice with Crazy Sarah Palin and all those children with bizarre first names.

None of Bernie, Harris, or Elizabeth Warren had any political traction whatsover when James Clyburn saved Joe Biden in South Carolina.

Everyone thought that was going to be Michael Bloomberg’s candidacy in South Carolina possibly, but what it in fact became was the prelude to James Clyburn’s presidency.

Don’t get me wrong…I respect Jim Clyburn, but just be up front is all I’m saying.

And to close…none of this excuses Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell for their lack of action to date. Maybe they’ve just been hoping Trump would die before the 2024 election and they wouldn’t have to do the very hard political right thing.

Doing the right thing is tough…just ask Liz Cheney.

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On tomorrow’s edition of Trump’s Domestic Terrorist Insurrection: One Year Later….I’d like to discuss the Election of 1876, the Election of 1960, and the Election of 2000 in relation to what we just witnessed a year ago.

Enjoy the NFL football today. Be thankful we’ve had brave Americans fight for our freedoms instead of them being taken away based on the whims of one petulant spoiled trust fund brat.

What happens at some point if Trump banishes the New England Patriots from tht NFL television contracts because BilliCOCK shamed Trump after the insurrection. It’s all about democracy and the American Dream in the end….and it shouldn’t matter what party you belong to.

Donald Trump would have lasted one day at two-a-day football practices at John Marshall. He then would have etiher quit, gotten the shit kicked of him, transferred to an all-white private school, or grown up into a man of some sort. Or maybe he would have had his driver Dan Scavino substitute for him at practices.

Bravo to Senator Graham on his opening from the Election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. I actually wrote a term paper on this election my junior year of college.

Too bad Lindsey Graham folded two weeks later.

Hopefully we get some good bowl games on New Years’ Day. Last night was an abomination…although I have to admit I smiled seeing the Big 10 embarrassed to the extent they were last night.

What we saw was a vivid reminder of why the SEC now owns the exclusive rights to the top tier level of Division 1 college football. The Big 10, the ACC, the Big 12, and PAC 12 are all just filler as long as Nick Saban is ruling not only the SEC, but the entire landscape of college football….minus perhaps Georgia with Saban U graduate Kirby Smart running Bulldog Nation.

And I would guess this to a certain degree is why Lincoln Riley and his agent scurried out West to avoid the blitzkrieg of physical SEC football.

If one simply looks at the tenures of SEC West coaches the past five years… one would observe every other school in the SEC West minus Alabama has fired their football coach at least once in this time frame with LSU and Auburn bordering on the insane in this regard. You think Lincoln’s agent more than once mentioned this to his client?

The one thing I like about OU’s chances in pulling this off is they have the best AD in the country in Joe C who knows what has to be done.

So in essence…Joe C just collected $4.5 million from USC to take Lincoln Riley off his hands and make the necessary changes to his football program two years before entering the SEC. Has anyone even considered the possibility Joe C was glad he didn’t have to fire Lincoln Riley?

Don’t get me wrong…I think Lincoln would have continued to be wildly successful in the Big 12 or the PAC 12, but in the SEC it’s complmentary two-way football where you have to be able to recruit beyond just the offensive skill positions.

This is also why OU with Brent Venables and Jeff Lebby now give OU a much more reaslistic chance to assimilate the OU program to the interior physicality of which will be needed to become relevant beyond just being the third best team in the SEC.

So it’s New Years’ Day and I’ll be pulling for O State to win the Fiesta Bowl in what I think is a pick ’em game. Jaylen Warren should provide much needed relief to the turnover prone Spencer Sanders.

In the Rose Bowl…I have no idea. I’m not sure who is and isn’t playing for the Buckeyes. But I still believe the Big 10 was the most overrated Power 5 conference this season. I’ll be curious to see if Utah can bring sustained physicality in this game.

The Sugar Bowl with Baylor vs. Ole Miss is a game I’m acutely interested in because Jeff Lebby will be coaching the Rebel offense against Dave Aranda’s stingy defense which basically shackled Lincoln Riley’s offense three times in a row.

If I’m Caleb Williams and his father…. I’m sitting down together and watching this game while taking notes as to how Ole Miss, with Matt Corral the first QB expected to go in the NFL draft, attack Dave Aranda’s defense.

I would probably be inclined to take Ole Miss in this game. But I think it could be a great game if Baylor can control the tempo somewhat.

Ice on the roads in Deer Creek, Oklahoma with a searing wind chill. A great day to eat black-eyed peas, cornbread, and maybe sip on a New Years’ Jack Daniels coffee.

You see these three games would be part of my Junior Heavyweight college football national championship tournament. My other two teams in a normal setting if their coaches hadn’t bailed would have possibly been OU and Oregon. Maybe Iowa or Kentucky. I’d have to think about it some more. Think how much fun this eight team tournament would have been.

So there you go.

Spencer Sanders…run the ball, dude. That’s what you do best besides handing off the ball to Jaylen Warren. Play a clean game and give your guys a chance.

And a shout out to Georgia’s offensive coordinator Todd Monken for getting his offense untracked and into the national championship game. El Prez loves Todd Monken because he says f–k a lot more than I do and that makes feel better about myself.. Good luck, Todd Monken.

I actually love Todd Monken as a coach. Anyone who’s ever played or coached sports understands how it is you say f–k now and again in the heat of the moment.

Coach Monken was O State’s offensive coordinator in 2011. Then became head coach at Southern Miss. Then became offensive coordinator at Tampa Bay faced with the arduous task of figuring out how to make Jamesis Winston an NFL quarterback. Then Coach M became the offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns. Now… he’s the guy running Kirby Smart’s offense in Athens.

I love this video. O State agreed to let ESPN have access to the team to do a mini docu of sorts. Coach Monken said f–k a few times with the camera rolling. I thought it was great. If you think college football is a gentle passive activity….you might want to rethink that one.

Hope you have a great New Years’ watching football.

The games were so bad I ended up googling John Madden videos to cheer me up.

For the first time ever I quit on the College Football Playoff National Semifinals. The games were in two words horrible bordering on unwatchable. I quit on the Michigan-Georgia debacle seven minutes into the third period.

Horrific…even worse than watching the Thunder play an 82 game schedule.

Kirk and these guys at ESPN are going to have to come up with another concept.

What I would suggest is this…have two separate DI championships. Have what’s called the Heavyweight Open champion which in essence would be the two SEC teams from the East and West finalists playing the best two out of three games spread out over a five week period. There’s your first national champion. That’s the big boy ball champion.

Then take the next top eight teams out of Division I and have them aligned in an eight team single elimination tournament. You would call this your Junior Heavyweight champion.

In that Heavy Weight division the winning team gets paid $2 million to be spread out amongst the players. This would be beyond the television bowl rights monies specifically delegated to paying the players.

The losers get $1.5 million.

It’s time beyond NIL to make sure student-athletes on the entire roster are being compensated with at the least spending money for normal college student-athlete activities.

So…in essence what I would suggest beyond conference realignment is a pragmatic approach to separate the three tiers of DI college football to make it better for the players and fans alike.

Enough of these unwatchable mismatches.

This almost makes me think Gundy intentionally didn’t score from a yard out on those seven plays vs. Baylor just to avoid playing either Alabama or Georgia. Don’t laugh…I could see Gundy doing that especially since Boone isn’t around to call him out.

I’m feeling pretty good about that Alamo Bowl championship right now.

It’s New Years’ Eve…I’m getting ready to take my annual N.Y.E. hot tub with a glass or two of champagne.

Be safe. And call Uber if you’ve been drinking.

Happy New Year!

They are a well oiled machine. Hopefully the second national semi-final will provide us some competitive drama.

I wonder….if the GOP nominated Saban …. would Saban be able to settle down the Proud Boys in the South and straighten out the likes of the GOP Corruption Twins….Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.

Trump has never really done anything in his life except live off his Daddy’s trust fund and hang with Russian and Slovenian escorts who enjoy urinating all over each other.

All I can figure is there must be a lot of swingers in these southern faux Christian states and the rallies must be how they exhange all their hookup data.

Saban 2024

Coach Saban…just them give zero effective marginal rates on both the individual and corporate ledgers, subsidize golden showers as a federal non-taxable stimulus rebate, and promise two AK-15 assault rifles in every home where there’s joint filers…and presto…you’re POTUS 47. Swear to god. That’s all you would have to do to be the next POTUS.