Heretic

posted by friendfromlowry

Shams said on First Take he guesses Lebron has one or two more years left, but could also depends on what happens with Bryce, his younger son. 

I say why stop there? His daughter looks to be about ten. Maybe in eight years they could be first father - daughter NBA duo. He could be first 50 year old to play in the NBA. 

Lol, Bronny's basically turned into the weirdest "just to make pops happy" hire ever now that he's been assigned to the D-league...but only playing in home games because he's NOT flying commercial to do stupid shit like actually develop as a basketball player by playing in a full season worth of games.

So, I'm in favor of LeBron remaining a high-level player for forever, just to see how far a team will bend over backwards to make him happy. I'm also guessing Bronny wants him to be a high-level player forever, too, since the minute the Lakers don't need to make daddy happy, his career is over unless some low-level team takes a flier on him to see if that will at least give them an attendance/ratings bump.

posted by iclfan2

Disney is blowing $250M+ on the live action Snow White. And they hired this dumb ho to be Snow White, probably leading to a huge deficit. Lawls.

https://x.com/mynerdyhome/status/1856622409941446785?s=46&t=6w2XbPMrNrOkLnwSSn4TOQ

If memory serves, she's also the person who created a bit of a stir when she made comments to the effect of not caring about the original Snow White due to the whole "girl saved by prince" thing.

And also made a lot of guys super confused as to how an Evil Queen played by GAL GADOT, of all people, would be remotely concerned about her being a threat to the whole "fairest of them all" deal.

In essence, the left fucked up on this issue by letting the super-progs dictate its terms. And with that group, there's no cause too small that it can't be treated like the most important thing on Earth that everyone needs to get behind or they're bad, bad people. While they self-sabotage their efforts every step of the way with their "If you aren't cool with everything, FUCK YOU!!!!!!" attitudes. AKA: The same sort of thing we're getting now with certain Ds or D-leaning TV mouthpieces playing the "we only lost because this/these demographic(s) are TOO STUPID to do what they should have!!!" card.

I mean, just the concept that a group that's as small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things as trans people was so prevalent in election ads and a focus point of the campaigns of Trump and other prominent R candidates is insane. But the left just sort of skipped the "tolerate" and "accept" stages and went right to "celebrate" and did so in ways a lot of people didn't like, such as the "born male, competes with females" stuff and the Rs kept up their proven track record in amplifying and exaggerating things, setting up a situation where a lot of people probably were swayed towards the right by that issue -- at least far more than would be swayed left by it.

Seems like this wouldn't have been much of an actual issue if trans advocates were more like, "Trans people are people, too; live and let live; be cool" and left it at that. But that doesn't make the over-the-top advocates feel like they're doing their job, so that didn't happen, we got a world where a certain portion of the population feels you committed a hate crime if you "deadname" the wrong person and that just didn't resonate all that well.

In semi-related news, looks like the Senate Majority leader will be Thune. Seems Twitter-MAGA's big mad because they wanted Rick Scott and, therefore, everyone involved in it being someone else is a DAMN TRAITOR!!!! Because in their brains, anyone who does anything other than what they think is best for Trump is some sort of historically horrible human being.

Saw last week that Popovich was on leave from the Spurs. According to Twitter, that's because he suffered a mild stroke. That sucks.

posted by CenterBHSFan

Rubio IS establishment. 

Yeah, but he's in the Lindsey Graham class of establishment where he'll say and do establishment things whenever he can, but the minute Trump gives him the stink eye, he'll immediately do what he's told because, first and foremost, he's a coward whose greatest fear is pissing off the wrong crowd and losing his position as a result.

So, in short, he's there to be a yes man for Trump who probably knows just what will happen if he tries to go in any other direction.

posted by friendfromlowry

Kind of a rhetorical question but does Jerry Jones know he can just be quiet after the games. He doesn’t have to say everything that’s on his grumpy old mind to reporters. 

But then he wouldn't be the center of attention and that's the only thing his decrepit ass really cares about.

And this one might even be the best of the bunch. His stadium uses curtains on the windows for all sorts of events, but can't during NFL games for whatever reason even though the sun will be a big factor for parts of those 4 p.m. games. And if Dallas is at home and it isn't a night game, they will be playing at 4.

Has his top receiver drop a touchdown because he couldn't see the ball when the game was still close and all he can do is go off on "what about the moon?" and "maybe we should just tear the stadium down and build another" tangents because he's crazy as fuck. I love this and pretty much eagerly await JERRY'S NEXT ADVENTURE after every single loss.

Well, at least they're realistic enough to know that Kamala needs to be appointed to a national office in order to obtain it, since the whole "being voted in" thing hasn't worked out so well for her.

posted by justincredible

The Jets reek.

But thanks for Mike Williams, bro! Paid off for my team for at least one week!

Good win, especially since they overcame a couple huge blunders to get one on the road against a good team. 

In something I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever have reason to type, but am overjoyed to see this opportunity happen: Former NBA'er Lamar Odom is commissioning some sex doll company to create him one that looks exactly like ex-wife Khloe Kardashian. And not just commissioning it, but doing so in a very public way that involves videos being made of this process. Which might be the most hilariously sad thing I've ever seen. Like, if you need a sex doll to get off, that's the sort of shit most people would keep REALLY on the down-low. Make it super-public so anyone can easily find out that you're so totally not over your divorce and have a horrible case of the hornies for her...just amazing!

posted by Trueblue23

Make Rubio the official "UFO revealer Guy".  He and Nancy Mace (and her incredible rack)

posted by ptown_trojans_1

Saw Rubio as well as state. Also, Richard Grenell.

The Attorney General will be an interesting one as that is one where Trump says he wants way more influence on how the agency acts. One name I read was Mark Paoletta, who served in OMB under Trump.

Linda McMahon will probably be in there somewhere.

Some Treasury names are billionaires John Paulson or Scott Bessent. Jaime Dimon already said he won't serve.

Make Rubio the official "UFO revealer Guy".  He and Nancy Mace (and her incredible rack)

posted by Laley23

This is the exact problem democrats created. Too afraid to upset any faction of America. Cave to feels. I didn't want Trump to win, but he did, so accept it and get on with your life and hope that he proves you (me) wrong in the spots I think he has a bad plan. I want nothing more than to be wrong. 

Saw a clip of someone speaking on some show somewhere (ELITE REMEMBERING OF DETAILS!!!) who basically said exactly that for the Ds, using examples like the term LatinX because everyone needs their own gender-neutral term so some random person somewhere doesn't get offended while, at the same time, being confused as hell as to why the economy is the overall top concern of Americans.

Paul George with a fun lack of self awareness, complaining about Clipper fans booing him in his return to their place.

Because apparently, spending 5 of your 15 years in the NBA there makes you such a beloved figure in Clipper lore that fans will just forget minor details like you saying that being there instead of the Lakers just felt like being on the "B team".

This is the exact problem democrats created. Too afraid to upset any faction of America. Cave to feels. I didn't want Trump to win, but he did, so accept it and get on with your life and hope that he proves you (me) wrong in the spots I think he has a bad plan. I want nothing more than to be wrong. 

posted by BR1986FB

LOL at the blame game. Dem's going hard after George Clooney for pushing Biden to drop out.

Must be a really unfocused blame game, because I've seen them also blame Biden for taking too long to drop out and for choosing to run again in the first place.

posted by jmog

Trump is going to end up pretty close to the same number of votes in 2024 as he did in 2020, +/- a couple million. The Ds dropped right back down to 66m ish  

After going up 11ishM from 2016 to 2020 -- which was when the Ds had the huge bump in votes.

Which would mean, if cheating is an issue, that Biden cheated better than Trump in 2020. Then Harris didn't cheat to go back to pre-Biden numbers, while Trump maintained his cheating.

OR, it more likely came down to...

1. Trump was pretty unpopular outside his base at the end of his term and also had a ton of heat (whether correctly or incorrectly) over his COVID response, which the Ds were able to take advantage of to get the largest turnout of an election that had a historically huge turnout because way too many people used their months of lockdown to really devour any and all poli-shit.

2. And those people didn't bother with this one because of any number of factors ranging from Biden wasn't remotely what his voters were hoping to get and had popularity numbers as bad or worse than Trump's TO Biden's failing mental state TO him being abruptly replaced by a VP who had been amazingly unpopular when she tried for the presidential nomination in '20 TO how Kamala had no real answer after her immediate surge ended and reality set in.

3. And credit to Trump: He lived up to the "Teflon Don" nickname in so many different ways, as he was able to dodge and avoid shit that would tank almost anyone else. Basically ignored all the talk about his declining mental state and when that turned into "he's getting too tired to campaign", he picked things up and was doing multiple stops a day leading into the election. He crossed the finish line doing what he had to do in order to win; I don't think Kamala can say that.

In short, the way 2020 went down, a lot more people were fired up and wanted their voice heard. In 2024, most of those people were just numb and didn't GAF because it wasn't like doing so magically changed anything for the better.

I'd like to say things will be learnt by the Ds based on this failure, but their immediate reaction today online seems to be "big mad; flailing". I've seen people repeat the 2020 R line of "we had better crowds at rallies, so these numbers don't add up" and also seen people call Latinos stupid for "voting against their self-interest". Because in politics, it's never "Our messaging wasn't good enough and we cared more about pet project issues than what people wanted to see front and center."; it's always, "No. The people are wrong and we are right."

Can't say I'm surprised. Probably wouldn't have been surprised if it'd gone the other way. Have so many alleged experts giving their predictions and it's easy to believe anything, even though (or especially because) so many have so little credibility in the end. Like the complete idiot who was calling Iowa to switch 10+% from last time and go to Harris. That pollster is never gonna be taken seriously by anyone ever again.

I'm just glad it's hopefully essentially over. These election cycles just get more stupid and obnoxious as time goes on. I mostly just avoided social media and news media for all of last night and focused on MAC-tion, with the occasional look at what was trending on Twitter. That was enough entertainment for me to watch people go from "We got this!" to "We can still get this!" to "We need stuff to go right to get this, but that happened in 2020 didn't it?!?" to "Oh...FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!".

I know Denver was about the first NFL town to be in a state that ratified weed as legal, but DAMN! They love those things up there!!!