Jay Williams on the Thunder:
“As a fan of the game, I just want to see the game respected. There are times where I watch OKC play, I don’t feel like they respect the process of the game. It’s too much foul baiting. When you fall down 95% of every shot you take in the 4th, I get physiologically exhausted.”
(via @GetUpESPN, h/t @NBA__Courtside)
Heartbroken yet again. Lose Hali in game 7 of Finals and the entire next season just to get it ramrodded all over again in the draft lotto. Doing the lotto live w the balls would be better TV and more believable to the masses than the way they do this thing now.
2006: Gloria James watches her 21-year-old son, LeBron, play in the NBA with her grandson, Bronny, on her lap.
2026: Gloria James watches her 41-year-old son and 21-year-old grandson play together in the playoffs.
This is just insane 😳 (via @Ballislife)
IRAN CAPITULATED!
Trump’s blockade worked!
Iran felt the squeeze, wisely surrendered, agreed to help Trump/US MIL de-mine and to not sabotage the Strait of Hormuz, then Trump then told Israel they are prohibited from bombing Lebanon!
Stock markets surging, oil prices falling.
Turns out Trump knew EXACTLY what he was doing, and every single anti-Trump narrative just went up in flames.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"
my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable
the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive
If you were just complaining that a $4 billion dollar trip to space "could have fed the poor" but you're silent about the $126 billion dollar train to nowhere, it's time to stop pretending your politics have anything to do with feeding poor people
Tonight’s injury update from Tyrese Haliburton was the best part of the season.
Indiana fans can’t wait to see their star point guard back on the floor, and after playing 5-on-5 for the first time since June, next season can’t get here soon enough.
https://t.co/Y77VNd5RPm
Yesterday many “experts” told you we were headed for nuclear war & spent the entire day losing their minds. Today the Dow opens up 1300+ points, S&P rises nearly 3%, & oil has dropped $20 a barrel. As always, it pays to be rational. Congrats to those who didn’t lose their minds.
The propaganda machine is out in full force, trying to rewrite history.
Here’s what actually happened:
Trump killed Iran’s leadership, deleted their Air Force and Navy, then gave them a deadline to capitulate, otherwise he would blast them to the Stone Age…
And they folded.
Under no circumstances did Trump lose in any capacity. Trump just wiped out Iran’s military capabilities, without putting boots on the ground, made them cry uncle, and forced them to stop sabotaging global oil markets, while they finish negotiating their surrender.
Trump just pulled off one of the greatest negotiation moves of all time, and the result should be a unanimously celebrated, regardless of what side of the aisle you are on.
However, the Left/MSM will take part in any level of metal gymnastics to avoid admitting this. They will lie, make excuses, and repeat talking points until they are blue in the face, but no matter how much they try to spin it, this is objectively a massive victory for Trump, and the world, and they know it.
8:00AM: Trump should be removed from office for the threat he made.
6:00PM: Trump is a chicken for not following through on the threat he made.
One thing is for certain. The TDS shall continue tomorrow.
The Left just spent the entire day screeching about how we need to impeach Trump, because he is a genocidal manic about to nuke Iran at 8pm.
Now just hours later, when Trump forces a diplomatic solution, they are foaming at the mouth, saying he folded and that we lost the war.
A lot of pearl clutching from the usual suspects online and on the cable news panels about “ending civilization.”
Take a breath. Let’s do some critical thinking and pretend like we actually know how President Trump communicates. Should he be taken literally? Like you really believe he’s going to vaporize the Persian population? Really? Have you been paying attention the last 11 years?
President Trump speaks in terms of POWER, which is the only language our adversaries understand. Carefully worded diplomatic statements make the UN feel nice and cozy but also don’t get anything done.
Pay attention to his actions. And so far the actions have left the Iranian military in shambles, their ballistic mission program nearly gone, and their nuclear program nearly destroyed.
The President is rightfully prioritizing the need for overwhelming force in order to open the Straits of Hormuz. That’s it. That’s the action we can expect.
Donald Trump has made hyperbolic comments as part of negotiation tactics for a full decade, especially on social media, and yet people still run around like insane people reacting to his posts on here. I truly don’t get it.