lael

Husband, Father, #ECU alumni, #HipHop producer, visual artist, #ChiefsKingdom

[lael @laelvc]

He can't accomplish anything of substance or do good & everything is a lie & scam, with criminal intent & narcissistic motives. The Reflecting Pool fiasco encapsulates his fraudulent & ugly legacy.

[Jon “Bowzer” Bauman @JonBowzerBauman]

I repeat: “Donald Trump” is a mythological creation of “Apprentice” boss Mark Burnett: a “Successful Businessman who is Very Strong & says ‘You’re Fired.’”

The reflecting pool fiasco reveals perfectly who he really is: a corrupt, incompetent dolt who bankrupted 6 casinos.

[lael @laelvc]

Rogan is an out of touch, right wing hack. He doesn't follow the NFL or any major sports so let's take this with a very big grain of salt. I used 2 consider him a counter culture, unconventional dude, but it's apparent he's become a conservative shill promoting their propaganda.

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

🚨 Joe Rogan says the UFC White House event had over 150 MILLION views by Monday 🤯

Paramount+ downloads reportedly jumped 276% from their prior 30-day average, while daily active users rose 34%, per @SBJ

[lael @laelvc]

@jasonrmcintyre No need to cover it. Greatness permeates at all levels. The man behind the speech deserves equal recognition as the words themselves.

[lael @laelvc]

Big mad because he chose the wrong guy in T-Rump. Can't even enjoy a historical and starved championship for his city on account of his pettiness and MAGAT BS. F off loser.

[New York Post @nypost]

Knicks owner Dolan appears to throw shade on Mamdani: 'I don't need your vote' https://t.co/IzPeaYvlwy

[lael @laelvc]

@SophieC_FanClub @sophaller Queen has been on a whirlwind tour the last week or so. Went casual today and still looking incredible and will probably light it up on the court.

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Patrick Ewing's championship parade

[lael @laelvc]

I think she's found her flow state. This body language = hard times for the rest of the W.

[Ken Swift @kenswift]

She’s so happy. She honestly doesn’t care about any of this drama we get up in knots about. Good for her.

[lael @laelvc]

"The big QB is better", a tale as old as time. Patrick is every bit as dynamic, more accomplished, & undefeated vs Josh in the playoffs, & yet we are still having this conversation just because Josh looks like Paul Bunyan. Paul Bunyan was a myth just like this is.

[NFL Network @nflnetwork]

"I feel like it's Josh Allen's time"👀

@M_Morse_IGC loves both his former QBs but thinks Josh Allen will hoist a Lombardi sooner than Patrick Mahomes

[SleeperChiefs @SleeperChiefsKC]

▫️Tampering over Jeremy Maclin cost the Chiefs their 2016 third-round pick.

▫️Lacking that draft asset, Kansas City was outbid by Denver for quarterback Paxton Lynch.

▫️Chiefs trade down and draft Chris Jones.

▫️Trade up the next year to select Patrick Mahomes.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

I got into MMA in part because I wanted to get away from politics. Instead, politics followed me there. Watching the sport become increasingly politicized, and watching so much of the media ignore it, has fundamentally changed how I see both MMA and the country.

[Frank “The Legend” Shamrock @frankshamrock]

Brother, there’s a reason I left the sport after spending 20 years getting it back on television. Bad chi, bad peeps in UFC

[lael @laelvc]

This👇

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

It’s not 4D Chess.

He’s too corrupt, too beholden to all the wrong people, too mentally gone to know what he’s doing.

Forget the Middle East, he can’t even get the reflecting pool fixed coz he issued a no-bid contract to his cronies.

He has the DOJ blocking the Epstein files coz he and his rich pedo friends are all over them. That alone should have triggered his removal.

He’ll keep robbing the country blind until the American people have finally had enough.

Isn’t it well past time?

[David Pakman @dpakman]

Trump spent $14 million on the reflecting pool and it looks worse than before, filled with green algae. Trump spent billions on the Iran War and is (best case) going to end up with a worse version of the Obama Iran nuclear deal. Should be removed immediately.

[Matt Verderame @MattVerderame]

If we're talking about real football, not fantasy football or the "potential Olympics", it's not close.

It's Mahomes. He delivers the goods.

Two MVPs, three SB MVPs, two 5,000-yard and a 50-TD season ... and that all takes a backseat to three rings and five SB appearances.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

His name is no longer on the Kennedy Center, but there's a tarp over it so he can avoid humiliation. The ballroom, always an excuse for a bunker, is an endless eyesore, and not privately funded as claimed - but they want to fund it from taxpayers, so he can avoid humiliation. The blue reflecting pool isn't blue anymore - the algae are growing, as algae does, but they're dumping hydrogen peroxide into it so he can avoid humiliation. His attempt to get artists to play for his birthday, failed - which was a massive embarrassment, forcing him to say he was the one who cancelled it, said to avoid humiliation. The Iran war is a whopping defeat, a surrender, and a global disaster, and they're trying to figure out how to help him spin it so he can avoid humiliation.
This is the Trump 2.0 presidency. Thin bluster and fake bravado designed to disguise humiliations.
How humiliating.

[lael @laelvc]

Shocker. Corruption playing out in real time at an event celebrating the most corrupt president and administration in US history.

[BOXING n BBQ @BOXINGnBBQ]

The Ref overruled the Dr!!!!

The corner is calling for the Dr saying he can’t see the Dr calls it!

But ref says no I want to see it keep going!

Justin Gaethje vs Topuria!!!!

[Adam Best @Arrowhead_Adam]

Hearing a bunch of podcasts talk about a large portion of sports fans turning on Victor Wembanyama. Look, as someone who’s watched every second of Mahomes for almost a decade, and the public fallout, this was inevitable. Someone that gifted takes a sport by storm and announces themselves as the new face of the league, modern society is gonna turn on that level of success every single time. It’s who we are. This is the era of haters. Misery loves company. We’re better at tearing down than we are at building up, unfortunately. This is especially true about the noise on social media. People are 10 times more likely to complain than give credit.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Today is Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, representing eight decades of a man who has done more than anyone to hurt the West, elevate its enemies, and trap us in a post-truth nightmare.

While he is certainly a symptom of a deeper political illness, he has actively made things much worse.

Let us be clear that there is nothing to celebrate today, because Trump is the most traitorous, deeply corrupt, and overall worst president in the history of the US. He is a compromised, horrible human being who has lost the respect of anyone with half a brain. His deep ties as a best friend to Jeffrey Epstein prove he knew exactly what was going on behind closed doors. He is the lowest of the low.

He has spent years threatening American allies, appeasing foreign enemies, and losing the reckless trade wars he started.

His leadership has left Americans poorer, more stupid, more polarized, and trapped inside a decadent, ever more authoritarian joke of an administration that hurts the whole world.

He is a traitor. His alignment with autocracy is clear in how he sides with Russia over Ukraine and China over Taiwan. He even systematically undermined domestic safety by installing a Russian asset as the Director of National Intelligence and an anti-science, anti-vaxx Russian asset as Health Secretary. No one is better than Trump at sabotaging the US.

The only bright side to his birthday is that he is old, ensuring he will not be able to stay in power forever. He will never be missed by anyone with a brain and/or a heart, and if I believed in hell, I would seriously doubt it is bad enough for him