The Cavs finally woke up. Too late. Does this mean the Warriors are no longer called the best-team ever? And will LeBron James go to the Lakers or Clippers? And will the Lakers draft Lonzo Ball? So many questions.
The Cavs finally woke up. Too late. Does this mean the Warriors are no longer called the best-team ever? And will LeBron James go to the Lakers or Clippers? And will the Lakers draft Lonzo Ball? So many questions.
Question to all – why do the elite ‘MSM’ always refer to the African-Americans top end players by their first name? ‘Michael’…’Kobe’…’Magic’…’Le Bron’…instead of their last names?
I never recalls Russel called ‘Bill’ nor Jerry West called ‘Jerry’ or Bob Cousy called ‘Bob’ or how about Larry Byrd called ‘Larry’…nor Elgin Baylor called ‘Elgin’…why is that?
Listten any day to the politically left stench left and their ‘approved’… (Barakska approved fool) and female be@tch approved….oh the oppression of the oppressed….the LAA be beatin’ the back end of the HOU Astros behinds 9 to 4 and the fraud cpn i.e. the land O’Malley stole from Hispanic homeowners aka Chavez Ravine the draft dogers are beating the commies from Hamilton Cty-OH 2 -1 go bolsheviks!
The ‘PC’ police aka – the demokratiche arbeit is in full flow on this website…barakska he be their king
What brand of vodka are you drinking tonight?
Whichever vodka that Putin gave Trump.
What’s amazing is that Hillary, with all the spending and big media support, still couldn’t even beat The Donald. She has to be the stupidest candidate in the history of American Presidential politics.
No doubt. And she keeps making it worse by talking more. And I voted for her because of the alternative, but there are many people who were not enthusiastic about either one, myself included.
My fear now is that we’ll have to watch Chelsea mount some type of national political career. Only in America.
No more Clintons or Bushs would be just fine with me. To some degree, the media is getting what they sowed. In the primaries, they gave tons of free media to Trump because of ratings. Then it was, “oh s#%t” what did we do? They helped him win the primary. He played the press for over a year.
Seems like a long way to go in this one, if there turns out to be a money trail.
Big media, with the lone exception of Fox, has always hated Trump with a passion and tried to destroy him.
But they overplayed their hand and lost all credibility when word began to leak out that 20X as many people were attending Trump rallies compared to Hillary’s and this was always downplayed or just completely ignored.
The media’s just as crooked as anyone involved in the political process. Watching CNN’s overtly biased coverage with people like Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper is a great lesson in American politics at its dirtiest. On the night Trump was elected, I swear I saw ABC’s Martha Raddatz crying. George Stephanopolous looked like he’d just heard his dog got run over.
The media, in their arrogance, thought their coverage of Trump was so negative that it was hurting him. They along with polls framed to make hillary look stronger than she was and hillary’s supreme ego, thinking she could continue the big lie campaign because Americans are so dumb.
Wonder what the outcome would have been had she just admitted to the email server? Or that she might have made a mistake regarding Benghazi.
I don’t think Hillary could have ever admitted her obvious intentional server subterfuge without setting up huge problems with her cash cow “foundation”. She’s one of the more polished crooks of all-time. So glad she got stuffed last November. Also fun to watch her publicly make a fool of herself ever since. I’m sure there will be more to come.
I don’t think Hillary is a polished crook, or she would have won. She is married to a polished crook. She is a rank amateur compared to Bill.
She’s not in jail, where she should be. That’s what I meant by polish.
She wasn’t elected because she’s not likeable in the least, is slightly troll-like and hasn’t an ounce of charisma.
Oh no, let’s not go here, I will leave it as she’s just not polished. The crook thing, well the evidence talks for itself, dating all the way back to Arkansas. Her involvement with his women etc., hipocracy being her mainstay. And financial dealings…..
That was the point. She’s not polished.
88, You just gave the State of Arkansas a bad name. I am originally from California when it shined across the globe. How times have changed.
When did Arkansas have a good name? I’m a California native.
Unfortunately Alta Kalifornia has surpassed Arkansas in corruption under One Party Democrat Rule with Governor Moonbeam.
You forgot her Pretty In Pink Performance? Nobody didn’t recall her criminal antics at the Rose Law Firm with more style than Hillary.
The media loves ratings above all else and Trump was and is good for ratings. While they dislike Trump, they have benefited from his daily controversies. The NY Times is growing, reversing a decline.
Hillary doesn’t admit mistakes. She is much like Trump in that and she may have been advised by her attorneys not to do so. She is the Buffalo Bills of politics.
It was always more than just “ratings” with Trump. Big media has an intense personal dislike of Trump, all that he stands for, and that goes far beyond mere ideological difference. That’s easy to see based on the 24/7 coverage of anything negative about him from his entry into the race until this very moment.
Trump still beat Hillary because she’s fundamentally a crook, regardless of what her lawyers ever advised her to do. The average American figured this out and shoved her to the curb despite her overwhelming political and financial advantages. Her complete lack of even an iota of charisma cemented her downfall.
They are both crooks.
Hillary has no charisma and is a lousy campaigner. Lost to Obama in 2008 when it looked like she was a lock. Almost lost to Sanders who came from nowhere and then folded like a cheap tent against a total fraud in Trump. She’s been a horrible candidate outside of New York. The resume’ candidate with no vision and an inability to connect to voters. Trump found a way to connect although I know many people of all political stripes that can’t stand him. I’m one.
Too bad you lost. Better luck next time.
Not me, Jack. We all lost on this one, IMO, no matter who was elected between those two.
At least I have Bruin football. This will finally be the year!! 🙂
Speak for yourself 88. People like me are extremely happy to see Trump systematically destroying everything Obama did or tried to do. He’s only just begun, thank God. Much more is yet to come, to my utter delight.
As far a bruin football goes, hope you are ready for you big beat down in Nov because it’s coming. I think you’ll win 7 games though, so it’ll be a big improvement over last season, the one that proved Mora has big limitations and that even the bruin players are aware of it.
I think UCLA gets to 7 or 8 wins. Curious to see what the new offensive coaches are able to accomplish and if Rosen has matured. I think we beat A&M to start. UCLA is notorious for good starts prior to classes starting.
One similarity for each school is that neither one can afford an injury to the QB. So much of SC is about Darnold and the plays he can create out of nothing. Not sure you will know what you have with Helton until Darnold is gone. Special player that is all business and no hotdog. Hope some of that rubs off on Rosen.
Most any school that loses their starting QB is toast as far as real achievement. Think ALA, OU, UW, et al. Ironically though, it didn’t seem to me that your loss of Rosen hurt the bruins as much as I expected because of your complete lack of any running game.
You should beat A&M at home. They are nothing special. But when classes start, ucla always hits the skids. So strange that your coaches can’t ever figure how to address that consistently long-standing issue.
We only won one game without Rosen, so it was a pretty large loss. The lack of production from the OL was major. The run game was a disaster which is why KP and Klemm are gone. The receivers dropped a lot of balls as well. We will see what the new OC, OL and WR coaches can do. UCLA has the toughest league schedule with UW, Stanford and SC on the road, so getting to 8 wins will be a challenge.
While most teams cannot afford to lose a QB, I think it’s even more so for UCLA and SC, particularly SC because of how much Darnold can do.
Darnold has certainly demonstrated far more winning ability than Rosen has ever mustered. To even compare the two makes me laugh out loud.
Rosen, who can’t find his way out of a collapsing pocket if his life depends on it, can’t hold Darnold’s jockstrap. At SC, Rosen would be seeking a transfer as we speak, if he weren’t already gone.
Don’t quite agree. Essentially, 2017 UCLA FB is the same as the 2016 4 – 8 Bruins.
The Bruins have the toughest P – 12 schedule and pretty much the same O-Line as last year, that helped UCLA to finish DEAD last in NCAA Div 1 FB average game rushing yds.
A healthy Rosen is obviously a plus, but if the O-Line can’t protect him or improve UCLA rushing game, then what?
I mean Mora can go 5 – 7 in 2017, and claim UCLA is improving. We need a FB HC who concentrates his energy on UCLA FB and skips the Kilimanjaro trips.
The team is not the same as last year. The coaching has changed and the QB is back on the field. There are a lot of unknowns heading into the season.
It is with the exception of the addition of 2017 FB class recruits. The two recruits likely to start are on defense.
Just because Mora got off his booty and hired two new coaches means very little. Lest you forget 88, Mora engineered last year’s debacle.
As I said Rosen is a plus, but yadda, yadda, yadda!
You mean skip the coeds.
If UCLA steadily gets worse players overall, just how much success can they have?
Are you a libertarian, Jack? I don’t quite understand what exactly you stand for. Every man for himself, and devil take the hindmost?
In the last presidential election, I stood and stand for change at any price and was handsomely rewarded. I absolutely love what Trump is doing internationally.
As far as bruin football goes, I stand for their continued mediocrity, year, after year, after year. Their wimpy culture lives on somehow in football. There are lots of theories as to why, but some questions are too deep to fathom. In the meantime, I rejoice.
UCLA gets plenty of talent. They don’t recruit as well as SC, but are consistently in the top 2 or 3 in the conference. We specialize in doing less with more.
You really have gone the Leonard Tose Route.
I agree that she rubbed so many people the wrong way. I was surprised how many people I knew voted for her, but said they “held their nose” to do so.
Personally, I didn’t quite understand the personal antipathy. She was a professional politician out of one of the two machines–no more, no less.
OTOH, Lessig pretty much nailed it. Without process reform, no sustained improvement in government is possible. I recommend his presentation to Google in about 2011. There are shorter versions as well, but that one touches all the bases.
IMO, to dwell on individual candidates or even substantive issues makes no sense, because the flawed process assures continued mediocrity, corruption, and an alienated electorate.
It’s the same old story of money and corruption in politics. The slate of candidates was pretty poor overall and the lack of leadership in Congress is staggering. Does anyone really feel good about Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi? Or Mitch McConnell and Fritz Schumer? There are a lot of reasons to have hobbies. I am an optimist by nature but currently don’t see any real leaders with an ounce of courage in either party.
88, you’re a microcosm for the electorate in general–you’re alienated. Take 10 minutes and start the Lessig presentation to Google. If it doesn’t interest you, turn it off.
IMHO, the things you find discouraging are largely the result of how we finance candidates and elections. And Jack B., although very different in his views, is apparently experiencing analogous alienation. Why else would a seemingly rational lawyer, often insightful about a variety of subjects, seek “change at any price”?
Because anyone can see a $20 trillion debt welfare state and being the world’s policeman is just as unsustainable today as it was 117 years ago for the British Empire?
You are so close to figuring it out…Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell and Schumer are all Globalists. They love 1 % growth and foreigners taking the jobs away from STEM majors in Silicon Valley and Disney as long as their nests are feathered. It’s so amazing that the non-public employee unions have fallen for Globalism when the common man loses most.
Since Reagan we have had only one choice, Globalism, with two flavors, Clinton or Bushie style RINOism, until the Nationalist Trump gave us a true choice. Now Maxine Waters Democrats want to impeach Trump for bravely dumping the global warming scam. That’s real change we can believe in.
(1) I don’t see Trump making the employment picture rosier, and I hope I’m wrong.
(2) I think you’re in error about the human impact on global warming. I’m not clear why you call it a scam. Which journals have you read that support that view? A few years ago, your view had some contrarian traction in the science community, but it evaporated as more and more studies were published.
(3) Exactly which CEOs HAVE supported Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord?
(4) I do think that we have some very hard choices to make regarding the national debt, and what we can realistically provide to citizens. Peter Drucker, whom I found to be a very strong thinker, suggested a number of years ago that all developed countries would have to face those choices. However, Peter Drucker was also appalled at the skyrocketing CEO pay as a multiple of the average company employee’s pay.
(5) Just what rate of growth do you think is achievable? Buffett, for one, does NOT think that steady 2% compound is sustainable. What is your number?
(6) Personally, what concerns me most is the growing alienation of the electorate, and what that may lead to going forward. You and I never went through the Great Depression, nor WWII. When I was in school, I became enamored of neo-classical, neo-liberal economics. My father pointed out regarding the folks left behind: “They go to the gun.” Marxism and fascism may be forgotten, but I think it’s naive to consider them dead.”
So, 22, if Trump’s trickle-down efforts fail (when have they ever succeeded over a long period of time, in any country, may I ask?), and if this economy is not capable of steady compound growth of 2% (I’m inclined to go with Buffett on that), what exactly are you expecting to happen going forward?
Here is my forecast: Trump will not serve out his term, because of some combination of the following:
(1) The intelligence community in Europe is likely to release everything it has to incriminate him and everyone remotely associated with him. You may respond that they have nothing, but I predict otherwise. When credit dried up in 2008, I think the Donald became a professional money launderer to save his wealth. When that outside contractor for the CIA get arrested for leaking that memo the Russian interference was a fact, not a theory, did you hear the CIA state that the memo was a fake? I didn’t hear that. That sort of puts the Trump group’s inappropriate contacts in a different light, don’t you think? I understand, it’s early in the game, but I’m making predictions, not writing history.
(2) The Donald’s approval ratings may drop below 30%, and the GOP may then dump him, and threaten impeachment behind closed door, unless he resigns. They need to keep their careers, Trump or no Trump;
(3) The Donald had no idea what he was getting into as President. The stress, the criticism, the NY AG’s class action, etc. may precipitate a serious health event that renders him incapable of continuing in office, perhaps even kills him. He is a fat old man, don’t forget.
(4) His departure, will lead current diehard supporters to assemble a revisionist “stab in the back” theory. Would you join in that, do you think?
So, 22, please share YOUR forecast. Perhaps you want to confer with 47, and make a joint forecast.
That’s because you are a socialist and want to destroy America. You loved Obama.
Agree that his ratings are high, but historically contradicts that media would hurt their own darlings and this year was no different. Not one media outlet, and only one pre-election poll showed Trump with a chance. All media coverage, sans Fox, was completely slanted, even going so far as to say. All Trump followers were ultra rightists. They still can’t explain what happened in Michigan or Wisconsin.
Clearly disconnected from reality. Can’t remember an election where the media and favorite was sooo wrong.
They were right nationally regarding the overall percentages and wrong in their electoral analysis. Not even Fox had Trump winning, particularly in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Bill Hannity had Trump winning outright and against all odds for a long time. True story.
Was a poll out of Ohio that showed Trump winning for months also. Disregarded by all media outlets, as is usually the case when not in lockstep with their agendas. All about what the questions were and how they’d present them. Polls are easy to manipulate.
Sean Hannity is piece of work. He is like the California voter you mentioned above in reverse. i think Pudly was discussing the pollsters and not the pundits, who almost universally were picking Hillary.
The difference being Hannity was right all along, while people like Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Martha Radditz, Gloria Borger and huge Hillary donator George Stephanopolous, just to name a few, were all wrong. And yes, they did all predict and presume Hillary’s victory. It wasn’t just the polls as any fool could see. Hannity was more astute than all of them put together and he publicly laid it on the line. I realize all you dems are still choking to death on your big loss. Maybe you’ll get used to it some day. Maybe not. They say acceptance is the answer to all your problems.
California would elect a dead violent criminal person if they were a democrat. Thank God what Calif says doesn’t go.
That’s because Fox-WSJ was polling with NBC.Their polls were as useless as Nate Silver.
88, Good points. My presidential candidate, Donald Trump, Owes Plenty to the news media for being able to out vote his 16 challengers.
Another Kissy86er conspiracy theory- the lib media elected Trump!
You voted for Hillary because Stalin wasn’t available, Kissy86er.
I can see why many of your fellow Trojans don’t claim you.
And we have already established that you need acceptance from strangers, Kissy86er. You need a CODA meeting, stat!
Fake News, 88.
I don’t agree, but I believe we will eventually find out.
47 = fake brain.
Is it true Trump stress is making you fat, Owns? I heard it is worse for you Sore Losermen than the Freshman Fifteen.
Poor Kissy86er, did you melt into a puddle when Comey let you down and even Tingles said your Russia conspiracy theory was history?
Where did Comey let me down? He should have stood up sooner but Trump wasn’t a winner out of that testimony.
You may want to hold off on that one. Mueller is putting together a very strong team. It’s not a sprint and eventually the truth will come out.
Sure he was, did you miss all the despondent SJWs in Brooklyn filing out of the bars Friday afternoon? Or were you passed out in the corner already? 60 Minutes of Lib Prop is so depressed about the Comey Flop that their big scoop tonight is that kids are addicted to their smart phones.
Now now now…..why Mr. Bodine I do declare I am awake and kicking and you well there you lie in that sarong with that exhausted look on your face – asleep….
I suspect he’s just drinking lighter fluid now.
Don’t light a match around him.
Why would LaBron come to L.A and face the Warriors or San Antonio to get to the NBA finals?
Answer the question, SW.
Answers: Depends on result of game five. No and No. Yes.
LeBron is under contract in a Cleveland for one more year.