Watching Olympic basketball. U.S. vs. Spain. Go Spain. Open thread.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.
I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.
DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.
This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
Optimism opens the door to great things.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.
In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.
I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!
I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.
You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Dan
Why do you hate America?
Ozzy
So you would rather root for the team with the now infamous “slant eyes” picture?
A.Political
They’re sans Jose Calderon…they’re in trouble with our PG from the Raps!
rob!
if you had been a P.O.W., you wouldn’t root for Spain.
did you hear McCain was a P.O.W.?
wasabi gasp
Patriotism? American?
Aren’t you from Here Be Dragons?
Blue Buddha
Every time you hate America, the terrorists win…
…oh and God kills a puppy too.
joe in oklahoma
i think the slant eyes team was from somewhere else, Ozzy.
i am watching Pelosi on MTP give away offshore oil.
she also said, without irony, that as Speaker, she has to make sure everything is on the table.
mmmmmm. i seem to remember……
calipygian
You mean you’re rooting for the racist motherfuckers who did that slant eye shit for an ad?
Ugh.
Montysano
via CBS Sunday morning, Ed Begley also hates America, what with his bicycling and his solar panels. Rush says that every time someone screws in a compact flourescent, a POW weeps….. or something like that.
Montysano
Dammit…… not “flourescent” (a wheat-based light bulb??), but fluorescent. And I’m in the lighting business.
calipygian
In fact it is specifically the Spanish Men’s Basketball team that is full of the racist motherfuckers.
Fuck the Spanish team. And I say that as someone who lived in Spain for six years.
Michael D.
Nope. Was rooting AGAINST the U.S.
db
That game was one of the all-time classic bball games to watch in my very humble opinion. Hats off to the Spanish coaching staff for making some great adjustments, especially defensively, after their first game debacle – incredible rebounding position kept the Spaniards in the game. Hats off to the American coaching staff for making offensive adjustments late in the game when the Spaniards got close.
carsick
I’ve just learned that the PUMA folks aren’t going to Denver to protest the convention. They’re going to Colorado Springs instead because they voted it to be a more appropriate convention town and they feel they have the votes to back up their claim
Blue Buddha
Yeah, that’s a good 70 miles away. That’s sort of like going to Providence, RI to protest a convention in Boston, or going to Dayton to protest a convention in Columbus, OH.
Fucking losers.
Liberal Masochist
Why root against the US? By all accounts, they have been great ambassadors over there. They did a fund raiser in Shanghai at a hospital where kids from the earthquake are recovering.
Rooting against the Duke U coaching staff is something I can get behind however!
4jkb4ia
I found myself rooting for them in flashes, too, but then I remembered that someone else already had a turn, and that was ATHENS. Also in the words of Harvey Araton these guys came a long way with “not confusing the world stage and the Rucker League”.
Spain is a very good ball club. You can see how the rest of the world caught up since Dream Team 1.
Scotty
Haha. McCain snuck that talking point in when he was defending the Biden remark about 7 kitchen tables. Apparently talking about how many kitchen tables he has now is off limits because when he was a POW he didn’t have one. He is trivializing it more and more.
4jkb4ia
I must counter Liberal Masochist. You might root against the big, bad USA, but rooting against Coach K is impossible. Similarly, I could never root against Joe Torre.
CMcC
Since being a POW is such good leadership training and increasingly an absolute pre-requisite for higher office, have any of you considered just how many future Muslim leaders we are now producing down at Guantanamo, over in Abu Ghraib, throughout all those “black sites,” and with all of our “renditions”?
Of course, they will be peace lovers like John McCain, so maybe the world will be OK.
What’s that I hear from our President? We don’t torture. Rush thinks Abu Ghraib was like a frat party. Rumsfeld thinks everybody should stand more. So we’re not in the leadership-training business. Probably good.
But wait. If stress positions aren’t torture when we inflict them, then they weren’t torture when the Vietnamese did them. Then McCain was not really tortured. So he’s not qualified to be President. Not excused from cheating on his first wife and dumping her for a younger, richer woman. Not entitled to evade that “cone of silence.” Not entitled to all those houses and all those dinner tables.
My head hurts.
Will
John, did you know you’re filing EVERYTHING under “Did You Know John McCain was a POW?” Maybe I’m wrong, but some of these subjects just don’t seem to apply to the fact that John McCain was a POW. I mean, the Olympics? Spain? What do either of those things have to do with the fact that almost 40 years ago, John McCain was made a prisoner in Nam? NAM, man! What does Spain have to do with Vietnam, anyway? John McCain, I don’t believe, was ever a Spanish POW. Though if he was, we should nuke those fuckers tomorrow.
Dulcie
Will, I think John said he was going to file everything under “Did You Know John McCain was a POW?” until the election, or until McCain stops using it as a get out of jail free card.
CMcC
On a serious note, you can’t watch the Olympics and the American athletes and not be struck by our racial/ethnic diversity and our immigrant origins. It’s glorious: our swimmers are almost all white, our track stars almost all black. The men’s basketball team is black, the men’s volleyball team white. Our women’s volleyball team had a Chinese coach, and our star gymnast a Russian father. I see all these fine athletes, the equal and then some of any in the world, and I’m proud to be an American.
We are an Obama nation. It’s our past, too often not acknowledged and certainly not reflected in our leadership, but even more it’s our future. Obama is America at its best today, and in the future.
grandpajohn
Not if you are an alumni of another ACC school (Clemson)
Michael D.
McCain was a POW. Therefore, every post will highlight that. McCain cheated on his first wife because she was no longer beautiful. But he was a POW.
McCain has 7 kitchen tables. But at the Hanoi Hilton, he had no kitchen table. He was a POW.
Everything McCain fucks up can be excused because he was a POW.
A POW.
McCain.
A POW.
Can’t you see the logic?
Sirkowski
The Spanish team was a serious bunch of bitches. Maybe they would have scored more points had they not spent the entire match nit-picking every little play to the referee.
Dave_Violence
You’re a Canadian, Mike, who cares.
Andrew
Or are a thinking adult. I enjoyed the US team’s performances in spite of Coach Ratface.