not seeing any growth

That’s optimistic tbh. I’d say we’re going to see the actually dismemberment of the middle class until we’re in a virtual serfdom, working for the billionaire techbro overlords.

If something major isn’t done at midterms to reign in the damage and powergrab this admin is doing then I can confidently say our democracy is well and truly finished.

Technically it’s 2 years 10 months.. like literally to the day.

Still enough time to destroy the world a million times over, but I’m not giving that pedo a minute longer than he deserves.

No that would be a normal president, this is going to be like $9/gallon gas, fertilizer shortages and endless humiliation on top of the other things

already been a long 50 years of it

did anyone who voted for this chuckletits actually think it wouldn’t be chaos and hell since day 1?

And best case scenario the left wins all 3 in 2028, they’ll have to spend their entire tenure just trying to undo the damage that has been done during this presidency. Some DRASTIC changes will be needed and the democrats have to stop playing nice and trying to appease the right.

it needs to be an overwhelming victory in a lot of key places and in a lot of key races. Otherwise its way too easy for the administration to say “look how close it was, we’ll recount the votes and make sure the republican won and the illegal votes cast for democrats are removed” and half the country will just nod and repeat back. They absolutely 100% are going to try and steal elections, and theres plenty of evidence to suggest theyve already been getting away with doing it. the only way to prevent that from being allowed to happen is for the races to not be close enough to be up for debate.

I hate that he’d probably say this and be sincere about it.

Damn you. That was a good one

At some point in time, they could visit when it won’t be hosted by a pedophile.

Timing.

“lots of ins, lots of outs, lots of what-have-yous”

The Dodgers going after the DOD removed a webpage about Jackie Robinson was straight up disgraceful

Yeah bc baseball players are ridiculously conservative

(and also don’t consider how many cis women will face additional scrutiny/attacks in spite of being the demographic being “protected”)

Theyre trying to keep trans athletes out of the locker womens locker rooms!

The only “men” that can be in womens locker rooms are future presidents. Get it through yall heads, tch.

I find it interesting since the state is usually more supportive of Trump. But OKC is more mixed, I believe?

All of the major sports have had their issues with racism and integration, but arguably basketball has been at the vanguard.

I’ll share this poem from Tom Meschery, a retired NBA player whose own story is pretty wild (parents were Russians escaping the civil war, he was born in China, his family was taken as prisoners by the Japanese in WWII when he was just a kid, he lived through the fire bombings, etc., etc.). Given his background and his propensity for fighting he had some rad nicknames: The Mad Russian and The Manchurian Candidate.

This poem is titled, As It Should Be:

A black hand supports

the white body of a falling teammate.

The ball that scored the winning goal

was placed in motion by a grey hand.

The sweat pouring from our bodies

is neither black nor white.

He died??? I didn’t even know he was sick

Especially when they have to special order them from Endor. Brutal with these tariffs

but they do get bought by his teammates once he’s done with them lol

Thunder PR calling it a timing issue and not a straight rejection should be enough for this to be a non-story and no one will care in a day

Honestly the Thunder Org tries to stay non-political on stuff like this. The way they turned this down is a 100% fake answer to protect their team. Players didnt wanna go, they just answered in a way that doesnt make any noise

Probably poorly tbh. State is blood red with all 77 counties voting Trump all three elections.

I don’t think anything political is gonna change how committed our fan base is.

Very well in the metro. Don’t think even Trump supporters will care honestly.

It’s a little bit more nuanced, since they’re winning. Black people are afforded minor graces so long as we have some value. Otherwise, it’s just plain uppity.

Makes it kinda funny to think that their champion is a black Canadian.

Oklahomans are god tier compartmentalizers. I knew a guy who was a Bible thumping young earth creationist who was studying geological studies at OU. He said the earth was young when he went to church and old when he went to school. People swore off NBA after the BLM jerseys and then bought Thunder swag once they started their deep playoff run. 

I’m sure some wackos care but the way most Oklahomans care about politics is… kinda weird.

This state is insanely apathetic about politics. They’ve been boiled in a half century of Republican propaganda to the point where the Democratic Party is just seen as a non-starter for a ton of people, but that hasn’t exactly made anyone enthusiastic about the Republicans. The whole state is basically one of those “I don’t care about politics, both sides suck anyways” guys.

Oklahomans are very religious (2nd most regular church attendees per capita iirc. 1st is Utah) and very into local sports, which predisposes them to a lot of right wing talking points and media but most of them aren’t passionate about their politics in the way you see in some other red states.

If it came to a Trump vs the Thunder feud, I think at least 75-80% of the state would side with the Thunder. They’ve definitely done way more for us than the president

Billionaires like the guy who enriches billionaires at every turn, more at 11

Ya, our old coach, Nick Nurse said the same thing when asked about it.

IIRC OKC was like the only state where Trump won all the countys so yes they’re very into Trump over there.

Still OKC was super close (like 51-49) whereas the rest of Oklahoma was like 70-30. Cities generally lean left even in major red states.

Given the demographics of NBA fans plus the fact that Trump’s popularity has only decreased since he took office, NBA fans, even in OKC aren’t going to be big fans of Trump.

There’s probably still going to be a minority of conservative OKC fans that’s going to be mad at the Thunder but who cares.

Most major cities lean left

Relatively yeah but even most of the Democrat/Republican states are like ⁶⁰⁄₄₀ splits in who people end up voting for and urban areas will almost always lean democratic