Obama discusses OG and Brunson’s prowess
Presidential levels of ball knowledge
I always thought it was a shame he cant go to more games since he doesnt want to ruin it for people with the whole security detail stuff cause he clearly loves the game
Their has to be a way he can get private box seats right ?
They still have to do the extra vetting and sniper nest and all that mess. Maybe not like when Plump did it, but a lot.
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Yeah they 100% do.
There’s no such thing as an unannounced presidential appearance
Presidents can’t do anything normally for the rest of their lives. Secret service is 24⁄7 for life
True but it can also be pretty lax. Bill Clinton would come to Bucks games in Milwaukee often with Marc Lasry. Would only be them walking together.
Unless you opt out
Slick Willy used to go to Nets games fairly often back in the day. I’m sure he had security with him but he also looked pretty accessible.
Know-Ballma
Nice to have a reminder of what an intelligent and coherent president sounds like.
That’s what he does! That’s what he does!
Imagine you’re the President. You work like an absolute DEMON at all hours of the day. Every day, zero days actually off, because even on vacation there are still terrorists and economic crises, with the weight of the world on your shoulders. You’ve gotta to study and read up in things you have no idea about. You’ve got to understand nuclear energy, photovoltaic cells, economics, construction, manufacturing, war, geopolitics, shipping regulations, fucking fishing, literally every topic imaginable to have to understand well enough to at least be able to comprehend your advisors. That’s your life for 8 years. Every day.
Then you stop.
Now you’re basically a retired guy in your 50s. The days just feel SOOO empty.
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The difference is comical
It makes me so sad man, I dont see how anyone can see how he carries himself/how he speaks. Then think to themselves “yea Trump calling women reporters pigs is preferable”
Surprise, they’re racist or propagandized
Both
Because theres only two teams. You cant be seen supporting your rivals lol sad but truth
I mean i just miss sane politics, I didn’t agree with Mitt Romney and McCaines politics but I respected them. Especially McCaine, and there was a respectful discourse on both sides of the isle.
Idk what we have now, we have a joke of a political system. Where the right is rabid and idiotic, and the left is spineless and uninspired.
Even after Trump kicks the bucket I just dont see how we go back to normal. Nor do I even know what normal would look like? Im just ranting to rant at this point, I mean I know what I think needs to happen. We need a reset, and those with real power needs fo be held accountable. I.E the rich, make them eat cake.
the worst part is having to goto work and act like nothing is happening, i feel crazy.
Work at a non profit and a dude who sat next to me until recently would listen to Ben Shapiro out loud on his lunch. Shit would blow my mind as the dude he supports is cutting our funding everywhere. Guy ended up as a layoff when we had to cut costs
And I’m guessing still was blaming the democrats for why he was laid off
Guy is already a piece of shit for listening to stuff out loud
This is my thing, I do my little tasks and then things burn down around me and the dissonance is fucking with my head
McCain sang about bombing Iran and found it hilarious to call a teenage Chelsea Clinton ugly. He was a country club turd but he looks like a gentleman compared to what we have now
The thing is though, this was all lurking behind Romney and McCaine. None of this is new, it’s just way more abrasive and bold.
I guess we can say it was nicer that things were moving at a slower pace, but in no way would I say I respected them. They align with so much of what trump is doing they just wouldnt say it out loud or be so tactless about it.
Who knows how this will all play out but maybe Trump’s brasenness will actually be a good thing for society; maybe the pendulum will swing hard the other way.
The McCaines and Romney’s had us marching to our doom in a way that maybe we would not have caught ourselves.
Right is bad, but left has nothing.
When it comes down to it lower taxes might win out again, and every problem will be pushed down the line, all while everyone tries to get rich from top to bottom instead of improving the system.
But the right isnt lowering taxes, they are for the rich but youre paying higher taxes at the pump, and at the grocery store, frankly any store with those sweet sweet tarrifs.
Yep. I sure agree with that. Problem is the poor trump voters didn’t see this the first time they elected him, and the second time they elected him, I doubt they’ll ever see this fact and vote Dems just because they’re poor.
But hopefully some of us here are rich and can benefit. As long as you’re not completely broke, and can put away some money to invest (low capital gains taxes too), there is some benefit.
What else you gonna do. Vote dems? Even if they defeat republican in 2.5 years, they get 4 years to turn this whole shit around, short of a miracle it won’t happen at all. And they can’t reverse the deficit/debt doom spiral. Before you know it republicans are back in power.
So back to my original point. If you can take advantage of the lower taxes, great. If you can’t, then there’s not much to do other than feel like shit, is there?
This is why south koreans are buying AI, because it’s all hopeless. At least they’re taking it into their own hands
i think taking a more honest perspextive than just they’re racists or whatever.. people find others similar to them more relatable. obama is like a really upstanding guy with morals. many people wanna just say your moms a pig and laugh when people get hurt, and don’t believe when others chose a more empathetic path as they grow older instead of being more bitter
people see their nasty side in trump be validated and they feel seen in a way that presidents like obama and other democrats can feel more scripted and distant
I don’t believe every Trump supporter is an asshole, but it’s funny how nearly every asshole I know turns out to be a Trump supporter. Not every asshole, but damn near close.
I think that’s a big part of his charisma. It’s the same crowd that laughs at the UFC fighter calling Michelle Obama a man. And, honestly, it’s the same crowd that resents the “liberals” for looking down on them when they laugh at stuff like that.
“yeah Trump mocking a journalist’s disability is preferable.”
I’m sure Obama has thrown out a curse word in some casual interview but that would seem so shocking to hear for the first time. Trump is out there dropping F bombs and hurling curses and insults at people like it’s nothing. It’s basically normalized now and it shouldn’t be.
Like if Obama said something like “Brunson is the mother fucking King of NY” I’d be shocked and think Hell yeah go Obama. Even though he would mean it in a good way.
Trump could have been caught saying something super offensive during game 3 and I’d just think yeah that tracks.
Dude fox news got onto Obama for wearing a tan suit, or putting dijon mustard on a hotdog. Thats the fires Obama had to put out and deal with.
Trump is best friends with the world’s most well known pedophile and is a convicted rapist. Thats like 1 of 100s of Trumps issues
Yep. Flood the conversation with a fuck ton of controversies and he keeps getting away with something new.
The worst thing I ever heard from Obama, is when he called Kanye a “jackass” in an off the cuff moment during an interview. He was and is all class all the way down.
I think we underestimate how uneducated the average American is. Part of what they hated about Obama WAS how smart he sounded. They hated watch a black man clearly be more intelligent and more well rounded than them and their ilk. It’s the same reason they’re attacking all intellectuals, because they are dumb and offended by anyone trying to be more intelligent than them. Now they watch Trump bumble around like an idiot and spout offensive shit and they think, he’s just like us! While they eat frozen pizza and he shits in a golden toilet…
They like dragging everyone down in the gutter with them
Hey now Trump doesn’t call all women pigs!!
But it is only women that he calls pigs 🤔
Curious have you chatted with Trump supporters and genuinely listened to their grievances without trying to dissuade them? Most folks will acknowledge he says deplorable things, doesn’t always keep his promises and is chaotically disorganized. But the thing is they feel like he’s fighting on their behalf.
I used to work in campaign politics and Dems have a messaging problem for several cycles. Base Trump supporters feel like their way of life is slowly disappearing and they’re being shamed by the opposition on top of it.So they don’t care that he says unsavory things, they care someone is in power and “fighting” on their behalf.
Even when polic adversely affects them, it can be easily jujutsued by the mind and rationalized with whataboutisms or cognitive dissonance. Because the emotional story feels true to them. “hes on our side”
Too bad the joke is on us
It’s really sad how much can change in a short period of time. He was still the president 10 years ago.
A functioning man vs that guy 😂
I love how nobody really needs any clarification
Remember having a president who could speak clearly? Damn
Plus he liked Ribs
Yeah, but he put Dijon mustard on that burger that one time. TOTALLY COMMUNIST AND UNAMERICAN!!!
can we talk about the tan suit for a sec?
Yes, he looks great in a tan suit!
He murdered that tan suit.
Don’t forget the terrorist fist jab with his wife
That was the loudest warning shot about Fox News at the time, and everyone just shrugged it off a day or two later.
and pussy too
And actually likes basketball and won’t fall asleep during a finals game.
And poosay too
And animals
And isn’t a pedophile
Been more than 10 years.
And I liked Biden, but he is not close to the orator that Obama is. Obama is just incredibly magnetic.
The closest thing we have is Mamdani because he has his own cadence without being an Obama bot and he’s not eligible to be president….
Man
How was Ted Cruz able to run for president
his mother is American
He was born in Canada but he was an American citizen from birth, assuming you believe the story that he was in fact birthed and not sewn together from globs of mutated flesh in the depths of hell while minstrels were tortured in the background and then risen up like a fat bearded Darth Vader.
Mamdani is a more talented communicator than Obama. It still amazes me, even as someone who voted for him. That’s not even recency bias. And Obama was damn good at it.
Bro god damn this clip just made me sad. We used to have Obama now we have diaper shitting donny
Only seen this clip but those 2 were looking nervous and awkward talking to Obama lmao
Probably the first time they didn’t smoke weed before podcasting lmao
I mean it’s…President Obama
I’ve been around Obama before, he has some kind of a charisma machine that puts your brain on autopilot, idk if it’s just strange to be up close to someone historical like that or what. It’s different than other famous people. Never been around another president so can’t speak to that.
I mean yeah man, it’s fucking Obama
No matter what you think of Obama, the dude just seems cool to hang with. Same with George W.
No matter what you think of George W invading two countries, he seems like a cool guy!
Agreed 100%
bro really put Dubya with Obama man. like kanye said W didn’t care about black people because he really gutted everything
Uh
They’re too stupid. They casually lap up the war criminals.
Kinda how we got here. 🤷♀️
Yup
It’s the issue with my fellow Americans unfortunately
Most are too concerned with which president is cool enough to drink with rather than their policies
and not ONLY concerned with their domestic policies, but with their policies that do not affect people close to them
The problem is if you ask them why Obama is shit, they’ll get that confused, dumb look on their faces.
We still have work to do.
Facts
They also think that if you say Obama is fucking trash, that’s like some implicit support for Trump.
No man.
Obama doesn’t need any help from anyone else being trash.
My uncle took a selfie with him on the beach in Maine today, George and Laura love his dog
He started Pepfar. If it wasn’t for the worst terrorist attack in literal human history he’d have been a good president.
His dad fought the Axis as well.
No child left behind was also a terrible policy plus his response to Katrina was horrific
Without the war on terror he would go from a bottom 5 president to bottom 15/ fringe bottom 10
He’s the president who signed off on barring medicare from negotiating drug prices. He also tried to privatize social security, full stop. he’s had some very human moments, and he was genuinely good for Africa, but his policy was literally the policy of the heritage foundation in the early 2000s. Disaster for scotus, too. He put Alito and Roberts on the court.
Bill had the rizz too let’s be honest
You mean he was a rapist on the Epstein files?
That’s the rizz my boys 🤓
Imagine pulling up to the white house and getting served lukewarm McDonald’s
Didn’t George W get very similarly memed as Trump for the dumb stuff he did and said? He just wasn’t vile like Donny…
He did have some quotes that were clearly off. But yeah, nothing deliberately vile or demeaning.
George W Bush: ““See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.“ - May 2005, speaking about Social Security in NY.
“Same with war criminal George W”
Can just have a beer with them yeah?
Just a couple cool guys.
Come on now Obama has some war criminal cred too
What chronically being online does to a mf.
Kirk it? Charlie Kirk?
Man you dopes are mistaking me for some whole other body. I guess you’re really that unaware of the leftist hatred for Obama.
Dumb liberal kids lol.
Nobody in reality on the left hates obama, just extremified weirdos like you. Maybe you can show us all up by not voting next election, because that’s proven to be successful based on the current admin
This is laughable while we’re watching a targeted genocide live on tv everyday. GTFO here
Targeted genocide by Israel? Which Obama was a staunch supporter of?
Oh gee.
What did he do in Libya btw
Uneducated populace indeed.
You changed your comment before I could even respond. JFC you must be miserable. Obama was not the president while Israel committed genocide, I hope this helps you.
Calling lybia a genocide is just a disservice to your own brain. You’re grasping for straws.
Coward lmao, you really stepped up and got me in the reddit comments. You are pathetic and will never stop being pathetic, go drink some water and go to bed, try not to let the roaches bother you.
Edit: YOU EVEN CHANGED UP THIS COMMENT LMAOOO
He’s annoying but he’s ultimately right about Obama.
Your echo chamber so loud you can’t even hear your own words big fella
Deleting your comments doesn’t delete the report lmao
Gimme the same feedback from an account that lasts more than a few months before being perma banned big fella
average 4 month old account response
Oh sure, you’re completely unaware that bad people are also sometimes charismatic
I don’t give a fuck if they’re war criminals.
I know you don’t. At least you’re honest.
Michelle gushes about how much she loves George too lol she really has a thing for war criminals
Cause she’s married to one.
We all know current/previous presidents are war criminals.. how you like that Iran deal though👀
No no no don’t bring that up he can’t handle it, he’ll call you a coward
Lol I had to google “why do people talk reckless online?”
“People often talk recklessly online because the lack of face-to-face interaction and anonymity reduces their sense of accountability, a phenomenon called the online disinhibition effect. This can lead to harsher language, flaming, or trolling, especially when users feel detached from their real-world identity.”
Sounds familiar.
We went from this to Von Shits In Pants nodding off in the owner’s box at MSG during game 3 of the fucking NBA Finals. US govt has fallen so, sooooo far.
Come back, I miss you.
🎶 “Come back, Barack!”
One of my all time favorite SNL songs. Just because of how true it was.
If Trump finds some loophole to run for a third term I say fuck it run it back with Obama. He’s better than the rumored/potential candidates that are getting brought out for the primary.
I can’t imagine a world where he wants to come back to this shit show honestly.
Dude had to deal with so much bullshit during his tenure, after his tenure still— at least now he gets to enjoy his time in his own way.
This guy knows ball
To throw an answer out at Barack’s thought– Jamal Murray 2023 is up there
Good call. 20/6/2 on 72% TS for OG (obviously with elite defense) vs 26/6/7 on 59% TS with not so elite defense. Tough call….depends on what you value I guess.
Americans what in the hell happened to you all? Jesus.
They thought a fat orange gross pedo grifting raping pathological lying felon fuck was actually going to save them lol. Apparently woman are too emotional …
I guess daily 3am insane tirades are that of a stable genius.
Hell will freeze over for them to admit that they got duped by their savior lol
I think the framing is slightly off here. The RNC didn’t decide that they needed someone like Trump, they actively resisted it for a bit. I think they were all shocked leading up to the 2016 primaries when he started polling so well. Obviously the party has shifted to totally embracing him but that was kind of a gradual shift.
The Confederacy actually won the Civil War, it just took until 1877
While Idiocracy may not have literally come to life, its concept has certainly been found to have a lot of truth to it…..pretty much that dumb people breed way more than smart people so populations will eventually have higher ratios of people with low intelligence…and those people still get to vote.
Can Obama step into the Bulls front office?
LMAO imagine being drafted by Obama
I miss this man not only because he has hoop knowledge but he’s so chill, nice and actually sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. We’ve really fallen so very far..
OG was just as valuable as Brunson the entire playoff run. He’d get end of shot clock grenades and cash them in constantly. When everyone was off their game due to def pressure he’d just methodically take it to the rim without any added steps. He played top tier defense. And then he makes an all time finals play tip in.
If OG had a show out game 5 he could have won fmvp.
OG was for quarters 1-3, Brunson was for Q4
as with all winners, you absolutely a clear #2 to be able to win it all. Jordan couldn’t have won without Pippen, Shaq would not have won without Kobe. Lebron has come the closest to winning it all without a good number #2 (2015 when they were up 2-1 against GSW, and even then he had Kyrie for #1 before he lost him).
In terms of what Obama said a better #2 without being an all-star, two names come to mind: Jamal Murray when Denver won and Siakam in Toronto when they won. Both had not been all-stars yet, and both were amazing.
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I’ll say in OG’s favour was that he was their primary defender while doing this offensively. Siakam was also a good defender, but he wasn’t called to be the primary defender of the other teams best player regularly like OG, but he did some of it.
Complete sentences are nice
CP3: what he say fuck me for?
The way Obama’s face details shines so bright I thought it was AI holy shit. 😭
Why Obama know ball
Avid basketball player and fan. Has a lot of fun clips. Favorite is of him randomly sinking a three pointer and walking off court with a coffee screaming “that’s what I do!”
Obama built a basketball court near the White House so he can play ball
He added lines to the white house tennis court to be clear.
Why didn’t he bulldoze a wing of the white house to build a basketball court?!?
Not classy enough to get away with it
He’s a state champ
yall should just run it back. what are rules anyway. seems like a new one is broken every other day..
If only we won it during this guy’s term. Would be fire to see them at the white house to meet him.
But, no.
We had to win it during the pedo’s term…
Better not see anyone but Dolan meet up with that loser.
If Obama is on a podcast, I’m pulling up a chair. If he’s talking basketball, I’m calling in sick to work.
It’s really baffling you went from this… to that
Racism and insecurity are powerful but it’s doing so much more harm to themselves than they realize.
This guys a great speaker, he should consider running for president
Remember when the biggest controversy surrounding our president was that he wore a tan colored suit? I miss those days.
Authentic presidential aura. It’s been a while since we’ve seen that.
The last real president speaks. We need you back, big homie.
Hope they all smoked a fat blunt together after this
Kawhi won Finals MVP in 2014; the first time he made the all star team was 2016
Jamal Murray 2023 finals.
Thanks Obama
Why is speaking coherently. presidents are not supposed to use big words
May I introduce you to Caleb Martin
Obama talking ball 🤤
If OG probably saw this clip and someone asked him what he’d thought he’d say ‘it was cool’.
Obama should be commissioner.
God I miss hearing this man speak
Something about Barack Obama hopping on the pod and talking ball with Matt Barnes makes me feel like I’m having a stroke lol
It’s wild to me that the dude who bailed out banks and billionaires while fucking over millions of Americans is somehow beloved. Fuck this guy.
I always wonder how much say presidents actually have in military operations. Like, did Obama really have that much involvement in all those drone strikes? He just seems like such a chill, good dude.
I watched the whole Our Great National Parks series while i was high on ketamine, and it was such a soothing experience. He’s got such a calming voice and genuinely seemed to care. It’s hard for me to picture that same guy as some kind of warmonger.
He was the commander-in-chief man, he calls the shots and he just so happened to call a lot of drone strikes on innocent people. A lot of them, so much so that he probably created tons more terrorists out of disaffected people that were affected by his bullshit. Americans really don’t know how ghoulish their Presidents are toward the rest of the world, including this guy. He essentially codified illegal and careless drone strikes as normal US foreign policy.
Not defending that but Russia murders tens of thousands of civlians in the name of senile Putin’s irredentism, and most of the world tolerated them or flat out supports them.
The truth is that “International Law” is largely irrelevant
I’m not even American lol
get this civilian bomber off this sub reddit
Fuck this guy
People always said Obama was an amazing orator, but I always thought he droned on and on.
His voice is just soothing… he also has charm. Highly recommend the nature documentaries he narrates on Netflix… puts me to bed every time.
I know he is very soothing to people who don’t think much
Great fit for you then
No… it’s the same with Morgan Freeman, they have deep smooth voices. It’s not that serious lol no one is calling him a savant… when you compare his voice and talking cadence directly against his successor maybe it makes the comparison a bit more stark lol.
I see what you did there
I see what you did there.