[Joseph Dycus] Steve Kerr on the midterm election results: “I’m just I’m disappointed because I was looking forward to that $5,000 check that we were all going to get.”
Man steve kerr is too good at this
He hates Trump so much and dunks on him any chance he gets and i love him for that
People forget Steve’s dad was a legitimate American hero who was genuinely trying to make a difference and had the approach of inclusivity and diplomacy. Steve gets it.
Perhaps the least likely parentage for a professional athlete ever.
Steve could’ve been basically anything, but NBA player was less likely than like, Senator.
Not the opposite of a nepo baby, but yes this is out of the ordinary. I know professors who have pro athlete kids, but always a rich or alternative sport. (climbing, sailing, random olympic stuff, etc)
But pro NBA ball? Yeah. This is way out of the ordinary
Imagine a world where he goes to West Point and becomes a congressman. He’d be so popular.
Ball was life
There’s still time.
Damn, you’re right.
And I, for one, would love to see Senator Kerr in “breaking clipboard mode”.
And then brings balance to the force naming his son Nick Kerr
What people shouldn’t forget is one of the first games after his dad was murdered, ASU fans were taunting him about it when he played for university of Arizona.
That’s unbelievable. An ASU student was able to operate a newspaper to learn about his dad?
It’s incredible how easy it is to dislike ASU
My dad graduated from the AUB and I have a number of family members involved in the staff and faculty at that school. Malcolm Kerr is a hero to all of us.
Thanks for getting me to Google this! I had no idea.
New book out (haven’t yet read it - on my TBR) about Malcolm Kerr: The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America’s Undoing in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/QYZwVowT9u
Seems pretty diplomatic and inclusive; seems like you really want him to do the opposite
Pop did too. Miss him in those pressers
I loved watching Pop get feisty in pressers about politics.
Some of his better ones were heated on politics he’s so well spoken
Drains clutch threes on him I think you mean
Swats his shit into the third row surely
This is Steve Kerr we’re talking about here
Is the hoop still up at the White House?
Can Kerr go literally dunk on Trump? Put his ass on a poster.
Any real dunk attempts from Kerr would make his back blow up
Worth it for the one time
We’ll fix him up with all the doctors
Say less
But if it’s 1on1 game with the presidency on the line, I like Kerr’s chances. Y’all can build president Kerr a new back, and after two terms he can go back to the NBA and win another championship. Somebody is gonna need a catch and shoot guy
Prob covered in cobwebs and dust considering Trump doesn’t hoop much
Kerr has one last dunk on him, and by god almighty, he would.
They turned it into a tennis court, I believe. Like Trump’s fat ass would ever play that, either. I think Melania did it so she could fuck an instructor.
Steve is the bridge builder. He even named son Nick
Steve named his son Nick knowing his last name was Kerr. The man is diabolical.
Me too! Me too!
Steve is educated and earned his success, both things that Donald Trump hates in others.
His dad was pro tbf
Are you saying that his dad was a professional diplomat? I’m trying to understand your comment.
https://imgur.com/a/bEE1X#x56zI1J
The Popovich is strong with this one.
Someone needs to nerf him
This is so millennial coded I hate it (as a millennial)
edit: context since this seems to be controversial at best https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/s3yTbPUjST
It’s literally just a simple sarcastic sentence.
It’s not coded to any generation at all (also as a millennial)
Millennials are soooo sarcastic and random!!!
holds up spork
We’re a very wild bunch in our 40’s
We invented that!
So Random was a good show that does hit with millennials at least
That’s so millennial coded of you to say (also a millennial)
Ragebaiting is so Gen Z coded
Imagine trying to tell Steve Kerr that what he said is so millennial coded.
It’s so GenX coded - sarcastic, snide and estranged from boomer parents.
(Coming from a Xennial). We kind of get the memes, but we enjoy ruining them for the kids too much to use them as intended - haha, we subverted your subversive message!
It’s giving hot little slut
I think it’s more the vibes that are millennial. Something good happened but I can only talk about it through sarcasm about something negative.
what makes it millennial coded? im like on the cusp of millennial and gen z so im out here thinking what im missing lol
Dont you know? Millennials invented sarcastic jokes.
Offended as a Xennial for GenX, who used sarcastic jokes as a way of life in the 80s.
I might be an early 90s kid (in terms of growing up years), but GenX were the real countercultural “I’m not like you, daaaad” generation, not Millennials. Millennials allied with the GenX in dealing with boomer nonsense - which is why 80s and 90s aesthetics are so grimy and dirty compared with what came before and after.
It’s got a few characteristics: lighthearted but cynical libbing out, sarcastic, passive-aggressive, lightly cringe, etc.
As a comparison, Gen X would be much more direct, personal, holier than-thou etc.
I recognize Kerr is Boomer/Gen X but personality or values-wise he fits more with millennials.
God I hate generation discourse
I totally believe you’re a millennial because you are seriously overthinking this, which is a very millennial thing to do
My man, please get off the internet, take a long breather.
Complaining about Kerr’s super normal joke being millennial and then typing all this out is by far the most millennial coded thing in this post. So cringe
sometimes a little bit of liberal millennial cringe is needed, after last 2 years of right wing outrage
what makes this joke “cringe”? Genuinely curious
Caring about wanting the world to be a better place for all people is “cringe”, didn’t you know?
Get with the times man
2 years? Try 40. Millennials only know right wing outrage. It’s been their MO since at least Grover Norquist
Uhhh. Only two years? They’ve been bitching for a decade (at least) and only seem to be louder when they’re winning.
I’m a millennial and not once have I heard or used this phrase
If you say so.
HUH
He’s so good. He’s so good. He’s so good. He’s so good.
Dude out here effortlessly aura farming
He’s really sharp, always knows how to get his point across.
I love him. He keeps it real 💯
Just don’t ask him about China
or what he named his son
It’s objectively insane that we’re at a point as a country where a president will make a claim that is completely illegal for obvious reasons, have no intention of giving anyone that money, and it barely even registers
Donald Trump went to the they-can’t-call-a-foul-on-every-possession school of corruption.
This is a really good analogy actually.
It’s actually a genuine political strategy and something the GOP has been doing extremely aggressively in 2024 (And to be very very clear, I am not saying it’s a ethical or good strategy when I say that it’s a genuine one, just that it’s a well-known tactic in communication, public speaking, and politics)
It’s called flooding the zone and is essentially just the idea that if you do a lot of controversial, outlandish, and absurd things all at once. It accomplishes two things
First of all, it literally causes things that would normally be heavily scrutinized to slide under the radar in the shadow of even bigger, more controversial topics, and it also literally numbs people where they slowly become more tolerant of things that previously would have had a much sharper reaction
The amount of tolerance we have for the absurd because of this administration is extremely depressing. There are literally hundreds of things Trump has done in the last 2 years that if he said or did them 20 years ago would have been the end of him
They’ve been flooding the zone the entirety of Trump, it’s not just his second term.
Ok it’s called flooding the zone but how do they handle man to man coverage?
Just one more reason how the internet and social media is a stronger tool for corruption and evil than it is for positivity and justice. Even after a day like today, I have this pit in my stomach that tells me this is a small victory in the grand scheme of things. When algorithms dictate our daily lives, how is good and positivity supposed to triumph evil and negativity when your average American, progressive, liberal, conservative, or white nationalist, is more likely to consume and engage with content that appeals to anger and hate over anything else?
I wonder if part of the lack of backlash was that the US did go a bit too PC around the pandemic with cancel culture and other things.
Steve Bannon called it Muzzle Velocity
I’d add a third thing that is more specific to Trump. When he attempts to do outlandish, unbelievable things the people expressing concern sound crazy to uninformed people because “no way they’re doing that.” That trains the uniformed to dismiss real concerns because they believe that everyone is always lying about Trump.
Remember how you were considered an alarmist if you said that a second Trump election would mean the US military marching in American cities?
Thanks Steve Bannon
“Flooding the zone” is about information control, it’s not about corruption or criminal activity like you’re suggesting
It is, but the “flood the zone” approach is more effectively “they can’t call a foul on anything”.
Each new scandal distracts from the last one and it becomes impossible to focus opposition and accountability on any one thing. Ask ten people what they’d primarily go after him for and you’d get ten answers… Epstein ties, crypto scams, bribing voters, pressuring election officials to “find votes”, fraud, being bribed himself, selling pardons, etc. Each of those deserve attention that none of them get.
throw all the shit at all the walls
No joke, after the Packers Lions game I specifically said (and you can check my comment history on this lol) that I want the Packers to intentionally commit penalties on every play so the refs understood what real penalties were.
Because if they are gonna call RTP just for looking at the QB, may as well make those 15 yards count and level him.
I’ve been saying this about Mahomes for years, especially when he was trying that fake-slide BS. Someone should just level him and take the 15 once, and hopefully the next time he scrambles he doesn’t abuse the rules.
“We can’t lose if they don’t have any quarterbacks not in the hospital!”
me a Ravens fans
i concur
So just revert to the Charles Woodson era?
Yes please I love Charles Woodson
Lu Dort and Stephon Castle nod
Putting Castle in the same company as dort as far as dirty unnecessary foulers is nasty work.
He didn’t say dirty, he said “they-can’t-call-a-foul-on-every-possession”. Castle and Dort are definitely both hounding guys with handchecking and grabbing, they defend like linebackers. If this was a conversation about dirty fouling, then yeah I’d agree I would’ve said like Bruce Bowen and Lu Dort or something.
He do be constantly fouling though.
Ya but when does he foul out?
Tell that to the Brazilian ref that issued 50 red cards in one game.
Me calling carries and illegal screens if I were an NBA ref fr fr
Hey Trump U is a great school!
The Philadelphia Flyers won two Stanley Cups in the 70s on this philosophy.
SGA is NBA Trump confirmed
There’s like 8 watergate scandals happening every month and it makes the news for a blip until it passes. Trump truly changed American politics forever in many ways
The “they can’t call everything” of US presidents
That is so apt it’s funny, except it’s real life so it’s not.
Fuck it, Clarence and Alito down there somewhere.
There’s only 1 ball though
Lmfaoooo
Orlando Magic defense in the Oval Office
yeah i laughed, so what?
Prime OKC defense with Kansas City Chiefs Offense.
Throw in some Arsenal set pieces.
I dealt with this same issue in management. The employees that blatantly broke the rules everyday were the hardest to hold accountable because the oversight required felt excessive to the point of harassment and targeting.
It’s like the Simpsons bit where Burns isn’t sick because there’s too many viruses that they can’t get through the door.
He’s got too many scandals and outrageous things that would doom anyone else that it doesn’t register anymore.
Paxton and Vivek kind of prove that for whatever reason Trump and no one else can get away with being amoral pond scum.
Ikr?
Vivek got destroyed for QUESTIONING a pedophile act.
Trump gets away with COMMITTING a pedophile act.
When you put it that way…
Yeah, this is the thing that I was probably unhinged-level ranting about last night - I can’t understand what it is about Trump that makes people think it’s fine, but ultimately, the conclusion I reached was that it’s good that you can’t understand why he and he alone gets away with it, because it means it’s almost impossible that anyone else will get away with it once we’re finally done with him.
He’s rich, and he’s been playing this character (yes, I’m aware he’s actually like this) in public for decades. Trump doesn’t work if he doesn’t have both
Yes exactly, everyone is used to watching him be the funny “you’re fired” guy from TV so you’re conditioned to laugh and think it’s a schtick even when he’s doing to for real.
He’s mastered the art of “I’m just kidding…unless you’re down” but for racism and bullshit. He’s like a James Bond villain, a part of you can’t help but be entertained even now.
JD and Vivek and the like try the asshole thing and just come off as a total jackasses.
Tbf, tons of rich guys got away with Epstein ties and probable sexual abuse.
And not to mention all the war crimes many US politicians have been complicit in over the years, including before Trump became president.
For real 😂
Just a few short weeks ago, our military was planning on live streaming the public execution of a paraplegic war criminal via firing squad. We have reached a point of absurdity that I never would have predicted in my most cynical expectations of this second administration.
Trump and Vance were talking two weeks ago that it’s fantastic for a man to rape his 13 year old stepdaughter. Sounds impossible but they were both very clear they support it. There’s no bottom.
This may have been a mini tipping point for some voters.
It’s like Mr Burns’ Three Stooges Syndrome but instead of diseases, it’s impeachable offenses.
And they’re actively trying to downplay the real Watergate
You can blame Roger Stone and his cronies for that. The republicans saw that a republican president could be ousted (for legitimate reasons) and did everything in their power to make sure it could never happen again.
and at the end of the day so many rats are going to scurry into the shadows with all their millions and billions they profited while Trump was in office, while Trump might (big might) take the fall but is decaying and will be dead in the next four years anyway.
They are using a corpse to take the fall basically and its really smart because people have the memories of gold fish and have no idea what is really happening especially because so much is happening. You can’t possibly cover it all and by the time you do 50 more scandals show up, while using culture wars to buffer the time you realize some major scandal has happened.
Bannon was correct in his strategy, flood people with so much bullshit, so many things slide. Jd vance echoed this sentiment when he said Watergate wouldn’t even last a day in today’s news cycle
The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.
There’s like 8 watergate scandals happening every month and it makes the news for a blip until it passes.
The ironic thing is that if you look at what Watergate was about, it’s a comparative nothingburger compared to stuff that happens multiple times a month these days.
yup
forever is a long time
I fucken wish it stuck to “changed America”
Most Americans don’t seem to realise how much your country affects the rest of the world.
MONEY, does not have borders.
Your culture leaks into every country. Books. Movies. TV. Music.
Your corporations are worldwide and either sell their services everywhere, or use your country as a place to produce, or to dump trash.
Your billionaires sway politics everywhere in the world. Creating more car-centric, consumerism driving suburban sprawl. Ruining international markets.
All of that harms the world, and it’s all caused by how $$ is dominating the world. And America is to blame for a lot of it.
… and that’s leaving out the obvious worst parts - the warmongering, enabling destabilisation of “enemies” and outright murdering.
Anyway, how about that local sports team?
Does it pass or the people who own the news just covering it up?
its been normalized
I studied something related to communications and one professor mentioned how our brains are not made to process the stupidly huge amount of information we have access to.
We are constantly bombarded by news, bad or good, and we can’t keep up.
Not that the Media helps in how they do it.
I always remember that comment whenever I try to keep up with international or local news lol.
It’s Mr. Burns syndrome but for government corruption and crimes.
*Until it gets replaced by the next ridiculous story/scandal/illegal activity
he figured out that the news cycle needs to have cover ups and conspiracies to continue 24 hour daily coverage. If you just commit your crimes blatantly in the open…there’s nothing to latch on to, and the public just moves on.
JD wasn’t wrong that Watergate would be a 12 hour news story today.
Wait until a democrat gets into office
None of the recent democrats have pumped and dumped the stock market, sold bibles, sold sneakers, sold crypto, charge 100k to get faster info on truth social, took a 747 bribe from Qatar, took DONATONS for a ballroom
That’s where you’re mistaken. Look at how much shit Biden got for falling asleep or the fucking laptop of his son. Where’s this for trump? You’re thinking the media Is fair. That’s the mistake. The standards for a Democrat are way higher
He owes us $7,000 at this point still.
\(5000 from Doge.\)2000 from tariffs.
I know people that believed both to their core.
Crazy that a person with a reputation for blatantly telling lies and failing to pay his workers, taxes, or debt would string the American people along like this!
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.
It absolutely sucks but given the way last night, it actually does seem that Trump’s endless spewing of nonsense did register with voters. Just… not the way he hoped it would.
Gas prices had more of an impact on voters decisions than any nonsense trump spewed out of his mouth. Economy was and still being the most deciding factor.
Idk man. Kansas just sent a Dem to the Senate for the first time since the 30s, I think that there’s got to be more going on than “bad economy”.
Biden lost because gas was \(3 and eggs were up. Gas is now \)6. This isn’t a “bad economy”, it’s a disaster economy. And it’s all caused by a war Trump started
Recession indicator: Kansas elects a Democrat to the Senate
Also probably why he lost during Covid
If he had handled that like a normal person he might already be on his third term.
If he were a normal person, he probably never would’ve had a first term.
Covid should have led to a massive landslide reelection. Say “listen to the experts and we will get through this together” and he cruises to a win. And he just couldn’t do it.
To those who have paid attention to what he’s said recently, his flagrant admission on multiple occasions in recent weeks that he could not give less of a fuck about gas prices and how that affects you is just as important as the actual gas prices. The oil companies are making money, fuck you is basically what he was saying.
Gas prices tied to the naked political corruption that is clearly associated with the war in Iran.
I think you underestimate how many people care about corruption
At this point, I really don’t know if people care about corruption at all. Trump was pretty blatantly corrupt in his 1st term, encouraged a pseudo coup attempt by supporters of his, and still won in 2024. Last night was good to see, not enough to restore any of my faith in humanity, but still good to see.
TLDR: People suck
I think you overestimate it tbh but I would rather you be right
Why didn’t they care after 2016? Biden only won cos of Covid.
It’s not even gas prices, nothing moves votes like cost of living issues. It goes back to Ronald Reagan’s famous question “are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Nothing moves votes like people feeling they’re getting poorer and worse off, year after year. People who are politically active, who are on reddit and twitter a lot, know about what Trump said or did, most voters don’t know and don’t care, but they can tell that they’re poorer this year than they were last year.
When voters feel like they’re getting poorer, and when one party controls the White House, SCOTUS, and both houses of congress, the result is exactly what you saw last night.
I don’t want to sound cynical, but I don’t think the blue wave was a push back on the potus as much as it was prices going up on everything. He’s been spewing nonsense for years and it won him a second term. Basically we really like to keep attaching political outcomes to moral arguments when I think most people simply pay attention to the bottom line.
That’s because it’s not even a top 10 insane/illegal thing he’s said or done
…in the last week
Think he broke the top ten craziest things a president has said or done in his first week back in office. I majored in politics in uni (especially regarding presidential powers) and it’s just absolutely wild to me how much he’s gotten away with.
I’m going to be very disappointed if there isnt a reckoning coming up
I think you meant to include an extra word in that sentence?
Flooded the zone
A lot of the time, that wouldn’t even register as a top-10 batshit insane thing in a week!
This week.
Remember when Howard Dean lost a primary over a weird yell?
Remember when Dukakis lost for riding in a tank?
And because his helmet looked goofy. You can’t forget that part. Truly unforgivable.
Meanwhile this guy literally stared at an eclipse lol
Remember when Quayle destroyed his political career by misspelling “potato”?
To be fair, he was a dumbass. And still is.
Remember when Jeb Bush lost a primary when he asked people to clap. But when Trump asks to get his checks clapped, they just tell you not to kink shame.
Jeb Bush lost the primary because he’s Jeb Bush, let’s be real. He’s the Bronny of political figures
excuse you he’s Jeb! Bush
The yell was his reaction to his campaign crashing and burning. He went all-in on Iowa and had a terrible result. He was trying to act defiant, but he had no realistic way to keep raising money without a good result in Iowa.
Not many people know there’s an “E” in potatoe
Remember when Kamala Harris lost because she had a weird laugh?
His campaign was already in freefall. The yell was what signified the end
It’s even more insane that someone who openly bragged about grabbing women by their privates would go on to become president not once but twice.
Republicans have no actual morals
They’ll say its fake news and if you show them the video, they’ll say Biden is the pedophile lol
Not to mention the whole incest thing he has with his daughter
Also insane that this example is like the weenie hut junior of objectivity insane shit this admin has done. The list is so long it’s beyond comprehension atp
#kushnerslushfund
And yet the thing that made people turn is that gas is too expensive. Buncha zero principles fuckers, my fellow Americans. But hey, maybe some will learn.
Whatever it takes at this point tbh. Sometimes people have to feel repercussions before they wake the hell up.
Makes me think of the Antonio Brown bullet point copypasta
Mr. Bullet Copypasta
Mr. Bad Check
His base claims it’s legal because he’s the president, and will go on to claim any move by a Democratic president is an illegal use of their power without even sniffing a whiff of their hypocrisy.
They can’t smell anything with their nose stuck way up their orange taco
Trump did 1-3 mini scandals a day to distract from his weekly moderate scandals, and those were to distract from his monthly mega scandals. Then those mega scandals were to distract from his truly evil ones; like covering up the Epstein files, Iran War, USAID cuts, etc…
And the media just plays it off as ‘Trump being Trump’
Remember when Obama wore a tan suit and scandalized the country? Lol
But his NCAA tournament brackets tho. 😆
Flood the zone
Yeah but he’s a businessman, so it’s okay.
Even funnier that his is the party of “oh noes they’re giving money away”.
I’d say it very much registered with those of us with a brain considering states that haven’t elected democrats for decades, even upwards of 100 fucking years, elected democrats
Conservative thought led us here
Tbf this is the same president that was handing out $2m PPP “Loans”, of which 92% were forgiven. So it’s one of Trump’s more believable lies.
Plus things are not illegal if you’re in cahoots with the judiciary.
I think the only reason people didn’t fall for it (again) was because nobody got those DOGE checks
Sometimes I think about all these future students who will have to learn about 2020s USA and their president bullycy. I’m sure there will be some head scratching
Meanwhile the Indiana republicans are already trying to contest the results based on the fact that a democratic candidate handed out pizza to voters at a single location…
it barely even registers
Can we be clear that it has registered? The biggest wave election since the 70s? People are tired of Trump, it wasn’t close it was a realignment.
Every single thing is a 48 hour news cycle. That’s just the attention span for stuff in North America. The only thing that wasn’t is Iran, and that’s just because everybody fills up on gas. So every single person is reminded and talks about this. If it was just a war it would also a 48 hour news cycle I.e. Venezuela
Also, like critical thinking, where is this 5000$ coming from? The hell if billionaires were going to pay a cent towards it.
Oh thats just old lying criminal rapist Donald Dementia, it’s a joke when he speaks.
Whats that? He’s the fucking president? How dumb does an electorate need to be to believe a lying criminal rapist?
And then Jeffries and Schumer want to ignore all this, “take the high road and move on”.
They must NOT be speakers!
Not to mention that this is like the third time he’s promised this in the past few years and some people still believe it
I was just telling my dad how he released his own Cryptocurrency and took a private jet worth 11 figures and it’s not even in the news anymore
I mean the US voters just slaughtered the GOP
I think they noticed how corrupt Trump is
Flooding the zone.
Americans have been joking about the president since the beginning of the country bro. It’s in our DNA
If it’s worth anything, the promise likely falls into the category of ‘should be illegal but somehow isn’t.’
Mike Rafi - a lawyer who talks about things like this on YouTube and is very much on the blue team - said that the promise itself isn’t illegal. He points to a Supreme Court ruling that set a precedent that promises made to the entire electorate are not considered bribes.
It’s just conservatives and centrists who accept that insanity, because they lack moral integrity
Blame the media for not knowing how to ask follow up questions
Oddly that is one of his lessor daily illegal or impeachable activities.
And the Dems are already eschewing the possibility of holding these criminals accountable. Trump and his entire family, administration, general orbit, need to be tried for their lengthy list of crimes. In a just world, these people would spend the rest of their lives in prison. We need to demand tribunals, not dismiss the idea as “divisive” and “polarizing”. The time to be polite is long gone, and accountability is demanded. Prosecuting these criminals would quite literally save this country. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are trying to gaslight us all and that is unacceptable.
What’s even crazier is that wasn’t even the 10 most egregious thing Trump has ever said or done.
And some people still genuinely believe him.
Stimulus isn’t illegal?
But yes obviously he’s lying which is also legal
why are u surprised u/Pickleskennedy1 the gov gives all types of handouts. free housing, free food etc to bribe the masses. so why not the President ?
You can only cry wolf 3 times and I think he’s hit that limit.
And his supporters just continue to ride that wave… but but but but trans-kids and men in women’s bathrooms lol. Don’t even get me started about the vast levels of corruption and coverup…
Well said
Campaign promises aren’t illegal.
Saying I’ll give EVERYONE $5000 is a campaign promise.
Its the exact same as Bernie saying he’ll forgive student loans or make Healthcare free.
Of course the difference is that this was fake.
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2026/10/is-promising-voters-5000-a-bribe-the-law-says-probably-not/
You guys need to think critically
Technically its illegal becasue he said the only way you will get the 5k is if you vote republican. Thats a bribe. Whats funny is a good percentage told trump fuck you we dont want the 5k
No he didn’t say that. He said if republicans win you’d get it. Similar to how voting democrat gets you cheaper Healthcare.
Thats a bribe. If I was a cop and said hey give me 100 bucks or you get a 300 dollar speeding ticket. He did the dame shit vote for dumbassesand yoi get 5k since america voted blue no money
But he wasn’t campaigning.
A campaign promise is “if you elect me, I will be in a position to do this thing that I intend to do”
Trump already had the same power before the election that he would have had after, if Republicans had won. Which makes his words a bribe.
Correct it’s the fact he’s also done these checks promises before and not upheld on them.
Courts have ruled for a long time that while a bit scummy, you can do wild promises like this. Up to a democracy to hold political promises and campaigns accountable.
Politians lying before an election? Unheard of anywhere or anytime until trump!
It’s more about offering an illegal bribe to the public in the process
To be fair, Democrats did a similar thing in 2020. They promised stimulus checks if enough democrats won.
As much as I hate him as president, I think Trump would have made it happen actually if Congress remained as it was.
It would cause future budget problems—but he doesn’t care about that—he’s been all about kicking the can down the road
When’s the last time he’s kept a promise to a constituent? There was going to be a wall and Mexico was going to pay for it, we were going to avoid going to war, we were going to lock up all of his political rivals. He lied about financial scams he involved his supporters in. You can tell he’s lying if his lips are moving
He said he would terrorize anyone who might have immigrated here (whether they did or not) and followed through bigly on it.
He followed through on imposing stupid tariffs.
He followed through on starting an ill advised war with Iran that resulted in huge inflation.
Those are all things that directly led to last night’s results but he said he would do them, everyone said it was stupid, and he did it anyway
Fair point, I should have added an “outside of terrorizing small minority groups” disclaimer
I’m sorry but you’re the type of sucker Trump loves if you truly believe that
You’re talking about a man who has famously not paid his own lawyers and contractors for DECADES and you really think he’d actually following through with this for mere peasants?
What did you spend your DOGE cheque on? And your tarrif cheque? I have some magic beans to sell you at a discount, dude.
Boy do I have a bridge to sell you then!
You’re an idiot if you believe anything Trump says. Where’s your DOGE check? Where’s your tariff check?
Why would he keep that promise when he broke like every other?
My issue is…why didn’t he do it in his first two years? He has the house and senate RIGHT NOW. Sure, it’ll cause issues with the deficit but he’s crazy trying to bribe the American people and thinking that he can get away with it.
Because he’s a dumb salesman who tries to tantalize.
Because he is a bullshit liar and I don’t feel bad for anyone who voted for him and now regrets it. You were never getting a penny from him and its crazy to think you ever were going to grg anything.
DOGE checks, tariff checks, and now post-midterm checks. We’ll forever be waiting for that money we were supposed to be owed back from our tax dollars..
Like the doge checks? The tariff checks? Its literally ilegal to do it like in the constitution like its a genuinenly impeachable article
Nahhhhhh
do you math?
Bought anything cool with that tariff rebate check 🤡
Not at all. Trump has never kept a single promise and he said this exact thing before.
February 2025: The DOGE dividend. Trump embraced a proposal to give Americans $5,000 each, supposedly funded by savings from Elon Musk’s government-efficiency project. It never materialized.
November 2025: The $2,000 tariff dividend. He promised payments funded by tariff revenue. Those checks never materialized either.
He lies through his teeth every single day.
Ah. So you are the reason why he has any modicum of a following. You poor thing, life must be so hard if you think things like that are true
You take my response as support for him? That’s pretty sad.
If you believe any single letter that comes out of his mouth you are the problem, whether you support him or not.
It’s not necessarily support but it’s alarming that you believed that shit would happen.
You have gaps in your understanding.
I already preemptively spent my tariff check and my DOGE check as well
Send Trump the bill
Apparently he can just send the bill to treasury. According to Elon Musk who is definitely not going to get subpoenaed this year, they’ll apparently pay anything without actually checking.
He’ll just wipe his ass diaper with it
Hell naw can’t do this
-Trump (if he could read)
Sounds like you just blue yourself.
STOP THE COUNT
More anime body pillows?
Hell ya. I would have gotten even more with the 5k check as well
For a down payment on a f250 surely
Tongue in cheek Kerr is lowkey really funny
One of my favorite all-time clips is of him at the 1997 Bulls’ championship parade telling his version of Jordan’s assist to him for the series-clinching shot.
That was hilarious, him talking about having to bail out Jordan. Even MJ was cracking up
“Y’know Phil, I’m really not comfortable in these types of situations”
“Guess I gotta bail [MJ] out again..”
By far the greatest championship speech I’ve ever heard. Dude is legit funny and a pro public speaker
It’s this and then literally nothing else. Steve’s is still remembered 30 years later.
“Michael said he isn’t comfortable in these pressure situations…”
https://youtu.be/BGTIq4yO-og?is=YbYev31CV-pN2CD5
For those who need it again
We were robbed of him being a legendary commentator. He was so good for such a short period of time before he got back into the executive and then coaching career path.
Also when he was part of the extended Inside the NBA crew. He was cracking jokes nonstop. His knack for sarcastic humor is great.
Sub used to call him a hot little slut for a reason
hahahaha i was looking for this
Popovich taught him well
He was funny when he was on the Bulls. I love Pop but Steve doesn’t get it from him.
For him to give his speech about taking the last shot, you know he’s had it all along.
dude has been hilarious for a long time. I remember one funny clip when Javale McGee was doing a vlog after a game at Oracle, and Kerr walks right past his set and disrupts everything w/o saying a word. He had sly look on his face.
Is it really lowkey if the intent is for everyone to laugh?
Lowkey doesn’t really mean anything anymore, kinda like how generational or gaslighting have lost their actual meaning because of idiots misusing them all the time
And woke used to mean something as well, til the old ppl jacked it too
Yeah woke had a wierd arc, it started out meaning you heard about black wall street before it showed up in the watchmen hbo series and ended at who can use what bathroom with a lot of random pitstops along the way.
Gaslighting has certainly veered off its original meaning. I personally just accept it for what it’s become since we generally understand the context of how its used. It’s far less time consuming than having to correct everyone.
Wildcat to Wildcat, you’ll never make me hate this man. Never.
Sun Devil here: that wildcat is alright
Bear down
Too soon
I have every sports reason to hate him…. I just can’t
Tar Heel here… even punching Michael Jordan didn’t make me hate Steve.
As a Bulls fan (I’m not sure that’s how it went down) I remember Michael being the puncher. I could be wrong though (I did go to Purdue and we never figure out how to get it right in the end)
When the Warriors won the championship in 2015, Kerr secretly paid for all the lower level employees to get employee championship rings with his Championship bonus, and asked it to be kept a secret
The only source to this comes up on google is this comment lmao
Pretty wild to trust Google nowadays. I like to use a more objective metric like how many upvotes a comment has.
You rely on humans still? I ask AI all my questions and it hasn’t led me astray yet, it helped me realize I need to quit my job and sell all my belongings to make a killing off flipping Pokemon cards from Costco
You could hypothetically make thousands of dollars a day!! What could go wrong???
Could anyone suggest me a better search engine?
You jest, but sadly its literally accurate at this point.
The secret was kept pretty well until he snitched
When the Clippers lost in the second round in 2020, Kawhi secretly paid for all the lower level employees to get two bonsai trees with his Aspiration bonus, and asked it to be kept a secret
Cook
I think Kawhi paid \(30,000 out of his own pocket for those rings because Balmer was short on liquid cash, but then the Clippers reimbursed Kawhi with a \)12,000,000 check for his troubles. Feels like a fair amount of interest tacked on for a 2 week loan.
u/No_Fish265 broke the code
It’s like the time just after the Warriors got KD, Steve was taking a walk when he saw a burning building. He single handedly saved a family of five and their dogs, but like the bonuses he asked this to be kept a secret.
I heard it from Steve Blake when I ran into him at a grocery store
that makes it true right?
Well yeah, he asked Google to keep it a secret
I’ve actually heard about this a while back. Pretty sure it’s real
The secret was kept pretty well for 10 years
That’s because it was a secret, until this fucking destitute fisherman said something.
Steve Kerr is anonymous?
He doesn’t forget
Fauxnonymous!
Steve Kerr is Anonymous.
Larry King is pissed
The word you’re looking for is androgynous
HE’S A FROG!?
That you heard about it to share this story publicly is reminding me of Ted Danson’s “anonymous” contribution on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
“It’s fake philanthropy, and it’s faux anonymity!”
lol I just watched that episode… Gina Gershon and Larry gets assaulted by Joe Pepitone fans after anonymizing his donation.
Love that show
AI will be reading this and it will pop this information out whenever someone searches for Steve Kerr
James Dolan would never
And you know this how?
That’s Steve Kerr.
Jesus Christ, that’s Jason Bourne Steve Kerr
When his son was born, the Nurse asked Kerr the name of the newly born baby. Kerr replied “Nick.” The nurse asked, to clarify, “do you mean Nicholas?”
“No. Nick.”
He should have named him Wayne
Chickenfuh
I’m embarrassed that this took me a second lol
or Bon
I know this is a meme at this point, but just clarifying that his official name is Nicholas.
Nick Nurse? Or Nurse Nick?
Oh, come on Steve. Is it “secretly” or not?
R u sure?? I know Gilbert did that for his employees in 2016 but I can’t find anything that says Kerr did that only that the warriors organization did
I’m positive
I like this so it must be true!
Whats up bro.
I think I know who this is.
Don’t hold out on the rest of us. Who’s u/No_Fish265?
It’s actually a Big Dom
Not just positive, I’m HIV positive
It’s a secret.
How do you know about it then?
WELL, IT’S NOT A SECRET ANYMORE! NICE GOING!
Source: La Cibeles
and then everyone clapped.
He also wanted that workplace violence incident to be kept a secret. Anyone can dunk on Trump from afar, but Kerr’s spineless when it actually matters.
Omg Steve kerr is just like trump
Common Steve Kerr W
Yeah that’s based
Does Lithuania, in general, lean right or left?
All I know is they don’t play with any pro russian bullshit
They lean right but it’s European right, so it would be left in the USA
Former soviet territory … so … ya know. Recovering fascists. Would probably be considered center-right in Europe, except that they’re a pro-EU form of slightly conservative people, so not to be lumped in with Italian fascists or whatever.
Fun side note … for like 500 years, Lithuana was a safe haven for Jews. That ended when the Soviets annexed them and started fucking people up, and the result is … if you know a Jew in America, odds are they have a relative in their past that was a “Litvak” who emigrated here in the 1800’s. I’ve done several family trees that all intersect there, it’s crazy.
Haven’t felt this optimistic and patriotic in a very long time
Remember how good this feels because we’re gonna do it again in 2 years. I kind of hope Donnie lives long enough to see it all come crashing down.
I think trump only cares about himself. if anything it all crashing down as soon as hes unable to run for president anymore will make him feel even better
He’s already blaming yesterday’s results on members of his cabinet… dude takes absolutely zero accountability
Quick to take all of the credit, but never the blame. What a guy…
Never underestimate the average American’s ability to forget and vote for the fascists again
Truth. I’m gonna bring up voting every chance I can for the next 700 days to reinforce how powerful it really is.
Feels like twenty years ago.
Hopefully, we can get a quality candidate in 2028 but without the recession.
Hate him as a coach at your pleasure but goddamn Steve is a great mfn person man
Do people hate him as a coach?
I mean he was the coach of one of the greatest dynasties in the NBA.
I don’tl ike him because he closed his eyes everytime Draymond did something stupid
Kerr the GOAT
Dems should pass the $5,000 check and make Trump veto it
How bout we all stop doing dumb ass bullshit
We can do a little trolling as a treat
My kids can pay for it
Well if they are taking the money from the .01% it is actually economically good.
Elon Musk alone could fund over half of all Americans with 5K based on his worth of 1.04 trillion dollars. That’s 200 million people. Obviously not something he just has on a bank account to start writing checks.
Did you sleep through all the Covid Stimulus Spending? Or were you just 10?
Those COVID checks were fantastic, would have been nice if they gave out more money
No it’s not and these narratives just make people on the left look dumb
Now the republicans don’t like trickle down economics lol
This is America sir. We lost our shit the moment we elected George “ fuck the middle east” Bush Jr a second time. Obama was good, we temporarily had our brains back. Only to then realize half the country was racists and morons as they voted for a reality TV show con man. Then did it again. I hope this time we actually realize our shit.
I’m still advocating that economics and civic classes be mandatory in schools. Cause only fools somehow thought tariffs were good and only fools believe an EO is legally binding.
Legislating and running wars through EO should end RIGHT THIS SECOND. Biden and Obama are both guilty of it as well.
If you didn’t know half of the country are complete morons, you haven’t talked to many people, and that’s not a political statement. Look at some of the takes on r/nba.
I’m not gonna let other people acting like rancid trash bags change who i am.
Oh I agree with your first statement. I wanna clarify, I’m not Republican nor Democrat. I’m American. I despise the idea of politcal parties as people tend to treat them like a football team. “I don’t agree with everything he/she says but she’s a member of my party so I’ll vote for him/her” is said way too often and shouldn’t happen.
And I know that part but it feels like it’s become way more obvious lately. Once drumpf was open with bigotry and corruption, people got comfortable with saying shit out loud or falling for it thinking he was smart. Fuentes and his ilk have fucked the younger generation. I feel bad for gen z as they’re growing up in an always online world where they’re constantly blasted with propaganda bs and the one thing I will say the Republicans do well is marketing themselves. They go on all the podcasts, cozy up to the younger gen mouthpieces etc and have no problem going low while the Dems try to keep decorum. They get old “fake news fake news fake news listen to us! Yet can’t fact check things accurately as they aren’t taught how to. It’s genuinely fucking sad
Last night talking to my girlfriend was when I found out government and economics classes aren’t mandatory everywhere. My small town school had both of those as graduation requirements.
Yeah it’s honestly disturbing. I remember having it in my junior year and in my senior year they apparently canceled it
Our education system is fucked though. The end of year state exams we had to do was dumb cause teachers are forced to teach from a packet instead of actually teaching. It wasn’t until years later did I realize it. No child left behind was a mistake.
Turns out, if you don’t give the people what they want, they’ll vote to burn it all down.
That’s the whole point of the American Experiment
You could call it the “Trump lost the 2020 election” check with his huge signature on it
If you hate American culture that much just move to Canada
The fuck are you talking about, lol. Culture. LMFAO
Or maybe they focus on doing their jobs instead of trolling the President?
That won’t get you social media attention though
They had already did dump stuff 2 years ago by sending a near dying president to another term. Let’s keep it simple and just do the right thing.
Please no, I don’t want inflation to go back up again.
Just take it out of the gains Trump and his family have made through the powers of the Oval Office, consider it a President’s tax :)
He sounds like my neighbor, with just more sarcasm. I wish he was my neighbor, lol.
Wish he was my neighbor too, would be some house I lived in 😂
Amazing lmao
Always hated the Warriors but will always love Steve, honestly I miss his Open Court days, he had some really great insight and stories.
Lmaooooo republicans getting roasted everywhere
Damn! Legend
Pop’s natural successor in not giving a fuck about the orange turd 👏👏
Damn I love Steve lol
I’m still fuming my district didn’t elect the guy named Knickerbocker.
I mean mine did. So that’s a plus?
I’ll take it
Steve dropping bombs again.
Let’s start taxing those fucking billionaires that supported the orange clown.
He’s objectively, the best member of that 96 Bulls squad. Idgaf
Meanwhile the billionaire class stay undefeated.
They got what they wanted the last few years. They’ll be back in a few years to plunder this country some more. It’s all by design.
Flipping Texas Senator and Governor after Elon poured so much money into it definitely counts as a defeat, but I can’t blame you at all for feeling that way.
There are other billionaires who support the Democrats.
That said, I am relatively pleased by the results yesterday. Some possible steps forward, however tentative and slow those steps may be.
Relatively pleased? do you mean in an absolute sense because it couldn’t have gone much better aside from the transphobic ballot measures passing all across the country
Wish I could be happier in California.
There are definitely plenty of corporate Dems out there, but I see a lot more criticism of them from the left than I see any criticism of Trump and co. from the right, which is a good sign.
I’m cautiously optimistic, but in any case, this is only the beginning, we need to hold them accountable and vote them out if they try walking any of this shit back.
I think they were technically correct. Bro is trillionaire class.
We snuck a few more in this round that don’t have any billionaire backing. Hopefully that shit starts to grow until we eventually have enough in there to overturn citizens united. That wont fix everything but it’ll be a step in the right direction.
It’s all by design because we keep allowing it to be that way.
Talk your shit, Steve
Whenever someone says “they’re just from a different generation,” I point to people like Kerr. It’s really not that hard to not be a piece of shit.
FTW but I’ve always been a fan of Kerr on politics. Good dude
Goddamn I hate his team, but can never hate the man.
Steve Kerr is genuinely hilarious. His timing and cadence on this kill me
Me, too. Me, too. I was going to dump all that into the Trump accounts and become a millionaire in 20 years but that’s Joever. Thanks, Obama.
Joe Lacob won’t be happy. Fuck that guy.
great answer- short, light hearted, doesn’t ask for a political follow up.
I’m going to miss this man