Exactly. We need to treat the remaining games as if AD is still not available. The same goes for LeBron when he gets back unless he swishes his magic wand and fits in seamlessly with the flow.
5 Things: Basketball A Distant 2nd
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January 9, 2021 3 Comments
No apologies from me on the non-hoops related content. This is where we’re at folks.
No apologies are needed Jamie.
Thanks for continuing to be one of the consciences of Lakerholics, Jamie. We may be a Lakers basketball site but there are times that demand we address and discus issues that go beyond the world of basketball. Now is surely one of those times.
As usual, I’m always looking for the silver lining in life and right now, despite the horror of people dying and our democracy being attacked, I can’t help feeling as if this is just another painful but necessary step towards building a better America and better life for our children and grandchildren. While I’m as horrified as everybody at what happened, it may turn out to be the best thing we could have hoped for.
Yes, our democracy was attacked, not just by that mob of white supremecists and misinformed idiots incapable of seeing fact from fiction, but by a president and his enablers in government and the medeia who has turned gross misinformation into a viable political strategy and undermined everything good about this country and allowed the dogs of hatred and racism to run rampant. But in the end they failed miserably. They unmasked themselves for what they are. The ultimate in fake news. Fools and criminals exposed in broad daylight.
Frankly, I would be more worried had Trump and his minions not failed than their current self destruction. While I mourn for those killed, their lives will not have been in vain. They may end up saving the country. I love James Clyburn’s suggestion to give Biden 100 days to get his administration going, get help to people who’ve lost their jobs, get the vaccines into arms, and get our economy going. And then, after a massive and deep investigation by the Justice Department, put Trump on trial in the Senate and make sure he can never hold office again in America.
Throughout this, we still won in Georgia. So I watch the news not with horror and dismay but with great hope and admiration for the people who ran those elections, respect for the lately woke politicians who at last stand up, the companies that fire the enablers and rioters. Sometimes, you do need to have someone try to burn down the house to wake everybody up to what’s happening. Trump and his enablers must pay the price. They have self destructed and will never be the force they could have been had all of this not happened. In the end, this is good thing, not a bad thing, for American and for democracy.
Yes, there is a lot of hate and anger and misinformation but finally we have real chance to change that. That’s why these are great times in my opinion and Joe Biden has a chance to become a great president.