[LOCKED] OT: Golden State Warriors unanimously vote to skip customary White House visit
It didn’t take the Golden State Warriors long to decide to skip the traditional championship White House visit.
Less than 24 hours after winning the 2017 NBA Finals on Monday night, the Warriors unanimously voted to decline the White House ceremony honoring their Finals win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to several reports including one by CNBC analyst Josh Brown.
The Warriors attended the White House ceremony to honor their 2015 NBA Finals title when former President Barack Obama was in the White House.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/warriors-unanimously-decline-white-house-visi…
MOD EDIT - ....and locked. It's interesting news, to be sure, but this thread.....yeesh. - LSA
Fuck Trump. Can't believe some of you support that moron.
hahahahhahahahaha
AlphaMale
NWO
depopulation scheme
holy shit.
Now call someone a cuck and neg their wife and complete the ritual!
LOL. Nice.
you listen to Alex Jones
i wish Brian would OK 1 day - ONE DAY - where you can post all the political and religious posts you want. Like that movie The Purge. Get it out of everyones system.
And quite honestly, these are the most entertaining threads IMO. I love sitting back and reading the comments. So much more entertaining than 95% of the shit you sheep write on here :)
about once a year, but they don't announce it as an official Purge. The mods just let explicitly political threads go (see, e.g., Brexit thread, which was 500-plus comments that included a high proportion of Trump-related posts). You just have to be paying attention on the right day.
Maybe today's the day!! Woo-hoo!! I'm going to start by looting a bookstore.
The threads are fun for a couple of minutes, then you dig a bit deeper into some of the sub-discussions and you remember that we are all here because we like Michigan athletics (most of the time) and that expecting any other consistent thread or characteristic is foolish.
but at the same time, go look at The Edge of the Internet sometime. That place is like 90% politics and 10% Michigan now. It's an unbearable shitshow over there
I don't know what's scarier: that this post was made, or that it's getting upvotes.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-find-a-link-betwee…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/insights-into-the-personalit…
Politics aside, this is extremely close to "Wake up sheeple!"
If you think all republicans/democrats are stupid, you are part of the problem
think an old-money multi-billionairre who butters his bread by gaming the same system he purports to reject is the one to affect the change you are seeking? Come on man, you got punked. It happens.
Straight out punked.
because it so clearly pisses you off.
Thanks for a good laugh.
Gotta up your RedPill game man. Also, I assume you mean to say "cuck" there.
It is a constant source of shame for me that there are so many folks like you in this country.
But 'Murica, I guess. It takes all kinds. *sigh*
I don't like it for this reason: These things are becoming a slippery slope . . .
WH celebrations, commencement ceremonies, protest votes, and on and on.
Everybody with any pet peeve at all is starting to boycott everything. There are no safe zones left where we agree to play nice for at least a moment.
It's become a source of pride to show how easily you are offended. Outrage is becoming the at-rest state of being in this country.
A given protest may fit your viewpoint, but there will surely be another and another that puts you in the crosshairs.
Agreed. But there is a time and a place.
Going to the White House to celebrate a championship is a "time-out" from politics. It's a time to look the other way and play nice for a couple of hours. You will have ample other opportunities to state your case against the sitting president.
The point is that there will always be a president in office that millions of people did not vote for. Duly noted. That does not mean that every single thing/event that the president does for 4 years needs to be boycotted/protested. There will never be a break, ever.
We can still be a functioning democracy without the Easter Egg Roll becoming a combat zone.
this respectfully because I understand your post and agree with a lof of things that you write, but I think you are missing how and why this is different. There is a type of "politics" that people should take a timeout from and other beliefs and intentions that, if you do believe them to be true, you should be in a state of constant protest, even if it is merely silent at times.
People aren't afraid of new health care legisltation, they are not afraid tax cuts for the wealthy. These things are not unprecedented. What they see is the President of the country trying to completely discredit the media, law enforcement, and the Courts, the very people that are intended to serve as inherent checks on his power, and attempting to essentially equate any dissension with treason. These are dangerous things, and it scares a lot of people that many cannot see it for what it is, or at least what it very much seems to be. It is not really an issue of politics, it is more an issue of cultural ideology. That is why you are seeing more people unable to seperate their everyday life and belief structure from the issue.
I agree, Trump is an extreme. IMO, he deserves every slap in the face he gets. If he can't take it, don't dish it out.
But man, we are getting good at this "cultural ideology / I'm deeply offended / this time it's different" thing. Everybody is on a hair trigger, ready to lash out at everybody else.
Having grown up in what is now solid Trump country, I can tell you for a fact that people from those areas are just as offended by what they see as an attack on their own cultural ideology as multi-millionaire NBA players are with Donald Trump.
The idea that you must take a relentless never-ending stand on every single event cuts both ways. Each side thinks it's not just politics, it's an existential issue for them.
It's hard to see it all that just going away when Trump leaves office.
When and where is the time and place for protest? I always hear people opposed to the time and place of a given protest. How should they protest this administration if they want to? Go and turn their backs to him? Wear shirts that are anti-Trump during warmups? Protest is meant to disrupt. Avoiding protests at a funeral, a wedding a birth all make sense. Almost everywhere else is fair game. This is the perfect place for a protest. It reaches several eyeballs.
Boycott M-Dog! Boycott M-Dog!
Fine. Be that way.
I'll go hang out with WD.
....Too late?
Too late, he boycotted us.
In today's atmosphere I'm surprised they didn't have a Trump pinada in the lockerroom to beat up on. So politically correct.
Politically correct that they didn't beat up a Trump piñata?
that all these "characters" come with labels, or else 80% of the population wouldn't know who to hate. It isn't what anyone says - it's the label. It is precisely the same as racism ... because that too is simply a label. It's a very sad time for this nation.
Go Blue!
this thread has now lasted one hour and 19 minutes longer than i thought it would.
All these sports teams going to the WH.
SAVE taxpayers MONEY.
Hyperpartisanship could destroy our country. I don't think it would take much to tip us over.