LaVar , LaVar , LaVar - - Damn
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I guess Big Baller product will not be manufactured in China anytime soon…
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…and Ivanka will probably pocket the patent on both the shoes and glasses?
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@JayHawkFanToo We can’t allow public emotion or normal appropriate conduct to get in the way of big business. Dollars are dollars…or YENS?
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…and Ivanka will probably pocket the patent on both the shoes and glasses?
Let’s no go there; this is not the political forum.
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@JayHawkFanToo Heck, this is UCLA Basketball! Division 1 athletes and a parent stirring up public indignation. The political stuff is just a tangential mire that our president stepped into.
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I did not defend the President but why bring his daughter into the fray? I am out.
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@JayHawkFanToo Okay, okay. One last word and I will cease, too. It just seems to follow, logically, that if the current president is to broker any dealings with China, there will have to be some advantages involved in that decision. For both parties. Early in his administration, the leader of China came to D.C. to meet with our newly elected leader; after which it was unveiled that the anointed daughter had garnered several Chinese patents for her merchandise. So…if China is actually to produce Mr. Ball’s shoes or his/UCLA’s sunglasses, would it not follow that someone high in our government will benefit from the DEAL? Daughter’s young offspring could sing a little song in Mandarin, and SHAZAM! But then again, maybe the Chinese shoe deal and the sunglasses won’t fly. S. Korea or Japan might intervene to broker the deal. Whatever, there is bound to be a winner or two stemming from the notorious collegiate hoops theft. All’s well that ends well. Bye.
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With all due respect you should do little research before you post incorrect statements. Ivanka Trump did not receive any “patents” from China, she did get “trademarks” for her name, a completely different thing and something business and individuals with recognizable names do routinely to prevent others from using and profiting from their names illegally. She and her firm have been doing this since long before her father even announced his candidacy and has 18 of those trademarks and and number more under review.
Again, why even involve her in something related to 3 idiots shoplifting in China?
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@JayHawkFanToo I bow to your wisdom. Posters, please substitute TRADEMARKS for PATENTS in my previous post. Gotta protect the good name of anyone who might benefit from LiAngelo Ball’s involvement in toplevel pardons.
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Well, although many people thought it was something he doesn’t ever acknowledge, Trump publicly regrets one of his actions: “I should have left them in jail!”
PS: On this, I agree with POTUS 100%!
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I said before and I will say it again, the president should not have gotten involved in this affair in the first place. Not his job and he wasted political capital doing it only to be rebuffed by Daddy Ball.
More importantly, he should quit posting on tweeter and I am sure we can all agree on this but unfortunately it is probably the way politics are now. SMH.
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mayjay said:
Well, although many people thought it was something he doesn’t ever acknowledge, Trump publicly regrets one of his actions: “I should have left them in jail!”
PS: On this, I agree with POTUS 100%!
me too let them see what it’s like in a foreign prison. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@JayHawkFanToo With that part of it - -I will for sure agree with you - -all this damn twitter crap I guess I’m to old a president twitter so much just BS. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Well, if LaVar should, indeed, add a line of sunglasses to his merchandise for Big Baller Brand he might label them THE DONALD’s CHINESE PEEPS. Unless, of course, a member of the president’s inner circle pounces first upon that marketing possibility. LaVar appears to be winning the war of words with our cheeky twitter king. Or, at very least, pulling a classic Trumpism by diverting heat off his eldest son Lonzo’s flagging NBA performances. His baiting and goading of the president evidently took place during an ESPN interview.
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In some perverse section of my mind, I wish I could be in on the Thanksgiving sitdown at the Ball House of Comedy.
“So, what’s new?”
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mayjay said:
In some perverse section of my mind, I wish I could be in on the Thanksgiving sitdown at the Ball House of Comedy.
“So, what’s new?”
Yes that is A " PERVERSE " section of your mind , lol - -My question I guess would be - - -WHY? - -why would you want to do such a thing lol. - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Addendum to my Thanksgivinng scenario:
“So, what’s new? Anyone have major successes this year to be thankful for?”
“Well, I managed to sorta piss off 1.3 billion people a coupla weeks ago. I would been thankful for the shades, too, but they took 'em back. Don’t get that.”
“Son, I already had them pissed off, plus most of the USA, so that ain’t nothin’… You are not tryin’ and frankly I resent your piddly little scheme. Fortunately, I have now pissed off the President to take any attention off you.”
(Muttering heard nearby): “Thank God it isn’t on me and the Lakers anymore…hmm, why do I come here?”
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I know. Not really sure WHY I keep falling into LaVar’s baited trap - -but I like so many others just can’t help myself when I hear him spew off at the mouth, the guy really chaps my ass.
I just wonder seriously, if you were to ask the Ball boys , but if you were to ask then and they answered HONESTLY I just wonder what or how they REALLY feel about some of their dad’s comments and some of his actions? - I think if it were me , I’d be at least somewhat embarrassed of his actions and how pathetic some of his comments sounded. - - Does he not realize how much harder he is making it for his son’s - In reality I think LaVar is thinking about only LaVar - -son’s be damned.
Last night in an interview on CNN , LaVar outdone himself yet AGAIN. - -saying that he only would of said thank you to Trump if the President would of let the 3 UCLA players fly back to United States on the Air Force One plane with Trump, saying there is plenty of room on that plane. - Get the hell out of here with that lunacy.
Repeated again still saying that this was not that big of deal umm, here is a little foot note to that statement ( TO CHINA IT IS ) - -5-10 yrs in a foreign prison - not a big deal? -ya tell that to your son after he could of spent that time there, say tell him that after the first week in there. - If he were still alive. -Or better yet, let them pull that stunt in Saudi Arabia bet you would only do it once - they cut your hand off. anyways he still says not that big of deal - -that it was a victimless crime. That it was an impulse thing , a bad decision , at a bad time.
Finished his little interview by saying tell Donald Trump to have a great Thanksgiving because Big Baller is.
Again I allow myself to have to comment on his idiotic talk - but see this is exactly what he wants and I/we are giving it to him by my responding and so many others - I need some therozene to mello out about him lmao, but Damn he chaps my butt. – -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@jayballer54 Why watch?
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mayjay said:
@jayballer54 Why watch?
Because like thousands of others you just wonder when you see - -if it’s possible that this moron can out do himself from the last time and the answer is – -YES why yes he can. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@jayballer54 Good point. I guess that is why I keep reading politics despite telling myself not to!
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Come on dude? why stir the pot?
It would be one thing if you were making some valid post but man all you doing is showing your hate for the Trump family.
Just let it go and if you don’t like the president vote him out?
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You know I used to think Lavar was an idiot. But now I think he’s just playing his game trying to gain as much fame for as long as he can trying to get his brand going. I saw a guy in Wichita wearing one of those shirts the other day. Definitely not my style with his loud mouth but the younger generation seems to like it. It’s kinda like Miley Cyrus doing all the tweaking and short hair crazy stuff, she blew up after that.
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Well daddy LaVar ha sure made it interesting for Lonzo even today as Lonzo has moved on to the NBA. - - What does ESPN want to talk about? - - Lonzo. - - I mean how many rookies are there in the NBA? - yet it’s Lonzo - - -LaVar talking about how Luke Walton the Lakers Coach doesn’t know how to Coach Lonzo - -Lavar says - -they don’t know how to Coach Lonzo - - I know how to Coach Lonzo. - -Man get the hell out of here with that crap.
Like the ESPN commentators said, when is the last time we have ever heard about talking about the parents of an NBA player - -the Parent. - -Damn man this clown is just - - - I have no words. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@DoubleDD Hate? Showing my HATE? Aw, come on now, you’re sounding like one of my indigent welfare neighbors, guys who turned on me with that HATER label after I pointed out that the government was set to annihilate their medicaid benefits. Shucks, the only thing I ever absolutely hated was liver and onions, back when I was barely a teen. And hominy. Got burned with a leather belt one time for refusing to eat my mother’s cooking. Probably because of the belt; but I HATED those food items. Now have outgrown those emotions, and actually find liver and onions somewhat delectable. I don’t feel hate for our president, his family, inner circle or unwavering dumb supporters. What I have felt is a sense of surprise, shock, indignation and mirth. To bring my discourse back to the subject of this thread, I am getting a huge kick out of the current feud: TRUMP vs. BALL. The patriarch of some young American hoops stars denigrates the powerful leader of the Free World for not really doing much to help free his wayward son from Chinese captivity. Trump, iin a twist of furious irony, then declares that LaVar Ball is a “fool!” That stuff is more humorous than any of the Sunday comics. If the president would avoid speech and actions involving foreign relations or public morality, items of which he is either ignorant or out of 21st century tune, and stick with personal insults and braying about his omnipotence, then all of us could sit back in relief, chuckle with delight. Dagwood vs. Blondie! And heck, it looks as though Ivanka is standing tall vs. her audacious daddy in the Roy Moore debacle. Maybe Mr. Ball will find a foothold to squeeze his voice into that brouhaha. Not hate stuff, but MIRTH. Dontcha think?
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@REHawk Do you remember when people would bring up a pet peeve by saying, “Do you know what’s wrong with America today?” and then cite some silly thing like 4-way stops? Or robocalls, or too many choices at McD’s or something?
No one says that stuff anymore. Too many serious or tragic things that are wrong.
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Denny’s used to have breakfast sandwich called the Dagwood but it was discontinued a while back…I really liked the Dagwood…
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mayjay said:
Well, although many people thought it was something he doesn’t ever acknowledge, Trump publicly regrets one of his actions: “I should have left them in jail!”
PS: On this, I agree with POTUS 100%!
I don’t agree with him on well anything really but i agree on this one too haha. idiots
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@HawkInMizery Yeah, the wife and I kinda concur with you guys on this issue. China should have led those guys away from those ritzy hotel lodgings, right down the stairwell from which they could be marched in cuffs to the nearest lockup. Leave them sitting for a month or so until LaVar coughed up an order for several gross of Chinese Big Baller Brand brogues and perhaps a few trial gross of Presidential Peeps Hoops Sunglasses.
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Hypothesis: someone one called in a mark on Mr. Ball and scripted what he was supposed to say.
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Fair enough. However I would say if my son or daughter got caught stealing in a foreign country like China. And the president stepped in to help I would be thankful but that’s just me.
I know so many think China is a free country because they are a capitalist country. (Cough) they’re not.
Lavar is being stupid. The old saying bad press is better than no press? Oh wait I’m sure the Trump haters are lining up to buy big baller shoes right now. Doesn’t matter that his kid stole some high end merchandise. Haha. Now that’s funny right?
Ask Otto Warmbiers parents how they feel about their kid stealing in a foreign country? And all he stole was a poster.
It’s all fun and games until some one dies. Not so funny.
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@DoubleDD Well, I just read that between last Friday and this Wednesday Big Baller Brand gleaned over 13 million dollars of free advertising, thanks to Donald Trump’s rants. Regardless of the criminal stuff which led to this feud, such statistics are mighty damned amusing. LaVar seems to possess an instinct for marketing. When he brayed about his personal hoops superiority to Michael Jordan, I scratched my old hairless pate and mumbled to myself, “What an idiot!” Now I better understand the guy. I think he has out-Trumped the Trumper. (On the other hand, I think his kid and cohorts should have served a few weeks of hard time before departing China. They embodied a light touch of what the world is viewing in regards to Ugly America.)
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…and I would not find myself at all surprised to find in a few months the amusing revelation that The Donald and Family have invested a significant holding in Big Baller Brand. Heck, those two guys could plumb this marketing bonanza for several months, if not years.
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@REHawk Trump is generally believed to not be interested in investing in brand names other than his own.
I think he is more likely to tweet, after this 13 mil news, that Big Baller should pay him for the publicity.
Then the usual media hoopla will ensue, he will be accused by some as attempting to obtain compensation for performing an act as President (talking to a foreign leader), La Var will get the chance to appear more stupid than he is already, Twitter will go aflame even more, Trump will be cleared by a First Amendment analysis by the ACLU, he will get in trouble yet again for insulting the ACLU even after they helped him, and really by then no one will give a crap because worse will happen in the meantime.
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Well if big baller is making money of the the feud of Lavar and Trump?
I’m pretty sure it’s persons that Hate trump. Persons that are willing to overlook that a kid stole some highend stuff in a foreign country.
A country that doesn’t hold our views on stealing stuff.
I get it no big deal, Yet in China it’s a big deal. Trump doesn’t step in? Who knows what happens?
Just like when Obama didn’t step in on the Otto kid. Even though American taxpayers pay North Korea More than they deserve.
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You know you can always vote him out? Maybe this next election you can a dem prepresenative to actually visits certain states instead of taking them for granted?
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@DoubleDD No one said they are making money off it, only that they got free publicity. Just as the media was analyzed as having given the Donald millions of dollars worth of attention for free in the election by covering and endlessly discussing every utterance, glance, tweet, or movement he made even before he announced.
There is a reason both he and LaVar are considered to be marketing geniuses.
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@DoubleDD So can you. We can work together on this.
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Um The president is a multi billionaire. Lavar is trying to make hey off his children?
Yet somehow Lavar is a gensis? Seems more like a scam bag to me.
His kid just got caught stealing in a foreign country that doesn’t recognize our laws. If it was me I would be grateful that the president dem/Rep stepped in to help my kid.
Yet it’s Trump so forget that.
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@DoubleDD Look, give it a rest. You are always looking for fights. Would you please notice that I originally said I agree with the Donald about La Var?
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mayjay said:
@DoubleDD So can you. We can work together on this.
NOt me I’m going to vote for him again. You people are nuts. Obamacare sucks. We gave billions of tax payers monies to a country that wants to wipe American of the face of the earth. We had the dem Party sell Uranium to Russia? You know the country that affected our recent elections?
The old saying if you do what you have always done expecting a different result? Yes it’s time of change.
YOur smart guy Trump may not be the person. Yet maybe he burns enough bridges that we and I mean we Americans finally get a Preisident we want.
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I have Obamacare.
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@Crimsonorblue22 “I have Obamacare.”
Unfortunately, hundreds of politicians (congressmen and senators and the Prez) who think that that fact is a failure.
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mayjay said:
@DoubleDD Look, give it a rest. You are always looking for fights. Would you please notice that I originally said I agree with the Donald about La Var?
I’m not picking any fights. Just answer the call to those that want the same old same old. That want to take pot shots like somehow they know or are better. Yet they never want to shine the light on the party they LIke. Spare me.
Acting like the American people want more of the Clinton Family, and yes even Obama? See the last election? UM unless you live in New York or Cali?? UMMM
I just want to talk KU basketball.
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mayjay said:
@Crimsonorblue22 “I have Obamacare.”
Unfortunately, hundreds of politicians (congressmen and senators and the Prez) who think that that fact is a failure.
Really? Come on Judge? You know Obamacare has failed. really?
Expecting the youth to pay for coverage they don’t need? And punishing those that already have healthcare?
How many states and counties don’t even have the option?
I get the heart was in the right place. Yet come on?
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@DoubleDD Atta boy! Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!!
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I see you have no real legit stance. Just bash Trump.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. As your a great poster.
Yet come on tell me you’re not waiting for the breaking news special that Trumps fart don’t smell like Mexican food.
so he must be a racist.
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@mayjay Shucks, for all we know, The Donald might actually own the controlling interest in BBB. Just be using this guy LaVar and his talented offspring as a marketing tool to sell those $495.00 sneakers to kids who thrive at the game of hoops; folks who would not otherwise be inclined to buy from a rare political icon who denigrates their sports stars. We are living in shady times, turmoil on the roll. But the big boys proceed with the clocking of dollars.
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REHawk said:
@mayjay Shucks, for all we know, The Donald might actually own the controlling interest in BBB. Just be using this guy LaVar and his talented offspring as a marketing tool to sell those $495.00 sneakers to kids who thrive at the game of hoops; folks who would not otherwise be inclined to buy from a rare political icon who denigrates their sports stars. We are living in shady times, turmoil on the roll. But the big boys proceed with the clocking of dollars.
really think Trump is with Lavar? OK
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Me myself the bigger issue is why are all these politicians coming out doing terrible things to women.
But hey we can talk Lavar and Trump making money together?
