Tag: Michael Jordan

Judge Lyons Wants to Put Darbi Boddy in Jail: Yet, the Butler County Republican Party desires unity?

It was ironic that at the same precise moment that Judge Lyons was seeking to put Darbi Boddy, a Lakota school board member in jail just for being on school board-related business in Columbus, Ohio where he imposed a restraining order keeping her from Isaac Adi, another school board member, that the Chairman of the Republican Party of Butler County, Ohio was sending out a letter trying to unify the party after a tough election. Here was a prime case of some old washed-up crusty crab who has been trying to destroy a mom with fines and incarceration because Darbi essentially didn’t kiss the ring of Lynda O’Connor, who had just lost the election, and that same GOP endorsed her. Literally, just a few days before, I was at another political event where Isaac was there, and he was telling me how much Darbi was like a sister to him and that he loved her. Yet just a few days later, he and his attorney, another sucker for Lynda O’Connor, were trying to put Darbi in jail while her husband was overseas serving our nation. And they have a child at home forming opinions about the world and she sees all this harassment of her mommy by really ruthlessly diabolical people. Smart judge. Smart Isaac. Isaac wasn’t lying to me, was he? Actions always tell the truth. And to all the other people who have gone way out on a limb of injustice to stand behind Lynda, who positioned everyone for failure out of pure selfishness. As I read that letter from Todd Hall, my phone was constantly going off from a lot of Darbi supporters who wanted to go to war with these people in a very vicious way. Somehow, I don’t think this is the kind of unification Todd was talking about in his letter. But I read it carefully and tried to find something positive about it.

I’ve known Todd Hall for a long time, and I like him. I’ve stood up for him when many people wanted his head in much the way I stand up for Darbi. I like to see good people trying to do good things. If they stumble their feet along the way a bit, I don’t get hung up on it. I judge intent for what it should be, and actions mean a lot in determining that intent. And I understand what Todd Hall wants to do after a tough loss, which is good. To get the Republican Party all pointed in the right direction. The trouble is that everyone has a different opinion about what the right direction is. It is the job of leadership, no matter if it’s a political party, a company, or a sports team to figure out what “right” is and get a team accomplishing it together. And in the Butler County Republican Party, over the last several years, Jennifer Edwards at Fox 19 is always there to stoke the fires, as I warned everyone about. She doesn’t do to Democrats what she does to Republicans. She was again pushing the Darbi story in Butler County just as she did the story against Roger Reynolds where Sheriff Jones went after him, and other people completely maliciously, just to show power over other rivals within the party. When power becomes more important to these teammates, any organization is destined to fail; in this case, voters have been taking notice. And Todd tried to point that out in his letter with motivational quotes to get everyone’s attention. But one particular quote I thought was especially relevant and was the point of the entire letter:

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships – Michael Jordan.

That sounds generic enough, but there is a good story to this. Everyone knows Michael Jordan was probably the greatest NBA player ever to live, in a time when people liked professional basketball before the league started eating from the hands of communist China. But while Jordan was with the Bulls, they won six national championships, so obviously, he was essential to the team. But a lot of background stuff went on that allowed Michael Jordan to be all he could. He had teammates like Scottie Pippen, who was always a quiet background player who was excellent in his own way, so he drew double teams away from Jordan and allowed some of those games with such spectacular results. Then there was Dennis Rodman, the crazy character who was always causing trouble and drew a lot of attention, again allowing Michael Jordan to be more of what his talents could provide to their full extent. Then there was the coach, Phil Jackson, who had a unique leadership ability to get all those crazy characters pointed toward wins on the court when, if left to their own devices, they would likely have flown apart and destroyed each other. Putting all those unique personalities together in one place without fights is tough. But a good leader like Jackson was able to, and the results were evident, as Todd Hall pointed out in his letter. Perhaps he was thinking about teamwork generically; even Michael Jordan needed a team. But it’s more than that; it’s a leadership element that is the most desired in the world, much more than gold or any precious metal, winning leadership, no matter what organization we are discussing. The Chicago Bulls had it; teams that had Tom Brady on them had it. We see it in specific companies, entertainment, music, and art. And we see it in politics with President Trump.

Rob here is Judge Lyons and these are the kind of people we are dealing with
Looks like Kerry told on these three

When you don’t have your version of Phil Jackson in a leadership role but have lots of wild personalities on a team, like Dennis Rodman, Michael Jordan, and Scottie Pippen, winning isn’t guaranteed.  Great talent can do what great talent does, but wins are hard to come by without leadership.  Someone should have told Judge Lyons and Sheriff Jones that being a bunch of stingy old mustache men with about five minutes left in their careers isn’t enough.  They should be recruiting new, bright people so the Republican Party can win next week, next month, and next year.  But after the way people have seen how the GOP has treated Darbi; who in their right mind would want to play for that team?  Who wants to be thrown in jail because they refused to kiss the ring of some egomaniac that is only in politics because they don’t have that kind of respect anywhere else?  Once they step out of politics and go to Ace Hardware to buy some nails for the house, people stop saying hi to them and treating them like local celebrities.  So they seek personal fulfillment in destructive ways, bringing the party down which reflect in losses at the ballot box.  If the Republican Party isn’t giving the public wins, then people aren’t interested.  And that was what fueled the Chicago Bulls when Jordan was playing there.  Without the successes, they would have just been another team.  But what we have now is a Butler County Republican Party run by older relics hanging on to their past who are jealous of the young, beautiful people, and they aren’t interested in winning.  They are interested in the power of their position.  And if they are shown disrespect, they want to put their critics in jail.  That is precisely what happened to the former Butler County auditor, Roger Reynolds.  And that’s what they are trying to do to Darbi Boddy and many others who are challenging the old farts with playing time, looking for a victory.  But victory isn’t essential to the Republican Party, and the public is losing interest.  And it will take more than a letter from Todd Hall to fix any of that.

Rich Hoffman

Michael Jordan in ‘The Last Dance’: It’s never organizations who win, it’s individuals

All during the Covid shutdowns where sports was obviously hit very hard leaving people cleaving for anything, the ESPN documentary on Michael Jordan ‘The Last Dance’ was showing from week to week giving talk radio personalities something to discuss. Given the unreliability of supply chains to provide me with the amount of bullets I needed for shooting I took it upon myself to make my own at my shop bench leaving me with more hours than usual to listen to those programs, so I heard a lot about ‘The Last Dance’ before I ever watched it, and now that its on Netflix as a complete release for streaming, I was able to catch up. The result was that ‘The Last Dance’ is really something special that captures a time in Americana that most of us would love to see again, and that Michael Jordan in hindsight, especially after watching Kobe Bryant and LeBron James attempt to be just as good as Mike, but falling very short, the trip down memory lane especially as Covid had literally shut down the world was I think important. As I was watching the program I thought back to all those professional sports analysists on talk radio and wondered how they had missed the point of the entire show, the several lines of importance that the show was all about, because they directly led to the problem we are seeing now, where sports and sports figures were hijacked by progressive politics to the point where many won’t even stand for the national anthem. The thing that separated Michael Jordan from everyone else, even today was that he understood his role in sports and what that role was to others, and he never wavered.

I never thought of Michael Jordan as a black man until Barack Obama made it quite clear in ‘The Last Dance’ that he felt the star basketball player for the Chicago Bulls had an obligation because of his skin color to represent progressive civil rights causes. Jordan smartly when under great pressure at the height of his popularity refused to pick a side by saying to several other teammates on the traveling bus “that Republicans buy tennis shoes too.” And there it was, the theme of the entire show, and the very diseased outlook that has contaminated modern sports and entertainment where even baseball stars are kneeling at the National Anthem. Jordan was a capitalist, he had parents who were smart, and they actually forced the young Jordan to visit Nike and hear their pitch to him to develop Air Jordans. They may have been black, but they obviously loved America and the opportunities it could give their young son, and Mike listened to them even when it was tempting to hear other voices who all wanted a piece of the Michael Jordan rock.

Jordan was a businessman, he enjoyed capitalism and he found in basketball an outlet for his true love of winning. He was smart enough to understand that what made him great was his competitive drive and so long as he focused on that, everything else would take care of itself. He did not get pulled into political causes by the drowning people of the world the way LeBron James has, essentially splitting half the country against him. Jordon let his game play do all his talking, to the public he was nice the way his parents taught him to be. To his teammates he was ruthless in his pursuit of perfection which is an element about him that set him apart from every other basketball player in the history of the NBA. It is astonishing to watch ‘The Last Dance’ in hindsight because it’s clear where the NBA is going, and where Nike, ESPN and so many other entertainment venues are lost now that they don’t have a Michael Jordan figure to hook their stars to. They are all dying because as natural looters Michael Jordan carried them all, built them to greatness by association. Without Michael Jordan, they can’t do it on their own and fall into decline. The NBA today is essentially a spokesman for Chinese communism, and people are not excited about it. You don’t see anybody like Michael Jordan playing today. There are good, talented people, but there aren’t players that everyone likes the way that people loved the winner Michael Jordan presented to them.

I always did like Michael Jordan, which is why I took the time to watch ‘The Last Dance.’ I have a similar problem that Jordan does, I obsess over winning and feel I must crush my opponents at everything. I’ve managed a different way to deal with that burden which Jordan never did come to terms with. Instead he used it to his advantage and obsessed his way into becoming the most alpha, of all alpha males in a sport dominated by the top alphas in sports and it was a 24 hour 7 days per week thing that never turned off. When I say I understand Michael Jordan’s competitive spirit, his need to win everything, to gamble anything, and to take any attack on him very personal and to turn it into greatness, I saw that without the good parents Jordan had and other older people to guide him along, Michael Jordan would have easily become another self-destructive individual face down at a Black Jack table in a casino drunk and penniless. But because he found an outlet in sports as guided by his dad, he was able to take those personality traits into a positive direction, and we are all the better for it.

But I wasn’t surprised that Michael Jordan never really had peace, that he worked at being great all day long, seldom hanging out around the house with his family pouring everything into being the best. Most great people could tell the same story yet even knowing that, Michael Jordan’s work ethic was phenomenal. And that is what people saw in him and loved. Jordan never used his skin color as a point of political leverage, instead he used the things he did in life to tell his story and that is what made him a great American and preserves his memory for all time. The interviews in ‘The Last Dance’ with Barack Obama told a lot about the world we are living in. Obama loved Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, but the former President’s below the line beliefs could not grasp why Michael was great. He was left only to observe that he was even though it went against all his socialist views of how the world should be. But Jordan understood the power of his individual spirit and he used that spirit to do great things and because of that, the Bulls were a great team, Chicago had something to cheer for, and America could relate to where skin color didn’t matter a bit. For anybody who insists that America is a racist nation, all they need to do is watch ‘The Last Dance’ and they’ll understand that a culture that can produce a Michael Jordan, that can give a platform for someone like him to speak with action, is nothing close.

Since Michael Jordan’s playing days those who came along with him found themselves just as lost as the Bulls were when he retired twice, and immediately became just an average team. It truly is individuals like Jordan who make greatness and it is the search of capitalism to always find such people. Without those opportunities people like Michael Jordan just stay hidden from the world and explode in on themselves in the corners of life. And the world that the NBA supports now, along with the looter class of politicians like Barack Obama don’t understand greatness. They think like the management of the Chicago Bulls thought, that its organizations who produce greatness, not individuals. Yet, since Michael Jordan has left, the Chicago Bulls have never touched greatness again providing proof that the course everyone is on now is a lost, and empty chase for a utopia that only exists in the hard work of individuals who find greatness by committing to it with their total essence, and nothing less.

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior

Sign up for Second Call Defense at the link below. Use my name to get added benefits.
http://www.secondcalldefense.org/?affiliate=20707