Should LeBron James run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination?

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NBA basketball star LeBron James appears to be looking ahead to those days when he's no longer a basketball mega-star and can consider a lucrative career in some other field! Perhaps he will become a movie mogul, a fast-food tycoon, an NBA team owner, a perhaps even a civil rights crusader?

But after the week that he's just had, David Whitley of the Orlando Sentinel writes that LeBron's next career move should be:

A Democratic Party presidential candidate!

In the Hong Kong drama that's recently engulfed the NBA, James has taken a pencil to all pf the following boxes:

Hypocrite — check.

Sellout — check.

Calculating — check.


Hypocrite — check.

Mealy mouthed — check.

Hypocrite — check.


Did I mention hypocrite?

To recap: Houston general manager Daryl Morey’s “Stand with Hong Kong” tweet became an international incident. James stayed mum for a week then came out with garbled tweets about Morey being “misinformed” and “not thinking of others.”

James continued digging that hole all the way to China, where he popped his head out like Punxsutawney Phil and saw protesters in Hong Kong burning his No. 23 Lakers jersey.

Back home, critics began gleefully referencing James’ tweet from Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018, when he posted a quote from King saying: “Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere — Our Lives Begin To End The Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter.”

Non-partisans (assuming they still exist) looked at the ensuing circus and saw a bunch of clowns with their fingers in the wind. It's silly to believe that athletes might act differently, but society has a lingering case of the Muhammad Ali Syndrome. Whatever you thought of his views on the Vietnam War, there's no doubt that Ali stuck to his principles. He paid for it by being banished from boxing for four prime years of his career.

Progressives have yearned for another Ali ever since. Along came LeBron James, complete with the words "CHOSEN 1" tattooed across his back. He wasn't just King James for his basketball skills. He was King James for his social wisdom. James used his platform to protest the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner. He even tried to carry Ohio for Hillary Clinton in 2016. His activism so annoyed conservatives that Fox News host Laura Ingraham told him “shut up and dribble.” Various media and politicians then spent the week that followed demanding that James and other NBA players stop dribbling and weigh in on Hong Kong. Meanwhile, James said jocks were not in position to speak about China’s totalitarian nightmare.

"We're not politicians," he mused.

How convenient.

Nobody’s asking James to expound on Brexit or Syria. The NBA is neck-deep in China, and the massive investment makes Hong Kong an issue that the collective voice of the NBA can’t ignore. But when LeBron did speak, the mask came off.

"It is a small bump in the road," James said. "I think time heals all."

I think this was the equivalent of Ali going to work for McDonnell-Douglas in 1967 and endorsing more F-4 Phantom IIs to fight the Vietcong.

James' social warrior credibility has been tear-gassed. How can you not roll your eyes the next time he decries a sketchy police shooting in America or Trump being a dictator? King James is dead, killed by the inner politician who should have told him that he was better off just shutting up and dribbling.
 
You-Tube video-clips involving South Park and LeBron James

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sS4cVPoCOc - ('South Park' Takes Aim at LeBron James Over China Comments - runs 1:40)

When an angry Eric Cartman explodes verbally against healthy school lunches being provided at his school because of another student's protest, he quotes LeBron James EXACTLY by saying:

"Yes, we do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you are not thinging about others and only thinking about yourself!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLW7uFYBFMo - ('South Park' banned in China after mocking censorship - runs 0:44)

"South Park's" response to Chinese censorship of their show in that nation was issuing the following tongue-in-cheek apology:

"Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes. We too love money more than freedom and democracy. Xi doesn't look like Winnie the Pooh at all. Tune into our 300th episode this Wednesday at 10 pm. Long live the great Communist Party of China! May this autumn's sorghum harvest be bountiful! We good now China?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyGO4EFrCDU - (South Park Mocks Commi-Lover LeBron James Over China Comments - runs 1:54)

The NBA and "South Park" have both done more to raise awareness of Chinese censorship than anything else could possibly have accomplished! Corporations that do business in China are openly tolerating the silencing of anything that offends the Chinese authorities, with help from public figures like LeBron James.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9-yKXQwfQ - (Le Bron is tired of standing respectfully during our national anthem - runs 14:00)

LeBron James is hoping to become the next Colin Kaepernick! He ALSO wants more money, and it's CLEAR that the Chinese government & the Nike show company will continue to support him financially as he distances himself further from the United States of America!

James tried unsuccessfully to get his home state of Ohio to support Hillary Clinton for president back in 2016 - back when he was STILL the star player for the Cleveland Cavaliers. But Ohio GNORED him, with Trump carrying that state by a lopsided 446,837 votes! And so LeBron moved to California.

LeBron's recent outburst as the national anthem was being played immediately before a recent NBA game makes it clear that while he understands the importance of standing respectfully during the CHINESE national anthem at NBA games being played abroad, he doesn't understand why we should do the same thing back here in the U.S.

"We do a lot of business in China, and they know & understand our values, and we understand their values! And one of our best values in America is FREE SPEECH... and we're allowed to speak up about injustices, and that's just how it goes!" - former NBS star Shaquille O'Neal
 
Southern California wildfire spurs LeBron James and family to evacuate

NBA star LeBron James was among evacuees as the Getty fire that erupted early Monday grew to engulf more than 400 acres.

The Lakers superstar, who has two homes in Brentwood, tweeted just before 4 a.m. that he was trying to find rooms for his family after having to “emergency evacuate” his house, calling the fires ”no joke.”

Man these LA [fires] aren’t no joke,” James wrote. “Had to emergency evacuate my house and I’ve been driving around with my family trying to get rooms. No luck so far!”

About an hour later, James posted an update, saying he and his family had found a place to stay.
 
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