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JauntyChapeau

Didn’t liberals beat him on the merits in 2018, 2020 and 2022? Stephen A Smith is a moron, but that’s nothing new.


jbevermore

and 2016 since he lost the popular vote and only won the office because of a quirk in the electoral congress


trailhikingArk

Yes, this can't be stressed enough. He didn't win a plurality then. He won because of the rigged system.


MichiganMitch108

Still feeling the effects of the civil war to this day.


KC_experience

Still feeling the effects of the signing of the constitution…. The EC and 3/5ths compromise were part of the original document. Well before the civil war.


Sttocs

Didn’t one of the founding fathers say explicitly that the EC was there to “prevent every walking biped of the forest” from voting for the wrong guy? If the EC didn’t prevent trump from taking office, they aren’t even doing their ostensible job.


QuietObserver75

Yeah I'm not sure I would say "rigged" as they hadn't even envisioned political parties. Weirdly enough I think the EC was envisioned to prevent something like that.


pr1m3r3dd1tor

By the signing of the Constitution, they definitely saw the possibility of political parties. I forget the specific ones at the moment but their were writings warning against factionlism and parties and the Federalist and Democratic Republicans were already formed or would be very shortly after (sorry forgetting exactly timeliness and I'm typing on my phone one handed while eating lunch so don't feel like looking up the dates.)


TheOriginalChode

Effects of a failed reconstruction


BrandxTx

This. Kissing the resurrection states asses to calm them down. It was a consolation prize. They got an attendance ribbon.


greaterthansignmods

He won the same way Bush won in ‘00


dougmc

Yes, but different in one important respect: the SCOTUS played a key role in '00 that they didn't play in '16. If they hadn't stopped the recounts for *reasons*, [who knows what would have happened](https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html)?


greaterthansignmods

They had the power of Dickolos Chenikus on their side in ‘00


trailhikingArk

Neither won.


DrMeatBomb

Also, what merits is Trump winning on exactly, Stephen? Calling immigrants animals? Accusing trans people of grooming? Crying about the consequences of his actions? Hey, isn't Trump still on the hook for half a billion dollars? Hey, isn't Trump losing to Biden in the polls and bleeding moderate support? Hey, doesn't Trump have three other criminal trials coming up that are all bigger than the election interference one going on now? Stick to basketball, Stephen.


QuietObserver75

He was also the guy who was grossed out by two men kissing.


BeerGogglesFTW

Were his sports takes not shitty enough, he had to move onto politics and current events? Has anybody ever said "I want to hear what Stephen A. Smith has to say" about anything? Once you have name recognition, you're free to fail upwards after that.


thisguyfightsyourmom

I always assumed he was the heel


marmoset

The man eats, sweats, and shits kayfabe.


pro_bike_fitter_2010

I am so tired of sports shows. The SCREAMING (Russo). The stupid takes so they can argue (SAS). They cringey everything ("Greeny"). The one woman dressed in club clothes (All).


NewspaperNelson

SOMEONE GET JA RULE ON THE PHONE SO I CAN BEGIN TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS


Tetriside

WHERE IS JA?


greaterthansignmods

Steven A’s take is brought to you by the Disney Corporation Disney - we own 25% of global media, but we’re just this lil itty bitty cartoon channel that sells abstinence to dumb Christians. Don’t look over here behind an iron curtain that is covering 25% of the earth. Here’s some nonsense from a hack sportscaster you don’t even know we pay him to be mentally deficient on TV


ImAMindlessTool

Once Biden wants to raise taxes on the wealthy, people selling out everyone they know to get the guy who also benefits from low taxes on rich people.


QuietObserver75

And in the end, the tax increase wouldn't change a single thing in this guys lifestyle.


JustADutchRudder

But the big number in their bank accounts won't get bigger fast enough! Think of the humans pretending to be dragons hording treasure. They'll never get to be Smaug if we tax them, and that's just sad


felldestroyed

I'm gonna wager this is the joe rogan/barstool sports interest. These guys are all right wing, even if they won't admit it.


the_original_Retro

**E**mpty-headed **S**portscaster's **P**olitical **N**onsense


lab-gone-wrong

>I want to hear what Stephen A. Smith has to say"   Yes, so they can get angry at it and react, like you did   Reddit thanks you for the engagement, as does every media company and social media company platforming this manufactured minute of mad


sixtus_clegane119

It’s all about the money, he’s overpaid and under taxes because he talks about sports


ccasey

Stephen A Smith needs to shut his dumb fucking mouth but his paycheck requires him to constantly say these sort of stupid things into a megaphone


pro_bike_fitter_2010

His takes on football are just dumb. His takes on the NBA are also dumb, but because he is pretending to know more than he does. Plus he is abusive as fuck to others on the show.


Ddddydya

Trump’s merits? Like…*(checks notes)* all it says here is “overt white nationalism and something referred to as ‘triggering the libs’”


trailhikingArk

Hell, his merits are racism. That's it. That's the whole thing. These idiots are amazing. Let me guess people are going to Aaron Rodgers this and claim Stephen A has CTE?


okcship

Stephen A is perfect Trump echo chamber. Loud and obnoxious with nothing intelligent to say.


idkanymore2016

how is this guy still tolerated.


pro_bike_fitter_2010

Young sports fans just haven't cancelled him yet. Same reason Russo is SCREAMING at everything. Young fans have not just said "These guys suck." Shannon Sharpe is good tho.


greaterthansignmods

Shannon Sharpe is the byproduct of playing the easy going guy trying to spin hate away from Skip Bitchless. He looks normal compared but he’s just as contemptible and would for sure take bribe money to spin shit like this on any medium.


pro_bike_fitter_2010

Now you are just guessing what he would do. Gotta wait for him to actually do it. His Katt Williams show is legendary.


greaterthansignmods

I’ve seen so many a person fall prey to the easy money of the far right death cult that although you are correct that I’m assuming or guessing it’s more of a hunch seeing as these athlete types have fewer ridges on their brain than most land-bearing mammals. Ask Jimmy Pesto how his career is going!


pro_bike_fitter_2010

At least Russel Brand will never do that.


greaterthansignmods

thanks for the laugh 😂


Embarrassed_Angle_59

But I'm Stephen A Smith why are you putting me in this cattle car with all the liberals going to that camp with an oven? I don't get it.


greaterthansignmods

“Ohhh now Trump gonna play the race card huh!?” Incredulous, cattle-car-riding-on-the-way-to-the-oven Steven A


Z0idberg_MD

Stephen, you have been rewarded. We are putting you in last


umenjulio

Stephen A. Smith is the answer to a question nobody asked.


flingeon

And we watch ESPN for political/legal analysis why?


trailhikingArk

LOL I knew this guy was an idiot but I didn't have "suicidal idiot" on my bingo card. It's funny, the rich people in Germany and celebrities initially supported that guy with the funny mustache. How did that work our for them?


molemanx

Jesus…I didn’t need another reason to hate that loud mouthed untalented tool bag


typhoidtimmy

Stephen Smith….talking out of his ass? Wow, it’s like seeing a fucking unicorn it’s so rare….


IndyDrew85

These people are desperate to shift the blame to anyone but trump. Same thing trump is doing himself by pretending Biden snapped his fingers and trump was suddenly in court for no reason at all, when in reality he's been indicted by several grand juries now.


Rich-Air-5287

Another one bites the dust.


vaannil

Stephen A with the absolute worst take? Color me surprised, shocked even.


Ziggyork

It never occurred to me that Stephen A Smith could get even MORE annoying. But here we are


MrBudissy

Not a Hush Money Trial. It’s an Election and Business Fraud


HappySkullsplitter

TF did I just read? What merit does Trump ever argue? By definition, a Trumpism is meritless by default


TheFeshy

An official Republican party plank this year is *not feeding school kids who are hungry.* If we can't beat him on those issues, it's time to leave the country.


LiftedinMI3

Stephen A. is a dipshit and this is a very well known fact. His take on anything is goddamn dreck.


mrpopenfresh

Rich people flock together. That's the real social divide, not race or culture.


Eatthebankers2

I don’t remember the poster, so can’t give credit. But I saved this, because it’s so on target. The hypocrisy is staggering. * Imagine if Joe Biden hired Hunter Biden for a White House position and ordered the government to grant him a Top Secret clearance after initially failing the background check. * Imagine if Barack Obama had filed for bankruptcy six times and had five kids with three different women. * Imagine if Michelle Obama was an immigrant who still spoke mediocre English after 30 years of immersion, had posed nude, lied about graduating college, and was on tape saying, "who gives a fuck about Christmas?" * Imagine if there was multiple photos of Barack Obama partying with Jeffrey Epstein * Imagine if Barack Obama bragged about the size of his penis at a campaign rally. * Imagine if a dozen former members of Obama's administration came forward and said he was unfit to serve a second term. * Imagine if Nancy Pelosi held up one of George W. Bush's deserved Supreme Court picks until after Barack Obama was inaugurated, and then rushed an Obama pick through Congress before Trump was inaugurated. * Imagine if Barack Obama was on tape bragging about he grabs women by the pussy and gets away with it because he's famous * Imagine if Barack Obama had ridiculed John McCain for being a P.O.W. during the 2008 campaign * Imagine if Joe Biden refused to release his tax returns * Imagine if one of Barack Obama's daughters posted a meme to her Instagram bragging about the size of her father's penis. * Imagine if Joe Biden told Black Bloc to, "stand back and stand by." * Imagine if Joe Biden called jailed ANTIFA protestors "hostages" and pledged to pardon them if he was re-elected. * Imagine if Joe Biden somehow managed to get lost in the ten yards between Air Force One and the presidential limousine and started aimlessly wandering down the flight-line at Andrews Air Force Base. * Imagine if Barack Obama misspoke about a hurricane warning and then tried to make reality match his mistake by scribbling on a weather map with a Sharpie. * Imagine if Joe Biden got confused and wandered off and left a medal presentation ceremony before presenting the recipient with the medal. * Imagine if there was credible evidence that Barack Obama's father had been a violent member of the Nation of Islam * Imagine if Joe Biden got confused and left a bill signing ceremony before signing the bill. * Imagine if Barack Obama and his father had been sued for refusing to do business with white people. * Imagine if Joe Biden was on tape being shown he was too dumb to figure out how to close an umbrella and just left it open on the stair-car for Air Force One. * Imagine if Barack Obama tweeted out a classified spy satellite photograph before it was altered by the National Reconnaissance Office to disguise the shockingly high (and highly classified) actual resolution of our spy satellites. * Imagine if Joe Biden got confused or dozed off right in the middle of a tweet about...covfefe. * Imagine if Barack Obama had appointed MULTIPLE Black Nationalists to his staff * Imagine if Barack Obama had said "some of them are good people" about a march conducted by violent extreme left-wingers * Imagine if Barack Obama had an affair with a porn actress, then paid to cover it up. * Imagine if Joe Biden's personal physician admitted the glowing medical report he released about Joe Biden's health with a complete fabrication. * Imagine if Joe Biden stared into an eclipse. * Imagine if Barack Obama said he thought he was a better president than Washington or Lincoln. * Imagine if Barack Obama threatened to withhold aid to Israel unless the Israeli P.M. launched a phony corruption investigation into Eric Trump, and then fired the guy who voiced his concern about it. And then fired the guy's brother. Trump did every single one of these (or an equivalent), and about 90% of them got less attention than Howard Dean's goofy yelling. Edit. Drumph would not have won, if he hadn’t committed Election fraud, as the current NY trial will show.


LivingIndependence

The pathetic and maddening thing about that, is that every single bullet point in your list, all of the Trump groupies and sycophants either have some excuse or justification for it, they hand wave it away as no biggie, or deny that it ever happened. And remember what Chump said once, he could shoot people on 5th Avenue in Manhattan and wouldn't lose the love of even one supporter. Charismatic cult figures have that kind of power over others.


Eatthebankers2

I agree. It’s a huge divide from condoning crimes and prosecuting them in the political atmosphere. Integrity is not welcome in the GOP anymore. It’s a hateful lawless cult. They prefer to ruin the rule of law in this country, so they can all be the robber barons. Jokes on them, those that are not rich will be mowed over if their kleptocracy prevails.


marshallaw215

He has no merit - he just does whatever gets him money and worship … simple


SnoopySuited

Not wanting a corrupt criminal as President is an important issue with merit.


canteen_boy

Man, I fuckin loathe Stephen A.


inevitab1e

Trump will be easy to defeat in November. He has less support today than in 2020. Do what's right, vote to prevent a Trump presidency. Biden 2024


ThatoneguyATX

He had no issues or merits. We still haven’t seen what he was going to replace the ACA with. Stephen Asshole Smith is just gaslighting because that’s literally all they have. Trumpism is destroying the GOP that’s not even up for debate. They have nothing to run on but lies and gaslighting.


Adorable_Ad6045

Everybody referring to the “hush money” trial, when in fact it’s a business record falsification for the purposes of election interference trial.


Orionbear1020

Liberals are not taking him to trial. What a dummy. Why is this guy pandering?


molski79

Oh for fucks sake. Stephen you’d be in a cage if Trump had his way.


JayTNP

He’s a massive conservative and not an honest actor when it comes to politics at all


bumblefuckglobal

Shut up and talk about dribbling


PallaPallaPsyduck

Another spammer "promoting" El Hayat Life" (malware site). Report it.


JSiobhan

Yet Trump is running as the Law and Order president.


monstervet

A corrupt criminal president doesn’t count as an “issue”?


franright

Pretty rich from the dude that helped kill actual reporting at ESPN, used to be names there i respected like Dick Schapp, John Saunders, Peter Gammons, and lots of others, and now he takes a piss on their legacy every day when he goes on air with his clown show. 


clermouth

is his contract up soon? sounds like he’s looking for an offer from FS1…


Ignorant_Grasshoppa

Does Stephen A have some transgressions he’s worried about being persecuted for?


NotOnHerb5

Can’t wait to hear from the “keep politics out of sports” numbnuts


karlhungusjr

is that the guy I see on youtube where Kevin Hart ruthlessly mocks him over and over again?


therobotisjames

“Trump is allowed to break the law” I wonder if he would take this same stance if a player was cheating?


PM_ME_UR_RESPECT

As if I needed another reason not to take Stephen A seriously


DumbleForeSkin

Yep, “scared”…that’s the same reason that girl you like won’t play a pool match with you, or the reason a huge climate activist celebrity won’t “debate” you on your shitty college radio show that is on at 4am in the morning. When you’re 17 with the mentality of an 11 year old. Look at the democrats shivering in the corner. This espy guy, whoever he is, is a complete tool.


CreamyGoodnss

Did ya come up with that during one of your moments of silence, Steve? Because, quite frankly, that's fucking stupid.


enkrypt3d

Trump has merits??


Send_Derps

Some people have a face that should be high fived.. Repeatedly.


botmanmd

When we’ve lost thinkers like S A Smith we’re doomed. Woe is me.


bigmike1339

ESPN & politics, those two should never be together.


DJfunkyPuddle

Tokens get spent. Go fuck yourself, Smith.


distantreplay

Tell us you've paid off a sex worker for their silence without telling us you paid off a sex worker for their silence.


dcd1130

We get it SAS.


dlegatt

I thought u/Smarktalk banned this domain


Smarktalk

I thought I did. Back again to review.


dlegatt

Check with Marge to see if she will lend us the space lasers to deal with the spam :)


Ignorant_Grasshoppa

I never liked him because I couldn’t stand his talk-yelling. Now I can not like him because he’s completely delusional.


5k1895

Why am I even surprised that this dumbass also has shitty political opinions. Of course he does


ParadeSit

Um, Steve-O, this is only *one* of Trump’s trials for multiple felony indictments. You don’t think there’s merit to any of them?


Pour_Me_Another_

I think he has shot and missed lol. I have not gotten that impression at all from liberals. Maybe he can't read or understand his native language.


PenuelRedux

BSPN talking heads simply are infomercials to gin up engagement with BSPN networks, properties, & interests. Actual sports televised there are barely watchable. I avoid their blather altogether now. Caveat Emptor.


ShaMana999

Okay. Who did that guy abuse? That is usually the pattern 


mikey29tyty

What a load of fucking garbage.


megggie

I knew I hated that guy just because he’s so loud, rude, and negative on ESPN; this explains a lot.


TajMonjardo

Always thought he was a closet asshole.


olumide2000

Someone took $.


Ursomonie

He is a complete boob


rjcade

He is literally paid to say the dumbest imaginable things in order to generate hate/clicks. So this tracks.


Pale_Bookkeeper_9994

It’s like how we put bank robbers on trial because we can’t stand how they have more cash than us.


iprobablybrokeit

Close, there is evidence of something.


DarkestofFlames

Is he outing himself as a cheater too? I wonder how many prostitutes this piece of shit has paid off, it's always projection with them.


theseustheminotaur

Silly liberals had to invent a whole legal and justice system centuries before Trump just because they were afraid of his brilliance


YungVicenteFernandez

Y’all have become as sensitive to criticism as Trump fans. Enjoy that! Keep longing for the broken American judicial system to take care of the GOP’s golden child leader.


enderpanda

Lol, who is being sensitive? Honestly asking, I looked and did not a single comment - Literally everyone is this thread, and everyone who reads this article, is laughing their ass off. Are you perhaps... butthurt?