… I want to introduce you to Gregg Popovich, a Texan by choice and the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.

The Spurs played, and won, a basketball game on Sunday, just 30 miles from the church shooting.  Coach Popovich told the assembled sports reporters after the game …

“We won a basketball game, but considering what’s gone on today it’s pretty meaningless,” Popovich said. “When you think about the tragedy that those families are suffering, it’s just inconceivable and impossible to put your head around. So I think talking about basketball tonight is pretty inappropriate. So you guys have a good night.”

This was only minutes after Texas Attorney General and indicted felon Ken Paxton pranced in front of tv cameras to say that the only, by gawd, only solution to this kind of thing is for Texans to carry more guns.

And Texas Governor Greg Abbott highjacked a police news conference to run it like a damn game show host, which left even me with my mouth hanging open.  You’d have thought he was describing a homecoming dance, not a mass murder.  Especially appalling since he tweeted this two years ago.

Moreover, Popovic has said of Trump “This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others.”

And if that wasn’t enough, he continued,

We have a pathological liar in the White House, unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office, and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day. The people who work with this president should be ashamed, because they know better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all.”

Popovich, who goes by “Pop”, is considered one of the greatest coaches in NBA history.  He graduated from the Air Force Academy with a degree in Soviet Studies.

I don’t think he’s finished talking yet.  He’s a leader, and just the kind we need.

I just wanted you folks from foreign states to know about it.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.