James Herrell

Let’s go Brandon

[Code.E.Banx @Code_E_Banx]

Yr 1: Broke 64 records while being physically assaulted.
Yr 2: Kicks off the season w/a triple double and it's spooky hours for the league. They up the violence & knock her out for the season.
Yr 3: Picks up where she left off.
Now there's a whole anti-CC campaign to stop her

[THE Q STORM @e3z9b_qI1ytkw]

I used to believe that Donald Trump was simply an exceptional president.

But then, I watched in real time as the Mainstream Media (mainstream media), the FBI, intelligence agencies, the CIA, Big Tech, and the entire Washington establishment joined forces in an unprecedented campaign to destroy a single man.

The numerous lawsuits, the two impeachments, the endless hoaxes including the Russia one, the Mar-a-Lago raid, the gag orders, the efforts to remove him from the ballot, the attempts to bankrupt him and throw him in prison... all of that was aimed at preventing him from returning to power. Two attempts on his life followed.

With 92% of media coverage being negative toward him while 78% of that for Kamala was positive, he managed to secure a convincing victory in the last election. How do you explain that?

That's when it became undeniable for me: no one faces this level of coordinated and hysterical opposition unless they represent a true existential threat to the system... The system we all know is corrupt and broken. Ordinary politicians don't trigger this kind of coordinated panic.

At that moment, I stopped thinking of him as a great president.

He is the greatest of all time.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

🚨 Florida just froze its homestead exemption at $50,000 for years while property tax collections nearly doubled..

and now DeSantis is calling it an emergency..

think about that..

the state collected so much extra tax money it built up enough surplus to propose replacing ALL local property tax revenue with a state trust fund..

police.. fire.. emergency services.. all of it..

the exemption didn't move while home values exploded.. the state pocketed the difference.. and now the fix for overtaxing homeowners is a constitutional amendment that still needs 60% of voters to approve it in November..

and here's what nobody wants to say out loud..

Florida homeowners were already entitled to relief years ago.. the surplus that's now funding this trust fund was built on their backs..

DeSantis is calling a special session to give back money the state arguably shouldn't have collected in the first place..

$83 billion in projected property tax collections by 2032.. from a state that's now admitting the $50,000 exemption was never enough..

the system worked for someone.. it just wasn't the homeowner paying the bill.

I'll share more updates shortly. Turn on notifications, this is very important.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I have been told countless times over the last 48 hours that I am a conspiracy theorist.

That I do not know basketball.

That I do not understand the WNBA.

And that my articles are too long.

So I wrote this...

I do not believe there is some organized, calculated operation to take down Caitlin Clark.

That would be too simple.

The truth is deeper... and far more damaging.

Caitlin Clark walked into a league that spent nearly three decades convincing itself that its weaknesses were culture.

For years, the WNBA was not a mainstream sports product.

It was a cause.
A talking point.
A subsidized idea.
A league people were told they should support, even when the product on the floor often failed to earn that support from casual fans.

The empty seats were excused.

The financial struggles were excused.

The rough offensive flow was excused.

The poor spacing was excused.

The inconsistent officiating was excused.

The excessive physicality was excused.

The lack of mainstream interest was excused.

And anytime fans questioned the product, the answer was usually the same:

You just do not understand women’s basketball and you're racist.

That was the lie the league told itself for too long.

Because a lot of fans understood basketball perfectly fine.

They just did not like what they were watching.

Too often, the WNBA confused physicality with quality.

It confused survival with success.

It confused being protected with being excellent.

It confused an insulated culture with a strong one.

And then Caitlin Clark arrived.

She did not come in asking people to support the league out of obligation.

She made people want to watch.

That is the difference.

Caitlin brought range, pace, vision, passing angles, court gravity, creativity, and real basketball electricity.

She made regular-season games feel like events.

She made casual fans stop scrolling.

She made people who had ignored the WNBA for years suddenly care about matchups, rotations, officiating, coaching decisions, and league standards.

And that is where the collision happened.

Caitlin Clark exposed the gap between what the WNBA had convinced itself was good enough and what mainstream sports fans actually expect.

Fans want skill.

They want spacing.

They want pace.

They want shooting.

They want smart coaching.

They want fair officiating.

They want stars protected.

They want basketball that looks modern, intelligent, and entertaining.

They did not show up to watch Caitlin get grabbed, held, shoved, bumped, and treated like every possession needs to become a wrestling match in the name of “physicality.”

They also did not show up to watch the basketball constantly pushed into the background while social messaging, league-approved narratives, and cultural lectures compete for center stage.

That is not evolution.

That is a league clinging to old habits because it does not know how to handle the future standing right in front of it.

And Caitlin Clark is the future.

That does not mean she is perfect.

She is not.

That does not mean veterans have no value.

They do.

That does not mean physicality has no place in basketball.

It does.

But there is a difference between physical basketball and ugly basketball.

There is a difference between toughness and fouling.

There is a difference between defensive pressure and mugging someone off the ball.

There is a difference between culture and bad habits that went unchallenged because not enough people were watching.

Caitlin did not create the league’s problems.

She exposed them.

She exposed the officiating.

She exposed the coaching gap.

She exposed the outdated style.

She exposed the resentment toward new fans.

She exposed the discomfort some people have with a player becoming bigger than the system that was supposed to contain her.

And more than anything, she exposed a league that is still trying to force a generational player into an old version of basketball that she has already outgrown.

That is why this does not feel like a conspiracy.

It feels like resistance to change.

The WNBA finally got the player who could push the league into a new era, and too many people inside the ecosystem seem determined to make her prove she belongs in the old one.

That is backwards.

You do not take the most skilled, market-changing player your league has ever seen and ask her to shrink into the culture that failed to attract mainstream fans in the first place.

You build around her.

You modernize around her.

You protect what she represents.

Because she is not just another player.

She is the mirror.

She is showing the league what it has been, what it is, and what it could become if it would stop defending its flaws as tradition.

And the frustrating part is that the next generation is already here.

You can see it with Caitlin.

You can see it with Paige Bueckers.

You can see it with Sonia Citron.

You can see it with Aliyah Boston.

You can see it with JuJu Watkins.

The skill is changing.

The training is better.
The footwork is better.
The shooting is better.
The spacing is better.
The basketball IQ is better.

But too much of the league around them is still operating like nothing has changed.

Same coaching habits.

Same officiating problems.
Same marketing instincts.
Same defensive excuses.
Same resentment toward criticism.
Same belief that the old WNBA culture must be protected, even if it means slowing down the very players who could make the league bigger than it has ever been.

That is the real story.

Caitlin Clark is not being taken down by some secret plan.

She is being resisted by a league that still does not fully understand what she represents.

She represents a better product.

A bigger audience.

A more skilled game.

A more modern game.

A version of women’s basketball that does not need to be sold as charity, activism, obligation, or guilt.

It can be sold as basketball.

Great basketball.

But that requires the league to stop pretending its weaknesses are sacred.

It requires officials to clean up the game.

It requires coaches to modernize.

It requires veterans to adapt.

It requires media voices to stop protecting the old product from honest criticism.

And it requires the WNBA to stop resenting the very fans it spent decades trying to attract.

So no, I do not think there is a coordinated takedown of Caitlin Clark.

I think it is bigger than that.

I think Caitlin walked into a league that spent years convincing itself its flaws were culture.

And now that a generational player has arrived to expose the difference, too many people are trying to humble her instead of learning from her.

That is not Caitlin Clark’s failure.

That is the league refusing to recognize the future.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

"Bridger Walker is the boy who saved his younger sister from a vicious dog attack...

He received ninety stitches throughout his body, but saved his three-year-old sister from certain death.

"If someone was going to die, it must be me, I'm the older brother."

The World Boxing Council (WBC) recognized him as a World Heavyweight Champion for a day!

It will remain in the official historical record of the WBC.

For that one day, he was the best fighter in the world."

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

If this doesn't make you PROUD TO BE AMERICAN, I don't know what will!

Let's give a round of applause for this Veteran!

[King Arthur Fan @brandilwells]

No Victim, No Crime 💥

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This is what the older generations should try and do more often

[James Herrell @Bocephus1971]

@hicasamadim 72

[Quint's Revenge @CosmicRanter]

It's funny how the NFL wants everyone to believe there's a fictional racial pandemic but is stone-cold silent when their players beat women half to death. How about instead of the ridiculous, "End Racism" you have plastered in the end zones you replace it with, "Stop Beating Women!"

https://t.co/MI8VZGAfIy

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

Science says we need four basic elements to survive:

- Food
- Water
- Air
- Light

Now here's what Jesus says:

- I am the bread of life
- I am the living water
- I am the breath of life
- I am the light of the world

Science was right, we all need Jesus.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

For months, the Amish have quietly rebuilt Western North Carolina... they're STILL HERE, volunteering since November of 2024.

It's an epic, rarely told story.

This video of them singing a-cappella hymns after building tiny homes is so beautiful...

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!!!

[Bobby D🎙 @robertdunlap947]

I can honestly tell you, THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL I OR YOU WOULD NOT OF THROWN IN THE TOWEL if we were in DJT shoes🫨! Don’t tell me he’s not on a mission from God because it’s WAY TO OBVIOUS HE IS😲! How stinking lucky are we to have this man leading our country🇺🇸

[Amiri King @AmiriKing]

In 1931, psychologists Winthrop and Luella Kellogg performed a cross-rearing study by bringing an infant chimpanzee into their home to raise alongside their infant son, Donald.

The goal was to see if the chimpanzee would prove smarter by being raised by a human family.

They were looking for increases in human-like language and behaviors.

What happened was the opposite.

Their child, Donald, began to mimic the chimpanzee's behaviors.

Donald would grunt, bark, and try to walk on all fours.

The parents ended the study after Donald’s language development came to a halt.

It turns out, stupid is contagious.

When you hang around stupid people, they don’t become smarter, you become stupider.

[HoosierTruth @Hoosier_truth]

He’s a damn liar! 10k acres of grade A Boone County Indiana farmland being destroyed by the IEDC and his puppets! @GovBraun can rot in hell…@ISDADirector

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

19 years ago today, Peyton Manning taught some local kids how to play football. 😂

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

“I just wanted to say thank you to President Trump for all that you’re doing to keep America safe. I appreciate you. I know there’s a lot of people out here that don’t, but I’m one that does, and I just wanted to say thank you. You’re doing a great job.”

I second this 🇺🇸🙏🏼

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

OMG KENTUCKY

THIS IS MARCH 🤯🤯🤯

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

Did you know Emmitt Smith is one of only two non-kickers in NFL History to score over 1,000 career points? The other being 49ers great Jerry Rice.