Michael Asuncion

Proud American, Dog Lover, Pro 2A, Sports Fanatic!!!

[Alice in Chains @AiCLayneStaley]

“River of Deceit”
Mad Season

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Marco Rubio finding out he’s about to also become the WH Press Secretary

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

A work of art 🤌

[Banned Truths @BannedtruthQ]

🚨 A hacker group announced at 3:00 AM: "We have locked all Starlink ground stations worldwide. Pay $500 million in Bitcoin, or the world goes offline!"

🚀 Elon Musk replied at 3:01 AM: "Check your firmware. While you were writing that ransom note, Neural-Auto-Patch released a micro-update that routed your entire operation through a dead-end satellite in deep orbit. Thanks for testing our hotfix."

[The Wieners Circle @TheWienerCircle]

Goliath @dodgers came to town and brought their $240 mil replacement value @ktuck30 and they got the 🧹

[Michael Asuncion @MichRico2024]

@thatsdax AMEN🙏

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

I’m from the Midwest.
I’ll always love Chicago.
It’s one of America’s truly great cities. I’m for anyone who can save Chicago from the deadly DEI fever dream that has destroyed everything there.
The Bears fled to Indiana, man.
Go for it

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Excellent question

[Chicago Flips Red @FlipChicagoRed]

Chicago Flips Red Responds to Mayor Brandon Johnson

Mayor Brandon Johnson recently said President Donald Trump should “stop wasting billions on illegal wars abroad and instead respond to the calls of working families in Chicago.”

Working families in Chicago have been calling for help for years.

They’ve been asking for safer neighborhoods, affordable housing, stronger schools, economic opportunity, and accountability at every level of city government.

Instead, many residents see homelessness increasing, decades-long waiting lists for public housing assistance, businesses struggling, property crime affecting communities, and young lives lost to violence.

Chicago taxpayers deserve answers. We pay some of the highest taxes in the nation. Where is the return on that investment?

In our opinion, Chicago’s ongoing crises including public safety, homelessness, housing affordability, education, and the financial impact of the migrant response require greater transparency and accountability.

Chicago Flips Red believes federal authorities should thoroughly examine any credible allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, or other violations of federal law. Where warranted by the evidence, the appropriate federal agencies including the FBI, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, and the U.S. Department of Justice should investigate.

We also believe the federal government should evaluate what additional resources are necessary to help restore public safety and public confidence, consistent with the law.

Working families in Chicago deserve results,not excuses.

https://t.co/8gHEWOgYIg

#ChicagoFlipsRed

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For 250 years, America has been the greatest nation on Earth — and with God’s grace, it will be for 250 more.

Happy Independence Day!

[Michael Asuncion @MichRico2024]

@DrClownPhD Watch it and draw your own conclusion… it’s only 88min.

[Michael Asuncion @MichRico2024]

@Bubblebathgirl 🙏

[NFL Films @NFLFilms]

This 🇺🇸

[Pregonero @PregoneroL]

🇺🇸 El baile absoluto que le da EEUU al resto del planeta en infraestructura se hace todavía mas evidente cuando no tuvieron que construir a ultimo minuto ninguno de estos super coliseos modernos para la World Cup 2026 ⚽️

La superioridad del capitalismo es innegable 🗽

[Gustavo Cardenas @gustav0cardenas]

Lo más impresionante del Mundial en Estados Unidos es que no tuvieron que hacer prácticamente nada para recibirlo.

Catar levantó estadios desde cero, construyó un metro completo, rediseñó carreteras, hoteles y barrios enteros, inclusive cuando terminó el evento dijeron que iban a regalar un estadio porque les sobraba.

Sudáfrica tuvo que erigir estadios nuevos, estacionamientos y obras masivas, fue una inversión multi millonaria que abarcó parte de su PBI.

Brasil quemó miles de millones en infraestructura y terminó con un presidente preso por corrupción (Lula), al final todavía estaban las obras cuando comenzó el evento.

Rusia remodeló medio país para estar a la altura, y aún así se veían las deficiencias de infraestructura como de transporte y otros.

¿Y Estados Unidos?

Cambió el césped en algunos estadios. Punto. Nada más. Nada de megaproyectos, nada de obras faraónicas, nada de “reinventar” ciudades.

Y esto pasa porque cuando ya tienes infraestructura de primer mundo, el Mundial no es un problema sino que es un trámite.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Michael Asuncion @MichRico2024]

@MLB @Topps Skenes is money

[MLB @MLB]

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[Michael Asuncion @MichRico2024]

@SkyVirginSon Amen

[Michael Asuncion @MichRico2024]

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