Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab.
"Hindsight-wise, it didnβt make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE."
"I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving."
βKyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates."
βIn my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, βNah, I'm not doing that.β
βIt's just a time for reflection β to look at things differently.β
Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated.
That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.
On this day in 1918 the Bolsheviks herded Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, and their five children into a basement in Yekaterinburg and opened fire.
The bullets bounced because the girls had diamonds sewn into their corsets. So the reds finished the job with bayonets, stabbing, crushing skulls, and butchering the children while they were still alive.
Then they stripped the bodies, doused them in acid, burned what remained, and dumped the remains in a forest to hide the crime.
This was the deliberate, sadistic murder of an entire family, including a sick little boy, by communist animals who needed the blood of innocents to cement their power.
Never forget what the Bolsheviks were.
Never forgive it.
The public's out there throwing darts at boards, Sport. I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, 'The Art of War.' Every battle is wonβbefore it's ever fought. https://t.co/BmlTNHdGVL
JILLIAN MICHAELS: βI got a text from my daughter today telling me that kids at her school were celebrating β¦ Something is wrong in this country. The divisiveness, the rhetoric, the othering has got to stop. Now.β
@lisamurkowski Your have a civic duty to represent your constituents and not your personal bias. You have failed your responsibilities as a senator and are the problem with politics. You will be primaried (rightfully so) and lose. Your political career as a republican is over. Have fun at #cnn
I think what #congress doesnβt understand is that @elonmusk is a lighten-rod for The People, not his own personal ambition. Itβs shocking the system because our politicians arenβt used to βfeelingβ real time feedback.