Thomas R Greer Jr.

Novelist. Retired web designer and software developer.

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

You have to be 16 to drive.
You have to be 18 to vote.
You have to be 21 to drink.
You have to be 25 to rent a car.

Why are teachers talking to our kids about sexuality at 12?

Why are kids encouraged to mutilate their bodies at 13?

This gender ideology madness needs to end.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@SportsPatriotUS Why do you bench your best player three minutes into every game?

Make it make sense!

[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.

[🐺 @LeighWolf]

We sacrificed 360,000 souls to end slavery and another 250,000 souls to defeat fascism.

Any moral debts were paid in blood many decades ago.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@mattvanswol It's their job.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

Spot on.

"If you’re male, you’re he

If you’re female, you’re she

If you’re anything else, you’re mentally ill and the rest of us aren’t required to indulge the delusion."

[Rachel Elizabeth Nightingale @GlamGrafter]

Back in the day we understood basic biology without needing a PhD or a safe space.

Blokes were lads, girls were lasses, and nobody lost their minds arguing with their own chromosomes.

Now we’ve got grown adults demanding the rest of society rewrite reality because they’ve decided feelings trump facts.

If you’re male, you’re he

If you’re female, you’re she

If you’re anything else, you’re mentally ill and the rest of us aren’t required to indulge the delusion.

This isn’t kindness, it’s collective madness pushed by woke elites who get to live in gated bubbles while the rest of us deal with the fallout in schools, sports and hospitals.

Biology isn’t bigotry, and common sense isn’t hate.

Time to stop pretending and call it what it is.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@SenatorBanks I agree, Jim. But the SAVE Act is way more important.

Nothing will happen on any important legislation until Thune is replaced.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@bluelivesmtr This is fraud and those responsible need to be prosecuted.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by. . .

🎯 1980
🎯 1989
🎯 2000
🎯 2008
🎯 2010
🎯 2012
🎯 2013
🎯 2014
🎯 2015
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🎯 2017
🎯 2018
🎯 2019
🎯 2020

And now?

🎯 As early as 2027

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

Remove @LeaderJohnThune NOW! The stagnation and corruption that he represents in this feckless group of GOP SENATORS is pathetic and the American people are growing weary of this do nothing Congress.

The House is not much better.
@realDonaldTrump

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@robinmonotti No. But it does take a climate scientist to modify temperature data (based on rationale that can't be explained to common folk), revising historical temps down and current temps up, to create a climate crisis.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@Electroversenet This chart from @_ClimateCraze is pure gold.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

This is brilliantly started.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :

"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."

Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.

Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.

Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.

Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.

Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.

Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.

Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).

D'où ma théorie :

Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.

D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.

Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.

C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.

[@amuse @amuse]

TEXAS SENATE RACE: Ken Paxton won 252 counties out of 254 with Cornyn only winning Travis County (Austin) and tiny Kenedy County (winning just 6 out of 8 votes). Cornyn and the Senate Republicans spent more money on this campaign than any other Senate campaign in history and lost by double digits. Imagine what the GOP could have done with that money in the 12 House toss-up seats. Embarrassing hubris on display in Texas - shame on you Cornyn, shame on you Thune.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

The US Senate is already scheduled to be on vacation for over half of the remaining weeks this year. Unacceptable!

@SenatorBanks @SenToddYoung
Pass the SAVE Act!

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

There are 31 weeks left in the year.

The Senate is currently scheduled to be in recess for 16 of them.

We can secure American elections and pass the MAGA agenda using one weird trick:

Stop taking vacations.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@aj_inapi @lainie_ivey @HawleyMO These GOP Senators are openly blocking President Trump's agenda and shouldn't be surprised when they voters who put Trump in office express their anger in the voting booth.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@nyaraVT What part of "a man can never be female" did you not comprehend?

[MAG🔫1775🇺🇸 @realMAG1775]

@nicksortor ICE needs to end this circus. Bring in the bulldozer and clear every cinderblock and every idiot blocking federal law enforcement at Newark.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

@TheAliceSmith Becoming the rich is a fantasy because, in the process, they will kill the engine that produces the wealth.

[Thomas R Greer Jr. @ThomasRGreer]

So blatantly obvious. It's sad that it needs to be said...

'Only women are women. Men aren't included.

No one is "cis."'

[Kara Dansky @K_Dannsky]

All women are women, regardless of race or ancestry. All women are adult human females.

Only women are women. Men aren't included.

No one is "cis."

Separating people according to sex is entirely appropriate in some circumstances.

None of this is complicated.