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[SarcasmMachine @actioncjack]

My kid had a game tonight. 4 for 5, 2 singles, double and home run in the same 7th inning to lead his team back from a 7-3 deficit to beat Emerald Ridge 11-7! @PBR_Washington @manley_tnt

[Javier Negre @javiernegre10]

Los ingleses salen en masa en Southampton a quemar las calles, la ciudad donde el chico de 18 años fue apuñalado 9 veces por un indio y la policía lo esposó y se tiró encima de él.

Las manifestaciones se producen al haberse revelado la grabación de la policía donde el chico pedía ayuda y afirmaba que se ahogaba, y no podía respirar, la policía no llamó a una ambulancia hasta que falleció.

[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.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The Native people of the UK deserve to have their homeland back. We must respect indigenous culture and identity, and acknowledge the deep and enduring connection that the Native communities of the UK maintain with their ancestral homeland, affirming and honoring their rights and heritage. We must support decolonization efforts and acknowledge the historical harms inflicted on the Native peoples of the UK and the broader indigenous community all across Western Europe and the entire Anglosphere.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

In his final moments, Henry Nowak told police officers nine times “I can’t breathe” and four times that he had been stabbed.

In response police officer dragged him across the gravel, handcuffed and read him his rights.

It was the last thing Henry heard before he died.

[SarcasmMachine @actioncjack]

@allthedogspleaz You seem to be implying that she meant to do this as if she didn’t want to catch the ball? What freaking planet are you on? You’re talking about a division one athlete playing at a very high level. I guarantee she’s gonna think about that play for the rest of her life. Shame.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I haven’t moved on from the Karmelo Anthony fundraiser. They donated half a million as a reward for killing a white kid. Zero evidence or reason to think it was “self defense,” and they didn’t care. It was a reward for killing a white kid. I’ll never forget it. Neither should you

[SarcasmMachine @actioncjack]

@BostonTea84 Angry man might want to check his facts. Try looking up the history of how Great Britain eliminated slavery. Sacrificing lives and treasure in order to eradicate slavery. History is rarely so black-and-white as he thinks it is. No pun intended.

[Kennedy @KennedyNation]

When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybercab driving itself out of the GigaTexas factory

[SarcasmMachine @actioncjack]

@WNBAComms @WNBA @nyliberty @LVAces If this remains the course of CC’s career it will go down as the biggest blown opportunity in any league, of any sport, ever. A generational player whose league can’t promote properly. Self-owned epically.

[SarcasmMachine @actioncjack]

@mattvanswol Somebody notify @JackPosobiec!!

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

What a story!

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

Accurate.

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

DAMN. Former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, a Democrat, goes scorched earth on the current Democrats leading the state. Says they have no clue how bad their policies are for the economy.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🏛️⚖️ For a thousand years, the British people governed themselves without the state.

This is how they did it.

A thousand years ago in England, there were no police. There were no prisons. There was no central state strong enough to reach every village.

And yet, somehow, England worked.

The reason was something the Anglo-Saxons had built into the foundations of their society.

They called it frankpledge.

Every man in every village belonged to a group of ten. They were called a tithing. ⚖️

And each man, by law, was responsible for the conduct of every other man in his tithing.

If one man committed a crime, his nine neighbours were responsible for bringing him to justice. If they failed, they paid the fine themselves.

The whole tithing answered for the crime of one man.

📜 The system was given the force of law by King Canute, the Anglo-Danish king who united England in peace. Between 1016 and 1035, Canute decreed that every man over the age of 12 must belong to a tithing.

When the Normans came in 1066, they could have abolished it.

They did the opposite.

William the Conqueror kept the Anglo-Saxon system. And he made it stronger.

⚔️ Twice every year, the Sheriff would arrive in the village. He would call the tithings together. He would check that every man was accounted for.

This was called the View of Frankpledge.

The system held England together for 300 years.

And when the king's courts eventually grew to replace it, two pieces of frankpledge stayed behind.

🔥 The first became the jury.

Twelve neighbours, called to judge another. The same idea, transplanted from the village to the courtroom.

The second became the constable.

The man chosen from among neighbours to keep the peace. Not imposed from above. Chosen from below.

Modern British policing began here. The jury system began here.

The principle that ordinary British people are responsible for ordinary British people began in an Anglo-Saxon village a thousand years ago.

✍️ For a thousand years, we have been responsible for each other.

We do not need the state to teach us how to belong.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

This channel has no ads. No sponsors. No state funding.

It is built the same way the tithing was built. By the people who choose to stand in it.

Be part of us 🇬🇧👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬����

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

Here's how to save Star Wars:

1) Produce no new live-action content for five years. Instead, produce once a year a high-end animation featuring side adventure taking place in between the original trilogy with the beloved original characters. Reach the kids, build good will.
2) Take all the attractions at the theme parks and refit them all to only be about the 6 Lucas films. Remake Rise of the Resistance into Rise of the Rebellion, Smuggler's Run into Solo's Run, etc.
3) Bring back the nostalgia during these five years. Market only the unifying and hopeful characters and content of the past that are timeless.
4) Five years from now, begin a new trilogy based on Timothy Zahn's outstanding best-sellers depicting what happened after Return of the Jedi. Recast the original characters still in their primes during this time with unknowns, and forbid them from ever making political or cultural comments on social media as part of the moral clauses in their contracts. Same for all the directors, producers, key grips, best boys, literally everyone.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

The interviewer makes the mistake of calling Spencer Pratt “relatively wealthy” and Spencer GOES OFF.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

Raise your hand if you think Spencer Pratt should be the NEXT Mayor of Los Angeles

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

New campaign ad for Spencer Pratt

“Change the channel” from Mayor Karen Bass and California Democrats

This is Powerful

Los Angeles has to vote Spencer Pratt