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Just remember to keep breathing!

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@elonmusk They are #dazis

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🇺🇸 SUPPORT DOESN’T MEAN BLIND LOYALTY. DISAGREEMENT DOESN’T MEAN HATRED.

Somewhere along the way, we started believing that if you support a politician, you have to support everything they say and do.

I don't believe that.

Being a good citizen means looking at issues case by case, gathering information, allowing the facts time to develop, and then making up your own damn mind.

Unfortunately, we've become a reactionary society that expects complicated issues to be introduced, debated, investigated, solved, and wrapped up nicely before the end of a 55-minute television segment.

Real life doesn't work that way.

Which brings me to President Trump and the controversy over the Reflecting Pool.

For me, this one was pretty much a nothing burger on both sides.

Complaining about repairing the Reflecting Pool seemed ridiculous. It's an iconic piece of American history, and problems with maintaining it aren't exactly new. Presidents and administrations have dealt with issues surrounding it for years. Fix the damn thing. Preserve it. It's ours.

But on the other side, we shouldn't go looking for ghosts and demons where they don't exist either.

Did people muck around in the water? Apparently.

Did that mean they caused the kind of damage some initially suggested?

From what we've learned, no.

And that's where I think President Trump could have simply said something more of us need to become comfortable saying:

"I could be wrong. I often am."

I heard a comedian say that years ago, and I've never forgotten it.

There's tremendous freedom in those words.

You don't have to win every argument.

In fact, winning shouldn't even be the goal.

The goal should be understanding why the person across from you believes what they believe—and hopefully walking away with both of you understanding the issue, and each other, a little better.

That requires something increasingly rare in American discourse:

Humility.

Ask yourself sometime during your next argument:

Am I actually trying to understand this person—or am I trying to win?

And if all I care about is winning, is this really about the issue anymore?

Or is it about my ego?

Republican. Democrat. Independent. Trump supporter. Trump critic.

Maybe we'd solve a hell of a lot more problems if we stopped keeping score long enough to start listening to each other.

I could be wrong. I often am.

Imagine what American political discourse might look like if more of us were willing to say it.

#CommonGround #PoliticalDiscourse #IndependentThinking #ThinkForYourself #CivilDiscourse #AmericanPolitics #SeekToUnderstand #Leadership #Humility #UnitedWeStand

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🏀 ARE WNBA PLAYERS WALKING AROUND WITH TARGETS ON THEIR BACKS?

That’s a provocative question.

And apparently, even asking provocative questions has become controversial.

There’s been a lot of conversation around physical play in the WNBA lately. Flagrant fouls. Hard hits. Players getting knocked to the floor. Questions about whether certain players are being targeted, whether officiating is consistent, whether some behavior is being tolerated that shouldn’t be.

Is there discrimination involved?

I don’t know.

Are officials turning a blind eye to certain fouls?

I don’t know.

Are some of the league’s best and most visible players walking onto the court with a target on their backs?

Again—I don’t know.

But shouldn't we be allowed to ask?

Because I think we have a much bigger problem when simply raising an uncomfortable question gets somebody immediately labeled racist, sexist, misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, or whatever other word we’ve decided will end the conversation before it begins.

Those are serious words describing serious things.

They shouldn't become weapons we use to silence people we disagree with.

Open discourse is part of what made this country great.

We SHOULD argue.

We SHOULD disagree.

We SHOULD challenge each other's assumptions.

And sometimes we should discover that we were completely wrong.

That's kind of the entire point behind You Suck, Now Own It.

You can't fix something you're unwilling to admit might be broken.

That applies to business.

It applies to relationships.

It applies to government.

And yes, it applies to professional sports.

Maybe there’s a legitimate problem in the WNBA.

Maybe there isn't.

Maybe the answer is somewhere inconveniently in the middle.

But we'll never figure it out if we're more afraid of having the conversation than we are of discovering the truth.

You Suck. Now Own It.

Being wrong isn't the problem.

Refusing to even have the conversation might be.

#WNBA #WomensBasketball #YouSuckNowOwnIt #FreeSpeech #OpenDialogue #CivilDiscourse #Accountability #Sports #Basketball #CaitlinClark #SophieCunningham #AskTheBigGuy

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@TiredOfDaReight @Republicans Yeah, we all remember Clinton.

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@Republicans Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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@elonmusk Now

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@FloridaAtlantic Truly hoping this is a false alarm

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@insanecokerfan No idea. We got the alert and call.

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@GovMurphy Sounds like a FAFO moment. No one is above the law.

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@Alqahtani1_1 @EndWokeness Its an insurrection.

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@WomanDefiner "The should have shot him in the leg!" 🫩

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@TWillis79914554 @libsoftiktok Love the use of this polysyllabic word! Well done!

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@MayNotBeJoking @DHSgov @POTUS @Sec_Noem They were? Please provide links.

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@EricLDaugh Don't impersonate a citizen.

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@DebroyDonna @RedPillReport @ImMeme0 She was calling the toddlers father a POS. Literally. "Well I don't give a F, your father's a POS" He was discussing abortion I believe