cory schraeder

you only get to keep what you give away

[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.

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The media is an absolute joke

Spencer Pratt is explaining how his priorities with fixing Los Angeles

After every statement NBC makes it about Trump

No matter what Spencer says, the NBC asks another Trump question. There is nothing he can say that doesn’t prompt another “Trump” response from the media

Spencer gets frustrated because NBC won’t shut up about Trump, he says “This conversation is what's destroyed local elections”

And he’s right because the media makes everything about tribalism and not about doing what’s best for everyone in a city

No matter how many times Spencer says he’s only focusing on LA, it’s brought back to Trump by the media

We need to restore the Smith-Mundt Act and end mainstream media propaganda

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Southwest Airlines goes full patriot mode in honor of America 250

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Save Our Homes.

Eliminate taxes on the homesteads of Florida residents!

Special session on Monday to place in on the ballot.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

After a Stacey Abrams linked NGO reported $100 in revenue in 2023, the Biden EPA awarded them $2 BILLION in 2024. Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, I canceled that entire grant and that NGO has not had access to any of those funds. In fact, the Trump EPA has canceled over $29 BILLION in grants so far on behalf of the hardworking American taxpayer.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 AWESOME! President Trump just gave a BEAUTIFUL sendoff to outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard at today's cabinet meeting.

"She DRAMATICALLY reformed the Office of Director of National Intelligence and cut the staff by 40%. And she prevented COUNTLESS terrorists and cartel members from entering the United States."

"She exposed MOUNTAINS of evidence related to the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. One of the, probably the greatest hoax in the history of our country."

"And she declassified numerous historic documents of special public interest, including related to the JFK and RFK assassinations, which everybody wanted to see. And we're now releasing a lot of things having to do with space."

"Tulsi, we're praying for you and for your husband. Her husband's not feeling great, but he's going to feel great soon." 🙏🏻

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

Today in Tampa, I outlined the Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes plan that will eliminate taxes on homesteads. 

Property tax revenue collected by local governments has nearly doubled in the past seven years (from $32 billion to $60 billion) and is expected to reach an astounding $83 billion by 2032.

Florida homeowners need relief. Now is the time to stand up for taxpayers, enact a historic reform, and save the home of every Floridian.

[cory schraeder @cschraeder]

@omoelerinjare1 People are inherently good and most people want to help others.

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

A grandmother in Tarrant, Alabama, was caught trying to steal eggs from a Dollar General to feed her hungry family after two days without food.

She had only $1.25 but needed more for a carton. Instead of arresting her, Officer William Stacy bought her the eggs and asked her not to shoplift again. The moment was caught on video and went viral.

The community responded with two truckloads of donated groceries delivered to her home.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨THIS IS HILARIOUS🚨🚨

This guy had to audition for the #Vikings drum line as his fantasy football punishment for coming in last place in the league.

One of the all-time great Fantasy Football punishments.

🤣🤣�

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Jake Lang confronted Texas Lawmakers over the Muslim and Indian invasion

Every single word is pure truth

“No one has ever looked across the plains of Texas in the football games and all the amazing cowboy culture and the raw American spirit here and said, let's replace this with Muslims, let's replace this with Hindus. Texas should remain for Texans.

Have you lost your mind selling your children's future? It is a replacement. It is not right. Just because it's happening to white people does not make it okay. You guys are complicit.

This is the jellyfish generation, half boomer, half Gen X. You don't care about my children's children. You are selling out this country to people who do not want to live near you. They want to build their own separate segregated zones where they practice their religion, their food, their way of dress, their language.

They don't care about white culture. They don't care about American culture. They don't like you. They will replace you.

What the f*ck is wrong with you inviting these people into our country? This is a Christian country. Name one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence that's a Hindu or Muslim”

He’s absolutely right. We have been sold out at every level from the Texas GOP

This will have us all living under sharia law with an open border in Texas

Indians have seen a 130% population increase in Texas since 2010

Muslims are up over 180% with a skyrocketing population due to birth rates in the 450,000+ range

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Anyone paying attention could always see that @TulsiGabbard’s biggest fan was her husband, Abraham. The admiration, loyalty, and support he’s shown her over the years was obvious. Heck, the one time I met him was because he accidentally ran into me while filming her. He literally saw nothing else, but her. Hearing about his cancer is genuinely heartbreaking, and I hope they fight this battle together and come out stronger on the other side. Wishing Abraham strength, healing, and a decisive victory in the fight ahead. 🤛

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Chevron is letting customers know in California that it’s not Donald Trump causing the insane gas prices in the state, it’s California Democrats

Chevron just added these new signs to their pumps educating customers, “Sacramento policies did this. Now you pay more”

“California politicians are choosing foreign oil and fuels over local jobs and lower costs”

This is what we need. Huge companies willing to educate the public and tell the truth

It’s Gavin Newsom and Democrat policies causing $6.30+ average cost per gallon in California

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

You Are Not Alone. Vote Spencer Pratt.

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

Shoutout to Tucker Carlson who is 0 for 5 in candidate endorsements!

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Today, President Donald Trump has made his position unmistakably clear in the Texas Senate race, he is fully backing Attorney General Ken Paxton, and SO AM I.

I could not be more proud of the campaign we ran and the nearly 300,000 Texans who stood with our movement, our message, and our mission for the future of this great state.

To EVERY supporter who believed in what we fought for, I am now asking you to unite behind the next United States Senator from Texas, @KenPaxtonTX.

He has the total and complete endorsement of President Donald Trump, and he has mine as well.

NOW is the time to come together, fight TOGETHER, and deliver a strong America First victory for Texas and for our nation.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Hundreds of people have just shown up to the funeral of 98-year old John Bernard Arnold III, a WW2 veteran with no known relatives.

The public was invited to attend to ensure the veteran was honored and not laid to rest alone.

Hundreds came. Absolutely beautiful.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!!

Divers doing a ROUTINE maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir dam in Mobile, AL...

...just found an underwater IED!!!!

Apparently a grenade-type bomb was sitting submerged at the bottom of a dam that holds an entire city's DRINKING WATER.

It took FIVE agencies: the FBI, ALEA, the Sheriff, Mobile PD, and a maritime render-safe team, to pull it out and detonate it.

Someone put a BOMB in our water supply...

WHERE IS THE NATIONAL COVERAGE?!!!

[Clerpatriot @clerpatriot]

There's no question why these Florida senators killed the bill to make over-the-counter ivermectin legal, and I'm going to tell you why!
@Sassafrass_84

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

CRIMINAL POISONING IN OUR SKIES — FLORIDA RAGES AGAINST GEOENGINEERING!

Governor Ron DeSantis: “Florida is NOT a testing ground for geoengineering… The Free State of Florida means freedom from governments or private actors unilaterally applying chemicals or geoengineering to people or public spaces!”
“We’re not playing that game in Florida!”

LAB RESULTS PROVE IT: Chemtrails are dumping toxic heavy metals and unknown biological agents on our families, kids, and land!

They lied. They called us crazy.
This is straight-up aerial assault — mass poisoning from above!

Florida’s ban is a declaration of war on these sky criminals. But the spraying continues.

THEY’RE SPRAYING US LIKE BUGS — FIGHT BACK NOW!