Stephen A. Smith reacts to the Supreme Courtโs 6โ3 decision allowing states to ban trans athletes from women's sports:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I support that decision. Ain't nobody backing up for me."
SMITH: "I'm a live and let live kind of guy. I'm a fiscal conservative and I'm a social liberal. But the Supreme Court's decision yesterday was right on point."
Then he made it personal:
"If you are biologically born a male, you have no business competing in women's sports against girls. Why? Because it's unfair to the girls."
"How would you feel about LeBron James playing in the WNBA against women? Does that seem fair?"
When the social liberals side with the ruling, the debate is overโฆ
Itโs tough for me to take Renaldo seriously when they sub him in the round of 32 with a tie game in the 80th minute. Sorry but I like my superstars to be in the game with the World Cup on the line. #renaldo
Itโs tough for me to take Renaldo seriously when they sub him in the round of 32 with a tie game in the 80th minute. Sorry but I like my superstars to be in the game with the World Cup on the line. #renaldo
The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.
And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.
One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.
Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.
If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.
Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone elseโs savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.
Alternatively
There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.
To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.
Itโs the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)
Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.
Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up
But
They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks
Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
Men, at some point, you have to grow up.
Put down the endless video games. Stop obsessing over toys, collectibles, and entertainment. The world doesn't need more 27-year-old boys. It needs men of character, conviction, and responsibility.
Open your Bible. Pursue Christ. Lead your family. Serve your church. Build something that outlives you.
The time for childish things is running out.
"Men who prioritize fatherhood may lose some sleep, gain some extra weight & enjoy less free time, but they can also discover a richer life with greater meaning, purpose & connection. And when it comes to brain health and mental fitness, becoming a father is one of the best things you can do." https://t.co/ddL9y5Ncci
To every out-of-stater screaming at lifelong Californians to โjust leaveโ after this election: How fucking dare you.
We were born here. We raised our families here. Built businesses, bought homes, and spent our entire lives bleeding in the trenches against this machine - while you watched from safer states.
Telling us to abandon the Golden State we love is unforgivable. Itโs a slap to every California kid who grew up believing in the dream this place once represented.
How would you feel if we told Texans, or Floridians โFuck it - your stateโs gone, pack up and runโ?
Iโve stayed quiet about my disappointment in those who cut and ran, because Iโm a lady. But watching you flee, then lecture us from your new red states while declaring California โdeadโ because YOU left?
Itโs gut-wrenching. We donโt cut and run. We fight.
If you truly love this Republic, stop the defeatist bullshit. Get your asses to California. Register. Vote. Organize. Volunteer. Help us flip this blue cancer before it spreads and kills the whole country.
Weโre holding the line with everything we have.
Join us - or shut the fuck up.
The Republic needs warriors here, not more quitters.
@ds_gardner@rooftopdrew Sorry read your bio. Berkeley/Livermore? Very familiar, actually curious if you know my cousin Ward S. who has worked at the Laboratory for quite some time.
@ds_gardner@rooftopdrew Dont be naive. Its changed.
.. Everywhere. Last 20 years I have lived in Kings, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties.
Where do you reside??
I love liberals who say "just move" if you don't like corrupt CA.
My girlfriend's sister and her husband (who retired from PG&E early) moved to Idaho from CA and love it there.
I don't blame them, their town is like a little Mayberry...but not really my thing.
My parents, my sister, and my niece moved to Arizona from CA, most of my family lives in AZ (even the liberal ones there told me not to stay in CA).
Too damn hot for me.
Problem is, I lived in CA before it became a dumpster fire...it's a beautiful state where everything grows and I remember what things used to be like less than 20 years ago.
California voted red in more presidential elections than it has voted blue throughout its history...the current Democrat supermajority is only a small sliver of CA history.
The California I remember was a place where familes wanted to be, not where families wanted to flee, and I'll stay and fight for that again...because California is worth it...plus I don't like being told what to do.
US inflation is red hot.
1. CPI Inflation: 3.8%, highest since May 2023
2. PCE Inflation: 3.8%, highest since May 2023
3. PPI Inflation: 6.0%, highest since March 2023
4. Services Inflation: 3.4%, highest since Sept 2025
5. Shelter Inflation: 3.3%, highest since Sept 2025
6. Energy Inflation: 17.9%, highest since Sept 2022
7. Gasoline Inflation: 28.4%, highest since June 2022
Inflation is reaccelerating across nearly every major category of the US economy.
Are you positioned accordingly?