Donovan

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

I had a terrible moment where It occurred to me that if someone could claim to be Trans in bad faith in order to enter the WNBA, then logically people could do the same thing to gain access to women's changing rooms. Then I remembered that logic is just a far right construct.

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

It's more comfortable on the plantation. Unfortunately, not enough are willing to look past the "free" stuff to see how terrible Democrats are.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

Most Black Texas voters back James Talarico over Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race, a poll finds, despite primary tensions.

Fewer than one in 10 Black voters in Texas say they are less likely to vote in November’s midterm elections due to U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s defeat in the Democratic primary. https://t.co/PaCWkcypLR

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

Badass while being president? Teddy. Overall, out of these? Imo, Grant.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Who do you think was the most badass American President?

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

Yes.

[Draft Diamonds ™️ @DraftDiamonds]

Good parenting or no?

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

I’ve used a simple test for years to expose the absurdity of pure self-identification on sex.

What if President Trump announced today that he identified as a woman and therefore demanded to be recorded in the history books as America’s first female president?

The progressive left — the same voices that have insisted for a decade that identification alone is enough — would erupt in ridicule and rejection.

That reaction would be the tell.

Hardcore gender activists treat sex as fluid and ever-changing: declare yourself a woman one day, a man the next. Biology and science are dismissed as irrelevant. The predictable result is men in women’s prisons, rape counseling centers, domestic-violence shelters, and female-only sports.

Self-identification is how you get there. Ive reported about this from Scotland to California.

Now two former NBA players are applying the WNBA’s own stated logic and declaring themselves women under the league’s rules. Gender progressives rush to insist the players “aren’t serious.”

Exactly. Neither is gender self-identification serious.

Once activists reject even one high-profile declaration, they concede the entire framework is selective and political. You either accept every claim without exception, or you admit that evidence, consistency, and material reality still matter.

The moment they pick and choose whose “identity” counts, the charade collapses.

It has always been a farce. It is long past time to say so plainly.

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

Every. last. word of this.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Lindsay Clancy brought all of her children into the basement. She strangled them to death one by one. The children watched in horror as they awaited their execution. She held them down and murdered them slowly and painfully. They must have cried. They must have asked why mommy was doing this to them. They must have called for help. But the person who was supposed to be their help, their protection, was now the agent of their destruction. There was nowhere else for them to turn. The last thing they felt, before their hearts stopped beating, was terror and confusion and sorrow beyond imagining.

Lindsay Clancy is a monster. A demon. She committed the greatest evil that it is possible for a person to commit. In a just society she would be convicted quickly and then dragged up the gallows and hanged. She would die for her crimes and be buried in a grave marked only by her inmate number. And all of her defenders and sympathizers would be sent to asylums, where they belong.

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

It really took a former NBA player magically turning into a woman to break the left. Now there are guidelines to "becoming" Trans lol. But, only for athletes? Except, not "Lia" Thomas who just voila, became a woman? It's absurd as it sounds. Always has been.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

As a progressive, I fully support Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring themselves for the WNBA.

I only ask that they commit to the bit.

Medically transition. Take HRT, take blockers. Show us what your performance looks like when your body is at a deficit of both testosterone and estrogen.

Do this for 2-3 years. Then show up to open tryouts and show us all how well you perform after gaining 30% in fat mass and losing 5% muscle mass.

Go ahead Enes and Royce, chemically transition, or STFU.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Yeah I'm going to "mansplain" postpartum depression. My mansplaination is simply that it doesn't give you license to murder your children. That should be just about the least controversial thing a person could ever say. If you have a problem with it, you have much deeper issues.

[Dave Meltzer @davemeltzerWON]

Jim Ross' surgery went well according to podcast partner Conrad Thompson and he should be home on Friday. Great news.

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

https://t.co/DKRzTey1B3

[Christopher Dickey @Hotsauce83]

@BudElliott3 Man, how many times in recent history has Virginia won 8 games? One good season and ppl act like it’s a top tier ACC program. If you wanna crown them, then crown their ass!

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

"Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts." Psalm 139:23

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

Who are these monsters? Mentally ill? Never taught right from wrong? I do not get it. At all.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

NEW: Another felon psycho arrested for randomly sucker-punching a 61-year-old white woman in the face in Miami, FL.

The suspect, identified as 40-year-old Tavaris Greene, was charged with felony battery after allegedly punching the woman as she walked down a sidewalk, leaving her bloody and in and out of consciousness. Greene has been arrested several times in the past and has also served time in prison.

The victim suffered a fractured nose and lacerations to her left cheek and will require sutures.

The judge set his bond at $150K.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

A lot of commentators and people in media and podcasters and politicians have never actually had to worry about how they would afford groceries. They've never had an overdrawn checking account. They've never been hassled by a landlord because their rent is overdo. They've never had their cell service cut off because they couldn't pay it. They've never had to put two gallons in their tank because they couldn't afford to fill it all the way up. They've never had a car break down because they couldn't afford to take it to the mechanic. I'm not one to talk about "lived experience" (which is a term I hate) but I do think that actually experiencing the stress and indignity of not being able to afford to participate in modern life is extremely clarifying, and gives you a perspective that sticks with you even after you achieve financial success. I think this is one of the dividing lines in the affordability debate. People who are flippant about affordability concerns obviously lack the perspective that being broke gives you.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Progressives have spent decades training us to distrust our own pattern-recognition instincts, precisely because those instincts are sometimes wrong.

The classic example is the reflexive locking of a car door when a black person walks past. That reflex is branded racist, and we are instructed to override it. The injunction is not entirely without merit - we should not judge a book by its cover, and history is littered with cases in which surface cues misled us.

Daniel Kahneman’s framework helps clarify what is happening:

> System 1 thinking is fast, automatic, and pattern-driven - the evolutionary intuition that once kept us alive by noticing correlations in the environment

> System 2 is slow, effortful, and deliberative - it is the conscious override that interrogates those first impressions.

For most of human history we leaned heavily on System 1. The Enlightenment project was, in large part, an attempt to elevate System 2, to insist that evidence, logic, and individual character should trump gut-level associations.

That project was, on balance, a civilizational advance.

Progressives, however, have overcorrected. They no longer ask merely that we treat people according to the content of their character, as Martin Luther King Jr. famously said we ought to do.

They now demand that we notice phenotype first and then actively discount or excuse shortcomings of character on that basis. Skin color becomes not something to ignore, but something that must be weighted in the opposite direction from the original pattern.

This is why critics who began questioning Arday’s work were charged as racists.

At this point, anyone saying that DEI is a well-intentioned effort to expand opportunity for the underrepresented is just laughably wrong.

It is a system that discounts merit and produces mediocrity, ensuring that many observers will quietly assume a black appointee is underqualified and a white or asian one is overqualified. Given how long it’s been entrenched into the academic system, this is now an open and overt observation.

In the name of dismantling prejudice, it ended up reinforcing a new, inverted form of it.

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

"rehabilitated". OK.

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

🚨NEW: Case against the Oklahoma "teen" who was accused of violently r<>ping and assaulting two girls has been dismissed after he completed a youthful offender rehabilitation program

Jesse Butler was originally facing decades in prison after one girl said he repeatedly r<>ped and strangled her so violently she later needed neck surgery

A doctor testified she was about 30 seconds away from losing her life

Despite being convicted of r<>pe, Butler's case was dismissed after he completed the requirements of his rehabilitation plan

The district attorney criticized the outcome, saying the case focused more on the defendant than the victims and called the result an insult to everything they had endured

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

Spot on, as usual.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

For one thing, I’ve been broke before. A lot of media people have never had that experience. Having to pay for gas with quarters you found in your cup holder has a clarifying effect.

For another, regardless of your own personal experiences, being America First should fundamentally mean caring about and prioritizing the well being of your own people, Americans. Downplaying affordability concerns is antithetical to America First principles as I see it.

Finally, I’ll note that a lot of conservative commentators have a “bootstraps” mentality that always wants to emphasize personal responsibility over policy solutions. I understand that reflex and share that mentality to a large extent, as anyone who’s followed me for a while knows. Still, no amount of personal responsibility by an individual citizen can bring about mass deportations, or the end of the Welfare State that’s bleeding the working man dry, nor can it stop pointless foreign wars, or address any of a dozen other policy-level issues that are causing every day life to be far more costly and financially burdensome than it should be.

[Republicans @Republicans]

The cancer of socialism continues to take over the Democrat Party across the country.

YOU CANNOT BE A SOCIALIST AND A PATRIOT!

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

https://t.co/X1KRu7ZoR6

[Donovan @mrbassman45]

This is what happens with you believe the lunatic left.

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

NEW: Woman arrested after attacking Jewish man inside North Miami Beach Target 'I HATE THEM'

Police say Chyvonne Palmer, 43, walked up to the man while he was sitting inside the store's Starbucks, started yelling at him, and hit him twice with her cellphone

Investigators say she then grabbed a metal chair and went after him again, but two bystanders stepped in and rushed the man into a nearby bathroom until officers arrived

Palmer was taken into custody and now faces multiple charges, including aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon

Police believe the attack was motivated by the victim's Jewish faith

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

God is still God.