tinmac17

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

ESPN just produced nearly two-and-a-half hours of television about the WNBA’s unprecedented popularity boom... and somehow managed to treat Caitlin Clark like background scenery.

Life in the W celebrates record attendance, exploding viewership, new fans, new money and a “new era” in Indiana while refusing to meaningfully examine the single most important catalyst behind any of it. Clark is not interviewed. She receives no personal storyline. Her impact is reduced to game footage and passing references while ESPN desperately attempts to tell the story of the revolution without acknowledging the person who caused it.

Fans have already voted... with their televisions, wallets, ticket purchases, merchandise sales and social-media engagement.

They want Caitlin Clark.

But ESPN and the WNBA remain so consumed with controlling the narrative, distributing credit and protecting everyone else’s spotlight that they would rather produce a documentary with a Caitlin Clark-sized hole in the middle than simply tell the truth.

And that truth is painfully obvious:

Caitlin Clark is too important to exclude... and too popular to include without becoming the entire show.

Once again, ESPN and the WNBA were handed an opportunity to give fans exactly what they wanted.

Once again, they chose ideology over reality, narrative over authenticity and resentment over growth.

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@McGurkSports @LionSoftballGHS @GHS_Go_LIONS @TritonMsoftball @MustangAth Did the game start? I thought it was 4pm

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@krassenstein @CommunityNotes @grok was this picture in Philadelphia taken during yesterday’s no kings protest?

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@C_3C_3 lol, 🎯🤣

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@BillAckman @realDonaldTrump @X Did it hours ago

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@YaBoyCoots Coots trying to Cancel the Gritster 😂

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@JackPosobiec I got these + the Van in my attic. ❤️

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@Cernovich lol, Java developers…smh

[tinmac17 @tinmac17]

@ACTforAmerica Can they be traitors if they’ve never been on our side? 🤔

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

The Air Force has been trying to retire the A-10 Warthog for over a decade, and Congress keeps telling them no. You would think after the tenth rejection they would take the hint, but apparently the Pentagon brass has the reading comprehension of a stop sign at a NASCAR event.

Let me explain this in terms even an Air Force procurement officer can understand.

The A-10 was not built and then given a gun. The GAU-8/A Avenger, a 30mm seven-barrel rotary cannon that fires 3,900 rounds per minute, was designed FIRST, and then they built an entire aircraft around it. The recoil alone produces roughly 10,000 pounds of force, nearly matching the thrust of one of its own engines. When those depleted uranium rounds hit a tank, the penetrator SELF-SHARPENS on impact, punches through armor, and ignites everything inside. During the Gulf War, T-72 turrets were blown completely off their hulls.

Captain Eric Salomonson and Lieutenant John Marx destroyed 23 Iraqi tanks IN A SINGLE DAY during Desert Storm. Twenty-three. The F-35 carries 182 cannon rounds. The A-10 carries 1,174. Do the math. Actually, let me do it for you since the Air Force clearly cannot.

In 2003, two A-10 pilots, callsigns Donk and Billy Bob, dove into a sandstorm near Baghdad under heavy anti-aircraft fire to save Task Force 2-69 pinned at the Muthanna Bridge. Donk's targeting computer failed. Billy Bob took lead and destroyed multiple T-72s. A shoulder-fired missile narrowly missed. They stayed in the fight for 40 MINUTES. Both earned the Silver Star. An F-35 would have dropped one bomb from 30,000 feet and gone home for the day.

Captain Kim Campbell took anti-aircraft fire over Baghdad, lost ALL hydraulic systems, and flew her A-10 home using MANUAL REVERSION. She landed safely. Tell me what other aircraft in our inventory survives that. I will wait.

The F-35 program has cost over $1.7 TRILLION in lifetime costs. Building 200 new A-10s with modernized avionics would cost approximately $6 billion. That is less than the COST OVERRUN on a single major acquisition program. The A-10 does not need pristine runways, climate-controlled hangars, or a team of PhDs to change a tire. It needs fuel, ammunition, and a reasonably flat stretch of dirt.

Asking an F-35 to do close air support is like asking a Formula 1 car to plow a field. Sure, it can technically drive through dirt, but it was not designed for it, it will not do it well, and the cost is absolutely absurd.

You want to know who does not care about stealth coatings and radar cross-sections? The soldier pinned behind a wall with rounds cracking over his head screaming into a radio for air support. He wants an aircraft that will show up in MINUTES, stay overhead for the DURATION of the fight, put 30mm rounds exactly where they need to go, take hits without falling out of the sky, and come back for another pass. That aircraft is, was, and always will be the A-10.

Speaking of actually supporting our troops instead of just SAYING we support them, maybe while we are discussing $6 billion for new Warthogs, Congress could find the $10 billion over ten years to pass the Major Richard Star Act (S.Amdt.4056) and stop STEALING retirement pay from 50,000+ combat-wounded veterans who were medically retired because they got blown up serving this country. We can spend $1.7 trillion on an aircraft that melts in the rain, but we cannot pay the men and women who bled for this nation what they were promised? The wheel is spinning but the hamster died years ago.

Build more Warthogs. Same airframe. Same gun. Same titanium bathtub. Same twin engines. New computers. The troops on the ground are counting on it.

BRRRRRT.

But what do I know, I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who called in A-10 support in Iraq and can personally testify there is no sweeter sound on a battlefield than that cannon.

[Aimee E. Hall @aimeehall_eth]

Goldfish on the radar. MEXC just listed it. Airdrop is live.

⚠️ $GFIN rewards are rolling ⚠️

https://t.co/znehJoroSR

Goldfish is making opportunities for everyone

Eligible:
→ Any wallet holder
→ Complete social tasks
→ Join the leaderboard
→ Early supporters

One-time

[Aimee E. Hall @aimeehall_eth]

$FT launch timing is just about here.
With $S now included in the launch plans, early access options are being organized.

👉 https://t.co/XxbAXkStrh

Whitelist eligibility is confirmed — you either fit the criteria or you don’t.
If you've supported DeFi projects in the past,