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It's fun to think about the absolute destruction that the Trump circus has caused to everyone in his sphere over the past 8 years. Losses of careers, bank accounts, dignity, marriages, respect of their children, non-incarcerated statuses, ability to practice law, etc., etc. Him more than anyone:

I bet they told the same, "Don't worry, it's not structural" joke to everyone who ever saw it.

I'd argue that it's a chicken or the egg thing. CC didn't draw the resentment and ire of the league because she's white, straight, apolitical, and really good at basketball (the WNBA has had plenty of players that mostly fit those descriptors). She drew their resentment because of the media attention and hype that surrounds her...which was amplified, in no small part, because she's the white, religious girl from middle-America. Let's be real (and you know this), a player who looks like Simone Augustus would have to average 50 points a game to get the same media coverage, transcend sports, and attract the attention of non-sports fans the way Caitlin has, especially in the WNBA. Players understand that and resent her (unfairly) for it. Much like Steph who, as good as he was and is, gets more love because he's the baby-faced guy who mentions God every 5 seconds that he wouldn't get if he looked like Allen Iverson.

Shit, you don't even have to go that far back to find a comparable example in the NBA. Some of the best players in the league and the old guard were some bitch asses when Steph became the talk of league around 2014. Basically boiling down to getting too much attention without having any real skins on the wall, and a general scoffing at the idea that they were about to change the game. It took until 2022 for him to fully shake the overrated/over-hyped sentiment. While race/class did play some factor (light-skinned rich kid), it was more just pettiness from players--current and retired--about the media and fans giving the new kid, the new generation too much shine. It's probably more pronounced with Caitlin because she's the middle-America, religious white girl--and brings in some of those fans who wouldn't give the slightest of shits about the WNBA otherwise--but the resentment would still be there if she was a black media darling being hyped up to dominate the league straight out of college.

RIP.

Oh hooray, another round of "Both Sides are Basically the Same" Always a classic.

I wholeheartedly agree! We should be making it more difficult for people like these to legally get their hands on guns.

Almost forgot this dude existed. The Trump team has no role for him that could possibly help add voters. Somehow, he's simultaneously too extreme and not extreme enough.

Civilized society was never designed to combat this level of persistent, purposeful, weaponized stupidity.

Why not Transformers and John Wick while we're saying things that a 12 year-old would find cool, but completely illogical, out loud?

Bigly.

So they come in bags that they recommend airing out for a few days before wearing?

I was assured that he would never be caught dead in the post apocalyptic, murderous hellhole that is California again.

Sorry, kids. It doesn't make a shit who you vote for; we're not going to do a damn thing to try to prevent it from happening again.

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Can we execute him for his sentence structure?

You could definitely see this one coming. 30 laps riding LeClerc's tail before Checo fails to get clear of him when he finally attempts a pass with DRS and has to take the outside line, leaving the door open for Sainz. From feeling like he was a lock for 2nd to off the podium in 4 seconds. I bet he was fuming. There was no way he was giving and inch to Sainz.

Fun. We haven't played "what ethnicity/political leaning is the shooter" in a full week.

100%. Openly admitting that you plan to vote for a black...sorry, DEI...woman Democrat for President would not go over well in a LOT of communities, including my SoCal workplace. Comparable to people not wanting to admit support for a visibly declining 82 year old. So many places in the country--even in blue states--default to "oh, you want to give all of your money to illegals and to pay for kids to get sex changes, huh?" these days. Especially around gun owners. Purely a coincidence, I'm sure.

Few things on the internet are more satisfying than "I never thought it would happen to me" guy.

A Democrat being essentially even in a poll about the economy shows just how poorly Trump is coming off these days. Trusting Republicans more with the economy is just reflexive for tens of millions of people, data be damned (obligatory: propaganda fucking works). Trump is down to one traditional conservative tentpole issue: immigration. And he's going around amplifying some truly racist shit. Just an awful campaign in every way.

I'm just here for the globohomo gay globalism. While not usually my bag, that sounds like a lot of fun.

With this Springfield, Ohio shit, you would think that people would be growing tired of being blatantly lied to for political gain. But, nah, they're all in. "But don't call us racist!"