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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. x.com/i/status/2060921884666…

Thought Steph left her fire in Connecticut! 🥵

Spencer Pratt is now outraising the incumbent mayor of LA by 10x. Those viral ads are changing the game. Here’s whats crazy: he’s not even making a lot of the most viral or popular AI ads. It’s grassroots. People are tired of the ‘safe supply’ decline of the downtowns of LA - and major Canadian cities too. Thats why a political outsider could actually win in completely Democrat-controlled LA. Love to see him win it and bring in a team that can send the corrupt bail laws, drug supply and homelessness NGO game packing. It doesn’t work in LA and the same failed ideas have been ruining Canada too. Here’s to the courage and ingenuity of this guy and the possibility of urban renewal! x.com/eclipsethis2003/status…

This means more than I can really put into words. I don't see myself this way. I'm just someone who kept asking the question "why" and following the money, and I have no idea why I amassed this much support. But grateful for all that's happened. Love especially this line - "you can also support her by being as brave as she is." This is more true than you know. A big part of my book is that the struggle is really over "consultation primacy," who people look to when things stop making sense. Hence why so much effort is going towards combating misinformation, and why "grand master plans to fix democracy" now involve mandatory national service for NGOs. Pre-ordering my book is huge (especially as @PassagePress relies on the preorders as they aren't a nationwide chain and are trying to get this into distributors). But the best way you can support me is simply telling the truth. Thank you, and humbled. Books a Million: booksamillion.com/p/Unelecte… BN: barnesandnoble.com/w/unelect… Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0GGYQNWHJ