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Clark on her own personal account likes a post on Twitter.
MAGA: Keep politics out of sports!
Chief's Kicker (Butker): Makes a misogynist and politically charged speech at a Christian college graduation.
MAGA: Way to tell them like it is! Keep it up.
Total tangent here, but I have a lot of cognitive dissonance around Butker. I mean I call him Butt Kicker. He's an amazing athlete but has gross political ideas and power.
What's dumber, I was upset to hear Brittany Mahomes passively endorsed Project 2025. I wasn't terribly surprised that's her stance, but seeing her confirm it and quickly backtrack with petty bullshit just. Ugh. Meanwhile, our other star players Kelce and Mahomes are keeping their mouths shut as Swift is taking heat. Idfk. Just a bunch of drama that makes me feel like I'm back in high school, but the stakes are much, much higher.
Its always "shut up and dribble" when someone disagrees with you.
“Shut up and dribble” says some random plumber from Gary Indiana, as if he’s somehow more qualified to discuss politics.
Nah Gary is really close to Chicago, and goes heavily Democrat. Western suburbs of Indianapolis are where you find high concentrations of wackadoos.
They don't want you to vote unless you support their candidate. They don't want you to speak unless it's hate speech or you support their candidate. They don't want you to exist unless you exist the way they want you to exist. It's Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid's Tale.
I generally feel bad for Caitlin Clark in the amount of complete bullshit this woman has had to endure this year.
Hey, she got me watching WNBA content and I don't even watch the NBA. Mostly I just get intrigued by players people dislike for no reason, like Lamar Jackson in the NFL. Dude has won 2 MVPs and carries the Ravens offense but people just move the goal posts on him every year.
The 22-year-old last posted on Instagram on August 18. On that post, fans questioned her decision to like Swift’s post and accused her of “caving.” Others outright claimed they would no longer support the young star.
How fragile do you have to be to behave this way? Cause this isn't what a calm and confident person would do. This is the behavior of bratty fucking children in adult costumes.
I doubt many of them were watching the WNBA to begin with.
I'm sorry, but let's be realistic... if she came out in support of trump she would get a lot of negative responses also. We're a pretty divided country.
True but I feel like it would be mostly civil criticism from the left rather than the threats you see on the right. Both negative feedback sure but not of the same intensity.
I know Elon Musk is, but are so many Republicans really this despicable? Or is it Russian bots trying to make it look like it?
Spot the difference...
One thing the article doesn't mention, is Caitlin Clark's place as a white woman in a sport dominated by black athletes, and the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown. For example, there's an under-current of racism in the drama between her and Angel Reese.
Sue Bird had similar experiences but a generation or so earlier. Of course, there was less social media when she was a young player, and a lot less focus of women's basketball. Even still, there was a lot of dog-whistle language about how, "she played the game the right way," or how, "she's an upstanding citizen." Of course, Bird eventually came out which made some of those fans leave on their own.
the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown
Like the badass she is, she's already more or less done so by calling them out for "using [her] for [their] culture war" ✊
Yes, they really are this despicable. Republicans who aren't despicable are not welcome in the party. You're either on the Trump train or you're dead to them, the Trump cultists have fully taken over the GOP.
That Hillary Clinton deplorables comment? Most truthful thing she's ever said in her life.
She just miscalculated how big that basket really was.
Look at what they vote for. That's your answer.
Maybe, just maybe, she was endorsing Taylor Swift’s statements regarding do your own research and make your own choice but please vote. Hard to be negative about that (unless of course your entire political party is a bunch of racist, sexist, xenophobic fascists lol).
Sadly, encouraging people to vote goes against the Republican platform, because a higher voter turnout would absolutely demolish them.
lol social media
Seriously, this is just all the people that never watched women's sports anyways lol
You could say that their only move is threats and Harris-ment
I preemptively accept my downvotes for this terrible pun
Scorn from your enemies is high praise indeed.
That’s like 3rd degree endorsement. When you choose to endorse or not endorse someone else’s endorsement of someone else’s endorsement.
how many degrees of endorsement do we need to get to the bacon?
I believe we can never go no more than six
She just told them she's not their racist. Fuck those people for always pitting her against her colleagues of color, she never asked for that. Keep playing ball girl.
Republican babies pissing themselves
Indiana is not known for their progressive politics
Yeah you got a council full of Jeremy Jamms when you all deserve Leslie Knopes
She can't be bothered by the entire WNBA and ESPN constantly being negative to her, these fake fan bigots and morons aren't going to do anything to her.
However these people are still weird and deplorable.
Oh but they don't care about T Swift ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The only thing right wingers love more than hating on strong women is hating on them for for their political views
