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00:13:01.680Melissa, how did you personally deal with the hate, the racism, the attention, scrutiny, and then also just navigate that to go out there and hoop?
00:13:10.800Um, I feel like I kind of, I'm the type of person where I just be putting like a lot of stuff to the side and try to keep like the main thing, the main thing.
00:13:25.100So I don't be trying to get too like deep into like the, um, the other side of things.
00:13:30.840Cause I know at the end of the day, I'm just, you know, I'm here to play basketball and it's also like, you know, there's, there's only so much you could say when you're here.
00:13:40.800Well said, uh, very eloquent, very eloquent.
00:13:44.660These are eloquent, uh, really intelligent people, great people, the best of the best.
00:13:51.480He says, Melissa, uh, is that actually her name?
00:14:07.040Um, I mean, that's not how you spell that name, but maybe that's how she spells it.
00:14:11.280Anyway, how did you personally deal with the hate, the racism, the attention, the scrutiny is what we just heard is the question there.
00:14:18.440If you listen to these press conferences, you think that skinheads are like rushing the court and assaulting the players in the middle of the games.
00:14:26.000At the very least, you'd expect that this player would have been subjected to some kind of horrible racist chant or something from one of the WNBA's racist ghost fans.
00:18:30.500We call on USA Today Network to review its principles of ethical conduct for newsrooms
00:18:34.140and address what we believe is a violation of several core principles, including seeking and reporting the truth.
00:18:39.080USA Today Sports should explain why a reporter with clear bias and ulterior motives was assigned to cover the league.
00:18:44.740We also urge the league to review its policies and take measures to prevent such issues protecting the integrity of the game and its players.
00:18:50.300So, we're at the point now that journalists can't even ask black players about fouls they commit against Caitlin Clark without being accused of racism
00:18:59.700and somehow also homophobia for asking the question.
00:19:04.260That's how much racism there is in the WNBA.
00:19:06.360Even asking questions is now racist, which I guess we already knew.
00:19:11.760Now, obviously, there's no reason to take any of these people seriously,
00:19:14.060but just to make sure that I wasn't missing anything,
00:19:16.900I went looking to see if I could find the most egregious examples of racism in the WNBA.
00:19:21.280And I came across this monologue from a sports commentator named Nick Wright.
00:19:26.100It's from a couple of days ago, and it's about as unhinged as you'd expect.
00:23:47.320Now, the racial hysteria reminds me of the summer of 2020 just playing out on a much, much, much smaller stage.
00:23:54.520A white woman playing basketball has become the WNBA's George Floyd moment, basically.
00:23:59.440And just like we saw with the George Floyd situation, before long, you know, people start to push back.
00:24:06.180No normal person wants to pay money to support a team only to be told that they're racist and horrible for doing it.
00:24:12.120It's a big part of why the DEI grift has begun to collapse.
00:24:15.520And it's why the WNBA's brief resurgence isn't going to last very long either.
00:24:20.440Very soon, the league will be back on the path to irrelevance and bankruptcy.
00:24:24.020It's clear that, you know, none of these players or executives or sports journalists really want the league to succeed anyway.
00:24:33.960To borrow an adage from the world of sports commentary, you might even say that the WNBA is like a rubber band.
00:24:39.480One that's been stretched to the limit by pathological narcissists who only know how to complain and demean their own fans on the basis of their skin color.
00:24:47.280And one deranged sports podcast and self-pitying press conference at a time, that rubber band is about to break.
00:24:59.800You didn't vote for this recession, but you sure as heck pay for it at the pump, at the grocery store, and with that growing stack of unpaid bills.
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00:28:44.320So, the most important thing is to get these people the help they need.
00:28:48.300And if you want to donate, my wife and I will be donating as well.
00:28:51.520If you want to donate, I posted a link on my Twitter of an article that lists a bunch of organizations that are helping the victims.
00:28:59.400And I'll put that link in the description on YouTube as well.
00:29:02.620I'll pin it on Twitter so you can find it.
00:29:03.900And, of course, before you give money to any organization, you should vet the organization to make sure the money is going, going to go to the people that need it.
00:29:10.340But this list is a good place to start, I think.
00:29:14.580Meanwhile, and like I said, I'll have more to say about this tomorrow, but it's very noticeable that this disaster is, I mean, it's a disaster unlike anything we've seen in many years in this country.
00:29:33.320But it's not getting the kind of media coverage that it should be getting.
00:29:38.580I mean, yes, the media is covering it.
00:30:04.640Well, the reason is obvious that this happened under a Democrat administration during an election.
00:30:10.080And so there's really nothing in it for the media politically to make too big a deal out of this, which is which is why you'll also notice that all of the people who blamed Bush for Katrina are now insisting that the Biden administration cannot be at all blamed for Pauline.
00:30:35.000Indignant, indignant if you even suggest that the response from the federal government has been less than sufficient.
00:30:42.560If you even try to connect the dots between the president, the administration, Kamala Harris, and this disaster in North Carolina, what you get from the left is they're there.
00:31:29.660I mean, obviously, they have no integrity, no shame at all.
00:31:37.380In fact, some people have pointed out.
00:31:40.580And there was a tweet, if I can find it.
00:31:42.300You probably remember the one enduring image from Hurricane Katrina, which isn't actually an image of Hurricane Katrina, but it's the image of Bush flying over the aftermath of the hurricane in Air Force One looking out the window.
00:32:05.280And this is supposed to be one of the most infamous photographs of all time, because it shows that Bush is detached and he doesn't care.
00:32:41.200And if he had shown up to do that, that would be a scandal of its own, because now you're taking all these resources, because he's the president.
00:34:23.460The youngest voting age group between the ages of 18 and 24, including those who will be getting the opportunity to vote for the first time, are identifying as more conservative than liberal, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll.
00:34:33.680This is a shift from the slightly older group of voters between 25 and 29.
00:34:37.520The poll found that among American men between the ages of 18 to 24, 26% identify themselves as conservative, while only 22% identify as liberal.
00:34:45.320This number is 5% higher than men between the ages of 25 to 29, where only 21% identify as conservative.
00:34:52.100This conservative shift is also seen among women, with those aged 18 to 24 being 3% more conservative than women aged 25 to 29.
00:35:04.620So these are mostly encouraging results, but it's probably oversimplifying to say that they are just encouraging, because I think that when you look at the trends in the younger generations, trending more conservative, as it says, than most people expect.
00:35:19.740I think there are a few different things going on here to produce these results, and together, all of the contributing factors are creating a situation that's probably unique in American history and world history.
00:35:34.340Because on the one hand, the traditional religious faith is trending downward, like hard.
00:35:47.380Church attendance is falling off a cliff.
00:35:49.740And that's why you see, and it says this in the same poll, that although they're trending more conservative politically, they still, you know, Kamala Harris still wins the younger generations on issues like abortion.
00:36:22.300It helps them win on issues like abortion.
00:36:25.040Because when it comes down to it, the pro-life message will not resonate with you if you don't see life as sacred.
00:36:31.600If life itself has no meaning, then to be pro-life has no meaning.
00:36:37.040So this is the very deep, very profound philosophical challenge that the pro-life movement is grappling with, or maybe failing to grapple with, perhaps.
00:36:46.960On the other hand, the younger generation is growing up in a country largely shaped by left-wing ideas and policies.
00:36:54.200So young people are seeing the results of those policies.
00:36:57.420They can see that the results are abysmal.
00:37:45.020What happens when you have a basically godless generation, not raised with any kind of faith, that nonetheless sees the results of liberalism and wants to rebel against it?
00:38:02.180Well, you end up with something like we have now.
00:38:05.580Where with the younger generations, the left is winning on something like abortion pretty handily.
00:38:11.640But then on the other hand, politically, the trends are going the opposite direction.
00:38:39.020But I did want to make a point about something that we didn't touch on last week that she said when she was asked about her economic plan, which is basically non-existent.
00:38:51.820And because it's non-existent, she gave her standard stump speech with the familiar talking points about paying your fair share, she says.
00:38:58.980And we've heard this from her a million times.
00:39:04.340Expanding that child tax credit, or you mentioned housing before, giving that extra money for a first home, if you can't raise corporate taxes or if GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get the money to do that?
00:39:17.940Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?
00:39:19.860Well, but we're going to have to raise corporate taxes, and we're going to have to raise – we're going to have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share.
00:39:36.840I am not mad at anyone for achieving success, but everyone should pay their fair share.
00:39:43.080And it is not right that the teachers and the firefighters that I meet every day across our country are paying a higher tax than the richest people in our country.
00:39:54.660If he was in charge of taxes, he would have paid more.
00:39:57.060But how do you find that line to make sure corporations are paying their fair share, but they're not leaving our country?
00:40:03.760Well, listen, I work with a lot of CEOs.
00:40:06.020I have spent a lot of time with CEOs, and I'm going to tell you that the business leaders who are actually part of the engine of America's economy agree that people should pay their fair share.
00:40:17.840They also agree that when we look at a plan such as mine that is about investing in the middle class, investing in new industries, investing in bringing down costs, invest in entrepreneurs like small businesses, that the overall economy is stronger and everyone benefits.
00:40:40.380Like I said, we've heard this a million times.
00:40:42.800And it's always very – I get annoyed when I hear the pay your fair share stuff.
00:40:53.740And this is – and this is – Democrat politicians, of course, they're always saying this.
00:40:58.680And you can't help but get annoyed by it if you have, like I have, you know, if you've experienced kind of the spectrum of income levels.
00:41:09.800If you've gone from nearly poverty level wages to being in, you know, a high tax bracket and you've had stops all along the way.
00:41:20.660When you have that experience, you start to get an idea of what fairness looks like, you know, fairness.
00:41:30.560And it is – it doesn't seem very fair.
00:41:33.160Because fairness, when you hear from Kamala Harris, the kind of fairness that is baked into the system right now and that she wants to, you know, create more of, it means that you're punished for climbing your way to the top.
00:41:52.420Now, it's a punitive, like you're actively – the more, you know, you start at the bottom, and this is supposed to be like this American dream, right?
00:44:48.100I'm talking about the ones who, you know, not the ones in charge, but the one – the people, the supporters, the Kamala Harris supporter types,
00:44:57.280who they'll look you in the eye with a straight face, and they'll tell you that, like, rich people don't pay anything.
00:46:41.380And that's how Kamala Harris – that's how – that's Kamala Harris' bread and butter, are those kinds of people who are utterly, totally clueless.
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00:48:03.400The 2024 vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walls is coming to Daily Wire Plus tomorrow night.
00:48:08.080But let's face it, these debates are better with friends, especially friends who can spot every lie and false promise.
00:48:13.140That's why we're doing a special backstage with pre-show analysis from Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy Boring, and they're forcing—I mean, I'm also allowed to be there as well.
00:48:41.020Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:48:43.140As the left becomes progressively more bizarre and detached from reality and common sense, it tends to look with increasing alarm and suspicion at things that are normal.
00:48:58.660It scratches its head in confusion trying to understand why normal people do normal things.
00:49:03.480It becomes like some sort of alien species studying humanity from afar, struggling and failing to comprehend.
00:49:09.640This explains a recent article in Newsweek written by a reporter named Marnie Rose McFaul.
00:49:15.340Her bio says she's based in London, but her reporting style suggests that she's based on Jupiter or something.
00:49:48.420It all began with Sydney Sweeney's cleavage.
00:49:51.980In March, the 27-year-old actress hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time wearing low-cut outfits during the start and close of the show,
00:49:58.260which featured a number of jokes about her physical appearance, including a sketch where she played a Hooters waitress.
00:50:03.040SNL cast member Bowen Yang revealed in a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast that the Euphoria star was practically begging everybody to make body-related jokes.
00:50:11.660She came in and was like, please, everyone, make jokes about my booze, he said.
00:50:16.140At the time, Sweeney's appearance sparked much discourse and was lauded by a number of right-wing commentators as the death of woke.
00:50:23.360The actress has become a so-called conservative hot girl, a so-called conservative hot girl, a pin-up for the modern-day right-wing movement,
00:50:30.880as attempts to expand the appeal of conservatism beyond the confines of its largely older white male base.
00:50:35.420Sweeney and other conservative hot girls don't necessarily have any tangible involvement with politics,
00:50:40.320though some have strong political affiliations, but they've been claimed by right-wing public figures as their own, whether they appear to like it or not.
00:50:50.720Now, you know, when you think about the great opening sentences in the history of literature,
00:50:57.160you may recall iconic lines like, call me Ishmael, or it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
00:51:03.000One of my favorites from Notes from the Underground, I am a sick man, I am a spiteful man.
00:51:09.240Those are all powerful ways to begin a story, but none of them come close to the literary brilliance of the first line of this Newsweek article,
00:51:17.300which again says, it all began with Sidney Sweeney's cleavage.
00:51:22.180Now, there's a hook that keeps the reader reading, so let's continue.
00:51:26.900The conservative hot girl isn't a particularly new phenomenon.
00:51:29.740Victoria Kan, an associate professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK, told Newsweek,
00:51:35.160women have been positioned through the lens of the masculinist imagery in conservative populist politics for a very long time.
00:51:41.540Sweeney appears to have kicked off the latest wave of conservative hot girls at a time when conventional beauty standards have been adopted as a purported antidote to wokeness.
00:51:49.060That word was initially associated with progressive movements, but has since been co-opted by conservative critics to mock what they perceive as excessive political correctness,
00:51:56.760virtue signaling, or a tendency to overemphasize identity politics.
00:52:00.760Amy Tatum of Burnmouth University told Newsweek that this focus on hot girls is a way for the right in the U.S.
00:52:09.220to fight back against perceptions of wokeness.
00:52:11.680Holding up women in a sexualized fashion could be a tactic to reinforce gender stereotypes around women's appearance.
00:52:18.640Does the conservative hot girls' rise symbolize a more liberal thinking about sexuality,
00:52:22.940or is it the installation of women as objects for political gain?
00:55:01.480So the worst kept secret in the beauty standards discussion is that women are the ones who set unreasonable and sometimes unhealthy beauty standards for other women.
00:56:05.900There's nothing manipulative about it.
00:56:07.560But it is women, feminists specifically, who have not only created unreasonable beauty standards but have politicized beauty standards.
00:56:16.680So the real problem for feminists like Marnie Rose McFaul or the experts that she interviewed for her article, which, by the way, from what I could tell in that article, they're consulting the experts to find out why men are attracted to beautiful women.
00:56:32.820Not one man was consulted in that article.
00:56:44.940Like, that's just, that's feminism exemplified right there.
00:56:49.140It's everything you need to know about feminism is in that article.
00:56:52.520Not only that the article exists and that they are mystified by the fact that men are attracted to women, but that they, she never even asked a man about it.
00:57:01.880So their real problem is not that men have beauty standards, but rather that we recognize beauty at all.
00:57:10.440And as we've covered many times on this show, the left hates beauty.
00:57:14.860It produces only ugliness, ugly art, ugly buildings, ugly people.
00:57:20.700There is a war on beauty in our culture, just as there is a war on truth and a war on goodness.
00:57:26.480Beauty is good and true, which is why it too must be abolished.
00:57:30.860And that is why they feign incredulity at men who appreciate beauty.
00:57:37.600And that is also why Newsweek and its anti-beauty writer and all the experts that she talked to are all today canceled.