The WNBA has unveiled a new line of T-shirts that say, "Pay Us What You Owe Us." What are the real intentions of these t-shirts? Is the WNBA rebuking the league for not paying them what they are owed?
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00:03:18.680Pay us what you owe us would mean that they make a lot less than they are paid.
00:03:23.300Because they are paid with charity from the NBA, which makes so much money because so many people watch it, that the league actually pays the ladies because no one watches it.
00:03:34.920What exactly are the ladies rebuking with these T-shirts?
00:03:38.620A lot of people think they're rebuking the league.
00:03:41.240Rebuking the league for not paying them what they're worth.
00:04:22.020And at a deeper level even than that, this is a rebuke of reality.
00:04:28.100The women feel as though they are owed something that reality is contradicting.
00:04:32.980They think that they should be a really popular sports league, that they should be as big and famous as the NBA.
00:04:41.040But they're not because they're women and the NBA is full of men.
00:04:46.580And watching men play basketball is much more interesting than watching women play basketball because men are physically much, much stronger than women.
00:04:53.520And faster and more agile and women are not.
00:04:56.680And so what this is a rebuke of is reality, which despite 60 years of feminism, centuries of feminism really, if you go back to Mary Wollstonecraft, despite all that feminism, men and women are still different.
00:05:12.160And men are still better at certain things than women are.
00:05:14.860Women are better at other things than men.
00:05:17.420But basketball is one of the things that the men are better at.
00:05:36.760And if your ideology, this is the final point on it and it's applicable to everyone out there.
00:05:40.760If your ideology leaves you resentful of reality, as all leftism and liberalism do to some degree, you should probably find a different ideology.
00:05:54.900This is what Marx says in the 11th thesis on Feuerbach.
00:05:57.520He says, philosophy until this point has sought to understand the world, but the point is to change it.
00:06:02.120But you can't really change the world because the world is as it is.
00:08:51.420Here's this woman, Milana Vayntrub, describing her philosophy of only philanthropy.
00:08:57.020Because of you, and your help, and your contribution, and your belief, that we could do something silly to heal the world.
00:09:06.560That we could have this playful exchange, that I could give you something fun and exclusive, and you could contribute some money to help some people.
00:09:17.980So you see the way it works in her mind.
00:09:25.200The way it works in her mind is, I'm doing a good thing.
00:09:30.740I'm doing a good thing, because the money in the end is going toward needy people.
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00:21:54.880Folks, so often in high-profile cases and conspiracies, all we get are a few redacted documents and a litany of theories from sources close to the story that never pan out.
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00:24:08.600Especially when you consider that a lot of these kids went into debt to go to college.
00:24:12.120Some of them took out hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to go get a degree in marketing or a degree in political science or something at whatever, Palookaville College.
00:24:28.160And then they come out and they get a job and they regret going.
00:24:36.200It's that 19% say their degree did not contribute to their career.
00:24:39.620The reason they have regret, almost the same number, more regret it than admit this, but a full one in five almost say their degree didn't contribute to their career, is because they went in with bad expectations.
00:25:46.600Because the idea of Christian rock is, hey, if we meld these two things that are not alike one another at all, we're going to make both of them better.
00:26:29.220So today, we have these universities that are in practice trade schools.
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00:26:39.940And unlike actual universities, you don't read the great books.
00:26:43.180And you don't, at least don't read them seriously and don't read them in a way that gives you an integrated sense of the world.
00:26:48.760Such that what you learn in physics tells you something about what you learn in English, which tells you something about what you learn in math, which tells you something about what you learn in philosophy, which ultimately should tell you something about what you learn in theology, which is the queen of the sciences.
00:27:01.620And there, you don't even study theology almost any at the time now.
00:28:42.080Do you remember back on Liberation Day, Liberation Day when we were told that Trump tariffs were going to go into effect, then the tariffs did go into effect.
00:29:16.240The economy today looks better than it did back then.
00:29:20.600And the economy was probably kind of a little, the market was a little overvalued, I think, back then, even at the end of the Biden administration.
00:30:45.400But then the problem is, this is what happens with the newspapers.
00:30:48.940You know, the newspaper reports some BS story, and everyone reads it.
00:30:53.480And then it turns out not to be true, and they print the retraction two months later on the last page of the newspaper, and no one reads it.
00:36:35.180Who do you think is here by the sheer just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance?
00:36:48.560And he's somehow convinced all of us that these people are the criminals?
00:36:53.560So another thing that becomes clear is Hunter appears to have developed Tourette's in his old age.
00:37:08.360I try to avoid it generally because it's a venial sin, so it's not good.
00:37:11.360It weakens your relationship with God.
00:37:13.320And at a certain point, it just displays a lack of discipline in your ability to speak.
00:37:23.260When you just insert the F word, every third word, and you know the effing thing, and you know the effing gardener, and the effing this, and effing that, you just sound like your brain doesn't work.
00:37:36.600But if you take all the effings out of it, what is his argument?
00:37:39.820His argument is we need amnesty for illegals, and we need more illegals so that we can have a slave class, so we can have a surf class, a class of people who work for us for very low wages without worker protections, and who clean our homes and pick our grapes and do whatever we tell them to do, and they don't have recourse to protections and to decent wages.
00:38:10.300And that's always what it's been about, at least for the business community and for wealthy liberal elites.
00:38:19.080There's another bonus for the Democrats, which is that statistically, it's likely to give them a permanent electoral majority, though Hispanics have trended a little bit Republican in recent years.
00:38:28.420Still overwhelmingly Democrat, but beyond just cynically trying to get votes, that's what it's been about for a much broader range of people who are not Democrat Party operatives.