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It wasn&#8217;t so long ago that the absolute worst thing the government could do to a child — according to pretty much every expert, NGO and media mouthpiece on the planet — was to put that child in a &#8220;cage.&#8221; That was, as you probably remember, a major line of attack during the first Trump administration. The consensus was that Donald Trump was so evil and so unhinged that, simply for his own personal amusement, he instructed immigration officials to incarcerate children in the worst conditions imaginable, like they were animals. Things were so bad that AOC wept outside of an empty parking lot near an immigrant detention facility. Lin Manuel Miranda sang a lullaby for the Mexican children. Oprah, Rihanna, John Legend, George Clooney — the luminaries of our time — came together to formally condemn the Trump administration.
In response, conservatives made the case that children weren&#8217;t actually being placed in &#8220;cages&#8221; of any kind. They also pointed out that the alleged &#8220;cages&#8221; predated the Trump administration. And that was all true. 
The strongest argument, however, was actually pretty simple. Democrats couldn&#8217;t answer the following question: How exactly would a Democrat-run administration handle tens of thousands of children who are apprehended attempting to enter this country illegally at the border? If they weren&#8217;t going to deport the children, or use Obama&#8217;s &#8220;cages,&#8221; then what exactly would they do? What&#8217;s the alternative? We all knew that Biden couldn&#8217;t use the cages, because now Democrats are saying cages are evil. So what would Biden&#8217;s administration ultimately do?
As it turns out, a big part of their solution was to place unaccompanied minors inside the homes of people they called &#8220;sponsors.&#8221; So if a minor attempted to enter this country alone, or if their father was being prosecuted for a serious crime, the Biden administration would try to find someone for these minors to live with, inside of this country. They wouldn&#8217;t simply deport the children. They also wouldn&#8217;t put them in a secure government facility or a &#8220;cage.&#8221; Instead, they&#8217;d house them with an adult.
Of course, the &#8220;perverse incentives&#8221; in this situation are off the charts. The Biden administration was effectively encouraging children to cross the border without a legal guardian, because then they&#8217;d be allowed into the country instead of being deported with their families. And predictably, foreigners caught on to this situation. The number of unaccompanied minors attempting to enter this country increased by more than 100% under Biden, to more than 130,000 children per year. But it was all necessary, the Biden administration said, to avoid placing children in cages. Instead, they&#8217;d all be going to &#8220;sponsors.&#8221;
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A year ago, the HHS secretary at the time was asked about this program. And he conceded that, once children were handed off to sponsors, the Biden administration had no idea what happened to them. They completely lost track of these children. And they knew this would happen, because they understood that they didn&#8217;t have any legal authority to follow-up on the whereabouts of the children. It&#8217;s almost as if they intentionally pawned these children off as quickly as they possibly could, to make them go away. They said this was supposedly the more &#8220;humane&#8221; approach. Watch:
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It&#8217;s not exactly the most reassuring testimony. He&#8217;s admitting that the federal government has handed off tens of thousands of children to adults who, in many cases, are not even related to them. And then he&#8217;s acknowledging that the government has no idea what happened next. That&#8217;s because the HHS, which is overseeing this whole program, isn&#8217;t a law enforcement agency. They have no power whatsoever. They&#8217;re not remotely capable — legally or practically — of figuring out what actually happened to these children that the government relocated. 
And on top of that, Kamala Harris and other Democrats made sure to block HHS from informing local schools about the children. In other words, because of the deliberate policy choices of the Democrat Party, there was no way for anyone, even school districts, to verify that the children were attending school. Teachers couldn&#8217;t check up on them. So what were all of the kids doing? What was happening to them?
Thanks to new reporting from the group &#8220;Illegal Alien Crimes,&#8221; as well as The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/luke-rosiak">Luke Rosiak</a>, we now have some more clarity on this question. And the answer is far more horrifying than any &#8220;cage&#8221; could possibly be. It turns out that, in effect, the Biden administration launched a human trafficking operation. That was their solution to &#8220;kids in cages.&#8221; Instead, now we have &#8220;kids being forced to live with sexual abusers.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-molested-by-illegal-alien-who-biden-admin-sent-her-to-live-with-police-say">reports</a>: 
<blockquote>A 37-year-old illegal immigrant man was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing at least one teen girl who the federal government sent to live with him as part of the Biden administration’s scheme to place &#8216;unaccompanied alien children&#8217; in the homes of unrelated, loosely-vetted &#8216;sponsors.&#8217; &#8230;Wilson Manfredo Lopez-Carillo was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office in Florida on May 22 and charged with three counts of sexual assault on a minor.</blockquote>
This is the level of &#8220;vetting&#8221; that HHS conducted during the Biden administration, to make sure that the &#8220;sponsors&#8221; had the best interests of the children in mind. Of course, there wasn&#8217;t any way to vet this guy, or check his record or anything like that, because he was *also* an illegal alien. In other words, yes, the Biden administration housed a 16-year-old girl with a 37-year-old illegal alien, who had already broken our laws to enter this country. They put her with a known criminal who they could not vet in any meaningful way.
If you pull up the probable cause affidavit, you&#8217;ll find that these alleged sexual assaults took place in February of last year. The victim arrived in this country in August of 2023. So within about six months, she was attacked several times in the &#8220;home&#8221; that the Biden administration set her up with.
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The other thing you&#8217;ll notice, as you look at this probable cause statement, is that at least a third of the document is redacted. There&#8217;s a lot of information that&#8217;s not being disclosed here. To be sure, there are probably legitimate reasons for these redactions in some cases. We&#8217;re talking about a very sensitive case involving a minor, after all. But it&#8217;s enough to make you wonder whether we&#8217;ll ever receive anything approaching a full accounting for what the Biden administration has done here. 
What we know for sure is that the scale of this particular human trafficking operation is staggering. Late last year, the DHS inspector general under the Biden administration disclosed that something like 300,000 minors are unaccounted for. And even the minors who are &#8220;accounted for,&#8221; in some cases, are raising very obvious concerns. 
For example, the inspector general <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-08/OIG-24-46-Aug24.pdf">pointed out</a> that: 
<blockquote>One ICE officer expressed concern with not being able to take action in a case involving an [unaccompanied minor] whose sponsor claimed the [unaccompanied minor] was in an inappropriate relationship with her husband.</blockquote>
In other words, the Biden administration placed this unaccompanied minor inside of a household, and then the husband start abusing the minor, causing the woman to complain to federal authorities. And in response, federal authorities did absolutely nothing. And this kind of thing happens a lot. 
From <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-08/OIG-24-46-Aug24.pdf">the report</a>: 
<blockquote>ICE E.R.O. [Enforcement and Removal Operations] has no authority over [unaccompanied children] beyond managing their immigration cases. Therefore, even if ICE were to identify [unaccompanied children] in unsafe conditions, the agency has limited authority to respond. ICE personnel at two field offices affirmed this and explained they had identified [unaccompanied children] in unsafe conditions but were unable to intervene.</blockquote>
Unfortunately the report doesn&#8217;t go into any more detail on that point. You&#8217;d think that, if illegal alien children were suspected of living in unsafe conditions, after the federal government placed them in a household full of other illegals, it would be pretty easy to kick the door down and investigate. But apparently, these children have just fallen through the cracks. No agency wants to assert jurisdiction. And of course, whenever anyone in Congress tried to press for answers, the Biden administration stonewalled, because in the end, all of this was deliberate.
Last November, for example, Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy tried to conduct an audit into the status of these unaccompanied children. <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/19/biden-obstructing-migrant-child-investigations/">From The Daily Caller</a>: 
<blockquote>HHS would repeatedly take months to respond to [Cassidy&#8217;s] requests — and sometimes the department would not respond at all. &#8230; HHS officials also stonewalled state investigators when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis demanded answers. .. DeSantis — in response to findings that alien children smuggled into Florida were being sexually exploited or used for trafficking in drugs and weapons — petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to investigate criminal activity related to the smuggling of unaccompanied alien children from the U.S.-Mexico border into Florida. ..However, HHS allegedly &#8216;refused&#8217; to provide witnesses or documents to a grand jury, ignored subpoenas and &#8216;actively encouraged&#8217; Florida entities that contract with [federal immigration] officials to not cooperate with investigators.</blockquote>
Predictably, nearly a decade after the fake outrage over &#8220;kids in cages,&#8221; there has been no concern whatsoever from any political figure or media outlet on the Left about any of this. There&#8217;s no outrage about the fact that the Biden administration, fresh off the moral outrage over the &#8220;kids in cages,&#8221; constructed an elaborate human trafficking operation with a code of silence that rivals any mafia.
Keep that in mind, the next time you&#8217;re told that some policy you support is supposedly horrific or barbaric or racist or whatever. When people tell you that, ask them what the alternative is. And if they can&#8217;t answer, it&#8217;s a pretty good sign that, in their quest to score some political points, they&#8217;re willing to endorse evils beyond all comprehension. That&#8217;s the bargain Democrats made under Joe Biden. And now, locked away with &#8220;sponsors&#8221; who no one can track, there are tens of thousands of children who are suffering every day as a result.
If you needed another reason to support mass deportations, that&#8217;s a pretty big one. At the very least, deporting some of these sponsors would help break up one of the largest human trafficking rings ever created — the one the Biden administration spun up right here in the United States. In the end, the only sustainable solution is a secure border — one that&#8217;s ruthlessly enforced in a way that might make some liberal women uncomfortable. Unless we want tens of thousands more children to suffer untold horrors with their &#8220;sponsors,&#8221; we simply have no other choice.

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How Biden's Border Policy Turned Into A Child Trafficking Operation

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Democrats Are Gaining Ground With One Key Demographic: The Mentally Ill

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Glenn Greenwald Called Me ‘Morally Deranged.’ Then This Happened.

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Glenn Greenwald

Same-Sex Marriage

As we <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFCCDy__os">predicted</a> a while back, the most irrelevant and low-energy &#8220;Pride Month&#8221; in the history of &#8220;Pride Months&#8221; is officially underway as of June 1st. The LGBT movement is currently coming to terms with the reality that, after years of browbeating everyone into tolerating and then applauding and then participating in disorder and dysfunction, people are simply too disgusted and annoyed to put up with it anymore.
The signs are all over the place. The city of Boise — far-Left stronghold in an otherwise very conservative state — just <a href="https://www.kivitv.com/downtown-boise/boise-pride-cancels-season-kick-off-citing-insufficient-attendance">canceled</a> its &#8220;Pride Month kickoff&#8221; due to &#8220;insufficient attendance.&#8221; This is the same city that proudly named the so-called &#8220;Pride Flag&#8221; as an official government flag just a few weeks ago, when the mayor claimed that the city is solidly behind the gay agenda. Turns out, he might have overstated the case a bit there. Meanwhile, major corporate sponsors like Meta, Anheuser-Busch and Comcast have fled San Francisco&#8217;s pride parade. And <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregion/nyc-pride-sponsors-trump-tariffs.html">reportedly</a>, one-quarter of corporate donors to New York City&#8217;s pride events — including virtually all of the biggest donors — have either eliminated or greatly reduced their contributions this year.
Something called &#8220;Heritage of Pride,&#8221; which organizes Pride events in New York, says they&#8217;re losing hundreds of thousands of dollars this year. The future of the organization is now in jeopardy. It&#8217;s the same situation in Canada, if you can believe it. Google and Home Depot, along with Nissan, Adidas, and Clorox, have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/toronto-pride-google-home-depot-sponsorship-drop">pulled out</a> of the Toronto pride parade, leaving organizers to speculate about whether the event will even be able to take place in the future.
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And they&#8217;re also seeing similar problems in Florida. Watch:
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LGBTQ organizations across the country are reporting substantial cuts in funding due to the Trump administration ending DEI programs. <a href="https://t.co/TLMwpHdAu8">pic.twitter.com/TLMwpHdAu8</a>
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They&#8217;ll blame the Trump administration for cutting funding. They&#8217;ll demand that &#8220;the community&#8221; send them more money. But under no circumstances will they change their behavior. They won&#8217;t stop twerking in front of children, or engaging in sex acts in public, or glorifying the chemical castration of children. They won&#8217;t do any of that, because they’re fundamentally narcissistic, and that’s what the whole movement is really about, which is why it’s called “pride” in the first place.
But millions of Americans are very aware of what the so-called “LGBT pride movement&#8221; actually stands for at this point. That&#8217;s why, if you walk into your local department store, you&#8217;ll probably see similar indications that the downfall of &#8220;pride&#8221; is upon us. A woman named Caitlin Francis just uploaded these two photos, showing a side-by-side comparison of a Southern California Target store.
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My Southern California Target June 1, 2024 vs Target June 1, 2025 
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&mdash; Caitlin Francis (@MrsCMFrancis) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsCMFrancis/status/1929299764950212738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The image on the left is from June 1st, 2024. And the image on the right was taken yesterday. They&#8217;ve replaced the LGBT colors and the shirts saying &#8220;trans people will always exist&#8221; with clothing that reasonable people would actually wear. They&#8217;ve got American flag shirts instead of the LGBT propaganda now. It&#8217;s almost as if Target, like every other major corporation, has realized that normal people vastly outnumber the far-Left activists they&#8217;ve been pandering to. 
Indeed, with each passing year Americans are increasingly aware of what the LGBT agenda actually is, and what it entails. They&#8217;re realizing that all of the promises of the so-called &#8220;gay rights movement&#8221; have actually been fraudulent all along. The facade is crumbling. And it&#8217;s crumbling very quickly.

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We&#8217;ve been trending in this direction for some time now, but after yesterday&#8217;s ruling by a three-judge panel on the United States Court of International Trade in Manhattan — which struck down all of the Trump administration&#8217;s tariffs — it&#8217;s now official: We don&#8217;t need any more rulings from federal judges about what the president of the United States isn&#8217;t allowed to do. Those are completely pointless. Instead, what we need, in our alleged first-world democracy, is a ruling from some federal court explaining, in as much detail as possible, what exactly the president of the United States does have the authority to do while in office. That would be the most efficient way forward, at this point.
In just the past five months, federal courts have held that the Trump administration has no authority to do the following:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Change federal government websites</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Fire any Executive Branch employees</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Ban mentally disturbed individuals from joining the armed forces </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Eliminate slush funds for corrupt NGOs</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Stop funneling billions of dollars of taxpayer money to anti-white universities like Harvard</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Eliminate wasteful &#8220;administrative spending&#8221; that&#8217;s tacked onto every single scientific grant</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Deport illegal alien gang members — even the wife-beaters and terrorists</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Cut federal funding to child castration services for children</li>
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And now, after all of these rulings and dozens more like them, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worlds-stock-markets-react-to-court-ruling-against-trumps-tariffs?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=World%E2%80%99s+Stock+Markets+React+To+Court+Ruling+Against+Trump%E2%80%99s+Tariffs">we heard last night</a> from the U.S. Court of International Trade that the president of the United States also does not have the power to impose emergency tariffs on foreign nations. Before we go into the details about this ruling and the problems I have with it, there&#8217;s a very important point that needs to be made here, which is this: Even if you think tariffs are a terrible idea — and really even if you believe that the Court of International Trade made the right ruling in this particular case — you simply cannot deny that the judicial system in this country, because of its own overzealousness, has never been less legitimate than it is right now.
The sheer number of injunctions that have been issued, blocking every single agenda item that the democratically elected president has attempted to execute, is unprecedented in the history of the United States. We&#8217;re in comical, “jump-the-shark” territory. And that&#8217;s a very, very big deal, because courts don&#8217;t have militaries. They can&#8217;t enforce their own rulings. When they lose legitimacy, they lose everything. And with this latest ruling, on top of all the other rulings, legitimacy is long gone.
So who does have legitimacy? Where does legitimacy come from? For judges, legitimacy comes from restraint and consistency, and adherence to the law. For presidents, it comes from democratic elections. It comes from campaigning, and openly telling voters what you plan to do, if and when you&#8217;re elected. And with that in mind, you will not find a single person — even the most deranged anchor on MSNBC — who will disagree with this statement: Donald Trump explicitly campaigned on imposing massive tariffs on foreign nations in order to return manufacturing to the United States. That was always a core plank of his domestic agenda. That doesn&#8217;t mean you have to agree with him. You can feel however you want about tariffs. But it does mean that Trump&#8217;s plan was put to a vote. And the American people decided that Donald Trump&#8217;s economic agenda was the best way forward. That&#8217;s legitimacy. If that&#8217;s not legitimacy, then legitimacy has no meaning. And neither does democracy.
Again, even on MSNBC, they concede this point. Last night, as he was celebrating this court decision, the perpetually unhinged Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell admitted that Trump&#8217;s entire campaign was about tariffs. He says he was talking about tariffs the whole time — and he blames the &#8220;campaign press&#8221; for not talking about tariffs enough. Watch:
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The point of this little diatribe from Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell is to suggest that, if only the &#8220;campaign press&#8221; had covered Trump&#8217;s tariffs a little bit more, then the voters would have rejected his entire candidacy. This is a very familiar tactic on the Left. They did the same thing with Russiagate. They claimed that, if only people knew that the Russian government had spent $100,000 on Facebook memes back in 2016, then they would never have voted against Hillary Clinton. You poor, poor voters. You&#8217;re always being tricked by Donald Trump. You have no agency whatsoever. Thankfully, the courts will correct that little problem for you.
This is about as undemocratic as it gets. It is asinine, narcissistic and above all, totalitarian. Of course, it wasn&#8217;t just this one MSNBC blowhard who discovered that Trump was talking about tariffs all the time. The entire country heard Trump talk about tariffs. And then they overwhelmingly decided to elect him. And that should matter, more than anything else. Unless the president clearly and unambiguously exceeds his authority under the constitution, then the courts should respect the will of the voters.
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And in this case, if you read the ruling from the panel of judges on the United States Court of International Trade, you&#8217;ll discover that Donald Trump did not actually exceed his authority. In order to come to the opposite conclusion, a lot of mental gymnastics were required on the part of this three-judge panel. I want to start with the court&#8217;s handling of Trump&#8217;s fentanyl-related tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. At the moment this ruling was issued, the tariffs stood at 25% for Mexican and Canadian products, and 20% for Chinese products (with an exception for Canadian energy, which remained at 10%).
Normally, the president can&#8217;t issue tariffs that are quite this high. However, as you probably remember, the Trump administration determined — rightly — that fentanyl trafficking is a national emergency because tens of thousands of Americans are dying each year from fentanyl that&#8217;s imported from overseas. Therefore, under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the White House asserted its authority to impose substantial tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China — tariffs that are much higher than they otherwise could be.
Under this emergency act, the president is allowed to, “&#8230; deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.&#8221;
Again, the president can, “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States &#8230; if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.&#8221;
That&#8217;s a direct quote from the text of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which became law in the 1970s. That&#8217;s the authority Congress delegated to the president. Under this Act, the president can impose substantial tariffs to &#8220;deal with&#8221; any &#8220;extraordinary threat,&#8221; as long as he declares a national emergency. So you might be asking: Isn&#8217;t that exactly what happened in this case? Didn&#8217;t Trump impose the fentanyl tariffs in order to pressure countries like Mexico and China to stop allowing fentanyl into this country? Under the terms of this law, isn&#8217;t the president implementing these tariffs to &#8220;deal with&#8221; the fentanyl crisis?
According to the trade court, the answer to that question is no. Here&#8217;s their reasoning. They focus extensively on the words &#8220;Deal with&#8221; in the law that I just read.
Here&#8217;s what <a href="https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf">they said</a>:
<blockquote>&#8216;Deal with&#8217; connotes a direct link between an act and the problem it purports to address. A tax deals with a budget deficit by raising revenue. A dam deals with flooding by holding back a river. But there is no such association between the act of imposing a tariff and the &#8216;unusual and extraordinary threats&#8217; that the [Fentanyl] Trafficking Orders purport to combat. &#8230; The [Fentanyl] Trafficking Orders do not &#8216;deal with&#8217; their stated objectives. Rather, as the Government acknowledges, the Orders aim to create leverage to &#8216;deal with&#8217; those objectives.</blockquote>
In other words, the court is acknowledging that the fentanyl tariffs are being used by the Trump administration as a form of leverage, which can force foreign countries to &#8220;deal with&#8221; the fentanyl problem. But they&#8217;re claiming that, under the law, that&#8217;s not allowed. That&#8217;s not how you&#8217;re supposed to &#8220;deal with&#8221; fentanyl, according to this three-judge panel. The judges are saying that the Trump administration is assuming too much power, and that &#8220;leverage&#8221; isn&#8217;t the appropriate way to &#8220;deal with&#8221; an emergency. Therefore, apparently, the Trump administration needed to impose a tariff specifically on fentanyl imports, or something like that — even though it would obviously accomplish nothing at all, because no one is declaring their fentanyl shipments at the border.
I want to emphasize this a little more, because this part of the ruling really deserves more attention than it&#8217;s getting. Congress passed a law that allows the president to &#8220;deal with&#8221; any emergency he declares. And now, decades later, this trade court is saying, in effect — &#8220;no, you can&#8217;t deal with it like that.&#8221; But there&#8217;s nothing in the law that justifies their ruling. The court just makes it up. The only reasoning that the court provides — which is contained in two paragraphs at the end of their opinion — is that the Trump administration&#8217;s approach would justify any kind of tariff they wanted to impose, no matter how ridiculous. They&#8217;re saying that, if Trump can use &#8220;leverage&#8221; as a justification, then he can impose whatever tariff he wants. But that&#8217;s not true. There has to be an underlying emergency, first of all. And the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans every year certainly qualifies.
Additionally, there&#8217;s evidence that, in this case, Trump&#8217;s &#8220;leverage&#8221; is indeed working. Within days of Trump&#8217;s sweeping tariffs on Canada, for example, Trudeau appointed a fentanyl czar and pledged to screen exports more carefully, in order to prevent fentanyl from entering into this country.
So we&#8217;re not talking about some arbitrary tariff that has no connection to reality. We&#8217;re talking about a tariff that has already produced tangible results that will stem the flow of fentanyl. But apparently, that&#8217;s not good enough.
I&#8217;m highlighting this part of the ruling because it underscores the extent of the judicial coup we&#8217;re witnessing. Congress delegated authority to the president to &#8220;deal with&#8221; an emergency. He attempted to do that. And then the court overrides him, based on ad hoc reasoning that invalidates the will of the voters, who elected the Trump administration (and the members of Congress who passed that emergency tariff law). Again, it&#8217;s fine if you think the tariffs are a bad idea, or good idea, or if you have mixed feelings about it. But the solution, in that case, is for Congress to rescind the tariff power — in whole or in part. The solution is not for random courts in Manhattan to override the president and the Congress, based on very strained interpretations of the law.
This ruling has already been appealed, and it&#8217;s clear that the Trump administration can still impose tariffs — albeit reduced ones — under the non-emergency tariff powers that have been passed by Congress. And late on Thursday, a federal appeals court put a temporary stay on the court&#8217;s ruling. So the ultimate outcome here is still uncertain. What&#8217;s not uncertain is that federal judges, once again, have undermined what&#8217;s left of their legitimacy with this ruling. If this had been the very first injunction against a Trump administration policy, it wouldn’t be as much of a crisis. People may even give the judges the benefit of the doubt throughout the appeals process. But we&#8217;ve seen more than 100 rulings like this by now. This is unsustainable — to the point that, if one of these federal judges somehow manages to issue a good ruling, no one will follow it. That&#8217;s not the ideal outcome for this country or the rule of law, obviously. But with this decision from a court that no one has ever heard of — which erases the president&#8217;s congressionally-approved authority to &#8220;deal with&#8221; national emergencies — it&#8217;s the outcome that now appears to be inevitable.

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Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela, it&#8217;s fair to call Cyril Ramaphosa one of the few surviving &#8220;founding fathers&#8221; of post-apartheid South Africa. He helped write the country&#8217;s new constitution, which would supposedly usher in a new era of prosperity and equality. He also oversaw the transition to the new government. And as South Africa descended into lawlessness and squalor over the ensuing 30 years, Ramaphosa gradually accumulated more wealth and power, until he finally became the country&#8217;s president in 2018. He&#8217;s currently worth something like half a billion dollars, even as the vast majority of South Africa&#8217;s residents now live in extreme poverty.
What this means is that Ramaphosa is the personification of South Africa&#8217;s post-colonial experiment. When he drafted that new constitution, he presumably did not foresee that, by 2025, the country would have the single highest unemployment rate of any country in the world, at 40%. He certainly didn&#8217;t tell anyone that he eventually planned to sign new laws that would disenfranchise and rob white farmers, or that white people would be systematically slaughtered in their homes. But all of that has happened. And yet, for all this time, no one &#8212; and certainly no world leader &#8212; has held this deranged despot accountable for any of that. Instead, it&#8217;s been something of a tradition in Washington to pretend South Africa is somehow a &#8220;great ally&#8221; to the United States, and to treat Ramaphosa as royalty, as Joe Biden did a few years ago.
That tradition came to a very abrupt end yesterday in the Oval Office, when Donald Trump did something no other political figure has ever done. He told Ramaphosa, to his face in the most public forum imaginable, that he&#8217;s a fraud who&#8217;s overseeing a white genocide. And in the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology that pretty much every politician, from both parties, has been desperate to uphold for several decades.
In order to understand the importance of *what* Donald Trump communicated here, you have to first see exactly how he communicated it. First, of course, Ramaphosa asked the United States for money, because he&#8217;s run his country into the ground and they can&#8217;t even feed themselves anymore. Then a reporter asked a patronizing question about &#8220;what it would take&#8221; for Trump to stop repeating supposedly false claims about white genocide in South Africa. In other words, the reporter is basically calling Trump a liar to his face, and asking him what it would take for him to stop lying. Here&#8217;s how it went:
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So after begging for cash, Ramaphosa essentially validates what the reporter is saying. He says Donald Trump needs to &#8220;listen&#8221; to the people of South Africa, in order to stop lying about the alleged genocide of white people. It&#8217;s probably the most obnoxious answer that he could&#8217;ve come up with, especially after dozens of white South Africans just fled the country in fear of their lives.
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But Trump was prepared for it. First of all, Trump asked one of the white golfers that Ramaphosa brought with him &#8212; a two-time U.S. Open winner named Retief Goosen &#8212; what the situation was like in South Africa. And the golfer responded that his father&#8217;s friends, who own farms, have been murdered, and the farms are constantly being torched. Watch:
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Retief Goosen: &quot;My dad was a property developer as well as a part-time farmer. And yeah, some of his buddy farmers got killed&#8230; it&#39;s a constant battle with — they&#39;re trying to burn the farms down to chase you away.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/93b4YZhpLQ">pic.twitter.com/93b4YZhpLQ</a>
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Again, this is one of the golfers that the president of South Africa brought to the Oval Office, as part of South Africa&#8217;s delegation, hoping he&#8217;d neutralize the supposedly &#8220;fake narrative&#8221; about white genocide. This is one of the people that the president of South Africa demanded, obnoxiously, that Trump &#8220;listen to.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t exactly go as planned &#8212; which probably tells you something about the level of &#8220;planning&#8221; that South Africa&#8217;s government is capable of.
And things only got worse from there, as Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played a tape of South African politicians openly calling for the murders of white farmers. In other words, Trump once again called Ramaphosa&#8217;s bluff. He &#8220;listened&#8221; to the calls for genocide coming from South Africans &#8212; and he made Ramaphosa, and the rest of the world, listen to it as well. And as you watch this, notice the expression on Ramaphosa&#8217;s face, as he genuinely cannot believe what is happening. Watch:
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If you&#8217;ve listened to this show, or been active on social media over the past year or so, then you&#8217;ve seen or heard most of these clips before. And you&#8217;ve heard stories like the ones that Trump just cited. That&#8217;s because in South Africa, black politicians have openly called for genocide for many years now. White farmers have been tortured in their homes for decades, in attacks that are clearly racially motivated. And instead of stopping the carnage, the government has just passed a law allowing the government to seize land from white people without compensating them. All of this has been known for a while now.
But in their coverage of this Oval Office meeting, the corporate press pretended to be surprised by this footage from South Africa. So before we go back to the Oval Office incident yesterday, let&#8217;s take a brief look at that coverage. Here&#8217;s ABC, for example. Watch as they deliberately give the impression that they had never seen anything like this footage before:
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&#8220;We do not know the source of the videos.&#8221; That&#8217;s pretty extraordinary. There are only two explanations for how that reporter could make a statement like that. Either she&#8217;s monumentally lazy, and she&#8217;s confessing that no one at ABC News is capable of verifying the authenticity of footage that&#8217;s been available on the Internet for years. Or, she&#8217;s deliberately lying to ABC&#8217;s viewers, and trying to get them to believe that the footage might be fake. Those are the options. If anyone at ABC News was actually interested in the truth about what&#8217;s happening in South Africa, they&#8217;d tell their audience that, yes, the footage is real, and that the genocide of white people is something they&#8217;re openly encouraging over there.
For his part, after Trump played the footage in the Oval Office, Cyril Ramaphosa offered this response. As you listen to this, see if you can spot the very familiar sleight of hand he uses. Watch:
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First of all, he&#8217;s right that some of the clips show politicians from minority parties in South Africa. That&#8217;s true. But it&#8217;s also not very reassuring, for two reasons. First of all, these minority parties are filling stadiums with tens of thousands of people, chanting about murdering white farmers. So we&#8217;re not talking about one fringe politician here. This is a very common sentiment in South Africa. And secondly, as Trump pointed out, the government of South Africa has just signed legislation that calls for white people to lose their homes and their farms, without any form of compensation whatsoever. That&#8217;s a pretty good indication that, indeed, the government is aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide.
Ramaphosa had no answer to that. Instead, he simply pointed out that, in South Africa, the majority of people who die are black. This is one of those lines that only works if you&#8217;re a race-obsessed, illiterate moron who doesn&#8217;t understand the concept of &#8220;per capita,&#8221; which of course describes most South African leaders. So maybe the talking point works there. But it doesn&#8217;t work when you&#8217;re dealing with intelligent people, because intelligent people recognize the significance of the fact that over 80% of the population of South Africa is black. So obviously, most of the people who are killed in South Africa are going to be black. No one is disputing that.
The relevant question is whether white people (particularly white farmers) are being targeted because of their skin color, and whether they&#8217;re dying at a rate that&#8217;s higher than black people, given that they only make up something like six percent of the population. And of course, no one in South Africa&#8217;s government wants to address those questions, because they know the truth: white farmers are being killed at dramatically higher rates than you&#8217;ll see in literal warzones, or places like Afghanistan. By some estimates, the murder rate for white farmers is something like 150 per 100,000 people. That&#8217;s why white people in South Africa are currently leaving everything behind &#8212; their farms, their homes, everything &#8212; in order to fly to the United States and stay in Holiday Inns off the interstate in Idaho. They&#8217;re not doing it for fun. They&#8217;re doing it because their lives are endangered in South Africa.
But even after Trump explained all of this in the Oval Office &#8212; even after Trump played the evidence of white genocide for the press, and for the president of South Africa &#8212; the corporate press is continuing to lie, universally, about what&#8217;s happening in South Africa. They&#8217;re simply denying that white people are being targeted. We&#8217;ll put a selection of the headlines on the screen now:
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I won&#8217;t read all of these, but every single one of them accuses Trump of &#8220;falsely&#8221; spreading claims of white genocide in South Africa. They say Trump &#8220;abused&#8221; the South African president with lies, even though he literally played ten minutes of video for him, and listened to first-hand testimony from the country. Pretty much every media outlet did the same thing. This is one compilation that Chaia Raichick assembled. Watch:
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This was shameless and coordinated to a pretty amazing degree, even by these people&#8217;s standards. But there was one outlet that told the truth, seemingly by accident. Here was a <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Grg3ImuXUAAVYNH?format=jpg&amp;name=small" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> that the AP posted, buried in an image gallery inside their article about how South Africa is supposedly safe for white people.
Here&#8217;s the caption: &#8220;A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside [in South Africa.]&#8221;
That&#8217;s the reality of what&#8217;s happening. And occasionally it gets out. But you won&#8217;t find similar reporting at the New York Times. Here&#8217;s how they <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/ernie-els-retief-goosen-south-africa-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> what the white golfers said in the Oval Office: &#8220;Two of South Africa’s most famous golfers were drawn into a tense Oval Office discussion about race in their country on Wednesday, after President Trump ambushed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, with videos intended to support his false claim of mass killings of Afrikaners. .. Mr. Goosen &#8230; shared that his relatives on farms lived behind electric fences in fear of crime, like many other South Africans. &#8216;But the guys live a great life, despite what’s going on,&#8217; he said.&#8221;
Yes, that&#8217;s what the New York Times took from the golfer&#8217;s statement. They left out the fact that the farmer&#8217;s friends are dead, that the farms are being torched, and that his elderly 80-year-old mother was attacked in their home. And the reason they left those details out is that, ordinarily, most criminals don&#8217;t set fire to farms or beat old women for no reason whatsoever. But they will do those things if they&#8217;re motivated by racial resentment, which is clearly the case in South Africa.
Over at CNN, meanwhile, they tried to convince their 15 viewers that the song about killing white farmers, which is often repeated at political rallies in South Africa, really isn&#8217;t meant to be taken literally. Watch:
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They&#8217;re simply incapable of bringing themselves to say that, yes, it&#8217;s bad to call for the mass executions of white farmers. They can&#8217;t acknowledge that post-colonial South Africa is a failure, for the same reason they can&#8217;t acknowledge that Rhodesia was a functioning, thriving state &#8212; the &#8220;breadbasket of Africa,&#8221; they called it &#8212; while Zimbabwe (the new name for Rhodesia) is a hellhole that needs to import food in order to avert famine. One after another, these post-colonial African states are demonstrating that colonialism wasn&#8217;t so bad after all. In fact, it was a lot better than the alternative.
It&#8217;s obvious why they can&#8217;t admit any of this. Every single Left-wing agenda item &#8212; from the modern civil rights movement to DEI &#8212; is predicated on the idea that past &#8220;oppression,&#8221; as they define it, justifies hand-outs and preferential treatment today. But that logic falls apart when you realize that, any effort to supposedly balance things out and make up for the alleged sins of the past, only means the murder rate would be ten times higher than it was in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S. occupation, everyone would be poor, and elderly women would regularly be tortured and beaten to death in their own homes. That&#8217;s the reality. It&#8217;s gone unsaid for generations, and people in South Africa &#8212; of all races &#8212; have suffered because of it. So have people in this country.
It is a lie that, yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump confronted and debunked in the most direct way that he possibly could. And in doing so, Trump didn&#8217;t just demolish one of the central mythologies of the Left &#8212; one that, until now, has sustained the vast majority of their depraved social experiments. Trump also signaled that, in this administration, doublespeak and innuendo are not going to be the default mode of communication, with foreign leaders or anyone else. Instead, we&#8217;ll be direct. We won&#8217;t cower from the truth, or sugarcoat it with euphemism.
Every single aspect of society would be improved if we all adopted that level of discourse. We need a lot more of this if we&#8217;re going to reverse the damage that South Africa&#8217;s leaders have done &#8212; and more importantly, if we&#8217;re going to prevent that ideology from spreading here. That&#8217;s been the main goal of true conservatives in this country for many years now. And yesterday in the Oval Office, for the first time since the 1960s, Donald Trump gave us reason to think we&#8217;re going to succeed in that effort.

Donald Trump/Cyril Ramaphosa

Trump Just Forced The South African President To Acknowledge The White Genocide

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Every so often you hear about so-called &#8220;uncontacted tribes.&#8221; These are people who have never had any interactions with the outside world. They&#8217;re out in the middle of nowhere, in places like the &#8220;Nicobar Islands&#8221; and the Amazon rainforest. And they&#8217;re obviously interesting to talk about, as evidenced by the millions of people who love watching documentaries and YouTube videos about them. Of course, the reason that these tribes capture people&#8217;s imagination is not because there is anything particularly desirable or admirable about their culture or way of life. Instead, they capture people&#8217;s imagination because they offer a glimpse into a world that &#8212; thankfully &#8212; we transcended. They&#8217;re fascinating because, every now and then, it&#8217;s encouraging to look at primitive people and think to ourselves: &#8220;As bad as things are, at least we aren’t still living like that.&#8221; We can use these tribes as an opportunity to reflect on all the human progress that&#8217;s occurred out here in civilization. Maybe no one will admit this out loud. But it&#8217;s true.
And it&#8217;s not just &#8220;uncontacted tribes&#8221; who fill this role in modern society. They&#8217;re maybe the most prominent example, but they&#8217;re certainly not the only ones. In particular, in recent years, it&#8217;s become pretty apparent that the organization known as the &#8220;WNBA&#8221; serves a very similar function. The WNBA, very clearly, is not a viable product from an entertainment perspective. It loses tens of millions of dollars every year. There has never been a genuine business case for keeping the WNBA alive. Even with the historic level of interest the public now has in the league — historic by WNBA standards — it’s still not viable. Because literally all of that interest is focused on just one player, Caitlin Clark.
And yet, with all that said, it&#8217;s time to admit that the WNBA, despite all appearances, isn&#8217;t actually useless &#8212; at least not completely. Like the tribesmen who have never heard of things like the &#8220;telephone&#8221; or &#8220;electricity,&#8221; the WNBA serves a purpose, albeit a very twisted one. In a sense, it exists outside of time and space. It&#8217;s a window into an alternative dimension, where humans didn&#8217;t respond to economic incentives or social pressures, or value things like &#8220;talent&#8221; or &#8220;competitiveness&#8221; or anything like that. The WNBA, because it&#8217;s propped up by Left-wing executives at the NBA who inexplicably have no problem losing large amounts of money every year, is immune from the normal demands of civilization as we know them. And in practice, that means that, if we take a look at how things are going at the WNBA, we can get a pretty good sense of how exactly the country would be doing, if we had gotten stuck back in 2020 and never moved on from the BLM race hysteria. Thanks to the WNBA, we don&#8217;t have to wonder about that anymore.
Instead, all we have to do is tune into Opening Day of the 2025 WNBA season, which took place on Saturday. Yes, in just one day &#8212; the first day of the season &#8212; the WNBA, for all intents and purposes, completely fell apart. The entire league, which serves as the platonic ideal of a progressive enterprise, devolved instantaneously into a race hoax and some inevitable racial outrage. No one&#8217;s even pretending to talk about the different teams in the WNBA, or the &#8220;power rankings,&#8221; or whatever. Instead, once again, they&#8217;re talking about white supremacy and racism.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1601-the-wnba-season-just-started-and-there-was-already-an-insane-race-hoax?elementPosition=0&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
The drama officially began in the third quarter of a game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky. The Indiana Fever is the team that Caitlin Clark plays for. And the Chicago Sky is the name of the team that Caitlin Clark&#8217;s arch-nemesis, Angel Reese, plays for. If you&#8217;re cynical, you might conclude that the WNBA intentionally created this match-up for opening day in order to generate exactly the kind of racial controversy that followed. But for all I know, these are the only two teams that exist in the WNBA, so maybe they had to schedule it this way. Regardless, I&#8217;ll play the dramatic moment from the third quarter. Here it is:
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In case you missed it, we&#8217;ll play the relevant part back, in slow motion:
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As you can see, Angel Reese &#8212; number 5 &#8212; pushes another player with two hands, as she&#8217;s trying to get the rebound. Apparently, the player that Angel Reese pushed is named &#8220;Natasha Howard&#8221; or something like that. In any event, it&#8217;s a clear foul. But it&#8217;s not called. You can see that Caitlin Clark is stunned that the foul wasn&#8217;t called. She&#8217;s sticking out both arms in protest.
And then, once Reese gets the rebound, Clark fouls her on purpose. This is called a &#8220;take foul&#8221; in basketball. And in context, the &#8220;take foul&#8221; makes sense. She wants to prevent Reese from getting the easy layup, so she has to foul quickly, before she begins the shot. (If she waits too long, then it&#8217;s a shooting foul, and a potential three-point play.)
Now, if you watched this moment and you&#8217;re not an alien who&#8217;s completely unfamiliar with basketball or human interaction, it&#8217;s one of the least remarkable sequences that you can imagine: The refs blew a call. And then Clark attempted to end the play as quickly as possible, which every basketball player in her position is taught to do. It’s all very normal. Everything makes sense so far. But sense — common sense —  is suspended in the WNBA. That&#8217;s why, moments after this incident took place, a reporter asked Caitlin Clark the single most loaded question that&#8217;s ever been asked in professional sports. Watch:
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Yeah, what &#8220;point were you trying to make&#8221; with that foul? Were you trying to say that black people should be enslaved again? Were you saying that the 2020 election was stolen? What specific genocide were you endorsing, when you committed that foul?
This is the kind of ridiculous, obviously fake journalism that you see in the sports world all the time. But it&#8217;s particularly common in the WNBA. None of these reporters posed the same questions to Angel Reese when she <a href="https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1802396846251487726" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1802396846251487726&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1747932600570000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3lmTOe4B1kAEHN4TufWI8M">elbowed</a> Caitlin Clark in the head last year, or when she <a href="https://x.com/SocialMediaAnt1/status/1923844651926143398" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://x.com/SocialMediaAnt1/status/1923844651926143398&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1747932600570000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2WN15k9MXCCHOwd_EIQWUK">celebrated</a> on the sideline when Clark was blindsided and knocked over by another player. None of these people have ever asked whether Brittney Griner is really a woman, either. They don&#8217;t care about questions that are actually grounded in reality. But they&#8217;re asking Caitlin Clark these very stupid questions because, in the alternative universe of the WNBA, they honestly believe that this kind of lazy race-baiting is still persuasive.
But very few people are falling for it. Robert Griffin III, the former Redskins quarterback, was one of the most prominent voices to call out this fraudulent narrative. He <a href="https://x.com/RGIII/status/1923861525778808917" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;After watching Caitlin Clark’s flagrant foul on Angel Reese and the aftermath, there is no way Angel Reese can continue the lie that she doesn’t dislike Caitlin Clark. I know what hatred looks like. Angel Reese HATES Caitlin Clark. Not some &#8216;basketball rivalry hate&#8217; either. Hate.&#8221;
RG3 also posted commentary about the incident, in which he pointed out all the other times that Reese has attacked Caitlin Clark, physically and otherwise. And then he pointed to Reese&#8217;s own words, in which she described herself as one of the league&#8217;s villains. Here&#8217;s part of what he said:
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Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark.
It’s staring us all right in the face, but people are afraid to say it.
Won’t answer questions about Caitlin Clark.
Gets mad when people praise Caitlin Clark for the explosion of popularity around Women’s Basketball.
Celebrates when her… <a href="https://t.co/mQddPuUAvK">pic.twitter.com/mQddPuUAvK</a>
&mdash; Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/RGIII/status/1924115030687048163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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You can agree or disagree with RG3&#8217;s perspective, or not care in the slightest either way. Regardless, in the world of sports commentary, RG3&#8217;s statements crossed a very clear line. He refused to endorse the latest narrative of racial grievance. And therefore, various commentators lined up to attack him in extremely personal terms. No one was more eager to attack RG3 than Ryan Clark, the former NFL player. Watch as Clark unloads on RG3 &#8212; not for his opinions, but for the crime of marrying a white woman. Apparently, because his wife is white, RG3 is disqualified from commenting on any topic involving Caitlin Clark. Watch:
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It&#8217;s an incredible window into how racial politics, in every case, demolishes any potential for civilized, rational discussion. It&#8217;s a race to the bottom, every single time. Instead of talking about arguments or substance, everything boils down to your skin color &#8212; or your wife&#8217;s skin color, in this case. And from what I can tell, executives at the WNBA realized how bad this whole narrative was going for them. Therefore, in order to distract from the fake Caitlin Clark controversy and the transparent anti-white rhetoric that ensued, they concocted the idea that the crowd at this game had actually unleashed racial slurs on Angel Reese and her teammates.
This is the AP&#8217;s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/angel-reese-sky-racial-slurs-f77dd6072d1bcb0fc327ed72bbcf0b73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on the ongoing investigation: &#8220;The WNBA is investigating racial comments directed toward Angel Reese by fans during the Chicago Sky’s loss to Caitlin Clark and the Fever at Indiana on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday on condition of anonymity because the league had not publicly identified the subject of the taunts or who made the allegations. &#8216;The WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate, and discrimination in all forms — they have no place in our league or in society,&#8217; the league said in a statement. &#8216;We are aware of the allegations and are looking into the matter.'&#8221; The article adds that the WNBA Players Union also released a statement, which asserted that &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and &#8220;hateful&#8221; comments were uttered during the game.
Now, if this sounds familiar, it&#8217;s exactly what happened last September, when I last made the mistake of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/race-baiting-wnba-players-are-sabotaging-their-own-league-out-of-spite" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/race-baiting-wnba-players-are-sabotaging-their-own-league-out-of-spite&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1747932600570000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0iYXGifLbY8N7kHiYLJLGx">talking about</a> the WNBA. Back then, there were reports that slurs had been directed at Brittney Griner while he/she/they was playing a game. But, curiously enough, no audio or video surfaced that proved anyone was uttering those slurs. Even though there were television cameras and smartphones everywhere in the stadium, no one caught any of these naughty words on video. And once again, that&#8217;s the case here. No one can quote these &#8220;racial comments,&#8221; or point to any proof they occurred. In fact, Tyler Marsh, the head coach of the Chicago Sky, said he didn&#8217;t hear any slurs from courtside. The first time he heard about any alleged slurs was when the media told him about them. Watch:
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Well, it looks like the KKK ghosts are back again. After their first appearance in September, they&#8217;ve returned to torment the WNBA for reasons that no one can explain. On opening night, these racist ghosts once again purchased tickets to see WNBA games, because of course, racists love spending money on the WNBA. And then, as the game progressed, the racist ghosts decided to drop n-bombs that only the players could hear. The coaches couldn&#8217;t hear them. The TV cameras and cell phones couldn&#8217;t pick them up. But rest assured, the ghosts were definitely being racist. And we should all be very troubled by their behavior.
The WNBA explicitly encourages narratives like this to develop. In fact, just this year, they launched something called &#8220;No Space for Hate,&#8221; which the AP describes as &#8220;a multi-dimensional platform designed to combat hate and promote respect across all WNBA spaces both online and in arenas.&#8221; In other words, they have a whole program that&#8217;s designed to lend credibility to the idea that random people are buying tickets to WNBA games, only to unleash racial slurs once they get there.
In reality, as you can tell from the footage of this game that was uploaded online, the handful of people in attendance weren&#8217;t being racist. They were booing, though, because the product the WNBA sells &#8212; from the quality of the referees to the quality of most of the players &#8212; is complete garbage. The booing is evident in many videos. But the racial slurs were not. And that&#8217;s why, when she was asked about these alleged racial slurs, Angel Reese rattled off a few meaningless statements &#8212; including a reference to the WNBA policy on &#8220;hate speech.&#8221; But at no point did she describe the allegedly &#8220;racist&#8221; remarks that she presumably would have heard, since she was on the court. Watch:
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She&#8217;s not exactly talking like someone who actually heard anything during the game. Even if you don&#8217;t know anything about this particular incident, it doesn&#8217;t sound remotely like she&#8217;s telling the truth. Instead, she&#8217;s making it very clear, once again, that she&#8217;s an actor, and not a particularly convincing one. Her job, as RG3 pointed out, is to play the villain of the WNBA, so that they can generate some drama. These people believe that if they generate enough fake storylines about racist fans and non-existent flagrant fouls, then people might actually watch the games. And then they can scrape together some cash instead of losing another $40 million this year.
But it won&#8217;t work, for the same reason that the BLM hysteria of 2020 ultimately didn&#8217;t work. The WNBA is the perfect encapsulation of every deranged impulse of modern leftism that the rest of society is rejecting. The hoaxes simply aren&#8217;t effective anymore. Manufactured narratives about phantom acts of racism, without any kind of evidence whatsoever, convince no one. And yet, for all the millions of dollars they burn every year on high-priced consultants, the WNBA is one of the few remaining organizations on the planet that doesn&#8217;t seem to realize this. The WNBA stands, virtually alone, as a reminder of what this country would have looked like if we hadn&#8217;t reversed course after the George Floyd hysteria and the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement and so on. And in that sense &#8212; and only that sense &#8212; it&#8217;s fair to say that the WNBA, against all odds, actually does serve something of a purpose. It&#8217;s a reminder of a giant bullet that this country dodged. And every time the league releases a dumb statement about &#8220;legitimate basketball plays,&#8221; or some 80-IQ sports commentator accuses Caitlin Clark of racism for committing a foul, we should thank God that the rest of the country has nothing in common with the WNBA.

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