DiJonai Carrington says White privilege post wasn’t about Sophie Cunningham

Isn't it conceivable that much of the racial unbalance is not socially, but from which direction violence is feared to come? 

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On Friday, the Women’s National Basketball Players Association released a statement denouncing “hate, abuse, and demonization” of the transgender community, but did not mention Cunningham specifically.

"Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington said that her social media post about White privilege was not about her flagrant 2 foul on Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham on Saturday, but about a desire for “consistency across the board” in officiating, an issue that has sparked controversy throughout the WNBA season.

"Carrington had posted “WHITE PRIVILEGE” on her Threads account and tagged the Indiana Fever shortly after her ejection from the game. She was whistled for a flagrant 2 foul after her left arm connected with Cunningham’s head and jaw as Cunningham was midair attempting a layup. The blow knocked Cunningham to the floor, but she quickly got up to confront Carrington before Fever teammate Makayla Timpson pulled her away.

“'I’ve never once claimed that the assessment of the foul was White privilege (that was your assumption),” Carrington posted Monday on X, in response to commentary from sports analyst Emmanuel Acho, who said that the flagrant 2 decision was accurate. He also called her post “ignorant” and “asinine.”

“'Furthermore, I’m the LAST thing from ignorant or asinine when it comes to speaking on ‘white privilege’, do ya research on that one,” Carrington continued. “I actually went to school, one of the top universities might I add, to educate myself on this exact subject. I would never use that term as a rhetorical weapon knowing the historical and social weight it holds without having the proper evidence to substantiate it.” . . . More...

"Do ya"?

‘Her dad was in the NFL’ – DiJonai Carrington’s ‘privileged’ past unearthed in WNBA race feud   . . . "The Megyn Kelly show posted a clip of a snippet from Kelly’s show on X, sharing an insight into exactly where the DiJonai Carrington we see on our screens has come from.

“'Her privilege claim, okay. This woman, her dad was in the NFL, and apparently was like really good. A standout safety in the NFL, who played in not one but two Super Bowls during his eight-year professional career. Her mother, Victoria, was a star track athlete. She attended Horizon Christian Academy, a private K through 12 school in San Diego. It closed in 2018, but her tuition there averaged between 8 and 11 thousand dollars a year. Modern day estimates would put that around $17k for kindergarten, up to $20k a year for high school. She attended Stanford University and finished up her college career at Baylor.'” . . .

AOC retains the option to become a 'birthing person'

American Thinker

"AOC has debilitating daddy issues. She also has malevolent mental issues. In fact, the former often exacerbates the latter. She is perhaps not the kind of “gestating person” an orderly society (that is unencumbered by gynecocracy) would want to procreate. Yet, the ‘birthing person” has frozen her eggs.

"Part of AOC’s rationale for referring to women as “menstruating people” is that it undermines patriarchal notions that a woman’s worth derives from her uterus

"She said in a tweet in 2021 that, “GOP mad at this are protecting the patriarchal idea that women are most valuable as uterus holders.”

"That is so illogical even for a woman who may be susceptible to various brain chemical imbalances. After all, freezing her eggs only serves to highlight the ultimate worth of women as “uterus holders,” a.k.a., mothers. If her biological imperative gets the better of her feminist-empowerment ambitions, and she does decide to foist offspring on society, that’s where the embryo will be implanted -- her uterus.

"Perhaps reflecting a battle with cognitive dissonance, she also said that, “some women also don’t menstruate.” Talk about a twisted mind: she is so desperately disapproving of the patriarchy that she insists that women are menstruating people, even while admitting that some women don’t. Clearly, she needs to expand her definition -- or just go with the scientifically obvious.

"That is the kind of feminist gibberish that one suffers when not abiding by nature. " . . .

Do we want this child to govern us?  Senator Kennedy of Louisiana sizes AOC up concisely."

UPDATED: If Piker's not sorry for what he says about Israel, then he's not sorry for what he said about the USA either

The Pikester will be fine; those chicks who love Mangione, who blame Israel for the families slaughtered by Hamas, who were taught by visiting Iranians to shake their fists and shout "death to America", and who voted for Mamdani will still love him. TD

Trojan-Horsing Society’s Institutions

Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?

One more clue why this is a most truly disgusting man who has no business being in politics any more than el-Sayed.

"Hasan Piker's one of the most repulsive influencers in the Democrat party now, and what's told here should make clear nothing he says should be taken at face value:

Hasan Piker, a 35-year-old American streamer who broadcasts on Twitch to millions of followers, is one of the rising voices in Democratic politics. He describes himself as a Marxist, has said America "deserved 9/11," called for Zionists to be treated like neo-Nazis and declared that he would choose Hamas over Israel "every single time."

In recent months, he has moved from the screen to the campaign trail, becoming a prominent figure in Abdul El-Sayed's campaign. El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic US Senate primary last week and could become the first Muslim elected to the US Senate. [...]

Despite his Marxist politics, the business he runs is thoroughly capitalist. According to Rolling Stone, nearly 50,000 subscribers pay $6 a month for his channel. After Twitch takes its 30% cut, that translates into more than $2 million in annual revenue.

"Then he's obviously as much a grifter as he is an enemy of the USA and Israel. And no doubt, he harbors the same sentiments towards Europe (which has its own share of self-haters too).

The remark most closely associated with Piker came in August 2019, during a livestream in which he watched Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw being interviewed by Joe Rogan. Piker mocked Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost his right eye to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, and referred to the fighter who wounded him as a "brave soldier."

"America deserved 9/11, dude," Piker said during the same broadcast. "F**k it, I'm saying it. We totally brought it upon ourselves." Only after two days of criticism did he walk the comment back in an interview with his uncle, Cenk Uygur, calling the remark "inappropriate" and describing it as a failed attempt at satire." . . . More.    Emphases in original. TD

UPDATE:  Hasan Piker Wants to Destroy White, Middle-Class America. You Should Care - American Thinker   . . . "The white middle class stands in the crosshairs of a movement that has them marked for destruction. Hasan Piker cheers the call to impoverish them. Cea Weaver made it. Mayor Mamdani administrates public policy that promises gold, but delivers poison. The Democratic Socialists of America push race-communism that brands American success, especially if white and middle class, as oppression.

"Democrats have embraced this perverse creed, whose language of hope sparks change no decent person can endorse. It would be ludicrous for Republicans, whose base is white middle-class America, not to grasp this harsh reality now. November’s midterms are far from another routine election.

"Ignore the warning and watch America become a grotesque shadow of herself. After all, elections really do have consequences."

Woke 2.0: Hollywood’s Next Act?

Industry dialed down on Identity Politics. Will the sequel be even worse?

 TOTO  

"The film and TV industry will be reticent to go the full woke with their programming. They saw how poorly activist content performed and the impact on the box office bottom line."

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to memory hole the “woke mind virus” for political purposes.

"Can Hollywood do the same?

"The New York socialist shared this telling soundbite in a recent media interview.

“I have a local city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy,’ and I think that what’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.”

"Oh.

"Never mind the devastation wrought by “Woke 1” over the past decade.

• Canceled performers
• Burned-down neighborhoods (Mostly peaceful!)
• Crushed careers
• Speech censorship
• Big Tech censorship

"Ocasio-Cortez wants to wish it all away, and a compliant media will help her do just that.

"What about woke Hollywood?

"The film and TV industry fell hard for woke on nearly every level. Comedy roasts got unofficially banned. Identity Politics ran wild on movie sets. Stories were flooded with what The Critical Drinker dubbed “The Message.”

The Academy Awards rigged the Best Picture category to appease the woke mob.

The result? Less engaging stories. More viewer disinterest. And lost revenue. Lots of lost revenue." . . . More...

Sam Ponder calls out the WNBA for cowardice: 'Be courageous. Stand for women'

 

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Sam Ponder calls out the WNBA for cowardice: 'Be courageous. Stand for women'   . . . "Expect the usual suspects to target Ponder for her perspective, like Nancy Armour, Sarah Spain, Jemele Hill, Cari Champion, Cindy Brunson, Monica McNutt and Katie Nolan.

"Not only does this group want to discredit anyone who doesn't want to force little girls to change in a locker room next to males, but they are also vividly jealous of attractive White women. Ask Sophie Cunningham.

"By the way, Ponder is right. She has been right from the start. Most of the country agrees. Recent Gallup polling found that nearly 80% of adults disapprove of biological males competing in female athletics." . . .

‘MAGA Barbie’ And The Subaru Magoos - American Thinker . . . "MAGA Barbie was never really about Sophie Cunningham. The Subaru Magoos were never really about a car.

"They are characters in a much larger American production where everyone is fighting over the microphone while pretending they are not standing on a stage.

"The culture war’s newest sport is not basketball. It is hunting for heretics in sneakers. And judging by the crowds, America has already renewed the season.

"P.S. Apparently the show is not over. The WNBA is holding meetings to figure out what the “W” in WNBA stands for, having apparently forgotten why they put the damn thing there in the first place." . . .   

Stephen A Smith issues public 'warning' to the WNBA

"Smith believes that the WNBA needs to own up and realize that "a lot" of people don't like the league at the moment."

Colorado Woman Finds Out the Hard Way Why You Never Want a 'Smart' Thermostat in Your House

RedState  

"Ironically, Baker opted into the program with the best of progressive intentions, but she found out the hard way that is rarely a good idea."

"Some “smart,” internet-connected devices are pretty cool. You can control your lights remotely, make sure the alarm is on, be warned if someone is in your driveway, or check to see if a package has been delivered.

"But there’s one device I have refused to be tempted by: a smart thermostat. Why? Because Big Brother might dictate to you what temperature you’re allowed to set it to.

"That’s exactly what happened to a Colorado woman who made the serious mistake of allowing her power company access. The Rocky Mountain state has been going through a heat wave as of late, and that’s not the time you want somebody to be telling you to cut back on the AC. 

"When she needed a little comfort, her Internet Overlords said, “nope.” . . . More...

Luigi Mangione Case Takes a Shocking Turn

Teri Christoph   

"Is he looking at minimum sentences? No. But at the end of the day, he’s benefiting from more serious charges being dismissed."

 "An unexpected development in the Luigi Mangione case is playing out across news and social media sites Thursday, with many speculating that a guilty plea is forthcoming and will happen Friday at a surprise pretrial hearing scheduled to take place at a Manhattan federal courthouse.

"It seems that the accused assassin is trying to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison. He is 28 years old.

"Here's the New York Post, which has been front and center on the case happening in its backyard:

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday in his federal case tied to his alleged execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — in an apparent bid to dodge a life sentence, sources confirmed to the Post.

The 28-year-old accused killer — who is set to appear at a morning hearing in Manhattan federal court — is charged in the federal case with two counts of stalking resulting in death stemming from his alleged December 2024 cold-blooded murder of the powerful executive on a Manhattan sidewalk.

"Mangione is facing two separate cases over Thompson’s killing: a New York state case and a federal case. While some of the more serious charges have been thrown out in both cases, he still faces second-degree murder, weapons, and forgery charges in state court, where jury selection is scheduled to begin September 8. 

"In federal court, he is now facing two counts of stalking resulting in death, each of which can carry a life sentence. The guilty plea expected Friday applies only to the federal charges." . . .

Meet the Women Supporting Luigi Mangione in Court

Joe Biden Drained America's Emergency Oil Reserve and Now Iran Is Making Us Pay the Price

 Deplorable Daily  

"America went into the worst energy crisis in decades with an emergency stockpile that was half what it should have been, because the previous president raided it for midterm votes."

. . . "Joe Biden sold 180 million barrels of America's emergency oil reserve to buy himself a midterm election.

"Now Trump is fighting a war in the Middle East with the stockpile Biden left half-empty.

"And this week it fell below 300 million barrels – the lowest level since Ronald Reagan was in his first term.

"The SPR was never meant to be a campaign prop.

"Gerald Ford signed it into law in 1975 after OPEC cut off America's oil during the Yom Kippur War – the idea being that if hostile nations ever tried to strangle us again, we'd have a cushion.

"For decades, the reserve sat near capacity – 726 million barrels at its peak in 2009.

"Biden inherited 638 million barrels.

"He left office with less than 400 million – after draining the reserve in 2022 at the precise moment Democrats needed to hold Congress." . . .

"Biden sure wasn't running one.

His plan was to sell the reserve to 2022 voters at $75 a barrel, pocket the political goodwill, and leave the consequences for whoever came next.

"Whoever came next was Donald Trump.

"That is Joe Biden's legacy on energy security – not wind turbines or solar panels or the rhetoric.' . . .  More...

The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln; Democrats laugh

Another Republican sneaks into town while Democrats laugh.Lincoln Sneaks into Washington   . . . "Lincoln’s opponents widely ridiculed him for having “crept into Washington like a thief in the night.” A Washington correspondent noted that because of this, Lincoln had “but few defenders here.” The D.C. reporter for the Charleston Mercury wrote, “Everybody here is disgusted at his cowardly and undignified entry,” and hints of assassination plots could hardly “relieve the tall person… of the imputation of the most wretched cowardice.” A Louisville newspaper even opined that Lincoln had sneaked into Washington wearing his wife’s dress. Cartoonists savaged Lincoln with renderings of him sneaking through Baltimore in the dead of night.

"Critics noted with especial viciousness that the train Lincoln was supposed to have taken through Baltimore–the train that supposedly was to be attacked and possibly bombed–went through as scheduled with Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and their three sons aboard." . . .

The New York Times reported that “oaths, obscenity, disgusting epithets and unpleasant gesticulations were the order of the day” as the train passed through Baltimore, but the Lincoln family made it through unharmed, arriving at Washington around 11:30 a.m.

 Smithsonian Magazine

Lincoln sat at the back of the train in disguise to escape his assassins.

. . . "At the new year, 1861, he was already beleaguered by the sheer volume of correspondence reaching his desk in Springfield. On one occasion he was spotted at the post office filling “a good sized market basket” with his latest batch of letters, and then struggling to keep his footing as he navigated the icy streets. Soon, Lincoln took on an extra pair of hands to assist with the burden, hiring John Nicolay, a bookish young Bavarian immigrant, as his private secretary.

"Nicolay was immediately troubled by the growing number of threats that crossed Lincoln’s desk. “His mail was infested with brutal and vulgar menace, and warnings of all sorts came to him from zealous or nervous friends,” Nicolay wrote. “But he had himself so sane a mind, and a heart so kindly, even to his enemies, that it was hard for him to believe in political hatred so deadly as to lead to murder.” It was clear, however, that not all the warnings could be brushed aside.

"In the coming weeks, the task of planning Lincoln’s railway journey to his inauguration in the nation’s capital on March 4 would present daunting logistical and security challenges. The task would prove all the more formidable because Lincoln insisted that he utterly disliked “ostentatious display and empty pageantry,” and would make his way to Washington without a military escort." . . . More...

Excerpted from The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower. Copyright (c) 2013. With the permission of the publisher, Minotaur Books

Lincoln's Whistle-Stop Trip to Washington   

The President-elect was widely ridiculed for his secretive entrance into Washington. Both newspapers and the general public were worried they had once again elected a weak, indecisive commander-in-chief. Fortunately for the Union, the fears were unfounded.

Lincoln Sneaks into Washington – The Civil War Months

The Left spent years destroying the norms it now invokes against Trump—and is outraged that Republicans learned the same playbook.

Victor Davis Hanson  

"As a general rule, when the Left levels such accusations, they should be seen as efforts to project its own prior sins onto its opponents. And now, after destroying norms, the Left laments their absence." 

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"One of the more surreal things about the new Democratic Party is its habit of charging Trump with legal and ethical transgressions that Democrats themselves normalized years ago. The result is a strange sort of projection, in which the Left’s charges often reveal its own prior wrongdoing. And after undermining norms, they now lament the loss of what they destroyed.

"Too Cozy an Attorney General? Democratic Senators voted unanimously against Todd Blanche for attorney general, claiming that, as a former Trump attorney, he was too close to the president. Really? Even if true, the model came from the Democrats—and dates back to John F. Kennedy’s appointment of his own brother, Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general and Obama Attorney General Eric Holder’s own boast: “I’m still the president’s wingman, so I’m there with my boy.”

"Lawfare Worries? Democrats are angry that Republican state prosecutors might find grounds under state law to indict Anthony Fauci, despite his federal pardons for federal offenses. But again, who popularized that stratagem?

"Ask the freelancing left-wing state, county, and municipal prosecutors Fani Willis, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg. They set the example, even though they had to concoct nonexistent crimes to ensure that, if Jack Smith’s federal charges did not stick, their local ones might.

"A Partisan IRS? Democrats claim that Trump has unduly leveraged the IRS. This charge comes from the Left that produced Lois Lerner. She subjected Republican and Tea Party-like groups to special scrutiny, delaying or denying their applications for tax-exempt status during Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

"Remember, an IRS contractor leaked Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times, which in turn made them public during the 2020 election year.

"Election Denialism? The Left claims that Trump is doing great damage to the system by questioning the integrity of the 2020 balloting, which had transmogrified from mostly in-person Election Day voting, with identification required in most states, to widespread early and mail-in balloting, without verifiable identification. But who in modern times first popularized the idea of a presidential candidate challenging election results and alleging ballot fraud?

"A New York Times-affiliated audit found that, had Al Gore even won his court bid to obtain recounts in the contested counties, the disputed ballots would nonetheless have shown George W. Bush winning Florida. Thus, the Left’s months-long claim that Bush was “selected, not elected” was mere election denialism." . . .

Fake It ‘Til You Make It – The Dems’ New Campaign Motto –

Issues & Insights   

"Are there Republicans who’ve doctored their resumes? Sure. But faking your past, or your views, or the sound of your voice seems to be a job requirement for Democratic politicians these days."

"What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans?

"This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime.

“'The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat, liberal activists that have been supporting Democrat candidates for 10-plus years,” Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital.

"The Talarico campaign distanced itself from these folks after their cover was blown. But everything about Talarico is as fake, from his Christianity to his barbecue photo op.

"Around the same time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, last seen trying out a fake southern accent at an event in Memphis, was trying to pretend that she’s not a crazy leftist despite being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which wants to defund the military, close prisons, open the borders, eliminate the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court, and nationalize various industries.

"When ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked about her past statements, she laughed that “woke 1 was crazy,” and blamed COVID because “I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”

"When asked in July by Fox News specifically about the DSA’s call to abolish the Senate, she responded with a word salad for the ages." . . .  More...

The Left Has Overplayed the Race Card So Much That It's Now Just White Noise

 The Left Has Overplayed the Race Card So Much That It's Now Just White Noise  

"A lot of the actual racism on public display comes from Democrats pandering to black voters, and savaging any who don't do what they're told." 

 

"There's an old saw in conservative circles that says, "When a liberal calls you a racist, that means you're winning the argument." For the most part, that's true. Leftists shout "Racism!" reflexively, not thoughtfully. Also, their responses to conservatives are based on fictional evil caricatures that, in their minds, justify their unhinged emotional responses to anything we say or do.

A classic example from recent times is the noxious diaper-filling lefties experience whenever they see a MAGA hat. "Make America Great Again"="racism" in the Democrats' fever dream. 

I am not saying that racism has been eradicated in the United States or the world. However, I will not for a moment indulge the leftist garbage idea that this country hasn't evolved for the better regarding race. It is yet another core belief assertion of leftists that simply has no basis in reality. It's also the primary fuel for the Democratic Party's victimhood machine. Guess which prominent 21st century figure is most responsible for that?

His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama should have been all the proof anyone needed that the United States had indeed moved into a much better place on matters of race. Sadly, our first black president looked around at his taxpayer-funded mansion and saw oppression in every room. Nine and a half years after Obama said goodbye to his presidency and went off to make a fortune from Netflix, his wife is still doing interviews and acting as if she were forced to ride in the back of the struggle bus the whole time she was the First Lady of the United States. 

It's a bit much, even for those of us with strong stomachs. 

In addition to squawking "Racism!" like Tourette Syndrome-plagued parrots, leftists like to talk a lot about "White Privilege," whatever the heck that is. Seriously, I've been white my entire life — I've checked the records — and I have no idea what it means. Lefties would probably say that's proof that I've enjoyed it my whole life; I say it's proof that they're full of bison manure. " . . .

The Myth of Black Female Exceptionalism   . . . "They have been sheltered by government employment and protected by corporate diversity mandates. Those shelters are now collapsing. Instead of demanding that the world change to accommodate their inflated self-image, black women should ask themselves why they cannot compete in the open market. The answer is not racism. The answer is skill. Or rather, the lack of it. That is the conversation no one wants to have. But it is the only one that matters." . . .

It cannot be pretended that they are all Byron Donalds, Harris Faulkner, Condoleezza Rice or Doctor Ben Carson. Not when we have Joy Reid or Jasmine Crockett. TD