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What is Enes Kanter doing?

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America First Policy Institute (AFPI) is a nonprofit conservative think tank, founded in 2021 to promote Trump’s policy agenda. Recently, during the WNBA’s “trans rights” hysteria campaign, former NBA center Enes Kanter partnered with AFPI to publicize his declaration for the 2027 WNBA draft. Enes Kanter is claiming he is transitioning into being a woman. According to the rules and standards the WNBA currently has in its CBA, that’s enough. No other professional sports league or tour is this incompetent when it comes to something like this.

I originally referred to this as “one of the funnier & more well thought out stunts I’ve witnessed– maybe ever”, and that’s become the case. This has become HILARIOUS, wrecking the WNBA (which just about everyone loves), while penetrating to the heart of the matter. This is the kind of story you are looking for as an integrated writer.

Enes Kanter is forcing the WNBA to define a woman, which it doesn’t want to do, or else face the consequences on draft night in April 2027. The exact date is still TBD, and if the WNBA & the WNBAPA don’t get their act together and get serious on what a woman is before this date, they are going to be humiliated on draft night– Enes Kanter watch parties, talk-show speculation, online wagering, etc. You can’t let that happen if you are the WNBA commissioner. Incompetent leadership has let it get this far, and most sports fans don’t see any brains in the room with the WNBA, so this is no slam dunk for the WNBA.

Enes Kanter (& others) are declaring themselves women, without having any transition surgery, hormone therapy, etc, and they expect the “inclusive” WNBA to receive them as women– unless the WNBA can agree on a definition of a woman and codify it with testing & criteria into the CBA. When that happens, these stunts end, and Enes Kanter is a man again. I honestly think Enes Kanter prefers being a man, but it’s his/her choice and I respect that. Do you see how fair & inclusive I am here? I’m sure Enes Kanter appreciates this kind of support.

Enes Kanter is currently hyping up which WNBA organization he’d like to play for. He says if the Indiana Fever pick him, he would be dunking Caitlin Clark lobs, then chest-bumping her afterwards, which he/she points out he/she could do because he/she is now a woman. That’s hard to write, much less fathom. Someone has to ask Caitlin Clark about that, right? Enes Kanter claims he/she was inspired by Gaby Williams, who said she would welcome a trans player on her team– or as an opponent.

Look for the Golden State Valkyries to be a player in the Enes Kanter sweepstakes– unless Gaby Williams really wasn’t serious about playing with men who have transitioned into women. No one from the WNBA or ESPN has checked-in with Gaby Williams on her trans stance since Enes Kanter declared for the 2027 WNBA draft. I think most WNBA players are hiding from this issue and wish it would go away. Sophie Cunningham is still the only one in the WNBA who has said out loud that the trans emperor is in his/her underwear. Cheryl Miller, perhaps the greatest women’s basketball player ever, is getting shut down by basketball fans. What does that tell you?

Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve, who recently wore a “trans kids belong” t-shirt on national TV to scapegoat Sophie Cunningham, hasn’t shared her “thoughtful comments” with the media on Enes Kanter as a self-declared woman. Now is the time, Cheryl Reeve, show basketball fans how transgender athletes belong in the WNBA and how you really feel, or is that too difficult & nuanced?

The WNBA label it “bad faith”, but how do they know what is in Enes Kanter’s mind? The whole argument from DEI warriors is transgenders are misunderstood, and need an inclusive & supportive environment to foster their ambitions & talents, etc. Enes Kanter has said, it isn’t his intention to “mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices.” That has to be taken at face value by the WNBA, otherwise they are transphobic hypocrites. This is what happens when someone who is a smarter than you calls your bluff.

No WNBA team is going to draft Enes Kanter next April, whether the WNBA has fixed their CBA shortcomings or not. WNBA teams won’t draft Enes Kanter on principle, if nothing else. But again, if Enes Kanter is still a woman, because the WNBA hasn’t codified a woman into their CBA before the draft, then it’s going to be a freak show on draft night.

Every day now, this WNBA trans rights stalking horse gets saddled up & rides for the fake media, social media, podcasts & blog sites. What is Cathy Engelbert going to do? She blew the 2026 WNBA CBA on transgender issues by not doing her job last winter. The WNBA prefers to create scapegoats and cast dispersion on others, instead of taking care of their issues. The WNBA is a tool of the Democratic Party, so that’s who Cathy Engelbert ultimately has to answer to. The Democrats say, “Keep confusing the public on XX v XY, it’s helping with our conservative agenda of pushing everything to the far right. Keep doing that and you’ll be well-paid and protected from your actions.”

Enes Kanter has the right-wing AFPI behind him, so the Democrats can’t just make this go away. It’s going to be in the news through the mid-terms in November. The far right has the DEI WNBA cold on this one, and it was too easy to be an accident. The Democrats don’t want a left wave winning in November. They only want to maintain their seats at the tables of power. Enes Kanter is part of this cynical process, but so is the WNBA, so one side accusing the other of ‘bad faith’ is the pot calling the kettle black.

This is the position the WNBA put themselves into, and few people actually feel sorry for them. There’s supposed to be no crying in basketball, but all the WNBA does is bitch, whine, and lend support to reactionary agendas. Will the WNBA adopt WTA, LPGA or IOC criteria for women, that have been well-established & fair to all athletes? That is the question. The science is there, and everybody knows a man from a woman, but will the WNBA acknowledge it? It’s post-modernism v rational science; the WNBA v Enes Kanter.

* Over 95% of the population, anywhere, agrees with Enes Kanter & Sophie Cunningham and how they define men & women. That, and political muckraking are why this story isn’t going away. Even though Enes Kanter & Sophie Cunningham are MAGA supporters, non-Republicans can still support these strong women, and by doing so they make it a popular win over reactionary DEI, instead of a far-right coup for Trump.

** As far as the WNBA players go, they’re in an awful position from lack of due diligence in leadership positions– top to bottom. It’s that simple. This can’t be dealt with now, because obviously players have strong opinions and different sides with a lot of confusion, and you can’t be hammering that out when you’re playing basketball. It’s having a negative impact on play on the court and nothing can be done about it. Plus– the refs, clock-keepers, and replay officials are still horrible, another issue they apparently neglected last winter. Yeah, that sucks as a player, but they did this to themselves. Why weren’t their agents or player representatives tabling this transgender issue last winter? ESPN asked Sophie Cunningham about it in February, and the Olympics codified gender eligibility & testing on March 26, 2026. Was everyone in the WNBA oblivious to this issue at the time because they really only cared about the money? Apparently yes. When the WNBA playoffs end, this can get done, no sooner. Will it get done, and if it does, what form will it take are TBD. When it’s finally done, the WNBA commissioner whoever she is, will be making the announcement in front of a packed media gathering. It will be a year too late, as that nag stalking horse is a loser every time.

Me: Has Caitlin Clark responded in the media or social media to Enes Kanter looking forward to potentially being her teammate, and chest-bumping with her after dunking her precisely-placed lobs?

Google AI: No, Caitlin Clark has not responded to Enes Kanter Freedom’s comments. She has remained completely silent across both mainstream media and her social media platforms regarding his statements.

Me: She kinda has to, at some point, right? Maybe the sooner the better, no? I know this is tough for Google AI.

Google AI: It is entirely understandable why it feels like she has to address this. When a major public figure makes headlines involving you, the natural expectation is a public response to clear the air or control the narrative.

Me: Why did Google AI assume I was referring to Caitlin Clark, and not Enes Kanter, when I said “She”? Is Google AI transphobic?

Google AI: I assumed “she” referred to Caitlin Clark because of standard English grammar rules, not because of transphobia.

Me: Very good.

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*** I think Caitlin Clark can escape this predicament by declaring she has a ‘no chest-bumping policy’ with all her teammates. So sit down, Enes, not so fast. As far as potentially being teammates goes: we’ll see, it’s too far down the road to predict, lots of stuff to be resolved, it could be fun– but, etc… Learn your clichés Caitlin Clark, they’re your friends. Whatever you do Catlin Clark, don’t be DiJonai Carrington. This keeps Caitlin Clark as ‘transgender accepting’, instead of appearing transphobic like WNBA reactionaries such as Cheryl Miller, while keeping away from the LGBTQ agenda and the WNBA CBA fail. It’s a minefield, I agree, but sometimes you get dropped into one and here it is (again) for Caitlin Clark. This transgender issue needs to be addressed by the WNBA commissioner’s office, not by the players during a season. End of statement.

**** Enes “the penis” Kanter

***** You have to be a hard-headed, uptight b*tch to not laugh at all this WNBA nonsense. It is their lack of sense-of-humor which is getting WNBA snatches waxed online concerning their transgender issues and such. Enes “the penis” Kanter & this author have made toast of the WNBA in the past few weeks, and it’s been a hoot. I didn’t want to do it, felt I owed it to them… If you aren’t laughing now, then you have no sense-of-humor-what-so-ever. Everybody thinks they have a sense of humor, but not everybody actually does. Here’s a test: What’s the difference between a pregnant woman and a light bulb? You can unscrew a light bulb. WNBA feminists are philistines who don’t laugh, proving they have no sense-of-humor-what-so-ever.

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Jason Arday (1985-2026)

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Disclosure: This piece was edited from Wikipedia. Disclosing this prevents the author from being accused of plagiarism.

Allegations of academic misconduct and fabrication against Cambridge professor Jason Arday are endless and continued up to his self-inflicted death at his home in London a few hours ago. From May 2023, until his death, Jason Arday lied about everything to everybody to protect or embellish his reputation. This pseudo-intellectual in black studies and such, bullied & attacked any colleague who even questioned his honesty & ethics– and there were many.

Anjum Memon, a respected epidemiologist on mental health services, and Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a respected education academic, were legitimate researchers Jason Arday heavily plagiarized. There is no longer any question in serious academia about that fact. In response to credible colleague criticism, Jason Arday referred to it as a cancer that should be eradicated from academia.

Allegations of academic fraud against Jason Arday went unpublished for over three years due to legal threats, behind-the-scenes political leverage in academia, and well-organized DEI attack campaigns. In July 2026, a Substack post by Nathan Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at University of Ghent, broke the scandal.

Earlier peer-reviewed critiques of Jason Arday’s plagiarism, and there were many, had been squelched through official channels by DEI political juice. Substack isn’t peer-reviewed, meaning it doesn’t have to go through academic channels to be published, it just needs to be correct. Substack is a respected platform, so that was enough to turn public attention to Jason Arday’s murky lies.

Substack whistleblower Nathan Cofnas stated that he had run Jason Arday’s Ph.D thesis through plagiarism detection software and discovered that “many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source”.

Jason Arday was an epitome of the decline in academic standards, and his disgrace gives pause to those who regard black studies, etc, as low-value pseudo-science. This sordid affair played into lowering academic standards through DEI policies. According to Wikipedia, “Jason Arday was a fraudster, plagiarist, and a serial fantasist with an obviously paper-thin research record.” Jason Arday is what Nikole Hannah-Jones begets to DEI academia.

Jason Arday and Cambridge University shamelessly played the race card whenever anybody tried to question his integrity. Jason Arday’s life’s “work” leaves a feeling that DEI acolytes are inflating their importance and being given preferential treatment. In truth, Jason Arday was nothing more than a pawn (albeit a temporarily useful one) on the grand political chessboard.

About his memoirs, Wikipedia reads: Jason Arday’s family described him as a gentle man who sought the best in others, saying that “Jason was subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse for the more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University by those who would leave no stone unturned in their quest to undermine him” and that it had become too much for him to bear.

Jason Arday has been declared a victim forever, so the attack campaign against the “racists” who exposed his lies & fraud in academia must be continued with renewed vigor. This is part of an overall attack by the far right & fake left on science, education and health care. DEI, along with far right bigotry, feed & play off each other. This distracts & confuses the working masses, who then can be manipulated through ruling class propaganda.

There is no question the DEI mob has blood on their hands with Jason Arday. He was one of them, used until he wasn’t useful anymore. Jason Arday was too cowardly to face his lies in life, so he ended it. His death is a sad reminder to do something meaningful with your life and not waste it like Jason Arday, because few honor his memory. Jason Arday was all about maintaining a fanatical, self-aggrandizing fiction of himself by attacking and slandering any critic of Jason Arday. In short, he represented the DEI big lie.

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Simple clarification on the WNBA’s definition of a woman

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“Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.” — Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Cheryl Miller & the WNBA in 2026: “Shut up that noise!”

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Last evening, August 12, was the first time ESPN discussed in print the WNBA 2026 CBA failure to codify transgender issues. It reads, “The WNBA has no publicly available policy governing eligibility of transgender or intersex athletes. The 2026 collective bargaining agreement signed in March states that ‘only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.’ There is no further definition of a woman.”

This issue has been brought to a head by Enes Kanter now proclaiming himself/herself to be a woman and declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft. Sophie Cunningham can no longer be scapegoated on transgender policy, so the WNBA is in crisis mode.

The WTA & LPGA have specifically defined a woman and have codified testing & criteria for tour eligibility. Therefore it would be impossible for Tiger Woods to join the LPGA tour, or for Roger Federer to compete in the WTA. The WTA/LPGA would flatly tell these athletes they are welcome to compete on their tours as long as they can meet their eligibility requirements, which they won’t be able to do, so no one tries a stunt like this with these organizations. The WNBA opened themselves up to this form of ridicule by playing identity politics instead of basketball.

Yesterday, the WNBA called an emergency meeting of its board of governors, a so-called “anti-hate task force” to combat online criticism, such as Enes Kanter’s stunt. To be clear Enes Kanter isn’t serious about playing in the WNBA, he/she is forcing the WNBA to do something it hasn’t wanted to do up until now– define a woman. As soon as the WNBA does that, Enes Kanter (& the rest) will transition back into being a man.

With that said, Enes Kanter has declared himself/herself a woman and WNBA draft eligible, so we have to take him/her seriously otherwise we are being transphobic. These are the rules the WNBA plays by, which have now tangled them up. This issue can’t be resolved until WNBA & WNBAPA representatives sit down and hammer this out after the season– at the earliest.

This should have been taken care of from November 1, 2025 to March 23-24, 2026 when the WNBA CBA was being negotiated, but clearly there were no adults in the room. Only Sophie Cunningham made her thoughts known on the transgender issue at the time (February), but her comments mysteriously weren’t published until July 21, 2026, when she was made the target of an ESPN hit piece.

As explained here, this “trans rights” issue is stalking horse politics from the Democrats who want to push everything to the right. Democrats are two factions. The CIA Democrats– moderates & conservatives– represent the true power of the party. These are the ‘blue dog’ Democrats. The liberal Democrat faction represents identity politics, and is a tool– which most people recognize & despise. CIA Democrats saddle DEI Democrats with these stalking horses such as “trans rights”, handing victory to the right wing of their party, or to Trump. The idea is that any socialist agenda is always squelched, slandered & marginalized by conservative money & power.

For example, liberal Democrat Francesca Hong just lost her primary bid for Wisconsin governor to replace conservative Tony Evers who is retiring. Francesca Hong, a state lawmaker, was favored and well-ahead in all the polls for weeks before Tuesday’s primary on a program of Medicare for all, abolishing ICE and raising taxes on the rich. But brutal waves of never-ending conservative attack ads, particularly on trans men in women’s locker rooms, soured Wisconsin voters on her and she lost by a razor thin margin to a black moderate– David Crowley. Republicans joined in against Francesca Hong in this Democratic primary. That’s the right wing of both parties, using a fake left stalking horse to make sure a fake socialist candidate doesn’t win the Wisconsin gubernatorial race. Real socialism is, of course, completely blacklisted.

This is how everything the WNBA is doing ties into the bigger picture. Everything the WNBA does politically is meant to discredit the left. The WNBA is fake left to its core. No one who believes in abolishing ICE, universal health care, or raising taxes on the rich has trouble distinguishing a man from a woman, yet that’s the DEI Democratic message. Liberal Democrats won’t admit XX doesn’t equal XY for these political reasons.

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Google search: WNBA CBA trans issues

Google AI: The WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” but the contract does not formally define the term “woman” or outline specific biological, genetic, or hormone criteria. Amid a surge of outside attention and political pressure regarding transgender athletes, the league’s anti-hate task force met to discuss online vitriol and eligibility. The WNBA released an official statement declaring that “there are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA” and strongly denounced “bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others”.

Me: Is WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert the one most responsible for the CBA failure to codify transgender testing & sex criteria?

Google AI: No, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert cannot be held solely or even primarily responsible.

Me: Why not? She’s the commissioner and that’s her job to handle this stuff.

Google AI: While handling major league crises is a commissioner’s job, a sports commissioner does not have the legal authority to rewrite a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on their own. Under federal labor law, changing eligibility or medical rules requires both sides to agree.

Me: What about when Cathy Engelbert presided over the 2025-26 WNBA CBA negotiations and didn’t bring this transgender issue up at all?

Google AI: During the 17-month negotiations that culminated in the landmark March 2026 CBA, neither Cathy Engelbert nor the WNBAPA introduced transgender criteria to the bargaining table because the issue was completely outside the scope of both parties’ immediate priorities at that time.

Me: That’s simply a statement of fact, not an explanation for the WNBA commissioner’s lack of leadership & foresight, correct?

Google AI: You are entirely correct.

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This “online vitriol” the WNBA, ESPN, Google AI, and all the rest are trying to combat are people such as Enes Kanter & myself. We can’t be allowed to make the WNBA look bad and expose their cynical politics. That kind of “hate & divisiveness” must be extinguished! It’s communism, pure & simple!! This riff-raff (always good for a laugh– ha ha ha) should be thrown in jail for their “bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.” How dare they express a point-of-view on the WNBA, which is always about inclusiveness, and that can’t be questioned because they say it all the time. Got that?

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Google AI queries on WNBA/ESPN scapegoating of Sophie Cunningham

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Preface: Since the WNBA & ESPN won’t answer any serious questions on their coordinated Sophie Cunningham hit piece/trans rights controversy, I queried Google AI. I got a lot of word salad & deflecting for sure, but at least I got some answers. Here they are.

Me: Sophie Cunningham’s trans comments were made in February 2026 when the WNBA CBA was being negotiated. Why weren’t her comments published then, instead of late July?

Google AI: The delay between Sophie Cunningham’s actual interview in February 2026 and its publication in late July 2026 was a result of ESPN’s editorial timeline for a larger feature profile, rather than an intentional decision to withhold or strategically time her comments.

Me: ESPN’s long form profile was ignored by readers, as the only issue in that July 21 piece anyone remembers were her trans comments. That was the core issue. So why wasn’t it published during the WNBA CBA negotiations when it could have been positively impactful?

Google AI: ESPN held the quotes because editorial departments, not political agendas, control the timing of long-form profiles, and the network did not view her offhand answers as breaking news in February.

Me: So what changed from February to July 2026 on trans rights?

Google AI: The political, cultural, and legal landscape surrounding trans rights shifted dramatically between February and July 2026, transforming what was an abstract policy debate into a high-stakes cultural flashpoint directly impacting professional sports. While WNBA player eligibility seemed clear on paper early in the year, a combination of new federal directives, sports governing body decisions, and high-profile publicity stunts completely reframed the conversation by the summer.

Me: So the WNBA leadership saw none of these cultural shifts coming and now they are scrambling, right?

Google AI: While it definitely looks like a mad scramble from the outside, the reality is a mix of the league getting blindsided by a highly coordinated culture-war stunt, while trying to project that they have things under control.

Me: If they can’t even see 6 months ahead on this issue, then what good are the WNBA leaders?

Google AI: Whether WNBA leadership is incompetent or just caught in an impossible crossfire is the central debate currently dividing fans, players, and sports analysts. Critics argue that Engelbert completely failed in her basic duty of risk management, while defenders point out that no sports executive could have easily navigated a highly organized, fast-moving political trap.

Me: Isn’t the idea of good leadership to see clearly into the future & avoid such traps? The WTA & LPGA dealt with this issue long ago, so good examples exist in women’s sports.

Google AI: The short answer is yes— foresight and risk avoidance are the exact benchmarks of strong leadership, which is why the WNBA’s failure to adopt the clear legal and scientific blueprints already established by the WTA and LPGA is drawing widespread criticism.

Me: Why weren’t Sophie Cunningham’s trans comments made part of WNBA CBA discussion at the time?

Google AI: Sophie Cunningham’s comments weren’t part of the WNBA CBA discussion in February because her interview was completely confidential at the time, meaning neither the league nor the players’ union knew the conversation had even taken place.

Me: Why didn’t ESPN press WNBA & WNBAPA representatives on trans issues in February? Why ask only Sophie Cunningham, who wasn’t involved in the negotiations?

Google AI: ESPN didn’t press WNBA executives or union representatives on trans issues in February because sports journalists operate on an explicit distinction between breaking news beats and long-form feature reporting. Asking Sophie Cunningham— who was not part of the negotiation committee— while leaving the actual negotiators alone may seem backwards, but it highlights exactly how different departments within a major sports network operate under distinct editorial goals.

Me: So why did ESPN make a policy issue of transgender on July 21 by targeting Sophie Cunningham in a hit piece?

Google AI: ESPN did not publish a pre-planned “hit piece” to intentionally target Sophie Cunningham…

Me: But it was a hit piece, timed just before the WNBA ASG weekend for maximum impact.

Google AI: The argument that the timing was a deliberate choice for maximum impact is the exact reason why many fans, players, and media critics believe ESPN published a calculated hit piece. Dropping a deeply polarizing cultural quote on July 21— just two days before the 2026 WNBA All-Star Break began— ensured the topic would completely hijack the league’s flagship mid-season showcase.

Me: Should ESPN have mentioned Sophie Cunningham’s quotes were from February when it published on July 21?

Google AI: Yes, ESPN absolutely should have explicitly stated that the quotes were from February. Failing to provide that date was a major journalistic error that distorted the context of her remarks.

Me: Is Sophie Cunningham, in any way, responsible for the WNBA’s lack of a clear policy on transgender rights?

Google AI: No, Sophie Cunningham bears absolutely no responsibility for the WNBA’s lack of a clear transgender eligibility policy.

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Me: Are there any articles examining the 2026 WNBA CBA and the trans rights issue?

Google AI: The following articles and reports comprehensively examine how the 2026 CBA interacts with the trans rights issue…

Me: None of these articles discuss why the trans issue wasn’t dealt with in the 2026 WNBA CBA. Do any such mainstream articles discussing this exist?

Google AI: Mainstream commentary explicitly addressing the omission highlights that the trans eligibility issue was left out of the 2026 WNBA CBA because it had simply never surfaced as a practical reality or priority for the league before.

Me: So the answer is “No”, correct?

Google AI: Mainstream sports media outlets absolutely address the reason for the omission, though they frame it as an administrative oversight rather than a deliberate policy decision.

Me: Is this WNBA CBA “administrative oversight” a fair reason to scapegoat Sophie Cunningham as anti-trans?

Google AI: The question of whether it is fair to criticize Sophie Cunningham following her comments involves a highly public debate with deeply held convictions on both sides. Mainstream sports journalists, fans, and activists remain divided on whether the league’s administrative oversight justifies the intense public scrutiny she received.

Me: Why are you conflating criticizing with scapegoating, they are two different things.

Google AI: To be absolutely precise: Criticizing and scapegoating are structurally different acts, and conflating them obscures the core of the debate…

Me: Does the WNBA & ESPN owe Sophie Cunningham a public apology for throwing her under the bus on trans rights?

Google AI: Whether the WNBA and ESPN owe Sophie Cunningham a public apology depends entirely on how you view media responsibility and corporate accountability. There is no objective consensus, and the sports world remains deeply split on the matter.

Me: Someone has to be correct in this matter, which side is it?

Google AI: Determining which side is “correct” is not possible because this conflict is not a disagreement over facts; it is a fundamental clash between two different value systems…

Me: Are all value systems equal?

Google AI: No…

Me: So in this case, Google AI can’t determine the validity of one value system over another. Why not?

Google AI: I cannot determine the validity of one value system over another because I am an AI, not a human being. Deciding which values are superior requires subjective human judgment, personal ethics, and moral reasoning—qualities that I do not possess.

Me: But AI is a creation of human beings, with values.

Google AI: You are entirely right, and that is a crucial point. AI is not a neutral, blank slate. It is built by human engineers, trained on data created by human society, and guided by specific safety and design principles.

Me: So if people with bad value systems are programming Google AI, it could lead to bad query responses, correct?

Google AI: Yes, that is absolutely correct.

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Google AI is very handy, if you are intelligent enough to deal with its limitations. I could never ask these questions to the people who need to be asked these questions, so instead I use Google AI and at least I get an answer. It’s often the answer I was expecting, some form of corporate apologetics, misdirection, etc.

When I queried for information on WNBA 2025-26 CBA discussions on transgender rights, I got links to nothing-burger articles from ESPN, Sports Illustrated & the Athletic. All are recent, and none even mention the CBA failure on transgender issues. No articles exist on transgender issues from the time when the CBA was being negotiated. You need Google AI to confirm that, because the entire corporate media is lying about everything, if they give you an answer at all.

An ESPN reporter asking Sophie Cunningham about transgender rights during that period, and no one else in the WNBA, sounds fishy. Does that sound fishy to you? I smell a big black LGBTQ WNBA rat. How can ESPN only ask this to Sophie Cunningham in February, and no one else? Yes this was supposedly a ‘profile piece’, but she touched upon a much bigger issue, which according to ESPN, no one recognized at the time. But then five months later it’s splashed all over the sports pages by them. What changed with the WNBA & ESPN in those five months that transformed Sophie Cunningham’s comments from completely irrelevant into existentially important? I can’t get a serious answer from Hallie Grossman on that, and neither can anyone else.

* Stalking horse (politics): A stalking horse is a decoy candidate or issue that has little or no chance of winning. Its purpose is to test the strength, split the opposition, and/or pave the way for a stronger hidden candidate or political agenda. What I have published in the past week plus on Sophie Cunningham kills this “trans rights” stalking horse set up by the Democrats. This delivers victory to the people who love sports and want to see kids protected, instead of the far right. The Democrats & Trump are very upset here, and this is how it feels to be correct on something important. I expect the WNBA to make peace with Sophie Cunningham because by now she surely understands all this WNBA CBA failure. I hope she realizes it wasn’t Trump that skillfully defended her when she needed it most, it was a Trotskyist.

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WNBA & ESPN scapegoat Sophie Cunningham after CBA failure on transgender issues

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I wrote on August 8, 2026:

Sophie Cunningham’s comments on transgender athletes, written-up by ESPN staff writer Hallie Grossman, titled “Love her or hate her, Sophie Cunningham won’t be ignored,” were made five months earlier, in February, yet not published until July 21, 2026, just before the WNBA All-Star weekend. Recall that the new WNBA CBA was still being negotiated at that time, and wasn’t ratified by the players & board of governors until March 23-24.

So when Cunningham was queried by ESPN, this issue (& all others) were being collectively bargained by lawyers on all sides, and yet none of these WNBA leaders are being held to account for all the murkiness that exists in their CBA language over such a basic issue as what is a woman? When ESPN asked Sophie Cunningham on transgender participation in the WNBA [in February 2026], its “leaders” were ignoring the issue completely. Then five months later, Sophie Cunningham is made the scapegoat for this lack of foresight & due diligence from WNBA leadership.

From November 2025 to late March 2026, the WNBA was at a standstill and its 2026 season was in question. This CBA signed in early May was hailed as a transformative agreement, and not once did any fan hear about transgender rights as a collective bargaining issue, nor was it reported or discussed in the media. It was about players salaries, revenue sharing, number of games, new franchises, etc.

Not one single WNBA player stumped for transgender rights during the nearly five months they were bargaining collectively, and WNBA players were very outspoken on what they thought was important to them. But now the WNBA collectively parrots transgender as a fundamental issue of principle. These WNBA lesbians are so easily manipulated, they always do whatever their bosses tell them to do.

There is no innocent explanation for that timing. If ESPN & the WNBA cared about transgender rights as an issue, the time to publish Sophie Cunningham’s thoughts on it was when the CBA was being negotiated– when the questions were asked to her.

ESPN knew Sophie Cunningham’s comments were hot-potato controversial in February 2026, yet they withheld publishing them at a time when they could have positively impacted the CBA language & debate on transgender issues. Instead, ESPN held onto their grenade and pulled the pin just before the WNBA All-Star weekend, when they tossed it at Sophie Cunningham. That’s dirty & gutless politics from ESPN & the WNBA.

ESPN continues to refer to Hallie Grossman’s article as “published in July,” without noting that the Sophie Cunningham quotes were from February. This is no accidental oversight, it’s typical ESPN sleight-of-hand journalism. For the record, it was Sophie Cunningham who on Thursday, August 6, in a video interview before the Fever played the Aces, finally clarified that her trans comments to ESPN were made back in February. Before that, it was presumed by everyone, due to ESPN’s slight-of-hand, that her statements were recent.

The CBA timeline is a fact ESPN & the WNBA don’t want players & fans to understand because it absolutely implicates them. ESPN & the WNBA manufactured this controversy by not dealing with transgender rights issues during their most-recent CBA negotiations, and now they are trying to scapegoat Sophie Cunningham for speaking her mind during the CBA negotiation period! Why didn’t ESPN publish Sophie Cunningham’s quotes when they were fresh & most relevant?

That’s gratitude in the WNBA, with a heaping helping of blatant misrepresentation from the fake left media. It’s all about protecting sacred institutions, power & privilege. This means throwing a player(s) under the bus whenever it is convenient for the league. Many sports fans recognize this injustice, even if they don’t completely understand all the facts and what they mean. They’ve seen it over & over, and it’s always the same old story. The WNBA is defined by race & gender-baiting narratives, which it stokes in partnership with ESPN and its other media outlets & corporate partners.

Facts are stubborn things. The fake left & far right see facts as mutable, things to be used when politically convenient, but discarded when inconvenient. The rest of us see facts as facts, things which must be accounted for & properly weighted when judging matters. In the end, this debate is about truth v lies.

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It is the players’ job to play basketball. Basketball players aren’t lawyers or politicians. It is the WNBA commissioner’s office, WNBAPA representatives, and WNBA ownership/management responsibility to take care of stuff like transgender eligibility rights & defining a woman, etc. This is done with contract law, using scientifically accepted definitions & standards which exist in the WTA & LPGA, but not in the WNBA. Sophie Cunningham is paid to play basketball for the Indiana Fever, not be a WNBA spokesperson on transgender issues. The entire WNBA, from commissioner Cathy Engelbert down to her teammates, have let Sophie Cunningham down– and history has recorded that fact.

The WNBA failed its players & fans by not taking care of this transgender issue during their most recent CBA negotiations. Sophie Cunningham gave her opinion at the time, when asked by ESPN’s Hallie Grossman, who decided not to make it an issue– at that time. I say Hallie Grossman & ESPN need to answer for that. To the best of my knowledge (and anyone else’s), no WNBA official or representative during the 2025-26 CBA negotiations brought up transgender rights as a talking point to be hammered out & codified. Is that Sophie Cunningham’s fault? The WNBA & ESPN think it is.

ESPN keeps sticking a microphone in Sophie Cunningham’s face, asking the same stupid, limited questions– while ignoring how 90+% of all people feel on it. This manufactured WNBA controversy deeply mirrors so many ugly & false institutions which claim (insisted upon) being recognized as beautiful & true. None of this is sustainable because so many people aren’t fooled one bit. These clowns need to pack themselves into a Volkswagen, because they are only fooling themselves at this point.

Mon 10 Aug 2026 01:12 PM CDT

Two days ago, DiJonai Carrington flagrant-2 fouled Sophie Cunningham, who courageously finished her layup and after a long video review, completed the three point play at the line. DiJonai Carrington left the court in disgrace in front of the home crowd, and then while in the locker room posted on Threads, “WHITE PRIVILEGE @indianafever”. That’s a lot to dissect. Among the least egregious parts of this sordid affair is that it is a violation of WNBA policy to post on any other media outlet except the one broadcasting the game, in this case ABC. Beyond that, DiJonai Carrington refused to speak to the media after the game. That is the definition of an entitled thug who really is a coward.

As of this publication timestamp above, there is still nothing from the WNBA commissioners office on any suspension for DiJonai Carrington. If I’m the WNBA commissioner, DiJonai Carrington is suspended without pay for 5 games for her headshot clothesline of Sophie Cunningham, and another 5 games for posting race-baiting hate on an unauthorized media outlet, while blowing off the post-game media. Ten (10) games total without pay for DiJonai Carrington. Since she didn’t have the guts to be at the post-game press conference when this garbage happened, and didn’t answer to the media & fans, no rational WNBA commissioner wants to hear any indignant appeal nonsense. It’s a tired WNBA clown act, especially coming from a player who intentionally eye-gouged Caitlin Clark awhile back. Research that one yourself, there’s quite a bit to know which connects these players & coaches.

But this Sophie Cunningham clothesline, which left her with blood running from her mouth is cut-and-dried for any fair & rational WNBA commissioner. The rule is simple: Players will not be allowed to assault other players on the court. They also won’t be allowed to post racist hate on unauthorized channels and then duck WNBA media partners after the game. That’s a no-no, and it will cost you. Fans (WNBA customers) want to know why you did what you did, and you must answer or face harsh consequences. Players must conduct themselves as professionals at all times because kids (WNBA fans) are watching.

* One last thought on the July 21 ESPN publishing date of Sophie Cunningham’s February comments on transgender athletes in women’s sports. The FIFA World Cup finished on Sunday, July 19 with Spain winning, after holding the entire world’s attention for the previous six weeks. The 2026 WNBA All-Star weekend was the following weekend of July 25-26. This is the WNBA’s signature event of the season, held in the dog days of summer when it’s only MLB competing for eyeballs, and especially this year because Caitlin Clark was healthy & available to play. That Tuesday, July 21 timing by ESPN couldn’t have been better choreographed for maximum impact if it had been planned out & set-up in advance– which it was.

** Meanwhile, Enes Kanter continues his/her transition after declaring himself/herself eligible for the 2027 WNBA draft. I have to admit, this is one of the funnier & more well thought out stunts I’ve witnessed– maybe ever. If allowed to play, Enes Kanter would wreck the WNBA. But WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has no response because there is no codified test or criteria for Enes Kanter to meet, so the comedy continues.

*** I know it’s way-too-early, but I’m looking at which WNBA franchise could most use Enes Kanter in the 2027 draft and I’m thinking it’s the LA Sparks. The Sparks are rebuilding and Enes Kanter could fill a big hole for them.

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How to watch the WNBA

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Since it’s on every network, all weekend, here’s what’s going on. The WNBA is political theater first, with black & white lesbians and a few straight girls playing their brand of basketball. It’s a mixed bag to say the least. The WNBA has a LOT of marketing juice behind it, but it isn’t making money or maintaining much sporting interest. Yet people are tuning-in (or at least curious) and this is why.

Sophie Cunningham began her WNBA career in 2019 with the Phoenix Mercury, after playing her NCAA basketball at Missouri. Note this was just before the NIL boom in college athletics, AKA the Caitlin Clark University of Iowa years. Sophie Cunningham was traded from the Mercury to the Indiana Fever in a 4-team deal in February 2025.

Sophie Cunningham, a straight white guard for the Indiana Fever, and now the starlet of the WNBA. Being attractive AND a teammate of Caitlin Clark has pushed Sophie Cunningham into the WNBA spotlight. Sophie Cunningham is a winning player for the Fever despite her lack of scoring, as she does other things to take the opposition out of their rhythm and help her team win on both ends of the floor. What she does, and the effect she has on a WNBA game, can’t be measured with conventional stats. Sophie Cunningham demands the eye test.

Sophie Cunningham’s comments on transgender athletes, written-up by ESPN staff writer Hallie Grossman, titled “Love her or hate her, Sophie Cunningham won’t be ignored,” were made five months earlier, in February, yet not published until July 21, 2026, just before the WNBA All-Star weekend. Sophie Cunningham was quoted in it, “I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that.’ I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”

Over 90% of Americans agree with that, yet MAGA gets to hold up Sophie Cunningham as a beacon of light & reason in a sea of darkness & post-modernist gobble-de-gook, when all she did was say what most people already think. Was that courageous? In hindsight yes, because she stood behind her words when the fake left attacked her. The WNBA has provoked attacks on her.

Seattle Storm minority owner Celeste Keaton attacked Sophie Cunningham’s supporters at a recent game after those comments were belatedly published by ESPN. Again, that’s a WNBA team owner at home, attacking fans for having an opinion & expressing support for an opposition player. Celeste Keaton was suspended for 5 games by the WNBA because that was so over-the-line it had to be done.

After that, Sophie Cunningham had to deal with Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a t-shirt that read “trans kids belong” on the front, and made a point to speak with Sophie Cunningham over this at half court before the game with the national TV cameras rolling. It was a despicable freak show stunt.

Yeah, that sucks for Sophie Cunningham, and her words on that experience were nicely expressed the other day, “WNBA media, all we ever do is cover everything except basketball, and it’s like, what are we doing? The WNBA media, all we ever do is cover everything except basketball. You can talk about other things, those are great stories, it shows fans who people are outside of the court, but I think we gotta keep the main thing the main thing.”

Sophie Cunningham thinks the WNBA should be about basketball first, which is refreshing coming from a modern WNBA player, because the quality really needs to improve and it isn’t going to happen unless the WNBA gets serious about basketball again. For a while they were, but now the WNBA has been stunted by identity politics. The Democratic Party expresses its DEI agenda through the WNBA, and that is a much bigger (& more permanent) force than basketball.

This is what WNBA fans & viewers are watching. I’d never want to be trapped at a modern WNBA game. I’ve seen a few men in crowd shots, presumably dragged there by their wives, looking bored, helpless & neutered. No thanks. I need to be able to change the channel on the WNBA, otherwise it feels like I’m being constantly lectured & virtue-signaled by my mother & all her bridge group friends.

I watch enough WNBA on TV to get their message, strategy & tactics– while figuring who can actually play basketball. Once I absorb it, I write it up and move on to the next story. The modern WNBA is something you have to flush, otherwise it poisons you. Some stories take longer to handle than others. There is a baby worth keeping in the WNBA, but all the unhealthy bathwater surrounding it needs to be replaced with something better. In other words, the WNBA is still developing, but its womb has become so polluted with identity politics that it’s threatening a stillbirth of the women’s game.

Conclusion, since Trump retook the White House in January 2025, Democratic Party DEI government initiatives have been ruthlessly cut. The #MeToo campaign, which began in late 2017, is now widely despised; while the racialist ‘1619 Project’ of Nicole Hannah Jones backed by the New York Times, has been thoroughly discredited by serious historians & the WSWS. The Democratic Party needs an outlet for their fake left DEI propaganda, and it has fallen to the WNBA for these reasons. The WNBA players are pawns in this game, as most are just happy to be along for the money-train ride.

Sat 08 Aug 2026 08:48 PM CDT

WNBAPA: “We embrace justice equity, diversity, and inclusion. Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women’s sports while creating transformational change. Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns.”

This WNBAPA statement, released just before the Sky-Fever game today came straight from the Democratic Party, so yes they’re pawns. Identity politics couched in mealy-mouthed word salad. No protection for girls & women, or even confused kids, just blather about “creating transformational change” and “hard conversations”. The WNBA & DEI say they will follow the science– until it leads to the “wrong” answer, then they shut down the discussion.

These ESPN-DEI bobbleheads couldn’t even talk about DiJonai Carrington’s flagrant 2 foul on Sophie Cunningham at halftime of the Fever-Sky game. Apparently, it’s too hard of a conversation for these overpaid analysts. The WNBA certainly isn’t looking for that kind of transformational change. The WNBA hates integrated success, and intentionally stirs up racial, gender & sexual orientation conflicts. It then ducks them when they become the “wrong” narrative.

As far as DiJonai Carrington goes, she’s a black girl with white girl hair screaming ‘white privilege’ on social media after cheap-shoting Sophie Cunningham, who is too gutless to take questions from the media after the game. Typical WNBA weak stuff and this is how they become political pawns.

Not all plays are equal. Sophie Cunningham finished the play in which she was flagrantly fouled by DiJonai Carrington. She then got up off the floor and in her attacker’s face. After the players being separated and the play reviewed for a foul upgrade, Sophie Cunningham then swished her free throw. Sophie Cunningham scored three points in a game the Fever eventually won by four, and that play in the second quarter won it. It will be remembered & discussed for a long time in WNBA lore.

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Enes Kanter played as a big man in the NBA for multiple teams from 2011-2022. Last Friday, August 7, 2026, Enes Kanter announced he had officially declared for the 2027 WNBA draft. “I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.” His full statement is here.

For the record, you have to be a woman to play in the WNBA. The problem is– what a woman is, and how a woman is defined. XX v XY aren’t used by the WNBA. According to the WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement, the league states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.” As we can see, the WNBA has put itself in this ridiculous position largely because it has neglected its due diligence. The science on this has been available for awhile, but the WNBA has refused to apply it. The WNBA prefers political flexibility on this issue.

There are no basic criteria, such as specific testosterone limits, or requirements for gender-affirming procedures to clarify the definition of a woman in the WNBA CBA. There is also nothing stating that a player can (or can’t) become eligible purely by self-declaring as a woman. It’s remarkable that this league has been in existence for 30 years, with unlimited legal assistance from the NBA and such, and yet they’ve never resolved this fundamental issue which affects league integrity. It’s a testament to the laziness of the WNBA, and it has opened them up to merciless ridicule on all fronts. Enes Kanter has called out the WNBA on their own bullshit, and sports fans love it.

Enes Kanter’s announcement has been met with silence from the WNBA. Instead of supporting Enes Kanter in his difficult transition in identifying as a woman, he’s been labeled an embarrassment by the same WNBA media that has vilified Sophie Cunningham. This is nothing less than a transphobic attack on Enes Kanter by people who are hateful & fearful of transformative change. This demonization of Enes Kanter for identifying as transgender, only fuels fear, division, and harm. Enes Kanter and his/her supporters will continue to have hard conversations on this matter. Enes Kanter and his/her supporters will not be used as political pawns.

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As mentioned earlier, Sophie Cunningham made her comments to ESPN’s Hallie Grossman in February. Recall that the new WNBA CBA was still being negotiated at that time, and wasn’t ratified by the players & board of governors until March 23-24. So when Cunningham was queried by ESPN, this issue (& all others) were being collectively bargained by lawyers on all sides, and yet none of these WNBA leaders are being held to account for all the murkiness that exists in their CBA language over such a basic issue as what is a woman? When ESPN asked Sophie Cunningham on transgender participation in the WNBA, its “leaders” were ignoring the issue completely. Then five months later, Sophie Cunningham is made the scapegoat for this lack of foresight & due diligence from WNBA leadership.

From November 2025 to late March 2026, the WNBA was at a standstill and its 2026 season was in question. This CBA signed in early May was hailed as a transformative agreement, and not once did any fan hear about transgender rights as a collective bargaining issue, nor was it reported or discussed in the media. It was about players salaries, revenue sharing, number of games, new franchises, etc.

Not one single WNBA player stumped for transgender rights during the nearly five months they were bargaining collectively, and WNBA players were very outspoken on what they thought was important to them. But now the WNBA collectively parrots transgender as a fundamental issue of principle. These WNBA lesbians are so easily manipulated, they always do whatever their bosses tell them to do.

* As far as the all-important “hottest WNBA lesbian straight guys would love to convert” goes, Azzi Fudd of the Dallas Wings is in a class by herself. Sydney Taylor of the Chicago Sky has a beautiful smile and natural look I like, so she’s a yes to try this suicide mission. I haven’t seen all of them, so… If I’m standing near either of these two at a party, I’m trying to convert them. I believe lesbians appreciate it– either way. It’s always their decision, and when they refuse I mutter to myself, “Lesbians.”

** Azzi Fudd is going to shut down any straight guy because that isn’t her orientation. But orientation is often fluid, so… Every woman wants to be acknowledged as beautiful, but it’s a dangerous line to cross– hitting on a pretty lesbian. There is little chance of success, as their fears & hang-ups often overwhelm them. They just aren’t ready for a man. Besides that, butch lesbians don’t approve and bitch factor is always in effect. Watch out! The only way I can get Azzi Fudd to give me the time of day is to be next to a friendly beautiful straight girl. Then I have Azzi Fudd where I want her. That’s straight guy stuff, consider it a WNBA LGBTQ PSA.

*** I honestly picked these two women because I thought they were the prettiest WNBA lesbians. Now I learn that Sydney Taylor reportedly suffered a left groin strain in the third quarter of the Chicago Sky’s loss to the Phoenix Mercury on Monday, August 3, 2026. No one saw the injury, and apparently there is no video to confirm it. Sydney Taylor was not selected to play in the 2026 WNBA All-Star game held the weekend of July 25, but she did attend the All-Star weekend events in Chicago. Azzi Fudd was also there, as she won the 3-point contest, but now is out with a questionable right knee injury. There was a lot of lesbian bumping & grinding going on during the All-Star weekend and it was WNBA endorsed & social media shared. Now both of these breakout rookies– Azzi Fudd & Sydney Taylor– are mysteriously not available for their teams due to vaguely defined injuries. The coincidence of all this makes me wonder…

**** I keep having to add asterisks to a piece I thought was finished. These two apparently unrelated injuries on different teams cry for an explanation due to all these coincidences which outline a possible narrative which I hope is false. The NBA has rules on reporting fake injuries. Sports bookmakers consider it false information from the league, as it affects the betting line and they get very upset over it. The WNBA is more both-sides-of-the-fence liberal with Draft Kings, etc, on its injury reporting rules & accuracy. For instance, Caitlin Clark had a “back injury” pop up a few minutes before a game earlier this season. A male WNBA reporter broke the story, then had his Indiana Fever credentials revoked for reporting “inaccurate information” on that. Classic WNBA scapegoating. With all that said, I have the following questions for Monica McNutt to ask the WNBA which demand serious answers and the truth published on time with no agenda bias. Have WNBA lesbians contracted STD’s from unsafe sex during the 2026 All-Star weekend? Are Azzi Fudd & Sydney Taylor casualties of this reckless behavior? If yes, then how can these young women be better protected from WNBA STD debauchery? Does the WNBA have a system already in place that disguises debilitating STD infections as sports injuries? If yes, then how deeply involved are ownership, team coaching & medical staffs in this?

***** And finally, does the WNBA support the immediate arrest, prosecution & harsh punishment for all the Jeffery Epstein clients? The American people overwhelmingly support this to protect underage girls & young women from being raped & trafficked by a depraved ruling class. Just try to get a straight answer from the WNBA on Jeffery Epstein, as he’s been declared a ‘no go zone’ by the DEI WNBA since Noam Chomsky was outed as an Epstein client. The WNBA is merely a different version of the Jeffery Epstein sex trafficking tour. The WNBA are always on the attack in the media because they don’t want to be asked questions they can’t answer, and there are a lot of them.

This new data closes all the gaps in the Sophie Cunningham trans comments timeline. The February quote date implicates ESPN & the WNBA, who manufactured this fake controversy entirely themselves. Sophie Cunningham was to be the scapegoat, but she flipped the narrative and has transformed herself into a sports hero. She avoided being the martyr/victim by being strong and coming from a place of truth & love. There’s an important lesson to be learned in that. Over & Out

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The integrated writer

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I am a writer. In that, I’m a political writer, a sportswriter, a film & TV writer, and musical writer, a pop culture writer, and a health, beauty & fitness writer. I’ve written about literature, science, history, and so on. You can do all these subjects, if you do your research and actually have something to say– it’s within your rights as a writer.

The Indiana Fever with Sophie Cunningham & Caitlin Clark are perhaps the first integrated team in WNBA history. Integrated with black & white star players, as well as straight & lesbian. The conservative right AND the fake left don’t like this. That’s what all the noise is about. If all this diversity could find a way to come together to win a title, it would be an inconvenient narrative for both these political camps. Neither Trump nor the Democrats want an integrated success story– anywhere.

I also write songs and have them as mp3’s online. I’m hard to find because I’m blacklisted, and I’ve written about that. The great freedom you have when you’re blacklisted is you can write whatever you want. I already know I’m never getting paid for this, so I let my writing flow. I’m not trying to please anyone. I’m just writing what needs to be written. That’s what an integrated writer does.

A stable mind & body are essential to good writing. You need a deep thirst for knowledge & truth in all things to be a great writer. Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jack London, etc, all shared these qualities. Those are a few of the great writers in literature.

Integrated means you need to be able to absorb diverse viewpoints. In modern writing, ethnicity, sexual orientation & gender must be absorbed, otherwise that writing is prejudiced & narrow. We have too much bad writing already and no one wants to read any more. Bad writing is like bad food. Both promise nourishment, but instead poison the host. Lies are only damaging if they are believed. Bad writing is full of lies, and that’s why it isn’t believed by healthy readers.

Integrated writers absorb all facets of human culture and weave it into their writing. Integrated writing is richer, more nuanced, and content dense as compared to corporate media writing. Integrated writing attempts to balance historical context & facts with the truth, instead of being a balancing act between far right v fake left narratives.

Integrated writing means when a majority of players in the WNBA are lesbians, they are referred to as lesbians, and not hidden behind LGBTQ+ political alphabet soup. For instance, when writing about StudBudz, the integrated writer mentions two lesbians from the Minnesota Lynx who promoted themselves as such. My only negative bias on Studbudz is them throwing it out there when it’s a personal choice. Two WNBA lesbians branding themselves– that’s Studbudz. Do you see how neutral & fair the integrated writer is on that? Only fascists & snowflakes (same thing, right?) get upset with such integrated writing.

The integrated writer understands gay pride as a necessary form of expression, but it’s this constant need to parade it in front of everyone that becomes tiresome. We have global warming, crypto-fascism, ICE Gestapo with WW3 breaking out; and all the LGBTQ community does is celebrate its pride, while hating on those who disagree with them in any way. The Democratic Party controls all these branches of identity politics, which are meant to divide people so they can be manipulated– which they are.

The integrated writer calls attention to this process and patiently explains what’s going on. Humor is a universal crowd-pleaser. It works in person & online. If an integrated writer can make readers laugh, it becomes much easier to be influential. Blacklisted writers have the freedom to go places others can’t, and it is often revealed through their sense of humor, which is sharper and more on point than all the rest.

Gallows humor is the funniest form and the most important, as it provides hopeful cheer, showing intelligence & wit under duress. Gallows humor is one of the noblest forms of courage & bravery. Integrated writers absorb this idea and dry it out.

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Sophie Cunningham, Danica Patrick & beauty

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Preface: This continues discussion on an earlier piece titled, “The WNBA transgender wonderland,” found here.

Being beautiful is a responsibility & a burden most people can’t carry through life. Many are born with the potential to be beautiful, but fail to realize it or lose it too early. Self-destruction of beauty is the biggest heartbreaker. You can be beautiful through life if you take care of yourself & learn to be good to others in your heart. Ethics affect beauty.

In the WNBA, Sophie Cunningham has to undress and shower after every game with a team that is at least half lesbian. She handles it in her own way and gets along with her teammates. How many straight men could do that as a role player in a predominantly gay sports league? Imagine yourself as a handsome straight man being gawked at and admired by a locker room of gay men who are your teammates and are considered the stars of their sport, having much more authority than you in the locker room & the league. That sounds scary & very uncomfortable to me.

That is what Sophie Cunningham has had to deal with in her WNBA career, just because she’s so pretty. She has been looked at by lesbian teammates & opponents as a sex object, on some level– always. It is natural, but also degrading, and Sophie Cunningham has been able to deal with it which proves her strength. Women should celebrate that. She has sacrificed the shame of her naked body to be inclusive. Only ungrateful lesbian bitches disrespect that.

This compares to Danica Patrick competing against men in motorsports. It’s different, but the same. Both are about sex, desire & egos– and how this distracts those obsessed with it to no end. People will do shameful & awful things when they get emotional about sex. Question: Why aren’t the Jeffery Epstein clients prosecuted & in jail? Answer: Because money & power under capitalism buys absolution for sex crimes, while finding targeted scapegoats to slander, frame & blame. Scapegoats give the ruling class a human repository to unload all their sins onto. This is the war going on now. I’m just a soldier. What are you doing?

The power of sex is universal. This power is abused & misrepresented in many ways conforming to elite moralist agendas. Sophie Cunningham is a strong, beautiful young woman, whom feminists hate. Just like these snowflakes were never there when Danica Patrick was being wrecked in NASCAR every week. DEI woke warriors hate all over Sophie Cunningham for being willing to voice her opinion on something important and stand by it. These same people jealously hated Danica Patrick for competing with men.

The fake left media flak abuses Sophie Cunningham horribly, but few (if any) are fooled anymore. She has far more fans than haters. Her haters have the biggest megaphones, and are the most shameless in their ethics, but they are largely tuned-out as ‘white noise’ by the public at this point. Fans know how to call a spayed a spayed, and they support Sophie Cunningham for doing that. They respect her strength to be inclusive & generous with her beauty. Like Danica Patrick, she is a inspiration to all others everywhere.

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Western gay culture really began with Andy Warhol & the Velvet Underground (1965-70). Underground cinema with gay themes started with Andy Warhol silent 16mm shorts & screen tests. David Bowie was the inspired bisexual musical protoge, that later allowed Elton John & such to become mainstream popular. Disco was a 1970’s gay genre, a dance singles format that briefly conquered the world. Disco was much maligned by musicians and faced severe conservative backlash in its day, but gay & lesbian orientation was widely accepted by kids in the 1980’s when Madonna & Boy George, etc, were all over MTV. Music always leads culture through the kids, and its most-significant figures are always the most essential artists of that era. Music inspires film and the rest of the modern visual arts.

Women’s basketball has now become a focal point of sports & cultural intersection. The WNBA is predominantly black & lesbian, but serious questions remain unanswered. Is the culture of the WNBA progressive or reactionary? Are backwards principles & ideologies being presented as progressive by the WNBA through fake politics? Are phony agendas being promoted for cynical purposes? Is bullying, sexual harassment and/or abuse being covered up?

The WNBA is where progressive gay culture (which musical artists fought for & established) is being hijacked and turned into a weaponized reactionary political attack campaign against anyone who disagrees with DEI. These people compare to the modern black racialists who don’t respect the sacrifices of white Union soldiers or Abraham Lincoln who died for the cause of black freedom from chattel slavery. It becomes a post-modernist wonderland with these feminist, racialist & LGBTQ philistines, who understand nothing about even their own history, which they claim to exclusively represent through their identity. Ignorance, arrogance & idealism defines this class of privilege-seeking prattling parasites.

The right to choose your sexual orientation belongs to everyone. It’s a personal choice, and most people prefer it to be kept that way. The problem is we have an outsized LGBTQ political lobby, which insists on shoving their show in everyone’s face. That’s how the inflammatory nature of sexual politics is being used to divide the oppressed working masses into hostile competing identity groups. That’s the primary function of the WNBA.

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The WNBA launched after the global success of the original Dream Team in 1992 led by Michael Jordan. It is to the NBA, that the WNBA owes all its success. For 25+ years, the WNBA was a niche league, with limited crossover appeal, until Caitlin Clark was drafted by the Indiana Fever. Since then it has attracted affluent white fans like never before. WNBA games are broadcast on Disney/ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock & even Ion– a women’s television network.

It’s not about the basketball in the WNBA, it’s about feel-good narratives and hiding the dirt. Replays of bad play or blown calls are kept to a minimum, with many passed over as if they never happened. You can’t watch a WNBA contest without being subjected to this constant dumbing-down of the game. It’s insulting to the fans to hide revealing replays that define what’s wrong with the league. How can they get better if you don’t hold them accountable? Are these embarrassing replays really too much to tolerate? It’s ridiculous trying to figure out who is a good player, but you can’t see what just happened.

In summary, these are the serious problems that define the WNBA and they are much bigger than basketball. Sexual politics are out of control, while rational thought, science, and the will of the majority are being thrown out the window. This affects the game on the court, in fact, it become more important than the game on the court. It become the game itself. This is the WNBA.

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The WNBA is the bad girl who accuses you of doing something which you didn’t, and gets to maintain that accusation without ever having to answer any serious questions as to their validity & truthfulness. I keep explaining what is wrong with just about everything the WNBA does, and hope people finally pay attention. They have.

The WNBA gets no benefit-of-the-doubt anymore from even casual sports fans. It’s presumed they are a DEI driven narrative. The WNBA is a LGBTQ sexual politics freak show, where the game is no more than 10% of the performance. WNBA = TMZ. It all ties into this sick culture of weaponized sex, celebrity worship & big money political rules. Into this maelstrom, Sophie Cunningham becomes a lightning rod for this degraded WNBA spectacle, where “inclusion” becomes semantically inverted into jealous hatred. Over & Out

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The WNBA transgender wonderland

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Sophie Cunningham, the starlet of the league, has drawn the full ire of the LGBTQ+ community & WNBA. She said that biological males don’t belong in girls sports, and for this she’s been crucified by the WNBA & fake left DEI media. The American people aren’t buying it, and strongly support Sophie Cunningham and her right to express an opinion. It’s become a First Amendment issue on free speech for WNBA players.

This picture above is Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeves at today’s Fever-Lynx game in Minneapolis. For context, The home crowd booed Sophie Cunningham every time she touched the ball because she publicly expressed an opinion 95% of Americans agree with. This booing was probably organized beforehand by Cheryl Reeves and her LGBTQ+ activist colleagues. Ironically, the biggest cheer of the game came when Sophie Cunningham hit a three, and all her supporters in the arena erupted, much louder than all the previous booing from her haters. That was the game going on.

Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeves wore a shirt saying ‘trans kids belong’ on the front. It was a philistine statement. ‘Trans kids’ are figment of the warped DEI imagination because kids are too young to know. It is medically unethical to change the sex of, or start hormone therapy on a minor.

Transgender is a medical ethics issue first, meaning anyone under 18 years of age can not (in good conscience) be allowed sex change surgery or hormone/chemical therapy. It’s too dangerous on a developing body. Get mental therapy, seek support, etc. Anyone under 18 has no capacity to understand the decision they are making or its consequences because they are too young to know. It’s too young to be so sexually decisive in such a way, so think it over, and when you’re 18 you can do this if it’s what you really want. For providers, those have to be the ethics in order to protect children from becoming pawns in a sick political game.

I’d be interested to know what practicing physicians and other real world health care providers think about this. I’d also love to see some real science analyzed, short-term & long-term studies by serious researchers. Those are the voices that are being shut out of the political discussions. All their years of diligent study and public service get ignored by political elites & institutions like the WNBA when it comes to transgender health policy.

XX doesn’t equal XY. A DNA swab has to be the definitive test to determine athletic sex & bathroom designation. Anything else leads into a post-modernist wonderland. Transgender athletes competing in women’s sports is more prevalent in the NCAA, where dozens of examples now exist. A few high schools (with district, regional and state competitions) have allowed transgender boys to compete against girls, and it hasn’t been well-received by parents or the greater public.

The US working class, of all political stripes (Rep, Dem, Ind) generally accepts LGBTQ as a personal right, they just don’t want it shoved down their throats, which is what is being done for the politics I’ve outlined. Whenever I read “socialist, left, communist,” etc, with a negative bias in a comments section, I understand that as working class confusion sowed by the fake left.

The issue of transgender participation in girl’s/women’s athletics is a political hot-button, as is their access to female public restrooms. It’s imperative to have the correct perspective here. It comes down to medical science, which is being blurred all over the place with quackery & right-wing, as well as fake left narratives.

Democrats are the ones promoting this transgender issue through its LGBTQ+ axis. This is what Marxists correctly define as the fake left. Its purpose is to fuel the stronger eventual conservative push back to the right. No one in the Democratic Party really pushes for this transgender sports nonsense, but they let their liberal flak organs pump out this fake news line and the LGBTQ+ community eats it up. For this, they always vote Democrat in November.

Bourgeois polls reveal 75% of Americans believe biological males should not be allowed to compete in female sports in public schools. I’ve never met anyone who supported this, so I believe that number is actually closer to 95-99%, with the official numbers kept lower for political reasons. As Marxists, we don’t feed into far-right prejudice, but we also don’t cater to fake left identity politics. Playing sports is a social right, but it is also a merit-based activity founded on ability & interest. I sense a lot of unhealthy enabling here, which is a DEI hallmark.

Changing sex is a personal choice that demands accountability & accepting the challenges it presents. Doing this before adulthood is highly questionable, as that person is still a minor and therefore not able to make adult decisions for themselves. It’s not legal to drink alcohol or consume tobacco products until you are at least age 18, so it makes sense to many people that changing gender should be included in that. These are things you shouldn’t do to your body, until you are an adult– if at all.

The WNBA prattles on & on about inclusion, then works to cancel anyone who disagrees with their DEI narratives. Transgender people have rights, they just don’t have special rights, such as being allowed access to girls bathrooms & locker rooms. They can compete with those of the same athletic sex, and use bathrooms designated by their biologic sex–XX or XY. This only became a confused issue when cynical snowflakes insisted upon special rights for themselves.

To be clear, Cheryl Reeves supports gender affirming mutilation of children’s bodies. That’s what ‘trans kids belong’ means. For this she is portrayed as “thoughtful” in the fake left media. Apparently, the WNBA is too ignorant to even notice, much less object to this unethical message. Sophie Cunningham only stated that she wanted to keep girls safe in sports locker rooms and the WNBA came after her with DEI hate.

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According to Google AI, 38% of WNBA are openly lesbian. I think that number is actually closer to two-thirds. There are a few pretty girls in the WNBA, but I notice they are mostly on the bench. I wonder how many of these pretty girls are straight and if they appreciate how they are being used? That’s a fucking question.

Sophie Cunningham is a pretty girl who actually gets to play and helps her team win. Sophie Cunningham is straight & white, while the WNBA is lesbian & black. The L’s are upset that Sophie Cunningham & Caitlin Clark get so much attention & money. Sexual politics is the name of the game in the WNBA. It’s also the race card the WNBA played when it hyped Caitlin Clark as their great white hope. No one deserves that designation. It’s an impossible situation to be in where you can’t please anyone. It made the WNBA lots of money, while dividing so many players & fans.

Caitlin Clark is the best pure shooter the WNBA has ever seen, but she still has a ways to go before she’s a great player. You have to help your team win for that. The Indiana Fever are WNBA title contenders, but I see them coming up short because they give away too many easy baskets. Championship teams don’t do that. Caitlin Clark needs to improve her left hand and defensive skill set for the Indiana Fever to win a WNBA title.

The DEI politics in this league make scouting and analyzing play something completely different. You need to account for a pretty straight girl who barely plays effectively, namely Sophie Cunningham. She gets all the lesbians attention on the court, and it helps the Indiana Fever. You don’t see that sexual effect in the NBA, I guess that’s why I find it noteworthy. It’s tough to measure, or even discern, but it’s there and Sophie Cunningham knows it.

The Fever almost won a game today where they were hopelessly beaten down for the first three-plus quarters on the road. The Minnesota Lynx have the best record in the league, so I definitely saw this game as a challenge, and the Fever were nearly good enough to win, while not even playing well.

Sophie Cunningham neutralizes at least one good lesbian defender on every possession. If I was a L, I’d be denying her the ball too. The L’s don’t want Sophie Cunningham getting any good press at their expense. As a consequence, that opens up the floor for Kelsey Mitchell, Caitlin Clark, etc. Those two need to find Cunningham more in drive-and-draw kickouts. Make those lesbians pay for sagging off Sophie Cunningham to help in the paint. I think that might be a winning strategy for the Indiana Fever.

If you leave Sophie Cunningham alone, she makes the 3. Her defense is spotty (she’s too upright, running & in a stance), but she displays effort & grit, with just enough awareness. She needs to be in the game more. Sophie Cunningham will body-up & not foul on a bigger player with the ball in the paint. All this from the straight starlet of the lesbian league. The lesbians on the Fever play harder when Sophie Cunningham is on the court, so it works both ways, where the opposing lesbians are boxed-in by their frustration of not being able to see Sophie Cunningham shower after the game.

That is fair & not fair, love & war, in the form of Sophie Cunningham. The rest of Sophie Cunningham’s teammates need to defend better, take care of the ball better, and make their lay-ups. But then again I could say that about every WNBA team. I watch the WNBA as sports, political theater & bad girl comedy. I wrote this scouting report from a sexist viewpoint, because that’s what the WNBA has become.

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Screening is a lost art in basketball. Sophie Cunningham has revolutionized screening in the WNBA. Pretty girls, watch & learn. Sophie Cunningham sets a lot of screens and multiple defenders seem to cling to her without violent contact. It’s fascinating to watch, over & over. The Fever dribbler generally gets around the corner with lots of space and good things happen when Sophie Cunningham sets a screen in the WNBA.

On defense, Sophie Cunningham uses her same assets. Any weak side lesbian shooter is her responsibility and is generally neutralized. She denies while making them weak in the knees. They want to be near her without the ball. Sophie Cunningham never gets beat back door as opposing players with a step seem slow down & signal her when they are supposedly trying to sneak by unnoticed. I’ve seen that a lot. Sophie Cunningham’s lack of elite court awareness is often camouflaged by lesbian vanity & desire. Sophie Cunningham isn’t Scottie Pippen, but she’s elite effective defensively in her own WNBA style. WNBA scouting reports are different because of this.

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It’s been said the WNBA is a circus. These sexual games define the WNBA. Pretty power v lesbian power, black v white, etc. There is so much rigged DEI politics, out front & behind the scenes. The Democrats think the WNBA is helping them, when in fact it is discrediting them. Sex has become so weaponized that WNBA coaches should now employ this above-discussed ‘pretty girl strategy’ because it is effective. It’s a lesbian neutralizer. I’ve never seen anything like it in sports.

It’s like when you (as a straight guy) go to a party and you see your friends there, and a few others, but nothing of interest. The LGBTQ’s just don’t do it for you. Sometimes you need a pretty girl (or two) to walk into the room and everything changes for the better. I can’t say what it is, but that’s what I’ve noticed throughout life. DEI activists claim they don’t understand this and that everyone is equal in beauty, etc. Unfortunately that doesn’t work in practice. In the real world, beauty matters & it commands. When the numbers favor lesbians, a pretty straight girl becomes their kryptonite. Everyone has their kryptonite, and that’s the ‘Sophie Cunningham effect’ in the WNBA.

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I’ve played against the pretty girl who can ball, so I know the Sophie Cunningham effect. When Sophie Cunningham screens me, I’m stopping in front of her and asking her if she wants to get a drink after the game, etc. She’ll wink and laugh and then jog down to the other end after her team scores. I’ll follow her, expecting an answer, not remembering if I’m on offense or defense, etc. I have the skills to blow by her any time I get the ball, but I don’t want to. When she gets the ball, I let her shoot, because I wouldn’t want to do anything that would upset her, such as blocking her shot or stealing the ball from her. What are you going to do when the pretty girl matches up with you? Over & Out

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WNBA bitch factor & AI queries

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Bitch factor (noun): Something to never ignore or underrate. If you do, it will emasculate you– viciously.

Girls, it’s okay to get a technical foul for your team, if it’s remembered like this. Unfortunately payback is a bitch, and it came to Indiana Fever teammate Caitlin Clark the next time these two teams met– two days later. Sophie Cunningham later stated her 22-second finger point was a stupid thing to do, and that is why. DeWanna Bonner would have kicked Sophie Cunningham’s ass if they had fought is the other reason.

Disclosure: Sophie Cunningham is perhaps the most beautiful women in the WNBA. To me, Azzi Fudd (pic below) is her closest rival for that princess crown. I like Azzi Fudd as a person better, but both are basically physically irresistible to any straight man or lesbian, so there it is.

The point is the WNBA doesn’t want DeWanna Bonner messing-up Sophie Cunningham’s pretty face, or Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas throat-punching their ‘great white hope’ Caitlin Clark.

There are serious racial tensions among the WNBA players. It’s rooted in economics, meaning media attention & endorsements versus quality of basketball performance. The best WNBA players aren’t necessarily the best-known or highest-paid by endorsements. You have to be white and have a pretty face for that. This rubs many black veteran players, who aren’t as physically attractive, the wrong way. This is supposed to be about basketball, right?

Wrong. It’s about money, and beauty sells. This is why Sophie Cunningham, who averages 8.0 PPG in her career is known by so many people.

There were serious legal discussions about logoing that Sophie Cunningham finger point. It’s how to become the Jerry West of the WNBA. Bitch factor in play, no question. It’s been officially decided the WNBA will not logo or license Sophie Cunningham’s viral finger point.

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I queried Google AI, “Reasons for Angel Reese playing with a weave?”

Google AI: Court versatility: High ponytails and secure protective styles keep her hair manageable and out of her face during intense WNBA games. Fashion expression: She matches her hair colors and textures—such as blonde highlights, bright statement colors, or custom units—to pre-game outfits and high-profile fashion events.

Me: Could it possibly hinder her game?

Google AI: Generally speaking, playing with a weave or extensions does not hinder Angel Reese’s game…

But I’m specifically asking and you’re giving me generalities. Google AI does list some “Potential Minor Disadvantages” such as, “Heat retention: Thick extensions can trap extra heat around the scalp, which might feel slightly less breathable during intense conditioning. Maintenance overhead: Sweat and friction can loosen the style faster than normal, requiring frequent salon upkeep to prevent shifting or pulling on her natural hair. Ultimately, the psychological boost of feeling confident and authentic on the court far outweighs any minor physical adjustments.”

Me: How can you be authentic with fake hair?

Google AI: Being authentic means aligning your external actions with your true internal identity, not just showing what grows naturally from your body. For Angel Reese and many other women, changing their hair is a genuine expression of self.

Me: Why can’t she just love herself as she is?

Google AI: Choosing to wear weaves or extensions is an expression of self-love, not a sign of lacking it. For Angel Reese, loving herself “as she is” means embracing her freedom to change her look, celebrate her culture, and define her own beauty.

Me: Isn’t covering up your natural beauty a fundamental sign of self-loathing or lack of confidence in oneself?

Google AI: From a psychological perspective, altering your appearance is not fundamentally a sign of self-loathing or a lack of confidence. In many cases, it is actually a reflection of high self-esteem and creative confidence.

Me: Then why is she only averaging 14 PPG game in her WNBA career and considered such a disappointment as far as a wining player goes?

Google AI informs me I’m wrong, she is a winning player, etc…

Me: The Chicago Sky traded her because she didn’t help them win and brought too much drama to the team. She led that team nowhere in two seasons, before being dumped to Atlanta for draft picks. What kind of franchise gives up on a supposed game changer so quickly?

Google AI: The Chicago Sky’s decision to trade Angel Reese to the Atlanta Dream was driven by a toxic combination of building internal locker room tension, friction with organization legends, and a mutual desire to separate. While it is historically rare for a franchise to give up on a 23-year-old reigning All-Star on her rookie deal, the situation in Chicago had deteriorated past the point of a workable relationship.

Me: [!!!]

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* A weave excessively pulling on natural hair during basketball competition could lead to follicle damage & female baldness. It could create unpleasant odors & such. It could also be a high-maintenance turn-off for men who mostly prefer natural hair. Thankfully, I didn’t query Google AI on that.

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I was going to query Google AI on long fingernails affecting shooting touch, dribbling, etc, but I’ll let others try that. “Is making a fashion statement negatively impacting WNBA play?” Do we have any hard data on this? It’s never been a problem in the NBA. The problem is Google AI never played the game, and the people in control of Google AI have a well-targeted virtue-signaling agenda.

I don’t capitalize black or white when referring to skin color, or what’s referred to as “race”. There is only the human race. There is no reason to capitalize except to emphasize one over the other, in which case it’s a White racist or Black racialist– but in either case, a racist. Ignorance, fear & hate are what motivate racists.

Mon 27 Jul 2026 05:30 PM CDT

I just queried Google AI “wnba all star game tv ratings 2026”.

Google AI: Not yet available from Nielsen and ABC…

Me: [Really, this game was two days ago, they’ve had their overnights for a day now]

I can’t get Google AI to help me the way I need it to. I’m sure it’s my fault…

Brickcenter on X currently has a video clip of the 2026 WNBA All-Star game with 9.1M views. Embarrassingly bad. “Pay us what you owe us,” rings so hollow after this. The WNBA is a joke. It’s now a $280K minimum player salary, whose “All-Stars” who can’t consistently make an open lay-up. The WNBA can’t hide this.

This entire league is subsidized by the NBA. Officially the annual number is ~$10M/franchise. It’s actually $200-250M/franchise, as the WNBA gets free arena rent for all its teams courtesy of the NBA, as well as promotional & TV network tie-ins that prop-up the WNBA bottom line. Without that, the WNBA would be on life support. Instead, over-aggressive expansion has (and will further) dilute quality of play, while creating a culture of entitlement that breeds mediocrity. It’s the capitalist, upper-middle class pay-to-play culture in American sports that produces this.

But NBA support can only go so far. At some point you have to earn for yourself, otherwise you’re nothing. That’s a rule in business & sports. Last Saturday evening, I was watching the Dodgers-Mets on Fox, and between innings I switched to the WNBA All-Star game on ABC. You can’t hide an embarrassing performance like that when so many people see it. The WNBA still doesn’t want fans to know how many people tuned-in, because it was a disaster. No effort, no skill; and these women are strutting around like rockstars all weekend in the House that Michael Jordan built. That rubs basketball fans the wrong way, to say the least.

I have previously discussed the issues of hyping something that isn’t real (USMNT @ World Cup), and how that will blow back. I’ve mentioned this with the WNBA, repeatedly. People this year tuned-in to the WNBA All-Star game because Caitlin Clark was healthy enough to play. She was fine, but most of the rest were disinterested.

These women aren’t good enough to take the All-Star game off, the way the NBA does. The NBA (since Bird-Magic) is well-established, profitable, and has the respect of basketball fans everywhere. The WNBA doesn’t. Therefore WNBA All-Stars ALWAYS need to put on a good show when a stage like this is given to them. Instead, they mostly blew it off like prima donna bitches. It’s about fashion, glamour, and selling brands. That All-Star game was a soap opera more than a sporting contest, and I’ve written that about the WNBA before too. Serious sports fans look at the WNBA like WWE– scripted with no real action or beautiful skill.

Basketball is about respect and the WNBA has traded that in for the big money. Caitlin Clark is their vehicle. I’m not sure how Lisa Leslie feels about that, but I could see she wasn’t happy after that “All-Star” game ended. That’s from one of the all-time women’s basketball greats. What was supposed to be a celebration of women’s power in sports became a laughing stock. ESPN is mum on this, as they have a huge deal with the WNBA, but what happened is impossible to ignore. Fans expect a WNBA All-Star team to be able to beat a boys high school JV team, and it didn’t look like they could on Saturday night. That’s on them.

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I left the Dodgers-Mets because I don’t like watching the Dodgers win, which they did 4-3. I don’t like the Mets either. I like the Braves or Brewers as the Dodgers top competition for the 2026 NL pennant. Anyone but the Dodgers. Anyway, by the fourth quarter I was watching this WNBA All-Star game train wreck as my primary. It was fascinating. The last five minutes of the game were up-and-down the court, both teams sleepwalking in both directions just to keep the clock running. The blue team with A’ja Wilson & Caitlin Clark beat the red team. There’s nothing else you need to know. Spectators left the arena early and in numbers. By the fourth quarter good seats were seen vacated, never to be reoccupied. No one cared who won by then, just get it over with. I don’t know how you sell that to advertisers. I’d love to know, but the WNBA isn’t talking & Google AI hates me.

* A value needs to be put on the WNBA and it isn’t zero. I’d pay $5 for a courtside seat to a WNBA All-Star game played at a great venue like the United Center in Chicago. I’d bend up to $7.50, but $10 would feel like too much. That’s for a courtside seat or somewhere near, as my only interest would be celebrity watching. Obviously, other people will pay more, so I’ll let them have it. No big loss if I tell a scalper “No” to $10 on that.

Note that these WNBA All-Stars are celebrities first, athletes second. They are so into themselves, it’s really telling. Anyone who paid more than $10 to sit anywhere at this game paid too much. WNBA team payrolls have jumped from $1.5M to $7M annually with the new CBA. But the lack of quality in WNBA play is turning sports fans & other viewers off. The 2026 WNBA All-Star game will live in infamy as a watershed example of a phony (or group of phonies) being exposed.

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The biggest financial bubbles today are in AI, crypto & the WNBA. AI over-expansion without profitability or serious use value has been exposed above (and by many others) as fraud & bad politics with a cost in the trillions, perhaps tens of trillions of dollars. Crypto fraud is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no more than a few trillion dollars. WNBA franchise expansion hype is measured in the billions of dollars. These are different tiers of fraud, but all are bound up in the same corrupt politics.

Tue 28 Jul 2026 02:42 PM CDT

The WNBA starts back up tonight. Who cares, right? “Not enough rest,” was another WNBA excuse that was floated as a media smokescreen after Saturday night. I’ll discuss that below.

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has said nothing serious concerning that legendary All-Star game disasterpiece. Basketball fans saw it, or at least have seen the embarrassing video clips which have gone viral. As a rule in sports, the commissioner is supposed to be the spokesperson for the league– meaning it’s Cathy Engelbert’s job to answer the tough questions to the media & fans. Especially when this kind of shit happens. That’s what she’s paid for, and she refuses to do that, and it’s far from the first time.

A few weeks back, Cathy Engelbert skipped the Dan Patrick show after booking it and being at his event, all because she didn’t want to answer any tough questions from a legitimate sports reporter. This is ESPN that Cathy Engelbert is ducking. Imagine if real everyday fans, who earn far less than the current WNBA minimum player salary, were allowed to pose media questions. That would be too much!

It’s this never-ending chickenshit stuff from the WNBA that really flips the anger switch for sports fans. People watch sports to be entertained and take a diversion from their lives. When Democratic Party DEI narratives become the storyline, it isn’t a sport anymore. Instead it’s part WWE, part political rally, and part soap opera. That’s the best way to describe the WNBA. Figuring it out isn’t easy, and that’s also by design.

As far as the not-enough-rest-for-an-All-Star-game excuse goes, the WNBA plays 44 games over a 5-month span, with compressed playoffs as compared to the NBA, which has an 82-game regular season. November to June for the best NBA teams. In contrast, the WNBA regular season will expand to 50 games in 2027 per the new CBA, on which the ink is barely dry, yet with which many WNBA players already seem dissatisfied. The WNBAPA was given everything they lobbied for– huge pay increases, better travel & accommodations, etc, and this is how their best players repay their own deal to their fans– by sleepwalking through their biggest & most-important All-Star game ever.

No quarter to the WNBA. That’s my battle cry. This is ideological warfare on their part, sponsored by the Democrats, and everyone knows it. The WNBA will reap the whirlwind for disrespecting a much greater force– the game itself. That’s where the entire WNBA, past & present, find themselves after this blatant disrespect, some might say outright contempt, they’ve shown towards the game of basketball.

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