u/set-monkey

Selling products to women is the real reason for the rise of the WNBA and it has never been really sustainable, organic growth.

With sloppy play, like the flop and brick queen Angel Reese boring us to death, the only thing generating excitement is the fighting and conflict. Toxic role models, setting a terrible and destructive example for kids as well.

Clarks's mad skill is exposing WNBA mediocrity.
Media props it up with excuses for slop, to appease their advertisers that have no use for a positive role model, who makes it happen with hard work, not just on her looks.
Totally useless for the multibillion-dollar beauty industry.

Actually, Cailin doesn't need the WNBA at all now. So famous, she could do exhibitions like the Harlem Globetrotters and pack those arenas, drawing fans away from the WNBA.

Clark now has the power to destroy them. That's why the media is in full meltdown, in fear of the collapse of this advertising goldmine for the health and beauty biz, upon which they're dependent on for survival.

Update: Largest Indiana Fever sub removed this, so you know its spot on.

No problem because with 11k views in 47 minutes, this post is hot.

Makes me out to be a lead foot, hard braking and cornering menace. Now the damn thing won't work at all, and I'm getting threatening letters from State Farm warning me if I don't make it work, I'll lose my discount.

Wish I would have never started with them.

Update: Thanks to another State Farm customer. Certainly, more helpful than State Farm tech support.

I ordered another beacon because batteries don't last long. I will keep trying to get it to work correctly, but they sure don't make it easy. The app is the worst, chats involved long wait times with 20 other people ahead of me. I guess they are all having the same issues.

Most annoying, the only way to test if the beacon in communicating with phone is to drive around, trying to trigger the beacon. Why can't you just click on where it shows the beacon, to see if permissions are set correctly?  

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), seems to have cut some corners developing this app.

Long gas lines, rationing of only 5 gallons, twice a week, if you could find any at all.

Nixon won landslide in 1972 because public was sick of chaos and economic problems, never bargained for an oil shock, caused by his diplomatic blunder.

Remember 1st rule of US politics. It's the economy, stupid.

In contrast, other stars like Angel Reese, who looks uncoordinated, awkwardly positioned as she flops to draw fouls, while shooting pathetic bricks. All elbows, wild swinging arms on defense is allowed by refs to keep her in games, with no foul pressure to inhibit this slop. It looks like there's something is wrong with her and her play is painful to watch.

Conversely, Clark is fluid, precise, always in control as she makes the most difficult shots look easy. Caitlin elevates her teammates acting as an on-court coach and strategist, drawing out the defense, setting them up with easy layups, always feeding them the ball generously.

For true sports fans, Clark is joy to watch... I get why the others all so jealous.

Clark should quit.

Sue the league and with the massive settlement she gets, start an exhibition team. Exactly what happened when some great black players who weren't 7' tall centers, were left out of the NBA in the 1960s. They started the wildly successful and lucrative Harlem Globetrotters.

She'll make a fortune, just doing what she does, without the all the risk and drama...

That's if she recovers from this travesty.

Trump is a cunt. But his rise to power is an indictment of the corrupt US elections, where raising obscene amounts of money is all it takes to run for office.

I remember the disgusting media reports in 2024 referring to Kamala Harris campaign breaking all fundraising records as a "haul" which is what criminals call their ill-gotten gains. Harris outspent Trump and still lost.

If Democrats would worry less about the accumulation of money and focus on competitive primaries and debates to find the most electable candidates, like the GOP did, we'd all be better off.

This from is a conservative, but it's all true...

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), awarded grants to the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance. Part of this funding was sub-awarded to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronaviruses.

Dr. Fauci testified under oath to Congress in 2021 that the "NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research" at the Wuhan lab. However, in a subsequent letter to Congress and testimony, NIH leadership acknowledged that a sub-grant did fund an experiment that made a bat virus more transmissible in mice, fitting a specific definition of the research.

So Basically:  Obama put a moratorium on funding Gain of Function research.  At minimum it is a very dangerous area of research.  At it’s worst it is a pretty name for producing biological weapons.

Fauci’s NIH evaded that ban by funding the research in other countries.  Including the Wuhan lab that the novel coronavirus almost certainly escaped from.  He aided in covering it up, steering people away from reporting that it bore markers of being engineered, etc.  He was deceptive in testimony about this, etc.

So the real question is why does the left like him so much?  In 1990 you all were hanging effigies of him and calling him a mass murderer for slow rolling out AIDS treatments.  Why is he suddenly a leftist hero other than Trump didn’t like him?"

Ingenious use of fiber optic wires cheap, impervious to signal jamming & detection. So small, flying under radar with no electronic signals to reveal their presence, low budget, foolproof stealth making US bloated systems, obsolete.

"I can attest personally that in my work as the Director of National Intelligence, the deep state is fighting us every step of the way."

She means Israel and its owners the Epstein class.

This folly is so much worse.

Now Iran will exact revenge for the slaughter of innocent schoolgirls and other atrocities, by effectively embargoing US. Any oil getting out of the strait to going to Asia, not here.

Get ready for 1974 gas crisis, when gas was rationed to only 5 gallons per car, only twice a week. If you could find any at all.

Too heavy, too light, too black or too white, too wrong or too right
Today or tonight, cumbersome.
Too rich or too poor, she's wanting me less, and I'm wanting her more
The bitter taste is cumbersome.

A "No Contest" plea for Karmelo Anthony would've been better than the flimsy self-defense motive, for everyone involved.

I understand legal profession hates to disclose how rich they get from cases like this one. Exploiting desperate clients with practically unlimited resources is a very good business model.

Update: This post is intended as a warning to anyone considering retaliating against these degenerates who think it's cute to mock or defame Austin Metcalf.... Please, don't!

That's exactly what they want. Do NOT give it to them.

Very strange, indeed.

Old Toyota with 260k miles was burning oil... Badly

This stuff is NOT Motor Honey, or STP...

Full synthetic, clear, 0 viscosity, oil additive.

Not easy to find now, so you know it works.

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No one or touched or threatened Karmelo Anthony. No one was chasing him.

He confessed to the cop who stopped him saying, "I did it. I told him not to touch me" in surveillance video released yesterday.

Last time I checked, you can't stab a person because they touch you.

Was Karmelo Anthony effectively groomed to be a paid assassin in a murder plot? Murder white boy in front of all his friends to incite violent response, resulting in the beating or death of Anthony, at the hands of a white mob, triggering a race riot. Another George Floyd moment.

Plan would've worked, but for non-violent nature of his friends. Which is contrary to the widespread myth propagated by SPLC and other leftwing groups, in a "white, male aggression" narrative.

What happened to the close to one million dollars raised for Karmelo Anthony? A "No Contest" plea would've been better than the flimsy self-defense motive, for everyone involved.

Does rewarding person's family and some greedy lawyers, with hundreds of thousands of dollars for a wanton killing of a completely innocent teen boy, who is then demonized by an overly aggressive defense, set a dangerous precedent?

I understand legal profession hates to disclose how rich they get from cases like this one. Exploiting desperate clients with practically unlimited resources is a very good business model.

Here is the chaos this question created on the largest legal sub on Reddit. They removed several comments and are still in a meltdown over anyone questioning how much money they make defending a desperate client with a million dollars.

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Was Karmelo Anthony effectively groomed to be a paid assassin in a murder plot? Murder white boy in front of all his friends to incite violent response, resulting in the beating or death of Anthony, at the hands of a white mob, triggering a race riot. Another George Floyd moment.

Plan would've worked, but for non-violent nature of his friends. Which is contrary to the widespread myth propagated by SPLC and other leftwing groups, in a "white, male aggression" narrative.

What happened to the close to one million dollars raised for Karmelo Anthony? A "No Contest" plea would've been better than the flimsy self-defense motive, for everyone involved.

Does rewarding person's family and some greedy lawyers, with hundreds of thousands of dollars for a wanton killing of a completely innocent teen boy, who is then demonized by an overly aggressive defense, set a dangerous precedent?

I understand legal profession hates to disclose how rich they get from cases like this one. Exploiting desperate clients with practically unlimited resources is a very good business model.

Here is the chaos this question created on the largest legal sub on Reddit. They removed several comments and are still in a meltdown over anyone questioning how much money they make defending a desperate client with a million dollars.

I understand legal profession hates to disclose how rich they get from cases like this one. Exploiting desperate clients with practically unlimited resources is a very good business model.

Here is the chaos this question created on the largest legal sub on Reddit. They removed several comments and are still in a meltdown over anyone question how much money they make defending a desperate client with a million dollars.

Lawyer: You’re making a lot of assumptions about the defendant’s emotional stability, the functional quality of the attorney-client relationship, and the likelihood of negotiating an offer that could have allowed him to be released within a meaningfully sooner timeline than the sentence he received.

Many of my murder clients don’t listen to the advice of their legal team. They are too distraught, depressed, terrified, paranoid, arrogant, or spiteful to heed advice from legal professionals. Often the same personality disordered issues that cause them get in trouble for something so serious work against them when they are making high-stakes decisions in their case.

I’ve also had plenty of murder cases where the offer sucked just as much or practically just as much as the sentence they stood to receive at trial, so there was little rational reason to plead out in the first place. When the evidence is stacked against you, prosecutors are often less willing to negotiate. I’ve had murder cases go to trial on much worse evidence than Anthony’s case. I had a double murder that was fully captured on video from multiple close-range high-definition cameras. The offer was so much prison time that my mid-20s client would not even be eligible for parole until his 75th birthday, when he may easily be infirm or dead already.

Me:

How many of your murder clients had $650k to pay for lawyers?

Anthony is definitely unstable... All the more reason to avoid a trial, especially with self-defense as the only motive. Why wouldn't they just go with heat of the moment, crime of passion...

You're deflecting beautifully from the heart of the argument though.

Did a huge legal defense fund influence the defense team and the family into needleless risk of a jury trial?

The result of which was disastrous for Anthony and the community. But the lawyer and the family get to keep the money.

MN - Public Defender

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The lawyers don’t control what a client decides to do on a plea or trial. Unstable defendants are less likely to take a reasonable plea agreement than a more stable defendant. They are also more prone to decide on a less viable defense theory. The defense lawyers do not get to decide if they argue self defense or another type of defense. Only the client can control that.

We also don’t control whether our client testifies or not. That’s their constitutional right, and defense lawyers are not able to override their decision. It is a common problem where a client will tell us he wants to make a specific type of defense but then he gets cold feet when it’s his time to testify and actually present the claims that the entire defense case has been building up to. In cases where a defendant is suddenly unwilling to testify to self defense after insisting on it beforehand, or in cases where the defendant takes the stand but testifies poorly, there usually isn’t anything else we can do about it.

We are similar to a surgeon doing an invasive operation on a patient. If the patient suddenly refuses to take their antibiotics after surgery, or if a patient decides to grab a scalpel and stab themselves in the neck, our range of options left to help them becomes considerably narrower.

To be blunt, it would be unusual for a defense team to push a client into having an unwinnable murder trial for a higher fee. We don’t like losing, and we don’t like watching our client’s life get shattered as they’re sitting next to us. Lawyers pressuring clients into doing trial is rare because most of the shitty lawyers are either afraid of trial or too lazy to do a trial, and they don’t want a spotlight shined on their incompetence.

Me:

IMPORTANT to notice that NONE of these replies address the distortions of the influence of money in this legal system. This speaks volumes.

If there had been no money, there would have been a plea deal and Anthony would have a much lighter sentence in a mental facility, which is where he belongs.

MN - Public Defender

 Top 1% Commenter

>If there had been no money, there would have been a plea deal and Anthony would have a much lighter sentence in a mental facility, which is where he belongs.

I've been direct in telling you that that is often not true at all on murder cases. For whatever reasons, you've already decided that this answer is not what you're looking for and have ignored it several times in this thread.

WTF is going on here?

A parole supervisor working at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has been fired from her job for supporting Karmelo Anthony and making an insensitive remark about Austin Metcalf. Anthony, 19, was convicted of murdering Metcalf, 17, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

The case has led to widespread debate over racial bias in the justice system, as Anthony is Black while Metcalf was White. Donna Robinson, a parole supervisor in Texas, recently entered the debate when she said on social media that Anthony will be protected inside prison. She further suggested that Metcalf’s family deserved the pain they were going through. The TDCJ then took swift action and terminated Robinson’s employment.

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No one threatened Anthony. He calmly walked up and stabbed Austin in the chest.

That was the testimony from all the witnesses and that's what happened.

Media deliberately confusing the public about a straight-up assassination of an innocent person. Social media making up fake evidence of a "cleat sharpener" not a knife....

The coordination of all this confusing messaging is a critical part of this plot, and what makes it conspiracy. The plot is to set a precedent, making it seem ok for blacks to hurt whites.