Publication: Outkick

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Given the mess in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is proving to be weak-kneed when it comes to foreign policy. So there’s no reason to believe the U.S. will be able to offer support to Taiwan in its own mess with communist China, says OutKick founder Clay Travis.

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We should take Biles’ mental health claims seriously, but we shouldn’t allow them to excuse her behavior. She quit on her team. She doesn’t get a pass for that just because she’s a black woman or a sports media darling. Everyone, including Olympic and professional athletes, has to deal with something.

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On Tuesday, Kirk blasted Simone Biles far harder than anyone has slammed her before. “We are raising a generation of weak people like Simone Biles,” Kirk told his listeners after Biles decided to withdraw from the women’s team final over mental health concerns. Kirk makes a strong point. Biles showed up when she expected to take gold. She only bowed out because her performance was subpar.

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if you are waiting for LeBron to comment on this issue — stop. LeBron speaks only about social issues that further his brand.

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Despite ESPN’s long history of promoting and paying black personalities lucrative salaries, the network couldn’t effectively erase the narrative, promoted by users on social media and the New York Times, that it had let go of Jemele Hill, Cari Champion, and Josina Anderson because of their race and gender.

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What launched ESPN’s pivot to a toxic place that views its employees only by their skin color and sexual orientation? Some would point to the 2015 ESPY Awards. In 2015, ESPN turned its annual summer award show into a divisive, exclusive gathering. It was also the year ESPN awarded Caitlyn Jenner the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

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You know the Left has totally lost its mind when not even Bill Maher is woke enough. That seems to be the new reality now that MSNBC — the wokest network in a world suddenly overrun with woke networks — has referred to Maher as “an angry white man.”

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With the government continuing to allow the unemployed to “earn” a middle-class wage while parked in front of their Xbox, the lack of willing workers is beginning to hit Hollywood. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is the latest business owner to feel to the sting of an uninspired workforce…Why hustle to bring a C-list celebrity tuna tartare, when you can make six figures at home without pretending to be interested in their views on oppression?

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By clearing the way for Toobin to return to the air, it’s clear that CNN feels he’s a handy person to have around. Someone who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty when hard work is involved.

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Brand may not be a conservative himself, but he displays refreshing common sense in pointing out flaws within his own party. Such honesty is more than we often expect from a modern Hollywood personality.

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Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) TKO’ed the babbling tyrant like Ronda Rousey in her prime. Fauci, is on TV every day, uttering nonsense and never explaining why. He demands that vaccinated Americans avoid eating and drinking indoors, and thinks we should wear masks outside all summer just in case someone with Covid walks up to our face and sneezes in it.

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Major League Baseball is so bothered by Georgia’s non-racist new voting bill that it is moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta. Major League Baseball is also so comfortable with the genocide in China that it just struck a deal with Tencent to stream MLB games in China. MLB is quite proud of this new streaming deal, locking it up until 2023.

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Punishments are arbitrary. They are almost never about what has been said or done. They’re about who said what to whom, with skin color as the ultimate factor in determining guilt. This trend has been accepted in nearly every industry.

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Immediately following reports of the horrific shooting in Boulder, Colorado — an incident in which 10 people were murdered, including a police officer — verified Twitter accounts rushed to politicize the tragedy. Among those attacking was Meena Harris, niece of Vice President Kamala Harris. Minutes after hearing the news, Harris declared that white men are dangerous terrorists.

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President Joe Biden just signed the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package which includes billions of dollars in debt relief for black farmers. No, not just “farmers.” Just those with the correct skin color, duh…For those who find this situation messed up, it’s called “equity,” the left’s new favorite strategy.

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Kaepernick’s career was shot, and ever since his decided to be a martyr, he’s began cashing checks he would’ve never seen otherwise. Tom Brady can do what he wants because he’s earned that right. If you don’t like it, tell Colin Kaepernick to ditch Instagram and sign as a backup.

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It seems like Le Batard and Skipper are trying to attract yet another audience hungry for more Leftist political drivel, for further condemnation of the country as a whole, for more accusations of racism, and for more cancel culture. That’s what this is about.

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Levin’s decision to migrate to Parler is perhaps Parler’s biggest endorsement yet. Levin’s radio show is among the top five most listened to broadcasts nationwide. Should Trump eventually join or move to Parler, the platform will no longer be ignored by the news outlets that cover Trump’s every word…

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Sarah Fuller briefly made football socially acceptable for our virtue-signalers. That was her primary accomplishment, pleasing Make A Wish America. At one point in Vanderbilt’s football game against Missouri, Fuller trotted onto the field for the opening kickoff. She knocked the ball to the 37-yard line and then jogged to the sideline out of harm’s way.  The moment was hailed as history.

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There’s a long way to go before a winner is declared. To no surprise, this makes people on Twitter very, very mad. At the front of the line is Jemele Hill. Per Hill, if Trump wins, there is only one group to blame. That’s right, you guessed it, those damn white people.

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LeBron James led the NBA’s far-left political movement this season and subsequently tanked its ratings to all-time lows. In Pennsylvania,Trump dunked all over the social justice warrior. The crowd joined in by loudly chanting “LeBron James sucks.”…The damage LeBron did to the NBA cannot be undone. It was a self-inflicted, historical tank job, and LeBron has only himself to blame.

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A new survey by political scientists at Reality Check Insights suggests that the image of the NBA has changed into that of a political organization that plays basketball on the side.

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No one thinks Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins is any good. He is a certifiable bust.  Why did he spend all day trending on social media? Why did Twitter turn Haskins’ inevitable benching into an alleged example of NFL systemic racism?

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Internet personality, singer, and content creator Tana Mongeau might’ve broken U.S. election laws with a “Booty for Biden” vote drive, where people allegedly shared proof they voted for Biden in exchange for nude images of Mongeau.