Publication: Outkick

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If Joe Biden gets his wish, vaccination will be mandated in the United States. But for all the hype, it sure doesn’t seem to be paying dividends overseas. According to recent data, more than 70 percent of those dying of complications related to COVID-19 in the U.K. have been vaccinated.

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Since last week, the media and its extensions on social media have declared comedian Dave Chappelle Enemy No. 1 after his latest Netflix special, The Closer…Netflix said it heard the outcry and that it’s not afraid. So what happens next? Nothing. Hit pieces wield only the power in which the subject’s employer grants the outlet in response. 

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Jon Gruden resigned as Las Vegas Raiders coach before he could be fired over offensive emails sent a decade ago. Yet the lyrics sung at Super Bowl halftime shows are at least equally offensive. “Every rapper the NFL has performing at the Super Bowl has more offensive lyrics than Jon Gruden had in his emails. How does the NFL reconcile the difference in treatment?” Outkick founder Clay asked in a series of tweets.

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Whenever a show loses touch with the country — and most do — it creates an opportunity for an alternative. Greg Gutfeld took over late-night after Colbert’s demise as a comedian. Gutfeld’s success proves that Americans still laugh when programming is funny. And currently, Democrats are providing more fodder than Republicans.

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Either Florida has the nation’s best-kept secret, or the mainstream media is diverting attention from a post-Covid strategy that is working for the Sunshine State. Over the past six weeks, hospitalizations have dropped a whopping 69 percent in Florida without the need to confine citizens at home or implement a mask mandate to “stop the spread” — once again proving that the rampant mandates have been made exclusive of the data.

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Rodrik David is unemployed now because some billionaire decided he knows what’s best for his employees. And what’s best, the owner decided, is to mandate all of them get vaccinated — ostensibly because we must keep everyone healthy, even if we must invade their privacy, intervene in their personal decisions, and even threaten their careers with ruin if we have to.

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Longtime liberal hero Bill Maher continues to resist the left’s encroachment of radical extremism, this time skewering the NFL for its ‘pro-segregation’ decision to play two National Anthems before games; one for Americans, and one for black Americans.

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So who exactly is complaining that X-Men is not inclusive? No one — at least not anyone of importance. Simply, Marvel is preemptively catering to low-level blue checks who could label the brand some mean term.

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It must’ve been getting hot under that mask for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In a budget proposal that’s expected to be signed soon, Whitmer and the state legislature have agreed on a proposed budget that would prevent health officials from mandating masks in schools. The budget proposal would also stop public agencies within Michigan from mandating vaccines.

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When The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank organization, tried to promote their new book linking the BLM movement to Marxism, Amazon stepped in to thwart them. According to a Heritage press release, Amazon tried to quietly eliminate any advertising for their book, “BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution,” on the grounds that the ads were too “controversial.”

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This is certainly a win for personal freedom since the NBA was the most likely professional sports league to enforce a vax to play rule…But new laws in NY and SF will exclude the unvaccinated from attending home games for the Knicks, Nets, and Warriors this season.

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Rolling Stone magazine is playing defense Monday after its story about rural Oklahoma hospitals being overrun by ivermectin overdoses and preventing gunshot victims from getting medical attention is being debunked…One hospital, NHS Sequoyah, said that not only has it not been overrun by those pesky ivermectin ODs, but the hospital “also has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin…”

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College football is back; NFL returns in over a week; the NBA is only a month away.  Sports are quickly returning, but the solution for Covid via vaccination rates, implemented by leagues, remains about as trustworthy as a free throw from Shaq.

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Reporter Rachel Nichols became another victim on ESPN’s growing list of cancellations. As ESPN picked up the pace on covering race over sports, Nichols kept up with the increasingly woke company and fed the right buzz words on Zoom interviews.  “The woke police finding another victim,” commented OutKick’s Clay Travis, reflecting on the tragic path that fooled Nichols into wokeism and out of a job.

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Coronabros’ masked jaws dropped on Sunday after a study revealed that one of the nation’s most beloved face coverings had nearly no effect on containing the spread of Covid. A University of Waterloo study found that the blue face coverings were only “10 percent effective” in preventing Covid-carrying droplets from being released due to a lack of compression.

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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.