The Babylon Bee posted an interesting satire article the other day, suggesting that 15-year old boys soccer teams are demanding equal pay to women's soccer teams. They had another similar one where it suggested that Americans weren't outraged that women were being paid less than men to play soccer, but were actually outraged that anyone was being paid to play soccer and wondered exactly where the money was coming from in the first place.
If you're the kind of idiot who thinks that the women's pay gap is a meaningful thing in any sense, but especially with regards to women's sports, which I gather must be making the rounds of ClownWorld news again, I submit to you an interesting number.
https://www.outkick.com/ncaa-tournament-men-women/
A sample of what it says:
The NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship budget for the 2018-19 season was $28 million — almost twice as much as the women’s budget.
Information provided by the NCAA to ESPN on Friday shows the men’s tournament brought in a total net income of $864.6 million that season, while the women’s event lost $2.8 million — the largest loss of any NCAA championship.
With numbers like that, women's NCAA basketball players can't demand equal pay (and I know, jumping from soccer to basketball is a different sport. Not that the liberals who make these demands really know all that much about "sportsball" anyway.) But with numbers like that, they should be grateful to be paid anything at all. And with regards to soccer, I think the Babylon Bee's "satire" is closer to truth than to satire, as is often the case. Who's watching women's soccer games? How do they make any money? And if they don't make money, which I suspect that they don't really, then why does that weird lavender haired shrieking harpy from the team think that it's OK to demand more money? Where's it going to come from? Subsidized by the federal government?
This goes back to the Z-man's quote that I shared yesterday. You can make the case with data all that you want that there is no meaningful pay gap. You can make the case all that you want that there is no justificiation for women professional athletes to make what men professional athletes make, because they're only able to draw in a fraction of the money with which to get paid. But facts don't matter to cultists, do they?
Speaking of which, there's no such thing as "dual loyalty." That was a polite softening of what the people who say that really mean.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-blunt-interview-pollard-claims-jews-will-always-have-dual-loyalty/
What Jonathan Pollard is describing here isn't dual loyalty, although he uses that term too. It's single loyalty. To Israel. Thanks for the heads-up! So those with dual citizenship shouldn't be expected to have dual loyalty, they should be expected to have a singular loyalty that trumps their "other" loyalty, which is only a loyalty of convenience. This is actually what we call "normal behavior" but for some reason, pointing it out is "anti-semitic" which is more specific hoax than the broader hoax of "racist" but similar in its particulars.
Asked how he felt about being accused by US Jews of having dual loyalties, Pollard did not take issue with the title. “If you don’t like the accusation of double loyalty, then go the F*** home,” he said bluntly.
“It’s as simple as that. If you live in a country where you are constantly under that charge, then you don’t belong there. You go home. You come home. If you[‘re] outside Israel, then you live in a society in which you are basically considered unreliable. The bottom line on this charge of dual loyalty is, I’m sorry, we’re Jews, and if we’re Jews, we will always have dual loyalty,” he added.
An he suggested that if asked for advice, he would counsel a young US Jew working in the American security apparatus to spy for Israel.
To be honest, he should be grateful to America, and like all Fake Americans, he isn't. The penalty for treason is death. And just because his treason was in behalf of Israel instead of the Soviet Union like fellow Jews Ethel and Julius Rosenberg doesn't mean that he shouldn't have recieved the same penalty that they did. Why did he get off with an effective slap on the wrist? Especially when he's so clearly unrepentant? Americans need to wake up and realize that Fake Americans working in our intelligence organizations, our legislature, our courts, or in any position of authority in America are not pursuing the interests of Americans. Why else do you think we've gone to all of these wars in the Middle East that no American can ever articulate a reasonable cause for that benefits America? Because America isn't intended to be the beneficiary, America is expected to pay the cost so Israel doesn't have to. Why else do you think our courts routinely mangle the Constitution to "mean" the exact opposite of what it actually says? How does that benefit America? It clearly doesn't. Etc. etc. and on and on.
As an aside, and this data is a little old (2018) but I doubt it's significantly different today, 13 of 60 US Senators have dual citizenship with Israel. 27 representatives did. The list of names is a who's who of who were constant thorns in the side of the America First agenda: Diane Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, etc.
Why in the world are these people allowed to hold positions of authority in the US government? They may be slightly better agents than Jonathan Pollard in Israel's behalf, because they don't wear their true loyalty quite so loudly on their sleeves as he did, but is there really any difference between them? Not that I can see.
But again, "anti-semitism!" and with that one magical word, the cultist Pavlovian response kicks in. Which, honestly, is a more insidious bit of treason against American ideals then telling Israel some details of our war plans in the Middle East. It directly undermines one of the key elements of the Bill of Rights and criminalizes free speech that the Jews don't want Americans to say. And where they can't overtly criminalize it, which they've had less success in America than in the rest of the Western world, they can at least make it have a similar social cost.
As Vox Day said about the situation, you can hardly blame a guy for being loyal to his people. That's not just normal, but actually an admirable trait. What you can blame him for, however, is lying to you and telling you that he's just as loyal to your people as he is to his people, so go ahead and feel safe giving him the keys to your kingdom, so to speak. Then again, is that really the fault of the Jews in America that that ridiculous story is believed because they said it? Or at some point do we have to admit the fault that we have in believing something so absurd in the first place, especially when it's been literally demonstrated to us over and over again that it's not true? I sometimes wonder if the lack of pattern recognition to identify threats and danger to our prosperity and security doesn't mean that we don't deserve what we're just barely starting to get, and what is coming in a much, much uglier stage in the near future. If a wild animal had such poor pattern recognition skills, it'd be extinct in short order because it would never be able to avoid getting killed by predators or competitors.
And it's not like we weren't warned. "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other." —Jesus Christ
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