the more you knew you were wrong, the more you argued that you were right
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Mike Rothschild, conspiracy debunker
>Mark Cuban Insists The Dallas Mavericks Won't Play National Anthem Anymore
When the NBA's play resumed last summer in the "bubble" of Orlando, many players knelt during the anthem. The league allowed players to wear "Black Lives Matters" shirts during warm ups, and teams were allowed to have social justice monikers emblazoned at the top of player jerseys instead of their last names, which were moved below their jersey numbers.
During a press conference in December, Silver said there needed to be more engagement of rules rather than rule enforcement.
"I recognize that this is a very emotional issue on both sides of the equation in America right now, and I think it calls for real engagement rather than rule enforcement," Silver said.
Last summer, Cuban said he supported players taking a "respectful" knee for something they believed in.
"Whether it's holding their arm up in the air, whether it's taking a knee, whatever it is, I don't think this is an issue of respect or disrespect to the flag or to the anthem or to our country," Cuban said. "I think this is more a reflection of our players' commitment to this country and the fact that it's so important to them that they're willing to say what's in their heart and do what they think is right.
"I'll defer to [Silver] on any final judgments and [players' union executive director] Michele Roberts. But the reality is, my hope is we'll let the players do exactly what they think is the right thing to do."
This doesn't follow the same thing he said in 2017 after then-President Donald Trump criticized NFL players for taking a knee during the national anthem. Cuban, at that time, said he would be standing with a hand on his heart.
"This is America, and I'm proud of people who speak out civilly. That's who we are as a country," Cuban said. "I'll be standing there with my hand over my heart. I think the players will be [standing]. I expect them to be."
That was before the NBA rule was laxed.
>I'll defer to [Silver] on any final judgments
>Trump never wanted to be president.
>Jitarth Jadeja
https://www.ibtimes.com/former-qanon-supporter-apologizes-accusing-cnn-host-anderson-cooper-eating-babies-3134364
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/anderson-cooper-qanon-conspiracy-theorist_n_601531ebc5b6bde2f5bfb487?ri18n=true
>https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/09/time-magazine-gushingly-profiles-the-successful-conspiracy-to-rig-the-2020-election/
<https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.
>a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election
>They were not rigging the election
>They were not rigging the election
>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227132/gov.uscourts.dcd.227132.4.0_1.pdf
https://twitter.com/RubenVerastigui
>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227132/gov.uscourts.dcd.227132.4.0_1.pdf
There were17other members
anything going on with Hawaii finally?
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-border-patrols-only-on-ap-083f7d627a473a342dfa4bdeffb726c6
In Biden’s early days, signs of Trump-era problems at border
The day after she gave birth in a Texas border hospital, Nailet and her newborn son were taken by federal agents to a holding facility that immigrants often refer to as the “icebox.”
Inside, large cells were packed with women and their young children. Nailet and her son were housed with 15 other women and given a mat to sleep on, with little space to distance despite the coronavirus pandemic, she said. The lights stayed on round the clock. Children constantly sneezed and coughed.
Nailet, who kept her newborn warm with a quilt she got at the hospital, told The Associated Press that Border Patrol agents wouldn’t tell her when they would be released. She and her son were detained for six days in a Border Patrol station. That’s twice as long as federal rules generally allow.