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Obummer putting his thumb on the scales only to make things worse is very on-brand. Like how the NBA was gonna strike over black lives matter and then he called up some of the players and talked them out of it. Can you imagine the amount of attention they could have brought to the issue? Big names, immensely popular figures, role models to children, an industry worth billions and billions in cash. Goddamn him.
It would have been cool if those players stood their ground too. Not blaming them, because I don't know how the phone call(s) went down.
"you uhhh saw what we did to Kobe, right?"
"Uhhh, let me inspire fear..."