Brett Cooper

You can admire the discipline and sacrifice of the athletes, and you can strongly disagree with the government policy.

And you can feel both pride and disgust without needing to collapse that into one correct thing.

Like, I mean, what is this?

Is this like Miss Rachel?

We're dealing with our big feelings.

Why are we treating adults like they are emotionally dysregulated toddlers?

That is exactly what this article is doing.

Oh wait, actually, it's probably because that's how they act.

That's how a large portion of our society, our fellow Americans act on a day to day basis.

basis.

That's your blackmail moment.

HuffPost put this article on X, which was brave of them, and they obviously got ratioed.

The comments were just incredible.

EV Magazine was the first one I saw and they said, oh, shut up.

Jack Mack posted and said, you guys are still in business.

And then this one was just the best.

This guy said, if worthless media outlets like the HuffPost turn you off right now, you are not alone.

And then he shared this graph about people who said that they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in mass media, which is very obviously on a rapid decline.

Thank goodness most of us have that feeling in common, and hopefully none of you guys are going to end up in therapy talking about your big feelings over how idiotic that article was.

I mean, like, genuinely reading this, looking at the reactions online about people simply applauding a fellow athlete, like, it is time...