Basketball star Caitlin Clark was one of the first celebs out of the gate to like Taylor Swift’s long-awaited endorsement of Kamala Harris on Tuesday night

The WNBA rookie was the toast of the right-wing media earlier this year after an on-court showdown with her old NCAA nemesis Angel Reese. Clark came out to denounce the likes of Fox News and Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy for using her as a pawn in the culture wars, saying it was “unacceptable,” but she has always kept quiet about her political affiliations until now.

The former Iowa Hawkeyes star is likely to have disappointed a legion of fans in deep red Indiana, where she plays for the Fever.

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    7 days ago

    My favorite comeback is, “my husband would be furious you said that!”

    Oh, that looks on their faces…

    I don’t have a husband, but it’s worth every eye popping gasp they utter

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        They most often don’t, which is the point ;)

        I live in Florida and work at an orange-themed home improvement store. The store, itself, is surprisingly LGBTQ-friendly, but, every once-in-a-while I’ll hear something not-so-friendly from a customer. As I work in both sales and customer service, the point is to shut them the fuck up while also being terribly polite. And I certainly don’t want to continue the conversation with them or get into an argument.

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      That reminds me of how Stephen Fry would stop homophobes from beating him up in school:

      He’d use their homophobia to his advantage by loudly saying “stop! Stop! I’m getting an erection!”