#do I agree with everything she's said? no. dumb and tone deaf at worst though. but being THAT requires a daily dedication to those beliefs.

[breannastewart]

just gonna leave this here for the new crowd.

do you know anything about sue bird being a zionist?

Sue Bird is not a Zionist. She played basketball for a KGB spy and mobster named Shabtai Kalmanovich. There were rules in the Russian league preventing teams from stuffing rosters with US players. In order to get around those rules, Shabtai got an Israeli passport for Sue and an Italian passport for Diana. He was very good at this passport game because he had all kinds of connections. He could just pick up the phone, have a 10 minute conversation, and produce a passport out of thin air. Sue and Dee talk about it in this podcast.

The Soviet Union sent Shabtai to Israel to be a spy. He spied on them for years and years. Then he was caught and served a long sentence in an Israeli prison. This was all before his Russian basketball era. His money came from the sweat and labor of Soviet workers. The KGB took public money to set up their own financial portfolios before the Soviet Union dissolved. Most of the businesses they invested in were connected to the mafia. So that's the money he was paying Sue and Diana with until he was killed in a mob war.