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-Great Cultural Revolution

At the Olympics, the USA loses again and again, but Americans don't care

2021-07-27

[AMERICANTHINKER] For many decades, the quadrennial Olympic games were grand moments of patriotism. Even as the Soviet teams used mountains of government money to train their athletes, our plucky amateurs somehow kept winning. There was a reason the Miracle on Ice was a miracle. Of late, though, our athletes are no longer amateurs; the Soviets are gone; we worship at the Chinese shrine; the Olympics are on every two years and broadcast 24/7, making for complete over-saturation; and too many of our Olympic athletes hate the country they're representing. For that reason, those Americans who love their country the most have cared the least when Americans have fallen flat in Tokyo.

The first occasion for an anti-Olympic celebration came when the women's soccer team suffered a humiliating defeat to Sweden, with the Swedish team beating the Americans 3-0. That score, in a game renowned for sometimes having only one score during the entire game, was a blow-out. The Americans didn't just lose; they were humiliated. And as many conservatives felt, it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of self-centered, unpleasant, unpatriotic women. Brigitte Gabriel's response is representative of the conservative view:

The next to go down in flames, on Sunday, was the men's basketball team, which embarrassingly lost to La Belle France. Who loses basketball to La Belle France? And once again, because the NBA was one of the leaders in using the Black Lives Matter movement as the occasion to disrespect the country that gave its athletes such extraordinary fame and wealth, Americans didn't care. The patriots not only were unmoved, but also did the unthinkable and celebrated an American loss at the Olympics:

The American athletes continued to offend at least half of America when the American swimmers slobbered all over Mrs. Joe The Big Guy Biden

...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name...
, chanting "Dr. Jill Biden" to the woman who is a combination of Lady Macbeth and Edith Wilson as she sat in the stands.

I hope they all lose, every last one of them, and lest anyone ask, "But what about the athletes who love America?," here’s my answer: if you belong to a business — say, the American Olympic sports franchise — that hates its customers, the fact that you, personally, don't hate those customers is irrelevant. The customers are going to hate you. If you dislike that reality, it's time to get into another business or start pushing back against the haters within your organization.

Posted by:Fred

#15 Well,
maybe the thonged Volley Ball.

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-27 22:40

#14 I've been boycotting the olympics (like most other sports) for decades. I'm way ahead of my time.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-07-27 21:55

#13

Sadly, it ended in 1968 for me.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-27 12:14

#12 I haven't watched or followed in 30 years

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2021-07-27 11:59

#11 Get ready for the "unity" themes in the MSM as they try to lure the awakened citizens back to "woke"-lite, with all the condescending tone they can't help but think will soothe the lost rubes. Like all zealots, they overplayed their theme and now begin to see the disconnection and rejection become serious in traditional, white, America...

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-07-27 11:54

#10 Who? The (Summer) Olympics? Get 'Woke' go broke.

Posted by: magpie 2021-07-27 11:30

#9 Wouldn't care if they were winning either. Woke idiots.

Posted by: Angstrom 2021-07-27 10:33

#8
Have yet to turn on, listen to, or watch any Olympic game so far. Not even the Thong Volley ball blogged about.

Like many other people feel now.....
Politicized sports and sport figures is a NO-GO at this station. Especially when the team owners & leagues stay quite and make $$$ hand over fist from it.

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-07-27 09:18

#7 /\ Excellent choice! The airfare is cheaper as well.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-27 08:35

#6 ^-- better: Pyongyang, North Korea. It is the woke-ers paradise after all.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-07-27 08:34

#5 Following the Tokyo festivities, could we possibly schedule a three week cultural holiday for our US Olympians in Durban, South Africa ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-27 08:01

#4 If so many US Olympic athletes hate the USA, I hope they all lose disgracefully. I guess that means I DO care, after all, just not in the usual meaning of "care".

Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-07-27 06:50

#3 I pretty much agree with Widberg.

Posted by: Spoter B 2021-07-27 06:29

#2 It's always been something of a political forum, it's just ''out of the closet' so to speak this year.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-27 03:45

#1 no one gives a shit about these woke asshole. Where is my grant money for doing that study?

Posted by: Chris 2021-07-27 01:36

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