On the Olympic Shitfest...

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Excerpts from Our Friend Matthew @My Planet, My Rules

"I have professed a deep and abiding disgust with the sordid marketing campaign known as "The Olympic Games" on this page (and elsewhere) many, many times. I hardly need, I should think, to regurgitate my talking points on why the Olympics Suck Harder Than Kamala Harris, so I will, instead, shit all over the tertiary aspects of this years shitstravaganza. 

The only reason these "games" are taking place is because of money. Money is the only reason why this farce continues every four years, since the real juice of past Olympic Games -- nationalism -- is now considered uncouth. 

NBC paid a fortune for the rights to televise them. The Japanese government spent billions of yen constructing facilities. The IOC wants nothing more than to pretend that it does something useful and worthy of continued funding. Despite a worldwide pandemic and only 30 or so countries sending teams, not to mention the lack of spectators, these competitions in mostly-unwatchable sports are being pressed forward for the purposes of reaching demographics that are "underserved" in the sports-advertising world, which is to say Gay Men and Women. 

It's also an opportunity for the Kumbaya crowd to express their own repressed feelings of nationalism under the disguise of a "world-unifying event". 

Except their strain of nationalism tends towards the Communist version. 

The guy at the bar who usually turns his back on the NBA, MLB, NFL or NHL game on the television and professes no interest in sports (an aspect of White Male Domination and Fascism, of course), suddenly becomes an overnight expert on the Zimbabwean Rhythmic Gymnastics Team and knows all the rules and stratagems of Water Polo. 

But, there has been one event surrounding these games which has garnered a modicum of my attention......" 

Go Read More on the Olympics, in addition to the Overlord's opinion of this ridiculous activity of 'Gender Reveal Parties'. 👍

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The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer was, from the start, doomed to fail. It was never going to happen because in the ranks of 14 cartoon characters were, at a minimum, an additional 12 G-Men. These informants are supposed to be like mall cops. Observe and report. They are not tasked with creating a crime, but that is apparently what the FBI does now.

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"For socialists and their fellow travelers everywhere, it's turning out to be a bummer of a summer. It's almost bad enough to make you feel sorry for Sen. Bernie Sanders. 

 Almost. 

Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their anti-American ilk are stuck defending economic authoritarianism abroad while its victims are pleading for the United States to save them. To the millions of downtrodden in Cuba, Haiti and most of Latin America, the US remains the shining city on the hill, even as AOC and her Squad demonize the greatest country ever created. 

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Weighed and Found Wanting

Continued exposure and very public incompetence's has not raised Kamala Harris in the public’s esteem. After passing herself off as a down with the struggle, former Hip-Hop diggin', reefer tokin' negro princess from Oakland trolling for the black vote as an embarrassingly bad presidential candidate, now is found lacking even her party's confidence as vice president.

Trafalgar polled respondents within the last week, and found 58% not confident in her at all.  Even 43% of Democrats are not confident that Harris is ready for the big time.

Her pick as a running mate was a head scratcher to most who knew she ruthlessly climbed the political ladder partly as a result of regularly visiting the pants of the powerful mayor of San Francisco while district attorney, and as fawning media, daytime female talk-fest, and late night former comedians obsess about her looks, Chanel handbags, and Manolo Blahnik shoes.

In truth she's what you get if you combine the naked ambition of a Hillary Clinton with Sanford and Son's Aunt Esther. An Extremely Unlikable Person.

I have always suspected the leaders of the Party who picked her, whoever they are, have been planning to ease 46* out of office on the ground of failing health (or untimely accident *wink wink*) and replace him with Harris. Even if 46* manages to survive his term, it won’t be easy for the Democrats to turn to someone other than Kamala–a woman of color–in 2024. Her continuing unpopularity, which public exposure seems to aggravate rather than mitigate, poses a real problem for the Dems.

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