During the Cold War, the Olympics was problematic, but at least the competition stood for something bigger - a way for Russia and the United States to show their prowess without getting anyone killed.
In the generation since, the Games has metastasized into something far worse: an overproduced, synthetic, corrupt, crazily expensive celebration of an entirely hollow globalism, paid for by corporate sponsors shilling their brands.
No wonder China loves it. Ahh, China. I am going to have more to write about China in the coming weeks and months, but let’s just say for now that SARS-Cov-2 has both exposed and amplified certain… unpleasant… facts about it.
Of course, the American media frosts this (bat) guano Olympic cake with a layer of woke falseness.(True story: the preferred new phrase in Hollywood is “black joy,” which apparently means that if the story includes African-Americans - and it better! - it should be positive, redemptive, or positively redemptive. Guess The Wire is out.)
These Xi-lympix are to actual sports as an honest investigation of the lab leak theory is to actual science. But with more diaper ads.
And so no one should be surprised that the ratings are likely to be low. How low? Brian Stelter low? Okay, that’s impossible. But at this point NBC would probably be happy if the ratings got close to an average WWE episode.
You can lie to people forever, but eventually they’re just going to turn you off. That’s still allowed. For now.
Grew up with Squaw Valley, Lake Placid, bobsledding, curling and Canadian hockey. The Winter Olympics showed the world that Canada rocked. Never supported athletic boycotts but this year is different. The only athletes who should win a gold medal this year are the TRUCKERS. They went uphill, did a triple lutz and landed in truckistan with a perfect 10
I'm Canadian and consider the Miracle On Ice the greatest moment I've watched. And we Canadians have seen our fair share of great hockey games and moments: Summit Series of '72, Habs vs. the CCCP 1975, Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens dynasties, Canada/Soviet Union 1987 (and '84) at the Canada Cup, World Juniors show downs with the Soviets/Russians, endless victories at all levels including the Olympics etc. But that Team USA win still sends shivers. People probably still don't get what they pulled off there. It was like three Goliaths against one David. The Soviets were artistic-militarized machines. They were bloody amazing. I visited the arena in Lake Placid - I swear you can still feel it shaking. Now we're entering a golden age of USA hockey it would appear. Ok, I stopped editing. Promise.
There is actually an American skier -born in America - from San Francisco who has one parent who was born in China and she is choosing to represent China in the Olympics. Talk about a traitor. Her American citizenship should be revoked.
How about Americans who insist on buying from and selling through companies that whore for China?
Alex Berenson promotes the biggest globalist facilitator of ChiCom hegemony around - AMAZON/PRIME/Bezos/WaPo - when the book can be purchased for the same price elsewhere.
I'm a life-long (well, almost) hockey player and fan and I was floored when I read this. I was particularly nauseated by Jake Chelios's - son of hockey great Chris Chelios - rationalization for playing for China's national team. How far we have fallen.
The Olympics have been politicized since Hitler attempted to turn the 1936 Berlin Olympics into a celebration of Nazism. We all remember Jesse Owens, the black power salute in 1968, the PLO attack on the Israelis in Munich, the 1980 Moscow boycott, the 1984 L.A. counter-boycott, and so on.
The reason why the 'Miracle on Ice' was so meaningful is because it occurred at time when American prestige was being battered and was in decline by fall-out from Vietnam, Watergate, the Carter presidency, inflation, the fall of the Shah, revolutions in Central America and Africa, the hostage crisis, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The Red Army team was the best in the world with Tretiak, Fetisov, Larianov, Kharlamov, and Makarov The U.S. team were a bunch of college kids drawn from the vastly inferior U.S. hockey program. By all measures it still ranks as one of the greatest upsets in sports (unless you believe the Russian version that they threw the game against the U.S. to get back at notoriously tyrannical coach Viktor Tikhinov. Check out the brilliant documentary 'Red Army' for the Russian version of what happened).
Watching American athletes playing for the Chinese national team demonstrates how cynical, corrupt, overtly mercenary, and ultimately pointless the Olympics have become. I won't be surprised if the 2028 Olympic national teams are replaced by corporate teams - Team Pfizer, Team Amazon, Team Huawei, Team AliBaba, etc.
I think the national team is made up of six Canadians, a couple of Americans (including Chris Chelios's son - would love to know how that happened) and a Russian.
Don't care how much you like sports, or even any of the athletes, please do not watch and give any ratings cash to this. There have been absolute covid and other seasonal outbreaks IN the area where the Olympics are before anyone arrived. But of course China will blame the athletes and anybody who arrived there for bringing it in to China. All countries should have refused to go.
YES! I'm American and remember being at girl scout camp hearing the Americans beat Russia!!! A lot of people forget they still had to beat Finland for the gold. HBO has a great documentary about it juxtaposed against the world climate at that time. And the movie Miracle is good too but it's a shame Herb Brooks never got to see it.
My husband lived near there and went to the Olympics as a kid! So different back then. With amateur athletes who were in it for the thrill of the sport vs. $$$
FYI Squaw Valley ski resort has had to change its name because, you know, squaw is derogatory. They weren’t allowed to re-name it Olympic Valley ski resort because, you know, the Olympic committee owns that name. Even though the name of the town is Olympic Valley. Cuz, you know.
Alas, Squaw Valley is no more. New woke name is “The Palisades”. The once cherished memories of a beautiful place to have had an Olympic Games is forever tarnished by wokeness.
It feels like the Native American culture was erased. I would love to see those names kept and add in a good dose of history, context and honor. Especially when the name refers to a natural area.
Squaw Valley? Can't find it on the map. Some place called "Palisades" I see north of Lake Tahoe. I jest, but this is just one example of the insanity - no, pure evil - the world is experiencing.
The Olympics have been ruined like everything else by politics, social justice agendas, and the media. Crying shame that an athlete with a dream just can't go compete.
Yes those pharma ads make me want to have all the diseases they cure as the ppl in the ads have such fun lives..skiing, swimming, traveling. I mean get the disease/aliment & have a great time. 🤣🤣
The newest ads for heart monitors & blood clot meds (I’ve heard clots aren’t that rare nowadays) are really disturbing when you know the reason behind them. I gladly watch a million Balance of Nature ads…lol!
Same with collegiate sports. I listen to the school radio broadcasters now because I can’t stand how networks esp ESPN ruin everything with their blather, incessant inanities, and ads.
ESPN has become insufferable for a normal sports fan. I suffer through there broadcasts during college football season because that’s the one sport I still enjoy. I have to turn the sound off, and block the ticker on the bottom to be able to watch. Fox has better coverage for college football with Joel Klatt and Gus Johnson on there big games, you can actually listen to them.
I got off the cable and dish networks due to the social agendas of the sports networks. Now I get Fubo for a month I want to watch a sports event no contract and cancel when event is over. masters (golf golf majors) college football playoffs and champ, and NFL playoffs which this year have been great, but I cut the sound off and never watch the ads.
We do much the same. And don’t get me started on the commercials. We record the games so we can fast-forward through those. Even the golf channel has bought into the madness.
He is the worst!! He tells you exactly what you just saw with a deep voice. Radio is the way to go!
Some of the NFL announcers are first rate. The Patriots guys are funny and acerbic. The Dolphins guys not bad either, have to be amusing when your team has been bad for so long.
Actually, yes you do if you want to actually stand for something rather than bending over and spreading them for the intolerant Left.
We love college football. But we have absolutely nothing to do with “BLM supporting” Roger Goodell’s business model. You are supporting that ilk and their corporate positions by your viewership. They get to charge advertisers based on your viewership. We will not be a part of that insanity. But, as you say, “to each his (or her) own.”
I would tend to agree but the slow creep of NILs, “trans” athlete movement, and the need for social agenda are consuming all athletics. Brought to us all by the “Greatest Disappointment”generation, other wise known as millennials!
The women's US soccer team was the nail in the coffin for me. As a life-long athlete who LOVED watching the Olympics, I'll quote our former - soon to be - President, "Everything Woke Turns to Sh&t!"
All US national teams have gone full woke. Its a shame, i used to love the womens soccer team also, they were so dominant. I also always love the olympics, but im done with both. Those hunger games in Russia a few years ago ended the olympics for me. It was creepy. The womens soccer team is just a bunch of ungrateful whiners, hard to root for now. Maybe a new batch of athletes will come up that arent so insane woke and hard to root for.
#NotOneMinute - LOVE THIS! The entire spectacle is revolting. I too will watch none of it. Sadly, I am getting notes from others in excitement - “Did you see the mens’s figure skating”?!! NO. #NotOneMinute
Coke lectures their employees about their whiteness, while supporting a government that has slave camps. No thanks, Coke, you won’t be missed. Hope you move your headquarters and quit selling your products here. Americans that love their country, are sick of you.
I worked in HR for Comcast and was forced to watch a video on how coke reduced their HR staff and reorganized around the world. So many lost their jobs to a woke organization that no longer put its employees first. Face to face HR contact for staff was greatly reduced. I wouldn’t drink a coke product if you gave it to me. Evil.
My son called me from inside a 7-11 and asked me, “what is it you want to drink again?” I told him that I wanted a Diet Pepsi. He said, “what did coke do?” That boy knows his mom. Then he laughed when I explained why his mom wasn’t drinking Coke Zero anymore.
Sadly, at the stratosphere levels they're owned by the same people. --- I stopped drinking Coke in the 90s, when Pepsi had a contest to give away Super Bowl Tickets (or something like that). Some poor guy that worked for Coke won, and because he had the unmitigated gall to buy some Pepsi (to try and win a prize) with the money he earned by working, Coke fired him. If I remember correctly, Pepsi hired him. Pepsi won!
Bandit, there was a good part of working for Comcast in FL - the people, the workers. They were fantastic!! Techs, call centers, maintenance, warehouse, administration, the worker bees, all within our department in SE FL. It was the VP’s and senior management that gave me the headaches. After 5 years I had enough and walked out.
"Airbnb, Alibaba, Allianz, Atos, Bridgestone, Coca-Cola, Intel, Omega, Panasonic, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Toyota, and Visa are the Olympics' official global partners."
Easy…research. Link in this article. I should be able to avoid most of them, but unfortunately my car currently has Bridgestone tires and two TVs are Samsung. Will file for future purchases though!
I was getting ready to put new tires on my SUV. It came with Bridgestone and I was planning on purchasing those same tires. I got 55,000 miles on those tires, more than I’ve ever gotten on any tires. Shame I have to hunt for different ones.
they usually promote their sponsorship on lots of other programming and print the Olympic symbol on their products... like Wheaties cereal boxes of years past...
Almost hate to say it but you hit the nail on the head. I didn't watch a minute of the Australian Open, a first in decades, and I will not watch a minute of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
I did not watch the summer Olympics and will not watch this one. Alex hits the point head on. These games are Communist/globalist celebrations now. I pass.
Used to love the Olympics. Now it just reminds me of the likes of Johnny Weir, BLM, the damn Chinese, corporate SJWs, trans freaks, and the corrupt/weakdick western governments.
I can't imagine we could field a military front that could compete at this point on the scale as a World War. We've spent too much time destroying moral, masculinity, and training. In my opinion, China takes Tiawan and Ukraine will not be joining NATO. Don't think the Soviet Union will be a "thing" again, but not completely out of possibility. So in short, the USA won't do a thing but "whine" and act like an old "tough guy" that doesn't recognize his own incompetence. And no, we don't have a say. We are no longer the bully on the block, we are the nerd with calculator and pocket protector praying no one recognizes we will pee our pants if someone talks to us.
Biden destroying the troops to maintain his injection mandate. 3300 so far being forced out for refusing and how many soldiers will be permanently injured? But he was crowing yesterday about killing an ISIS leader...trying to boost those low approval ratings as election time approaches. Nothing like killing a few bad guys to boost ratings.
plus how many collateral children? shame, shame, shame on those incompetent dronejockey commanders. Syria's an independent country, will they do this too when they don't like one of my neighbours (in Alaska)?!
He read a script. He couldn’t find Wilmington Delaware with GPS and a self driving car. He certainly can’t find Syria. I think he thought he was talking about killing some Ice Cream at the Senior Citizen Center!
The whole 'Russia/Ukraine' thing is an attempt to distract. Unless countries like Vietnam, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand are part of a joint regional deterrent, China will absorb Taiwan just like they absorbed Hong Kong and the West will not make a sound.
They are all bankers' and oligarchs' wars, dating back to the British East India Company. Before that it was at the behest of royal families and popes. Why we plebes continue to delude ourselves with notions like patriotism when it's all guise for the continued distribution of wealth and access to resources within the elite is beyond me.
I was interested in watching the skiing. For one reason, I wanted to see what a Chinese ski area looks like…. But then I see this video on Tucker. American born skier competes for China. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/american-born-skier-competing-for-china-in-beijing-olympics/ Spoiler alert it is not Mikaela Shiffrin. She has a Red Bull endorsement so she must be capable. It is just plain gross, I don’t have any time for this crap. Along with Queen Nancy saying you athletes better be careful what you say over there. Really!
Yes, I believe she needed to renounce her US citizenship to become a Chinese citizen and compete in the olympics. We will see her at the southern border in a couple of years trying to sneak back into the country.
I saw the same story. My initial reaction was negative, but then Tucker mentioned that one of her parents was born in China and I thought… maaaaaybeee she’s not competing for China by choice but because the parent has extended family still living in China who are being used as leverage to persuade her to ski for China. It’s a little tin foil hat-ish, but possibly something to consider…?
You have a point. Tucker mentioned her endorsements by some big companies. Red Bull only endorses the best. Could be for show make chi coms look hip…. BTW, Red Bull tastes bad and now it tastes even worse!
Rush Limbaugh would always say it is always about money.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:10
I miss him. It is interesting now Rush is gone the voices that have come to fill the void. Alex, Tucker, Rogan are a few. I would still love to have Rush today. He was prescient like you say. He taught millions how to understand the authoritarians words and actions. But because he was dismissed by the authoritarians, a lot of thinking people didn't tune in. Now with big tech censoring numerus voices people radar (asking why is all this information being hidden) is better in tune to their propaganda. The times are a changing...
Yes, all it takes is for one person to have the fortitude to speak out persistently. Dan Bongino's analogy is it takes one person to dance then another joins him etc till you have the whole room dancing. And all the lone voices are of good humor which really angers the oppressors. 🤗
There is zero reason for the USA to compete on Chinese soil for anything. The hypocrite athletes will bow to the CCP in silence, while literal labor camps and genocide are happening down the street from the arenas, then come back to the USA and cry about there idiotic woke grievances every chance they get. Screw this charade, I’d rather watch my grass grow.
Well, it won't be on at my house, and that sentiment is shared by many of my friends (and, I suspect many other informed Americans). All for the same reason; why would anyone support a host country that unleashed misery and death on the rest of the world, then lied about it, while continuing to perpetrate it and many other evils on its own people and the world? Wake up people! This is the easiest, most non sacrificial contribution you can make to support good in the world, and resist evil. Just don't watch.
Then let's continue to beat the drum, because too many of the regular folk are still more interested in how well Starbucks made their coffee than they are about what you and I see and the hellscape ahead.
as a partipant in 3 Olympic Games, and still working with Olympic caliber athletes, the decline of the games into corporate corrupt spectacle is almost as much a shame as the decline of our healthcare system into a corporate corrupt spectacle. talent of any kind deserves an opportunity to shine, but this is not it 🙄
You mean they manufactured COVID to destroy western values. And all those fake videos of people dropping dead in the street. The western world is a laughing stock to China.
My spare time is governed in large part by the rule that if something goes woke let it go broke. It is very easy to to imagine what Pelosi or her predecessors in appeasement would have said about the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and the murder of Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972
Can't say the same for my hubby, he's a sports nut, best I got after reminding him he had 2 Brothers lying under Our Flag 1 WW2, 2nd Korea, his best friend of 40 yrs, and 1 day he would, USN 20 yrs, did he shut the NFL down.
I watched sports and went to good movies to be entertained, not lectured by illiterate athletes and celebrities who have no appreciation for the fact that they live in a country where they can say what they want and are paid huge dollars to play children's games and provide us with entertainment
A big thank you to your husband's family & his friend for their service. Sometimes you have to make your argument personal to convince the person (ie. hubbie), sadly.
Good article. The bottom line is having the same person make public policy decisions also make the final decision on grant money (ie. Saint Fauci) is one reason we are in the mess we have. There is waaaaay too much concentrated power in that job and the corruption is boundless as we have seen. As for the lack of critical thinking of scientists, tragic and witch doctors are more respected and get better outcomes.
This makes me sick. And sad. I grew up watching the Olympics- mostly inspired by my now 89 year old father who loved them (and still does).
It’s about the athletes to people like my dad and me, but I know it’s a much bigger and political thing to the world. Why we’re supporting China, sending our athletes there and ignoring the reality, which is horrific on multiple levels, is beyond me. The world is a f—-ed up place.
Not sure why I ever cared about the winter Olympics in the first place. If I don't watch slalom races or speed skating regularly, why did I ever care to watch every four years? I think I was.programmed.
Funny how the media is failing on all fronts: Netfilx misses earnings, MSM ratings in the trash can, no one going to movies, FaceMeta imploding, and sports coverage cratering. You'd think they would get the *nudge* the public is giving them and stop the propagandizing, but no.
Who comes to the rescue in "The Martian"? The benevolent Chinese. Who did they kill off in the Avenger movies (all the adult white American males) and who were they replaced with? (not adult white males)
Hollywood has been hard at work, I mean hard at woke.
I saw what they were doing to athletes that tested positive.. what they have to put up with for that alone could not be worth it. 2 PCR tests a day? You're bound to get false positives. Probably high Ct as well. Then locking the away from olympic village. Unreal. I won't be watching.
Ethylene Oxide or EtO is not a metal nor does it contain any metals. It is a gas that diffuses back out of the sterilization pouch or packaging through permeable paper or an polyolefin non-woven (think Tyvek). Any heavy metal could be in the sterilization indicator ink on the packaging. Many sterilization packaging products from Asia use lead in their indicator ink (it's cheap) whereas US and European manufacturers eliminated the lead in the early 2000's.
As a kid growing up in the 70's and 80's ,I would get excited for every Olympics but after decades of scandal,lack of principles regarding host nations and just absolute greed from all around, I can't bring myself to watch one minute of it.I am done with the Olympics and don't support it or its grifters in any way.
The thrill of Victory...and the Agony of defeat! I can still see that skiier flying through the air!
I used to absolutely love the Olympics. It has now been completely corrupted, like everything else, by corporations and social justice agendas. So sad. Another thing is, the coverage here focuses so much on the U.S. teams and hardly shows anyone else (I'm referring to the U.S. women's gymnastics team particularly). That sh*t with Simone Biles was a joke. Some other girl would've been happy to take her place on the team, but instead she gets to go, quits on her team, and then is lauded as a hero for doing so?? That was the last nail in the coffin for me.
I completely forgot about that. I don't have enough ram for the important stuff, I flush all of that WoJo shit as soon as it happens. Just another reason it sucks.
I liked to watch the opening ceremony to see the outfits of the athletes. This year, nope, never again plus all the outfits are made in China. Wonder if they'll have any prison striped outfits?
I used to watch every event in the Olympics. No more. I'll only be watching USA curling. I feel sorry for our athletes who have put so much effort into preparation for this world-stage event. Watching these Olympics is equal to supporting China. I can't do that.
Well did you see what Pelosi said about athletes shouldn't protest there because of what the government of China might possibly do to them? Why the fuck would we even send our athletes there then.
Here's something for you all to think about: I posted on FB I wasn't going to watch the Olympics. Friends affirmed they weren't, either. One asked why not because- and this is crucial- she only watches the local (I mean local cable provider's ) newscast. So I explained to her why. She came back and said "Oh. They just talked about it. I had no idea." THAT, peeps, is why America is in trouble. The close-minded, bubble living people have no clue what's going on about anything, anywhere, at anytime.
The Olympics? Haven't watched them in 40 years. Nowadays, you can't tell the girls from the boys and it's all a woke joke. I can probably find the reruns of the Greek-Sparta games from 1,000 years ago on some channel since you get about 874 these days on cable.
i would rather watch sports anymore with Zero commentating. just give me the content and i can fill in the rest. i don't need any feel good bullshit to hype any athlete. i just want to see the competition.
AMEN! I stopped watching any game called by Cris Collinsworth because of that B.S. His incessant liberal tripe drove me up the wall. So I stopped watching. Then I stopped watching the NFL, MLB, and NBA altogether. NCAA Football is about the only real sport I still watch and the woketards are coming for it next. The only way we win is if we dont watch it.
“an overproduced, synthetic, corrupt, crazily expensive celebration of an entirely hollow globalism, paid for by corporate sponsors shilling their brands.” What hasn’t turned into this? Everything that used to be good organically is now this. I’m nobody and I won’t be watching. ✅
We won’t be watching even a single moment of the Olympics. I used to enjoy gymnastics and ice skating but haven’t watched in years. The left ruins everything.
I used to be fired to the TV during the Olympics. Especially the winter games. But wokeness has ruined it like it does with everything. I haven't really cared about it since London.
Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday the summer games were in Beijing…and that poor drummer in the opening ceremony was exposed because his drum light when off at the wrong time…legend has it he was “punished”…the smog was too bad to run the marathon or other distance events. Ah…memories…
While the globalists plot the new world order they try to distract us by expecting us to cheer for our nation at the Olympics when the endgame is to eliminate the nation state and make us all slaves in the one world government. Resist!
Grew up with Squaw Valley, Lake Placid, bobsledding, curling and Canadian hockey. The Winter Olympics showed the world that Canada rocked. Never supported athletic boycotts but this year is different. The only athletes who should win a gold medal this year are the TRUCKERS. They went uphill, did a triple lutz and landed in truckistan with a perfect 10
I'm Canadian and consider the Miracle On Ice the greatest moment I've watched. And we Canadians have seen our fair share of great hockey games and moments: Summit Series of '72, Habs vs. the CCCP 1975, Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens dynasties, Canada/Soviet Union 1987 (and '84) at the Canada Cup, World Juniors show downs with the Soviets/Russians, endless victories at all levels including the Olympics etc. But that Team USA win still sends shivers. People probably still don't get what they pulled off there. It was like three Goliaths against one David. The Soviets were artistic-militarized machines. They were bloody amazing. I visited the arena in Lake Placid - I swear you can still feel it shaking. Now we're entering a golden age of USA hockey it would appear. Ok, I stopped editing. Promise.
And now team China Hockey consists of a multitude of Americans. We”ll be watching “Not One Minute!”
Amen to that. To any American athlete representing China, kiss my ass and hope you fall flat on your face.
Yep, every American representing China is a traitor. Period.
There is actually an American skier -born in America - from San Francisco who has one parent who was born in China and she is choosing to represent China in the Olympics. Talk about a traitor. Her American citizenship should be revoked.
Another reason I am not watching.
And can someone PLEASE delete scammer mary dunkin? Thank you!
How about Americans who insist on buying from and selling through companies that whore for China?
Alex Berenson promotes the biggest globalist facilitator of ChiCom hegemony around - AMAZON/PRIME/Bezos/WaPo - when the book can be purchased for the same price elsewhere.
You just offended half of American politicians.
I'm a life-long (well, almost) hockey player and fan and I was floored when I read this. I was particularly nauseated by Jake Chelios's - son of hockey great Chris Chelios - rationalization for playing for China's national team. How far we have fallen.
The Olympics have been politicized since Hitler attempted to turn the 1936 Berlin Olympics into a celebration of Nazism. We all remember Jesse Owens, the black power salute in 1968, the PLO attack on the Israelis in Munich, the 1980 Moscow boycott, the 1984 L.A. counter-boycott, and so on.
The reason why the 'Miracle on Ice' was so meaningful is because it occurred at time when American prestige was being battered and was in decline by fall-out from Vietnam, Watergate, the Carter presidency, inflation, the fall of the Shah, revolutions in Central America and Africa, the hostage crisis, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The Red Army team was the best in the world with Tretiak, Fetisov, Larianov, Kharlamov, and Makarov The U.S. team were a bunch of college kids drawn from the vastly inferior U.S. hockey program. By all measures it still ranks as one of the greatest upsets in sports (unless you believe the Russian version that they threw the game against the U.S. to get back at notoriously tyrannical coach Viktor Tikhinov. Check out the brilliant documentary 'Red Army' for the Russian version of what happened).
Watching American athletes playing for the Chinese national team demonstrates how cynical, corrupt, overtly mercenary, and ultimately pointless the Olympics have become. I won't be surprised if the 2028 Olympic national teams are replaced by corporate teams - Team Pfizer, Team Amazon, Team Huawei, Team AliBaba, etc.
I think the national team is made up of six Canadians, a couple of Americans (including Chris Chelios's son - would love to know how that happened) and a Russian.
Don't care how much you like sports, or even any of the athletes, please do not watch and give any ratings cash to this. There have been absolute covid and other seasonal outbreaks IN the area where the Olympics are before anyone arrived. But of course China will blame the athletes and anybody who arrived there for bringing it in to China. All countries should have refused to go.
YES! I'm American and remember being at girl scout camp hearing the Americans beat Russia!!! A lot of people forget they still had to beat Finland for the gold. HBO has a great documentary about it juxtaposed against the world climate at that time. And the movie Miracle is good too but it's a shame Herb Brooks never got to see it.
I was 12 & at a swim meet. It was fantastic.
There's a terrific video on youtube with a pic of the russian coach on it that does a great job in the shiver department.
Every person, team and entity has an Achilles heel, you just have to know where to sever it
I know, wasn't it great?! --- My favorite teams were always the Minnesota North Stars and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
and it was make into one of my kiddos favorite all time films
My husband lived near there and went to the Olympics as a kid! So different back then. With amateur athletes who were in it for the thrill of the sport vs. $$$
Yep, just like everything else in America these days, we have sold our soul for $$$.
Yes, the truckers rock and I support them wholeheartedly! Poodeau can kiss my ass...
And if he thinks JB will help him… JB doesn’t know where Canada is at this point.
I was there! Wearing Moon Boots and trying to eat frozen sandwiches. Good times!
USA! USA! What an awesome memory for you ,I'm jealous! Lol
FYI Squaw Valley ski resort has had to change its name because, you know, squaw is derogatory. They weren’t allowed to re-name it Olympic Valley ski resort because, you know, the Olympic committee owns that name. Even though the name of the town is Olympic Valley. Cuz, you know.
Did not know that. Explains why you never hear about Squaw Valley anymore. Another casualty of wokeism
And I have been told the new name several times and STILL can't remember it.
Notsquawvalley
Love that!
It’s something like The Palisades. I’ll still call it Squaw.
smh 🤦🏼♀️
Alas, Squaw Valley is no more. New woke name is “The Palisades”. The once cherished memories of a beautiful place to have had an Olympic Games is forever tarnished by wokeness.
It feels like the Native American culture was erased. I would love to see those names kept and add in a good dose of history, context and honor. Especially when the name refers to a natural area.
This comment wins the Internet today 😊🌟👏👏👏
Squaw Valley? Can't find it on the map. Some place called "Palisades" I see north of Lake Tahoe. I jest, but this is just one example of the insanity - no, pure evil - the world is experiencing.
I forgot to mention they turned off the Olympic flame at the entrance- cuz, you know, fossil fuels.
Went to Squaw every winter skiing with my boys. Want to go back but it won't be the same. Sad.
High degree of difficulty in fighting the globalist propaganda machine also supports 10/10.
yes!
YES ... Gold Medals for the Truckers!
The Olympics have been ruined like everything else by politics, social justice agendas, and the media. Crying shame that an athlete with a dream just can't go compete.
I'm already NOT watching, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
We watch as much of The Olympics as we do the NFL and NBA. Zee-ro.
What? And miss all the Vax and Pharma ads?!
Yes those pharma ads make me want to have all the diseases they cure as the ppl in the ads have such fun lives..skiing, swimming, traveling. I mean get the disease/aliment & have a great time. 🤣🤣
The newest ads for heart monitors & blood clot meds (I’ve heard clots aren’t that rare nowadays) are really disturbing when you know the reason behind them. I gladly watch a million Balance of Nature ads…lol!
And listen as they go warp speed over the side effects 🤣🤣
And listen to the loser NBC commentators drool all over the CCP and China...? I'd rather scrub my toilet with a toothbrush...
Oh no! You must have cheated and tuned in. I refuse to even think that it is occurring. :)
🤣😉
Probably lots of little kid athletes beaming with joy that they finally got their vaxxine! Praise the pharmalord!!!
All the CV lies....
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/watching-the-detectives-and-seeing
What a great article!!!! Nailed it
I haven't watched Olympic games in many years. Haven't missed them.
Me too. If the US team wont boycott, I will by not watching.
Not alone!
Same with collegiate sports. I listen to the school radio broadcasters now because I can’t stand how networks esp ESPN ruin everything with their blather, incessant inanities, and ads.
ESPN has become insufferable for a normal sports fan. I suffer through there broadcasts during college football season because that’s the one sport I still enjoy. I have to turn the sound off, and block the ticker on the bottom to be able to watch. Fox has better coverage for college football with Joel Klatt and Gus Johnson on there big games, you can actually listen to them.
I got off the cable and dish networks due to the social agendas of the sports networks. Now I get Fubo for a month I want to watch a sports event no contract and cancel when event is over. masters (golf golf majors) college football playoffs and champ, and NFL playoffs which this year have been great, but I cut the sound off and never watch the ads.
We mute the ads EVERY TIME we watch anything on TV. EVERY. TIME.
Or fast forward or change channels. Have even shut offf the TV and DVR cable receiver.
We do much the same. And don’t get me started on the commercials. We record the games so we can fast-forward through those. Even the golf channel has bought into the madness.
re ESPN - You must be referring to Chris Fowler, who blathers on incessantly as if we turned in to hear him speak vs watch an event.
He is the worst!! He tells you exactly what you just saw with a deep voice. Radio is the way to go!
Some of the NFL announcers are first rate. The Patriots guys are funny and acerbic. The Dolphins guys not bad either, have to be amusing when your team has been bad for so long.
You still watch/listen to the National Felons League of wokeness? No thanks. Not in our home.
To each his own. Many kids I followed in college play. Do I cancel my appreciation for them because of the corruption of some?
Actually, yes you do if you want to actually stand for something rather than bending over and spreading them for the intolerant Left.
We love college football. But we have absolutely nothing to do with “BLM supporting” Roger Goodell’s business model. You are supporting that ilk and their corporate positions by your viewership. They get to charge advertisers based on your viewership. We will not be a part of that insanity. But, as you say, “to each his (or her) own.”
Actually he announces for the tennis majors. The worst...
They lost me when they replaced Mike Torico!
He and Kirk Herbstreit. Not to mention the shenanigans with Maria Taylor.
100% agree
not all collegiate sports are corrupted .. the revenue generators, yes .. but there is still great competition to be found in the others.
I would tend to agree but the slow creep of NILs, “trans” athlete movement, and the need for social agenda are consuming all athletics. Brought to us all by the “Greatest Disappointment”generation, other wise known as millennials!
And those sports broadcasters never played the sports they comment on. You get out there & try doing what the players are doing.
The women's US soccer team was the nail in the coffin for me. As a life-long athlete who LOVED watching the Olympics, I'll quote our former - soon to be - President, "Everything Woke Turns to Sh&t!"
All US national teams have gone full woke. Its a shame, i used to love the womens soccer team also, they were so dominant. I also always love the olympics, but im done with both. Those hunger games in Russia a few years ago ended the olympics for me. It was creepy. The womens soccer team is just a bunch of ungrateful whiners, hard to root for now. Maybe a new batch of athletes will come up that arent so insane woke and hard to root for.
Don't forget the corporate sponsors.
I plan to watch a total of zero minutes.
You get the gold medal for participation. I will get one too.
Gu can suck it , follow the 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
I'll be on the golf course with my daughters.
I’ll be finishing PANDEMIA.
Count me in on Team Zero!
I’m watching LESS than that! LOL
#NotOneMinute
#NotOneMinute - LOVE THIS! The entire spectacle is revolting. I too will watch none of it. Sadly, I am getting notes from others in excitement - “Did you see the mens’s figure skating”?!! NO. #NotOneMinute
yes! & not one dollar to sponsors 🙏🐱
How will we know what sponsors to boycott if we don't watch it? --- I'm not going to be watching it.
Coke lectures their employees about their whiteness, while supporting a government that has slave camps. No thanks, Coke, you won’t be missed. Hope you move your headquarters and quit selling your products here. Americans that love their country, are sick of you.
Coke = Woke
No Coke for me.
I worked in HR for Comcast and was forced to watch a video on how coke reduced their HR staff and reorganized around the world. So many lost their jobs to a woke organization that no longer put its employees first. Face to face HR contact for staff was greatly reduced. I wouldn’t drink a coke product if you gave it to me. Evil.
My son called me from inside a 7-11 and asked me, “what is it you want to drink again?” I told him that I wanted a Diet Pepsi. He said, “what did coke do?” That boy knows his mom. Then he laughed when I explained why his mom wasn’t drinking Coke Zero anymore.
🤣😂🤣😂I never liked the taste of coke, instead preferred DP.
Sadly, at the stratosphere levels they're owned by the same people. --- I stopped drinking Coke in the 90s, when Pepsi had a contest to give away Super Bowl Tickets (or something like that). Some poor guy that worked for Coke won, and because he had the unmitigated gall to buy some Pepsi (to try and win a prize) with the money he earned by working, Coke fired him. If I remember correctly, Pepsi hired him. Pepsi won!
I'm sorry you had to work for the evil comcast.
Bandit, there was a good part of working for Comcast in FL - the people, the workers. They were fantastic!! Techs, call centers, maintenance, warehouse, administration, the worker bees, all within our department in SE FL. It was the VP’s and senior management that gave me the headaches. After 5 years I had enough and walked out.
If, or when, I drink a Coke product, it's because the establishment I'm eating in doesn't have Pepsi. --- I usually drink water.
"Airbnb, Alibaba, Allianz, Atos, Bridgestone, Coca-Cola, Intel, Omega, Panasonic, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Toyota, and Visa are the Olympics' official global partners."
from https://m.republicworld.com/world-news/china/beijing-winter-olympics-sponsors-in-difficult-situation-as-us-china-tensions-continue-articleshow.html
Thank-you! Looks like I'm good.
Me too
Sorry to see Intel on that list. I thought they were better than that.
Watch the video called MONOPOLY WHO OWNS THE WORLD? They are ALL owned by the same monstrous oligarchs at the top.
BlackRock of which Neil Young of canceling Joe Rogan has a vested interest. BlackRock and Vanaguard are the owners of the world.
I've seen one like it, if not the same one. Blackstone.
Van Guard, which owns all the others. No competition. All owned by the same monsters.
You can search on blackrock vs blackstone to get the history.
Someone should be designated just to watch to see who all sponsors are. Then report list of them to the rest of us so we can all boycott them.
There ya go.
Easy…research. Link in this article. I should be able to avoid most of them, but unfortunately my car currently has Bridgestone tires and two TVs are Samsung. Will file for future purchases though!
https://www.axios.com/olympic-sponsors-china-human-rights-silence-4ad4a204-7e2a-4ddb-adf6-30517f9e1a07.html
I was getting ready to put new tires on my SUV. It came with Bridgestone and I was planning on purchasing those same tires. I got 55,000 miles on those tires, more than I’ve ever gotten on any tires. Shame I have to hunt for different ones.
they usually promote their sponsorship on lots of other programming and print the Olympic symbol on their products... like Wheaties cereal boxes of years past...
Almost hate to say it but you hit the nail on the head. I didn't watch a minute of the Australian Open, a first in decades, and I will not watch a minute of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
I didn't either. It didn't feel like a legitimate contest with out the best player in the world in attendance.
No plans to watch any part of this disgusting circus. Maybe they will seed the world with a new pandemic. Finish us off.
Already hearing its Super MERS.
Not if we seed them first and decimate them
To "decimate" is to wipe out a mere 10%. I wish the world would get it.
I did not watch the summer Olympics and will not watch this one. Alex hits the point head on. These games are Communist/globalist celebrations now. I pass.
Used to love the Olympics. Now it just reminds me of the likes of Johnny Weir, BLM, the damn Chinese, corporate SJWs, trans freaks, and the corrupt/weakdick western governments.
Berlin 1936 all over again (see my post on repeating history)
Spot on. So ... how do we avoid World War III? Do we even have any say?
I can't imagine we could field a military front that could compete at this point on the scale as a World War. We've spent too much time destroying moral, masculinity, and training. In my opinion, China takes Tiawan and Ukraine will not be joining NATO. Don't think the Soviet Union will be a "thing" again, but not completely out of possibility. So in short, the USA won't do a thing but "whine" and act like an old "tough guy" that doesn't recognize his own incompetence. And no, we don't have a say. We are no longer the bully on the block, we are the nerd with calculator and pocket protector praying no one recognizes we will pee our pants if someone talks to us.
Biden destroying the troops to maintain his injection mandate. 3300 so far being forced out for refusing and how many soldiers will be permanently injured? But he was crowing yesterday about killing an ISIS leader...trying to boost those low approval ratings as election time approaches. Nothing like killing a few bad guys to boost ratings.
Biden is revolting.
In Remernce of Jesse Owens.
plus how many collateral children? shame, shame, shame on those incompetent dronejockey commanders. Syria's an independent country, will they do this too when they don't like one of my neighbours (in Alaska)?!
Actually he blew himself up, along with his wife and some of his children. So Pres. Biden is lying when he said the US killed this man.
He read a script. He couldn’t find Wilmington Delaware with GPS and a self driving car. He certainly can’t find Syria. I think he thought he was talking about killing some Ice Cream at the Senior Citizen Center!
Thats a great description of Biden.
Absolutely JD, so perfectly described. The new generations are so fragile, they are wearing Depends undergarments starting in their teens.
The whole 'Russia/Ukraine' thing is an attempt to distract. Unless countries like Vietnam, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand are part of a joint regional deterrent, China will absorb Taiwan just like they absorbed Hong Kong and the West will not make a sound.
They are all bankers' and oligarchs' wars, dating back to the British East India Company. Before that it was at the behest of royal families and popes. Why we plebes continue to delude ourselves with notions like patriotism when it's all guise for the continued distribution of wealth and access to resources within the elite is beyond me.
We never had a say.
I was interested in watching the skiing. For one reason, I wanted to see what a Chinese ski area looks like…. But then I see this video on Tucker. American born skier competes for China. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/american-born-skier-competing-for-china-in-beijing-olympics/ Spoiler alert it is not Mikaela Shiffrin. She has a Red Bull endorsement so she must be capable. It is just plain gross, I don’t have any time for this crap. Along with Queen Nancy saying you athletes better be careful what you say over there. Really!
Well, let her stay for awhile in China after the Xi-lymics to see how free she'll be there. LIve in China and see what happens to your freedoms.
@Lib- they've taken her American passport away. Let's see her try to run to the American embassy when things go sour.
Yes, I believe she needed to renounce her US citizenship to become a Chinese citizen and compete in the olympics. We will see her at the southern border in a couple of years trying to sneak back into the country.
@Scott- ty for that! Makes perfect sense. Well, kind of.
Huh, didn't know this. Should be interesting to see how this unfolds.
I THINK I heard it on Tucker's show but I'm not sure
You probably did as he did report about the initial report of her parents. Plus he is the only one who reports such stories/news.
Why did they take away her passport? How is that allowable?
I only caught a part of it. I don't even know which country took it away but I'm suspecting we did.
Okay, that would make sense. Thanks for the insight.
I saw the same story. My initial reaction was negative, but then Tucker mentioned that one of her parents was born in China and I thought… maaaaaybeee she’s not competing for China by choice but because the parent has extended family still living in China who are being used as leverage to persuade her to ski for China. It’s a little tin foil hat-ish, but possibly something to consider…?
@Cory- it's quite plausible. I thought the same thing. And her American passport has been taken away.
You have a point. Tucker mentioned her endorsements by some big companies. Red Bull only endorses the best. Could be for show make chi coms look hip…. BTW, Red Bull tastes bad and now it tastes even worse!
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Rush Limbaugh would always say it is always about money.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:10
Yes Rush was so prescient & missed.
I miss him. It is interesting now Rush is gone the voices that have come to fill the void. Alex, Tucker, Rogan are a few. I would still love to have Rush today. He was prescient like you say. He taught millions how to understand the authoritarians words and actions. But because he was dismissed by the authoritarians, a lot of thinking people didn't tune in. Now with big tech censoring numerus voices people radar (asking why is all this information being hidden) is better in tune to their propaganda. The times are a changing...
Yes, all it takes is for one person to have the fortitude to speak out persistently. Dan Bongino's analogy is it takes one person to dance then another joins him etc till you have the whole room dancing. And all the lone voices are of good humor which really angers the oppressors. 🤗
There is zero reason for the USA to compete on Chinese soil for anything. The hypocrite athletes will bow to the CCP in silence, while literal labor camps and genocide are happening down the street from the arenas, then come back to the USA and cry about there idiotic woke grievances every chance they get. Screw this charade, I’d rather watch my grass grow.
Well, it won't be on at my house, and that sentiment is shared by many of my friends (and, I suspect many other informed Americans). All for the same reason; why would anyone support a host country that unleashed misery and death on the rest of the world, then lied about it, while continuing to perpetrate it and many other evils on its own people and the world? Wake up people! This is the easiest, most non sacrificial contribution you can make to support good in the world, and resist evil. Just don't watch.
But China is only alf of the evil. America is the other half. Covid is a joint operation. Fauci and buds murdered their own.
Our rulers have lost their moral compass while we the people still have it.
Then let's continue to beat the drum, because too many of the regular folk are still more interested in how well Starbucks made their coffee than they are about what you and I see and the hellscape ahead.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/meet-me-in-the-middle
Sad and accurate.
Still, China is asshoe. Never gets old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fwgVUfW_O4
as a partipant in 3 Olympic Games, and still working with Olympic caliber athletes, the decline of the games into corporate corrupt spectacle is almost as much a shame as the decline of our healthcare system into a corporate corrupt spectacle. talent of any kind deserves an opportunity to shine, but this is not it 🙄
Michael Senger's book Snake Oil makes a great case how China is using Covid to destroy Western Values.
We're doing a great job by ourselves in destroying Western values. We don't need China's help to do it.
You mean they manufactured COVID to destroy western values. And all those fake videos of people dropping dead in the street. The western world is a laughing stock to China.
I hope the ratings are disastrous. And I won’t be helping out either by reading news coverage. My personal boycott if you will.
My spare time is governed in large part by the rule that if something goes woke let it go broke. It is very easy to to imagine what Pelosi or her predecessors in appeasement would have said about the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and the murder of Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972
Can't say the same for my hubby, he's a sports nut, best I got after reminding him he had 2 Brothers lying under Our Flag 1 WW2, 2nd Korea, his best friend of 40 yrs, and 1 day he would, USN 20 yrs, did he shut the NFL down.
I haven't watched pro baseball or the NFL or the NBA playoffs for that reason
I watched sports and went to good movies to be entertained, not lectured by illiterate athletes and celebrities who have no appreciation for the fact that they live in a country where they can say what they want and are paid huge dollars to play children's games and provide us with entertainment
Same. Love baseball too.
A big thank you to your husband's family & his friend for their service. Sometimes you have to make your argument personal to convince the person (ie. hubbie), sadly.
I don't normally rant at my husband, but when I do, I get my way. He is still stone deaf to any but TV knowledge and his Liberal Vanderbilt cancer researcher, now setting up labs, when grant ran out, eldest daughter on how save these vax are. She won't listen, or read anything contrary to what the Propaganda is. Science is never wrong type. RFK JR https://clarion.causeaction.com/2022/02/02/us-officials-handling-of-the-pandemic-is-catastrophic-exercise-in-bad-government-robert-f-kennedy-jr/
Good article. The bottom line is having the same person make public policy decisions also make the final decision on grant money (ie. Saint Fauci) is one reason we are in the mess we have. There is waaaaay too much concentrated power in that job and the corruption is boundless as we have seen. As for the lack of critical thinking of scientists, tragic and witch doctors are more respected and get better outcomes.
SO VERY TRUE
May their memories be a blessing for your family and all who appreciate the fact that we must make sacrifices for freedom
#NotOneMinute
Nothing is genuine or virtuous anymore. Amazing how much of everything I distrust now.
I'm a millennial but nonetheless I'll continue with black & white classics of yesteryear.
Good for you! I have always
said, “All the good talent in the world today is 6 feet under “.
You have common sense & are wise beyond your years & peers. Glad you're hanging out here where are the cool ppl are 😎
I'm already NOT watching, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
This makes me sick. And sad. I grew up watching the Olympics- mostly inspired by my now 89 year old father who loved them (and still does).
It’s about the athletes to people like my dad and me, but I know it’s a much bigger and political thing to the world. Why we’re supporting China, sending our athletes there and ignoring the reality, which is horrific on multiple levels, is beyond me. The world is a f—-ed up place.
Not sure why I ever cared about the winter Olympics in the first place. If I don't watch slalom races or speed skating regularly, why did I ever care to watch every four years? I think I was.programmed.
It was fun and entertaining. We’ve shut off the Olympics, the NFL and everything else.
Go Commanders!
Go Guardians!
Kurt Schlicter joked in one of his books about the "Red Sox" becoming the "Rainbow Sox". Does not see like satire as of late.
It is called television programming…
It has worked on lots of people.
And remember that thrilling sport of curling too.
That is the one sport where the gold medalists look like middle aged dads. So that one is kind of awesome.
@Cargo- HAHAHAHA!
Yes!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Not interested. No way. RESIST..!!
If I hadn't read it in this Substack, I honestly would not have even realized the Olympics start today.
Some other network should show the 1980 U.S./Russia game on a loop. I bet it would draw more viewers than this year's sham in Beijing.
Funny how the media is failing on all fronts: Netfilx misses earnings, MSM ratings in the trash can, no one going to movies, FaceMeta imploding, and sports coverage cratering. You'd think they would get the *nudge* the public is giving them and stop the propagandizing, but no.
Who comes to the rescue in "The Martian"? The benevolent Chinese. Who did they kill off in the Avenger movies (all the adult white American males) and who were they replaced with? (not adult white males)
Hollywood has been hard at work, I mean hard at woke.
I saw what they were doing to athletes that tested positive.. what they have to put up with for that alone could not be worth it. 2 PCR tests a day? You're bound to get false positives. Probably high Ct as well. Then locking the away from olympic village. Unreal. I won't be watching.
Swab has ON IT Ethylene Oxide, known as a heavy metal CANCER/FERTILITY KILLER. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExZe0anXAAYqqf5.jpg
Ethylene Oxide or EtO is not a metal nor does it contain any metals. It is a gas that diffuses back out of the sterilization pouch or packaging through permeable paper or an polyolefin non-woven (think Tyvek). Any heavy metal could be in the sterilization indicator ink on the packaging. Many sterilization packaging products from Asia use lead in their indicator ink (it's cheap) whereas US and European manufacturers eliminated the lead in the early 2000's.
Maybe this is just the wake up call some Americans need....
I'm not watching. I'm also boycotting the sponsors, and replying to their tweets asking why they are supporting the Chinese Olympics.
I used to tune into the winter Olympics, but have lost interest and have absolutely none this time around.
Same for me.
I am not watching any of it.
Olympics, United Nations, NATO: decrepit and corrupted. It's as if any and all cross-national institutions naturally age out this way.
As a kid growing up in the 70's and 80's ,I would get excited for every Olympics but after decades of scandal,lack of principles regarding host nations and just absolute greed from all around, I can't bring myself to watch one minute of it.I am done with the Olympics and don't support it or its grifters in any way.
Back when Wide World of Sports was on and it meant something.
I'd already lost interest by the time they started letting Pro athletes in the games, but that move was the last shovel full of dirt on the grave.
The thrill of Victory...and the Agony of defeat! I can still see that skiier flying through the air!
I used to absolutely love the Olympics. It has now been completely corrupted, like everything else, by corporations and social justice agendas. So sad. Another thing is, the coverage here focuses so much on the U.S. teams and hardly shows anyone else (I'm referring to the U.S. women's gymnastics team particularly). That sh*t with Simone Biles was a joke. Some other girl would've been happy to take her place on the team, but instead she gets to go, quits on her team, and then is lauded as a hero for doing so?? That was the last nail in the coffin for me.
I completely forgot about that. I don't have enough ram for the important stuff, I flush all of that WoJo shit as soon as it happens. Just another reason it sucks.
Agree Ren
Used to really look forward to the Olympics, won’t be watching a second of this one.
I liked to watch the opening ceremony to see the outfits of the athletes. This year, nope, never again plus all the outfits are made in China. Wonder if they'll have any prison striped outfits?
I used to watch every event in the Olympics. No more. I'll only be watching USA curling. I feel sorry for our athletes who have put so much effort into preparation for this world-stage event. Watching these Olympics is equal to supporting China. I can't do that.
No lies, I didn't even know the Olympics were happening till I got this email. Guess I won't be watching
“expensive celebration of an entirely hollow globalism”. Sad but accurate.
I saw the headline about 20 minutes before you sent out this post and I thought the same thing. Just not into it. Maybe they'll all get covid...
Super MERS
Well did you see what Pelosi said about athletes shouldn't protest there because of what the government of China might possibly do to them? Why the fuck would we even send our athletes there then.
Assignin
bc of ass kissing political correctness-make me vomit
Here's something for you all to think about: I posted on FB I wasn't going to watch the Olympics. Friends affirmed they weren't, either. One asked why not because- and this is crucial- she only watches the local (I mean local cable provider's ) newscast. So I explained to her why. She came back and said "Oh. They just talked about it. I had no idea." THAT, peeps, is why America is in trouble. The close-minded, bubble living people have no clue what's going on about anything, anywhere, at anytime.
Bingo kittynana
perhaps we can send all the bubbleheads to china, give them a real awakening. dare to dream.
Maybe put it on TikTok?
kittynana doesn't do tik tok although sometimes my kids or granddaughter will send one and they're pretty funny
Ha. I was kidding about it being a way to reach those living in their bubble.
The Olympics? Haven't watched them in 40 years. Nowadays, you can't tell the girls from the boys and it's all a woke joke. I can probably find the reruns of the Greek-Sparta games from 1,000 years ago on some channel since you get about 874 these days on cable.
You could not pay me to watch it.
I have 0% interest in the Olympics. None. Nadda.
i would rather watch sports anymore with Zero commentating. just give me the content and i can fill in the rest. i don't need any feel good bullshit to hype any athlete. i just want to see the competition.
AMEN! I stopped watching any game called by Cris Collinsworth because of that B.S. His incessant liberal tripe drove me up the wall. So I stopped watching. Then I stopped watching the NFL, MLB, and NBA altogether. NCAA Football is about the only real sport I still watch and the woketards are coming for it next. The only way we win is if we dont watch it.
Cris talks non stop doesn’t he?
Eddy the Eagle was the best thing about the Winter Olympics - that's the last time I paid any of it any attention.
Don't understand how the country that gave the world the Virus can have the Olympics???
Almost a Reward. We are living in an Upside-Down World.
“an overproduced, synthetic, corrupt, crazily expensive celebration of an entirely hollow globalism, paid for by corporate sponsors shilling their brands.” What hasn’t turned into this? Everything that used to be good organically is now this. I’m nobody and I won’t be watching. ✅
We won’t be watching even a single moment of the Olympics. I used to enjoy gymnastics and ice skating but haven’t watched in years. The left ruins everything.
I used to be fired to the TV during the Olympics. Especially the winter games. But wokeness has ruined it like it does with everything. I haven't really cared about it since London.
Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday the summer games were in Beijing…and that poor drummer in the opening ceremony was exposed because his drum light when off at the wrong time…legend has it he was “punished”…the smog was too bad to run the marathon or other distance events. Ah…memories…
While the globalists plot the new world order they try to distract us by expecting us to cheer for our nation at the Olympics when the endgame is to eliminate the nation state and make us all slaves in the one world government. Resist!
They can mandate watching the Olympics.
Or maybe mandate sponsor logos on our masks
China Wins! —-Athletes Test Positive From USA 😂😂😂