It was a good 24 hours for those who find these Woke Olympic Games disgusting.
Include me in that group, which surprisingly includes dependable far-left mouthpiece Bill Maher. He unexpectedly spouted at length recently on his cable television show that the Olympics are not the place for this ridiculous Woke crap. Maher would like to cancel Cancel Culture.
Can this be a sign that this hypocritical and sanctimonious politically correct over-reach has peaked? We can only hope.
The Olympic Games, once a sporting showcase, now have become a repetitive exercise in virtue-signaling, political posturing and personal promotion with a bit of competition slipped into the cracks.
Our women’s soccer team has a troll-like waif with color-of-the-day hair who has perfected self-promotion to an art-form, reaping financial benefits along the way and never being called out for her hypocrisy.
Yes, there is no I in team. But there is a Me (letters four and two reversed). Too many of these Woke Olympics athletes are ME types.
But, as these opportunists sought to bastardize the platform of the Olympics to advance their politics and purse, a funny thing happened. They haven’t been winning.
The women’s soccer team fittingly lost to Canada by hanging yet another zero on the scoreboard.
Rejoice that the U.S. women’s soccer team has been kicked to the curb yet again and now the best these over-hyped political activists can hope for is a bronze medal. Not that long ago they were odds-on favorites to grab gold, literally and figuratively when you include talk about endorsements.
Those post-match tears likely were more over lost dollars than a lost contest.
When an athlete’s focus is on something other than the competition, bad things happen. Or good things happen if you get a chuckle from seeing such people getting their comeuppance.
Losing has become of a habit for U.S. women’s soccer players. They lost in court, too, with their suit alleging they are underpaid. The court found they actually make more than the U.S. men’s players when benefits are factored in. Plus, the women were offered the very same contract as the men and turned it down.
For them to lose in a court of law in these politically-correct, warped-justice times speaks to the weakness of their case. And now their weak on-field play isn’t exactly strengthening their appeal.
Shortly before the women lost to Canada in the Olympics, the U.S. men’s team took gold in the CONCACAF Gold Cup by stunning heavily favored Mexico.
Meanwhile a New Zealand transgender weightlifter – translation, a former guy now trying to beat the girls – bombed out of that Olympic competition and shall depart Tokyo without a medal, and the ability to leverage that as a social justice warrior.
To repeat a line from a former post on this matter: Just lose, baby!
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