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Olympics Fizzle Points Way Forward on U.S. Security Challenges
Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2022 | John Ullyot

Posted on 02/22/2022 6:51:01 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/22/2022 6:51:01 AM PST by Kaslin
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The Olympics were a disaster for the CCP also. Now the man who rose to power because of them may be threatened by the failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNVUqyeJklw


2 posted on 02/22/2022 6:56:33 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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There is one irrevocable rule in every sub-verse of the multiverse: EVEERYTHING touched by the left turns into really fetid, smelly, stinky s***.


3 posted on 02/22/2022 7:00:12 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

No truer words have ever been uttered.


4 posted on 02/22/2022 7:02:05 AM PST by bigfootbob
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I feel bad for the American athletes...that’s where my sympathy ends.

Everybody else got what they deserved.


5 posted on 02/22/2022 7:02:45 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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I thought the NFL was finished too. But once again American “patriots” weary.


6 posted on 02/22/2022 7:04:00 AM PST by stevio
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“There is one irrevocable rule in every sub-verse of the multiverse: EVEERYTHING touched by the left turns into really fetid, smelly, stinky s***.”

Well said. And for that reason, I can no longer tolerate Democrats.


7 posted on 02/22/2022 7:05:05 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: PIF

0, the numbers of seconds of olympics I watched this year.


8 posted on 02/22/2022 7:06:31 AM PST by Ikeon (I never cared about what color you were, until you started blaming me for your personal problems)
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I see these athletes like really good guitar players. First, there are a LOT of them and, second, it very rarely even results in fame, much less, money. Excellence needs to be something you pursue to please yourself. That is where the reward lies. And it can be pursued in all sorts of vocations or “hobbies”. Some even pay well.

I confess that I never really had much interest in the Olympics. If the events were that interesting, they would be like professional sports. That is, we’d be watching them more than once every four years. And competition for our leisure time seems to be putting them in the same category as the circus.


9 posted on 02/22/2022 7:06:37 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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The abysmal audio and spotty video didn’t help...


10 posted on 02/22/2022 7:07:03 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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Didn’t watch a minute. Couldn’t tell you who the sponsors were.


11 posted on 02/22/2022 7:07:21 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Didn’t watch a single second of the CCP Olympics.

Not even curling...


12 posted on 02/22/2022 7:09:33 AM PST by moovova
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Republican Senator Marco Rubio went even further: “At this point, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) could just as easily be named the ‘National Beijing Corporation,’” while also calling out the corporate sponsors by name: “There is no way around it – by supporting the Winter Olympic Games, Coca-Cola, Airbnb, Intel, Visa, and others are helping the CCP whitewash slavery and genocide.

Good quote by Mister Rubio.

Now, if we could convince him that airtight borders were good things...

13 posted on 02/22/2022 7:10:04 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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The Games have lost their name interest in individual athletes, and have become cliche. Can you name a single athlete?

Having China as the host country was the coup de gras.


14 posted on 02/22/2022 7:12:29 AM PST by lurk (u)
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I didn’t watch a single minute of the Olympics. Same with the Super Bowl.


15 posted on 02/22/2022 7:23:13 AM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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I watched. I enjoyed the games. Some great performances by several Americans.

Will I buy anything from the sponsors? No.


16 posted on 02/22/2022 7:39:41 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it probably is Trudeau.)
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Can you name a single athlete?

I remember "Eddie the Eagle." That's it.

17 posted on 02/22/2022 7:49:28 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: AlaskaErik

Only watched a total of about 15 seconds because flipping through the remote on the hotel TV’s scrolled past the channels featuring the events. Otherwise no eyeball time from me.


18 posted on 02/22/2022 7:56:43 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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I confess, I did watch some. I recorded a lot but ended up fast forwarding past most. No figure skating and NBC’s new obsession with freestyle stuff ran well past my interest. How many different ways can you flip in the air and be judged by a random number generator? Next time I expect them to add freestyle luge and bobsled.


19 posted on 02/22/2022 8:22:16 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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“Viewers stayed away in alarming numbers...”

Isn’t that delightful!

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.


20 posted on 02/22/2022 10:06:35 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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