Despite the quasi pornographic Opening Ceremonies of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris – the obvious attack on Christianity with the perversion of the Da Vinci’s Last Supper – I have actually enjoyed watching most of the events of the Olympics. Sure, there is the insane biological males with XY chromosomes who beat the crap out of those poor women in boxing, but I’m old school – and I’d prefer women stick to Gymnastics and Swimming and Diving anyway.
Then again, diving got a bit boring because the Chinese are so dominant, I’m beginning to think they are all AI robots and the rest of the world’s divers are just too human. Oh yes, the title. I digress. I tend to do that. The 4×100 men’s track event has four of a country’s best sprinters pass a baton every 100 meters or so and the one with the baton that crosses the finish line first wins. Simple. Right. But here’s the problem for the Americans. Every Olympics they have set world records and won world championships – because other than Bolt – and a few other really fast guys from Jamaica and elsewhere – the US easily has the best and fastest group of sprinters in the world. Hence, they should win that event – even when Jamaica has Bolt – who still holds the world record in the 100 meters and it may be a while until someone breaks that record.
But once again, one guy didn’t get it right. I think it was a guy they call Kung Fu Kenny – because he wears a bandana on his head. Right. Well Kung Fu Kenny left too soon, the hand off was botched and the others easily passed by, and even if by some miracle the last two sprinters caught up – which they didn’t – they were DQ’d for going beyond their allotted space for the handoff. DQ’d – not Dairy Queen – that would be they were Disqualified.
This is America and the World in 2024. All the talent to win but undisciplined and obviously too arrogant to actually practice a very simple hand off enough times to win. Granted, part of the problem may be that they have so many fast guys they think it’s a good idea to insert different folks in the final. Well, this time, their best sprinter and winner of the 100 meter gold Lyle – got Covid. Huh? To his credit he ran the 200 and though being ill, he still managed to get Bronze. That would be the third place finish for those in Rio Linda. They didn’t insert him into the finals. The team that had the best time in the preliminary rounds was intact. No problem. But they couldn’t duplicate that success. Failure, once again. An over abundance of riches you might say. But that is no excuse for not practicing and winning an event that requires teamwork. I guess teamwork is not something we do anymore in the 21st Century.
The American team of sprinters have not won this event since 2000 – over 20 years. In the history of this event, the US men have won this event almost every Olympics except for a couple of times since they started running this event in 1912. The US won in 1916 and only failed to win in 1980 when they boycotted the Moscow games, 1960 Rome, 1988 Seoul and 1996 Atlanta. In all, the US has won this event 15 out of the first 20 Olympics.
But those victories were when America was on the rise as a country. Strong. And despite the struggle of the Civil Rights movement of the 60s, America was dynamic and improving. Today, America is in decline. And is a botched baton handoff symbolic of this decline? I think so. America has all the talent in the world, but it has been taken over by the same disease that destroys all great nations. I cannot sum that “thing” in a few words. Is it sloth? Is it a cultural malaise? Is it cultural rot? Quite honestly, I suspect it is the same “virus” that infected Rome or any great Civilization in decline. Barbarians have traversed the gates.
But don’t say it too loud. The Thought Police might show up at your door. In fact, in the country formerly known as Great Britain – now laughingly called just Britain – is actually prosecuting a man for saying unkind things about immigration and Muslims. The horror! And when Elon, the former darling of the illiberal left, had the audacity to have a two hour “conversation” unscripted with Donald J. Trump – some big wheel at the EU – threatened a law suit! Free speech – why that may get more views that the billions of dollars of free propaganda the Main Stream Media gives Biden/Harris – now Harris/Tampon Tim. Can’t have that. Stop that yells the EU! You fascist you! Wait. Who’s the fascist here? Pay no attention. Just shout Harris good – Orange man bad 100 times and then we will provide you with all sorts of free stuff.
I digress again. Something started to go really wrong in the US after the turn of the century. Great new technology – high speed Internet. The iPhone. Social Media. And instead of being tools to move improve our society – we have become a nation of brainwashed drones – relying on a corrupt media controlled by very immoral nasty people who now push biological males into women’s sports simply because they want as much division and chaos they can get to keep control of the confused masses. And with this chaos has come the most oppressive tyrannical government the US has ever had. China went from being a third world failure with decades of Mao’s insanity to now a well run autocratic machine – slave labor and a growing dominance economically over the West they’ve coopted by buying off corrupt leaders like Big Guy – and to think he only gets 10%! Such a bargain!
Now that the autocrats who run China have successfully co-opted the West and they will soon overtake the US as the world’s dominant super power. And while they win Gold with their robotic divers and the occasional chemicals that gave them a very unlikely win the 4×100 swim relay (it was bad beef in Beijing – not intentional doping the Olympic committee says as they count their ill gotten graft), Americans mug for the camera or talk about their recent bout with depression for winning gold in the last Olympics but seem happy to not win one in this Olympics.
We had a great run of over 200 years but I don’t think the Orange Guy with the Red Hat is going to make this country great again any more than he and his best efforts could put Humpty Dumpty back together again. The AI robots in China appear to be on the rise. The Americans despite some great individual efforts and winners of gold – well, they couldn’t handle the baton. They lost. The country appears lost too, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see the most radical duo since Mao and Stalin installed as the new team leaders like our 4×100 team to continue America’s decline by taking over where the senile puppet left off when he was forced out by the tyrants who actually run America: Larry, Moe, Curly, Hillary, Pelosi, Soros and Barack Hussein Obama. Among others.