{"id":318990,"date":"2021-08-09T06:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T03:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/olympics-were-not-the-patriot-games-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T06:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T03:12:51","slug":"olympics-were-not-the-patriot-games-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/olympics-were-not-the-patriot-games-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Olympics were not the patriot games: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28c136db956\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28c136db956\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/olympics-were-not-the-patriot-games-devine\/#Pathetic_Pelosi\" >Pathetic Pelosi<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/olympics-were-not-the-patriot-games-devine\/#USAF_shows_the_Army_how_to_do_it\" >USAF shows the Army how to do it<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Olympics were not the patriot <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thank goodness Team USA pulled victory from the jaws of defeat on the last day of Olympics competition and just squeaked past China in the gold-medal tally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That solitary extra gold almost made up for all the full-blown wokery that embarrassed the nation and ensured the TV ratings were a shocker. Almost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>flash: Americans don\u2019t want to watch athletes who hate America representing America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kneeling and gesturing, turning your back on the flag and disrespecting the national anthem is gross, self-indulgent and moronic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Americans switched off. NBC\u2019s prime-time ratings were down by about half overall \u2014 with 49 percent fewer viewers compared to the 2016 Rio Games, and 53 percent down from the 2012 London Olympics, Fox News reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were so dismal that NBC reportedly has had to promise advertisers freebies to make up for the dud profits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reasons were spelled out in a Monmouth University Poll which found 41 percent of Americans had no interest at all in the Games, and another 43 percent had only \u201ca little\u201d interest, with Republicans, independents and men the most disaffected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than a third of people polled July 26 blamed woke politics for their lack of interest in this year\u2019s Olympics compared with past Games. Specifically, they were upset with athletes using the international platform to express political views and disrespect their country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people we sent over aren\u2019t representing the country. They\u2019re kneeling at the flag,\u201d said a Maryland man in his 40s, who votes independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to see virtue signaling. Be a proud American,\u201d said a 45-year-old New Jersey woman, also an independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"United States' players celebrate after defeating Netherlands in a penalty shootout during a women's quarterfinal soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021\" class=\"wp-image-19065527 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>United States\u2019 players celebrate after defeating Netherlands in a penalty shootout during a women\u2019s quarterfinal soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Kiichiro Sato<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty simple. Viewers aren\u2019t masochists. They simply won\u2019t watch their beloved country be kicked in the teeth by people who have been given the great privilege of representing it, at taxpayer expense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some sports commentators were just as bad. ESPN\u2019s William Rhoden, for instance, told \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d he couldn\u2019t enjoy the opening ceremony because the American flag reminded him of the Capitol riot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw a lot of, you know, US flags,\u201d he said. Well, thank you, Captain Obvious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease don\u2019t make the Olympics into the Oscars,\u201d Bill Maher begged on his HBO show, halfway through the Games. Too late. The \u201cget-woke-go-broke\u201d adage holds again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the inimitable words of Donald Trump: \u201cIf our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn\u2019t woke, they would have won the Gold medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has . . . They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman with the purple hair, Megan Rapinoe, captain of the US women\u2019s soccer team, who is a gold medalist at kneeling, retorted: \u201cYou\u2019re rooting for people to do bad? Yikes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not that. No one wanted the American team to lose. It\u2019s just when they act like losers it\u2019s difficult to watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were the ones who strove to represent the USA on the international stage. No one held a gun to their head. Why bother if they are so contemptuous of the country that has given them its greatest honor?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Go find a country more to their liking. I hear Qatar is handing out citizenship to athletes. Just overlook the fact that women are second-class citizens there, homosexuality is illegal and free speech is nonexistent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When athletes are obsessed with whatever identity niche they\u2019ve backed themselves into at the expense of showcasing America, everybody suffers. They forget to focus on winning and lose resilience. Suddenly they\u2019re focusing inward and suffering mental-health problems, pulling out of competitions and making basic errors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Were the Chinese ambivalent about their flag? How about the Australians, the British, the Japanese?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sort of admirable that America is big enough to put up with the contemptuous self-loathing. Americans are freer than anyone in the world to say and do whatever they like, but when freedom cluelessly turns against itself, it can become a liability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In any case, after a pandemic, it\u2019s just not what people back home needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But we can learn a lesson from the Woke-Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The athletes who were patriots united the nation. Their love for country tugged at the coldest heartstrings and brought a tear to the driest eye. It was like rain in a drought, bread to a starving man, all in all a blessed relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Katie Ledecky, of the United States, reacts after winning the women's 1500-meters freestyle final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 28, 2021\" class=\"wp-image-19065531 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/olympics-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Katie Ledecky, of the United States, reacts after winning the women\u2019s 1500-meters freestyle final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 28, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Matthias Schrader<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pure radiant joy of Tamyra Mensah-Stock was infectious. After becoming the first female black American wrestler to win Olympic gold, she wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed herself in the flag and exclaimed, \u201cI love representing the US, I freaking love living here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She is grateful and that makes her happy, not a sour-faced sad sack like most of the wokesters. She\u2019s suffered real adversity, but hasn\u2019t used it as an excuse for failure. Her father died in a car accident when she was 15, on his way home from watching one of her matches. Now she says she will use her winnings to buy her battling widowed mother the food truck she has always wanted. What a role model!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for the unnoticed bulk of patriotic athletes, such as Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bravo. They went against the cultural tide and did their country proud. And in the end, despite the odds, America prevailed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pathetic_Pelosi\"><\/span>Pathetic Pelosi<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t get more hilarious than the sight of a wistful Nancy Pelosi trailing around Martha\u2019s Vineyard after being dumped from Barack Obama\u2019s birthday-bash guest list. You can almost hear her channeling Greta Thunberg: \u201cHow dare you!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The frozen expression on her face tells you she just can\u2019t believe the insult. Her, Fancy Nancy, the nation\u2019s most powerful woman, disinvited?\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\" class=\"wp-image-19065536 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/pelosi-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/pelosi-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/pelosi-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/pelosi-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/pelosi-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she had \u201cother parties\u201d to go to in Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, she flew into the island on her private jet, anyway, and skulked around crossly, telling anyone who asked that she had \u201cother parties\u201d to go to. Sure, lady!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So shameless is the House speaker that she positioned herself in the clubhouse of the Vineyard Haven Country Club on Saturday so she might accidentally-on-purpose bump into the former president at the precise moment when he walked off the golf course, in the hope of shaming him into reinviting her to his scaled-down 60th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But nope. Awkward as it was when he caught her baleful eyes upon him, to his eternal credit Obama held firm. Happy birthday, Mr. President. You\u2019ve earned it!<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"USAF_shows_the_Army_how_to_do_it\"><\/span>USAF shows the Army how to do it<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A fantastic recruitment ad for the Air Force puts the Army\u2019s joke, woke, animated, emasculated efforts to shame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What makes it even better is that the star of the show, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles \u201cC.Q.\u201d Brown, actually came up with the concept and the script on his own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is in the first frame, seated in a hangar, wearing camouflage, leaning into the camera, deep voice booming: \u201cWhen I\u2019m flying, I put my helmet on, my visor down, my mask up,\u201d he says, over a drum beat with images of fighter jets soaring and machine guns blazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know who I am, whether I\u2019m African American, Asian American, Hispanic, white, male or female. You just know I\u2019m an American airman [strategic pause] kicking your butt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So good. That\u2019s a warrior worth following.\u00a0\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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