At the Olympics, the USA loses again and again, but Americans don't care

 Andrea Widburg

"I hope they all lose, every last one of them, and lest anyone ask, "But what about the athletes who love America?," here’s my answer: if you belong to a business — say, the American Olympic sports franchise — that hates its customers, the fact that you, personally, don't hate those customers is irrelevant.  The customers are going to hate you.  If you dislike that reality, it's time to get into another business or start pushing back against the haters within your organization."

". . .  Of late, though, our athletes are no longer amateurs; the Soviets are gone; we worship at the Chinese shrine; the Olympics are on every two years and broadcast 24/7, making for complete over-saturation; and too many of our Olympic athletes hate the country they're representing.  For that reason, those Americans who love their country the most have cared the least when Americans have fallen flat in Tokyo.

"The first occasion for an anti-Olympic celebration came when the women's soccer team suffered a humiliating defeat to Sweden, with the Swedish team beating the Americans 3-0.  That score, in a game renowned for sometimes having only one score during the entire game, was a blow-out.  The Americans didn't just lose; they were humiliated.  And as many conservatives felt, it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of self-centered, unpleasant, unpatriotic women.  Brigitte Gabriel's response is representative of the conservative view: 

Brigitte Gabriel

@ACTBrigitte

Every time the US Women's National Soccer team loses a game, I will proudly play the US National Anthem and stand with my hand over my heart singing every word

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Olympics Ratings Disaster, Viewership At 33 Year Low…  Covid or not, I personally will not watch glowering, angry young people who want us to know of their dislike for our country. I reject them just as I have contempt for any of those costumed, frowning Democrats sitting in Congress. TD

Let's Cheer the Olympians Who Aren't Pathetic, Woke Morons 

. . . "The most recent one focuses on the ingrate American Olympians like the U.S. Women’s soccer team, who are deserving of all the derision they receive." . . .

  . . . "Forget the posturing losers. Let’s remember the athletes who do it all for the right reasons."

U-S-A! U-S-A!