Wokeness Is Destroying Sports

 The Political Insider  . . ."When ESPN burst on the scene in 1979 it was a revelation. Suddenly a network that spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week showing sports, talking sports, and covering sports.

"I was a massive consumer of ESPN.

"This morning I watched about 30 minutes of ESPN for the first time in years. It was a mistake. In the same way that MTV stopped being about music, ESPN has stopped being about sports.

"I am a rabid sports fan. I play hockey and love hockey, I love the NFL, I love college football, and even though my Pittsburgh Pirates are perennially terrible – I still love baseball. My brother and I can and will spend hours on the phone bemoaning the state of the Steelers and playing armchair General Manager.

"Almost all day in my house, sports radio is on in whatever room in the house that I am in. My basement is filled with sports memorabilia and my closets are loaded with sports jerseys, sweatshirts, and t-shirts.

"Some of the most amazing and ridiculous fights in my family growing up were over sports – my mom once locked herself in her car and refused to come out until we agreed to stop fighting over sports.

"When ESPN burst on the scene in 1979 it was a revelation. Suddenly a network that spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week showing sports, talking sports, and covering sports.

"I was a massive consumer of ESPN.

"This morning I watched about 30 minutes of ESPN for the first time in years. It was a mistake. In the same way that MTV stopped being about music, ESPN has stopped being about sports.". . .gn

Biden’s First Year In Office Saw 73 Police Officers Killed – Most Deaths Since 1995

 Biden’s First Year In Office Saw 73 Police Officers Killed – Most Deaths Since 1995 (capoliticalreview.com)

"More cops were killed in the line of duty during President Biden’s first year of office than any other year since 1995 — and a law-enforcement group says the driving force is the growing anti-cop sentiment, according to a new report.

"Seventy-three officers were intentionally killed in the line of duty in 2021 — a nearly 59 percent increase over 2020, when 46 cops were murdered, Fox News reported Sunday, citing the FBI’s database on officers killed in action.

“ 'We believe it’s a combination … of the George Floyd protests — riots, if you will; a general feeling of a preference for less law enforcement; and less prosecution and less policing,” Jason Johnson, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund​ ​and a 20-year police veteran​, told Fox News.​

“ 'Law enforcement officers have essentially been marginalized and demoralized and cast aside and encouraged now to enforce the law. And so we’ve seen massive jumps in the homicide rate in cities across America​,” he said. 

"Johnson noted that “it’s natural” that rising homicide rates in the US have “also resulted in many more officers being assaulted because … a lot of leaders in these cities and leaders in Congress and leaders in the White House have really voiced a lack of respect for law enforcement officers.”

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Lockdowns Lose the Olympics

 Ann Coulter

"The Science" permits no debate! (Though I suppose we're lucky Collins merely called the renowned epidemiologists "fringe," and not "white supremacists.")

"Vincent Zhou, the world-class figure skater forced to pull out of the Olympics because of COVID, can thank Anthony Fauci and our COVID-crazed media for his withdrawal.

"In an agonizing Instagram post, Zhou expressed shock at the positive test, saying:

 "It seems pretty unreal that of all the people, it would happen to myself. ... "I have been doing everything in my power to stay free of COVID since the start of the pandemic. I've taken all the precautions I can. I've isolated myself so much that the loneliness I felt in the last month or two has been crushing at times."

" His story is heart-wrenching not only because of his compelled withdrawal from the individual competition -- and the loneliness he endured -- but because our "public health authorities" lied to Zhou, leading him to do exactly the opposite of what he should have been doing to build up his immune system before the Winter Games. 

"Maybe nothing could have protected him -- he was, of course, fully vaccinated -- but the safest course would have been to expose himself to everything in 2021, not be the Boy in the Bubble. If only he'd gotten omicron back in December, like everybody else, his immune system wouldn't have been a sitting duck for the tiniest whiff of COVID once he got to Beijing.

" As Dylan H. Morris, a postdoctoral RNA virus researcher at UCLA, put it: "If you want to stay out of the hospital, giving your immune system a preview of the virus is valuable, even if that preview isn't perfectly accurate."

" A few months into the pandemic, two basic models emerged for responding to COVID:". . .

The Transgender Movement is A Modern-Day Castration Cult

 Issues & Insights

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” — George Orwell

"As a psychologist, I was invariably sympathetic with individuals who had gender dysphoria and/or became transgender, even though the latter was distasteful to me. However, in recent years I have become deeply antagonistic towards such persons, principally because they have targeted children for chemical and physical mutilation. I now consider myself — proudly — to be transphobic. And I have no problems in saying so publicly.

"And you should, too.

"As a rule, when someone gets accused of something that liberals don’t like the automatic reaction is to deny the accusation. I, however, have no problem in owning the label of “transphobic.”

"The present-day transgender movement can best be understood as simply being one of those castration cults that crop up in history from time to time (some may argue that it is not truly a castration cult since girls are taking part, but the basic principle of genital mutilation applies). The movement began with a minor celebrity in America announcing that he had transitioned into a female identity and the subsequently coordinated torrent of adulation from the media that followed.

"The popular media’s reaction was very effusive in its approval and of long duration. The clamor was such that he was suddenly awarded the Social Media Queen award, was named one of Glamour’s 25 Glamour Women of the Year, one of 2015 Entertainers of the Year, Barbara Walter’s Most Fascinating Person of 2015, was listed in Time 100, was put in the Vanity Fair and Sports Illustrated covers (both very photoshopped), and given the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. “For being courageous! So very courageous! I’m so inspired by how courageous he/she/it is! Aren’t you?'”. . .

When will @Scott_Wiener & @GavinNewsom admit that this was a mistake? How many more women need to be raped in California prisons by men who should have never been there? How many babies born to incarcerated mothers before you hear their cries? #StopSB132https://t.co/6D5GMJ1rjo

— WoLF (@WomensLibFront) August 5, 2021

The Left Tries Again to Crush the McCloskeys

 If they can't disarm us, they will make us regret the day we defended ourselves.

Victoria Taft

"They’re back for the McCloskeys.

"The St. Louis couple came into prominence during the riotous and fiery “Summer of Love” of 2020 when a BLM mob broke a gate down to get into a secure neighborhood to hunt down the mayor.

"Mark and Patricia McCloskey, both attorneys, saw the mob break down the gate, armed themselves, and came out to their front yard to keep the mob away from their home. The mob stayed peaceful. The couple has been considered public enemy number one ever since that June 28, 2020 incident.

"The McCloskey’s biggest offense appears to be timing and their color, as Axios reveals in their first, top-line description of the couple as “two white attorneys who made global headlines in 2020 when they pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters …” Another Axios headline at the time referred to the “white couple” pointing guns at protesters. Patricia McCloskey’s striped shirt even became a target for the mob.

"The local George Soros/Big Tech-purchased DA, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, upon taking office in 2016, “went right to work” letting out all kinds of crooks, thugs, and criminals from jail, ending cash bail, and failing to prosecute crimes. But in 2020, the McCloskeys were front and center. Gardner found the book in the dustbin and commenced throwing it at them.

"Gardner and her crooked office were taken off the case when a judge ruled she’d fundraised on the prosecution, making it appear that she’d “initiated a criminal prosecution for political purposes,” which, of course, she did. She appealed and yet failed to convince two higher courts, including the state Supreme Court, that she didn’t have a political vendetta and that her motives were just and pure. Yet so tainted was Gardner’s office that a special prosecutor was named to cut her out of the picture entirely.". . .

Troy Nehls says the U.S. Capitol Police entered his office and took photos of confidential information. An inspector general will investigate.

 

Politico   "What happened: Freshman Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) made the fiery accusation Tuesday that the U.S. Capitol Police entered his office and took photos of a confidential legislative proposal. The congressman said the USCP then launched a full-scale investigation against him.

"The timeline: Nehls said they snapped pictures of a draft legislative proposal that would have ensured body armor quality for law enforcement officers. He said Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger indicated they were investigating a "veiled threat" against the congressman, but Nehls said he was never warned of such a risk.

"After communicating with Chief Manger, it became clear that my office was under investigation and surveillance by [Capitol Police]. We were the ‘threat.’ If Capitol Police had spent this much time investigating January 6th as they did investigating my private legislative materials, January 6th would not have happened.”  — Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas)

 "Next steps: Nehls said he asked the Capitol Police inspector general to look into the matter and they accepted.". . .

 . . ." The Capitol Police, without naming Nehls, denied his allegation: Chief Thomas Manger said it's policy that if officers see a lawmaker's office is open without anyone inside, they are "directed to document that and secure the office to ensure nobody can wander in and steal or do anything else nefarious.". . .

"A spokesperson for the Capitol Police denied any disguises were worn by the officers, saying they had "plain clothes that were appropriate for the weather" and "none had vests or hard hats or anything like that.'". . .

The Capitol Police have been fully weaponized against Republicans - American Thinker

One of the things we learned during the Trump years is that the employees in the various federal agencies were so loyal to the Democrat party that nothing would sway them.  Is the same true for the Capitol Police?  Once Nancy Pelosi is no longer calling the shots, will they begin to do their job policing the Capitol, or will they continue to act as partisans who believe that their mission is to ensure that Washington, D.C. is a one-party town, no matter what the American voters want? 

 GOP Rep Says Capitol Police Entered His Office And Took Photos Of Confidential Documents… | Weasel Zippers

They had no authority to photograph my office, let alone investigate myself or members of my staff.

So, why is the Capitol Police Leadership maliciously investigating me in an attempt to destroy me and my character?

— Congressman Troy Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) February 8, 2022