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2024 Summer Olympics Controversy

Although still garnering a large audience, the number of people who watch the Summer Olympics has steadily declined since 2008. With the frenzy of Netflix, YouTube, and an excess of other options exploding over the past decade, the drop in viewership makes sense. People are distracted, and the Olympics does not seem to have the same appeal it once did.

Ratings, however, for the 2024 Summer Olympics are seemingly soaring. It’s important to point out that NBC, the network that airs live coverage of the Olympics in the United States, has changed the metrics it uses to measure audience size, and total viewership has yet to be determined, but it is fair to say that the summer Olympics this year is gaining a log of attention. From the offensive opening ceremonies to the participation of biological males in female events, this year’s summer Olympics is becoming a heated and politically charged subject.

This is not the first time transgender participation has been an issue with the Olympics. Transgender athletes have been permitted to compete in this international event since the early 2000’s. However, it wasn’t until the 2020 Olympic games, played in 2021 because of COVID, that the first openly transgender individual, Laurel Hubbard competed. Hubbard’s participation sparked outrage then, as he had an unfair advantage over his genetically female counterparts.

In 2003, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) enforced strict guidelines for a transgender individual to compete, including surgical anatomical changes having been completed. This rule, along with a few others, was dropped in 2015. Hubbard’s case in 2021 required testosterone levels to be below a certain amount. This still disregards a biological male’s obvious advantage with muscle mass and bone structure among other things, but it attempted to level the playing field, at least to some degree. This doesn’t seem to be the case in 2024. It is important to note that the IOC does allow different sports to set their own policies and the guidelines are regularly evolving, which further complicates the matter, but the one sport that seems to be stirring the most outrage in the summer 2024 Olympics is the women’s boxing event.

It’s one thing to debate the merits of trans women in sports like running or swimming, it’s a totally different animal with fighting that involves punching another person in the face. This year the boxing match between Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif and Italian boxer, Angela Carini provoked a variety of thoughts, feelings, and comments. This event goes beyond issues of fairness and involves concerns like personal safety, and potentially life and death. In less than a minute, after only a few punches from Khelif, Carini was forced to quit the bout, something she had trained her whole life for.

Once upon a time, a man punching a woman in the face earned you prison time but not today, not in 2024. This, my friends, is not the most bizarre thing either. It gets worse. The media is in full-blown psycho mode claiming that although Khelif has XY chromosomes, he is a woman. Now, to be fair, Swyer syndrome is a real disorder affecting individuals who have female genitalia but XY chromosomes; however, this disease is extremely rare. Maybe Imane Khelif does have this disease, but I simply cannot trust what the media is saying – they’ve lied too much on too many important things. In my opinion, it is irrelevant if he has this disorder. He should still not be allowed to fight against women because the XY chromosomal makeup, the biological marker of a male, gives him an unfair advantage and can have fatal consequences for his female opponent. Period.

It’s interesting that there are no issues on the opposite end. Notice how there is no standard for women going into men’s sports. There are many biological women, who now consider themselves men. Why aren’t they becoming trailblazers and vying to compete in men’s sports, that is to say competing against those individuals who were born with XY chromosomes? I think everyone knows the answer to that – it would be a futile exercise, as winning would be nearly impossible.

The ridiculousness of what is occurring at the 2024 Summer Olympics is a microcosm of where we are politically in the United States and the world today – the Twilight Zone.  We’re not approaching it and we’re not teetering on the edge. No, we are smack-dab in the middle of a disturbing episode with Rod Sterling’s voice resoundingly declaring, “You’re traveling through another dimension…”

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Kamala Harris is Anointed Democrat Party Nominee

It has certainly been a busy news cycle! An attempt on President Trump’s life, a fresh and spirited Republican National Convention, Joe Biden drops out of the presidential race, and finally folks, Vice President Kamala Harris is anointed as the new Democratic nominee. Who decided this last matter? Your guess is as good as mine – but rest assured it was NOT President in name only Joe Biden. I presume the ‘purveyors of democracy’ that hand-picked VP Harris are the same people who have been running the country in recent years – the nameless, faceless bureaucracy presiding in the shadows of our democracy who are unelected, unknown and unintelligent, given the state of our country and the globe.

First, let’s quickly address our current president withdrawing his bid for a second term. Make no mistake, this was not a voluntary action by him, First Lady, Jill Biden, or those closest to him. This is what happens when you are corrupt for your entire political life – you are beholden to those who can expose you and damage you even further. Biden did not willingly drop out of this race – he was forced out. Reports that he felt “angry” and “betrayed” are swirling throughout the media. Our ‘defenders of democracy’ have seen the poll numbers and decided that there was no chance for Biden to win – therefore, to protect our beloved democracy the party bosses had to force Biden out and insert Kamala. Understand that she was not their first choice, nor was she their second or third. The people who have sanctioned and screamed about race and gender could not possibly pass over a mixed-race woman, so they installed her as the new nominee for the Democratic Party 4 months before election day.

The problem for faceless bureaucrats calling the shots is that low poll numbers do not merit switching your candidate approximately 100 days before a presidential election. Everybody in government and the media knew that Joe Biden was physically and mentally incapable of serving another four years. Heck, they knew that in 2020 but hid under the draconian COVID mandates to conceal Biden as much as possible. He received over 14 million votes in the 2024 Democratic Primary. Kamala received zero. For better or for worse we must respect the process, but Democrats are oblivious to rules – it’s win and win at any cost.

Countless people that I have spoken with in the past week have expressed enormous concern over Harris’ potential to win the presidency. Anything is possible, especially with all the corruption and lies we’ve witnessed and have been subjected to in recent years; however, she is one of the most incompetent and unqualified individuals in the political arena. If this is a fair election, she doesn’t stand a chance. Harris ran for president in 2020 and was forced to drop out of the primaries before a single vote was even cast. At the time, she was polling at an embarrassing 3% with her party’s voters. She clearly lacked a message and vision for our nation.

Just like Hillary Clinton, Kamala is not a likable individual. Don’t take my word for it. Those working directly under her deeply disliked the Vice President. Since assuming her role as second in command, almost 92% of hired staff members quit. One of her aides famously commented that they were forced to sustain “a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism.” Wow. Keep in mind, these are her people.

The media and advocates will use her many titles as qualifications. The problem with that is, for example, being a vice president, particularly in this political climate, is not an achievement in and of itself. The question is, what did you accomplish in this role? The answer for Kamala is nothing. Early on during her stint as VP, President Biden designated Harris to be in charge of fixing the border. True to form – the media have literally begun scrubbing their websites and reporting of this fact. Unfortunately for them, countless pieces of evidence still remain.

Video of Biden appointing Harris to fix the border exists despite their best efforts to rewrite history. There is so much proof, even though they ridiculously claim that this isn’t the case. Perhaps the best evidence is the Vice President’s own words when she tells Lester Holt in an interview that she “has been working on this issue for a very long time.” This is the same video where Harris embarrassingly claims that she has been to the border after which Lester Holt corrects her and informs her that she hasn’t. The untested and frazzled Kamla Harris becomes defensive and remarks that she hasn’t been to Europe either. I can still hear exasperated sighs reverberating from her team and the rest of America after responding with that bizarre comment.

Her quest to find the root causes of the unprecedented invasion of our Southern Border resulted in millions of new illegal immigrants coming into our country from every corner of the globe. The document I have linked here on illegal immigration from the House Oversight Committee offers some stunning facts detailing this issue. It outlines the utter failure of this administration to secure our border with Kamala at the helm. Although, they did send billions of taxpayer dollars to some Central American countries. What those countries used that money for – nobody from this administration can tell you.

This is what happens when positions are handed to you on a silver platter. You don’t have to fight for them. You’re not battle-tested. Avoiding this process, which would have led to growth and a deeper understanding of the issues, leaves you clueless and unable to articulate clear strategies to fix a problem, which epitomizes the ability of Kamala Harris. Her failure to become the next president of The United States should be inevitable, but with the obvious deception and fraud perpetrated by the other side, Republicans must remain vigilant.

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Trump and American Values Shine at Successful RNC While Democrats Descend Into Chaos

Last week during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Donald Trump officially became the Republican nominee for the upcoming presidential election. The organization orchestrated a comprehensive and superbly managed convention, outlining a positive vision for America. From its beginning to its end, the electricity and optimism were palpable, even for viewers at home.

An array of speakers spoke at the convention, detailing critical issues facing our nation, accompanied by common sense solutions. What differentiated this convention from previous ones was the effective outreach to groups not usually associated with Republicans or conservatism. Many speakers highlighted the betrayal from the Democratic Party and the remedies Trump could implement with sensible policies.

One of the most notable speakers was Amber Rose, a model and influencer. The reason her presence at this RNC was so compelling is because in her speech she discussed how she believed the media lies that Trump was a racist and toxic for her country. When her father challenged her to research her assertions, she discovered quite the opposite – she discovered “the truth.” She said that she felt nothing but “love” from Trump supporters and realized that these were “her people.” Fascinating.

Another critical speaker, Madeline Brame, mother of an army veteran who was murdered in New York City, delivered a powerful speech, explaining how Alvin Bragg, the district attorney of NYC, ignored her pleas to render justice to the criminals who murdered her son, and she pointed out that he has used all of his power to instead prosecute Donald Trump on bogus charges. She also declared that Biden, Harris and the Democratic Party have abandoned minority communities like hers. Every sentence of her speech was delivered with such passion and honesty – if you haven’t watched it yet, please do so in the link I provided above.

From community pastor, Lorenzo Sewell to ordinary Americans, including the parents of the brave men and women killed in Afghanistan due to the incompetence of the Biden Administration, this RNC offered speakers representing a range of groups and people. Leaders in the Republican Party, like Vivek Ramaswamy, Marco Rubio, Byron Donalds, and our new vice-presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, delivered inspiring speeches of hope with a firm belief in Trump’s agenda for America.

Every day of the RNC was emotional, electrifying and exhilarating. Even Van Jones, a staunch liberal, commented that the energy of this convention reminded him of President Obama’s convention of 2008. Democrats in the media were not happy about this, but as we all know, they have a strong aversion to the truth.

This all occurred against the backdrop of the Democratic Party ripping apart at the seams. Calls for Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee for president became more pronounced every day. On Sunday, President Joe Biden announced in the most peculiar way – via letter posted to social media – that he was dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind someone even more incapable – Kamala Harris, a woman who garnered no votes from her voters and who’s inability to run anything will inevitably become apparent to the American people.

We haven’t been given a reason for this unprecedented act. Tonight, Biden will give an Oval Office address, which I hope will provide a clear explanation, but I’m not holding my breath. The conundrum is – if he admits to being mentally unfit to serve a second term, how can he be trusted to lead a volatile world for the remainder of this term? He may concede that his polling numbers show he can’t beat Trump, therefore he’s dropping out, but that is not a metric for eliminating a candidate at this point in the process. Millions of Democrats voted for Biden to be their nominee, and now the elites in the party want to cast him aside. Someone should advise these ‘defenders of democracy’ that that’s not how democracy actually works.

The attempted assassination of President Trump seems to be the final straw for many citizens across this great nation, and it seems that many people are realizing the lies and deceit perpetrated by the media. The RNC did a fantastic job demonstrating why we need President Trump in The White House now more than ever. All of this may culminate in Trump, indeed, becoming the 47^th president of The United States.

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