Social Justice destroys everything it touches.  This year, it is destroying the Olympics.

According to a BuzzFeed producer:

Adam Rippon will not medal, but it's safe to say he's the winner of the Olympics

— Logan Rhoades (@LoganRhoades) February 17, 2018

I think Mr. Rhoades has a different definition of winner than the rest of us.  So does the rest of the media.

Time Magazine said “‘He’s the Winner of the Olympics.’ Adam Rippon Stole Everyone’s Hearts During the Olympics.”

Time also said “How Adam Rippon Found His Voice and Became America’s New Winter Olympics Star.”

HuffPo said “Adam Rippon Is Allowing America To Love A (Really) Gay Athlete.”

Thrillist gave us “9 Reasons Adam Rippon is America’s Sweetheart.”

Lastly, Outsports said “Even without gold, Adam Rippon is an Olympic champion.”

To cover the details, Adam Rippon won the bronze as part of the Figure Skating Team Event.  In his individual event, he came in 7th place.

What he did was pick an unnecessary fight with Vice President Mike Pence, insult the Trump White House, put his gayness front and center, and just embarrass America on the international stage with his political whining.

Lets look at some real American Olympic winners.

Chloe Kim won gold in the Half Pipe, with a nearly perfect score, and it was her first Olympics.

Red Gerard took the gold as the youngest men’s snowboarding champion ever, after missing his alarm clock, sleeping in, and having to borrow his roommate’s jacket.  

Shaun White took the gold in an “epic final run” of his event, closing out his Olympic career with a bang.

The problem with our snowboarding team kicking ass?

None of they are gay or crapping on Trump overseas.  Two are *gasp* straight, white males.  Kim is a straight girl, and Korean (but we all know that Asians don’t rank high on the oppression scale).

They went to Pyeongchang and delivered victories.

That’s not what it takes to be an Olympic “winner” or “champion” anymore.  All you have to do is whine about being a victim and go on TV with factually inaccurate #Resistance talking points, and the media will love you for coming in 7th place.

UPDATE –

I once again turned to the news, and these were some of the first articles I got hit with.

Gus Kenworthy kissed his boyfriend on TV and melted all the ice at the Olympics.

Gus Kenworthy’s tiny kiss with his boyfriend is sort of a big deal.

Gus Kenworthy Wins Without Making the Podium.

Why is this the news?  Because he failed to win a medal in his event, Freestyle Skiing.

He lost, BUT he kissed a man on live TV.  Kissing a man is not an Olympic sport, as far as I am aware.  So, I’m not sure how to any rational person he is a winner.  To the identity politics/social justice crowd, kissing a man on TV is infinitely more important than actually placing in an event.

Want to know why Olympic viewership is down?  I care more about our athletes who win medals and are proud of the US than those who I am only aware of because they pound butt and hate Trump.

Lots of people keep making the mistake of dismissing Burt Reynolds. The complain that his movies are more popcorn that fine lobster and have no intellectual nutritional value.

You don’t go to the movies and sit down gulp down on Thermidor with a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, you go to eat a big ass bucket of buttery popcorn and a soda the size to give Bloomberg a hear attack.

This one looks like a great little movie and I plan to watch it.

California is being invaded by a highly dangerous and destructive native of South America.

Of course I am talking about the Nutria Rat.

California is asking locals to report sightings to the authorities with a special hotline, as California officials are worried about their negative impact on the state.

I’m not sure why California is going through all this trouble.  They could just solve the problem by declaring themselves a “nutria sanctuary state” and turn a blind eye to the problems.

…and a woman in Alabama is pregnant with the child of an Alien she had sex with.

That is all for now.

Some news from Alabama:

House Approves Church ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law

Now for something completely different…

The Army is dropping hand grenade qualifications from basic training because soldiers are too weak to throw grenades.

I read articles all the time how our recruits are too fat or not physically fit enough for the military and it is a national security concern.

This bitching and griping reeks of historical illiteracy and just pisses me off.

Lets go back to the beginning of WWII.  The United States military had to radically change its recruit training.  Why?  Our recruits were not physically fit enough to serve.

Remember the beginning of Captain America when Steve Rogers was just a scrawny kid surrounded by a bunch of strapping young men going off to war?  That’s Hollywood bullshit.

We were still recovering from the depression.  We were drafting kids off of farms and poor neighborhoods in cities who, until they got to recruit training, hadn’t had three square meals in a day.  We had to focus on PT to fatten our soldiers up.

So 70 years later we have the opposite problem.  So what?

Adapt and overcome.

In addition, the technical aspect of the military has gotten more complex.  This means more classroom time.

This is something that I see a parallel with in college engineering programs.  More and more engineers are taking five years to complete a degree (I was one).  Why?  Well, we still have the learn the fundamentals that engineers were learning 20, 30, 40 years ago.  Plus we have to learn a lot of new stuff that has been added to engineering knowledge base since then.

I had a professor who told us in Process Controls that he wished his class was two semesters.  The first semester would cover the same fundamentals that were covered when he was a student, and the second semester would cover the programming and digital aspects of process controls.  Instead he had to jam the fundamentals into half as much time and cover programming into the second half of the semester.  He really felt that with the increase in technical knowledge over the last 50 years, engineering programs should be five years.

As military training gets more technical, perhaps 10 to 12 weeks of basic isn’t enough to get recruits fit and teach them the technical things they need to know.  Maybe 18 or 20 weeks of training is appropriate.

Consider simply the increase in first aid knowledge from WWII to today, let alone the use of battlefield electronics, GPS technology, etc.

Will it cost more.  Yes, but so what.  We have the most advanced military on the planet.  We do more with fewer soldiers than ever before.

In Starship Troopers, Cap Troopers in powered armor were so lethal that a single trooper could effectively occupy several square miles of enemy terrain.

We’re not to that level (yet) but consider this: we occupied Iraq for 10 years with under 200,000 troops and accrued roughly 4,400 casualties.  We took Normandy beach with 156,000 troops and lost roughly 4,400 men on D-Day alone.

Since we do so much more with so many fewer personnel, if we have to spend more time and effort getting the people we have up to spec, it’s worth the expense.

Not to sound like an armchair general, but at first glance the solution to this seems rather simple.  Spend more time in recruit training.  Put more of an emphasis on PT and fundamental physical war fighting skills, less time in the classroom.  Maybe add an in intermediate program between basic and AIT to cover fundamental technical skills.

Most importantly DO NOT LOWER STANDARDS.

We had to deal with this once before, getting a bunch of scrawny, malnourished, Great Depression kids ready to fight the Nazis.  Let’s apply the same logic to getting a bunch of fat kids who grew up on video games ready to fight terrorists.

This is one of those times where I really need Trump to be Trump and just say “Make the Military Great Again” and get the money we have to spend to do this right.

Say you are in need of a gun for self-defense but your budget is not the best, in fact is downright minimal. What to do? Logic tell buy the best gun you can afford but taking in consideration you need ammo, training and range time.

You figure something like this would be a good buy:

Actually it is a great buy from Palmetto Armory. But I actually found somebody online that actually said Ruger guns are crap, specially the LCP.  Of course immediately after, TactiBoi let us all know he only carries (fanfare) Sig guns because fit, finish and the occasional orgasm he gets when caressing the metal engraved with the letters S-I-G.

I also have heard tales of “instructors” or people teaching somebody how to shoot and their first word coming out of their mouths are “This is a shit gun, You need get a (fill the blank)” or words to that effect. Those people are not only Gun Snobs but the wrong type of people to be teaching anything self defense.

Here is my proposition: If somebody gets a gun you consider cheap and would never be caught shooting one because of tactical cooties, you can go ahead and give him/her one of your super-duper pew-pew emitters or create a GoFundMe to get that person one that has your seal of approval.  Deal?