Day 158 – Waiting for the GOAT. What are they afraid of?

Sunday July 25, 2021

Two unrelated topics – one Olympics, the other politics.

I watched the women’s soccer team play Sweden. They lost. I had heard all this stuff about how they look lackluster and their game was off – blah, blah, blah. They must have been watching a different game. Both teams looked very good. The Americans did not get the breaks and Sweden is very good, plus they got the breaks. One goal was scored off a rebound and a lucky foot, while the USA watched a certain goal bounce off the goal post. That was the kind of game it was. 

There was a great cameo about Simone Biles showing what she did at the last Olympics. In the clip the announcer said, “This is Simone’s party and we are all guests.” Even in slow motion  it is hard to comprehend what that woman is doing. 

I watched some of the rowing. It was helpful for me to have a commentator who knew and understood the sport explain the eight person race. How the last 500 or 250 meters is where all the training comes in. How you have to practice three times a day, six days a week to be able to have the strength and mental toughness for the last bit of the race.

I watched some skate boarding too. Very strange. These are the best in the world? Most of the guys couldn’t land a trick. I mean it’s one thing to miss one, but all four? The cool dudes broke under pressure. Maybe they should take a few classes in pressure from Simone. In her cameo she said that when you are doing one of her things, “don’t bail.” She laughed. “If you bail you are definitely going to break something.”

Men’s gymnastics, I watched the best all around athlete in the world miss a grip on the bar and fall to the floor. I can’t decide if my physique looks more like the men in gymnastics or the guys swimming the butterfly.

Today, Simone. Can’t wait.

In politics we in Virginia are having an election for governor. The republican challenger is a guy who was part of the Carlyle group. He touts his business expertise and says he’ll bring jobs to Virginia and he says terrible things about the democrats. However, what he doesn’t do is say what he will do. There are the high minded phrases, but after that – nothing. Terry Macauliffe the former governor who is running again has a track record and he tells you what he will do. Interestingly, the Republican won’t debate him. The guy backed out of any debate with Macauliffe. Traditional, long standing debates – nope. 

So what does Carlyle Group do exactly? Well, they invest in stuff. Military stuff and oil rigs stuff. They invest in companies making rip-off of popular shoes. They invest in planes that the Saudis buy and use to bomb school buses in Yemen. They put up the money for Big Machine to buy Taylor Swift’s music, pissing off Tay-Tay.  In fact, Carlyle Group was pulled into the controversy when Scooter Braun who owns Big Machine Records was not going to let Taylor sing her own songs at the American Music Awards. 

So if you like what the Republican challenger has done in business: bombing kids and killing them in Yemen, ripping off shoe brands, and telling Taylor she can’t sing her own music – imagine what his “leadership” will do for the state of Virginia? Of course, we really won’t know what he even plans to do because he won’t discuss it. And, let’s not forget he has no political experience. 

Let’s see, how did it work out for the country when a business man with no political experience was elected president? Half his cabinet were referred for criminal indictment and scores resigned in disgrace. And he led an insurrection against the country.

Yeah. Well. No thank you.