I mainly watch the winter Olympics for the biathlon events which are the events no American has ever medaled. Not so coincidental perhaps.
Biathlon apparently does draw the largest outdoor crowds at the Winter Olympics.
I do appreciate that even the subjectivity of events that include style points to determine wins have become more automated if only to reduce corruption. Not so much in politics as a million mentions of Trump in the Epstein files seem not to have fazed the 35% American voting public that worships Mango Mussolini.
OTOH, the Olympics does allow for escapist media coverage and a bit of jingoism.
In other Trumpist corruption yet to be adjudicated:
Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had "spent hours at my house" with Donald Trump, according to emails released by Democrats
The Epstein files are documents related to criminal charges of sex trafficking brought against Jeffrey Epstein. His arrest and suicide fomented uproar over who may be named in the documents.
Young women, some of them undressed, appear in videos contained in the Epstein files, signalling that the justice department failed to shield the identities of potential victims.
Will a military attack on Iran be enough to contradict the purpose of ‘America First’ and distract attention from the revelations of Trump’s raping children (TRC).
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The Pentagon is sending an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to the Middle East, two US officials told Reuters on Friday, a move that would put two carriers in the region as tensions soar between the United States and Iran…
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Escapist adjudication in Rick and Morty:
"Rickfending Your Mort" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of Rick and Morty. It is the 67th episode of the series overall. It premiered on November 19, 2023.[2] It was written by Cody Ziglar and directed by Jacob Hair. The episode is rated TV-14-DLSV.
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I held on to my tits for nothing!
When Rick asks for an audit on Morty's adventure receipts, it leads them to watch various clips of their adventures and other embarrassing moments shown by rock creatures known as the Observers.
Plot
Morty finds Rick in a drunken stupor on the floor of the garage, still depressed after defeating Rick Prime. Hoping to cheer him up, Morty decides to cash in on his Morty Adventure Cards again. Rick flips out upon seeing the number of cards Morty has, accusing him of faking stamps, and calls in an audit from a cosmic entity. A rock-like being known as the Observer arrives and begins cuing up "clips" based on Morty's notes of the adventures, finding ones that count as adventures, and ones that Rick claims don't: either because the adventure was aborted, he wasn't there, or Morty was just lying. Eventually, though, the Observer starts stirring conflict by showing clips from adventures that were not even requested, and offers to show them a montage of clips of them being rude to each other. Realizing the Observer is just trying to cause trouble, Rick and Morty step aside and agree to cash in some of the cards at a lower rate to stop the Observer from annoying them.
However, the Observer "observed" this conversation, and develops a grudge against Rick and Morty. He stands in front of their house and keeps showing more embarrassing clips: when Summer, Beth, and Space Beth show up and complain about it, it starts showing clips of them, too, to their annoyance. Only Jerry is unfazed, since he already knows he is embarrassing. Finally fed up, Morty goes outside to beat up the Observer: he ends up shoving it out into the street where it gets run over by a truck, breaking it into pieces and killing it much to his shock and horror. Rick suggests they get out of the street and pretend it never happened, only to wonder if it will get used as a clip to be played in front of a jury of more Observers... which is precisely what happens.
Put on trial by the Observers for killing one of their kind, the situation looks grim for Rick and Morty, until Rick points out they already did a trial of this kind: a court-appointed Observer defender proves this by showing their time in Giant Court. The Observers start showing more clips of Rick and Morty's misdeeds: Rick giving Morty guns but never being clear on what they do, only for Morty to find out in embarrassing circumstances; experimenting with burying both people and inanimate objects in Pet Sematary; Morty asking Rick to give life to his churro, leading Rick to create Churry, only for Morty to abandon Churry on another planet upon learning he is immortal–leading Churry to swear vengeance; and the time Rick killed "the versions of us that were in Space Jam".
Annoyed with the progress of the court, Rick tricks the Observers into giving him control of their technology by pretending to show a clip in his defense, allowing him to stop their execution. He proceeds to show clips of the Observers themselves engaging in various misdeeds: intentionally not helping a drowning victim, observing said-Observer not helping the drowning victim, selling bootlegs of movies that they observed, paying homeless beings into fighting for money, and having romantic affairs. The Observer court erupts into chaos as the Observers all turn against each other, allowing Rick and Morty to escape. Arriving back home, Rick admits he realizes Morty was just trying to cheer him up with the punch cards and appreciates it. They agree to pretend this adventure never happened and cash in on the cards, jumping into the Space Cruiser to go on adventures again.
In a post-credits scene, Morty is frightened at seeing a churro in his locker, mistaking it for Churry, only to be relieved to see Brad eat it with no trouble. However, upon looking at a lower shelf he is horrified to see a real message from Churry written in brown sugar, promising his revenge will come soon…
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A sample complete episode
"Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender" is the fourth episode of the third season of the Adult Swim animated television series Rick and Morty. Written by Sarah Carbiener and Erica Rosbe and directed by Bryan Newton, the episode premiered on August 13, 2017. Parodying many superhero movie tropes, "Vindicators 3" sees Rick and Morty join the Vindicators in a mission to defeat Worldender. However, a drunken Rick defeats Worldender alone and sets up a series of Saw-inspired challenges for the Vindicators to complete the next day; by morning, he has forgotten the entire event. The episode received positive reviews and was watched by an estimated 2.66 million viewers upon its premiere.
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