{"id":80834,"date":"2022-02-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80834"},"modified":"2022-02-04T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:09:20","slug":"sic-transit-gloria-civilis-occidentis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80834","title":{"rendered":"<i>Sic Transit Gloria Civilis Occidentis<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1936:  Jesse Owens, running in the Olympics, humiliates Adolf Hitler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1948: Jackie Robinson humiliates bigots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1980: US Hockey team humiliates the USSR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/pelosi-warns-us-olympians-not-to-speak-out-against-chinese-abuses-while-in-beijing\">Nancy Pelosi humiliates the US and freedeom-loving people everywhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nancy-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>\u00a0urged U.S. Olympic\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/fbi-tells-olympians-to-leave-phones-at-home-due-to-potential-threats-at-beijing-games\" target=\"_blank\">athletes<\/a>\u00a0not to speak out against the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/hold-the-chinese-communist-party-accountable\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Communist Party<\/a>\u2019s human rights abuses while in Beijing, saying the athletes shouldn\u2019t risk \u201cincurring the anger\u201d of the \u201cruthless\u201d CCP&#8230;\u201cMake no mistake \u2014 our athletes should participate,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cThey\u2019ve trained, they\u2019re disciplined, they\u2019ve dreamed, they\u2019ve aspired, they\u2019ve worked hard. But this year we must celebrate them from home as they compete in China.\u201d<\/p><p>But Pelosi also indicated that she believes U.S. athletes should keep quiet in China to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/wray-says-threat-posed-by-china-is-more-damaging-than-ever-before\" target=\"_blank\">avoid<\/a>\u00a0the Chinese government\u2019s wrath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If we&#8217;re worried about a government&#8217;s &#8220;wrath&#8221; &#8211; particularly that of a regime that is historically among the most murderous in history, and one that is currently engaging in genocide &#8211; why are they over there, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1936: Jesse Owens, running in the Olympics, humiliates Adolf Hitler. 1948: Jackie Robinson humiliates bigots. 1980: US Hockey team humiliates the USSR. 2022: Nancy Pelosi humiliates the US and freedeom-loving people everywhere: Nancy Pelosi\u00a0urged U.S. Olympic\u00a0athletes\u00a0not to speak out against the\u00a0Chinese Communist Party\u2019s human rights abuses while in Beijing, saying the athletes shouldn\u2019t risk \u201cincurring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80837,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80834\/revisions\/80837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}