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The Brew: An Olympic Failure to Know the Difference Between a Man and a Woman, Plus Harris Steals a Trump Idea

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 11: Actor Tom Cruise holds the Olympic flag during the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 11, 2024 in Paris, France.

By Al Perrotta Published on August 12, 2024 •

Al Perrotta

Happy Monday!

Today’s Brew we imagine being served in a Paris café, in honor of the Olympics.

Team USA leaves France with the most medals, a total of 126. China was the closest behind with 91. The U.S. and China tied with the most gold medals with 40. 

Incidentally, the U.S.’s 126 medals doesn’t include gymnast Jordan Chiles’s bronze in the floor exercises. She was stripped of the medal when it was determined that a post-competition decision to give her an extra tenth of a point was improper — not because she didn’t earn that extra tenth of a point that lifted her to the bronze, but because the protest by the U.S. over her original score didn’t come within 60 seconds. It was lodged four seconds too late. (Team USA is appealing the decision.)

As for now, the bronze goes to Romania’s Ana Barbusa. 

Olympics Come to a Close as IOC Loses Track of Reality

The Paris Olympics came to an end last night with a closing ceremony spectacle. Nothing can take away from the dazzling athletic performances — and the less-dazzling viral moments, such as Australian female breakdancer Rachel “RayGun” Dunn — that shall go down in Olympic lore.

However, the Paris Olympics will also be remembered for its decadent mockery of the Last Supper and rejection of both science and fair play. We’re talking, of course, about the IOC’s decision to allow two fighters with XY chromosomes to beat up on women to “earn” gold medals.

If you missed it, both Imane Klelif and Lin Yu-Ting took goldin women’s boxing — Klelif in the 66kg division and Lin in the 57kg. “Lin’s size and reach were the difference in the gold medal match,” writes Yahoo Sports. (Gee, ya think?)

The International Boxing Association disqualified both fighters last year for failing gender tests. However, they were welcomed by the IOC, where chairman Thomas Bach actually declared the other day “there is no scientifically sound system” to determine male and female.

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In related news, Facebook has temporarily banned the #XX hashtag, which is being used to protest the inclusion of the boxers. Its label reads: “Keeping our community safe: Posts with #XX are temporarily hidden here. Some content in those posts goes against our community standards.”

Keeping who safe? Complaining about biological men beating up women makes you the unsafe one?

Onward to the City of Angels. The next Summer Olympics will be right here in the USA in 2028. Here’s praying the IOC will have figured out what’s a male and what’s a female by then..  

Stolen Valor Update: Former Commander and Chaplain Roasts Tim Walz

Republicans aren’t the only people who are saying Tim Walz abandoned his National Guard troops before they deployed to a war zone: Both his former commander and the unit chaplain have gone public in ripping the Democratic vice presidential candidate for that very thing.

Here’s Walz’s battalion commander and direct superior, Colonel (Ret.) John Kolb shredding him in a Facebook post, concluding “When the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path.”

Walz’s former chaplain, Capt. Corey Bjertness (Ret.), told the New York Post, “In our world, to drop out after a WARNORD [warning order] is issued is cowardly, especially for a senior enlisted guy.”

As for his repeated claims over the years to have been in combat, the Kamala Harris campaign issued a statement saying only that Walz “misspoke.” But “misspoke” is when Harris mistook North Korea for South Korea a couple years back, or when Donald Trump the other day said “barrel” rather “gallon” when talking about the exploding prices of gasoline, and Joe Biden … well, anytime he speaks in public, really.

To repeatedly claim he’d been in war over the course of an entire decade is not misspeaking. It’s a deliberate and calculated effort to steal a cherished status reserved for those who put themselves in harm’s way. The fact that Walz not only did not serve in combat, but bailed on his own soldiers before they deployed, is beyond the pale.

“No Tax on Tips”: Meet the New Kamala Policy, Same as the Trump Policy

Kamala Harris has learned a few tricks from Joe Biden — namely, plagiarism. During a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, Harris promised she would “eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.” In other words, she’s purloined Trump’s popular “no tax on tips” pledge, without crediting him for the idea.   

However, as was quickly pointed out, Harris was the deciding vote on a bill that mandated an IRS crackdown on service industry tips a few years ago.

Meanwhile, we’ve entered Day 22 of Kamala Harris not doing a formal interview or press conference since being placed at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Biden Admits He Was Booted Because He Was Going to Be a Drag

Joe Biden, who reportedly is the president of the United States, emerged yesterday in a new interview with CBS News. Biden admitted he was shoved off the Democratic ticket because people like Nancy Pelosi were worried he was going to drag down the rest of the candidates.

“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races,” he said. “And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction.”

And just like that, the man who earned the Democratic nomination from 14 million voters, and apparently still thought he was going to win, bailed on the race. Because, you know, “democracy.”

Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, in a new interview, she suggests that Biden did not write the letter announcing his withdrawal that was posted on X. “It did not sound like Joe Biden.”

White House Still Covering Up Biden Medical Emergency

What happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas, at least as far as the White House is concerned. A couple of weeks back, we reported that Joe Biden had some sort of medical emergency while campaigning in Las Vegas that sent police and a major hospital scrambling for a short period of time.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project now has gotten hold of police audio recordings from July 17, detailing local law enforcement’s reaction to the incident. “Biden is 421,” indicating a sick or injured person, a Code Three emergency response was declared.

“For everyone on the radio, right now POTUS is 421. He’s being seen, so we’re just kinda waiting to see how this is shaping out. So, for everybody’s knowledge, he’s 421 right now; we’re just trying to figure out what’s going on and we’re gonna go from there.”

After arranging to race Biden to the trauma center at University Medical Center, his team changed plans and instead raced him home to Delaware — and he’s hardly been seen since. At the time, the White House only said he had tested positive for COVID and was “self-isolating.” He would drop out of the race a few days later with a written statement posted on X.

The White House still has not commented on what really happened. But the audio makes it clear that law enforcement and the hospital weren’t dealing with some guy who had just tested positive for COVID. 

The cover-ups continue. 

 

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Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.

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