If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it is that guns have become a cultural flash point in a nation that is unequal and divided

That walk...

I watched it live. My entire family cringed with horror. The problem is that Fergie can never just sing a song. She always has to inject it with strange inflections, a growly sexy baby voice, or weird vocal gymnastics. Did you see how she walked up to the mic?!!!

AND NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED

Leave Pita alone!

To me, that’s the unsavoury part of this. If an overmatched skier from Tibet gets to the Olympics despite facilities or coaching or funding and represents his country gamely, fair ball, that’s the Olympics ideal. But this dilettante gamed the system in a way that only a 1%er could, by flying all over the world at the…

I dunno, just look at the video and read the words. It’s self-apparent.

It’s more analogous to this couple no one seems to remember. https://deadspin.com/dominicas-fake-ski-team-scammed-the-olympics-and-the-p-1529973935

One of them is competing for their own country after only doing the sport for a little while, and one has been doing it for years and is still not good enough to compete for any country without gaming the system.

Yes. German Madrazo. However here are some key differences:

The Mexican cross-country skier that came last was nearly double the leader’s time, sure, but it’s one of those things that comes off differently when you’re talking about someone who’s working hard to scrape together qualifying times vs gaming the system like this.

I think the problem here is because it’s a scored…

She may not have won a medal, but I’m guessing she might have a new rule named after her!

Trynna get the whole pipe

Yo, what are you talking about? She makes it all the way up to the blue line five out of six times, doesn’t fall down, SKIS BACKWARDS, and doesn’t degrade herself or her country with showboating theatrics. Just good, clean skiing. Give this woman the Gold medal for efficiency and self respect.

I pointed out a few weeks ago the absolute truth in the saying “Showing up is 80% of success in life.” So the “staying upright” part must be the other 20%

Since the American team is, well, good, she initially competed for her mother’s native Venezuela, before switching her allegiance and representing Hungary...

She’s just there to bone

They are cousins though. And France is the home of Les Cousins Dangereux.

She stated that she started to feel the costume falling apart, and “I prayed.”

Thankfully it wasn’t one of the brother-sister teams.