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Special to WorldTribune.com<\/span>, March 13, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

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Corporate<\/span> WATCH<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Commentary by<\/em><\/span> Joe Schaeffer <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> @Schaeff55<\/a><\/p>\n

Two of America’s biggest bread-and-circus extravaganzas \u2013 politics and professional and big-time college sports \u2013\u00a0are more transparently phony and more utterly bizarre than ever.<\/p>\n

What does this say about us as a people?<\/p>\n

News item<\/strong>: Installed President Joe Biden is suspected of being doped up for his feisty, combative State of the Union Address on March 7. From<\/a> The Washington Times:<\/p>\n

A psychiatrist who has worked with elderly dementia patients said President Biden exhibited signs of stimulant use to mask cognitive decline<\/strong> in his amped-up, aggressive State of the Union speech on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Biden, 81, often raced through his remarks with the speed of an auctioneer, loudly shouting his words despite having a microphone in front of him.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speed and volume of speech can be a sign of using Adderall or another amphetamine,<\/em><\/strong> said Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist based in Beverly Hills, California.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Noelvi Marte, the Cincinnati Reds’ top prospect, was suspended for 80 games tested positive for boldenone, a banned anabolic-androgenic steroid. \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

News item<\/strong>: Top Major League Baseball prospect Noelvi Marte of the Cincinnati Reds is suspended 80 games<\/a> for abusing an anabolic steroid used on horses. About boldenone<\/a>, the drug Marte tested positive for:<\/p>\n

There is no therapeutic or medical use for boldenone in humans<\/strong>. More specifically, it is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in humans for any reason.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to being illegally sold and used for human performance enhancement, boldenone is used illegally in racehorses to enhance performance<\/strong>, despite being banned for use in horses competing in Olympic and Paralympic events. On an international and agricultural level, boldenone is also largely illegal for use as a growth promotor in farm animals, and most countries have surveillance programs that test for boldenone in animals raised for food production.<\/em><\/p>\n

No one who pays the slightest attention to MLB should have been surprised by Marte\u2019s ban. He is a native of the Dominican Republic, and MLB has known for at least 30 years that this poverty-stricken nation regularly dopes up its young athletes in hopes of getting them into the baseball prospect pipeline.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported<\/a> in 2022 that Dominican players make up 10 percent of MLB rosters… and 50 percent of positive PED tests:<\/p>\n

According to M.L.B., of the 30,000 drug tests<\/strong> it conducts around the world each season, 0.2 percent are positive for performance-enhancing substances<\/strong>, half <\/strong>of which are from players from the Dominican Republic….<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Of the 975 players on teams\u2019 Opening Day 28-man rosters and inactive lists this season, 99 \u2014 just over 10 percent \u2014 were from the Dominican Republic.<\/strong> The percentage was believed to be greater in the minor leagues.<\/em><\/p>\n

The sport once renowned as “America’s Pastime” has been outsourced to drugged-up foreigners. This should be a Grade A scandal for MLB. But it is not:<\/p>\n

\u201cA scout looks at your player and if he\u2019s already 16 years old, he\u2019s too old,\u201d said Felix Mena, a private trainer who began working with [banned Dominican player Jenrry] Mejia when he was 15 and said he runs a drug-free program. \u201cSo with a kid at 12 years old, you have to start getting him to compete and doing things that shouldn\u2019t be done.<\/strong> It\u2019s the system that sometimes carries people away. And there\u2019s poverty, so it\u2019s something social. And you can buy a lot of stuff without prescriptions, like pills and injections. It shouldn\u2019t be like that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cStar\u201d Dominican players such as Fernando Tatis Jr. of the San Diego Padres and Reds pitcher Frankie Montas, recently named Opening Day starter for the team, have been suspended for PEDs in recent years.<\/p>\n

But can you really blame impoverished Dominicans for taking advantage of such a grotesquely amoral system? In January, the San Diego Padres signed<\/a> a 17-year-old Dominican to a $4.2 million contract. MLB teams are positively inviting the fraud, cheating and physical damage caused by steroid abuse to continue unabated overseas.<\/p>\n

With so much money at stake, an extremely disturbing climate has emerged: Pro sports organizations do not care one whit about fan reaction. Only the financially-valuable player is of interest.<\/p>\n

Reds manager David Bell said of Marte:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s gonna be greatly missed…. I believe in Noelvi Marte. He’s going to get through this. When he does, it’s going to be behind him. When he does come back, he’s going to be welcomed back with open arms, and it’s going to be over.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

He was taking a steroid used on horses. What kind of lesson is that for America\u2019s kids?<\/p>\n

In Feb. 2023, when star University of Alabama basketball player Brandon Miller was accused of bringing the gun used in a murder to the site of the shooting, his coach, Nate Oats, was remarkably nonplussed by it all. Oats had the gall to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew about that. Can\u2019t control everything everybody does outside of practice<\/strong>. Nobody knew that was going to happen. College kids are out, Brandon [Miller] hasn\u2019t been in any type of trouble nor is he in any type of trouble in this case. Wrong spot at the wrong time.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

What was the fallout for Miller? He remained on the team throughout its NCAA Tournament run, was then drafted No. 2 overall by the NBA\u2019s Charlotte Hornets, and signed<\/a> a lucrative multi-million-dollar deal that will pay him more than most Americans will earn over a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden\u2019s open-borders agenda has killed<\/a> a 12-year-old American boy in Missouri. Tens of millions of Americans will vote for him this year.<\/p>\n

One of the most highly touted rising MLB stars of 2023 was Oneil Cruz of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was injured early in the year and missed most of the season. He is back for a much-anticipated 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n

Cruz, another Dominican, has not seen his career affected one iota by a 2020 incident<\/a> in which he killed three people in an automobile crash in which he was accused of driving drunk.<\/p>\n

American fans will watch him play this year, and they will cheer him on.<\/p>\n

This is madness.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the intersection of privileged sports and elitist degeneracy is most disgustingly illustrated by the unconscionable treatment afforded to the son of a famous NFL head coach who permanently injured an innocent American child while driving drunk.<\/p>\n

The Missouri Independent reported<\/a> March 4:<\/p>\n

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson drew condemnation from across the political spectrum over the weekend after he reduced the sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid for a drunken driving crash that permanently injured a 5-year-old girl.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, was drunk in February 2021 when he crashed his truck into two vehicles on the side of an exit ramp along an interstate near the Chiefs\u2019 practice facility. <\/em><\/p>\n

Six people were injured, including 5-year-old Ariel Young, who sustained a traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for 11 days<\/strong>. According to her family, Young continues to suffer memory loss and issues with speech and movement.<\/em><\/p>\n

Parson overtly stepped in to give Reid\u2019s son preferential treatment:<\/p>\n

Reid pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. <\/em><\/p>\n

But on Friday [March 1], with little explanation and without consulting with local prosecutors or the victims\u2019 family, Parson commuted Reid\u2019s sentence<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0allowing him to serve under house arrest until October 2025. <\/em><\/p>\n

Parson\u2019s decision drew immediate outrage.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere simply can be no response that explains away the failure to notify victims of the offender,\u201d Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a press release. She later added: \u201cI simply say I am saddened by the self-serving political actions of the governor and the resulting harm that it brings to the system of justice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

How disgraceful is Parson? This is the governor of Missouri: When the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in February 2023, he got a tattoo of the team\u2019s logo, and boasted<\/a> about it publicly:<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week at Chiefs training camp, I had the opportunity to huddle with our Super Bowl 57 champions and show off my new ink,<\/strong>\u201d Parson wrote on Facebook.<\/em><\/p>\n

Politics and big-time sports are merging in their contempt for regular Americans. The blatant disdain political elites have for citizens is overtly displayed<\/a> via the mocking<\/a> of their concern over massive unchecked immigration. Our elites do not care that you don\u2019t like what they are doing to your neighborhood and community. Too much money is at stake.<\/p>\n

The similarities found in the utter phoniness of big-time sports and big-time politics are eery. GOP Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama has been deservedly pilloried<\/a> for her transparently artificial State of the Union response on March 7. Britt is a product of Alabama machine politics and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a>. Before being elevated to her current position, she served as deputy press secretary and then chief of staff to longtime Sen. Richard Shelby.<\/p>\n

She has zero qualifications to be a United States senator. Does anybody care?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that money, nepotism and insider connections play a major role in politics today. As WorldTribune<\/strong><\/span> documented<\/a> in January:<\/p>\n

[T]he GOP establishment has actively recruited not one but two executives from a private equity goliath that boasts of its heavy presence in China and whose founder regularly espouses overt pro-communist regime propaganda to run for U.S. Senate seats….<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBridgewater Associates has been managing Chinese state money since 1993,\u201d<\/strong> Fortune reported in 2022….<\/em><\/p>\n

Nella Domenici is the daughter of Pete Domenici, who dominated New Mexico politics for decades while serving as a U.S. senator from 1973-2009. Nella served as chief financial officer at Bridgewater during her lengthy tenure there.<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine the insanity of voting for this just because there is a capital R next to the name on the ballot. Hundreds of thousands will do so in Pennsylvania and New Mexico this year.<\/p>\n

Money, nepotism and insider connections also play a big-time role in professional sports today. This is most pronounced in the National Football League. Does anybody care?<\/p>\n

No case is as egregious as that of Arthur Smith<\/a>. Smith, former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, currently serves as offensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is the son of multi-billionaire FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.<\/p>\n

Frederick Smith just so happened to be a part owner of the Washington Redskins<\/a> when Arthur got his lucky break into the NFL coaching ranks in 2007. Arthur used that start to eventually attain the coveted role of offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans. Tennessee, of course, is the home state of FedEx.<\/p>\n

Imagine cheering for a team coached by this. Millions of Americans will, wholeheartedly. And purchase authentic team jerseys at $385 a pop<\/a> as they do so.<\/p>\n

Take a look at this photo. This is your political culture today. This is ridiculous:<\/p>\n

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Raise your hand \u270b\ufe0f if you want Trump to appoint a Special Counsel to go after every one of these liars \ud83d\udc47 on the J6 Committee pic.twitter.com\/KaqJyHld98<\/a><\/p>\n

— @Chicago1Ray \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Chicago1Ray) March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n