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My wife and I sat down on StupidBowl Sunday with a big bowl of popcorn, and stared at our TV, which was off, with a beach towel draped over it (the towel has biogeometric interfaces of shapes and patterns that calm the nervous system) and sat and talked, like humans. Touchdown.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

Taylor SWIFT was there to use her sorcery to USHER in the new SWIFT digital currency. Great article.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

The miraculous comeback of the Patriots vs. the Falcons was the first clue; for me as a Pennsylvanian, this season nailed it when the Eagles, who were beating EVERYONE in the last minute of a game (even w/ a 60-yd field goal in overtime IN THE RAIN) then managed to lose their last 4 or 5 games in a row no matter how bad the team they were playing was, that's when I realized that it's got to be fixed. I lost interest in pro sports after the athletes started on their woke journeys following the martyrdom of St. George in Mpls. So this year I was easing back in, and now back out again. On a positive note, at least the SuperBowl halftime wasn't blatantly satanic like the last few years; just boring, like the game itself. Went to bed at halftime. Woke up to hear the Chiefs had (again) pulled out a miracle in the last few minutes. Yawn.

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Feb 19·edited Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

Many of the guys I know who worship at the feet of the NFL stopped watching for about a year when all of the players were "taking a knee". Now, it's like nothing ever happened, as they watch almost literal satanic rituals performed during half time. Not to mention some of the most propagandist ads in history. I can find more genuine (and wholesome) entertainment watching a good street hacky sack competition... Oh, but I still keep hearing that we are in the middle of a "great awakening". Um, where?

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The league’s open embrace of gambling was my red pill moment.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

Knowing that so much of our society is rigged, and so many citizens are completely bought into it is extremely sad. I've gotten to the point where I can hardly have a conversation with anyone without growing increasingly frustrated and sickened by their perspectives. My remaining days are going to be frustrating and lonely surrounded by Taylor and Travis fans.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

Gone the way of the Oscars.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

Bang on!

"They don’t need to script all plays or even all games, but they appear to script most games and rig most games. All they need to do is rig one play, on one drive for each team, each quarter or half to decide the outcome of games. It doesn’t need to be every play, and that’s what helps keep the illusion going"

I never watch the Super Bowl but do watch hockey and have been saying this for decades since Gary Bettman took over..... I agree that a lot of games seem rigged..... the refs in the NHL no longer have their last name on the backs of their jerseys anymore....I just always found that odd, too....

Can you now do the NHL, Good Citizen?

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

Football---what's that??? Been probably 30 years or more since I've watched a game, or even had any idea as to who was winning or not. Don't even know how my once cherished collage team does anymore. Just don't care. American football (and that other game where everyone keeps kicking the ball) are the circuses in the old Roman way of keeping the masses occupied and less likely to rebel. Personally, what I think we need is less "bread & circuses" and quite a bit more rebellion to fix what's going on behind the scenes.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

GC, you must be continuing your experiment to see how many unsubs you can get by attacking another cult group's golden calf. :)

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Feb 19·edited Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

“Like the gambler chasing his losses at the blackjack table, these “fans” will keep throwing good attention hours after a lifetime of bad attention choices. They cannot accept just how much of their life was lost to something that was always fixed.”

I have never understood why anyone would want to spend that much time following sports, even in games that aren’t fixed. I can understand wanting to watch games, although I don’t watch any games other than occasionally a baseball game. (I never even watch the Super Bowl.) But studiously following players, coaches, statistics, records, etc is a monumental waste of time. I actually feel somewhat sorry for people whose lives are so boring that they would even care about that stuff. If fact, I usually don’t even care who wins. When I occasionally go to watch a game of our local minor league baseball team I usually don’t even care if they win or lose. I just go because I enjoy sitting outside on a pleasant summer evening watching a baseball game.

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Feb 19·edited Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

It was the super bowl in New Orleans, a few years ago, a blowout - then the power went out. The freaking power went out for 34 minutes.

It was 28-6 at the time. Final score 34-31. Then I knew for sure it was a big effing scam. High drama, mere drama. A grand manipulation.

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Down Under, the Australian media has been swooning over Taylor Swift ("Tay Tay") for weeks now. You'd think she was busy saving the world. This IS a psyop, and it's about far more than Biden.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

I wish I could comment as articulately as others here, but I just don't have the experience with "team sports" like others do. I have no idea who Taylor Swift is, but I'm sure he must be fast.

I have never followed any team sports, and I have good reasons. When I grew up there were plenty of opportunities to get involved, but I was definitely not a team player. If I got hold of the basketball, I would ignore everything except the basket, and either fake out other players as I got closer to the basket and barring that, I would throw it in a high arch, almost hitting the ceiling and almost always swishing it, sometimes from beyond half court. This seemed to anger the coach, who loudly said "There's no I in team," to which I yelled out "Yeah, the I is in win." Sharing the ball with less able players seemed to be more important than making the point(s). So I began to do individual sports like badminton. I played as a team of one. And I won - a lot. And when I didn't win I took the blame. As you might imagine, I hated doubles.

If you ask me, team sports is sort of like religion; you can't accept blame for losing and you can't accept credit for winning because you might be the best or worst player but you have very little control over the game. Who wants to play a game like that?

So, as a badminton star, I excelled in something that taught me that I can take the credit when I succeed but also must take responsibility when I fail. It didn't seem like it was one of life's lessons at the time but it sure does now.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

I was never into sports. I only very casually followed it to be "social" in my twenties. I know some people who have fantasy teams, watch all the games, and know the stats if every player

Just like everything else once you go down the rabbit hole, it is fake.

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Feb 19Liked by Good Citizen

My Dad was a bookie growing up and always said that football was fixed. He would tell me things like this, " If you want to win on Monday night just bet against the money. If one team was bet heavy, go the other way.

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