Simone Biles may not be done breaking Olympic records. The 27-year-old gymnast spoke in a press conference on August 3rd after nailing her individual vault competition and earning her seventh Olympic gold, which brought her overall medal count to ten. The feat made Simone the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history. After reporters asked if the Paris games would be her last, she hinted that we could see her in four years. “This is my last, definitely Yurchenko double pike,” she joked while referring to her jaw-dropping vault. “I mean, I kind of nailed that one. So never say never.” “The home Games — the next Olympics is at home,” Simone continued. “So you just never know. But I am getting really old.” The 2028 games will take place in Los Angeles. The last time the U.S. hosted the Summer Olympics was in 1996. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simone Biles (@simonebiles) Simone Biles Says Her Age May Keep Her From A Fourth Olympics When Simone Biles earned her most recent spot on Team USA, she was the oldest gymnast to do so since 1952 when Marian Barone, 28, Meta Elste-Neumann, 28, Dorothy Dalton, 30, and Marie Margaret Hoesly, 35, represented the country. If Simone Biles does compete in the next round of games, it will be her fourth Olympics. The legendary gymnast made her debut during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, where she won four golds and one bronze. Simone went on to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Games but had to drop out after experiencing a dangerous phenomenon called “the twisties,” which is when a gymnast loses their body perception mid-air. Before leaving, she won a silver and a bronze. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simone Biles (@simonebiles) While she is by no means “old,” Simone admitted that the wisdom that comes with age gives her a disadvantage. But she still loves to “flip” because “not many people in the world can do it to this level.” “It’s just kind of like once we’re out here, the floor is our stage,” she continued. “So it just feels so freeing for us because we’re in our element. We’re having fun. We’re doing what we love to do.” “I think that’s why I enjoy it so much,” Simone added. “But yeah, at a certain point, as we get older, it does get a little bit more scary, and we’re more aware of what we’re doing … but always fun.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Simone Biles Reveals Her Thoughts On A 2028 Olympic Encore appeared first on InspireMore.

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You gotta love the decided lack of self-awareness at The Washington Post and ABC News. The other day former President Donald J. Trump appeared solo (no Vice President Kamala Harris in sight) at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Chicago. The Post starts out its report on his appearance by saying Trump told “a phony story about the ex-governor of Virginia executing a baby after birth.” Hello? No, he did not. The Post should be able to get this right, since northern Virginia is part of its circulation area, and turning Virginia blue is one of its ongoing political objectives.  Fact: Virginia’s Democrat then-Governor Ralph Northam said this during an interview in 2019 with D.C. radio station WTOP on the subject of an abortion-on-demand bill by state Delegate Kathy Tran.   If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen," Northam said. "The infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. There was no mention at all that a delivered infant would be instantly kept alive after birth. Instead, Northam made it plain that while a newly born, very much alive baby, was out of its mother’s womb “a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother” as to whether the baby would be allowed to live. That is the fact of what Northam said. Instead, the Post told its readers that Trump had told viewers “a phony story about the ex-governor of Virginia executing a baby after birth.”   No, he did not. At the time, the Post channeled Northam's post-gaffe spin: "Northam’s office later made clear the governor was talking about prognosis and medical treatment, not ending the life of a delivered baby." Then there was this from the same appearance at the NABJ.   Trump, said the Post, made “an absurd claim that he ‘saved’ historically Black colleges and universities.” Absurd claim? Here is the Associated Press report on what Trump did on this subject in 2019 as reported at the time he did it. The headline:  Trump signs bill restoring funding for black colleges The AP story reported it this way, bold print for emphasis supplied:  President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, along with dozens of other institutions that serve large shares of minority students. In signing the bill, Trump said historically black schools have ‘never had better champions in the White House.’   “When I took office, I promised to fight for HBCUs, and my administration continues to deliver,” Trump said. “A few months ago, funding for HBCUs was in jeopardy. But the White House and Congress came together and reached a historic agreement.” Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, thanked Trump and the thousands of advocates who lobbied Congress to support the bill. “We enlisted more than 20,000 supporters to write and call their members of Congress,” Lomax said. “This activated army of advocates became the frontline of support for HBCUs, and they won the battle for our institutions.”  The bill restores $255 million in annual funding that lapsed Sept. 30 after Congress failed to renew it. Facing an end to the funding, some schools had started planning for deep cuts, with some telling staff their jobs or programs would be eliminated.” There it is: a fact in black and white. The AP said at the time that in fact: Facing an end to the funding, some schools had started planning for deep cuts, with some telling staff their jobs or programs would be eliminated. Which is not, as the Post would have readers believe, “an absurd claim”  from Trump that he had acted to save HBCUs. It is fact. He wasn't alone in saving funding, but he did. Here’s one more, where the Post got an assist in its tall-tale telling from ABC’s Rachel Scott.  The Post reported:  To a Black audience, he yet again bragged he did more for Black people than any president since Abraham Lincoln — earning the instant rejoinder (which he ignored) from ABC News’s Rachel Scott: “Better than President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act?" Hello? To say that Scott ignored basic history on LBJ would be to understate. Here was this a few years back on LBJ from no less than former Democrat President Barack Obama:  During his first 20 years in Congress, he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote, once calling the push for federal legislation a farce and a shame. LBJ biographer Robert Caro, author of a multi-volume LBJ biography, said this of Johnson on civil rights in his best-selling Means of Ascent:  He had been a congressman, beginning in 1937, for eleven years, and for eleven years he had voted against every civil rights bill – against not only legislation aimed at ending the poll tax and segregation in the armed services but even against legislation aimed at ending lynching: a one hundred percent record. …Running for the Senate in 1948, he had assailed President" Harry "Truman’s entire civil rights program (‘an effort to set up a police state’)…Until 1957, in the Senate, as in the House, his record – by that time a twenty-year record – against civil rights had been consistent. Caro went on:  In 1947, after President Harry S Truman sent Congress proposals against lynching and segregation in interstate transportation, Johnson called the proposed civil rights program a "farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. …In his 1948 speech in Austin kicking off his Senate campaign, Johnson declared he was against Truman’s attempt to end the poll tax because, Johnson said, "it is the province of the state to run its own elections." In short? Reporter Scott skipped entirely LBJ’s decidedly anti-civil rights, anti-voting rights record to zap Trump. This would be the same Trump who has never once expressed opposition to voting rights of black Americans. Not to mention that long before he ran for president, Trump was honored for his support of civil rights by none other than the Rev. Jesse Jackson.   And oh yes. It would appear the name of this group that Trump volunteered to meet with the other day -- the National Association of Black Journalists -- is misnamed. It would seem, as demonstrated by ABC reporter Scott, that this group in reality is the National Association of Liberal Journalists.  A group where “facts” are decidedly selective when it comes to covering former President Trump. As the Washington Post’s phony coverage of Trump’s appearance decidedly illustrates.

On Saturday's edition of The Weekend, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson, in a segment devoted to Kamala Harris's possible VP picks, took not-so-subtle shots at Josh Shapiro. Johnson began by saying that some of the possible candidates would be momentum killers for the campaign, causing the Washington Post and the New York Times to run headlines about "Kamala's first stumble and Dems in disarray." You'd have thought that the hosts would press Johnson to name names on those momentum-killing candidates -- but they didn't. But reading between the lines, it wasn't too hard to discern who Johnson had in mind: Shapiro. He gave upsides and downsides on three of the possible candidates: Pete Buttigieg, Mark Kelly, and Shapiro. But the drawbacks on Kelly and Buttigieg were mild. Kelly might have problems with labor -- but he's been able to "pivot" on those issues. Does "Mayor Pete" have sufficient experience? But when it came to Shapiro, the criticisms were more pointed and serious. Shapiro's biggest calling card is that he is governor of the key[stone] swing state of Pennsylvania. But Johnson noted that for 25 years, VPs have been no guarantee of winning their home swing state. Johnson next flat-out declared that "there's a lot of complaints within the left about Josh Shapiro." Finally, Johnson said it would risk turning off young people, who will be key to the ground game, if Harris picks someone whose issue positions—whether domestic or "international"—they disagree with.  And what has been the biggest issue for young people this year? Who has been leading the pro-Hamas demonstrations on campus and elsewhere? Young people. So who might those young people, Johnson seemed to imply, be most upset about as the VP pick? Shapiro—the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania who, it was recently revealed, actually did some volunteering with the IDF in Israel when he was 20. At the end of the segment, discussing JD Vance, Johnson and Michael Steele, with some egging on by Symone Sanders-Townsend, had great fun working "couch" into the conversation, a reference to a false and fabricated internet allegation about his personal life. If false claims about Vance's personal life are fair game, what of true claims about Kamala's personal past?  Note: Johnson also managed to work in one of the liberal media's favorite attacks on Trump, saying that Harris's campaign is so great that we'll be studying it in 50 years -- "assuming we still have a democracy." Here'e the transcript. MSNBC The Weekend 8/3/24 8:16 am EDT JASON JOHNSON: This [Harris's VP pick] is is very important, because of the short timeline. Kamala Harris -- the VP's campaign has been excellent, right? We are going to be studying this in 50 years: assuming we still have a democracy. We're going to be studying this in 50 years as, like, this is one of the best-run campaigns we've seen. This is almost like England: they have 90 days to put this together. She cannot afford a stumble. What I mean by stumble is, I don't actually think that any of the people that are in this top six would harm her, but it could change momentum. There are some of these people she could select that'll keep the momentum going, and there are some of these people she could select where, Monday, the headline in the Washington Post and New York Times is going to be, "Harris's First Stumble: Dems in Disarray."  There are some people she could pick that could mess up the momentum they have right now, and I hope they make a wise decision this weekend. . . .  SYMONE SANDERS: The Harris campaign worked it [the VP selection process] very similar to how she was selected in 2020. There was a group of people that candidate Biden designated, and said you all are going to be my selection committee; I want yourthoughts. I will have the final say, but I want some people that I trust also weigh in on these folks.  I have to imagine when they handed the packet over, they were thinking about JD Vance, and everything they've seen in the news, Jason, about all of these things coming out, and all of the audio, and the fact that he wrote the forward for Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation, architect of Project 2025, his book, it's coming out. It just seems like all these unforced errors, and I could just imagine, the packet was sick, and it's like: we think we got it all, but we don't know. JOHNSON: Well, here's the thing, it's a completely different process, right? JD Vance, JD Vance was selected, because Donald Trump -- it was a flex! He already thought he was going to win. JD Vance was just to run up the score in states he thought he was already going to win. This is different. This is finding an actually governing partner. And let's be honest, you have a lot of very qualified people. But you have people that some parts of the Democratic base are more excited about. Pete Buttigieg is probably the best communicator the party has. He's fantastic. Great, that works for you.  If you were to pick Mark Kelly, he literally is from a border state. He can talk about the border, he can talk about security, he can talk about IVF that he and his wife used to have a child. He can talk about gun issues. He can do all those things. You've got, you know, Josh Shapiro, who's great on the stump, who's charming, who's from a critical swing state. But let's also be clear: it has not been evident over the last 25 years or so that your Vice President is necessarily going to guarantee you a swing state. There are criticisms from labor about Kelly, even though he's been able to pivot. There are concerns about whether or not Mayor Pete would be ready for this position after just being Transportation Secretary. And there's a lot of complaints within the left about Josh Shapiro. And I think that the Harris campaign has to be very aware of these things. Look, she's got to make sure that the young people, the young people who have free time, they young people who are going to volunteer, the young people are going to go to Michigan and knock on doors and take a semester off because they're so excited about her: she can't have any of those young people get disappointed, or think that she's playing in their faces, if she picks someone who represents or has positions that they're not happy about on any issue, domestic or international. SANDERS-TOWNSEND: So Michael, can I just say, can I just ask you, but like, aren't they, this is just like, you think the young people were excited about Joe Biden when Barack Obama picked him in 20--in 2008? Like, I think they were voting for Barack Obama. JOHNSON: No, but it's not the same kind of race. We're not in the same kind of race. MICHAEL STEELE: I think to Jason's point, it is a different race today, and those are the considerations, particularly when you stack them up. But when you stack them up against what we see on the other side, I don't think--to be honest, I just don't think any of those gentlemen are going to have a problem with JD -- [Symone starts to giggle] -- nah, I won't say it. With JD Vance, I'll just go there. I know, I almost said it. JOHNSON: You had to couch it perfectly, so the people really didn't get confused.  STEELE: I had, I had to couch it perfectly. And so I just figured I'd just leave the couch in the other room. Heath Mayo, Dr. Jason Johnson, thank you both so much for being with us this morning. Symone, you're so bad.

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