Meet Politico's Supervillains of the TDS Universe. Artist Natalia Delgado provided us with a rendering of the sheer villainy of a howling mad J.D. Vance, whose angry piercing gaze seems about to burn the hearts out of sensitive Georgetown liberals whose world has been turned upside down in the wake of the 2024 election. Behind Vance, staring ominously out at the world, is the spooky Big Brother hypnotic glare of the unholiest of all unholy supervillains, none other than Orange Man Bad.  Who, oh who, can combat the overwhelming power of the MAGA supervillains? Fortunately, Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy on Thursday has shined a light on a possible path to salvation. Olympic athletes. Yes, according to Svirnovkiy, the MAGA supervillains can be heroically stifled by athletes from other countries defeating Team USA on the snowy (and ICE-y) playing fields of the Winter Olympics as you can see in "Trump’s geopolitical tensions spill into the Winter Olympics." The president’s repeated jabs at longtime partners, his inconsistent tariff policy and repeated plays for Greenland have shown just how much he’s shifted the traditional world order. The resulting international “rupture,” as described by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Davos last month, has turned beating the Americans in Italy from a crowning sporting achievement to an even greater moral imperative for the president’s rivals. “This is life and death,” said Charlie Angus, a former member of Parliament in Canada with the New Democratic Party and prominent Trump critic. “If it’s the semifinals and we’re playing against the United States, it’s no longer a game. And that’s profound.” Life and death?? Yes, Donald Trump keeps winning, but can we hope that Team MAGA can finally be stopped at the Winter Olympics? Svirnovskiy certainly seems to be holding out the possible hope that all liberals can desperately grasp onto:  Trump has also clashed with many of the countries vying to top the leaderboards in Milan. Since returning to the White House in January, he’s antagonized Norway, which took home the most medals in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, over a perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub and clashed repeatedly with Canada, which finished fourth. “We’re looking at the world in a very different light,” Angus said. “And we’re looking at a next-door neighbor who makes increasingly unhinged threats towards us. So to go to international games and pretend that we’re all one happy family, well, that’s gone.” Trump has also sparred with Emmanuel Macron, the president of France (the 13th-place finisher in Beijing), and threatened a military incursion in pushing Denmark (a Scandinavian country which curiously hasn’t medaled in the Winter Olympics since 1998) to cede Greenland. Is Mr. Angus vying for an employment at Politico with his TDS displays? The position of labor reporter has been vacant since the departure of the legendary Mike Elk. Here's how you know he's a hard-core leftist: "In September 2025, Angus started a YouTube channel in partnership with the MeidasTouch Network under the name Meidas Canada." Then came the "legendary" athletes: “With the current American president, no one knows what he will do or say tomorrow,” said legendary goaltender Dominik Hasek, a gold medalist with Czechia in the 1998 Nagano Games and a one-time rumored presidential candidate in his home nation. “If he doesn’t make negative comments about athletes from other countries in the coming weeks, everything will be fine. But that could change very quickly after one of his frequent hateful attacks.” Does Svirnovkiy have an axe to grind? He explains on his LinkedIn page:  My parents left the Soviet Union as religious refugees in 1993, fleeing a country that censored truths that didn’t conform to its ideological narratives. They spent much of their lives in the dark....I know what it's like to come from a place where press freedoms are nonexistent, where the public has no window into the decisions and policies at the top. It's why I believe in political journalism, in attempts at educating the public, at empowering them to decide how to act and lead.