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"The premise sounds almost fictional: one boy and one girl from every state,
territory and some tribal nations, flown to a private campus in Ohio to compete
in a televised athletic contest called the Patriot Games — a Trump-backed youth
competition with obstacle courses, patriotic testimonials and inevitable
comparisons to
The Hunger Games.
Except unlike the dystopian book and movie franchise where kids are pitted in a
televised battle of survival, the stakes in the Patriot Games won’t be life and
death. The male and female winners will each receive $125,000 in college
scholarship money."
Via Susan ****, who wrote "Hitler Youth competition incoming"
Cheers,
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