Take steroids, boy. You know you want to. That was the unvarnished message for the competitors in Las Vegas for the first all drugged games announced in 2025. Taking place on May 24 in Las Vegas and featuring 42 athletes, it had the benefit of at least being open about the use of steroids in sporting performance though its founder,Aron D’Souza,intended it to be far more than that. The Australian entrepreneur saw it as a matter of liberty and choice, with the eventpromisingto “break world records and fundamentally change the trajectory of not just sport, but humanity as a whole.”

Here, the process could be genuinely transparent while being scientific, importing technological prowess into athletic sport. Sprightly claims, though given that it has the support of that most dedicated of billionaire misanthropesPeter Thieland received promotional interest by the US President’s basket case of a son,Donald Trump Jr.,some scepticism is in order.

Thiel is as good a starter for the sceptics as any. His position on the human species, for one, ranges from chillingly ambivalent to hauntingly creepy. In aninterviewwith theNew York Timespublished in June last year he was asked whether he “would prefer the human race to endure”. He hesitated, an obvious point remarked upon by the interviewer and columnist Ross Douthat.

“Well, I don’t know. I would – I would … ”

Eventually, after considering that there were “so many questions implicit in this”, Thiel offered a resigned

What followed revealed a telling portrait of Thiel the digital eugenicist and fervent transhumanist. Humans should be allowed to endure, but in heavily modified form.

“We want more than changing cross-dressing or changing your sex organs. We want you to be able to change your heart and change your mind and change your whole body.”

Ahead of the games, the drug-use rates of 36 of the participating athletes were made public. Some are part of clinical study listed onClinicaltrials.gov. Obviously wishing to make a go of the experiment, two of the 36 are included, while two of the six not included are not using performance enhancing drugs. Showing that the system is not unregulated and luxuriously libertarian, five categories of substances, all apparently compliant with US Food and Drug Administration regulations,were approved: testosterone esters, anabolic agents, peptides and growth factors, metabolic modulators and stimulants.

This act of sporting license is much in keeping with a Trump administration that favours self-enrichment and plunder over the drudgery of regulation and red tape.

“This is about excellence, innovation, and American dominance on the world stage – something the MAGA movement is all about,”trilledDonald Trump Jr. in a statement accompanying the announcement of his support.

Source: Global Research