I'm Saddened, But Not Surprised

It's no shock to me that the judges. producers, or whoever is responsible for selecting wild card acts, would rely more on their own non-American, globalist, left coast inspired liberal leanings than on objective enjoyment/entertainment evaluation and consideration of their American audience's input.  In cramming Front Pictures down our throats for the second time this season, the show's powers who be have opted to make AGT more of Anywhere's Got Talent than America's Got Talent.   I'm sure that each and every one of them are among the idiotic ignorami/ ignoramous idiots  screaming "Russian collusion!" in regards to President Trump.     Now, they collude to give us another Russian act.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.. I know that they're from Kyiv (or Kiev, as we in the English speaking world spell it) and that Ukraine is an independent sovereign state.  I also know that Ukraine was part of the USSR for half a century and remains under a Russian sphere of influence.  Sure, they make a big show of their confrontational condition relative to Russia over Crimea, but still... Putin puppets?  Realistically Russian spies?  As Ukraine is pretty much the poorest nation in Europe, I have to ask, where do these guys obtain the resources to put on their show, which relies more on engineering expertise than on artistic aesthetics?  But I suppose that that is talent, too.  All I'll say is, with all of their high tech whiz bangery, they come not close to the relatively low tech, eloquently simplistic story telling of the Silhouettes.  God bless them and America, second place finalist Silhouettes is from Denver.

With or without the American audience's votes, I can easily envision a Final Five completely comprised of foreigners, with one of them becoming the third foreign act to win the competition, which was designed to be, in the words of early show host, Jerry Springer, an avenue for "the best new talent in America".


Golden Buzzer recipients English Courtney Hadwin and Austrian Zurcaroh, along with Golden Buzzer deserving Dutch Glennis Grace are all serious contenders for sufficient fan votes to advance.

Among Front Pictures, and hip hop, shit show dance troupes Da Republik from the Dominican Republic and Philippino Junior New System, any two could be put through on the basis of being the best bull squeeze and balderdash sob story of pain and poverty.


As for my preferred pick as the semifinals Wild Card act, I had touted American French Accent, "obviously" from Wyoming, as the only act in AGT  history to have judges take back their X's to vote yes and advance him to the next round.  Of course, he's not shown up in the Judge Cuts or since.


I have since discovered that former judge Howard Stern did it at least twice, once declaratively and demonstrably and once just demonstratively.
 

And don't you just know that the one Canadian, one German and two British judges just hate having Old Glory, The Stars and Stripes superimposed behind their picture above?  Even American hostess Tyra Banks probably does, too.