GO U.S. Womens Hockey!!!
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Anonymous
| How dare they minimize your grit and achievement. I am proud of this team! |
Anonymous
No one is minimizing their grit and achievement. If they chose to attend the State of the Union, they would have been celebrated just as much. Also, remember that a reason the men's team has received a lot of media attention is because they haven't won a gold since 1980. Women's has won 3 golds, 4 silvers, and 1 bronze since just 1998. |
Anonymous
DP. No they would have been mocked. Republicans hates women’s sports and women in general. We all know Trump would have attacked them. The US men’s team is just a bunch maga cult member. A true embarrassment to this nation. |
Anonymous
You obviously know nothing about Republicans. It’s interesting that liberals accuse conservatives of being divisive when the opposite is true. Republicans are some of the biggest supporters of women’s sports these days. Please don’t make things up just because you’re uninformed. |
Anonymous
If you really knew what you're talking about, you'd know that around half of the US men's hockey team are anything but " MAGA cult members". You're an embarrassment to yourself. |
Anonymous
Well, Trump already minimized their grit and achievement during his phone call to the men’s hockey team — when he invited the men’s team to the SOTU address and said that he guessed he’d have to invite the women’s team too, to keep from getting impeached. Har har har. So, no, they would not have been celebrated just as much — although they would have been celebrated by many people. |
Anonymous
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The 2026 Olympics gave America two gold medals in hockey. And then one locker room took something away from all of us.
I am not surprised by him. But I am deeply disappointed in them. After winning gold in a dramatic overtime victory, the U.S. men's hockey team celebrated in the locker room, joined, inexplicably, by FBI Director Kash Patel. While Kash was shot gunning beers in the locker room, he patched in President Trump on speakerphone. Trump invited the men to the State of the Union. Then, referring to the women's team, who had also just won gold, who had broken records, who had carried this country on their backs, he said he'd 'have to' bring them too, or he'd 'probably be impeached.' The room laughed. Every single one of them. I won't pretend to be surprised. We know who he is. We've always known. But I am disappointed, deeply disappointed, in the silence of those young men in that locker room. Because days earlier, those same players did something beautiful. They brought Johnny Gaudreau's little girl onto the ice. Johnny, their teammate, their brother, a man who should have been on that ice with them. For one sacred moment, his daughter stood where he once stood, on Olympic ice, wrapped in the love of a team that hadn't forgotten him. Every person watching felt it. It was the kind of moment that reminds you what sport is really for. And then, just days later, when the President of the United States turned the gold-medal-winning women of Team USA into a punchline, not one of those men said a word. They laughed. As a father, I can't get it out of my mind. I think about my own daughter. I think about the little girl I watch grow every single day, who is already full of fire and fight and limitless possibility. I think about what it means for her to grow up in a world where women can win gold medals, break records, and still be treated as an afterthought, a punchline, by the most powerful man in the room. And I think about Johnny's little girl, who just days before had stood on that ice in her father's memory, held up by these very men as a symbol of everything worth fighting for. And still. Not one word. I have to believe, I choose to believe, that somewhere in that locker room, there were young men with a pit in their stomach. Men who felt it. Who knew better. Who thought of their daughters, their sisters, their nieces, and thought of Johnny's girl, standing on that ice just days before. Men who had the moral clarity in their hearts but not the courage to let it reach their voice. Who chose the comfort of silence over the discomfort of conviction. Speaking up when someone is diminished in front of you, even when it's uncomfortable, even when the room is laughing, even when the most powerful person in the world is on the other end of the phone, that is what moral courage looks like. That is what we owe each other. Those women were extraordinary. They didn't just win gold, they made history. They played with a ferocity and grace that left the entire world in awe. They broke records. They made little girls everywhere believe that there are no limits to what they can become. They made my little Charlotte believe. They gave this country something to be genuinely, unambiguously proud of. And they deserved every bit of the moment that was stolen from them in that locker room. #Michael Garrett North Carolina Senate To the athletes who did speak truth to power, who stood on the world's greatest stage and showed us the very best of what America can be, we see you. We are proud of you. And we are forever grateful. There have always been those among us with the courage to stand up, speak out, and refuse to go silent when it matters most. Be that person. The world needs more of them. |
Anonymous
| #Michael Garrett NC Senate ^^ |
Anonymous
| Put your money where your mouth is. Push for an expansion of the PWHL in this area. That's where these players work when they aren't competing in the Olympics. |
Anonymous
+1. Girls/women's hockey is strong in this area and there is plenty of support for it. |
Anonymous
So the women, who have to hold other jobs due to low pay, should be celebrated and not just with an afterthought incitation because T thinks he will be impeached. The men are lame if this was their first medial and they get paid north of $775k per year. The women just recently had their first six-figure salary and have to have other jobs. Men rewarded for mediocrity as usual. |
Anonymous
A bunch of people who have been all over the media for two weeks saying how much they “support” you laugh on camera about the very idea of you being treated equally. Yeeaahh that sure sounds like minimizing their achievement actually! |
Anonymous
| OP please come back and confirm that you fully support banning biological men in all women’s sports. Since you’re such a supporter of women’s teams. |
Anonymous
Not op but I agree with her original post sentiments and I fully support banning biological men in all women’s sports. I really think most democrats (I am an independent, but cannot stand maga so generally vote with the dems these days) support this, fwiw. It’s only the terminally online people that don’t. |
Anonymous
I actually agree with this in theory and always have, but people like you who get all worked into a froth like it's the end of the world make me want to change my mind. So much suffering in the world, so much damage from this administration, and this is what you get your knickers in a twist about. You MAGA perverts sickly obsessed with trans people and trying to make their lives a miserable hell are rotten to the core. |