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Karen N's avatar

Trump's shame will affect generations and there will be no healing without accountability! That includes for allies who have been bullied, maligned and extorted by Trump!

Angela Dibblee's avatar

im a Canadian Hockey mama and as tough as it was to lose the gold medal game I am freaking stoked for the US ladies team to use their platform in this way. Congrats!!

Lauran McDaib's avatar

Seems likely to me that the Womens Olympic team just didn't want to spend any time listening to a mostly incoherent Orange Buffoon farting/pooping in his diapers and falling asleep during most of the dinner.

Renegade Crone's avatar

No dear. We did not “elect” Patel. Not impressed with these people.

Joan Finholt's avatar

I thought the women made a classy statement declining an invite to shake Trumps hand. They could have said "F you. We don't want to shake the hand of a sex abuser & rapist." Instead, they said “Thank you for the opportunity but we each have previously scheduled commitments which we must honor.”

Lupatrian's avatar

I bet that hurt more than a tent stake up the ass.

Barb Phimister's avatar

I get it! Trump doesn’t respect women and has hurt so many. No wonder our U.S. Olympic women’s team won’t be attending. Good for them for not accepting his invitation. He’s just looking for numbers in attendance to inflate his ego.

J. E. McAuliffe's avatar

Maybe that as well, but the derogatory remarks Trump made about the Women's Olympic team, in light of those made towards and 'for' the men's team, seem to suggest there's more to the story that's offensive to the women's team, Trump said and did things recently that were offensive personaly to them.

I have a pretty good feeling, although I honestly don't know how to verify it unless I hear news, but I think Trump chosing to praise the men's team and try shaming the woman's team, is offensive enough, but excessive praise of the American team I'm sure, given Trump's spiteful nature, it has something to do with the fact it was 'Canada' they beat.

You know, things bad from day one with Trump, but I think it was the Murder of Renee Good that broke my heart to watch, I can't stop being angry, especially after trying to reason with these people and getting the same 1-3 illiterate, hateful remarks, extremely passionate calls for violence, which FB says is okay when I flag them, then I end up with a too many problems since Friday alone from these people coming on my FB and Flagged me almost 3,000 times I'm told, within two hours, by Trump supporters trying to silence me: And they have on FB, I'm lucky if anyone knows I still exist!

All this stuff, it has me on edge every day. It's hard to know exactly what a group such as the American Women's Olympic Team is specifically hurt and bothered buy when Trump and his people are all looking for any way at all to victimize, abuse, and hurt people--even kill as we've seen, and the things they do to hurt people have no bounds. It makes me nervous all the time now, because I'm not the kind to stand by and watch someone be victimized in front of me, and knowing how I get when people hurt me or loved ones and I see it--I keep thinking I'm going wind up dead soon for doing what I have a habit of doing to help people.

I can't imagine what's really bothering them, I can't even keep up with what's bothering me; it's so bad now with these criminals In power, I'm having trouble keeping my cool, and I've never been like this my whole life! But cruelty begets cruelty, and it's starting to impact me--maybe they just stayed away not to deal with anymore hateful negative energy from this madman?

Sheri Kern's avatar

I call it Hoax of the Union

Liberty's Limericks's avatar

Tender, soft citizens, so palsied by power,

Can we rally and march through Liberty's dark hour?

Freedom ain't free, 

She takes work to be: 

By shared sweat alone shall our Republic yet flower.

J. E. McAuliffe's avatar

You employed with Facebook? I've been having all these problems, flagged by hateful Trump supporters, and a lot more details about what I've gone through so far. I've supposedly been in contact, called back from requesting appeals, and flagged for arguing against what I flagged as wrong? There's a lot more to it than I care to bother you here

CALL TO ACTIVISM's avatar

Not employed at Facebook! Cosima runs Call to Activism’s Facebook page, 2 million followers.

Definitely part of the problem and why we love Substack!

Deb's avatar

Thank you!

Ren Lauer's avatar

How could the men's team laugh at this? They know what kind of sacrifice it takes to get the Olympics. How could they? If they had any real balls they would boycott as well! Lousy assholes!😠😡🤬😈

Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you Sirens,

Trump took the rejection as affirmation

I am 78 in a month and I am not neurotypical. I have never been able to drink alcohol and neither my mother nor father enjoyed drinking. I have been around Donald J Trumps my whole life. Mark Twain said man is the only animal that blushes or needs to blush. I worked with males suffering from fetal alcohol disorder. They neither blush nor need to blush. Trump is when pathos turns to bathos.

America runs on booze and caffeine and apes are social beings. Empathy is looked for when it is not even there. America committed suicide. Why do you want to resurrect the dead we can only affect the future and que sera sera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc&list=RDxZbKHDPPrrc&start_radio=1

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder.html

The Culture Is The Canvas's avatar

The headlines all deserve the same reaction. Russian Roulette with a full barrel. We live in a fake ass nation where only the consequences are real.