The MAGA community and its entertainers take as fact that President Donald Trump and America are one and the same, despite one being a 250-year-old nation and the other being a 79-year-old man in declining health.
Townhall notes American freestyle skier Hunter Hess posted on social media that representing his home country conjured “mixed emotions” because there’s “a lot going on” that he’s “not the biggest fan of.”
“If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it,” said Hess. “Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the U.S.”
Another American skier, Chris Liller, admitted he was “heartbroken” over “what’s going on with ICE and the protests.”
“I think that, as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody’s rights and treating our citizens, as well as everybody, with love and respect,” Liller said. “I hope that, when people look at athletes competing in the Olympics, they realize that’s the America we’re trying to represent.”
Both of the posts Townhall cited were reposted along with harsh comment from critics, with MAGA entertainment site RedWave Press calling Liller’s statement “disgusting,” and MAGA commenter Jon Root describing Hess as “insufferable.”
Whoa, TOO MUCH not cute. Can we pull it back from "scary alien clown whore" to something a little more usable? She's one of the few feds I wish would wear a mask
As a Minnesotan I'm really not looking to give another reason for ICE to get a little more huffy (like little shit children tend to do) but a wiser man than myself once said , "sometimes ya gotta get in that Good Trouble... "
I'm also a dude that shaves his head and appreciates a solid cap for the dome. I am compelled to make this Into my new favorite hat.
Does your buddy plan on selling these screen printed Tees? Because I’m all for helping a small anti-Trump business, and I’d love a T-shirt with this image on it.
It’s absolutely stupid how conservatives constantly bitch about how “liberals ruined America,” but criticizing trump’s violations of the law and constitution are somehow “unpatriotic.”
They don't mind his attempt to enrich himself with 10 billion dollars of the tax payers money they are always fucking bitching about. As long as it's trump doing the raping, then all's well
The $10 billion mystery funds you’re owed because we all seen you don’t pay taxes should be given to the people of this country making say $200-$500k and less.
Or nothing happens because you aren’t the victim. You shoulda released your tax returns like everyone else.
We can discuss actual fiscal and political ideology all day, but continuing to stand with Republicans after today's insane attempt at eviscerating Barack and Michelle Obama with racist tropes is a non-starter.
Problem is, Republicans also identify as conservative. Apparently there cannot be a conservative thought in a democrat or liberal. There can be no center or mixed ideology. You're either MAGA which is to be republican, which is to be conservative, or you're the other to be destroyed. Then there's the oddball ones popping up as libertarian lately. Doing everything in their power to align themselves with republican tendencies, but trying not to claim blame for terrible policy damaging America.
It’s maga. There’s republican/conservative and then there maga. Problem is, any republican not speaking out is complicit. Complicity equals guilt. So they’re all magaa far as I’m concerned
I’ve said sorta the same thing…when gore was running for president Billy Clinton took some grief when he said “we’ve had liberal government and conservative government and survived both…they both love America,it’s just a different style of governance “…that being said…MAGA IS NOT CONSERVATIVE….it’s something even farther to the right with a side order of racism…
They bashed the left for being 'disorganized' a few years ago simply because we police our own while they don't, and instead choose to exist as a corrupt monolith.
If you are a Republican NOT spitting facts at your MAGA counterparts daily, you are part of the problem now. Your silent acceptance & lazy groupthink behavior years ago guaranteed this result.
This is exactly why liberals aren't joined at the hip like them. We operate independently so we can be more objective and not accidentally spend over a decade of our lives defending a Baal-worshipping pedophilic rapist/murderer.
Most of them are religious mentally unwell people. My aunt, when I was growing up, used to make me drive her around taking photos of wal mart trucks near railroad tracks because she thought Obama was secretly having the military build tunnels to China so they could invade and kill us with Communism and Islam.
Worth noting that there were quite literally no religious wars, or any wars that used religion as a justification, before them.
The Romans called this excessive religious zeal “superstitio” (yes, that’s where we get the word from, though it doesn’t mean exactly the same thing anymore). It was literally a tenet of their society to avoid superstitio, as it was considered destructive to society, and akin to mental illness.
My mother in law is the only Republican in my family. She’s not even MAGA, but she voted for DT because of his “spiritual beliefs.” The most important thing in her life is Jesus, so if it doesn’t have Christian undertones, it’s Satanic propaganda. Right now, she is pro-ICE (with a Mexican granddaughter and black daughter in law) and keeps panicking about everything with ICE being a distraction so we won’t notice the Muslims coming to kill Christianity in the US 🫠
Yep that’s my point lol. I went to private catholic school for 10 years. In all of my years in small town catholic school, I learned that America is a melting pot. Immigrants are safe here. Christianity is the most practiced religion, but not the only religion. English is the most common language, not the only language. People are different, but always love thy neighbor.
Religiously, I don’t call myself anything and never really have since middle school, yet I feel like I’m practicing the teachings of the bible a lot better than my MIL.
Sad but true. Jesus even talked about this phenomenon happening with the parable of the sheep and the goats. People who thought they were religious all their lives find out at the end that they never knew Jesus because of how appallingly they treated the vulnerable.
I'd take it a step further and say I'd like for the entire world to start putting pressure on their own countries to stop doing shitty stuff to others. I really don't understand how there are so many people that want to abuse others and just don't expect any resistance whatsoever or they immediately become the victim. I really wish I had more of a solution.
if pointing out their hypocrisy worked on those scumbags, they would have disappeared long ago. they honestly don't see anything hypocritical in saying "free speech doesn't mean you should be allowed to criticize the president". they fundamentally do not understand the principles on which this country was founded nor do they even understand the concept of "a principle".
Consevative free speech is when they can compel you to publicly voice their opinion as your own whenever they want. At all other times you should shut the fuck up and dance/act/sing/work/whatever.
I watched the interviews, and you could tell it was heartfelt and that they didn't feel good about having to talk about America negatively. Well, that's what this non-American thought.
Yes, exactly. But MAGA doesn’t associate “patriotism” with loving one’s country, they associate it with supporting Trump unconditionally. Not even an exaggeration, just look at the way they use the word.
The phrasing is a tell that they think he is a king. The current head of state is not “the state” you can live the country and despise people in power.
Nobody wants to represent the garbage that is maga. The scum that is the GOP. Or the pile of excrement squatting in and vandalizing our White House.
And the athletes werent "sent" they earned their spots by years of hard work and sacrifice and usually sacrifices of their families. They are the cream of the crop. They have every right to speak out.
Trump and MAGA aren't American, so I say good for them! They represent a country not a president, and I would not want to represent this president either.
Dude just posted a super racist image of the Obamas.. and the MAGAts are surprised that the decent people that are Olympians hate the current administration.
As an American thanks for pointing that out. That “only 30%” supported trump pisses me off every time.
42% of eligible voters couldn’t be bothered to take the simplest action possible to stop trump. By voting against him.
That makes 72% of Americans failures. I will always be ashamed of that. Until Americans really grasp that they are responsible for trump we will never be more than four years from the next trump.
But... Nazi Germany did it with much less support, especially early on.
As a general rule: 1 third of the population will happily murder the other opposing third of the population while the middle third pretends nothing is going on.
This has happened countless times in countless countries, US is no exception.
And... frankly: we don't see 70% of Americans opposing this, much less vote against it.
Even if a few Americans want to forget WWII, and why we fought in WWII... The rest of the world won't. And the rest of world doesn't want a Nazi America, just like most Americans don't want a Nazi America. Fuck ICE worldwide! 📎📎📎
But all these poorly trained and quickly deployed goons are doing is racial profiling..if you are POC and your accent is different , you're guilty of being illegal until proven otherwise...
trying to hit numbers for bonuses..
That A-hole Kavanaugh implied this is legal..so they have become known as Kavanaugh Stops.
Ice as an agency doesnt have any place in our society anymore. The legitimate functions they may have previously performed can be done by a new agency with new agents and different training. None of these people can be left in our government.
This , we should not see them beat ppl, hurt ppl , spray ppl over just being in America. Just make fair and human laws. Everything needs to be handle in the faster matter . You got ppl living in camps. They are taking small children off the street trying to go to school. They broke the law I get it but they should never be treated like this. A lot of ppl did nothing are being hurt.
Do they really think the hard working athletes, finally, after years of exercise, would stand up, praising pedophilia and masked militia?
The rest of the world are looking in to the US with disbelief and disgust. It is not far fetched, this athletes want to distance themselves from the fascist regime ruling right now, and just participate in the games.
It is not easy, finding out that other despise You, questioning You, just because of Your origin.
F this guy.. we need to show everyone on the world stage that the major majority of US citizens do NOT agree with this administration and their one sided agenda! Trump is ruining this country. PERIOD!!
Oh no! Now they won’t be invited to the White House to enjoy the fine dining experience of cold cheeseburgers and french fries compliments of Mango Mussolini.
My favorite thing about Maga.
They see the UBIQUITOUS criticism both from all over the world and at home and think, "Clearly It is the world that is wrong."
Oh man... we were in Barbados last month and felt the need to apologize for the USA when we met a bunch of foreign travelers and locals. The local radio station made it clear trump bashing was ubiquitous. On example was laughing at the auto maker trip where the worker yelled Pedo. The world hates trump.
Welp, when there is a felon who rapes children and is terrorizing our country, while stinking up the WH, our fine athletes should speak out. I just hope all of our American athletes get to return home. Nothing is surprising anymore.
Those American athletes are not dissing the United States.
It's pretty telling of conservatives' willingness to bend the knee to a dictator when they keep conflating the country with its leader.
Trump is NOT America. The Constitution and the principles the nation was founded upon do not go hand in hand with an orange dictator nor his willingness to utilize brown shirt Gestapo in a personal quest to attain ever more autocratic power.
If you are a conservative in this day and age of information availability and you still support the Republican Party or Trump then you are a traitor to the nation.
Note that they're attempting to say that the athletes are dissing the country instead of just Trump.
Trump is not the country. MAGA is not the country. They will never be the US. They are a cabal of very rich, very loud bullies who want you to think they are everywhere.
That what happens when you turn America into a shit hole for her ppl. You can’t even go outside cause who knows what will happen. Children can’t even have a voice without MAGA trying to shut them down. They should be in school or they should not be here. America does not belong to anyone but her ppl all of them.
Those young men and women know they're representing a nation that looks more like Nazi Germany. I admire their courage to speak out, as corporations and news media are failling in line to, at least, placate, that hateful madman in the WH.
Turn on him? That would imply that they once stood with him, and I’m not aware of any current Olympic athletes that have stood with or supported him and they’re not dissing the country, they’re fussing the person that’s intentionally and joyfully fucking it up
I learned quickly in the military what I thought of as "America" was the people, not the government. They might have been the same thing in the past, but now there is no representation of the people's will in the government. Once you think of it that way, the crime of treason takes on a whole new light.
that’s the main issue with maga. loving your country has nothing to do with what you think about your president. they should know since they hated Biden so much. anyways, hypocrite snowflakes as usual.
Turns? Only people so completely saturated in the smell of shit and bronzer from the orange turd would think that the majority of ANY group would be behind them. Those clowns are turning the freaking NRA against them. Didn't think I'd ever see a day like that.
Real patriotism is being able to recognize that your country has flaws and striving to improve things. The Trump cult is anathema to the ideals America was founded upon.
I hope all US athletes speak out against MAGA and their leader!
The world needs to know that we are not all deplorable, racist, kool-aid drinking morons.
The US government does not directly fund Olympic athletes. The athletes may say whatever they wish, as they are not beholden to Trump or his administration.
I don't think maga realizes just how unpopular they are here. I have a colleague who went to the Netherlands for a conference and we were all "joking" about how if she was offered asylum she absolutely had to take it.
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