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u/fortycoats2020 2h ago

It looked more like the crowd cheered for the athletes but when the camera cut to Vance the crowd booed then

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u/gerrydf 2h ago

Canadian feed and can confirm. Also can confirm it made me happy.

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u/anniejofo23 2h ago

Same over here in Scotland :))

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u/gpberliner 1h ago

Same here in the US

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u/LadyTalah 1h ago

God bless you Scots

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u/NoMoPolenta 2h ago

They definitely piped in cheering sounds because they knew they'd get booed.

They didn't leave the fake sounds long enough for when they showed JD though.

Pretty awesome that his kids will grow up knowing that the collective world hates their dad.

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u/Tim-Sanchez New York Jets 2h ago

Not sure that's true, the BBC commentators remarked on the cheers for the USA and the "mixed reception" for Vance.

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u/CharlesDickensABox 2h ago

Classic British understatement.

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u/Gerreth_Gobulcoque 2h ago

"mixed reception" means "absolute vitriol magnet" in British English

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u/CharlesDickensABox 2h ago

They had a 30 year civil war in Ireland complete with house to house gunfights, kidnappings, murders, and car bombs, and they called it  "the troubles". These are not people prone to hyperbole.

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u/catrinus 1h ago

that's not even a bole, let alone a hyper one

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u/Bugsmoke 1h ago

A bit of a pickle

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u/Salty-Pear660 1h ago

Not ideal

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u/PM_ME_UR_VULVASAUR_ 2h ago

This probably sounds like a joke, but it's genuinely not.

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u/scrotumscab 2h ago

"Bless your heart"

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u/MajorLazy 2h ago

Fuck you too

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u/Thinking_waffle 1h ago

it caused needless death during ww2 because the phrases of the british soldiers didn't sound alarming enough to merit and immediate response by the Americans.

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u/TrapperJean 2h ago

"Sorry for the fruity language"

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u/nocomment3030 1h ago

"During the Battle of the Imjin River, 650 men of the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment were surrounded by roughly 10,000 Chinese soldiers. When asked for a status update by American command, British Brigadier Tom Brodie famously described the dire situation as "a bit sticky"."

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u/Gerreth_Gobulcoque 1h ago

To be fair the Chinese also will have a "minor incident" where like 300k people die

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u/nice_guy_threeve 2h ago

Say, that take is not bad.

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u/zuke1624 1h ago

"Oooh, bit of rotten luck for the American Vice President there."

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u/THE-BS 2h ago

Mixed is a nice way to say bad

"MILANIA opened to mix reviews this weekend"

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u/IndividualTension887 2h ago

Mixed?? One reviewer edited his review to make it zero stars he intended, instead of the one star he gave that was published...

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u/Viperlite 2h ago

One star is more than I expected, frankly.

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u/FuckGiblets Boise State 2h ago

How does it get any stars when no one has seen it?

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u/Viperlite 2h ago

IMDB’s metascore rating is 5 out of 100, based on an average of 17 movie critic reviews.

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u/FuckGiblets Boise State 2h ago

That is how us brits speak. “Mixed reception” is actually a very cutting insult.

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u/Good_Air_7192 2h ago

When I moved to the UK, the first time we had an absolute crisis at work of the highest order, as in the company could fold, it was met with a single utterance of "That's less that ideal."

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u/mayonaizmyinstrument 2h ago

I went to vet school in the UK and I saw a patient's diagnostics come back as basically "should have been dead days ago," and the senior clinician went "well that's sub-optimal"

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u/Secure-Television541 1h ago

As a Canadian, this sounds very normal.

“Canadian understatement” - part of why I think the States doesn’t seem to understand us on a fundamental level.

Ie - “it’s a bit nippy outside” when it’s -30C

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u/jackloganoliver 2h ago

Tbf, "mixed" in BBC translates to "anything less than generally positive". It's a fairly wide range.

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u/ElectricalWriting 2h ago

You’re misinterpreting it. The cheers transitioned to boos when JD Vance was shown on the Jumbotron.

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u/NiceTrySuckaz 2h ago

You think they anticipated needing to pipe in fake sounds for the athletes but failed to realize they'd need it way more for JD?

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u/gomizzou09 2h ago

And that his kids will know he hates their mom.

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u/Superman246o1 2h ago

Chances are that the kids will grow up to hate their dad too when they realize he courted the approval of White supremacists who regard him as a "race traitor" for marrying their mom.

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u/heff17 USWNT 2h ago

Kids of these freaks often end up as bad if not worse than their parents. Don’t hold your breath.

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u/marcoporno 2h ago

Canadian commentators noted the boos for Vance, after a bit of polite hesitation.

Sorry

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u/BibendumsBitch 2h ago

He hates his own kids and people like his kids

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u/DesignerAd1940 2h ago

fake sound? typical redditor who think what happens in their mind is the reality.

There was cheer for the atletes mixed with a bit of booo, and the couch guy was boooed, as a tradition.

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u/fuckshit_stack 1h ago

I was there. Crowd went wild because as a %, Americans dominat the crowd. Then everyone booed vance. Then back to cheering. Also Ukraine got a huge amount of cheering too, was very cool to see

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech 2h ago

I wonder how NBC will edit it for the primetime broadcast

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u/SoggyTooth1678 2h ago

I’m watching NBC’s on Peacock and didn’t hear any boos at all. Seems like they edited them out entirely.

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u/croupella-de-Vil 2h ago

NBC sports app was pretty clear boos.

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u/textingmycat 1h ago

i was watching on peacock live and i heard the boos.

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u/Secure-Television541 1h ago

I have my own issues with Peacock and their Olympics commercial.

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u/TaraJo 2h ago

Yeah, but you just know if Trump addresses the US being booed, he’s going to interpret it as the crowd booing the athletes.

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u/IndividualTension887 2h ago

The athletes are great... Everyone else hates the couch fucking, "Okkie Cookie" eater...

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u/Sir-Kyle-Of-Reddit 2h ago

I hope so. The athletes don’t deserve to be booed, but our anthem and government certainly does

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u/LindonLilBlueBalls 2h ago

Good for them!

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u/HomoProfessionalis 2h ago

Pretty classy

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u/defroach84 Texas Tech 2h ago

He deserves it

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u/HomoProfessionalis 2h ago

Yeah, I agree 

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u/Foxy_Cuttee 2h ago

JD vance looks like one of the guys that would say something creepy to you at the club

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u/one_pound_of_flesh 2h ago

“My friend has a private island”

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u/the-treatmaster 1h ago

JD Vance looks like the guy in a Hawaiian shirt and flip flops at a mid-tier resort, who stands awkwardly alone near the bar checking his phone, pina colada in other hand, trying to talk to any woman half his age when they walk by to get drinks, who all cover their drinks as they frostily walk by, avoiding eye contact with him but half-heartedly smiling as a way to get away without triggering him.

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u/Thickly_Taurus 2h ago

“Whatever works”

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u/FuckDeanSpanos 2h ago

“OK, good”

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u/banduzo 2h ago

After grinding on you, “have you said thank you once.”

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u/Longjumping-Bat7774 2h ago

"damn, girl, are you a school cuz I wanna shoot kids inside you" -JD Vance pick up line

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u/wex118 2h ago

Good lord

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u/redditstark 1h ago

WOW you just (tragically) won the internet today.

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u/Anteater4746 2h ago

cover your drinks when he walks in kinda guy

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u/ErrantIndy 2h ago

“Hey, babe, have you ever REALLY been couch surfing?”

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u/EyeCanHearU 2h ago

“Are you scotch guarded? You remind me of my favorite couch”

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u/SunsetCarcass 2h ago

"Have you ever considered wearing leather socks?"

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u/EdS3542 2h ago

If you do a really good job here maybe you’ll make it to …. sectionals?

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u/ElectricalWriting 2h ago edited 2h ago

I just watched that and it seemed like the crowd cheered for the US athletes. The boos occurred when JD Vance was shown on camera shortly after. Glad the crowd can separate the athletes from their politicians.

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u/SweetCosmicPope 2h ago

I haven't seen it yet, but this article seems to reflect your view: US athletes cheered, JD Vance booed during Winter Olympics opening ceremony - Yahoo Sports

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u/CharlesDickensABox 2h ago

I'll note that the NBC sound and the BBC sound are markedly different. Perhaps NBC was juicing the crowd noise, perhaps there was just a very strategic choice of microphone setup.

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u/ATarrificHeadache 2h ago

Amazing that broadcasters editing reality to protect dear leaders is just normal now

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u/mytinykitten 2h ago

Nah they definitely edited the live coverage.

They did the same when Vance was shown before the Italian National Anthem. There's no way the crowd just happened to go collectively dead silent when he was shown.

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u/Truckensteinwastaken 2h ago

CBC coverage in Canada definitely pointed out that he was being booed and that they didn't leave him on screen very long

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u/weatherman05071 2h ago

I’m watching on Peacock, I heard some cheers and boos in the arena, the boos were a little louder. In the other 3 areas it seemed like it was more of no reaction to minor boos. Either way there were plenty and I’m intrigued to see if NBC edits it for later.

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u/grandmawaffles 2h ago

NBC definitely changed it but you could hear it for a split second right before usha looked concerned

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u/TheShitty_Beatles 2h ago

CBC Canada feed and I could very clearly hear the boos and the commentators were hilarious in their description of the "cheers and jeers" lol

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u/fbernard 2h ago

Probably edited to suit the target audience. French TV viewer here, I noticed the cheers almost stopped when the US athletes arrived. They probably had been briefed too, since unlike most other delegations, they almost made enough noise to saturate the mics. Did not notice a sequence with JD Vance during the US delegation presentation, he was only briefly shown at the beginning of the ceremony.

Ukraine athletes, however, received a deafening welcome.

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u/cliff99 2h ago

Trump will declare it fake news because it's better that the athletes were booed along with Vance.

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u/Ok-disaster2022 2h ago

I mean most people don't have a problem with athletes even with the competitive caveat. It's the Olympics. The only bad athletes are people who've done really evil things and doping. 

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u/FourteenBuckets 2h ago

Indeed, one of the points of the Olympics is to bring people from around the world together in ways that go beyond politics. It hasn't always proven possible, of course, but that is the ideal at least.

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u/Less_Likely 2h ago

I wouldn’t boo any athlete because of their country’s politics, even if they compete under that country’s banner. That feels racist to me.

For example, I wouldn’t automatically boo a North Korean athlete, even though I’d assume that some form of at least tacit support for the regime is likely necessary to reach the point of representing the nation in the Olympics.

If the individual athlete has some personal reason for me to boo, like openly supporting genocide or taking human rights away from people when having the freedom to choose not to, then I might boo them.

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u/SmoothMoveExLap 1h ago

I was there. Cheers for USA and athletes. They showed JD on the big screen for a split second and that’s when the boos came. Including the people right in front of me.

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u/bethling 1h ago

That’s exactly what happened. I was in the stadium. I expected boos and whistles - especially after Israel, but there were cheers for the athletes. As soon as JD Vance was shown on the screen it all became loud boos.

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u/baeb66 2h ago

The Israeli athletes got booed as well.

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u/JellyPast1522 2h ago

The guys in the truck sure forgot to juice the audio when they marched out.

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 2h ago

They shouldn't even be there.

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u/Solly6788 1h ago

Even russians are there

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u/Senior_Sentence_566 2h ago

I didn't even see them come out. Either the BBC skipped them (which I doubt because they were just showing the official feed it seemed) or it was during the section where my concentration was waning

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u/THE-BS 2h ago

Vance: were they saying boo, or boo urns?

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u/PumpkinMcCormick 2h ago

“Voo-ance”

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u/slamdanceswithwolves 2h ago

I was [not] saying boo-urns!

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u/j3ffUrZ 2h ago

"You get what you fucking deserve." --Sensible Americans

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u/This_guy_works 1h ago

He's our vice president. We deserve to be booed.

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u/szatrob 1h ago

You know Vance is going to cry about it, while whispering sweet nothings to the couch in his hotel room.

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u/clam-caravan 2h ago

The Redhats have no idea how much the world hates them.

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u/CrazyLlama71 2h ago

I think they do and take pride in it honestly. ‘Meruka! Fuck everyone else. 

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u/Cyphermaniax97 2h ago

Though I yearn to hear more boos for the MAGA "Heir Apparent", shame that our team has to put up with this because of Trump's bullshit.

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u/Aggravating-Feed1845 2h ago

I mean it sucks for the atletes, but hateful, warmongering politicians have no place in the olympics.

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u/Zblancos 2h ago

Eh, there’s a good portion of your team that supports Trump bullshit

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u/saltface14 2h ago

99% of the hockey team for sure

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u/PorkRollEggAndWheeze 1h ago

The men’s team for sure. The women’s team it’s probably at least 60-40 hate-support

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u/saltface14 1h ago

Yeah my bad, I meant the men’s. Britta Curl is definitely a MAGAt

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u/PorkRollEggAndWheeze 1h ago

Yeah she’s a piece of shit. I know from experience that women’s hockey tends to trend more progressive overall, but we’re not immune to shitheadery

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u/searing7 2h ago

Leave politic out of muh sport ball

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u/helgestrichen 2h ago

Lol, shame, whens the last time that played a role in the US?

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u/babyLays 2h ago

Shameless arrogance, guns and obesity. America, fuck yeah 💥🔫🇺🇸🦅

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u/Troy_McClure1 1h ago

I would too, there’s nothing to celebrate about being American right now

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u/fuqyu 2h ago

I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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u/Sunnyfishyfish 1h ago

Ahhhhh, music to my ears to hear people boo that spineless prick.

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u/Longjumping_Ad2323 1h ago

Uh oh, bajillion percent tarrif incoming!

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u/PigFarmer1 2h ago

As an ashamed American I approve of this. 👍

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u/oakleez 2h ago

I'll be cheering for Canada this Olympics. I live in Iowa.

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u/daltontf1212 2h ago

Rooting against only if the US athlete is known MAGA.

Too many MAGA douchebags on Team USA men's hockey team, so go Canada. Also as a Blues fan there is Binnington and Parayko on Canada too.

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u/Pin_Code_8873 2h ago

Hate to break it to you but the vast majority of Canadian hockey players are also MAGA.

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u/nocomment3030 1h ago

That's a hell of a statement, bud. They're not all Waynes.

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u/scparks44 2h ago

Banger anthem

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u/FernandoRocker 2h ago

But they begged them not to do it.

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u/sevacro 2h ago

Here's my screengrab from the Italian broadcast (RAI).

https://streamable.com/ownv03

The crowd started booing when they showed Vance.

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u/ShutterBun 2h ago

I mean…barely? The announcer kept talking but I barely noticed any change in the crowd noise.

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u/bethling 1h ago

In the stadium it was very clear. It went from cheers to boos the moment Vance was shown.

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u/AdvancedFizzics 2h ago

Jd Vance is a shit stain on America

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u/Basslinelob 2h ago

But my maga coworkers said the world finally respects us. Surely they couldn’t be wrong??

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u/Able_Inspector_3692 1h ago

As a USA citizen I approve

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u/IncidentalIncidence Carolina Hurricanes 2h ago

haha they cheered the athletes and booed Vance. we love to see it.

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u/VincentAntonelli 1h ago

Yeah…. Vance was booed as the US looked on, but yeah, keep that propaganda coming.

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u/solarnuggets 1h ago

Everyone hates him 😂

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u/RecommendationReal61 1h ago

Silly thread title. Vance is the one getting booed, not the USA.

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u/Interesting_Walk_271 1h ago

As an American I really appreciate the world booing that smug piece of shit. Please continue and feel free to increase the volume and frequency any time you see Vance. Also, I wouldn’t mind at all if there were a rousing chorus of Bella Ciao screamed into JD’s face every time he is in public in Italy. At a restaurant, going to the shops, whatever. Make him completely miserable.

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u/Majestic_Bet_1428 1h ago

JD Vance is a horrible person.

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u/vicsark 1h ago

Boo that couch fucker Gilead wannabe

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u/Please_Label_NSFW 1h ago

As an American this made me happy. This administration is a cancer not only to the US but the entire world.

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u/Jscapistm 2h ago

It was fine right up until they showed those two asses.

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u/itsadogslife71 2h ago

Wow! Who would have ever seen that coming? Absolutely shocked I tell you

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u/copperblood 2h ago

Make Nazis Afraid Again

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u/ChibreOptique_ 1h ago

Just got out of the stadium - I’ll clarify that the US athletes had loud cheers, that transformed to boos only when Vance appeared on screen

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u/PaleGarbageKid 2h ago

Ummmm no ... The US athletes were cheered . The booing started when they posted our dumbass, spineless , couch humping VP and his wife on the screen.

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u/ekydfejj 2h ago

American, good. We deserve it.

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u/Kingfisher910 2h ago

I booed too when I saw Vance! Fuck ICE and Trump

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u/Mk1635 2h ago

Wait I thought Trump said We were finally being respected again

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u/mulder00 Montreal Canadiens 2h ago

Dude looks like a Commander from Gilead.

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u/EmJayMN 2h ago

I’m glad his handmaid was able to experience the boos as well. Boooooo!

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u/santadogg 1h ago

Fake news. Trump said the USA were now the most respected nation because of him

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u/SouthCoastKook 1h ago

100% against vance and Israel.

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u/Magic_Neil 1h ago

If anyone thought that Vance wouldn’t get booed.. you haven’t been paying attention.

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u/scottiedagolfmachine 2h ago

Fuck Vance and ICE

👎

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u/Low_Thanks_1540 2h ago

Vance is awful

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u/Fiveminutes26 2h ago

Good. We f’n deserve it

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u/Renegade-Ginger South Carolina 2h ago

JD Vance getting booed at while on vacation again.

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u/NCHouse 2h ago

...Yea...we deserve it

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u/CryptographerLow6772 2h ago

We should get booed.

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u/bionicjoe 2h ago

Trump and Vance both represent America far more than we'd like admit.

They're both fat, loud, ignorant, narcissitic, cheap, sexist, racist, and cruel.
On top of that Trump is especially stupid.

I miss Europe.

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u/drkanaf 2h ago

Come on now! Do we know JDs BMI? He looks relatively svelt to me. I would replace fat with punchable.

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u/zidave0 2h ago

Go Canada. From an American

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u/Azsunyx 2h ago

I feel bad for our athletes, but yeah, we deserve all the booing

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u/Writerhaha 2h ago

Act like an asshole, expect to be treated as one.

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u/xnoxgodsx 2h ago

BOOOOOO THAT MAN!

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u/faded_to_black 2h ago

Boo us more. Boo our national anthem at every gold medal ceremony.

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u/mymar101 2h ago

I mean what do you expect?

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u/ryoushittingme 2h ago

Good; fuck JD Vance 

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u/HedonisticPenguin 2h ago

italian leather couches are particularly high end

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u/blinking616 2h ago

And he doesn't truly understand why. Fucking bitch!

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u/Defiant_Flamingo4632 1h ago

We are the bad guys at the Olympics this year.

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u/What_About_What 2h ago

I'm planning to watch the broadcast tonight and I can't wait to see how they edit it to make it not look like he got boo'd.

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u/Straight-Ad6926 2h ago

At least he didn’t have to worry about the crowd being woke cause they seemed pretty wide awake for that entrance.

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u/geraltoftakemuh 2h ago

This fool on another vacation?!?! He’s been traveling the world vacationing on our dime, f this dude

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u/PristineAnt5477 Dallas Mavericks 2h ago

Good

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u/Ok-Prompt-59 2h ago

Did anyone not expect that?

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u/Brunzo_9611Ray 2h ago

They charge 6.5 k for nosebleed seats! They don’t even need volunteers, they can afford it!

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u/Lord_Dingus83 2h ago

Please be real

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u/Advanced_Tell3778 2h ago

I am so sad to live in a country that is booed. What a shame this administration has done to our reputation.

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u/Owny_McOwnerton 2h ago

Feels like it was just a few hours ago the Olympic committee was begging people not to boo him. Love to see such a quick return on my investment in seeing him booed

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u/UnPhayzable 2h ago

But the committee told them not too!! Think of the committee shareholders!!!

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u/Anteater4746 2h ago

suggesting the states should violently conquer foreign lands that dont want to be in the US at the cost of blood to our own children will do that

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u/ChildrenofaLessonGod 2h ago

Honestly, guys, thank you; we've booing for a m#@$f#king minute and they just tune us out.