How can you not be romantic about sports when it allows old friends to play together one last time and reminisce about all the sexual assault they either participated in or enabled. 🥹❤️
Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith can wrap themselves in flags all they want. It doesn’t change what they’ve spent years doing.
They told Albertans that Canada is broken. That Ottawa is corrupt. That the federal government is an enemy occupying force. They fed that anger deliberately, strategically, because it won them votes and kept their bases fired up. That is not leadership!!!
You don’t get to spend years pouring gasoline on every grievance, real or manufactured, and then act shocked when someone finally strikes a match. You don’t get to call the country illegitimate and then demand credit for loving it. And you absolutely don’t get to praise the enemies of Confederation, validate the rhetoric of separation, and then claim you never wanted it to go this far.
Because here’s the thing about praising the enemy long enough: eventually, you become the enemy.
Real leaders defend the country even when they disagree with the government. They understand the difference between loyal opposition and accelerationism. They cool tensions instead of stoking them. They know that a nation is fragile, and they treat it accordingly.
Poilievre and Smith made a different choice. They chose wedge politics over national unity, outrage over reconciliation, and personal ambition over the country they claim to love.
They didn’t light the match directly. But they spent years soaking the floor.
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Are the players really this dense? If I hear another one say something about this shouldn’t be political or I don’t understand why this is being looked at as political I’m gonna explode.
Inviting the Director of the FBI into your locker room after winning the Gold Medal, when he’s had no prior interactions or involvement with the team, is political.
Wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat is political.
Attending the State of the Union address, a very well known political event, is… *gasp* political.
Going to the White House after a Championship is a long standing tradition, absolutely. But there has never been a President like Trump, who’s
•A convicted felon
•Been accused countless times of being a pedophile and sexually assaulting children
•Actively using “immigration enforcement” as a means to murder US citizens
•Countless other heinous, unAmerican acts
By cozying up and becoming a political pawn for Trump, the team has made this political.
And to add fuel to your fire, not a single one of the players has come to the defense of the women’s team and apologized for laughing at a horribly misogynistic “joke”.
Especially damning since many did support them publicly, but laughed at them when they thought the cameras were off.