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highplainsdem

(60,852 posts)
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 03:54 PM 6 hrs ago

Brian Tyler Cohen: Lotta fat old guys telling Olympic athletes that they should be sent home. No one is stopping you

from getting off your couches and training to take their spots. Until then, enjoy watching them exercise their free speech rights. Go team USA.


Lotta fat old guys telling Olympic athletes that they should be sent home. No one is stopping you from getting off your couches and training to take their spots. Until then, enjoy watching them exercise their free speech rights. Go team USA.

Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2026-02-08T20:41:44.344Z
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Brian Tyler Cohen: Lotta fat old guys telling Olympic athletes that they should be sent home. No one is stopping you (Original Post) highplainsdem 6 hrs ago OP
Athletes expect to represent a decent country. Captain Zero 6 hrs ago #1
Snowflakes kwolf68 6 hrs ago #2

kwolf68

(8,302 posts)
2. Snowflakes
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 04:09 PM
6 hrs ago

The athletes said nothing overtly antagonizing. This is like the shit that happened with the Dixie Chicks. Natalie Maines' comment about Bush was insanely benign, a nothingburger.

This has nothing to do with "levels" of speech, rather, like Maines the Olympic athletes have "shown themselves" to not be in full fealty for Der Trumpenfurher. Thus they are enemies of the state.
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