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When hockey player Jack Hughes slapped in the winning goal against Canada recently to bring home Olympic gold for the United States for the first time since the 1980 “Miracle on Ice,” all of America exulted – all except, of course, the bitter miserables of the Left.
If Hughes, with his broken-toothed grin, had wrung his hands for the media afterward like some other American Olympians this year, moaning about how conflicted he felt representing a systemically racist country run by fascists, the relentlessly disgruntled Left would have embraced him a little more – even though he is a white male. Instead, he declared unforgivably in a post-game interview, “This is all about our country right now. I love the USA… I’m so proud to be an American today, I love my country.” Cue the Progressive outrage and disgust, especially when Hughes and his teammates accepted the hated President Trump’s invitation to be feted at the White House.
The far-Left Democrat Party is a basket of miserables, to paraphrase Hillary Clinton’s infamous pejorative “deplorables” about the American people who didn’t vote for her. By its very nature, Leftism requires its adherents to live in perpetual grievance and bitterness. It thrives on overthrowing the status quo, preferably through violent revolution, and that demands a relentless discontent with, well, everything. It drives Leftists to politicize every aspect of their lives (“The personal is the political!”) so that they can’t even set aside their partisan fervor long enough to enjoy a sporting event. Leftism is also by its very nature anti-American, and so the Left despises the kind of unashamedly patriotic outburst Hughes displayed for our country.
One such Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer tweeted about the Olympics, “Trump did this. He made it impossible to be proud of anything American. It’s straight up embarrassing & shameful to be an American now. Fuck trump. Fuck ice [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. Fuck his whole corrupt admin,” the bitter miserable concluded in the Left’s usual profane, inarticulate style.
In the wake of America’s exhilarating hockey victory in overtime, Monica Torres, a senior reporter at HuffPost, penned an opinion piece with the unintentionally comical headline, “There’s A Name For The Discomfort You’re Feeling Watching The Olympics Right Now,” with the teaser, “If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone.” Actually, if waving the Stars and Stripes or chanting “USA!” after an Olympic victory turns you off, then you should consider either 1) moving to a country you can be proud of – shall we say, China? – or 2) not politicizing everything, like watching the Olympics.
In any case, Torres began by reminding Huffpost’s Democrat readers that they should be miserable and discontented living in a dystopian dictatorship whose “deportation agenda separates families, and federal agents detain 5-year-olds and kill unarmed civilians.” In her fevered mind, this nightmarish worldview – Left-wing lie though it is – made it difficult for her to fully celebrate American athletes winning medals at the Olympics, and so she commiserated with her readers over the “cognitive dissonance of rooting for U.S. sports while hating the U.S. government.”
Torres quotes Los Angeles-based licensed clinical social worker Aimee Monterrosa, who observed that this dissonance is so common among her Progressive clients that “it continues to be one of the main topics I hold space for in therapy. As we continue to witness national and global atrocities in real time…it can trigger feelings of guilt, despair, shame, anger.”
Similarly, Nevada-based clinical psychologist Tanisha Ranger told Torres that it’s typical for people wrestling with this cognitive dissonance to feel a “weird mix of excitement and discomfort at the same time” that might feel like “a tightening in your chest or stomach when you realize you’re cheering and cringing simultaneously.” Pathetic.
I’m no psychologist, thank God, but I feel comfortable asserting that simultaneously opposing a political administration and loving your country does not constitute cognitive dissonance. It’s really not that difficult a concept, unless you’re an overwrought Progressive suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome: you can disagree, even vehemently, with a given administration and still love your country. The government is not America – conservatives understand this instinctively, but the Left wrestles with the distinction. Also, the Left quite simply does not love this country as we know it. They love only the vision they hold of a future America, one that has been transformed from the Land of the Free to a collectivist, social justice utopia, and that vision can be achieved only by first razing the flawed America they hate to the ground.
As one conservative X user commented about the purported “cognitive dissonance”: “If you can’t separate things, you need to work on your adulting skills.” Sound advice.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin responded on X to the Huffpost piece: “If you can’t be excited about winning gold at the Olympics— including in OT vs Canada, you don’t have a pulse. Some people will pick victimhood and being miserable over having an ounce of patriotism. Good luck.”
The response to the article from Congressman Randy Fine, a Florida Republican, was a little more blunt: “Get the hell out of my country. USA! USA! USA!”
Washington Times columnist Tim Murtaugh’s response was even more blunt: “lol get bent.”
Misery loves company, and the Left loves wallowing together in their mutually joyless hell on earth. Meanwhile, elated conservatives are still basking in the glow of our great country’s gold-medal triumph on the ice.
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Who watches snl anymore, they haven’t been funny in decades!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SNL isn’t funny, but tune into Canadian “news” it is f’ing hilarious.
I never thought they were.
Aw, the oikophobic lefties hate the men’s Olympic Hockey team? What’s the matter? Not enough lesbians on it like the women’s team, which they do like? None of them skied against their own country for a payout from the CCP and Capital One, like Eileen Gook? “What’s in your wallet,” Gook? That ugly little creature and darling of the left, Megan Rapinoe, called the men’s hockey players “clowns.” I’m not sure anybody remembers Rapine-ho but it’s the androgynous he-she whose Women’s National Team lost a soccer game to an under 15 boys team. You go, girls!
And lefties must be crying because there were “only” 47 Alphabet People in the 2026 Olympics instead of the 193 there were in 2024, and only 8 of them were on the US team this time. Not enough trannies to celebrate? Only one in the women’s showers and bathrooms?
And now they’re crying for the Ayatoilet Khamangy and 40 of his top murdering monsters who were greased in the first minutes of Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion? I guess misery really does love company.
Hey Jeff, can I borrow “Ayatoilet Khamangy”?
Why not? I stole “Ayatoilet” from somebody else and added “Khamangy.”
Mr. Tapson: Just an observation, in that your AI graphic above simply doesn’t have enough AWFLs depicted; only one that I see.
Otherwise, thanks.
I assume you meant “American Women’s ‘Football’ League” AND “Affluent White Female Leftist.” 😛
The Democrats: Hate Is Us. Now get out of our way, they say.
It is the epidemic mindset of the leftists where they shout the chants of freedom but only through totalitarian dictate. They still have yet to understand that freedom, REAL freedom, requires self responsibility, accountability and thinking for yourself.
Their cognitive dissonance exists in their hatred of America but their unwillingness to move to the very governments they idealize. Hollywood big mouths like Ellen Degeneres and Rosie O’Donnell simply cannot resolve their irrational hatred by leaving. Ellen returned within a year and Rosie continues inserting her mental insanity here by coming for “family visits”.
Having differing opinions is part of living in our constitutional republic.
When the left champions murderous, misogynistic, pedophilic, genitally-mutilating religious and communist despots but frames it by omitting these factual realities, they are engaging in the mental mutilation of their ability to think rationally. They are, in fact, self creating the framework of their own insanity. This is a self inflicted dissonance required for them to live in this irrationality. That leftist therapists earn a living by further curating this emotion-based irrationality should be grounds for them losing their license to practice. Furthering lies without asking the necessary questions, is to treat their clients as immature children and thereby keeping them returning for the emotional succor they crave so they never have to face the truth. REALITY: The Iranian people have witnessed the death of the Ayatollah Khameini who kept the entire nation of Iran in violent, tortuous tyranny. Iranian people have fled into the streets in Iran and across the globe in thankful jubilation for the USA and Israel . Only two countries have championed their freedom; Israel and the USA. According to the leftists, one is required to mourn a sadistic, violent ruler and condemn all who have endured years of suffering under this regime.
If they are so mentally undone they cannot face this reality, the dissonance they are experiencing will ultimately destroy anything remaining of their humanity and is no longer cognitive dissonance, that is their permanent descent into evil!
The Left works hard to take our country down to Third World status. You must read the hundreds of policies (Yes, hundreds!) that libs have weaponized against us to dismantle all we hold dear in their effort to destroy our nation — at liblunacydotcom.
In November the American voter will put these maniacs back into power and they will proceed to burn this country to the ground. Republicans will willingly help.
RINOs will willingly help. They always do. They hate President Trump and MAGA.