We thought Mandela Barnes’ post wishing the Supreme Leader of Iran a wonderful year took the prize. But now there’s another contender for the most anti-patriotic post by a Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
After the USA men’s hockey team won its first Olympic gold medal since 1980 in a patriotic and optimistic finish, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley’s first instinct was to go negative against the team.
Crowley posted a bizarre video that basically accused the team (and president) of being women-hating sexists. Which begs the question: Can Crowley even define what a woman is? We would love to know. Is he okay with boys playing in girls’ sports and with mothers being renamed inseminated people in state law? Oh, never mind. We know he’s for those things (if he wants to debunk that, give us a call. We won’t hold our breaths.)
“Bro, you’d probably let men play on the women’s team,” wrote one X user to Crowley, echoing the above thoughts.
“So proud of this patriotic young group of athletes that love their country. What an inspiration they are!!” wrote another person.
The Democratic gubernatorial candidates are repeatedly proving they aren’t ready for prime time, whether it’s Crowley not giving the men’s hockey team their moment or Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez misspeaking and clarifying that she actually wants to make it harder for ICE to detain criminals after all (before lying that she “flipped Waukesha County.” She didn’t).
And don’t try to falsely claim that Crowley was just bashing Donald Trump, not the entire men’s team. His collective use of language makes it clear that he was calling the men’s team sexists as well.
“Kash Patel called Trump from Team USA’s locker room after the men’s hockey team won gold, and Trump joked he’d ‘have to’ invite the women’s gold-medal team to the White House too or risk impeachment,” Crowley wrote.
Then he added, “Everyone laughed. That moment tells you everything about how they see women. In sports. In the Capitol. Everywhere.” Our bold. His video shows the men’s hockey team laughing.
Wow, Crowley must be fun at a comedy club. It was a joke. And the men’s team didn’t say it. Of everything he COULD take out of their gold-medal winning moment – and their expressions of patriotism afterward – this is what he got out of it?
Crowley even posted a video whining about the men’s hockey team. Crowley then twisted the criticism into an attack on Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany, who has repeatedly expressed support for protecting women’s and girls’ sports.
What did Trump say? “We’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that?” he said, joking he’d be impeached otherwise. In fact, Trump did invite the women’s hockey team.
The reaction was swift on Crowley’s comment thread. “How about all the women who work for you who didn’t have health insurance for nearly a month because of your rank incompetence? Planning on making any videos for them?” wrote WISN 1130 AM talk show host Dan O’Donnell.
“Dude where is your invite this is a national gem and your making a issue out of your internal thoughts. Step up and invite them to your office. Rearview mirror politics will not get us forward,” wrote another X user.
“Stick with solutions on why you want to be the next Governor of Wisconsin instead of trying to be on the bandwagon of ‘TRUMP IS BAD’ campaign,” wrote another person. “What are you offering the people of Wisconsin besides this nonsense of thinking this grift is going to land you a political position?”
“It was a tongue in cheek joke, because he knew the women’s team would refuse because of their politicization of the sport,” wrote another person. “Losers like you continue to push the division. It had nothing to do with the fact they were women.”
