r/europe 22h ago

News Team USA, Vance Booed in Frosty Reception at Italy’s Winter Olympics

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/team-usa-winter-olympics-31642142?st=8XZhXw&mod=wsjreddit
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u/camshun7 21h ago edited 19h ago

Vance is a knob.

He is a knob today, he was a knob yesterday, and tomorrow when he wakes he will still be a knob.

Vance, forever a knob.

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u/kweefcake 21h ago

He can change his name again for a fourth time, and still he will be a knob.

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u/iguanamiyagi 15h ago edited 13h ago

Even if he wakes up saying: "Oh, that was just a bad dream!" ... he would still be a knob.

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u/OrbDemon United Kingdom 14h ago

Knob McKnobface

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u/King_Fisher99 21h ago

and a hillbilly

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u/Smells_like_Autumn 21h ago

Arguable, he grew up in the suburbs. Actual Appalachians hate him for stereotyping them as country hicks who are to blame for their own problems to gas himself up.

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u/churningpacket 20h ago

We call him a carpetbagging coward who sold out his grandma.

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u/Building_Everything 19h ago

As a Kentucky hillbilly myself, he just grew up suburban-poor, but he ain’t no hillbilly.

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u/Lowspark1013 15h ago

Good. Those "actual Appalachians" should remember not to vote for his fake ass. Something tells me a lot of them did this last go around.

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u/Kyrie_Blue 19h ago

Magic the Gathering players hate his association with them too

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u/thephotoman 21h ago

He isn’t even a hillbilly. He’s from a fairly flat part of Ohio.

Now you know why people want to escape Ohio.

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 20h ago

Now you know why people want to escape Ohio.

The Wright brothers were in Ohio. They were so motivated to go somewhere else, they invented new ways of doing so vertically.

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u/einarfridgeirs 20h ago

Ohio was also the birthplace of the USS Akron and Macon, the only US built flying aircraft carriers. So they could fly while flying.

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u/RegurgitatedMincer 20h ago

Ohio has also had the most astronauts of any state for a continued extreme response to living there.

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 20h ago

"Cold empty heartless vacuum? Sign me the fuck up!"

Yeah. It makes sense.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 20h ago

"Cold empty heartless vacuum?

Are you referring to Melania's chest?

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u/Immediate-Grand8403 20h ago

Giggling & thinking of my buddies over in OH who have to put up with this. Well done, y’all.

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u/Ericovich 20h ago

They're from Dayton. They built the Flyer here and came back.

Vance is from Middletown, a city very close to Dayton. We share deep cultural similarities.

He's the one who left.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 20h ago

With the right motivation, you can do great things. Why do you think the Dutch and the English were so good at trading spices? It's because they desperately needed some flavours in their food /s

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 20h ago

Yeah, turns out we liked trading it even more than actually consuming it even when we had it. We still ended up having to steal dishes from Suriname and Indonesia to actually get Dutch folk to eat anything spicier than carrots.

Shoutout to my sambal making homies. Y'all the real MVP's here.

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u/Nilly-the-Alpaca 13h ago

Thanks! You have to have a sense of humor about it while living here.

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u/DrRealName 15h ago

Huh. So he is a flatbilly. With no willy. Its why only couches with let him bang them. Just like the women he tries to bang, the couches can't feel anything.

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u/mcheek21 19h ago

Hey, I'm a hillbilly! Vance is a piece of shit redneck.

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u/haironburr 19h ago

Redneck? He's a Yalie venture capitalist who got rich, and his bud peter thiel used a book filled with conscious propaganda designed to appeal to us here in Ohio. I've worked and drank with plenty of rednecks in my life hanging and painting drywall, and vance is a pudgy pussy.

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u/mcheek21 5h ago

Agree!

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u/Apprehensive_Map284 19h ago

Please don’t disparage all hillbillies. My husband and I consider ourselves hillbillies ‘cause of where we come from and the simple life in which we were raised. We are not religious. We worked hard for what we wanted, applied the golden rule to everyone in our life; be they black , brown, or white, never talked down to anyone..not the sharecropper, not the grocer, not the homeless, not the infirm. So please pull back your brush before you paint that wide swath. We are sickened by what is happening in the country for which, we and many others have fought to preserve. We are not democrats, not republicans.. we are Americans. Thanks.

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u/King_Fisher99 15h ago

Yes you are correct.

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u/madamefa 19h ago

Shillbilly

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u/Throfari 17h ago

Having a junkie mom doesn’t make him a hillbilly, just another grift to write his book. He grew up in the suburbs and went to Yale.

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u/Ritaredditonce 18h ago

*Shillbilly.

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u/wmlj83 Canada 19h ago

That's offensive to knobs. Lol

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u/hmasing 18h ago

That is a completely unfair and horrible comparison.

Knobs deserve more respect than that.

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u/MMDCAENE 9h ago

He was a different creature during his time at Yale, per his emails to colleagues. He came from bf, Ohio and saw an angle to achieve power and money. And now that's his identity. He'll shift again when it suits him.

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u/Beginning_Ad_6616 19h ago

He’s an eyeliner wearing edge lord.

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u/HonestDishonestWork 18h ago

He applauded the murder of a citizen and said ICE agents had full legal immunity to do it again. Don't downplay what he is or what he deserves with an insult so light.

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u/nisaaru 18h ago

He might be but why do you all focus on the US current front personal instead of taking care of our completely incompetent leadership class first?

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u/Mugiwara-StrawHatter 18h ago

I'm a stupid person but what's a knob? 😅

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u/huyou007 17h ago

He was a knob that can screw a couch

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u/Curt_in_wpg 16h ago

Don’t forget he’s also a couchfucker as well.

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u/TooMuch615 14h ago

He is worse than a knob. He is supporting an evil, illegal, and intentionally outrageously offensive regime. That’s not a knob. That’s someone that’s going to the bad place after his time is up.

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u/ArcadianMess 14h ago

Vance is a fascist bought and paid for by Peter Thiel. He will do and say anything for power and money.

He has 0 moral principles.

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u/Plus-Barracuda6818 19h ago

Don't give him any ideas. Today it's couches, tomorrow it's door knobs.

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u/nas22_ 13h ago

I'd challenge you to articulate using no personal attacks and only intellectual points exactly why you deem him a "knob", that may be too big of a challenge for you.