I feel bad for those of us fighting the fight for American Democracy against FOTUS’s shit show and the fact that it’s all true he is working for Putin and it so sad to see out country die so quickly.
Pretty rude to sing your national anthem IN the country that you are currently attacking. It’s also pretty smarmy to use kids, hoping that nobody will boo. Any national anthem is completely inappropriate and it shouldn’t be up to us to object.
Choose a song about peace and sing that.
When will they learn - stop playing the national anthem!! Find a good walkout song, play it, shake hands, and start the game.
I'll never understand the US need to play the national anthem at every single sporting event from elementary school on.
Can you imagine how conflicted the singer must be feeling? Singing her heart out and hearing nothing but boo's. I'd like to hear from her perspective. No I wouldn't. Lol.
I finding it interesting that the booing of the anthem gets so much attention.
If only American voters had paid that close attention when they voted for a misogynistic, racist, adjudicated rapist, 6x bankrupt businessman, serial adulterer and 34x convicted felon... and maybe not voted for him!
The booing tends to happen at games being played outside the US. The hometown crowds haven't really started it yet - by the time they do so, there will probably be a law against it.
"Control the crowd"? What?? We have freedom of expression here in Canada. There is no "control" of peaceful demonstration. This is not Russia, China, North Korea or.....wait for it.....the US. TYVM Love, 🇨🇦
They certainly can ask. But people will protest the way they see fit. If the venue, which is a business, doesn't like it, they can boot everyone for noncompliance and face the legal ramifications of such. I really don't think that's going to happen. Stop being ridiculous.
As it should be. I hate to say it, but we ARE the bad guys right now. It's horrible. The Cheetoad has pitted us against what is good and right. They SHOULD be booing us. I'M booing us.
I think the Canadians disrespecting the star spangled banner is only gonna get the Americans people on board with what trumps gonna do to us. Were playing right into trumps hand!
Yeah, I think folks all over the world including many Americans are feeling trauma. I mean, Musk, Hegseth, Rubio, RFK Jr., Kash Patel ... measles, TB, chainsaws, I guess they want us to feel fear.
In just a few weeks, Donald Trump has made the U.S. into a world pariah. JD Vance has helped. So has Elon Musk. And the GOP members of Congress, and the Supreme Court.
Just before this the stadium announcer tried to emotionally pressure the crowd not to boo the US anthem. The chorus of boos rightly reminded him that he, like the orange cretin, can go screw himself.
I wanna hear AMERICANS boo their own anthem in defiance of that fascist 🍊 clown TRAITOR currently desecrating the Oval Office and destroying 🇺🇸 democracy and pissing all over your constitution!!
Trump loves this. He doesn’t care that he’s destroying the country, that’s his goal. I demand answers from the Republicans in Congress! Why are you doing this? Don’t have a conscience, or feel shame? When did some of you lose your integrity?
PLEASE don’t Hate ALL of us in the USA. We are trying to let our Democratic Laws and the Judicial System to work thru it correctly, so we are Not seen as theTraitorous Asshats that Some of US were Gullible enough to put in the most prestigious position in our country. We LOVE CA. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
They don't hate America, or the people who live there. It's about the people who gained power in the last election in America. Those are the people who are trying to destroy Canada's economy, and who are making jokes about invading Canada. You know, the scumbags.
Sadly, the world hates us right now. It’s only natural that our anthem is now meaningless and an easy target for them to express their feelings. After the things trump has said specifically about Canada, can’t blame them.
I was thinking that too. But I started thinking they could also take a knee and refuse to sing, and once I realized they have a choice to stand up for justice and chose not to, I didn’t feel bad for them anymore.
I wouldn't want to deny a chance to boo the national anthem. As an american, I agree with the booing, and if I was singing, I would need to keep singing so that they'd have something to boo.
Not that I'm saying it's the best song ever, or that it isn't controversial, or that the man who wrote it isn't controversial either. But calling the song itself pro slavery isn't quite accurate. In an age of hyperbole, I think being accurate in criticism matters.
At the time, the United Kingdom offered freedom to enslaved Americans who chose to fight for them. The verse talks about how they will be hunted down and destroyed.
I don't think I'd say it's "SUPER pro-slavery" for several reasons, including that it was written in 1814 about a battle in the war of 1812, when slavery was still a thing in the USA and UK. But here's the line in question that comes in the third verse: "No refuge could save the hireling and slave"
I don't think you should feel bad for them. They aren't doing anything wrong, and nobody is booing them. They aren't booing America or Americans either. Just Trump and his minions.
At least one of the 4some is a regular anthem singer in the Vancouver sports scene, and she’s very well appreciated. Excellent at what she does. And I can’t imagine she, and the group, weren’t aware this would happen. And, wasn’t there, but they would have been applauded loudly after Oh Canada
I really do not like soccer but maybe I'll tune in just for the anthems to see these continual boos happen. It's especially wild to see this even when we're not playing against a Canadian or other foreign opponent. Keep fighting the good fight everyone!
Show this to EVERY Trump supporter who claimed that Trump would "restore our image on a world stage". They'll say it's fake news, of course. But they'll know it's not.
Sadly this is happening at any sporting event that plays the US anthem in a Canadian arena. Sorry but your president is disrespecting and talking shit about our country so until he shuts his gobber this isn’t going to stop.
The US has become the great unifier among people outside of the country. I’m in Marbella Spain currently and keep forgetting to pass myself off as Canadian.
Trump's POV: PROBLEM - Europe needs to support Ukraine more. ACTION - Trump yells at Zelensky. RESULT - Europe supports Ukraine more. /// Problem solved.
Love how canadians only care about the US now that they've *barely* been affected by its policies. Before that you were all loving their films, tv, pop culture, sports, history, politics, controversies, etc & ignoring literally everything about say, them backing a genocide in Palestine. For example.
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Choose a song about peace and sing that.
I'll never understand the US need to play the national anthem at every single sporting event from elementary school on.
It needs to be accurate - an overweight, balding, orange old man with a petulant expression and vacant eyes 😀
If only American voters had paid that close attention when they voted for a misogynistic, racist, adjudicated rapist, 6x bankrupt businessman, serial adulterer and 34x convicted felon... and maybe not voted for him!
It’s the whole point. They want to be confronted
High schoolers are old enough to understand why its happening.
Maybe they were happy to give the crowd the opportunity. /s
I think we could have skipped the booing this time ☹️
Anyone who's not a Trumper knows exactly why this is happening.
Looking forward to my TFC home opener in two weeks. And them Nations League games in LA in late March
Anger and sadness do not begin to describe it.
Maybe I can sing on one knee.
At the time, the United Kingdom offered freedom to enslaved Americans who chose to fight for them. The verse talks about how they will be hunted down and destroyed.
Just because it was written during slavery doesn’t mean it’s excusable. Definitely not excusable to be our national anthem, although it is fitting.
Yes...we are just that pissed at America right now. 🇨🇦
Perhaps sporting events should use an instrumental or voice track until 2028.
Show this to EVERY Trump supporter who claimed that Trump would "restore our image on a world stage". They'll say it's fake news, of course. But they'll know it's not.
Really, truly, fucking, embarrassing.
I see future campaigns where they actually run on a trump platform word for word policy the RNC ran on They support most of it now, anyway. When you are supported by dick Cheney & are further right than Eisenhower Nixon Reagan and both bushes. It only makes sense.
-love Americans