Symphony orchestra audiences aren't known for their rowdiness, but the Vice President and Second Lady Usha Vance were loudly booed by the crowd as they entered the Concert Hall Thursday night.
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When the Republicans moan and complain about poor JD: shortly after leaving office, Bill and Chelsea Clinton attended a performance of Aida at the Met. Right-wingers took the opportunity to boo raucously.
“This video should challenge us all to commit to making the Kennedy Center a place where everyone is welcomed," writes Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell, a Trump appointee…”
That’s what it was before Trump got his hands on it. That’s WHY Trump destroyed it.
Yes, let this happen everywhere they go. Picking kids up from school? BOO!! Grocery shopping? BOO!! Dining at a restaurant? BOO!! Driving down the street? BOO!! Fuck all the members of this shit show.
"It troubles me to see that so many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views. Diversity is our strength. We must do better. We must welcome EVERYONE. We will not allow the Kennedy Center to be an intolerant place."
Richard Grenell “It troubles me to see that so many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views. Diversity is our strength. We must do better. We must welcome EVERYONE. We will not allow the Kennedy Center to be an intolerant place."
Correction: "...aren't *currently* known for their rowdiness." e.g. the rioting at the premiere of "The Rite of Spring", or at Wagner's "Lohengrin". Maybe we're just not Parisian enough?
Vance could do us all a favor, as VP, & go to Ukraine, for the first time, & talk to the people there, see the situation in person, & get out of his right-wing bubble. He looked like a fool giving Zelenskyy a lecture in the Oval Office, an uninformed, yipping chihuahua.
I find the booing wholly appropriate. One must face the consequences of uncivilized behavior. Shame on you Mr. Vance. The gall to attend a performance after your actions against the arts is appalling. I boo (and hiss) you.
Hold up hold up. Grenell complains about the audience? and then states that “Diversity is our strength. We must do better. We must welcome EVERYONE”’ ????
that part had me howling with laughter. That dude. Really. C'mon man.
Does he not realize they're booing because this administration is pulling what china and N. Korea pull on arts and culture all the time? Art that only the administration likes & enjoys, not art for all?
If only the conductor and orchestra had the guts to participate. Don’t they see the writing on the wall for artistic freedom? Do they think appeasing FOTUS will help in the long run?
True disdain is deserved as both husband and wife have turned their backs on the American people and American values. Their loyalties lie with the delusion dictator we have in the Whitehouse.
Sitting above the plebs and smiling with amusement like the emperor he wants to be.
They shouldn’t know a moment’s peace for the rest of their miserable lives.
I can’t see people like the Vances (I won’t use titles they cheated to get) resigning bc this is the culmination of years of plotting, but I want them to go home and cry every day, become anxious and paranoid that everyone is out to get them, and be as miserable as they’re making everyone else.
The quote in the article suggesting that the left is so intolerant of other people's views is BS. The left is just intolerant of fascists, rasicists, and mysogynists and sadly for Vance and his wife, they are representatives of this GOP full of hate. We do not have to show tolerance for them!
The irony of this statement... "... So many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views." Gosh, I can't remember... Which administration is purging anything to do with diversity?
Whenever someone talks about Symphony Orchestra crowds not being rowdy I think about Rite of Spring literally causing a riot in Paris when first performed.
Vance should get over himself. Major hypocrit. "Support inclusion, diversity, and different political views". Like he remotely does that. Boo away people
Well if you're going to take the approach that "I'll do whatever I want and don't care what people say" like Vance does, we are out here to make sure he walks the walk.
Unpopular vice presidents have a history of being loudly booed by crowds when they attend performances. Just ask Mike Pence and his wife how they liked Hamilton.
What did Vance expect? A standing ovation? The stripping DC of over a billion dollars in operating funds is extremely harmful, & anyone who admires our nation’s Capitol for the beautiful, vibrant city it in many ways is can’t help but react badly to Trump administration mauling.
A cultural event for Republicans is watching gladiators fighting themselves to death in a Colosseum. Thier culture is collective hate/division and fear. Do whatever makes one happy and wealthy!
Should we expect to see this kind of vile behavior in our sports stadiums?
I'm not sure why we should welcome anyone who clearly doesn't want to welcome a long list of others - probably including all the radical left lunatics in the audience. I sort of feel sorry for his wife. But Vance? Boo away.
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a Lincoln reenactment.
That’s what it was before Trump got his hands on it. That’s WHY Trump destroyed it.
Step it up folks. We boo until they leave.
We welcome even Nazis, sincerely Richard Grenell
It would be a rare person who wouldn’t be bothered if they were boo’d in a public/neutral space they were trying to enjoy.
More.
no performances at the Kennedy Center or the whitehouse
let them endlessly dress up to go listen to Kid Rock and the Village Person... on repeat
receipts will be kept
#resist
EXCUSE ME? The craven hypocrisy of it all
Does he not realize they're booing because this administration is pulling what china and N. Korea pull on arts and culture all the time? Art that only the administration likes & enjoys, not art for all?
Jeeeeze this guy.
Thoughts and prayers
I can't even.
Yes, at a minimum boo the fascists.
They shouldn’t know a moment’s peace for the rest of their miserable lives.
As this regime is doing to other Americans and people around the world.
Thatd show some gumption
Did he forget to bring his human shields (kids) to the event?
I hope people make their displeasure known to him WHEREVER he goes..
Make him hide like his fellow Repukes and town halls
"What am I looking at? I don't understand. This isn't art."
Vapid, shallow waters.
All this white on white hate, why can't we just be tolerant of each other like the days of Jim Crow? 🫡
That's what he meant, right?
Glorious.
Should we expect to see this kind of vile behavior in our sports stadiums?
JD Dunce held the curtain from rising by being 25 minutes late.
Had I been the Director, in a time honored "the show must go on" spirit - - as we break a leg on time, VP or not!
Maestro Hit the Cues,