Brett Cooper

They literally owe you nothing.

Journalists, the men's hockey team, they do not exist to appease you.

That's actually going to be a big through line in this episode.

These men, they are not here to do what you want.

Their lives do not revolve around you.

But a lot of women online think that they do.

Anyway, going on from that, this one was also fantastic from the New York Times.

They wrote, the U.S.

men's hockey team won gold and then they lost the room.

And then just like listen to the nauseating disdain with which this journalist wrote.

So he writes, the US men's hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the miracle on ice 46 years ago.

And for a time, the joy belonged to everyone.

But by the next day, it didn't.

In the immediate aftermath of their victory, the team took a customary, congratulatory call from President Donald Trump, and some players laughed at a misogynistic joke about the gold-winning women's hockey team that many Americans wouldn't find funny.

Then on top of that, he writes, some members of the team announced plans to step into the House chamber, a stage upon which symbolism is never neutral, to make an appearance at Trump's State of the Union, which happened last night, Tuesday night.

He goes on and he writes, in normal times, this would be an obligatory celebration for a championship team.

They take presidential calls, they party too hard, they visit Washington, they stroll through the corridors of power.

But this isn't a neutral climate.

This is not a neutral president.

When has there ever been a neutral president?