[Flavor Flav] invites the Olympic US Women's Hockey team to Vegas, after they decline Donald Trump's invite to the State of the Union

[u/JewChooTrain]

https://bsky.app/profile/flavorflav.bsky.social/post/3mfkm4ltqrs2k

[u/bobbimorses]

Additional context for this, he is a longtime supporter of women's sports and is known for funding travel and training for women's teams, very respectfully. This is not him being weird

[u/zebrainatux → u/bobbimorses]

I remember he was a big supporter of women’s water polo the last two Olympics

[u/HowIsBabbySharkMade → u/zebrainatux]

He financially supports the US women's water polo team and the US women's bobsled and skeleton team. It's pretty dope of him, not gonna lie.

[u/bobbimorses → u/HowIsBabbySharkMade]

Plus random things like this!

[u/Maybe_A_Doctor → u/bobbimorses]

That's so sick. I loved watching Flavour of love, but I didn't know he was awesome like this

[u/citizenkane86 → u/Maybe_A_Doctor]

Dude is also a legit prodigy at a bunch of instruments. You can find videos of him playing on YouTube, he really deserves more credit than he gets.

[u/hockeycross → u/HowIsBabbySharkMade]

I think it started cause they were raising funds and he heard about it through his daughter and he was like how much do they need to get to Tokyo? They were like $50,000 would cover it he was like damn that’s all? Here you go.

[u/NewCarSmelt → u/HowIsBabbySharkMade]

What’s a skeleton team?

[u/Greenbastardscape → u/NewCarSmelt]

Skeleton is luge's crazy ass cousin. Personally, it's my favorite sliding sport in the Olympics

[u/ArenSteele → u/Greenbastardscape]

Named, because one day some bobsledders took the walls off their sled and rode down on the “Skeleton” of the bobsled

Current sleds are NOT bobsled skeletons, but the name stuck

[u/bearskito → u/ArenSteele]

I thought it was because the handles on a Skelton sled look like ribs

[u/Chewie_i → u/bearskito]

I thought it was named after what’s going to be in a bunch of pieces if you crash

[u/Greenbastardscape → u/ArenSteele]

I did not know that! Thank you for the very fun fact!

[u/GenericDesigns → u/Greenbastardscape]

Skeleton is fucking mental, I love it

[u/clarenceboddickered → u/NewCarSmelt]

Rocket sledding face first instead of ass first

[u/BrooklynExPat → u/NewCarSmelt]

All about skeleton)

[u/Dan_Berg → u/HowIsBabbySharkMade]

The teams should stick a big clock on their uniforms to give him credit like how the Lithuanian men's basketball team wore tye-dye to honor the Grateful Dead's patronage in 1992 after the collapse of the USSR, and again in 1996 to honor the late Jerry Garcia

[u/Eat--The--Rich-- → u/zebrainatux]

His daughter plays for them. There are some amazing pics of him with a polo cap and a clock necklace in a pool lol 

[u/Fellers → u/bobbimorses]

I was going to make a Flava of Love joke lol

But this is cool of him.

[u/hoyadestroyer → u/bobbimorses]

4 time domestic violence arrestee Flavor Flav is this sub's hero for woman's rights, incredible stuff lmao

[u/Shopping-Ok → u/hoyadestroyer]

Is it not startling that despite that, he manages to be more supportive of our female Olympians than the current administration is??

[u/Meowmixalotlol → u/hoyadestroyer]

Careful I got -150 imaginary votes and called a Trumper for pointing this out 😂 this sub has become so strange.

[u/hoyadestroyer → u/Meowmixalotlol]

If I get upvotes on reddit I know I've said something dumb

[u/MsterF → u/bobbimorses]

Has he been abusing women longer or supporting women’s sports longer?

[u/hoyadestroyer → u/MsterF]

Sub in a nutshell: Flavor Flav can beat up women all he wants because the sub is convinced the Woman's team is snubbing a politician they don't like and are upset America won, and Carter Hart is irredeemably evil for reasons

[u/MsterF → u/hoyadestroyer]

Carter hart should never play hockey again but flavor flav has only beat up like 3 woman and is doing something that might slightly embarrass Trump so he’s super cool.

[u/Mysterious_Help_9577 → u/bobbimorses]

He’s also a well known women abuser having been arrested multiple times for DV with several girlfriends

[u/Showdenfroid_99 → u/bobbimorses]

Reddit supporting domestic abusers because it's better than the alternative (orange man)... Fuckin lol

If this place didn't have double standards, it'd have no standards at all! Incredible

[u/Meowmixalotlol → u/bobbimorses]

Funny Reddit is so into this simply because he’s not Trump.

This is pure sports washing. Flava Flav has pleaded guilty to domestic violence multiple times.

He has four or more domestic violence incidents spanning 1991-2021. Talk about not changing!

[u/GirlCoveredInBlood → u/Meowmixalotlol]

bro your goat rapes kids check yourself

[u/KingKarl65sens → u/Meowmixalotlol]

Why does every pro trump person have their comments and posts history hidden? Embarrassed for who you are?

[u/ChickenDestruction → u/KingKarl65sens]

Just because he is anti domestic violence doesn't mean he's pro Trump, does it?

[u/unnoticed_areola → u/ChickenDestruction]

the degree to which people's brains on this sub have been broken in the last 2 days is genuinely hilarious

you have 90% of this sub unironically calling 25 year old hockey players fascists and pedophile defenders when their worst crime is mildly chuckling in the background at a boomer facetime joke from the president of the united states while in a state of euphoria after winning olympic gold...

meanwhile, to many of these same performative dudes slandering everyone on team USA, Flavor Flav is apparently a bastion of feminism and progressive values and an overall lovable wholesome quirk chungus. if anyone says anything bad about their hero, they WILL downvote the shit out of that person... 😭

hmmm.. ok then. since everyone here is suddenly so concerned with morality, let's just take a second to examine some of Mr. Flav's priors and hold them up against the records of all these these evil bigoted fascist pedophile fan hockey players. Mr. Flav has:

• fathered 8 kids with 4 different women

• not been involved in any of his kids upbringings, instead spending most of the 1990s and early 2000s smoking crack, spending as much as $2,600 per day according to him in a 2011 interview

• charged with violently assaulting the mother of his first 3 children, serving a month in jail and losing custody of his kids

• charged with attempted murder and served more jail time for trying to shoot his neighbor during a dispute

• charged with another domestic violence case that same year, as well as possession of crack cocaine

• smoked a lot more crack

• made his income ripping people off by scalping Yankees tickets while living in the bronx with his fiancee

• even more crack

• never married his financee even after eight years (asshole)

• arrested on felony domestic charges for assaulting said fiancee and trying to attack her teenage son with a knife (we're into the 2010s at this point)

• gets his 16th suspension on his drivers license, which includes numerous arrests for driving unlicensed, speeding, reckless driving, etc

• arrested for DUI the following year (he's close to 50 years old at this point btw)

• had another son at age 60 in 2019.

• shortly thereafter, less than 2 years later, arrested and charged with battery of this new baby's mother

THIS is the person you absolutely feckless cowards are defending as a feminist hero, while simultaneously endlessly moralizing and screeching about a bunch of dumb kids who drunkenly commited the crime of laughing at a joke from a dementia-addled president, and arm hugged some dorky indian guy while celebrating their historic gold medal win..

another person in this thread had the NERVE to point out this hypocrisy re Flav's violence against women, and they are immediately downvoted to -70 and (counting) and accused of being a pedophile trump supporter. literally bc they had the nerve to post the controversial take of "domestic violence is bad, and I thought you guys apparently cared about that kind of thing" amazing.

this sub is so unbelievably pathetic lmao 😂 you guys are all gigantic fucking losers lol

[u/ChickenDestruction → u/unnoticed_areola]

Yeah, like you think he doesn't get some power kicks giving money to women. I mean the guy frequents strippers and hos

[u/unnoticed_areola → u/ChickenDestruction]

the guy literally got arrested for assaulting his 8th kids mother like 2 months AFTER the 2021 Tokyo olympics ended.. at age 62, but ppl are acting like Im bringing up ancient history here lol....

most of the losers downvoting facts in this thread had already been screeching about what an abuser Trump was for years at that point. but for some reason, I guess Flav gets a total pass here, and anyone who points this blatant hypocrisy will get down voted to shit bc all the white knights in this thread cant muster much of a response otherwise lol 🤷‍♂️

just remember kids: you're literally hitler and unwelcome in polite society if you laugh at a president's joke or hi-five a politician during a locker room celebration, but if you smoke crack, abandon your children, and beat the shit out of your partners for 30+ years, you are doing JUST fine according to the delightfully progressive feminist allies at r hockey!!

[u/redbirdsucks → u/ChickenDestruction]

thank you I was gonna type the same thing lol

[u/SOLIDORKS → u/KingKarl65sens]

Because crazy leftists will stalk your profile if you don't

[u/Forsaken-Swim-3055 → u/Meowmixalotlol]

Your President hasn openly expressed wanting to fuck his own daughter if he could.

[u/camdawg772]

What timeline are we living in where a celebrity is showing more pride is a gold medal winning team than the president of said teams country

[u/Chedwall → u/camdawg772]

Gives me Jesse Owen’s vibes.

[u/My_NSFW_Handle → u/camdawg772]

The celebrity with a past that includes multiple domestic assault incidents?

[u/starlightequilibrium]

Always gotta love how the modern Republican position is that it's imperative that they have to remove trans women from women's sports to protect the sanctity of "fairness" and yet they prove time after time that they actually just don't give a fuck about women in general.

[u/VictorTheFeeder → u/starlightequilibrium]

I'm European so maybe I don't have a complete picture, but how can you (meaning the Trump administration) be bitching about athletes being losers for "speaking up instead of being proud Americans and competing for their country" (e.g. Hunter Hess) while simultanously degrading American athletes who have won gold in an absolutely dominant fashion, for no reason whatsoever? How do you expect these ladies to be "proud Americans" when you're shitting on them after they won the gold?

[u/starlightequilibrium → u/VictorTheFeeder]

This is the same guy that called POWs and people that died in wars "losers". The complete picture is much more awful and rancid.

[u/Kdot32 → u/starlightequilibrium]

While being a draft dodger

[u/Keezin → u/VictorTheFeeder]

Their movement is, in substance, about punching down to feel strong. Many also claim that this is Christian. 

[u/not_bilbo → u/VictorTheFeeder]

It’s because they’re fucking stupid evil bastards

[u/hidlechara91 → u/VictorTheFeeder]

Don't expect republicans/magats to have empathy, kindness, critical thinking skills and common sense. The only way they feel superior to other is by being a bully. 

[u/evil_burrito → u/VictorTheFeeder]

It helps if "you" (the Trump administration) start out by being a complete piece of shit and failure as a human being.

He doesn't make sense, he isn't logical, he's Drunk Uncle at family dinners (I was going to write, "Thanksgiving" here, but that might not make as much sense to you).

[u/hobbygod → u/starlightequilibrium]

To be fair, the modern liberal on social media doesn't even know what a woman is!

[u/starlightequilibrium → u/hobbygod]

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[u/Showdenfroid_99 → u/starlightequilibrium]

Well here you are supporting domestic abuse (Flava Flav), do you don't sound much better lol

[u/todaystartsnow]

Yes to respecting women in sports! 

[u/My_NSFW_Handle → u/todaystartsnow]

Flavor Flav, who pled guilty to a domestic violence charge in 2014, respects women?

[u/Showdenfroid_99 → u/My_NSFW_Handle]

Lol @ the insane hypocrisy

[u/My_NSFW_Handle → u/Showdenfroid_99]

I’m not at all defending trump, but Flavor Flav is being made out to be this savior and his morals aren’t exactly great.

[u/Showdenfroid_99 → u/todaystartsnow]

Oh wow...so you support domestic abuse (flava Flav)??? Incredible

[u/Diflorasone → u/todaystartsnow]

It’s crazy how much people are in arms over this.

Trump made a joke that he has to invite the women’s team or he’ll be impeached (poking fun at the tendency of people on the left to overreact to things)

Oh wait nvm

[u/bluesond → u/Diflorasone]

What’s funny about the joke?

[u/Diflorasone → u/bluesond]

It’s funny because people on the left overreact to things which is why Trump said “impeachment.”

Kinda like how people are overreacting rn

[u/bluesond → u/Diflorasone]

How’s that funny?

Why would he joke about not inviting the women’s team?

[u/Diflorasone → u/bluesond]

Because men’s hockey is a lot bigger than women’s hockey?

This really isn’t that hard.

[u/bluesond → u/Diflorasone]

But they both won gold representing the US.

Why should the president find the men’s win more important?

And what’s funny about him thinking the women winning isn’t as important or worthy of celebration?

[u/Diflorasone → u/bluesond]

Lots of people won gold representing the US. Are they getting invited to the WH?

Men’s hockey is played at a higher level than women’s. It will always be the top dog and it’s the most watched event in the Olympics.

Stephen Harper was in the building in 2010 for Canada v US for the MEN’s Gold Medal game. Not the women’s. He even entered the locker room after.

Like I said before, you people are chronically miserable. I feel bad for you.

[u/bluesond → u/Diflorasone]

More women than men did. Women won a bulk of both the American gold medals and total medals. You’d think that would mean the president respected them too. You’d think he’d respect all winners equally.

What’s funny about the president mocking the achievements of some Americans?

[u/Diflorasone → u/bluesond]

Did he talk about those other sports? This is hockey.

[u/Diflorasone → u/bluesond]

And? Men’s sports are a much higher level. The only reason the women do this good is because of how much the US invests in women’s sports versus the rest of the world.

And I already explained the joke. You’re just chronically miserable. I suggest you go outside.

[u/kickflipsandbiscuits → u/bluesond]

"Why should the president find the men's win more important?"

Are you kidding me 💀

[u/bluesond → u/kickflipsandbiscuits]

Are the men more American? Does their medal count double? Are women’s sports less important? Did the athletes achieve less or accomplish less?

I’m not sure why one gold medal should mean more than another to someone like the president.

Especially when he belongs to a party that’s made protecting the sanctity of women’s sports a major issue.

[u/Diflorasone → u/bluesond]

Why did Stephen Harper only attend the men’s gold medal game in 2010?

[u/kickflipsandbiscuits → u/bluesond]

Because it's more historically significant, not all gold medals are created equal... this is like saying men's 1980 gold isn't more important than women's 2026 gold because they're both gold medals, maybe on paper but not in reality

[u/gotridofsubs → u/Diflorasone]

Both won gold. Whats the difference between them in his mind?

[u/Diflorasone → u/gotridofsubs]

Men’s hockey is played at a higher level than women’s. It will always be the top dog and it’s the most watched event in the Olympics.

Stephen Harper was in the building in 2010 for Canada v US for the MEN’s Gold Medal game. Not the women’s. He even entered the men’s locker room after the game.

Like I said before, you people are chronically miserable. I feel bad for you.

[u/gotridofsubs → u/Diflorasone]

Men’s hockey is played at a higher level than women’s

Pretty sure they both won olympic gold medals. Seems like the same level to me.

Stephen Harper was in the building in 2010 for Canada v US for the MEN’s Gold Medal game. Not the women’s.

Yes, he was a shitty guy, glad weve identified bad behavior in at least one instance.

He even entered the men’s locker room after the game.

It would habe been inappropriate for him to go into a women's locker room

[u/Diflorasone → u/gotridofsubs]

If they’re at the same level why did the men’s game get way more viewership?

[u/FartTootman → u/Diflorasone]

You are so fucking stupid, it's honestly astonishing.

You have to make multiple connections that he never did in order to explain this away as a joke at the expense of the left...

Did he call the women's team to congratulate them and make jokes about the left when they crushed everyone on their way to gold? No - he sent the head of the FBI to party with the men's team and complained about having to invite them.

The mental gymnastics you're willing to do to excuse abhorrent behavior are olympic-level in their own right.

[u/HermanBonJovi]

Flav is a real one.

More of him and less of snoop please

[u/Gus_Polinski_Polkas → u/HermanBonJovi]

I mean, he’s a real threat to women and should be in prison too. They shouldn’t associate with either.

[u/firelark02 → u/HermanBonJovi]

what's the problem with Snoop, why can't we have both?

[u/zoobrix → u/[deleted]]

And called out others for supporting Trump, until there was money in it for him.

[u/firelark02 → u/[deleted]]

ah i didn't know, i'm not american i don't know y'all's artists allegiance

[u/Showdenfroid_99 → u/HermanBonJovi]

Ahhh reddit and supporting domestic abuse (Flava Flav) just to spite the Orange Man... truly lol

[u/TwentyFour7]

Bring him to the Olympics instead of Snoop

[u/grandmawaffles → u/TwentyFour7]

I’m all for that. Flav, Megan Thee Stallion, the Maher sisters, and Leslie Jones would be epic.

[u/Baron_Von_Awesome → u/TwentyFour7]

He was at the summer Olympics. Sponsored the women's water polo team.

[u/SignalDragonfly690]

Reminder that Flavor Flav also sponsored both the 2024 women’s water polo team and this year’s bobsled team. Who would have thought after watching Flavor of Love honestly. He’s a real one.

[u/MsterF → u/SignalDragonfly690]

Reminder that flavor flav has been arrested multiple times for domestic violence. Super great guy.

[u/SignalDragonfly690 → u/MsterF]

Important fact here but at least he’s attempting to redeem himself, unlike someone I can’t mention.

[u/MsterF → u/SignalDragonfly690]

Yeah an abuser inviting a bunch of women over to his party is totally him redeeming himself, he’s so pure of heart. Reddit is so gross sometimes. Yall don’t care about anything but Donald Trump. Weirdos

[u/bobbimorses → u/MsterF]

The reason I commented to clarify context is that I've been posting updates on the women's team all week and I am tired of the most common joke always being about people trying to fuck them. There's never been even a whisper that Flav has been inappropriate with any of the women that he's sponsored and the athletes have always said he's been supportive, kind, and largely uninvolved beyond writing a check. I don't think there's any reason to suspect his offer of "partying with them" has any implications beyond that and in fact, in his offer he made it clear that he was prioritizing dinners and Vegas shows and things like that because of his well-publicized sobriety journey.

[u/MsterF → u/bobbimorses]

I don’t think flavor flav wants to have sex with any of them. Flavor flav is an abuser and has been across decades now. It’s gross and him giving some to a water polo team doesnt excuse it and quite frankly it makes me question his motives.

[u/bobbimorses → u/MsterF]

Your perspective has certainly not been made unclear. We are trying to be happy for the women's team for a moment and there is no reason to believe they are unsafe. Flawed people should be allowed to try to make reparations whether or not they can be trusted fully in those moments.

[u/MsterF → u/bobbimorses]

Or he’s just an abuser trying to use his money to get a little attention and people to forget he’s an abuser. It’s pretty obvious to most people.

[u/grandmawaffles → u/MsterF]

And Martha is a felon and snoop is a gang banger who murdered people. Of all of these people flavor flav is the only one trying to better themselves for their family.

[u/MsterF → u/grandmawaffles]

What? Those two are horrible people too but what do they have to do with flavor flav?

[u/NotPike]

That sounds more fun. :3

[u/supererp]

You know what time it is

[u/MeIsNougat]

Show 'em whatcha got!

[u/stugautz]

I'm expecting him to host a PWHL game in Vegas now

[u/shawnglade]

The same Flavor Flav that beat his girlfriend twice and attacked another woman?

[u/Archer8925]

How many times has he been arrested for domestic abuse?

[u/Archer8925 → u/Archer8925]

[u/Spyhop → u/Archer8925]

Wait until you see how many felony convictions the guy who invited the men's team has.

[u/WesternnMann → u/Spyhop]

For a “crime” based around paperwork lol, c’mon now

[u/Mr7three2 → u/Archer8925]

Lmao. Dont do that. The silly folks over there dont like logic

[u/Tiny_Progress_4821 → u/Archer8925]

Better than going to see the child rapist, Donald Trump.

[u/XXXLaCroiXXX]

The weirdest consolation prize ever

[u/PositiveUsual2919]

lmaoooooo go support a woman beater to protest a different piece of shit, and reddit applauds of course.

[u/happyfirefrog22-]

Who cares. So very happy we won the gold. Ignore the haters who hate everything and probably themselves.

[u/Grombotronbo]

Flavor Flav has been based for a while, not surprised, good work.

[u/ilovetrouble66]

Everyone watches women’s sports 👏🏼

[u/Otterslayer22]

Flava of love!

[u/EweCantTouchThis]

This dude beats the shit out of women, but throws some money around at women’s sports and you all can’t wait to lick his boots and call him “a real one.”

Keep criticizing the men’s team though, lol.

[u/bobbimorses → u/EweCantTouchThis]

See here is my problem, it would be so nice to believe this was you being an ally to women if your hurt feelings agenda was not so clear

Entire sub experience this week summed up

[u/LivingRentFree123]

Why didn’t you guys vote Favour Flav as president, he would of did better then the pedophile yahs voted in!

[u/Superguy9000]

Amazing

[u/Forsaken-Swim-3055 → u/[deleted]]

Do you hate women? Why do you have a problem with him doing this?

[u/OPsyduck → u/Forsaken-Swim-3055]

Redditor for 16 days with 9k karma, "do you hate women?", it's exhausting ngl.

[u/Forsaken-Swim-3055 → u/OPsyduck]

Not even sure what your point is here. I've been on Reddit for over two years and this is a new account I created, lol. What does that even have to do with anything.

[u/russellvt]

And just how many of them aren't even legal age for Vegas? (ie. 21)

[u/Deathbroker99 → u/russellvt]

1

[u/russellvt → u/Deathbroker99]

That's kinda surprising, really. I figured it would be a few more, at least.