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A tone-deaf piece in a left-leaning outlet told Americans they might feel “yucky” cheering for their own country at the Olympics, and patriots across the country reacted like they always do: with righteous anger and common sense. The attempt to pathologize pride was met with ridicule and a social media backlash that exposed how out of touch some of the coastal press corps really are. Ordinary Americans watched their teams fight and win, and they rejected the pained moralizing of those who would rather undermine national unity than celebrate achievement.
Enter Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, a family-run Baltimore institution that answered the condescension in three plain words and reminded the pundits where the real country lives. Their reply on social platforms — blunt, unapologetic, and overwhelmingly popular — became a viral rebuke to the media elites who seem allergic to patriotism. The public reaction was not just noise; it was a mass repudiation of elite cultural gatekeeping, and it brought small-town common sense front and center.
Co-owner John Minadakis later confirmed the now-famous post came straight from him, sent in the moment while he and his family stepped out of church to watch the final minutes of the game. That detail matters: an immigrant-family business, worshipping and watching American athletes bring home gold, and then standing up to a smirking national media — it is the sort of scene that ought to make the elites uncomfortable. This was not performative theater; it was genuine pride answering an attempt to shame the nation.
What fueled that pride was real and historic: Team USA’s men’s hockey team delivered a dramatic overtime victory over Canada on February 22, 2026, reclaiming a gold medal for the ages and giving Americans one more reason to stand tall. The players skated like their lives and legacies mattered, celebrated their country, and reminded the world that patriotism is not a disease but a source of strength. Moments like that do not need permission from opinion writers or therapists; they need respect from a press that has chosen to sneer instead.
Jimmy’s didn’t stop at a tweet; the restaurant offered free crab cakes for life to both U.S. hockey teams and saw its website and social accounts flooded with support from coast to coast. Small businesses that stand with their communities deserve applause, not lectures, and the flood of customers and followers shows that America still rewards courage and common-sense defiance of woke ridicule. If the elites want to call that crude, ordinary Americans will call it honest, unapologetic patriotism.
This episode is a lesson for every working American who still believes in country over careerism: don’t let the self-appointed moral guardians tell you how to feel about your flag or your champions. Support local, support the troops and athletes who represent us, and keep fighting for a culture that values pride, faith, and the hard work that built this nation. When the media scolds, the rest of us will keep cheering, building businesses, and passing down the American love of country to the next generation.
