Posted on 08/14/2023 3:22:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s always interesting when the media make someone or something a cause. A few may remember, for instance, golf prodigy Michelle Wie. In the early 2000s when she was about 14, the media relentlessly promoted the six-foot lass after she showed promise and boasted of how she was going to beat the men, including then-world number one Tiger Woods. For the media love feminism-buttressing, girl-power stories, and Wie wasn’t complaining: Much like Barack Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize based on perceived potential, the positive press eventually won the golfer a $50 million Nike contract.
Oh, today, at age 33, Wie just retired, never having come close to being number one on even the women’s tour and having captured only one major tournament. Media hype met reality.
Another girl-power press darling is the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), the soccer ladies who’ve been protesting our National Anthem and who, until recently, were led by purple-haired lesbian Megan Rapinoe. As such, the pseudo-elites and the team’s few fans are crestfallen that the squad just registered its worst World Cup showing yet, falling to Sweden’s gals in the tournament’s round of 16. They’re also upset that the loss has pleased millions of Americans who don’t cotton to the USWNT’s unpatriotic displays.
Of course, the pseudo-elites can’t understand (or pretend they can’t) why anyone dislikes the team and, what’s more, they may even claim it’s unpatriotic to not support it. “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” is the idea (except when one protests the 2020 election as stolen, or opposes Ukraine aid or anything else leftists in power do). And, unfortunately, no one has as yet drawn the crucial distinction that damns the USWNT’s behavior. (More on that later.)
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We were in Bilbao last year, and went to San Sebastian, some beautiful country there.
I guess thats as much a matter of who one plays for as where one is from.
Many parts of the Basque country look like something out of Tolkien.
Incorrect. I just went to the wiki page for the French national team. Of the black players on the "current squad," 13 were born in France, while 4 were not. Check it yourself if you want to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_football_team#Current_squad
Forgot the link:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/apr/15/ten-worst-penalty-misses-ever
I agree. I saw she was so, so happy.
I was so happy when rapid ho missed that kick
Leftist DemocRATS hate America as much or more than Rapino does, and they do MUCH more damage.
The Pygmy chapter of MENSA is full of cunning runts
The US women’s soccer team is full of ____________
dykes on spikes?
Are you Basque? From there?
Athletic Bilbao is one of my favorite teams. I also like Osasuna - but not Real Sociedad.
My mom’s family is from Bilbao.
Her Basque family last names are Guerrero, Lopez de Lara, and Arista.
Imagine if he went up against The Man..The Myth..The Legend!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9jXYOH2c0
That’s recent.
And just because you were born in France (or anywhere else for that matter) doesn’t make you ‘French’.
Over the years they have all been a hodge-podge of UN “Unesco” type players.
The most embarrassing WC was 2002 when almost all of their players were foreign legionaries and they got crushed.
An easy team to cheer against.
I do not support them. I dissent to the highest degree against their anti-American behaviour.
So I guess I am an unpatriotic patriot.
“Rapino”
You misspelled it try:
wrapping a whore.
LOL !!!
Lesbian kickball. Meh.
Mean Girls Team, what’s to like?
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