Posted on 07/25/2021 1:34:40 PM PDT by conservative98
Former President Donald Trump says “woke politics” contributed to the US Women’s soccer team’s dismal opening performance in the Tokyo Olympics.
“The US Women’s Soccer team is a very good example of what’s going on,” Trump told a crowd during a campaign-style rally in Arkansas on Saturday night.
“Woke politics takes the life and joy out of everything. Woke-ism makes you lose, ruins your mind and ruins you as a person. You become warped. You become demented,” he said during the speech to the Turning Point Action political action committee in Phoenix.
“Earlier this week, [the women’s team] unexpectedly lost to Sweden, three to nothing, and Americans were happy about it,” Trump told the crowd, who responded by cheering.
“You proved that point before I even said it,” Trump added to the audience, shaking his head.
The US Women’s team, favored to win a gold medal in Tokyo and ranked No. 1 in the world, has traveled down a rocky road so far in the Olympic Games.
The team — known for some members’ protests against racism, including by kneeling during the National Anthem — started off with a stunning 3-0 loss to Sweden. It rebounded with a 6-1 win over New Zealand on Saturday.
During his Arizona speech, Trump also doubled-down against the Cleveland Indians changing their name to the Cleveland Guardians.
“The Cleveland Indians will be changing their name, a name that was filled with history and memories. The new name will be the Cleveland Guardians, which is terrible,” he told the crowd.
“If I were a [Native American], I’d sue,” the former president said.
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The old adage about one bad apple!
Dead eyes won’t adorn a box of Wheaties.
He’s a brave man with truth on his side. While the nasty globalists snivel, having to play whack-a-mole all day with facts and common sense. I can’t imagine living the way of the latter.
I don’t know if “wokeism” caused the loss, but I do know it made me not care.
Trump is right again.
What a great quote about how being woke ruins you.
Hope it goes viral.
And now the Basketball team.
Man that b!tch looks sick!
Rapinoe should be tossed from the team no matter how good she is. She does not represent the USA.
Sp the black young lady STANDS with her hand over her heart and this white BITCH who has NEVER faced any type of oppression or racism to show utter disrespect for the nation that made it possible for her to be on a world stage in her sport!!! BITCH!!!!!
Mainly, age contributed to the 3-0 loss to Sweden. Remember that Sweden is very good. They were the runners up in the last World Cup. They bounced the U.S. out of the last Olympics. They played the U.S. to a draw earlier this year. If Olympic or World Cup soccer was played NBANHLMLB style, best of seven, the U.S. would probably beat Sweden 4-2, but on any given day Sweden is perfectly capable of winning.
The issue with this U.S. team is age. The core group of players has been together for more than ten years. They have been a great group of players. They’ve won back to back World Cups (something which Germany also accomplished with a similarly dominant cohort of players).
But the team has fallen into the trap of sitting too long on a pat hand, and this group has now aged together. It’s starting to show. The U.S. will still dominate most opponents, but peer group teams — and there are only about half a dozen teams that can hope to play them evenly — are now poised to overtake them. Sweden made it look easy. That was probably an off-game for the U.S. but still, Sweden was finding space that wouldn’t have existed just a couple of years ago. Age hits the legs first. There will be wholesale changes in this U.S. team after this Olympics. They’ve been the oldest team in the field in every major tournament since 2015, and it’s now caught up with them.
We went through this with the Redskins. The media would repeatedly poll Native Americans on the name and they would overwhelmingly oppose change, and they would overwhelmingly NOT be offended. So the media would whitesplain to them why they were actually offended, but just didn't know it. I guess they're too stupid to understand what offends them and what doesn't.
Nobody wants this except a few self-righteous, holier-than-thou #woke activists.
“American is a state of mind.”
I’ve been saying that for SUCH a long time. It IS a state of mind.
And “You have a hyphen before the word, ‘American’ in your nationality? You are not American.”
Interesting insights - thanks.
Ultimately, it won’t matter because the Olympic womens teams will be replaced by trannies in 2024.
That President Trump moves fast!
I’m not even sure what they are protesting at this point, is a one-party state of the far left not good enough for them?
The ancient Greeks called it hubris
Big problem there.
I never saw that photo. ALL of them parade a red-blue version of “BLM”. That to me is irritating beyond measure.
I understand they’re standing and hand over heart, but this evil org deserves no quarter…nor the false libelous premise it pushes.
The other point that should be made is they beat NZ 6-1. So I guess the karma thing isn’t quite there. Watch what you say before foot-in-mouth disease sets in.
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