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Biden to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Gabby Giffords, Simone Biles, John McCain, Denzel Washington, Megan Rapinoe among others
NBC News via MSN ^ | 07/01/2022 | Rebecca Shabad

Posted on 07/01/2022 11:12:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people, including former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and U.S. soccer player Megan Rapinoe, the White House announced Friday.

Biden will present the medals at a White House event on July 7. The medals, the country’s highest civilian honor, are awarded at the discretion of the president to people who have made a significant cultural impact or great contributions to the country or world.

Biden will also awards medals to actor Denzel Washington; Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen Muslim U.S. Army captain; and Sandra Lindsay, a New York nurse who was among the first in the country to receive the Covid vaccine.

Three other recipients will be awarded the medal posthumously: the late Sen. John McCain, who served in the Senate and House for decades and became the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2008; Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, Inc.; and Richard Trumka, who served as president of the AFL-CIO.

Giffords, who served as a congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in at a constituent event in her state in 2011. She survived and became a major advocate on gun violence prevention efforts. Biles is the most decorated gymnast in American history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, and Rapinoe is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion.

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To: frogjerk

The worst of them is Megan Rapinoe. A vile America hating bitch and that POS Biden gives her this. It really as if he wants to spit in our faces.


41 posted on 07/01/2022 12:18:42 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

outside of Denzel ... all scum


42 posted on 07/01/2022 12:21:53 PM PDT by sheehan (TRUMP WON.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Senile Joe knows McCain is dead, right?


43 posted on 07/01/2022 12:23:02 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: skr

I don’t see any there.


44 posted on 07/01/2022 12:24:34 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rlmorel

This is the third term of the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

I don’t think they are worried about elections anymore.


45 posted on 07/01/2022 12:26:40 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Honorary Serb
Megan Rapinoe deserves a HUGE booby prize—NOT a “medal of freedom”!!!!

Affirmative action medal / lesbian division.

46 posted on 07/01/2022 12:29:02 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmm? He left off the list Lizard Cheney and Joseph Stalin? Or did I miss those names?


47 posted on 07/01/2022 12:29:15 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Devaluing and debasing. Liberals destroy everything they touch.


48 posted on 07/01/2022 12:30:26 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why would Biden select Megan Rapinoe to receive a medal? For what?


49 posted on 07/01/2022 12:38:42 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: SeekAndFind

Tha pandering never ends. As far as I know, none of these people have done anything to advance the cause of freedom. Rapinoe actually seems to hate this country.


50 posted on 07/01/2022 12:38:57 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Addendum: I forgot about McCain. He is the exception in this group, but he was probably only added because of his feud with Trump.


51 posted on 07/01/2022 12:42:06 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: gibsonguy

The worst of them is Megan Rapinoe. A vile America hating bitch and that POS Biden gives her this
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Well, there’s nothing uglier than RabidHo , except a blue RabidHo holding her breath till she gets something.

I’d give her a medal for just shutting the hell up too.

A freedom from RabidHo medal.


52 posted on 07/01/2022 12:44:38 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: SeekAndFind

So, he is giving his allotment of Medals of Freedom overwhelmingly to living folks who are not white guys and three dead white guys, all of them jerks, McCain, Jobs and Trumpka.


53 posted on 07/01/2022 12:45:51 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Fresh Wind

Husband is up for re-election this year. All politics, all the time.


54 posted on 07/01/2022 12:55:10 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Noumenon

GMTA

Just fling ‘em out like beads at Mardi Gras.

I’ll even flash my chest,,,


55 posted on 07/01/2022 1:00:27 PM PDT by Adder (Dumblecrats: Spending $$ we don't have on crap we don't need for people who pay no taxes.)
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To: frogjerk

Biles is the most decorated gymnast in American history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals,
And notorious quitter...

This was a BLM sympathy quit


56 posted on 07/01/2022 1:05:23 PM PDT by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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To: frogjerk

Didn’t gabby Gifford already receive her metal of honor?
At around 2000 ft/sec?


57 posted on 07/01/2022 1:13:48 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: chuckb87

“Medal of Freedom now reduced to Crackerjack box prize status.”

I was thinking the same thing. Similar to CA drivers licenses and voter registeation-like candy.”

Yes, just like the Nobel Prize going to Obummer before he did anything.


58 posted on 07/01/2022 1:38:01 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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To: Tench_Coxe

That’s in next year’s batch, along with George Floyd and Trayvon Martin.”

Recipient Rush Limbaugh just rolled over in his grave.


59 posted on 07/01/2022 1:39:50 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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To: SeekAndFind

This administration sucks.


60 posted on 07/01/2022 1:47:16 PM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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