Posted on 08/08/2023 10:11:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Next to the dictionary definition of “poetic justice” should be a picture of Megan Rapinoe’s humiliated little face after whiffing a penalty kick that helped seal the fate of the U.S. women’s soccer team.
In a shootout that ended the game 5-4, Sweden defeated the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), sending them packing from the World Cup. Of course, the blue-and-yellow-clad fans and players were ecstatic. But the next most excited observers were actually Americans — specifically the ones who, you know, like America.
Rapinoe’s fan club — which includes corporate media, LGBT advocates, and the stans in the White House, among others — has been busy heaping praise on the team and pointing the finger at those unpatriotic conservatives who aren’t devastated by the loss and took things “a step too far.” But here’s the thing: If you don’t claim allegiance to America when you win, don’t expect Americans to give a hoot when you lose.
Save for the few patriotic players who will hopefully rebuild the USWNT’s legacy and define its attitude in the future, the women’s team is a proud collection of ingrates who have been defined by their disdain for the very country that emblazons their jerseys. Their lack of patriotism is so overt it’s become a theme throughout this World Cup. When the anthems of other countries play, the opposing teams zealously belt out the words in unmistakable allegiance. Each time the “Star-Spangled Banner” plays before match-ups, most of the U.S. athletes follow the lead of their blue-haired ring leader and refuse to sing along or place their hands over their hearts in quiet defiance of the country that gave them everything.
Less quiet has been Megan “Walking Protest” Rapinoe’s years-long and outspoken hatred of America and its values. In 2019, she declared, “I’ll probably never put my hand over my heart. “I’ll probably never sing the national anthem again.” Stunning and brave.
Not only was she one of the first athletes to embrace anthem kneeling alongside Colin Kaepernick, but she also is a loud LGBT activist and proponent of letting men who claim to be women dominate female sports. Real female leaders find ways to boost the girls that follow in their footsteps, but not Rapinoe. She’d rather throw them to the testosterone-jacked wolves.
It’s easier to welcome men into women’s spaces, I suppose, when you’ve already got your trophies and millions and have one foot out the door. Rapinoe’s fairer-sex forbears blazed an epic trail for their American female progeny to walk. But the soccer star’s legacy? Doing her darndest to turn every future women’s World Cup into a battle of the bulge.
Not everyone is into soccer — or Olympic ice dancing or synchronized swimming or BMX biking — but you’d best believe that when U.S. athletes are representing the greatest country on Earth on the world stage, every good American pulls for a “W” or a gold. It shouldn’t be pleasurable for spectators to watch the USWNT make a historically early exit.
But as Fox and Friends co-host Will Cain tweeted, “[T]his team came to be defined by arrogant celebrity activists who went out of their way to exhibit shame in the US, begin the process of destroying their own sport (advocating for men to play women’s sports) and curry victimization with false narratives about equal pay. Nobody made it harder to root for them than the USWNT.”
The U.S. Women’s National Team has only two jobs: Score goals to win games, and proudly represent the great US of A. They haven’t been delivering on the latter, and they just blew the former. So yeah, not having to endure another anti-American anthem schtick from a losing team is something to clap about.
USWNT diehards and dedicated leftists can spin all day to make conservatives the bad guys here, but Rapinoe’s detractors didn’t fire the first shot in this dumb culture war. That’s on her and her self-satisfied teammates. Perhaps this pathetic display in front of the whole freaking world will be a lesson to the up-and-comers who think emulating petty social justice warriors is a good idea.
Play stupid political games, win stupid political prizes.
That’s because God has a great sense of humor.
So their lesbians beat our lesbians.
Define national team.
Were they to
1. represent the United States of America, it’s people and Constitution. They represent the best players and patriots are nation had to offer?
2. Is it just ‘national’ in the sense that they put a team of women soccer players together to play for the nation, but they didn’t care about the nation they played for?
Really hard to care about the second ‘national’, especially if your not into soccer.
Disgusting Rapinoe and her disgusting basketball “fiancé” don’t represent America. They represent queerdom! Queerdom is our misfortune!!!!
Whenever the anti-American women’s soccer team is on the field, I root for Russia!! However, it seems that Russia is banned from the 2023 women’s World Cup because of the Ukraine war. More’s the pity!
The US women’s team blowing the game with Sweden may be justice for the exclusion of Russia!!
Phooey to Rapinoe, her “gay” teammates, and her “gay” “fiancé”!!
Ok, sorry. I meant no offense to twins. Just was wondering if there was anything valid to it.
The silver lining in all of this for soccer fans, is that since the girls’ team gets paid equal to what the boys make, there is a good case for having a girls’ team full of guys pretending to be girls to justify the big paychecks. It’s surprising that they don’t already have a Dylan Mulvaney on the girls’ team.
Purple? OK. It looked more like faded blue. Maybe blue was more like how she felt. Maybe it changes with her mood. She makes a swell patriot when she cries.
Sorry, I don’t see what you mean.
Rapino looks like a boy, Ellen-style.
They are not Americans so why support them?
I tend to agree with you.
They will get very offended when white people decide to “take a knee” with respect to THEIR issues.
Yeah. They say that white guys are the problem with the country but yet they want to look like one. Including that person on MSNBC who wants to look like a guy.
I predict the freak will die of throat cancer.
When you gorge a mouthful of yeast infection it eventually gets to you. Ask Michael Douglas about that.
Their official uniform is BLM?
The good ones shouldn’t besmirch themselves by being on a team with the ingrates.
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