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In A Healthy Country, Olympic Athletes Who Disrespect The Flag Would Be Kicked Off The Team
Daily Wire ^ | 28 June 2021 | Matt Walsh

Posted on 06/28/2021 4:46:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan

The Roman philosopher Cicero once said that gratitude is the parent of all virtues. It’s not difficult to see how this would be true. Gratitude is a virtue which contains many other virtues. In order to be truly grateful to someone, or for something, you must also be humble, prudent and kind. Gratitude is the sister of generosity — the latter in the giving, the former in the receiving. If one is present in an interaction but not the other, there is a risk that soon both will be lost. Anyone who has ever tried to be consistently generous to a habitually ungrateful person knows how quickly generosity can morph into resentment if you aren’t careful.

This is why, as parents, we spend so much time teaching gratitude to our kids. After you take your child out for ice cream, or to the zoo, or put dinner on the table, there is that common refrain: “What do you say?” The child, prompted, shouts: “Thank you!” One day, hopefully, he will not need to be prompted anymore. In the meantime, you solicit the “thank you” not merely to teach good manners — though that is part of it — but on a deeper level, to inculcate a sense of gratitude in a child who, left to his own devises, will naturally take most things for granted. We teach gratitude not for our sake, but for theirs. Raise your child to be grateful and you will have raised him to be happy, well adjusted, and successful.

It is, then, no surprise that in a country where so many people are angry and depressed, there is also such a catastrophic lack of gratitude. Which brings us, finally, to Olympic athlete Gwen Berry...

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KEYWORDS: alsoran; americahater; anthem; chokingloser; gwenberry; gwenberryisaloser; gwenisaloser; jerk; loser; loserclown; loseymcloserson; nationalanthem; olympics; thirdplace; wokeloser
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She dissed her teammates too.

1 posted on 06/28/2021 4:46:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

At least all of her fingers are clenched.

/s


2 posted on 06/28/2021 4:48:46 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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She looks like Farina from the old Little Rascals episodes.


3 posted on 06/28/2021 4:49:23 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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Of course, in a healthy country, an Olympic athlete who turns her back on her own flag would be kicked off the team and publicly reviled and shamed as the disgraceful, embarrassing jackass that she is. But we are not a healthy country, so instead she will be lionized as some kind of civil rights hero, standing up against oppression. What sort of oppression? What precisely is she so angry about? In what specific way has this person been at all victimized? What has America done to her to provoke her scorn? No clear answer is ever given to any of these questions. Indeed, many people claim to have deep grievances against the United States, yet few of them can ever explain what the grievance is, exactly. That’s probably because their grievance doesn’t stem from anything external. The source is internal, emanating from their own pathological ingratitude.
4 posted on 06/28/2021 4:49:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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In A Healthy Country, Olympic Athletes Who Disrespect The Flag Would Be Kicked Off The Team


Corollary: In probably what is the sickest country on the globe, this athlete who disrespected the flag and the country, will most likely be gifted a shoe endorsement worth millions. Just downright perverse!
5 posted on 06/28/2021 4:50:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the Media)
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just getting her ready for a run for U.S.Senate in the State of Washington.


6 posted on 06/28/2021 4:51:32 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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In a healthy country, athletes who compete for the “national team” would actually represent the country and not a bunch of corporate sponsors and TV networks.


7 posted on 06/28/2021 4:51:57 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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I happened to catch the para Olympics yesterday at a friend’s house and was perplexed as to why a swimmer who happened to be black win the trials for breast stroke. He seemed perfectly normal and beat everyone else by a mile. Totally bogus.


8 posted on 06/28/2021 4:54:38 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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Yes, but look around, does this look like a healthy country to you?


9 posted on 06/28/2021 4:55:05 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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Who cares about the Olympics. Havent watch it in 20+ years.

It’s all personal interest stories, an I’m sure this year it will be all about BLM and how “evil” America is on what ever network carries it.


10 posted on 06/28/2021 4:56:28 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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Keep her on the team, she can play Hammer and Sickle Catch.


11 posted on 06/28/2021 4:58:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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She was THATCLOSE to Mooning The Flag!


12 posted on 06/28/2021 5:00:40 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Alberta's Child
Farina "was" a Republican.


13 posted on 06/28/2021 5:02:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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These days I expect athletes to have some platform or whatever......I don’t care.

What is a bit maddening is she was shocked and surprised they played the national anthem. Was she expecting Happy Birthday or what.

I don’t care if the athletes respect the flag or not, but they shouldn’t be morons.


14 posted on 06/28/2021 5:02:34 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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15 posted on 06/28/2021 5:04:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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I will not watch one second of the olympics if they don’t kick her off the team today.


16 posted on 06/28/2021 5:09:44 PM PDT by stanne
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Time to tell the truth about that photo which was taken during a delay in the proceedings.


17 posted on 06/28/2021 5:14:23 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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I will not watch one second of the olympics if they don’t kick her off the team today.

I'm with you!

18 posted on 06/28/2021 5:16:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Irefn a healthy country, rioters destroying cities would be arrested and tried.
In a healthy country a political party taking over the government by falsify an election, would be guilty of treason.


19 posted on 06/28/2021 5:21:07 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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What do other countries do? Are we the only morons who tolerate this?


20 posted on 06/28/2021 5:24:19 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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