Posted on 07/06/2021 5:20:10 AM PDT by DFG
Several members of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) turned away from the flag as a 98-year-old WWII veteran played the national anthem.
The incident occurred Monday, just before the USWNT took-on Mexico in their final tune-up before the Tokyo Olympics.
The veteran playing the harmonica is Pete DuPré, who has gained national notoriety playing the anthem at sporting events all over the country. The USWNT protest on Monday was not the first time U.S. athletes have snubbed the flag while qualifying for the Olympics. In late June, hammer thrower Gwen Berry also turned away from the flag during the playing of the national anthem.
Monday’s incident sparked intense backlash on Twitter.
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I don’t usually smack women, but these ones make me want to make exceptions.
Countless people from every place on earth are desperately trying to get into the country that these people say is so bad. Nobody ever mentions that.
What really needs to happen is that their team mates need to instantly take issue, on the spot, with their actions, and start throwing fists. Why? Because then they would get kicked off the team and thousands of questions would be asked of them- WHY!? “Because the actions of these few people do nothing to bring people together. All it does is drive the wedge in further and make the situation worse. Sports at our level is supposed to bring people of different interests, cultures, and ideas together to discuss the sport. What these selfish individuals and those who support and allow this behavior are doing is creating more division in our fans, more division in our population, and that cannot be tolerated. I lost my gig for this action but I can assure you that I find ZERO value in playing the game at my level while being teamed with these selfish, divisive idiots.”
Of course, that doesn’t pay the bills or allow you to continue to be a professional athelete, but it certainly takes more courage to do this, than kneel like some athletes not worth mentioning.
I stopped watching all professional sports.
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I did as well. I could care less about it.
Leftists RUIN anything fun. Sports was a big coup, in the woke universe. Sadly, sports will fade away. Hopefully the ‘woke’ importance will fade away, too.
I had relatives buried wrapped in that flag. Like many Americans, I take personal affront from these pampered little snits making a show of disrespecting their own country in front of the world. I hope these arrogant nothings lose and lose big.
Commie Kickball.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the “league” qualifies for some sort of developmental government subsidies. We subsidize and give grants to everything imaginable these days.
You can’t do that. In fact, it’s damn difficult to surrender your citizenship IIRC.
Can kick em off the team though, and they should.
That’s a great idea, although I assume it will be ineffective. Can you post a number bk1000?
That’s a great idea, although I assume it will be ineffective. Can you post a number bk1000?
That’s a great idea, although I assume it will be ineffective. Can you post a number bk1000?
I wish them only bad luck in the competitions and their future lives. They do not represent me.
Ironically, they don’t have a country left, they let it go.
Maybe they should focus on finding their country and less on sports.
They are not playing for their country. They are playing for themselves. Some of these women are disturbed, miserable lebians who are chronically seeking attention and notice. Despite their behavior, they know there is much money to be made in various venues especially if they win. Sadly there is a considerable market in the modern day percentage of the American population that avidly embraces and shares their decadence.
Completely agree. And the politicians bitch and complain about the actions of the America-haters, but nothing is ever done about it. Not sure I want to contemplate what will happen when the (real) American people have finally had enough.
Until that time comes, I’m thinking boycotts may be one effective thing that ordinary people can do.
All these idiots who protest the flag and national anthem are too stupid to realize that the greatness of our country allows them to act like morons. Others countries don’t offer as much freedom and liberty as we do. And, ironically, they typically are promoting less freedom, and less liberty.
The nicest thing I can say about these pampered twits is that they are a bunch of ingrates.
I stopped watching the olympics when they started referring to is as a movement. Tired of the stupid bios that took up half the video time as well. And i was a paid member of the sailing association.
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