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Women's World Cup 2023: Retiring Megan Rapinoe makes tearful exit as USA bow out - she says "sick joke"
BBC ^ | 6th August 2023 | Neill Johnston

Posted on 08/07/2023 1:20:25 AM PDT by Cronos

She went so far as to call it "dark comedy" and a "sick joke", such was her dismay.

...With the USA leading 3-2 on penalties on a tension-filled night, substitute Rapinoe missed her spot-kick before Sophia Smith and Kelley O'Hara also failed to score in the shootout.

When Lina Hurtig converted the decisive penalty by the finest of margins, eliminating the four-time world champions, Rapinoe was overcome with emotion.

The Olympic gold medal winner hoisted up her shirt in an attempt to hide her face.

Ten minutes after the game, the television cameras picked out Rapinoe being consoled by team-mate Lynn Williams after the 2019 Ballon d'Or winner's dream of ending her USA career on a high were dashed.

"This is like a sick joke," said Rapinoe. "For me personally, I'm just like, this is dark comedy. I missed a penalty."

..."She's actually kind of an awful person," wrote journalist Brad Polumbo in the Washington Examiner. "Rapinoe has soccer skills for sure, but her entitled, flippant, and unpatriotic attitude is the epitome of first-world privilege."

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To: Cronos

“...epitome of first-world privilege.”

Notice how veiled this sentence is, instead of calling it ‘white privilege’ as is the norm these days it is blamed on the first-world people whatever the hell that is.


21 posted on 08/07/2023 3:30:23 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: laconic

Democrats like Joe are just scum.


22 posted on 08/07/2023 3:32:05 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: V_TWIN
“I know that I will walk away from the game having got everything out of it that I possibly could”

Ill bet she uses people the same way.

23 posted on 08/07/2023 3:37:18 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: ByteMercenary

I just scrolled past a headline that said fans were enraged because she laughed after her miss.


24 posted on 08/07/2023 3:50:24 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: ByteMercenary

She had a smile on face! Ridiculous!


25 posted on 08/07/2023 3:51:08 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: All

I cant believe a journo actually got this in print........

“She’s actually kind of an awful person,” wrote journalist
Brad Polumbo in the Washington Examiner.

“Rapinoe has soccer skills for sure, but her entitled, flippant,
and unpatriotic attitude is the epitome of first-world privilege.”


26 posted on 08/07/2023 3:56:00 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Cronos

You will never hear the end of this Ho.

The face of Google Pixel.

Hopefully, the freak will get rug munching disease, and retire into hell.


27 posted on 08/07/2023 3:56:54 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Apparatchik

I haven’t seen the game but I read she may have ‘thrown’ it as a final FU to America. Someone posted that the penalty kick was missed by a mile - one their child could have made but she missed it. Intentionally???

Don’t know but wouldn’t doubt it in the last.


28 posted on 08/07/2023 3:58:11 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Sirius Lee; Jewbacca

“I” 3 times in one sentence......SMH


29 posted on 08/07/2023 4:12:17 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Chuck N

Sadly you are correct.. I’m sure the tyranny fluid manufacturers of Bud Light will give the nasty Rapone a contract as well..


30 posted on 08/07/2023 4:25:57 AM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Paladin2

She has a deformed soul.


31 posted on 08/07/2023 4:26:14 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: Liz

Yes, that amazed me as well

Honesty about a Woke LGBTQWERTY Libtard.

How refreshing.


32 posted on 08/07/2023 4:29:41 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Cronos

Well deserved loss and exit for a an American hating lesbian and her team.


33 posted on 08/07/2023 4:36:32 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Seems to me the most likely explanation is she choked on her own karma.

As much as she hates America, it's unlikely she lost on purpose. Her probable state of mind was to win it all one more time for her own legacy of greatness.

Like someone else said, it's a win win scenario for her to miss because she choked. It's the outcome of hubris and moral degeneracy together. A tale of justice that will follow her for a long, long time.

34 posted on 08/07/2023 4:40:43 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: Cronos

I don’t want to pile on when someone is hurting, but Ms. Rapinoe was simply a cancer on this team. She infected several players with her Leftist, anti-America ideology. Kudos to the ladies who did stand and sing for the National Anthem. Ms. Rapinoe is definitely a talented player, but she won’t be missed.

On a side note, I NEVER root against America. However, I found I wasn’t actively rooting FOR the USWNT. As a proud American, that bothered me. With Ms. Rapinoe leaving maybe things will change.


35 posted on 08/07/2023 4:45:02 AM PDT by Kharis13
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To: V_TWIN

Like a manure stain on a military uniform - Rapinoe decorated the USA team with her filth for well over a decade.

What an evil woman she is and good riddance!


36 posted on 08/07/2023 4:53:34 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: laconic
Thus, she demanded and got equal pay for women’s soccer...

Megan Rapinoe got unequal pay for the women's national soccer team, skewed heavily in favor of the women.

Women are now paid the same as the men despite drawing from a a pool of revenue that's 50x less than what the men bring in. There's nothing equal in that.

37 posted on 08/07/2023 4:58:58 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: kearnyirish2

It was hilarious to see that snot boot the ball clean over the net!😄


38 posted on 08/07/2023 4:59:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo“What were you doing in the store? You were eating the food?”)
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To: Cronos

Hey Rapinoe, don’t let the door his your a$$ on the way out but you will probably miss that too.


39 posted on 08/07/2023 5:01:28 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: ByteMercenary

Yeah, the kick was so high that it looked intentional. We’ll never know, but it was not even close.


40 posted on 08/07/2023 5:05:01 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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