Posted on 08/14/2023 3:22:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s always interesting when the media make someone or something a cause. A few may remember, for instance, golf prodigy Michelle Wie. In the early 2000s when she was about 14, the media relentlessly promoted the six-foot lass after she showed promise and boasted of how she was going to beat the men, including then-world number one Tiger Woods. For the media love feminism-buttressing, girl-power stories, and Wie wasn’t complaining: Much like Barack Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize based on perceived potential, the positive press eventually won the golfer a $50 million Nike contract.
Oh, today, at age 33, Wie just retired, never having come close to being number one on even the women’s tour and having captured only one major tournament. Media hype met reality.
Another girl-power press darling is the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), the soccer ladies who’ve been protesting our National Anthem and who, until recently, were led by purple-haired lesbian Megan Rapinoe. As such, the pseudo-elites and the team’s few fans are crestfallen that the squad just registered its worst World Cup showing yet, falling to Sweden’s gals in the tournament’s round of 16. They’re also upset that the loss has pleased millions of Americans who don’t cotton to the USWNT’s unpatriotic displays.
Of course, the pseudo-elites can’t understand (or pretend they can’t) why anyone dislikes the team and, what’s more, they may even claim it’s unpatriotic to not support it. “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” is the idea (except when one protests the 2020 election as stolen, or opposes Ukraine aid or anything else leftists in power do). And, unfortunately, no one has as yet drawn the crucial distinction that damns the USWNT’s behavior. (More on that later.)
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Why do these women Hate the country they work for ?
In one word, Rapino.
What a stupid question.
“Why do these women Hate the country they work for ?”
An eternal mystery, isn’t it? Why don’t they go work for a country that they love like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, etc?
They hated U.S. first (some of them anyway).
Not sure but is it because they hate America and everything it stands for? But then they kneel so I guess that answers that.
Women’s sports are inferior to men’s sports. Women’s sports are filled with lesbians. Women’s sports are filled with leftists. Who wants to smell sweaty women? These beasts are not feminine. They are not refined. They are not appealing to men or ladies. Oops, I just stumbled on the real answer. Women athletes are not ladies.
They could have focused on the Philippine womens team, which is mostly US citizens. Its the other US team really.
They did quite well this year in spite of a very restricted talent pool, that of good players with Philippine ancestry. They are all mixed race.
To add - the Philippine team is well behaved, respectful, friendly, upbeat and sportsmanlike.
Spot on.. one word.. Rapino. That is the common bond.
Good point. Unfortunately, the other thing they have in common is that they Luzon, and on, and on...
They’ve opnely demonstrated their hatred and contempt for us, then demanded our support.
LOL I see what you did there.
In my opinion Megan Rapino’s awful, terrible, penalty kick was her deliberate attempt to further disrespect our country, the USA. After her deliberate wild kick sailed way over the goal she walked back to her teammates smirking and laughing. IMO Rapino threw the game.
I think Rapinoe knew most of her teammates despised her, and made it clear to her, that she shouldn’t have even been on the team.
Rapinoe and her ilk demonstrate beyond a doubt that there no longer exists a consensus of commonly held decent values to unite Americans. Decent, rational people find Rapinoe and her ilk repulsive. Yet they do not exist in a political, social or cultural vacuum. It is not by fraud alone that Democrats get elected. Sad but decent, rational people are close to being a minority in modern day America.
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