Perhaps if they spent a little more energy on soccer skills, and a little less energy attempting to be the woke champions of US sport, the outcome may have been different. Alas, there’s a great number of Americans who shrug because USA women’s national soccer has evolved into a political assembly who happen to play soccer. The team’s egotistical, arrogant, pompous and virtue-signaling attitude is a considerable turn-off.
This is the same team that wears ‘Black Lives Matter’ on their uniforms, and kneels instead of stands for the U.S. national anthem to showcase to the world just how woke they are. Team Captain Ms. Rapinoe refuses to sing the U.S. national anthem; kneels during ceremonies to make her hatred for America visible; and grabs every microphone to tell the media about her politics in an effort to increase her woke resistance credentials.
Team USA soccer loses in the first round of the Olympics to Sweden. Meh, it’s a headline because, well, karma or something.
TOKYO (AP) — Sweden didn’t have to bunker down on defense against the Americans this time. Stina Blackstenius scored a pair of goals and the Swedes stunned the United States at the Olympics with a 3-0 victory Wednesday in the women’s soccer tournament.
The Americans, ranked No. 1 in the world and the favorites to win gold in Tokyo, were riding a 44-match unbeaten streak heading into the match. But Sweden, ranked No. 5, has been the U.S. team’s nemesis of sorts in recent years. The Swedes bounced the Americans from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games in the quarterfinals, the earliest U.S. Olympic exit ever, by making a defensive stand. (read more)
They were already losers. Sweden just verified the obvious.
Wait until 2024 when the transgenders attack!!
Yeah, maybe the US womyn’s soccer team can recruit a couple of gender dysphoric males to even up the score.
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With their embrace of wokeness, they all deserve to be replaced by men who think they’re women.
Isn’t it ironic, they got exactly what they wanted: Biden but it’s still it good enough and they have to take a knee.
Efff their perpetual grievances!!!
oh yes… because you won’t know what hit you!
44 games in row without a loss. Couldn’t make it to 45. Trump curse strikes again.
Country of 350 million with huge resources beating up on much poorer countries with much smaller populations..without nationalism, where is the moral justification for this?
OMG I didn’t even realize that. That is hysterical! KARMA
The mother of my three children is an Olympic Gold Medal Winner. Then again she competed against both men and women so this is personal for me.
I wish they has lost 20-0
Transgender team from Iraq for the gold in 2024
From the woke sports department, I hope NFL ratings continue to tank with their “black national anthem” stunt. We are one America!
Oh, sheeple being sheeple they will continue to throw their support behind woke pro sports. Who are we kidding here?
President Trump and his family risked their hard-earned fortune, sacrificing their liberty and their privileged lives in service to the free world, attempting to thwart the Great Reset. But God forbid the sheeple break a fingernail to change a channel or boycott a ‘woke’ product?
I’m beginning to understand Revelations now. How many chances do you suppose we’ll get to become decent, God-loving human beings?
Times already up…Revelation is already happening. Look up???
Who gives a crap!
Glad it was the Swedes…the country that didn’t do the crazy lockdowns
Not even one Burka in sight! How did the former politically correct capitol of the world pull that one off?
And Real Women Too!!
More countries will beat them. A defeat early on is hard to overcome and like Sundance noted, there heart is not in the game. The country is not behind them,
Well said!!
Yes! Imagine that! The Swedes not only shook off Covid like a boss, they totally owned these ‘nasty women’ American soccer pukes. Good for them! Well done, Sweden!
This loss falls squarely on the shoulders of Ms. Rapinoe. She has lead the team down a dead end of woke politics.
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Isn’t she waaaay past her prime?
Reminds me of Billie Jean attempts against the younger, stronger, tennis players . . .
I’m not so sure Ms Rapinoe’s pronouns are ‘she, her.’
She is offended for being called Ms
Better Thing Rapinoe
Lets get real here. She did not lead any of them, they are adults and made their decision. The three standing, are the real leaders.Scott
Hey, go tell Me-Again Rapin’Ho to make me a sammich! ???
If we are going to defund the police, lets also defund the Olympics. Let these leftists self fund themselves in all their training and all other costs associated with attending the Olympics.
Alynsky Rule: force your enemy to live up to their rhetoric. If you hate the country, prove it by rejecting all financing from the country.
Frankly, I am willing to see the US walk away with 0 medals in exchange for zero taxpayer support.
I agree, and especially if they are going to play games and exclude fans. There is ZERO reason for that.
Why don’t we just have virtual reality olympics and call it a day. MUCH cheaper. 😉
Soccer is a third world sport that anyone with two legs can play.
Congratulations to the Swedish team
You really have no clue, do you?
Please refer to this site’s posting guidelines. Your post is not only ignorant but it adds NO value to the conversation.
None whatsover.
Posting guidelines also say it ain’t nice to call a long time poster ignorant
Technically, tonyE called the post ignorant, not the poster.
My mistake I realized I should have been more precise. Thanks for your kind attention.
Yes, for the most part. Your statement was carefully worded to be mostly true. Of course it is not just”anyone”, but anyone with a normal modicum of physical coordination and stamina.
And “anyone” can also play baseball, football, tennis, hockey, lacrosse, etc.
But while anyone can PLAY the sport, only a very small minority of players will develop world class skill levels and be able to compete at professional and Olympic levels.
Give them a “woke” Coke to wash down that P|MP SLAP!
Thank you Sweden!
How’s that smack down feel Rapinhoe?
Didnt even know they were playing something until now. Wait, the Olympics started? Who Cares!
Finally . . . some good news for a change!
Sweet news.
Nothing better than seeing someone get their just desserts!
It’s pretty screwed up when the antics of the left makes you cheer the loss of your national team in international competition.
“If it ain’t broken, fix it until it is”
They can still win Gold but I don’t like them. Happy to see Sweden win this game.
Our flag is our symbol of unity. And if, as it appears, some of the team members do not believe in this, or do not believe in our nation, or are looking to advance their own careers in the world of woke, then it follows that team building becomes difficult.
A team divided against itself can’t stand.
Nicely pun ctuated.
And here we all thought these useless degrees would lead to useless careers… oh yeah… I guess we were right!
But one thing about our flag we should not forget and not take for granted. The US flag isn’t just our flag, but it’s the flag of freedom in the eyes of everyone who loves or desires freedom. This is why in countries around the world, when they are protesting for freedom, they fly the US flag.
Three in front of my house. Triple freedom.
Well this will sell a lot of slutty underwear for Victoria’s Secret.
No, it will sell “comfortable” garments… they are inverting their target and product selection. “practical clothing can be sexy!” right?
Any team that supports BLM should advocate for salary equity. Everyone gets the same pay regardless of talent or experience. Can you see the reaction if the NFL, NBA, and MLB all paid their players a living wage of $15 per hour? But the the owners would also have to forfeit all property and right to stare ownership. Go all in or go home.
Anybody who took national pride in the fact that our lesbians were better than their lesbians needed to have their head examined in the first place. Long before they went full Marxist.
There are women’s sports that require grace and ability (figure skating, gymnastics) and are to be admired. Soccer, hockey, basketball, softball, etc. are not among them.
The team made a documentary demanding equal pay. It was released last month.
Oh, the snark that wells up inside oneself when viewing the trailer.
Oh the irony……HBO Max special drapes them in flags, USA chants, patriotism……………
I don’t know the specifics about the pay issue, but I would assume that the main difference would come down to how many tickets do you sell versus the men’s team
That would be capitalism. What the players want is “equity”.
Losers.
They can have equity when they perform the same level of work.
Currently though, they are not worth more than the 15 year old boys team who beat them.
Exactamundo.
Well stated.
The Olympics used to be for “amateur” athletes only. If you got paid for your sport you were out. Athletes tended to be younger then because the time to put away the sport stuff came when you had to support yourself.
What’s soccer?
I call it kickball, it’s a big deal to some people, but it’s not a sport to me.
I’m glad that I never paid attention to kickball. It’s just another ruined political sport now.
yep
‘transgenders’ in female sports are what used to be referred to as
… wait for it …
“East German doping”
just sayin’
Wait, women play soccer?
sorta
Karma is correct!
Wanna bet Child Sex Trafficker Joe invites them to the White House anyway?
Nah, they are too old for him.
I am an American and I’m rooting for the Swedes. I can’t stand that purple haired #$&@.
Lets give our team to Sweden. We won’t miss them a bit.
I probably wouldn’t watch even if the USA had sent a team.
From the picture it looks like only 3 of the women belong on the team any way. If they don’t support or believe in the USA why are they allowed to be on any USA team? Or if they don’t believe in the USA why do they even WANT to be on the team? just more hypocrisy that all.
The Olympics are obsolete. There is no reason to have them. ?
When the Cold War ended, every possible justification, rationalization for the Olympics ended.
Every sport now has a world championship and the Olympics. Exactly why?
World records in track and field are set at various track meets, never at the Olympics.
The NBA players need the Olympics? The NHL players need the Olympics? The best tennis players need the Olympics, not Wimbledon? On and on.
The Olympics is just another exercise in transferring wealth from the middle-class to the rich.
??? Awwwwww, too bad. Well now they have more time to model for Victoria’s Secret. At least the unattractive ones that don’t have a social life. Can’t wait for that catalog. ?
Who?
3-0
That’s a BIG difference.
I mean, Ronaldo is a primadonna, but if someone passes him the ball near the goal he becomes a phenomenal scoring machine. So, as much as I hate Real Madrid and Ronaldo ( I’m a Barça fan for life ) I gotta him the honors.
And you know what? Ronaldo, with all of his skills, stays out of politics. He doesn’t byte the hand that feeds him.
Because of that, Ronaldo is rich. I mean, teams would still hire him because of his immense skill, but he keeps it clean.
Same for the like of Leo, etc…
Being an American, I really hope this soccer team gets bounced….they are cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
Maybe Mexico will bounce them out?
Equal pay for lousy performance. Yay!!!! Oh, wait….
Minnesota Senator Gene McCarthy said politics was like football – you have to be smart enough to play the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
If America is such a bad place, then why are these women willing to represent America at the Olympics? Why does the Olympics even matter?
The rebirth of the Olympics in the late 19th century was a manifestly fascist idea to bring together the children of the high-born, who would someday soon be deciding the future of the world. That’s why they demanded amateurism – only the idle rich were welcome.
With World War II looming, the Olympics became an intensely nationalistic exercise – Jesse Owens. So why are these international socialist, globalist women happily participating in an event that is anathema to all they claim to believe?
Soccer games are a dime a dozen. And without the flags and anthems, the Olympics becomes just another football kick-around.
Karma baby!!!
Another sport ruined by woke politics. Started with the NFL, MLB, etc wearing pink accessories/ bats on the field.
I used to sit in Wrigley Field and watch a ballgame with friends or family.
Now I can’t imagine doing that again. They’ve been ruining sports for years.
“pink accessories”
Does the Olympics give Participation Medals? Asking for a commie near you.
My grandfather grew up on a hard-scrabble farm, and struggled through the Depression. He had no interest in any sport, and he thought the whole concept of adults playing games was madness. He only understood hard work.
That world will return, and soon.
I tend to agree, that day is coming soon and people are going to be shocked.
May be a preview of how our woke military will perform when put to the test.
Wait a sec…..I thought the International Olympic Committee banned any political displays during the two-week competition? How do they have “Black Lives Matter” on their warm-up jackets?
The Olympic committee walked it back. OK now to be a bad sport and a woke idiot at the Olympics.
shows you the God laffs at us from time to time…when he s not crying over our actions
that
I’ve cancelled out watching sports that have become over woke. The olympics was one of the first to illustrate how ungrateful to be Americans these mostly young atheletes are. I sure hope Victoria’s Secret got their money’s worth.
Hard to find a sport of late that has *not* been affected by UN-American antics. I watched the NY Islanders hockey playoffs for a while, just to hear their fans belt out the Star Spangled Banner. But that’s about it.
Really hard not to feel that an apocalyptic moment is coming soon.
The salaries of TV people seem utterly separated from reality.
The CW (a fringe TV network) just recorded ratings of 0.0 (Bluto Blutarsky #s) for some recent programming. In other words, within the margin of error, no one was watching a national network.
How long can the Corporatist monolith maintain this hoax, this pretense?
It’s a sad time for our Country and I never, ever, thought I would be glad to see an American team lose a game in the Olympics. That said, I agree with all you have said about our women’s soccer team, Sundance. Yes, they should have spent more time practicing than shunning their country.
Eastender:
They reject you. They reject your mutual bond of nationalism. They must, likewise, be rejected.
Exactly why should any of us care about their fate? To be consistent with their logic, we can cheer for the Swedish team. I like hot Scandinavian chicks, so why not?
In the end, there is no reason for caring. It’s called nihilism, and it is the ultimate value system of Megan Rapinoe.
They are no longer a team. They are infested with haters who are incapable of working together as a team. Winners would play for the team, the USA team, as a team.
Oh too bad … Who’s next the Chairman Xi all-stars? Forget kneeling – they will have to beg permission to even take the field … and lose 9-0 per the Dominion scoreboard.
Demoralization WORKS!!!
GOODBYE: “on the box of wheaties”
HELLO: “box of weepies!”
Sorry to sound unAmerican, but, I am thrilled that this “woke” group had their butts kicked.
The saddest part of this mess is that there are Pro American Patriots on Team USA.
As usual it is the trash that gets the media attention. Many of us refuse to watch because of the woke athletes, the woke olympic organizers and the woke media.
I do empathize with those that are athletes and Americans first. Just not enough to watch.
Bummer.
Anti-Americans counting on Pro-Americans to keep them going. Parasites.
God’s justice
All we ever have to do is just wait for it!
Trying to see from God’s point of view . . . .
“Held in honor of the father of the ancient Greek gods, Zeus, written records show that the Olympics first took place in 776 BC and were celebrated for more than 1,000 years, until the Emperor of Byzantium, Theodosius I, suppressed the Games as a pagan spectacle, since they were dedicated to Zeus.” — greekreporter.com
Woke: The result of using one’s privilege to promote undermining the source of that privilege.
Sounds like the definition of an ungrateful teenager.
Karma for sure! You sow what you reap!