{"id":1993284,"date":"2023-08-07T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheering-the-defeat-of-the-u-s-womens-soccer-team-is-the-american-thing-to-do\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:29:34","slug":"cheering-the-defeat-of-the-u-s-womens-soccer-team-is-the-american-thing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheering-the-defeat-of-the-u-s-womens-soccer-team-is-the-american-thing-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating U.S. Women&#8217;s Soccer Team&#8217;s Loss: An American Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcheering-the-defeat-of-the-u-s-womens-soccer-team-is-the-american-thing-to-do%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993284&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Poetic Justice: Megan Rapinoe&#8217;s Humiliating Defeat<\/h2>\n<p>Next to the dictionary definition of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-4-business-moguls-cheering-for-the-little-guys-in-the-gamestop-fiasco\/\" title=\"The 4 Business Moguls Cheering For \u2018The Little Guys\u2019 In The GameStop Fiasco\">poetic justice<\/a>\u201d should be a picture of Megan Rapinoe\u2019s humiliated little face \u2063after \u200bwhiffing \u2063a penalty kick that helped seal the fate of the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2063a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dlYmIGcNgvQ&#038;ab_channel=FOXSoccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shootout<\/a> that ended the game 5-4, \u200dSweden defeated the U.S. Women\u2019s National Team (USWNT), sending them packing \u2062from the World Cup. Of course, \u2063the \u200bblue-and-yellow-clad fans and players were ecstatic. But the next most excited\u2063 observers were actually Americans \u2014 specifically the ones who, you know, like America.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe\u2019s fan club \u2014 which \u2063includes corporate\u200c media, LGBT advocates, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/1688263486097244161?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stans<\/a> in the \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1688221394411073536?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White \u2063House<\/a>, among <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mdelrossi1\/status\/1688320812107878400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">others<\/a> \u2014 has been busy heaping praise on the team and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/conservatives-celebrate-us-womens-soccer-loss_n_64d0066ee4b0560dda03c168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointing\u2062 the finger<\/a> at those unpatriotic conservatives who aren\u2019t devastated \u2063by the loss \u2063and took things \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/06\/us-womens-soccer-world-cup-defeat-celebrated-go-woke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a\u2062 step too far<\/a>.\u201d But here\u2019s\u2064 the thing: If you don\u2019t claim allegiance to\u2064 America when you win, don\u2019t expect Americans to give a\u200c hoot when you lose.<\/p>\n<h3>A Lack of Patriotism<\/h3>\n<p>Save\u2063 for the few\u2064 patriotic players\u2063 who will hopefully rebuild \u2064the USWNT\u2019s legacy and \u2063define its attitude in the future, the women\u2019s team is a proud \u2062collection \u2063of ingrates who have been defined by their disdain for the very \u200dcountry that emblazons their jerseys.\u200c Their\u200d lack of patriotism is so overt it\u2019s\u200b become a theme throughout this\u2062 World\u200b Cup. \u200cWhen \u200bthe anthems of other countries play, the opposing teams zealously belt out the words in unmistakable allegiance. Each time\u200d the \u201cStar-Spangled \u2064Banner\u201d plays before match-ups, \u200bmost of the U.S. athletes follow the lead of their blue-haired ring \u200dleader and refuse \u200bto sing along or \u200bplace their hands over their hearts\u2064 in quiet defiance of the country that gave them everything.<\/p>\n<p>Less quiet has\u2062 been Megan\u200c \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/05\/28\/unlike-jaelene-hinkle-soccer-star-megan-rapinoe-uses-soccer-push-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Walking \u2062Protest<\/a>\u201d Rapinoe\u2019s years-long and \u200boutspoken hatred\u2062 of America and its values. In 2019, she <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/megan-rapinoe-is-a-walking-protest-162416461.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a>,\u200d \u201cI\u2019ll probably never put my\u200d hand over my heart.\u2062 \u201cI\u2019ll probably never sing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uswnt-vs-vietnam-notice-the-major-difference-between-the-two-national-anthems\/\" title=\"USWNT vs. Vietnam: Spot the Anthem Contrast\">national\u2063 anthem<\/a> again.\u201d Stunning and brave.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was she one of the\u2064 first athletes \u200bto embrace anthem kneeling alongside Colin Kaepernick, but she also is a loud LGBT \u2064activist and\u200c proponent of letting men who claim\u2063 to be \u2063women dominate female sports. Real female \u200cleaders\u200c find ways to boost the girls that follow in their footsteps, \u2064but not\u2064 Rapinoe. She\u2019d rather throw\u200b them to\u2064 the testosterone-jacked wolves.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easier to welcome \u2063men into women\u2019s spaces, I suppose, when \u2063you\u2019ve already got your trophies and millions and have one foot out the door. Rapinoe\u2019s fairer-sex forbears blazed an epic trail for their American female progeny to walk. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-kansas-soccer-star-dead-at-25-husband-arrested-on-1-million-bond\/\" title=\"Former Kansas Soccer Star Dead At 25, Husband Arrested On  Million Bond\">soccer star\u2019<\/a>s legacy? Doing her darndest to turn \u200cevery future\u2063 women\u2019s World Cup into a battle\u2062 of \u2062the\u200c bulge.<\/p>\n<p>Not \u200beveryone is into soccer \u2014 or Olympic ice dancing\u200b or synchronized swimming or BMX biking \u2014 but you\u2019d\u200c best believe that when U.S. athletes are representing the \u2063greatest country on\u2064 Earth on the world stage,\u200b every \u200dgood American pulls for \u2062a \u201cW\u201d or a gold. It shouldn\u2019t be\u2064 pleasurable for spectators to watch\u2062 the USWNT\u200b make a historically\u200b early exit.<\/p>\n<p>But as Fox and Friends co-host Will Cain \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willcain\/status\/1688181968414859264?s=46&#038;t=-seKhO7SkgawSK_V6kDq-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201c[T]his team came to be defined by arrogant celebrity activists who went\u2062 out of their way to \u200dexhibit shame in the US, begin the \u2063process of destroying their own sport (advocating for men to play women\u2019s sports) and curry victimization\u200d with false narratives about equal\u2063 pay. Nobody made it harder to root for them than the USWNT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Women\u2019s National Team has only two jobs: Score\u200d goals\u200b to win \u2062games, and proudly represent the great US of A. They haven\u2019t \u2064been delivering on the latter, and they just blew the former.\u200c So yeah, \u200dnot having to endure another anti-American \u200banthem \u200dschtick from \u2064a losing team is something to clap about.<\/p>\n<p>USWNT diehards and dedicated leftists can spin \u200call day to make\u2062 conservatives the bad guys here, but Rapinoe\u2019s detractors didn\u2019t fire the first shot in this dumb culture war. That\u2019s on her and her self-satisfied teammates.\u2064 Perhaps this pathetic\u200b display in \u2063front of the whole freaking world \u200dwill be \u200ba lesson to the up-and-comers\u200b who think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheering-the-defeat-of-the-u-s-womens-soccer-team-is-the-american-thing-to-do\/\" title=\"Celebrating U.S. Women's Soccer Team's Loss: An American Tradition\">emulating petty social\u200d justice \u200cwarriors<\/a>\u200d is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Play stupid political\u200c games, win\u200b stupid political prizes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Kylee Griswold\u2064 is the editorial director \u2063of \u200dThe Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor \u2064for the Washington Examiner magazine and as\u200d an editor and\u200b producer at \u200cNational Geographic. She holds a \u200bB.S. in \u200bCommunication Arts\/Speech and\u200c an\u2064 A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-we-wouldnt-have-such-a-censorship-problem-if-more-journalists-did-their-job\/\" title=\"Grassley: We Wouldn\u2019t Have Such a Censorship Problem \u2018If More Journalists Did Their Job\u2019\">topics including feminism<\/a> and gender issues, religion, and the media. Follow her\u200d on Twitter \u200d <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dictionary&#8217;s &#8220;poetic justice&#8221; entry should feature Megan Rapinoe&#8217;s humiliated expression after missing a penalty kick, sealing the fate of the US women&#8217;s soccer team. Sweden&#8217;s 5-4 shootout victory sent the USWNT packing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":1993285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}