{"id":1994126,"date":"2023-08-08T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-trails-megan-rapinoe-liberal-equal-pay-activist-exits-final-world-cup-in-humiliating-fashion-video\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:59:46","slug":"happy-trails-megan-rapinoe-liberal-equal-pay-activist-exits-final-world-cup-in-humiliating-fashion-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-trails-megan-rapinoe-liberal-equal-pay-activist-exits-final-world-cup-in-humiliating-fashion-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rapinoe, Liberal &#8216;Equal Pay&#8217; Activist, Leaves World Cup in Embarrassing Style (Video)"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fhappy-trails-megan-rapinoe-liberal-equal-pay-activist-exits-final-world-cup-in-humiliating-fashion-video%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=1994126&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<blockquote>\n<h2>Celebrity athlete misses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/equal-pain-us-women-eliminated-from-world-cup-after-anthem-protest\/\" title=\"US Women's World Cup Run Ends After Anthem Protest\">crucial penalty kick<\/a>, one of the easiest shots in all of sports<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\">\n  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Megan Rapinoe, the U.S. women&#8217;s soccer &#8220;star&#8221; best known for being an outspoken liberal activist and &#8220;equal pay&#8221; proponent, missed a crucial penalty kick that would have almost certainly secured her \u200bteam&#8217;s victory over lowly Sweden in the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a result of Rapinoe&#8217;s embarrassing misfire, the U.S. team went on to lose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-rejecting-take-a-knee-doesnt-make-you-responsible-for-racism\/\" title=\"OPINION: Rejecting \u2018Take A Knee\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Make You Responsible For Racism\">penalty shootout<\/a> and suffered their earliest exit from the World Cup in team history.<\/li>\n<li>Rapinoe, who\u200d announced in July that this would be her final World Cup appearance, called it &#8220;a sick joke&#8221;\u2063 that her\u200d soccer career would end on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/silencing-voices-lebron-james-company-blasts-olympics-over-rule-banning-medal-stand-protests\/\" title=\"\u2018Silencing Voices\u2019: LeBron James\u2019 Company Blasts Olympics Over Rule Banning Medal Stand Protests\">missed penalty kick<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Crucial context<\/strong>: Making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-women-suffer-earliest-world-cup-elimination-ever-as-rapinoe-misses-penalty-kick\/\" title=\"US women's World Cup journey ends prematurely as Rapinoe fails penalty kick.\">penalty\u2062 kick<\/a> is one\u2062 of the easiest things to do in all of sports. (This assumes soccer\u2063 qualifies as\u2062 a\u2062 real sport, a matter of considerable debate.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line<\/strong>: If Rapinoe had\u200b spent more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-trails-megan-rapinoe-liberal-equal-pay-activist-exits-final-world-cup-in-humiliating-fashion-video\/\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe, Liberal 'Equal Pay' Activist, Leaves World Cup in Embarrassing Style (Video)\">time practicing \u200dpenalty\u200d kicks<\/a>, and less time whining about politics and &#8220;equal pay,&#8221; the United States probably would have won the game. Alas, she\u200c did not, and thus\u2063 ends her career by humiliating herself and her country on the world stage. Happy trails, and good riddance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity athlete Megan Rapinoe, known for her activism and advocacy for equal pay, missed a crucial penalty kick against Sweden. 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