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Daily Broadside | Woke Scold Leads U.S. Team to Early Exit — and Americans Cheer the Loss

This week is going to be light on posts due to family obligations.

For as long as I can remember, I have been proud of my country and proud of being an American. I don’t know how I “got” it, but from a young age I seem to have had a sense of how great our country was in the history of the world. I remember decorating my banana-seat bike with handmade decorations for the July 4 bicentennial celebration in 1976 and riding up and down the neighborhood street, proud to display my patriotism.

Some of the most moving memories I have are when American teams dominated competitions against other countries, like in the Olympics or in international competitions for a specific sport. For instance, I remember when the American hockey team beat the Russians for the gold in the “Miracle on Ice” at Lake Placid in the 1980 Olympics, one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

Still gives me chills.

The guys on that team were our standard-bearers, the heroes of our country, for being the upstart David against the seasoned Goliath. Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione, Mark Johnson, Rob McClanahan — they did us proud, and we all celebrated with them as they defeated our arch nemesis. I’ll never forget the sheer joy of that moment and the unbridled pride associated with it.

My patriotism has been so consistently strong that recently, while I didn’t actively root against an American team, I found myself cynically hoping that one would lose. Why? Because the team I’m thinking of has been infected with woke nonsense that leads them to stupidly complain from their privileged platform about how terrible America is, while kneeling and refusing to sing the National Anthem.

The perennial top-ranked team in the world and two-time defending champion, which was trying to win a record third cup in a row and an unprecedented fifth overall, was eliminated by Sweden in a pulsating match that needed 120 minutes of play in the field and a record seven rounds of penalty kicks before Sweden prevailed, 5-4.

Sweden, ranked No. 3 in the world, advanced to face Japan in the quarterfinals Friday.

For the U.S. women, it was their earliest exit in the 32-year history of the World Cup, having advanced to at least every semifinals before this distinctly devastating disappointment.

Now, the USWNT is left with many questions about itself and the direction it takes from here.

Good. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of females. The attitude and disrespect for citizens like me (after all, what is a country but its people?) who love this country has soured a lot of us on their team.

Most glorious of all is the karma-like exit for Meghan Rapinoe, the blue-haired lesbian activist (who some say bullied other players into kneeling for the national anthem) leaves the game with an embarassing performance on a clutch play — a penalty kick — that with her experience should have been as natural as tying her boots.

I don’t revel in her humiliation. What I enjoy is that her failure diminishes her stature as an anti-American voice. If she had been the heroine of the game, scoring on that kick and thereby winning the game, she would have been fêted and given a platform from which she could spew her anti-America garbage. This way, she’ll be asked about how it felt to lose the game for the team.

I joke. No one’s going to ask her that.

But they will ask her about the loss and how it felt to choke and the pressure. Any interview she does will be from a position of failure, not success. And while she has had a stellar career that will maintain her credibility, she will always walk under the shadow of going out a loser. And no one cares what you say if you don’t perform.

She humiliated the country with her woke garbage and now she has to live with her own personal humiliation. Not that I expect it will humble her at all.

Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe, who has been accused of poisoning her teammates with her toxic attitude, was lambasted by critics after she missed a crucial penalty kick that resulted in the US team being eliminated from the World Cup and then laughing about it.

Rapinoe, a notorious “woke” scold, was playing in what would be the final game of her illustrious career, and in a defining moment when she could have come through for her teammates and the country, the 38-year-old lesbian not only completely missed the net on the free kick, but was caught by the cameras snickering about it before crying as her defeated team walked off of the playing field in Melbourne, Australia.

A lot of Americans are unhappy with the team. A sampling from X and from the NY Post.

You know what they say. Get woke, go broke.

And good riddance.

If they’re smart, the team recalibrates now that Rapinoe’s gone and they contemplate the “many questions about itself and the direction it takes from here.”

Maybe they can start with love of country.

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Daily Broadside | U.S. Women’s Soccer Loses Again and It’s Glorious

Daily Verse | Isaiah 34:8
For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.

Happy Tuesday, Broadsiders! I’m thinking I’ll finally open that box of Cracker Jack I have from 1974.

Yesterday I wrote about the Olympics that I’m not watching them because I’m tired of the woke-scolds telling me that I’m the source of all their problems and that the country they supposedly represent is the epitome of racism, paternalism, xenophobia and is, in fact, filled with deplorables. And, “while I am not actively cheering for these whiners to lose, I won’t mind if they do, so that they have no platform from which to be an activist.”

Some of the greatest offenders are certain womyn on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team and I’m happy to report that they lost — again! — this time 1-0 to Canada, who hadn’t beaten the U.S. team in 20 years. That loss eliminated the U.S. from a chance at gold or silver, meaning their only hope is for a bronze.

Boo-freakin’-hoo.

That doesn’t mean I’m happy that Canada won. They did it with “the first openly transgender and non-binary athlete,” named Quinn. As in, “Quinn.” That’s it. No other identifier necessary, except for pronouns, which in Quinn’s case are “they/them.”

The Olympic games are dead and will only become deader as more “trans-athletes” are allowed to compete, like New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard. At this point, I’m learning to live without a lot of things that progressivism has killed. My greatest disappointment is that the Olympics are now just another loose thread being pulled out of the common fabric that used to knit our nation together.

Not anymore, it doesn’t.

While reading through Isaiah yesterday I came across a verse that describes the United States of America, even though it wasn’t written with her in mind:

Your rigging hangs loose:
The mast is not held secure,
the sail is not spread.

I often think metaphorically of the U.S. as an 18th century schooner that is adrift on the high seas. You can tell it used to be a beautiful ship. Stately, fine craftsmanship, heavy wood, three masts, impressive sails. But there are leaks in the vessel, the sails are torn and flapping in the wind, the bow is smeared with grime and slime, her anchors are gone and it’s getting harder and harder to navigate as gale-force winds beat down on her. Worst of all, there’s been a mutiny and she’s under control of the onboard mob, who don’t appreciate how she was built or what it takes to sail her. She is truly at risk of running aground and those who know her don’t fully understand the danger and won’t challenge the mutineers for fear of being thrown in the brig or being made to walk the plank. Therefore, sooner or later, all aboard will perish.

Bleak, I know.

But everybody knows what’s causing the Olympics ratings crash, and at least one publication has said it out loud.

Half of the country isn’t proud of America. The other half dislikes the politicization of events like the Olympics. Couple the two, and we have a ratings disaster for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

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On top of that, there’s the political divide, which is now front and center at a world event. Anything that represents America is now controversial. The U.S. flag triggers the Left, while the social stances of some athletes turn off the Right. Thus, almost everyone has lost interest in the Games. American viewers don’t care if their team wins or loses anymore. So fewer and fewer of them are watching.

Told you.

Meghan Rapinoe will leave the team and go make her living modeling or spokesperson-ing Victoria’s Secret underwear, killing that brand, too. Then she’ll fade into the background, like her former teammate Abby Wambach and we won’t hear from her anymore.

One can dream, anyway.