Megan Rapinoe Slammed After Ignoring National Anthem As ‘F You’ To Trump

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  1. Wild Horses

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    You don't stop playing just because you are winning big. They are big girls. They can handle it. Goal differential also plays into tie breakers.
     
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    She sucked in the game with Thailand.

    That's what anger does to your mind. It makes you NOT the best.
     
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    Please. They are grown ups playing a grown up game. Not our fault Thailand has a **** squad. You don't stop playing until the final whistle blows.
     
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    Right i dont see Pros as being able to flip a switch on and off.. They are there to compete..

    Get your ass handed to you in a sport? Get better. Use that as fuel..
     
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    Nobody cares about this and she has been doing it for years. Not everything is a slight on Trump.
     
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    So, Obama didn't make the country equal to all?
     
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    Spare me the lame excuses for their poor sportsmanship. They could have called off the dogs before the score reached 10-0 and no one would have faulted them for it.
     
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    And if they lose a tie breaker later on because of goal differential then what? They could have subbed their entire squad and it still would have been 13-0. Thailand is awful. Calling off the dogs is what pansy's do. We are America, not pansy's.
     
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    Point differentials come into play for tie breakers in the tournament. What if it got down to that and because the US team backed off they didn't win the tie breaker?
     
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    I was actually looking forward to watching some of the later round games.

    But.... I'm out. If someone representing the American team can't stand for our anthem, then the team doesn't deserve this American's support.

    I wish them luck, but I will pass.
     
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    Thanks for reminding us with this classic picture of obama at his finest. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hand-over-heart/
    As far as this soccer player goes, she has more problems in life than not singing.
     
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    Nah. She has every right if she is skilled enough, i just dont have to like her actions.
     
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    She has NO RIGHT. She can try out, she can be accepted and if she is then not going to represent the team and the country be gone, I don't care how good a player she is. If you hate the country you are being allowed to represent then don't.
     
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    Yeah.... the Christian conservative GOP is not really all about free speech when the see things they don't like. Oh,... it's just that close to openly ask for laws against this.
     
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    No right? What law is it that she must follow?
     
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    She loves her country,... just not a lot of the backward fellow citizens that she represents.
     
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    In most sports, when you have an opponent beaten, you apply the brakes a little... I admit I didn't expect that with the "top" 24 teams in the world, but I turned it off after 6.... There's no joy in that, for player, opponent, or fans.....

    And in NO soccer tournament in the world do you need a +13 GD
     
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    Point Differentials only matter in group play and there is no way the US doesn't advance out of their group. Worst Case: Everything else goes as expected (with Sweden putting up a 15-0 on Thailand) then Sweden and the US tie, then the US is the #2 team to move on from the group.

    There next to no risk of GD mattering to the US in the Group Stage... and they certainly know that...
     
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    We can agree to disagree I would leave it up to the team. If they can tolerate her BS I guess I can too it's not like I lose a lot of sleep over women's soccer either way yes I agree it's embarrassing but I've seen worse crap it done by athletes than somebody not putting their hand over their heart.
     
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    I think it is up to us the country, she's representing US, the U.S.A., if she can't stand the U.S.A. then don't join a team representing it for your own personal gain.
     
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    Then it matters to how you get seeded and how the results will be recorded. Unless they take that out then score as many points as you can. In American Football you can backoff because points only matter in THAT game, were they to accumulate be a different matter.
     
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    Who said there was a law?
     
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    I don't think so and don't know what it has to do with here but you would have to ask them not me.
     
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    "Megan Rapinoe Slammed After Ignoring National Anthem As ‘F You’ To Trump"

    How much more assinine can you get? I understand what's-his-name for "taking a knee" because he felt the U.S. is unfair to a large percentage of its population. I also understand that one can feel that political propaganda should STAY OUT of sports. I respect both of those reasons for refusing to salute the Ameican flag. But this bozo-dyke claims (by default) that she loves her country but only that she hates the Democratic processes that put Trump in the White House! In other words, she hates the American people because even if you BS till the cows come home it was the American vote (not the Russians) who voted Donald Trump in the majority. I say issue her a North Korean passport and buy her a one-way ticket to Pyongyang.
     
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