We All Wanted To Love The Women's Soccer Team

[Ubiquitous]

For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever
the sport, I have always rooted American. But if those who called into my
radio show were representative of my audience, many millions of Americans
made the same sad choice.

It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But Megan
Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players made it
possible.

The U.S. women's team disgraced itself. Either its members were cowed into
submission by Rapinoe or they agreed (or, at least, never disagreed) with her
attacks on the president, her reference to the White House as the "f—-ing
White House," her refusal since 2016 to participate in the national anthem
and her repeatedly shouting during the team's parade in New York City, "New
York, you're the motherf—-ing best!"

For example, Rapinoe said, "Every member of the team that I have talked to
would not go" to the White House.

Rapinoe is a great soccer player. Other than that, she is unimpressive. She
comes across as arrogant, a fool and a lowlife.

Why a fool? Because she thinks she has something important to say to the
American people and that we need to hear it because she is a great soccer
player. She is not alone in this conceit. Tom Steyer and other billionaires
think the same thing about themselves: that because they are better at making
money than almost everybody, they must be wiser than almost everybody.

People who excel in one thing are tempted to think they are smart about
everything, but that is almost never the case. There is no reason at all to
assume that people who excel in anything (other than wisdom) are wiser than
anybody else. And here's the kicker (no pun intended): People who think they
are wise because they excel at something unrelated to wisdom are fools.

And why is Rapinoe a lowlife? What would you label any adult who constantly
used the F-word in public (especially during events when children are
expected to be present or watching)? Or does being a star — like the foul-
mouthed Robert De Niro — make you less of a lowlife?

The American women's soccer team is unified in protesting on behalf of "equal
pay for equal work." They regard their team as a perfect example because its
members receive less money than members of the U.S. men's soccer team —
despite the fact that the women have a much better record.

But there is a reason the male players earn more. Among other things — such
as the women's team's vote for financial security in the form of guaranteed
salaries rather than revenue share — men's soccer generates far more money
than women's soccer.

According to the Los Angeles Times: FIFA's "2018 financial report said it
earned revenue of $5.357 billion from the men's tournament in Russia. ...
Forbes estimated the Women's World Cup will generate about $131 million for
the four-year cycle ending in 2022."

So, unless people should be paid according to gender (which they now are in
Norway) rather than according to revenue and profits, male soccer players
will earn more money than female soccer players.

There are only two ways to equitably ensure male and female players earn the
same amount of money. One is to pool all the money earned by both teams and
then distribute an equal amount to all the players, men and women. The other
is to end sex-based teams: Men and women compete to play on one team
(composed of both men and women), and any woman who makes the team is
guaranteed the same income as any man on the team.

Until then, the women's soccer team and the left want to have their cake and
eat it, too. (Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, for example, tweeted this non
sequitur: "Here's an idea: If you win 13-0 — the most goals for a single game
in World Cup history — you should be paid at least equally to the men's
team.") They want women to have their own soccer teams — because biology has
made it impossible for almost any woman to successfully compete with men in
sports — yet earn the same amount as men do. But the reality is more people
will watch men play soccer, just as more people watch major league baseball
than minor league baseball — which is why major league baseball players earn
more money than minor league players. But if we applied the equal-pay-for-
equal-work principle to baseball, minor league and major league players would
be paid the same amount.

With their politicization of their victory, their expletive-filled speech and
their publicly expressed contempt for half their fellow citizens, the women
of the U.S. women's soccer team succeeded in endearing themselves to
America's left. But they earned the rest of the country's disdain, which is
sad. We really wanted to love the team.

What we have here is yet another example of perhaps the most important fact
in the contemporary world: Everything the left touches, it ruins.

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[BeamMeUpScotty]

Liberals are so stupid that they snatched defeat from the jaws of
victory.... They could have won gracefully and instead made it ugly and
contoured.

They aren't winners, sure they won the game but they themselves and
their chosen life styles aren't the winning one. Thy chose to be
Liberals and embrace the HATE and that's a losing strategy. They're self
destructive, you see ity even in their winning the game they lost the
admiration of the people that make it all possible, the FANS.

This is who they are.....




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That's Karma

[Siri Cruise]

In article <n00alk$q77$1...@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever

Colin Kapernick?

> It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But Megan
> Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players made it
> possible.

How dare a woman have or express an opinion!

What is it with wingnuts and their terror of independent women? Do you really
think their vaginas have teeth?

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[BeamMeUpScotty]

On 7/22/19 2:14 PM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> In article<n00alk$q77$1...@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous<web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever
> Colin Kapernick?
>
>> It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But Megan
>> Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players made it
>> possible.
> How dare a woman have or express an opinion!

Opinions are fine but be careful what you wish for, because opinions can
embraces or rejected.

The fact they have an opinion that was rejected by so many is just the
chance you take when you decide your opinion should be everyone's opinion.

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[BeamMeUpScotty]

On 7/22/19 2:14 PM, Siri Cruise wrote:

> In article<n00alk$q77$1...@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous<web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever
> Colin Kapernick?
>
>> It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But Megan
>> Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players made it
>> possible.
> How dare a woman have or express an opinion!

Opinions are fine but be careful what you wish for, because opinions can

be embraced or rejected.

[Siri Cruise]

In article <THpZE.154640$i84....@fx34.iad>,

Dixie Chicks also terrified you.

[NoBody]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:29:54 -0700, Siri Cruise <chine...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>In article <THpZE.154640$i84....@fx34.iad>,
> BeamMeUpScotty <NOT-...@idiocracy.gov> wrote:
>
>> On 7/22/19 2:14 PM, Siri Cruise wrote:
>> > In article<n00alk$q77$1...@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous<web...@polaris.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team.
>> >> Whatever
>> > Colin Kapernick?
>> >
>> >> It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But
>> >> Megan
>> >> Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players made it
>> >> possible.
>> > How dare a woman have or express an opinion!
>>
>> Opinions are fine but be careful what you wish for, because opinions can
>> be embraced or rejected.
>>
>> The fact they have an opinion that was rejected by so many is just the
>> chance you take when you decide your opinion should be everyone's opinion.
>
>Dixie Chicks also terrified you.

You mistake laughter for fear.

[BeamMeUpScotty]

NO... but they did have stupid opinions that offended a lot of people,
you could tell by their drop to the bottom of the popularity charts.



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[Ubiquitous]

chine...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

>> For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever
>
>Colin Kapernick?

He was not playing for America on an international team.

>> It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But
>> Megan Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players
>> made it possible.
>
>How dare a woman have or express an opinion!

Strawman noted. get back to us when you have a real argument to make.