Life for Rapinoe will go on

 

Twitter Flooded with Megan Rapinoe Memes, Jokes after Soccer Star Scores Goal in World Cup Quarterfinal (newsweek.com)

Laughing after missing a PK that effectively eliminated your country from the World Cup is certainly a choice

Is Megan Rapinoe the most unlikable American Athlete of all time? pic.twitter.com/v2Bj1NO1q3

— Nick Perkins (@NPerkins96) August 6, 2023

Insufferable Soccer Women Will Have to Be Embarrassing at Home – PJ Media ..." Rapinoe is a poisonous woman who spends a significant amount of time complaining about the country that she represents on the national team. She’s an egomaniacal ingrate and, sadly, her antics rubbed off on some of her teammates. Earlier in this tournament, my HotAir colleague Karen Townsend wrote about the fact that may of the women on the team weren’t singing the National Anthem:

We’ve seen this show before – the USWNST wins a spot in World Cup competition and then the team embarrasses at least half of America for their behavior while overseas. It’s obnoxious enough for the far-left progressive members of the team to make political points at home, it’s worse when they do it overseas. They are too young and naive to understand the meaning of leaving politics at the water’s edge. Progressives don’t care about that kind of thing. Democrats from Joe Biden on down the line go overseas and freely criticize their opponents in a lame attempt to puff themselves up.

The reason we leave politics at the water’s edge – or used to do that – is because it is a sign of national strength to show a united front. Leftists don’t care about that anymore. This attitude seeps into other areas, including sports competitions. We’ve seen athletes make statements by kneeling during the national anthem. Some refuse to leave the locker room until the national anthem is finished playing.

"Rapinoe and her ilk not only don’t care if they’re bringing shame on loyal Americans while representing the U.S. in foreign lands, but they also seem to revel in it. They’re playing to the leftists who embrace commie nonsense from Academia." . . .

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com) • Donald Trump flew from his golf club in New Jersey to Washington Thursday to plead innocent to the latest round of charges brought against him by against in federal court. His legal jeopardy is clear. If Donald Trump is convicted on all counts he could get four-to-eight years as Governor of Illinois.

• Kamala Harris declared economic victory Friday but then added most people are a four hundred dollar expense away from bankruptcy. It's why the nation gets nervous whenever Biden goes cycling on vacation. That twenty-nine dollar helmet is the only thing between the American people and Kamala.

• NBC News aired video of President Biden racing around Delaware on his bicycle well ahead of his Secret Service detail while on vacation Wednesday, but Joe was careful to wear his protective helmet. Millions of 2024 voters have just one question. What is the helmet even protecting at this point?

• Barack Obama told President Biden at their lunch Thursday that Donald Trump was going to be a formidable challenge to Democrats in 2024. Later that day, Biden put in an urgent call to the leader of Australia. To get enough jurors for all the court cases against Trump, we'll have to import kangaroos.

• Donald Trump stood before a federal magistrate in New York Thursday and pleaded not guilty to all four charges relating to his reaction refuting the posted results of the 2020 election. Apparently it's now a federal crime to say out loud in public that you've been cheated. It left Hillary Clinton speechless.

• ABC News deceptively edited Trump's speech on January 6th urging protestors to demonstrate peacefully and patriotically to make it look like he was inciting a riot. It could have been worse. ABC is owned by Disney which has plenty of voice-over actors available to dub Trump's speech into German.

• Barack Obama dropped by Joe Biden's beach house for lunch Thursday and said he'll do all he can on the campaign trail and in media to re-elect Joe in 2024. The president couldn't contain his glee. After the lunch Biden ran out to the beach and told Jill he was just endorsed by Denzel Washington.

• President Biden hailed good economic news Friday as proof that Bidenomics is working. Biden promised even more action when six hundred billion dollars of his Infrastructure Bill money kicks in. Politicians are people who, when they see the light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy more tunnel.

• Hunter Biden's partner Devon Archer's transcribed revelations were released on Thursday, confirming Joe Biden met in person at a dinner with Hunter and his overseas business investors in 2015. Democrats called his affidavit Russian disinformation. That was in honor of Throwback Thursday.

• Donald Trump ripped the urban squalor he saw in Washington, D.C., Thursday and he mentioned it in post-arraignment remarks, noting that Mexico just warned its citizens that D.C. is too dangerous to visit due to drug gang violence. That's what we always say about them. We are now Mexico's Mexicans.

• The FBI reports a spike in L.A. home burglaries is leaving suburban residents reluctant to leave their homes for fear of being ransacked. One summer in college, I sold home security alarms door-to-door, and I became very good at it. If no one was home, I'd just leave a brochure on the kitchen table.

• The White House was presented with demands from the Oakland NAACP to do something and clamp down on the nationwide violence epidemic. The FBI just announced a crackdown on capital crimes. Next week the Justice Department plans to indict Donald Trump for the murder of Elvis Presley.

• Donald Trump was arraigned in Washington Thursday on charges of doubting the 2020 election results. MSNBC pundits called it the biggest threat to our democracy since 9-11, Watergate and the Civil War. Pearl Harbor and O.J. were added when the mail-in threats to our democracy were counted.

• Donald Trump's judge on his January 6th case is a female Obama-appointed judge who used to work in Hunter Biden's law firm. I guess Hillary was unavailable. If he's jailed for contempt they have Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards on speed dial so he maybe should stop wearing those long neckties.

• President Biden risks impeachment inquiry after Hunter's business partners refuted Joe's claim he knew nothing of Hunter's business deals. Joe just can't win. For 50 years, everyone in D.C. has said Joe Biden doesn't know anything and when he finally says he didn't know anything nobody believes him.

• Hunter Biden's partner Devon Archer gave a transcribed interview to a House Republican and Democrat about Hunter, Joe and foreign business deals. The Democrat reported that Archer said that Joe only discussed the weather with Hunter's clients. They all raved about how Hunter can make it rain.

• The White House refused comment Wednesday on e-mails which showed that the administration pressured Facebook to squelch any FB posts that doubted the Covid vaccine's safety and effectiveness. People in L.A. are still taking precautions. Just today I saw a guy vaccinate himself behind the bus station.

• Just Stop Oil protestors delayed traffic in Europe by super-gluing themselves to freeways and airport runways Friday. The public is furious at them. Police in England asked a man who witnessed five men attacking a climate protestor why he didn't help, and the man said he thought five was enough.

• The Denver Post reported a new church in Denver has opened called the International Church of Cannabis where the congregation smokes marijuana in their worship ritual. The congregation's favorite hymn is Amazing Grass. Toward the end of each service holy communion is served by Taco Bell.

• HBO's Bill Maher criticized big cities that are overwhelming local services by taking in so many illegal immigrants under their titles of being a Sanctuary City. The illegals are reportedly drug dealing, carjacking, robbing and hooking on street corners. The good news is, they've yet to break any local laws.

Black Grievance Politics Is Destroying Civilization

 American Greatness

Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect.

 "Arguably, the greatest indictment of leftism is its preference for the vagrant and the criminal over the law-abiding citizen and victim. In politics, there are all kinds of disagreements about the role and scope of the state, but the one thing the state must do is protect the innocent.

"Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect. Yet racial idolaters on the Left have pushed society to forgo basic expectations of public order and civilized conduct. Demanding anything more than day-to-day chaos would be cruel to “marginalized” people like deranged homeless black men on the subway.

"The Left has a warped infatuation with society’s most entitled, recalcitrant, and destructive elements. Their latest martyr is a lunatic named Jordan Neely, who was killed while threatening commuters in Manhattan on Monday morning. The man, portrayed by sympathetic media as a “Michael Jackson impersonator,” was throwing garbage at people and making vaguely threatening statements about his willingness to go to prison for life. A reasonable person would feel afraid in this situation, as passengers doubtless did. A heroic vigilante intervened and put Neely in a chokehold. Two other men helped restrain Neely, who later died. 

"Seldom is the line between civilization and savagery drawn so clearly as it was in Jordan Neely’s subway car. The Left has demonized the vigilante for his “barbaric” supposed “lynching,” but this gets it precisely backward. Barbarism on the subway is a daily occurrence; it is part of the atmosphere. Barbarism is forcing commuters to fear for their lives and property on a Monday morning. It’s what you call it when vagrants shove people to their deaths in front of moving trains, and all the state can do is shrug." . . .

Megan Rapinoe CHOKES For USWNT

 Woke US Women's Soccer Team LOSES, Get ELIMINATED From World Cup!

From the comments to this post:

"As a long time US football (yes, football) fan, I could not be happier today. I had not watched any of the games because of the hateful see you next Tuesday’s attitude during the national anthem. However, Jason Whitlock convinced me to “hate watch” and root for Sweden. I am so glad I did. It was so rewarding. Best part, as Sweden celebrated, they played Abba in the stadium!"

U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher fruitlessly argued she had saved Hurtig's attempt, but it was ruled over the line by VAR. The stadium played Abba's “Dancing Queen” in the stadium as the Swedes celebrated and the U.S. players sobbed.

Our first experience seeing the womens soccer team in 2019: 

US team criticized for celebrating during Women's World Cup win over Thailand (today.com)

"Some claimed Team USA showed a lack of class for celebrating goals deep into its 13-0 rout of Thailand.   "So many people calling the US Women classless because they celebrated their goals. How about Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd going over to comfort some of the Thailand players immediately after the final whistle? That's class," someone else wrote." . . .

If God does not exist, then where does America end up?

Members of that illustrious group Antifa feel free to riot, destroy, and set fire to any city where their idea of justice is violated. Contrast this with the J6 Americans, some of whom were arrested via SWAT teams in the early morning hours, overcharged with ridiculous crimes, and denied bail for over two years for simply walking around the Capitol taking touristy photos.

 Wendy V. Gallagher - American Thinker   "Are you really surprised at the cultural rot currently assaulting our American way of life?  If you subscribe to a transcendent morality, you shouldn't be, because it is evident that America has become godless.

"In The Brothers Karamazov, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky outlined that without the existence of God, there is no standard of good, no objective truth, and thus everything is permitted.  Our Founders understood that for a republic to flourish, it must have a foundational standard of truth and justice — not a theocracy, but a form of government shaped by the idea that there is a holy God, a Divine Providence, who demands fealty to basic biblical truth and morality.  That standard of ordered liberty, those unalienable rights endowed by Nature's God, were set forth in the Declaration and the Constitution for a "moral people."  Because we are abandoning every shred of Ten Commandments decency, and genuflecting to the almighty god of tolerance, the "everything is permitted" part is destroying our American way of life.

"Consider our public education system.  Educators and school boards advocate for sexual materials and pornography in our schools, and they indoctrinate and confuse the most vulnerable members of our society, our children.  Yes, this is a slippery slope.  Since everything is permitted, our children are now encouraged to question their own sex.  And don't stop at questioning; you may be a female (recall XX chromosomes), but if you think and feel you may be a male, go ahead and "transition" with "gender affirming care," which includes hormones and "top surgery"!  Parents, either wrest control of your school boards, or get your kids out of the public school system." . . .

Rachel Zegler’s Contempt for Snow White Reflects a Culture That’s Forgotten Fairy Tales -

 But Zegler and Gadot are merely parroting modern talking points about stories that have been with us for centuries. Stories that have stayed with us for centuries. Because they mean something to us. Because they matter. 

‘Snow White’ Goes Snow Woke (dailysignal.com)

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "It’s no longer 1937.” This seems to be Rachel Zegler’s catchphrase when speaking about her role as Snow White in the upcoming live-action remake of Disney’s first animated feature film. She says it with contempt. With raised eyebrows and an eye roll.

"The original film is “extremely dated,” Zegler adds, in a recently resurfaced video from the 2022 D23 Expo. It leaves no room for “women being in roles of power” and is incredibly limited in its depiction of “what a woman is fit for in the world.” In other words, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is trash — horribly outdated and unforgivably anti-feminist. Good thing film historian and fairy tale scholar Rachel Zegler is here to set us straight.

"Zegler, of course, is not a fairy tale scholar, nor is she a film historian — which is a relief. But she is an actress who has been hired to play a role, and, apparently, the entirety of her research into her character’s history can be boiled down to one insightful comment: “It’s no longer 1937.” Thank you for that, Ms. Zegler. We’ll adjust our calendars accordingly.

" 'Sadly, Zegler’s apparent ignorance is common. We, as a culture, have forgotten how to read fairy tales. What’s more, we’ve forgotten that the original Disney princess movies were based on them. It may not be 1937 — the year in which Walt Disney’s groundbreaking film was released — but (shocker!) Disney didn’t write the story of Snow White. It exists within the canon of Western fairy tales made popular by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 and, later in the century, by the likes of Hans Christian Andersen and George MacDonald.

"Fairy tales, we used to understand, are not meant to be taken literally. They are allegories, filled with symbolic elements that weave a metaphorical tapestry to impart universal truths. A dark forest represents inner turmoil, a mirror always reflects the truth, outer beauty is a stand-in for inner goodness, and so on. (You can read much more on this here.) Viewed this way, Snow White — Zegler would be shocked to learn — is a uniquely female story. It’s about women’s bodies and the changes that bring them into adulthood." . . .

A History of Hollywoodland and its Storybook Style Homes

 A History of Hollywoodland & Its Storybook Style Homes (theeastsideagent.com)

"An early enclave of Storybook Style exists right here in the heart of Los Angeles. The neighborhood of Hollywoodland began in 1923 when two developers purchased 500 acres of land nestled at the foot of Mt. Lee, just above the town of Hollywood. This was way back when before any houses dotted the hillside and the land was simply covered with oak trees, holly bushes, greasewood, and poppies. Ferns grew under the trees and there were natural springs where visitors would get their water. The developers laid out winding streets with steep hillside building lots ranging in price from $2,500 to $55,000. Imagine buying a hillside lot in that price range today! Here the developers planned to build a gated community of homes for the “movie people” who were just coming to prominence.

"To advertise their housing development, the Hollywood sign was erected. We, of course, all know the sign today but back in 1923 there were four more letters: L-A-N-D. The 13 letters were illuminated at night by 4,000 incandescent bulbs meant to shine so brightly they could be seen by all of Los Angeles below to build interest in the real estate development.

"Whatever happened to the sign’s final four letters? Well, LA legend has it that the in the late 1940s a landslide took out the L-A-N-D letters. While a fun story, sorry to say, that is not the case. In fact, only one of the sign’s letters collapsed in the 1940s: the H. Because by this time the sign was not being used to advertise real estate, it had fallen into disrepair. In January 1949 the city’s Recreation and Parks Commission ordered the sign demolished. But after the city council overruled the apparently unsentimental park commissioners, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce offered to restore the H if it could drop the L-A-N-D. Although the sign’s appearance has evolved over the years, its basic aspirational message remains the same: This is a place where magic is possible, where dreams can come true." . . . More...

Biden Goes Off-Script After His Speech — It’s WORSE Than You Could Imagine

 America Insider   "President Joe Biden delivered a speech during the signing ceremony of a proclamation to establish the “Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument” in Illinois and Mississippi.

"At the end of the speech, Biden went off-script and it didn’t go well.

"“Before I say even more what’s on my mind, I’m now gonna leave this podium,” Biden said. The video quickly went viral on social media as people mocked Biden’s apparent mental decline." . . .

“What a speech… Epic in its brilliance,” one person commented sarcastically. “So sharp, witty and funny,” another person said mockingly.

“ 'Before I lie even more, Im going to walk away,” another person said.

"President Biden is accused of lying during the speech by suggesting he participated in the Civil Rights movement.

"Biden talking about his time as a public defender. “It was a lesson I learned coming out of — not like real leaders in the civil rights movement — but when I came out of the civil rights movement as a kid as a public defender.” Biden said.

"Biden was a public defender for a brief time. After significant research, BuzzFeed found that Biden defended a cow thief in Delaware.

"A poll from NBC found that the majority of Americans (68%) believe Biden does not have the mental and physical health to serve as president.

"The poll also found that a staggering 43 percent of Democrats believe Biden is not mentally and physically healthy to serve as president.

"This concern among Democrats has doubled since 2020. Prior to 2020, just one in five Democrats were concerned about Biden’s mental acuity.

"NBC found that 89% of Republicans agree that Biden does not have the cognitive or physicial abilities to be president.

"Biden will be 82 years old in 2024 and claims he will seek re-election as the nominee of the Democratic Party. Given Biden’s long history of physical and mental struggles, it remains unclear whether the Democrat Party will rally behind him and win the White House."

Democrats love to lie and cover up for lies because they only care about power

It seems to me we discuss CNN so much, deservedly so, but forget the anger and vitriol gushing forth from MSNBC:  witness the racial anger-distorted face of Joy Reid, the brazen distortions from "mostly peaceful" and honest Ali Velshi to name only two. TD 

Why? Mr. Velshi.

 Jack Hellner - American Thinker   "Representative Dan Goldman now says, despite all Biden's lies that he never talked with Hunter or anyone else about Hunter's business deals, that yes, Biden did talk to the businesspeople, but only to be nice, about things like the weather.  What pure BS:

Goldman, though, rushed to the cameras to start moving goalposts and making excuses. Goldman said that yes, Hunter might have put his father on the phone with business partners, but that the words exchanged were just "niceties" and that "there wasn't a single conversation about any of the business dealings that Hunter had."

"That is similar to Loretta Lynch lying, when the Justice Department was doing its pretend investigation of Hillary, that her chance meeting with Bill was when he came to say hello and talk to her about his grandkids and vacation.

On Monday night, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton were both at the Phoenix airport, waiting on the tarmac. Lynch said that Clinton then walked to her plane, uninvited, to say hi. "He did come over and say hello," she said at a news conference on Wednesday, "and speak to my husband and myself, and talk about his grandchildren and his travels and things like that."

"And Chuck Todd, along with most of the media, continues to pretend there was no evidence against Joe.  This from the same people who lied continuously about Trump and Russian collusion when it was obvious it was fake news."  more at the link.

Tucker Carlson interviews Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer

 "From the comments to this interview: "Wow, Tucker has an amazing talent in getting answers from people who really don't want to implicate themselves. The way he stated the questions without being confrontational and got him to admit what we have all suspected about joe biden was masterful. I look forward to seeing the rest of the interview.' "

"Great interview. Archer appears a little guarded but reveals a reality that Joe's thanks letter to him, is very odd unless you understand he's grateful because Archers and his son's business involvement will ultimately and financially benefit Joe. This blows a hole in the assertion, that Joe never was involved in any business activity whatsoever. Archer knows more than he's willing to admit."

"The good thing about Tucker doing this interview it covers mainstream media who is not covering this at all. It is well known that the same amount or even more watch Tucker and plus mainstream media will be forced to watch this as well. I like how Tucker is using his "Tucknacity" on Archer. Smart move Tucker"

Don Surber's Highlights of the week

 Don Surber

"ITEM 7: Instapundit reported, “Anheuser-Busch lost a staggering $390 MILLION in second quarter after Bud Light’s sales to retailers plunged 14% after brand’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Figures show that their total US revenue declined by 10.5% in the April-to-June period from a year earlier.”

"This is as I predicted from Day One. Mister Mulvaney ruined the brand by exposing the company’s hatred of its customers. The new customers the company seeks are drinking hard lemonade and smoking pot. They will never drink beer — or Bud Light."

"ITEM 8: Life Site News reported, “Canadian health officials asked an Ontario woman to donate organs of her husband who died after being denied an organ transplant because he did not receive the COVID-19 shots.”

"It is just the government’s way of laughing at you to your face.

"ITEM 16: The Daily Mail reported, “An indigenous transgender woman has slammed Canada’s healthcare system for rejecting her euthanasia request despite the pain she endures from a surgically built vagina.

" 'In social media posts, Lois Cardinal, a self-proclaimed ‘sterilized First Nations post-op transsexual’ said regret over her medical transition led her to apply for a lethal injection in January.”

"Considering the poor choices he/she/it has made, maybe the doctors know best."

"ITEM 13: CNN reported, “Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are people in costume.”

Breitbart Media reported, “CNN buried the story Tuesday of Devon Archer’s explosive testimony at the House Oversight Committee the day before, which implicated President Joe Biden in his son Hunter’s influence-peddling schemes and suggested the president lied to the country.”

"Red China lying is breaking news on CNN because Biden lying is his default setting."

ITEM 27: Fox reported, “New York, California lost more tax income than every other state as people fled liberal enclaves.”

. . . for Florida, Texas, Tennessee and other places that have no state income tax.". . .

More here at Don Surber (substack.com)

Anything Democrats Don’t Like Is Now A ‘Threat To Democracy’ –

The next time some politician starts blathering on about “threats to democracy,” take a moment to remind them that we, thankfully, don’t live in a democracy. We live in a constitutional republic.  

 Issues & Insights   "When a handful of Democrats introduced a bill to impose a progressive wealth tax on millionaires and billionaires, they didn’t just say that income inequality was bad. They called it a threat to democracy. Apparently, anything and everything the left doesn’t like is now a threat to democracy.

"Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Barbara Lee, Summer Lee, and Jamaal Bowman – four of the most far-left lawmakers in Congress – introduced the OLIGARCH Act (we won’t bother spelling out the acronym) to “tax extreme wealth, reduce inequality, and combat the threat to democracy posed by billionaires.”

" 'The bill ensures accountability and is an effort to restore democracy,” the press release states.

"Tlaib says “billionaires are threatening our democracy.” Not to be outdone, Barbara Lee calls them a “major threat to democracy.”

"How exactly do the rich threaten Democracy?

"Summer Lee claims that “the 400 richest Americans have 22,000 times the political influence of the bottom 90%” – citing the conclusion of one research paper published 14 years ago.  

"Morris Pearl, chairman of the Patriotic Millionaires, which backs this bill, insists that “without decisive action, this vicious cycle of concentrated power and money will dismantle our system of democratic capitalism, and with it, our way of life.”

"Their solution is to impose an entirely new wealth tax, starting at 2% and climbing to 8%, on anyone who has a net wealth of more than $140 million." . . .