She was doing fine until her last statement. Some roll model; obviously not concerned about kids.
She was doing fine until her last statement. Some roll model; obviously not concerned about kids.
The team and Megan speak a good game but don't really follow through in it. She speaks about diversity and exclusiveness but she really doesn't mean it. Diversity of thought ? Heaven forbid! There was a black player who was on the team but when she would not wear some kind of Gay Pride shirt - she was not allowed on the team. Being a devout Christian she was uncomfortable with it. Megan and her teammates would have nothing to do with someone like this black player.
TrumpForever wrote:
If she doesn't come to the WH now she's a hypocrite.
You mean if she "goes" to the white house.
There's no reason to go there to see such a moron who's a total jacka$$ to everyone.
Goofball, spend an hour or two reading the comments on HuffPo stories. You're living your entire life in one bubble, so much so that all you can see if the other bubble. Your bubble is just as ugly as the other.
tarckstar wrote:
Then go to foxnews-dot-com, and read the comments readers leave beneath their news stories (which is astounding they allow it, but that again proves my point). The hate expressed there is astounding. The US is essentially Nazi Germany right now, if you really think about it.
Wejo, back away from the pipe.
Embracing!!! wrote:
Shameful That anyone could see consider this a good speech
Its is a supposed to be about the entire nation rally around a sports team that is representing our country that has the flag on their uniforms and yet she can alienate millions of fans by her political elite ism and you consider this good it's embarrassing And shameful and her because complaint have to do with inequality well how do you become equal when you in alienate millions of fans
Once again you are criticizing her past actions and not her speech.
And the "most best" speech thing was an honest mistake. I LOVER her speech despite not being a fan of hers previously.
GoofBallRegistered wrote:
Goofball, spend an hour or two reading the comments on HuffPo stories. You're living your entire life in one bubble, so much so that all you can see if the other bubble. Your bubble is just as ugly as the other.
tarckstar wrote:
Then go to foxnews-dot-com, and read the comments readers leave beneath their news stories (which is astounding they allow it, but that again proves my point). The hate expressed there is astounding. The US is essentially Nazi Germany right now, if you really think about it.
I tend to agree with poster above. A lot of people across the political spectrum live in a bubble. And they rip apart the other side in a sense of moral superiority. Both sides do it.
wejo wrote:
Embracing!!! wrote:
Shameful That anyone could see consider this a good speech
Its is a supposed to be about the entire nation rally around a sports team that is representing our country that has the flag on their uniforms and yet she can alienate millions of fans by her political elite ism and you consider this good it's embarrassing And shameful and her because complaint have to do with inequality well how do you become equal when you in alienate millions of fans
Once again you are criticizing her past actions and not her speech.
And the "most best" speech thing was an honest mistake. I LOVER her speech despite not being a fan of hers previously.
GoofBallRegistered wrote:
Goofball, spend an hour or two reading the comments on HuffPo stories. You're living your entire life in one bubble, so much so that all you can see if the other bubble. Your bubble is just as ugly as the other.
I tend to agree with poster above. A lot of people across the political spectrum live in a bubble. And they rip apart the other side in a sense of moral superiority. Both sides do it.
Did you have to argue with Rojo about starting this thread? I can't see this getting his approval.
Just a reminder wrote:
This thread just a reminder how awful people (men) are in this place.
A thread praising Megan Rapinoe started by a guy who once wrote a piece on here about why he voted for George W Bush is an example of how bad men are? What?
I think you don't like seeing any viewpoints you don't agree with.
RoWhatJo? wrote:
I'd like to point out that Rojo is not without sin in this regard. There is a thread about a rare rogue police officer that seems to have been planted by Rojo (the OP) perhaps to draw out ugly and venomous posts about police officers. Truly ugly and dispiriting posts in that thread mostly.
Which is fine if these forums are truly open for all. Are they truly open for all though?
Hounddogharrier wrote:
There is no question that wejo is the absolute king of troll bait . He brought out the trolls with a vengeance today . The “ most best speech “ was an epic turn of a phrase . I almost ( emphasis almost ) actually believed he liked the speech until I realized it as click bait !
I back the blue. The police aren't the problem in this country. But they need to be held to a very high standard.
I started the thread because I thought it was interesting. I'm not afraid to start threads that might lead to people saying things I don't agree with.
Fair enough and I too back the blue. I enjoy the free for all and genuine free thought seems more available here than many other places on the web. LRC is one of the few places where people are not simply echoing with others in their own bubble. That comes at the price of vitriol and the need for very thick skin. Those who aren't comfortable outside of their own bubbles seem to be the ones who complain the most about LRC. The world needs more places like the current LRC, not less.
rojo wrote:
I back the blue. The police aren't the problem in this country. But they need to be held to a very high standard.
I started the thread because I thought it was interesting. I'm not afraid to start threads that might lead to people saying things I don't agree with.
Megan Rapinoe’s WHAT gave one of the best speeches?
wejo wrote:
I absolutely loved the last 2 minutes of her speech today. Even more impressive it might have been off the cuff.
I feel like the message is what we need to here in this hyper partisan time.
The US soccer team motto is "One Nation, One Team" yet the team may or may not get invited to the White House and may or may not go to the White House if invited. The speech was way more inclusive than any of that rhetoric, but judging from the comments on twitter it may not make much a difference. I still loved it and find it hard to argue with what she said.
Video clip of it first, then I typed of her words and even published as an article.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1148984174801555456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw“I think I’ll just end with this. This is my charge to everyone. We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We got to listen more, and talk less. We got to know this is everybody’s responsibility, every single person here. Every single person who is not here. Every single person who doesn’t want to be here. Every single person who agrees and doesn’t agree. It is our responsibility to make this world a better place. I think this team does an incredible job of taking that on our shoulders and understanding the position that we have and the platform we have within this world.
Yes we play sports. Yes we play soccer. Yes we’re female athletes but we’re so much more than that. You’re so much more than that. You’re more than a fan. You’re more than someone who just supports sport. You’re more than someone who tunes in every four years. You’re someone who walks these streets every single day. You interact with your community every single day. How do you make your community better? How do you make the people around you better? Your family? Your closest friends? The 10 closest people to you? The 20 closest people to you? The most 100 closest people to you? It’s every single person’s responsibility.
There’s been so much contention in these last years. I’ve been a victim of that. I’ve been a perpetrator of that.
With the fight with the federation, (I’m) sorry for some of the things I said, not all of the things.
But it’s time to come together. This conversation is at the next step. We have to collaborate. It’s takes everybody. This is my charge to everybody, ‘Do what you can. Do what you have to do. Step outside of yourself. Be more. Be better. Be bigger than you’ve ever been before. If this team is any representation of what you can be, when you do that please take this as an example. This group is incredible. We took so much on our shoulders to be here today, to celebrate with you today. And we did it with a smile. So do the same for us. Please, I ask you.
New York City, you’re the mother fucking best.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/07/transcript-of-megan-rapinoes-inspiring-speech-its-time-to-come-together-we-have-to-be-better-have-to-love-more-hate-less/original title of thread was a typo: 'Megan Rapinoe's gave one of the most best speeches I've ever heard today at City Hall"
I don't follow soccer, either mens or women's. I'm sure they are all outstanding athletes at that level, just no interest. I also don't watch football, basketball, golf or baseball. I watch hockey once and a while but only when the Bruins are in the playoffs. Every Bruins goal comes with a free jello shot at one of the local watering holes I go to on occasion with my wife. Relative to Ms. Rapinoe, I didn't watch the speech. But from what I have read about some of the comments she made during the tournament and following, and the fact that someone appeared to have disrespected the flag.............I'll make it a point to continue to avoid women's soccer...........at least as long as the makeup of this specific team stays the same. Won't make any difference to them anyway. They had their 15 min of fame.
rojo wrote:
Just a reminder wrote:
This thread just a reminder how awful people (men) are in this place.
A thread praising Megan Rapinoe started by a guy who once wrote a piece on here about why he voted for George W Bush is an example of how bad men are? What?
I think you don't like seeing any viewpoints you don't agree with.
Most of the REPLIES, numbnuts. Are you really this dense?!
GoofBallRegistered wrote:
Goofball, spend an hour or two reading the comments on HuffPo stories. You're living your entire life in one bubble, so much so that all you can see if the other bubble. Your bubble is just as ugly as the other.
tarckstar wrote:
Then go to foxnews-dot-com, and read the comments readers leave beneath their news stories (which is astounding they allow it, but that again proves my point). The hate expressed there is astounding. The US is essentially Nazi Germany right now, if you really think about it.
Point out a Huffington Post website page where I can see comments beneath a news story.
Then also go to foxnews-dot-com (a news site), and scroll beneath ANY news story.
wejo wrote:
Embracing!!! wrote:
Shameful That anyone could see consider this a good speech
Its is a supposed to be about the entire nation rally around a sports team that is representing our country that has the flag on their uniforms and yet she can alienate millions of fans by her political elite ism and you consider this good it's embarrassing And shameful and her because complaint have to do with inequality well how do you become equal when you in alienate millions of fans
Once again you are criticizing her past actions and not her speech.
And the "most best" speech thing was an honest mistake. I LOVER her speech despite not being a fan of hers previously.
GoofBallRegistered wrote:
Goofball, spend an hour or two reading the comments on HuffPo stories. You're living your entire life in one bubble, so much so that all you can see if the other bubble. Your bubble is just as ugly as the other.
I tend to agree with poster above. A lot of people across the political spectrum live in a bubble. And they rip apart the other side in a sense of moral superiority. Both sides do it.
This woman is a hateful, arrogant and nasty woman. And a huge hypocrite. But throwing around f-bombs and trashing Trump makes her a hero to the woke leftists.
So disappointed they won.
wejo wrote:
A lot of people across the political spectrum live in a bubble. And they rip apart the other side in a sense of moral superiority. Both sides do it.
I agree with this generally, but not as a blanket statement.
I am right of center but can be critical of Republicans. I was never a fan of McCain nor Flake.
I used to have no regard for Donna Brazile, but she owned up to her feeding HRC miscue and while i still don’t generally agree with her will acknowledge that the positions she takes are usually pretty well reasoned
Fatty R. Belt Buckle wrote:
Megan Rapinoe has no desire to speak to you.
U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe is a team player. She fights for her sport, defends her teammates, and even carries that mentality off the field and into the political arena — which means that anyone who isn’t on her ideological team isn’t welcome.
After the U.S. women’s soccer team won the World Cup, Rapinoe said she would only meet with politicians who shared her worldview. “Yes to AOC, yes to Nancy Pelosi,” Rapinoe said. “Yes to the bipartisan Congress, yes to Chuck Schumer, yes to anyone else that wants to invite us and have a real, substantive conversation, and that believes in the same things we believe in.”
Of course, President Trump doesn’t make the cut.
"I don’t think anyone on the team has any interest in lending the platform that we’ve worked hard to build and the things that we fight for and the way that we live our life. I don’t think we want that to be co-opted or corrupted by this administration,” Rapinoe told CNN when asked whether she’d accept Trump’s invitation to the White House.
Protesting political ideas is acceptable and even necessary, at times. Certainly, there are issues that demand a bold statement of opposition, even if that means refusing an invitation to the White House.
This isn’t unprecedented or even exclusive to one political party. Several members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins refused to meet with former President Barack Obama in 2013 because they disagreed with his administration. Larry Bird famously skipped the Boston Celtics’ visit to the White House to meet with Ronald Reagan after winning the 1984 title. And on and on.
But Rapinoe’s declaration of exclusivity suggests this is more than just a statement. It’s a deliberate attempt to shut herself off from different opinions and ideologies. This is futile and dangerous. It’s pointless because regardless of how hard we might try to wall ourselves off from ideas we disagree with, it’s impossible to turn around without being confronted by a different set of ideas that challenge our carefully placated worldview. In these polarized times, it’s easy to forget that countless opinions on a variety of minute subjects exist across the nation.
And this is a good thing. We should gladly listen to those we disagree with. Ideas exist to be challenged. Refusing to entertain opposing ideas runs the risk of removing the distinction between the humanity and politics of a person. It creates an indissoluble barrier that prevents you from looking at another human being and seeing anything but the things you dislike. This distinction is imperative if we are to live and work and support each other in a society created and defended by "we the people."
You would think Rapinoe understands this based off of her speech on Wednesday, in which she declared that the only way forward is to “love more, hate less.”
“We’ve got to listen more and talk less,” she said. “We’ve go to know that this is everybody's responsibility, every single person here. Every single person who's not here, every single person who doesn't want to be here. Every single person who agrees and doesn't agree.”
Every single person — unless, of course, that person is Trump. I get it. Rapinoe has her political positions, and she’s committed to them. But committed belief in a certain set of values is best demonstrated by an open willingness to challenge and defend those ideas. I hope Rapinoe’s tribalist declaration was a semantic blunder. Because if we’re only in this for our teams and our ideas, we’ll miss out on the best part of a free society grounded in open dialogue.
It might seem difficult to drop the political guard, but it’s not: I might disagree with Rapinoe’s political opinions, but I’ll gladly cheer for her on the soccer field any day.
Thank you. This is spot on. Oh, and then there’s this:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/49375/us-womens-soccer-team-accused-snubbing-star-player-hank-berrien?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiroIntolerant, disingenuous, whiny, privileged leftists who play a sport that nobody cares about, except every four years, and the purple-people eating monster has the audacity to say let’s come together. She espouses a character of hate. I wonder if they care about the treatment of gays and women in Muslim countries.
I can't believe you have anything of substance to offer after seeing that you said that soccer is a sport that no one cares about. That's laughably false.
whit ou wrote:
I can't believe you have anything of substance to offer after seeing that you said that soccer is a sport that no one cares about. That's laughably false.
Women’s soccer.
Beyond the other comments I've made in this thread, I wanted to mention a few things about this speech.
I love that in this country, people like this can speak however they want. It's not a lot different from how some people use Twitter, if you think about it.
And anyone commenting on the validity of soccer, while holding onto the shared belief around here that anyone actually cares about distance running, can put a sock in it. Soccer is the biggest sport in the world, has been for a long time, and will be even bigger in the future. And if you didn't notice, distance events are no longer as prevalent in track meets, or don't exist at all.
Some are moving forward, others being left behind. Keep that in mind.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year