Tag: U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team

While most of the country has been celebrating the U.S. Women Soccer team’s World Cup victory, the right-wing has been acting like a bunch of sore losers because of the number of out and outspoken lesbians on the U.S. team. President Trump has complained bitterly about star Megan Rapinoe who said she’d refuse to step foot in the White House. Compounding her offense in the eyes of the right: Rapinoe’s having taking a knee during the national anthem as a...

Posters of soccer star Megan Rapinoe were defaced in New York City with homophobic slurs. The posters in the NYC subway showed Rapinoe in her U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team uniform with the phrase “Dream with us,” meant to celebrate the team’s World Cup victory. Police said that eight posters around the Bryant Park subway station in Manhattan were defaced with homophobic messages on Monday, just days before Rapinoe and her teammates came to New York for a ticker tape parade. “Hate...

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe would beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a new poll. Saying it was responding to “popular demand,” the political research firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked registered voters if they would vote for the captain of the U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team or the former host of The Apprentice. Rapinoe won, 42% to 41%. Not only did she lead her team to victory in the Women’s World Cup, but Rapinoe also won among Democratic voters,...

The U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team defeated the Netherlands in the final round of the Women’s World Cup yesterday, team captain Megan Rapinoe said that their victory had one key ingredient: gays. “Go gays,” she told Yahoo! Sports. “You can’t win a championship without gays on your team. It’s never been done before. Ever. That’s science right there.” The team’s win secured the U.S.’s fourth Women’s World Cup win since the tournament was started in 1991. Rapinoe is gay, and the official...