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Women’s World Cup Open Thread: Captain Rapinoe, Huzzah!

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[SPOILERS]: Per the Washington Post:

This was a spectacle of women’s soccer, a capacity crowd in a famous stadium roaring as a reigning champion and an overdue contender collided in one of the most anticipated Women’s World Cup matches in history.

It lived up to its billing, and more. And when 90 exhausting minutes expired, the United States remained in contention for a fourth championship by edging France, 2-1, in a riveting quarterfinal before 45,595 at Parc des Princes.

Megan Rapinoe — the focal point of attention on the field by her exploits and off it for her outspoken opinions on politics, race and gender equality — scored twice for the second consecutive match as the Americans advanced to play England on Tuesday in Lyon…

Been a busy week for Ms. Rapinoe…

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    Yutsano

    Rapinoe seems bound and determined to win this championship all by herself. In more than one sense.

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    Uncle Omar

    You can bet that Comrade Trumpov will claim that he inspired the USWNT to victory with his tweets.

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    smintheus

    @Yutsano: It might help if her team mates would pass the frickin ball to Tobin Heath once in a while instead of always going to the left flank.

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    HAL

    Trump attacking a private citizen for not liking or criticizing him should be far more scandalous to conservatives than someone saying fucking, but oh well. Anything for their master.

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    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Many people say, if France had Bernie on their team, they would have won.

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    TriassicSands

    Saying “no” to a White House invitation would be the right thing, but the idea of a unified women’s soccer team showing up at the WH wearing F-MAGA tee shirts and openly calling Trump a racist, misogynistic rapist* sounds pretty appealing. Also, they could all squirm to avoid being touched by the Rapist-in-Chief. Once they had adequately disrespected the monumental POS they could walk out without sharing a meal or giving Trump a chance to exploit them. I’d hope for the single most disgraceful treatment of a president in history. And it still wouldn’t be enough.

    Better to just stay away — and make it clear why.

    *The list of appropriate negative adjectives or nouns is simply too long. Everyone probably has their own favorites. Child abuser? Grifter? So little time, such a POS.

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    Groucho48

    I get so nervous about the election, but, I see things like this and it reassures me that women, black and white and all the colors of the rainbow, will save us.

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    SFAW

    How long before the Traitor-in-Chief actively, LOUDLY roots against the WNT?

    Or has he done so already, and I missed it?

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    Terraformer

    Amazing woman and a great role model. More power to you, Rapinoe, and the USWNT!

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