Megan Rapinoe, Liberal ‘Equal Pay’ Activist, Leaves World Cup in Embarrassing Style (Video)

Celebrity athlete misses crucial penalty kick, one of the easiest shots in all of sports

What happened: Megan Rapinoe, the U.S. women’s soccer “star” best known for being an outspoken liberal activist and “equal pay” proponent, missed a crucial penalty kick that would have almost certainly secured her ​team’s victory over lowly Sweden in the FIFA Women’s World Cup on Sunday.

• As a result of Rapinoe’s embarrassing misfire, the U.S. team went on to lose the penalty shootout and suffered their earliest exit from the World Cup in team history.
• Rapinoe, who‍ announced in July that this would be her final World Cup appearance, called it “a sick joke”⁣ that her‍ soccer career would end on a missed penalty kick.

Crucial context: Making a penalty⁢ kick is one⁢ of the easiest things to do in all of sports. (This assumes soccer⁣ qualifies as⁢ a⁢ real sport, a matter of considerable debate.)

Bottom line: If Rapinoe had​ spent more time practicing ‍penalty‍ kicks, and less time whining about politics and “equal pay,” the United States probably would have won the game. Alas, she‌ did not, and thus⁣ ends her career by humiliating herself and her country on the world stage. Happy trails, and good riddance.