Now you're the little star that you knew you would be, your publicity expanding in direct proportion to the rudeness of your rejection, while the same people who attack him about everything he says treat you like a hero.
https://deadspin.com/megan-rapinoe-cannot-make-this-any-clearer-1835936942
There are countries where women can't walk out of their own homes without being covered from head to toe as if they should be ashamed of being female. There are countries that have assembly lines where the genitals of little girls, even toddlers, are cut apart and sewn together to ensure that they'll be marriageable when they're older. There are countries where girls and women who are raped are then accused of dishonoring their families and murdered by their male relatives. Nobody can make you sing the national anthem of the country which, for all of its faults, for all of the ways in which it falls short, for all of the ways in which its ideals are perverted and misinterpreted and battered, gave you the opportunity to be where you are today. Nobody can stop you from using the right of free speech, which this country protects, to call the President every derogatory thing there is to call someone, while he refrains from answering in kind.
Do I agree with everything that the President does? No. Do I think he has a fantastic track record as the rare, sensitive man of his generation? No.
I'll tell you what, though; he doesn't need anything from you. That's not why he invited you. Maybe you don't appreciate the United States and the invitation you were given, but you could have politely declined and said or written something dignified and thoughtful about why. If you don't respect the man, you can at least respect the office.
I support gay rights and the media knows it. I support gay rights despite having had some instances in which I was mistreated by gay people, which I have never discussed. I am not a racist, and the media knows that, also. Not once, during all of the years that I was subjected to sexual harassment and worse by the conglomerate while the first U.S. President of color wasn't only a bystander but was also a participant, did I turn against black people. I wasn't misled by the conglomerate, which horrifically exploited President Obama's race to portray the abuse of women and children as a civil rights advancement.
It doesn't take much courage to play to a bloodthirsty crowd. You can try defying a President when it's your blood that the crowd wants, and when he throws you to that crowd to cement his own popularity, the way that President Obama did to me in 2010, and when you have subsequently slogged through every agonizing, persecuted day of years of protesting against the dissolution of human rights under an onslaught perpetrated by the pillars of society, only to be faced with the prospect of his Vice President being the frontrunner in another election because the American media can't stop lying, and when you're still being called a dumb, blonde slut despite all evidence to the contrary, then you'll have something to be really angry about.
I'm a DEMOCRAT.
