Women's work

Megan Rapinoe is as right as a cold beer on a hot day. Why would she go to the White House if the U.S. women win the World Cup again, given that the guy who lives there now is aggressively hostile to everything she not only believes, but is?

So, no, she ain't goin'. And likely a lot of her teammates won't, either. And good for them. Because no matter what the clueless say, everything about these White House visits is political to this whining man-child for whom everything is political, and who can't let any perceived slight go without weighing in like a butt-hurt 8-year-old.

Our Only Available President did just that, predictably, after Rapinoe said what she said, and it was as juvenile and incoherent as always. Some blab about how she was disrespecting the country and the flag (The flag!) by refusing to give political cover to an unapologetic misogynist.

I know. I couldn't follow it, either. Who can if you have an ounce of adult perspective?

In any case, Our Only Available President taking on Rapinoe is an unfair fight because the former is so clearly out of his depth. Rapinoe is smarter, tougher, and doesn't give a rip what OOAP thinks. One wishes more of OOAP's political adversaries were the same.

Besides, she's way better at finding the back of the net.

She did it twice more yesterday as the USWNT knocked out France, 2-1, which means the aggregate score for the USWNT's last two matches is Rapinoe 4, Spain and France 2. That she and the Americans did it with a big assist from the referees should not diminish that.

And, yes, they did get a big assist from the referees, in both matches. Against Spain, an extremely sketchy foul in the box on Rose Lavelle, who sold it like Meryl Streep, enabled Rapinoe to score the game-winner on a penalty kick. And, yesterday, an obvious hand ball that would have given France a shot at the tying goal went uncalled.

But, hey. Nobody ever won these deals without being lucky as well as good.

And now it's on to the semis against England, just in time for Fourth of July week. It's the Ungrateful Colonials vs. the Haughty Empire -- just the scenario that cries out for an unapologetically independent soul like Rapinoe to play the hero again.

Big Macs at the White House await, no doubt. Not that she cares, or should.