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I have thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup. I have loved cheering for the US team. Then that fucker intervened. Yes, the red card was excessive, but I would rather lose because of it than win because Imbecile called FIFA. The joy is gone. Now weβre the bad guys. He destroys everything.
I remember when Trump first ran for president and the ballot came in the mail. The Republican party, in the short bio that came with the ballot listed Trump's only life accomplishment was that he wrote The Art of The Deal. He did not do the only life accomplishment they listed. Trump = Loser
The photos from occupied Crimea tell the story better than any briefing: handwritten signs taped to glass doors saying "NO POWER - SHOP CLOSED" while the same owners try to pretend life continues. Burger joints, banks, grocery stores all grinding to a halt because the basics are running out.
At this point, and with Trump calling some corrupt ahole at FIFA to revert a red card, why not giving the American team the worldcup outright without them winning anything? Or better yet: Why not handing it directly to Trump? We all know he wants it. I know why I don't like soccer.
Ethnic cleansing: Israel is destroying the empty homes of people who voluntarily evacuated in Lebanon. 600,000 of them now have no home to return to at all. A total of over 3 million - half of the population of the nation - are now living in tents in Beirut after external rendition by the IDF.
The Art of The Deal's original publisher, former Random House head Howard Kaminsky, publicly corroborated the hired ghost writer Schwartz's account, famously stating that Trump "didn't write a postcard for us!" Not only did he not write the book, he has never read the book.
The fire at the Omsk Refinery in Russia is intensifying after the Ukrainian drone strike. The Omsk Refinery is Russiaβs largest refinery by volume of oil processing. The plant is located approximately 2,500 kilometers (1,553 mi) from the border with Ukraine.
Trump: "The girls are working to work, the young guys are walking to work, the older guys if they can walk they walk, half of them can't walk because they've made too much money. A lot of these guys here can't walk, but they're rich as hell. I wish I'd get a call from the Governor of Illinois."
I don't watch the shit anyway, but on principal: Makes no sense to root for anyone anymore if it takes just one phonecalls from Mr.Shitshispants to reverse decisions. If it's not fair and independent, it's not fair and independent. And that means: No need to watch a - wait for it - "rigged" game.
Here's Trump doing communism for the rich again, using the power of the government to promote megacorporations like Dell that don't need more money, while the rugged capitalist "free market" which is a draconian neoslavery, antimeritocracy system makes the poor poorer and the sick sicker, by design.
How much did investors lose on Trumps crypto coin? Nearly 1 million investors lost a combined $3.81 billion on Donald Trump's meme coin. Trump's scammers set it up so he took a little piece of every transaction leading to over $1 billion skimmed off the top.
Assuming the Americans win the World Cup: There will always be the assumption they didn't deserve the win because of the meddling by Trump. Always. At this point: Use your clicker (a Florida term we used back when I was still in Miami Beach) and watch something else.
While the allegations against Graham Platner are troubling and serious, I don't want to hear them from pro-Israel, pro-AIPAC establishment Democrat Ken Martin who was completely silent on Eric Swalwell and others and now sees an opportunity to "pin the tail" of Platner on other progressives.
Sky News: Yeah, it was a soft red card. So what? The last time this happened (red card over turned) was 1962. If #Balogun plays for #USA, any win will be tainted, forever. This is corruption on another scale. Trump called #Infantino 3x. #WorldCup #USARedCard
Trump: "The only thing we have a hard time stopping is a crime of passion, do you know what that is, anybody, this is a group that probably knows something about crimes of passion, these crimes of passion we can't do much about, it's just one of those things. Washington is way down."
Funny how things can seem entirely as they aren't in real time. It's damned near impossible to not be consumed. You can't tell how wide the river while swimming in it. Our perspective is highly flawed. Those in the future, not consumed, will clearly see trump mentally ill and we negligent.
Itβs not just America with racism problems. Australia didnβt elect a non-white person to their parliament until the 1970s. The UK was statistically all white (>98%) as recently as 1980. The other English speaking countries were more βAnglos onlyβ than the US in the pre-1960-ish era.
One more sleeper flip: South Carolina. Lindsey Graham only won by 200,000 votes in 2020. If less than half of the people who voted against him in the primary don't vote for him in November, and the electoral environment is significantly bluer than 2020, then South Carolina gets a Democrat.
I keep saying: On a micromanagment level, you can exclude the MAGA fascists from your life. The reason why that's a viable way to deal with this is: You are under no obligation to let fascism enter your orbit. They are not entitled having access to you. Let 'em cry about it. youtu.be/GlBg-LrTi20
This may be true, but Europe overall has critical thinking skills the US has been suppressing. Also, Europe is still richer than most of the world, it is just that it costs more to live here and 1% or less of our population is obscenely wealthy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-6Q...