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Dave Hopkins's avatar

The fact that the U.S. is still hosting this World Cup is basically proof of FIFA’s ongoing corruption and their ability to turn their premiere event into a horror story for nations who aren’t as Caucasian as the host country’s dictator would prefer.

C2 HISTORY MATTERS's avatar

Every team should leave now. This is just embarrassing. Players lives are threatened; referees and fans denied entry; players must leave after every game. They should all boycott now

John Mahoney's avatar

"Fútbol is life!" Just only for some.

Zenon Kuzmyn's avatar

Almost in time to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Gee....

gerkenstein's avatar

You all are just dumb.

anon's avatar

well, the only way to outdo the corruption*economy trend will be to to select china...possibly for 2 cups, if the price is right.

Walter Horn's avatar

Just got Balogun’s (unappealable) suspension dropped. The U.S. doesn’t need to appeal. Just make a call.

James Zackheim's avatar

Dear Garry. I am an entirely committed fan. On your side in politics in East and West. Was on your side vs DeepBlue. Was on your side vs Karpov. And my ELO rating can’t be much past 1000. So who the heck am I to comment. But comment I must.

You rail against the US President. But in this case and almost always the president is the pawn. Or maybe the better analogy is the King. I don’t mean monarch. I mean chess king as in figurehead without real power. With either analogy the question is where is the real power and the real root cause?

The root causes seem to me to be the unelected who are smart and silently pulling strings on policy and an electorate who lack critical thinking skills. I don’t mean only one side lacks these skills. Both do. Both lack the ability to think outside of the box they grew up inside.

So wouldn’t it be more effective to focus on teaching critical thinking in schools and to advocate for policy change so the real decisions makers were out in the light?

I think I wouldn’t mind whether we elected left or right wing people if the election was driven by curious critical thinkers and decisions were really made by the people we elected.

I tried to frame this as applicable regardless of political leanings as I think it applies both ways.

Probably I am just thinking only 1 move ahead and you are already playing a variation of Sicilian.

Kumara Republic's avatar

See also the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Protect the Vote's avatar

As Cheeto Says, "Just Look"

In his first campaign for the presidency in 2016, Cheeto famously said from his psychopathic pulpit, "don't believe what you see, what you read, believe me". In essence believe the fantasy world that I have created for myself and come along on this Alice in Wonderland journey. He uses this fantasy world every time he loses, citing baloney lies as evidence…”just look” and you’ll see the evidence.

Now in his second term the Con Artist in Chief wants a fatigued country to believe that while he has sent the country into decline economically, morally, politically, and spiritually America is so much better off. As Cheeto has said, "all you have to do is look to see how great the country is with me as leader." But WE the People are not buying his fantasy world any longer that WE are being forced to live through such a perverted reality.

Meanwhile he has repulsed our allies, thrown the geopolitical economy into a tailspin with his Netanyahu induced war, bankrupting our country, and even has managed to reign havoc in the FIFA World Cup claiming Americas is lucky to have him as a leader. The Nazi Republicans are responsible for this 4y nightmare and should not be allowed to hold office for the next 20y.

Kat Hughes's avatar

The FIFA F A K E Peace Prize