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Ryan Lentz's avatar

Karma is all knowing and everyone should have seen this coming. As JVL says everything trump touches dies.

Anthony Helms's avatar

I’m no soccer fan but this whole fiasco makes me embarrassed to even try and watch. These athletes shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed for playing their asses off but unfortunately they likely are because of the fuckhead in office. I bet the US men’s hockey team felt the same way when Patel involved himself. Anything MAGA touches turns to shit like the anti-Midas Touch.

DrStrangelove's avatar

Head-up-the-ass maga types have no idea they've dipped themselves in shit, again. trump knew that his actions would embarrass and dispirit the American team and massively motivate the Belgians. In other words, he was actually setting up the Americans to lose. The US played flat, made some astonishing mistakes while the Belgian team played like their hair was fire.

Weak, frightened and cowardly trump has historically been bitterly envious and disparaging of actual men like athletes and soldiers. In 1918 during the first World War US Marines fought a critical battle at the Belleau Wood in France. Their action was to counter the German spring offensive of that year. The Marines fought so fiercely and effectively that they were praised by the Germans and the battle helped establish the Corps as a legendary and devastating fighting force. In less than a month US forces suffered almost 10,000 causalities, 1/5th of American losses in Vietnam over 10 years.

When visiting the site in 2018 trump refused to visit the US Marine graves, saying “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

Brian's avatar

Actually, did Turnip just opened up a new avenue of grift??!! Why can't he threaten the NFL or a NFL manager if a play doesn't go his way? Its the Super Bowl and Turnip demands a blue city team bench its quarterback or the owner gets an IRS tax audit??

Brian's avatar

Wow!! The only good thing about Turnip is he forced me to leave the Republican a long time ago. Gee, I remember when "conservatives" cared about the rules, fair play, and winning the right way. I guess the new motto is "Cheat to Win" or even better cheat to get their butt kicked by an even smaller country than most of our states. 🙄

Aaron's avatar

If being a soccer fan is gay, I don’t want to be straight!

Jerry Fletcher's avatar

Yes, nothing speaks to these alpha males’ sense of raw heterosexual power quite like the sight of their leader doing a jerk off dance to YMCA.

Brian's avatar

It is so embarrassing. So like the fake tough guy at the end of the bar who was going to kick your butt if only he hadn't hurt his hand yesterday.

Craig Tonjes's avatar

As soon as Trump muddled, we were destined to lose. Like everything else he touches, it guarantees failure. Fuck you Dinald!

David Bindelglass's avatar

No shock that Portnoy, a disciple and devotee of famous U of M cheater Connor Stallion would be in favor of Trump's meddling..

Alice Taylor's avatar

"And Vince Dao, a MAGA commenter, took the defeat particularly poorly. 'Soccer is gay and retarded again,' he posted. In fact, a lot of conservatives decided after the match that soccer was, well, gay."

That's really what the free speech for me but not thee is all about: the 'freedom' to throw around the R-word on Twitter. And Musk and MAGA encourage it because it's fun to derogate others, especially if you're absolutely sure they are less intelligent than you. They need it, to feel superior, though it's obvious to all that they are just bullies of limited vocabulary.

I hope to hear back from one Vince Dao when he and his spouse start debating their kids' sports choices. Will he call his kids the R-word?

james l gardner's avatar

Will Sommer standing up with the truth, thanks

Lisa French's avatar

So much for “free speech absolutism”. The video is blocked on X and isn’t very easy to find unless you go to outlets outside of the US.

rlritt's avatar

Banned?! What snowflakes.

eric achenbach's avatar

'... popular MAGA memester “End Wokeness”' ... written by 'an account operator' ...

it's actually possible for trump's mouthpieces to be that anonymous? how do they get rich if they can't be famous? i understand fox, but i don't understand a lot of the ways the white house speaks to us ...

Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D.'s avatar

"We’re less than TWO MONTHS AWAY from the REAL football season," according to Nick Sortor.

I'm not from Alabama, I only live here. But I can tell you for a certainty that in this state, and for much of the Southeast, "real football" is NCAA Division I, and its season is 12 months long.

Carol Gamm's avatar

Ironically, Balogun’s parents are immigrants from Nigeria. They are precisely the people who Trump, his tame Justice Department and his followers want to keep out of America. The US team is young. They will learn, and will be back at the next World Cup.

David James's avatar

American Football is just ruined Rugby, with forward passes allowed alongside the imbecilically dangerous practice of allowing players other than the ball carrier to be tackled, which is why the players must be togged-up like crash test dummies (but with lower IQ's). Then we have Baseball, which is practically indistinguishable from Rounders - a sport played exclusively in Britain by pre-menstrual schoolgirls - Nuff Said! :-) :-) :-)