We need a high ranking Native American to speak out and put Stephen Miller in his place about exactly what being “nativist” is really about. I don’t know who it would be but Count Dracula needs to be put in his place in an embarrassing manner. There’s someone out there that could do this in an awesome manner. I am sooooo sick of that guy’s 💩…
I still call Miller Colonel Klink due to his remarkable resemblance to the actor, Werner Klemperer. Of course Klink was a parody, and Klemperer, a refugee immigrant from Nazi Germany, agreed to play him only if the Klink figure were the wrongheaded rube and boob that he was, as a criticism of the extremist movement. Sadly, Miller is all too real, and his legacy will run far deeper than a TV sitcom as long as he has only one person he needs to please with his agenda and how he presents it.
Personally I’ve always thought Miller looks more like Heydrich. Got the same dead behind the eyes expression in every photograph.
Though possibly my view is due to them having similar roles as the officials in charge of ethnic cleansing in their respective regimes (note: I’m face blind so my opinion on this kind of thing might not mean much). Having just done a Google image search on Eichmann I can definitely where you’re coming from.
Maybe the bigger point is that all Nazis look the same.
I always thought I'd look different in my reincarnation. But this slimy worm is proof we'll just have a different name, but be essentially the reincarnated person in personality. He is definitely a bunch of those guys, come back to torture us. He always reminds me of Goebbels, the sweetest of them all.
Bill C.: "I feel your pain." This is something that Rep Nehls of TX doesn't as he said abt paycheck to paycheck ppl that maybe they don't “work as hard as I do.”
Told my Texan bro-in-law years ago, you guys just need to go ahead and secede. You'd be happy closing and policing your giant border, creating your own tax system, etc. Let the rest of us the hell alone...
I saw that from Nehls the other day and had a good chuckle. Apparently it's "hard work" to be on Trump standby all the time, ready to paint Trump's toenails, change Trump's diaper, etc.. Nehls is an classic kiss up, kick down authoritarian.
See, I watched the Fake News like Dear Leader told me not to, and I came away with this wild idea that inflation had gotten worse. I should know better. In fact, I should be subjected to some sort of corrective punishment.
Tim, IF they thought before voting, they probably thought "I must vote for the one who is not in charge. How could it be any worse?" They had no forking clue what a fascist was, let alone what one would do, since they forgot whatever they had learned about World History in the 1920-1940 period.
That’s an indictment on how short-sighted and uninformed the American public is. Democracies require an informed populace, and we’re awash in garbage information - despite having access to all information.
Am I reading that quote from Morten Christensn correctly? He lost a big stake of his retirement funds and his reaction is to admire the guy who ripped him off?!?!
Morten is the kind of guy who would go into a casino, lose all of his money in the slot machines, and then say, "I guess the casino played a better game than I did."
His problem is that he doesn't understand how any of this works, but he spent his money anyway.
I was most struck by the line from Reagan. "We create the future." Thanks to MAGA, America has decided to actively fight the future in an attempt to re-create a mythical past. A past that was terrible for large portions of our nation.
This year is more for mourning and steeling our resolve to fight for the future than celebrating.
Weirdly, I have been rewatching the alien canon episodes from The X-Files. "Fight the Future" (1998) -- the essential bridge film linking and providing continuity to the end of Season 5 into Season 6. Hybrid humans to offset the coming invasion created from human research into a dormant black goo virus introduced eons ago by colonizing aliens and discovered underground in a Texas suburb. What a story. A long entertaining canon that does not really end till the end of the series.
FYI. The alien canon watching requires significant picking and choosing to escape the episodic "monster of the week" that is a majority of The X-Files. You can search for "x files alien canon episodes" to find a list of in sequence episodes. Of course, if you have never watched The X-Files it is worth watching it as it was originally presented.
What I found most remarkable about the Ford and Reagan quotes is not how the Trump GOP's racism and nativism has perverted the Republican party, but how the drivel that Trump's speechwriters give him to (poorly) read off the teleprompter is so dumbed down. I don't think most of us would say that either Ford's or Reagan's brains were their most outstanding attributes, but at least they were being given, and could deliver, a speech with real words in proper English. Trump's writers, writing for an audience of one rather than listeners, can't summon anything meaningful. They apparently are even more aware of Trump's limitations than the rest of us.
As long as Trump's speeches include language about hurting people who his base hates, they're happy. Punishing immigrants? Check. Trolling libs? Check.
Frankly, I don't know why anyone writes a speech for him. His reading skills are so pathetic and he wanders all over the place with his imbecilic nonsense. What a waste of time...dear lord, deliver us.
> "Folarin Balogun did nothing wrong and he must be freed to help the U.S. men’s national team destroy Belgium"
I think it was a sloppy, aggressive challenge for the ball, but to me it doesn't rise to the level of a straight red card. The straight to red is for like, Suarez biting someone, or Zidane head butting a dude, off ball. The straight red is meant for particularly flagrant, pointless fouls. Balogun landed on a guy while both were making a play on the ball. A yellow card at worst.
They can't appeal the red card retroactively, but they can appeal the next game suspension. Very rare for FIFA to grant that. But not as rare as awarding the FIFA peace prize, so...
Should have been a yellow, not a red. I still like the USMNT's chances against Belgium, who needed a miracle to get by Senegal. The US was faster, more aggressive than BIH, and was tactically impressive last night. Malik Tillman's free kick goal was a thing of beauty.
I am going to disagree a bit as last night was not our best playing as it was scrappy and inconsistent, but got the job done. Belgium produced two goals after the 80th minute which kept them in the game and that isn’t a miracle. One can argue about the penalty — everyone always does — but that is the game and Belgium beat us in a friendly 5 - 2 in March of tins year.
After the 85th minute, actually. I only mean miracle in the sense that it was a tall order and they pulled it off, not that they were helped in any way. I give them credit, but for most of that game Senegal was the better team. One can quibble with the late PK awarded Belgium, but they found a way to get the game into Extra Time in order to have that opportunity presented to them. I get what you are saying. Miracle maybe isn't the right term to use. Then again, it wasn't a mircale that led to the US wining against the Soviets in the '80 Winter Olympics either, despite it being called that.
IMO, the US was very impressive until the red card. Being down a man will do that. And even then, the US still found ways to keep attacking, so much so that they forced the free kick which led to the 2-0 lead. The speed of the US was forcing BIH to grab jerseys, foul, etc all night.
Well you know a little nibble here and little head butt there. A red card can be given for a dangerous foul regardless of intent which in retrospect it was, but Messi chased down a player who took the ball from him and stomped on his foot and got nothing. Overall this world cup has tended to allow things to play out and not hand out cards for fouls which in other contexts are carded. Have the games benefited from that, in some ways yes, but it has produced inconsistent referring results and leaves it a bit unclear to the players where and when the rules will be applied.
I've noticed the relative lack of penalties; I think FIFA is making a concerted effort to not reward flopping because Americans are so opposed to the theatrics of flopping in soccer. As a downside, letting them play on through some of it means that some pretty dirty play has basically been ruled as A-OK in the tournament this year.
And agreed; that makes the straight red for Balogun even more jarring for me.
I agree i think a yellow card would have been sufficient in this case given the referee didn’t even see, or think the incident that serious himself, but only picked up on VAR and video replays often look worse than the incidents themselves.
Kotzsu you are so right. I can forgive Suarez or Zidane, because the are in the small group of truly special players, but I saw the bite and the butt and there could be no debate.
A friend who was a rugby player once told me, "Rugby is a hooligan’s sport played by gentleman, football [soccer] is a gentleman’s sport played by hooligans."
The red card exists to keep the hot-headed players from killing each other in anger, or as a failsafe when the yellow doesn't warn them off overly aggressive play. The yellow is meant to keep the competitiveness of the players from getting people hurt.
Having played quite a bit myself, sometimes people make aggressive challenges, and they hurt themselves, or others, but not with an intent to get people hurt. Where someone's challenge on the ball becomes a yellow is pretty contextual. In my rec league, any slide tackle where someone is going to ground will end up with our equivalent of a yellow card, cause we're playing in a rec league, and no one needs a broken ankle, regardless of how effectively someone slide tackles and only makes contact with the ball. But of course, watching the world cup, there's effusive praise for some of the truly amazing slide tackles we see.
My husband refers to that comment about hooligans often. In my own experience rugby guys may be gentlemen but they do some pretty gross stuff like see how many pennies they can stuff in their foreskins. I’m told this is one of their drinking games. Of the sports played in the UK cricket seems to be the only one that doesn’t lead to occasional outbursts of violent temper. Possibly because it is so slow.
There is an interesting breakdown/timeline for what British sport is played where. The oldest colonial possessions play cricket: Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent. The former white dominions such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa primarily play rugby while late British colonial and economic expansion spread football/soccer to South America and Europe.
Yeah, but to whom did the Infant award it, someone deserving or someone to be placated, black (Jack?) boot-licked and brown-nosed so the Infant could make even more money. Balogun does not have that kind of cash, nor does the US Soccer Association. Of course, if they did, and used it as boot-polish, maybe the Felon would put in a good word with his buddy, the Infant....
"This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost."
Obviously, the GOP has "evolved" on this issue. It's remarkable how, given the advances of the Civil Rights movement, the GOP has somehow gotten more racist. They are the garbage dump of all the backlash racist trash our country has tried to drag kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century.
The Reagan quote above is 100% correct. I even remember Bari Weiss getting radicalized by an admittedly ridiculous online left reaction to a post she made about "Immigrants getting the job done." But now she has allied herself with the side that is focused on eliminating immigration entirely. And it's clear that we have attained superpower status because of our willingness to bring in the best minds from all over the world. But in today's GOP, their racism is stronger than their desire to maintain our global leadership, and in the end, they're going to find that trading in our preeminence in favor of their hatreds is a very bad trade. I even think they know they're throwing our power away, but their hate is so strong they do not care.
The GOP may have become more racist over time, but let's remember Nixon's "southern strategy," which was a direct response to the advances of the civil rights movement. And let's also remember the symbolism of where Reagan launched his 1980 presidential campaign.
"I am very proud to welcome all of you as fellow citizens of the United States of America. I invite you to join fully in the American adventure and to share our common goal and our common glory. . . . You have given us a birthday present beyond price—yourselves, your faith, your loyalty, and your love. We thank you with full and friendly hearts."
This was said 9 years before lil' Stevie (human butt plug) Miller was born. It's sad to think about what must have happened to him when he was a child to make him such a POS. Did some black or brown person cross him or beat him up. What happened to turn him in to such an asshole! When this national nightmare is over, I hope that we can put him in jail with some of the Mexican Mafia. I'm sure they would give him a warm welcome.
Knowing how easily butthurt that slime ball gets, it was probably that he was ignored by them. He probably thought he was the BMOC and they didn't know or care he existed.
That a losing investor in Trump's crypto schemes accepts that he had been "outplayed" by the president - read "cheated" - is about as clear an example of subservience as anyone could imagine.
Any person with a real sense of self would be furious, but these folks don't seem to have that understanding of themselves at all - they live to serve and be served up by their leader.
A friend of a friend that I've met over the years, recently (6 months?) got qualified as a Certified Crypto Investor and was publicizing this on FaceBook and had a few pretty enticing ads where it showed a happy couple standing for a photo with a caption of like "John and Susan just made over $24,000 dollars with their crypto investments"
I've noticed that he hasn't posted something in a very LOOOONNNG time.
It's the same behavior of gamblers that consistently lose money at casinos. How many of them blame the casinos or make a concerted effort to be sensible with their money?
🏁Official bulwark DSA scare campaign has commenced.
How wild would it be for them to interview on background one or two of their active DSA member subscribers to better understand the context in which all this scary stuff is happening
Tim had Cam Kasky back on the pod yesterday, and he did a terrific job talking about the winning DSA candidates, and the voters choosing them. He was in Maine with Platner right before the primary, and had useful, intelligent take-aways about the Maine voters he met. I wish Cam could be a regular Bulwark contributor again, but he is out in the trenches. Bless him!
"The Russian barrage was the latest in the deadliest spring for Ukraine since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022, as Ukrainian strikes prompt Mr. Putin to respond militarily."
Is the New York Times now in Putin's pocket as well? It's quite a bit of revisionist history to make Vlad look like some sort of victim. Some of us here are old enough to remember when he started the war, of his own volition. A few here were even around when the concept of an attacked nation fighting back was deemed an acceptable response. I keep up with some international press, and they never seem to have this problem of reinforcing his warmongering and expansionist aims.
Like our own wannabe dictator leader, Vlad has gotten himself into a quagmire that he cannot get himself readily out of. He cannot seem to understand that the rest of the free world has a very different vision of what is happening in Ukraine, and why, than he has convinced himself to be the case. And above all he cannot admit in any way, shape, or form that he is wrong about anything. Sad that the Times has lost sight of that, as small words convey big meaning. At best maybe a new editor is needed. At worst, perhaps a certain sort of appeasement of a certain leader or leaders is taking place. Either way, this is neither journalism at its finest nor a shining light of truth to power. Bad for them, worse for the rest of us.
From another source (not my original thought): "Trump would not sign the Declaration of Independence today."
That statement caught me as I immediately knew it was true.
Come to think of it, that would be a great American tradition: Have every president sign a copy of the Declaration of Independence upon their inauguration and keep that copy over history as they all sign it.
More likely he'd use the Sharpie and cross out the bits he didn't think applied to him and added stuff about only white males who like him get to vote.
The rise of the DSA is fueled by growing incoming inequality and the U.S.'s continued support of Israel's brutal regime. Mainstream Democrats can slow down DSA's rise by pivoting and focusing on these two issues. But attacking the DSA will only throw fuel on the fire.
Like they did with Nader and Bernie, just freezing out anyone to the left of the establishment (read: "Corporate") DNC only makes that group less likely to vote for a democrat. Then they blame Nader and Bernie for losing, and don't learn a damn thing about reaching out to the people who left the party BECAUSE it went corporate. The "left" needs to stop with the purity tests, for sure, but the party needs to stop chopping off their left wing, too.
By attacking the DSA it will show that many "mainstream" Dems are just embarrassed GOPers. A lot of them aren't liking the fact that they're being exposed as the property of AIPAC.
It is amazing that even pro-Israel Democrats are asking AIPAC to stay out of their races. Getting branded as AIPAC-aligned is almost worse than having a personal scandal these days.
Thanks for this reminder! I actually make a habit of rereading certain documents over this holiday every year. The obvious are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - our founding documents. But then I also read J.S. Mills' On Liberty and lastly I read Dr. M.L. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Together these are a reminder of what it is to be an American and to understand that freedom isn't free.
The Trump crypto grift would be kind of funny, actually, if the victims were actually bothered by it. But I think a large, very large, percentage of the fleeced feel like it was an honor to give their money to Trump, which is exactly what they did. I'm not even sure they understand what actually happened, but they all gave Trump hundreds of millions of dollars of their money for what I guess they thought was an investment, and now Trump has hundreds of millions of their dollars and they have digital trinkets worth a total of about zero dollars.
Pretty much just a straight transfer from their bank accounts to Trump's. And they'd do it again. Because there is no honor greater than being scammed by the great man.
It's the same behavior as chronic gamblers. They don't see themselves as victims of casinos. They see themselves as shrewd people of action who are just a few games away from a big payout.
I think there were two kinds of purchasers: 1) the same people who buy the sneakers and commemorative coins; and 2) people seeking favor, e.g. pardons. I think an analysis of the ledger would show penny ante sums; and much larger ones.
Yeah, the reporting I've seen on that tracks. Large donors tend to be internationals seeking favored status for their country with the Administration or else people angling for a pardon or leniency in an ongoing criminal matter. The rest are MAGA cult small dollar donors.
We need a high ranking Native American to speak out and put Stephen Miller in his place about exactly what being “nativist” is really about. I don’t know who it would be but Count Dracula needs to be put in his place in an embarrassing manner. There’s someone out there that could do this in an awesome manner. I am sooooo sick of that guy’s 💩…
I still call Miller Colonel Klink due to his remarkable resemblance to the actor, Werner Klemperer. Of course Klink was a parody, and Klemperer, a refugee immigrant from Nazi Germany, agreed to play him only if the Klink figure were the wrongheaded rube and boob that he was, as a criticism of the extremist movement. Sadly, Miller is all too real, and his legacy will run far deeper than a TV sitcom as long as he has only one person he needs to please with his agenda and how he presents it.
Ever see a picture of Adolf Eichmann?
Personally I’ve always thought Miller looks more like Heydrich. Got the same dead behind the eyes expression in every photograph.
Though possibly my view is due to them having similar roles as the officials in charge of ethnic cleansing in their respective regimes (note: I’m face blind so my opinion on this kind of thing might not mean much). Having just done a Google image search on Eichmann I can definitely where you’re coming from.
Maybe the bigger point is that all Nazis look the same.
I have called him Stephen Adolf Eichmann Miller.
I always thought I'd look different in my reincarnation. But this slimy worm is proof we'll just have a different name, but be essentially the reincarnated person in personality. He is definitely a bunch of those guys, come back to torture us. He always reminds me of Goebbels, the sweetest of them all.
Yep. I see what you mean.
HOGAN ! ! 👍
Wasn't part of Klemperer's deal that if the Nazi ever won or were portrayed as competent, Klemperer would walk off the show?
Bill C.: "I feel your pain." This is something that Rep Nehls of TX doesn't as he said abt paycheck to paycheck ppl that maybe they don't “work as hard as I do.”
This texas waddie has not done a days work in years. You can always tell a texan but you can't tell them much. What an ass hole.
Told my Texan bro-in-law years ago, you guys just need to go ahead and secede. You'd be happy closing and policing your giant border, creating your own tax system, etc. Let the rest of us the hell alone...
You bet!
I saw that from Nehls the other day and had a good chuckle. Apparently it's "hard work" to be on Trump standby all the time, ready to paint Trump's toenails, change Trump's diaper, etc.. Nehls is an classic kiss up, kick down authoritarian.
Bill: "This, sadly, is America at 250."
Or maybe this is exactly what a plurality of the electorate wanted.
You forget how high egg prices were. What else was the electorate to do? /s
I know, right? Inflation is too high. Therefore, I must vote for the fascist.
These fuckin' people.
But at least there's no more inflation, right? Oh, wait, I think it's gotten worse, actually. Shoot.
I thought energy prices were cut in half on Day One. Did I miss something? 😀
See, I watched the Fake News like Dear Leader told me not to, and I came away with this wild idea that inflation had gotten worse. I should know better. In fact, I should be subjected to some sort of corrective punishment.
You're joking, but that's coming. All of us regulars here are winding up in a gulag.
Watch out bro , jeannie pirro might have a few too many gin and tonics and go on a discipline rampage.
...just like all prices and no more forever foreign wars!
Tim, IF they thought before voting, they probably thought "I must vote for the one who is not in charge. How could it be any worse?" They had no forking clue what a fascist was, let alone what one would do, since they forgot whatever they had learned about World History in the 1920-1940 period.
That’s an indictment on how short-sighted and uninformed the American public is. Democracies require an informed populace, and we’re awash in garbage information - despite having access to all information.
History. What s history?
American exceptionalism?
The states teach their citizens what they want them to know which is not critical thinking.
Or: Children in Africa are costing us too much, so we must kill them.
And yet, how many people vote GOP because they're Pro-Life?
And her laugh. She laughed like a black woman. /s
Thank goodness we were spared that horror! 😀
Not only were egg prices high, but Kamala Harris had a laugh that some people didn't like. That pretty much forced voters' hands, I guess.
Don't forget the BACON!!!
And 401 K s!
The electorate wants to be entertained…to death.
Panem et circenses
Yes, but it's still sad.
Am I reading that quote from Morten Christensn correctly? He lost a big stake of his retirement funds and his reaction is to admire the guy who ripped him off?!?!
It really is a cult.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and steal from somebody's retirement, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."
Oh but your 401 K!
C'mon Mike, Mr Christensen is being a good loser. He made a bet on Trump and lost his shirt. His bad.
While DJT took it!
Morten is the kind of guy who would go into a casino, lose all of his money in the slot machines, and then say, "I guess the casino played a better game than I did."
His problem is that he doesn't understand how any of this works, but he spent his money anyway.
Perfect analogy!
I was most struck by the line from Reagan. "We create the future." Thanks to MAGA, America has decided to actively fight the future in an attempt to re-create a mythical past. A past that was terrible for large portions of our nation.
This year is more for mourning and steeling our resolve to fight for the future than celebrating.
Weirdly, I have been rewatching the alien canon episodes from The X-Files. "Fight the Future" (1998) -- the essential bridge film linking and providing continuity to the end of Season 5 into Season 6. Hybrid humans to offset the coming invasion created from human research into a dormant black goo virus introduced eons ago by colonizing aliens and discovered underground in a Texas suburb. What a story. A long entertaining canon that does not really end till the end of the series.
The comment may be off topic, but I think I might have found my next binge series!
FYI. The alien canon watching requires significant picking and choosing to escape the episodic "monster of the week" that is a majority of The X-Files. You can search for "x files alien canon episodes" to find a list of in sequence episodes. Of course, if you have never watched The X-Files it is worth watching it as it was originally presented.
I preferred the stand alone episodes. The alien Canon stuff was too convoluted and murky for me to follow.
What I found most remarkable about the Ford and Reagan quotes is not how the Trump GOP's racism and nativism has perverted the Republican party, but how the drivel that Trump's speechwriters give him to (poorly) read off the teleprompter is so dumbed down. I don't think most of us would say that either Ford's or Reagan's brains were their most outstanding attributes, but at least they were being given, and could deliver, a speech with real words in proper English. Trump's writers, writing for an audience of one rather than listeners, can't summon anything meaningful. They apparently are even more aware of Trump's limitations than the rest of us.
As long as Trump's speeches include language about hurting people who his base hates, they're happy. Punishing immigrants? Check. Trolling libs? Check.
And I guess they’re even willing to pay good money to satisfy their hates. Victims of a classic $800 million pump-and-dump scam, yet no regrets.
Imagine the prompts:
Trump GREAT
Biden STOOPID
Obama BLACK
Frankly, I don't know why anyone writes a speech for him. His reading skills are so pathetic and he wanders all over the place with his imbecilic nonsense. What a waste of time...dear lord, deliver us.
> "Folarin Balogun did nothing wrong and he must be freed to help the U.S. men’s national team destroy Belgium"
I think it was a sloppy, aggressive challenge for the ball, but to me it doesn't rise to the level of a straight red card. The straight to red is for like, Suarez biting someone, or Zidane head butting a dude, off ball. The straight red is meant for particularly flagrant, pointless fouls. Balogun landed on a guy while both were making a play on the ball. A yellow card at worst.
They can't appeal the red card retroactively, but they can appeal the next game suspension. Very rare for FIFA to grant that. But not as rare as awarding the FIFA peace prize, so...
Should have been a yellow, not a red. I still like the USMNT's chances against Belgium, who needed a miracle to get by Senegal. The US was faster, more aggressive than BIH, and was tactically impressive last night. Malik Tillman's free kick goal was a thing of beauty.
I am going to disagree a bit as last night was not our best playing as it was scrappy and inconsistent, but got the job done. Belgium produced two goals after the 80th minute which kept them in the game and that isn’t a miracle. One can argue about the penalty — everyone always does — but that is the game and Belgium beat us in a friendly 5 - 2 in March of tins year.
After the 85th minute, actually. I only mean miracle in the sense that it was a tall order and they pulled it off, not that they were helped in any way. I give them credit, but for most of that game Senegal was the better team. One can quibble with the late PK awarded Belgium, but they found a way to get the game into Extra Time in order to have that opportunity presented to them. I get what you are saying. Miracle maybe isn't the right term to use. Then again, it wasn't a mircale that led to the US wining against the Soviets in the '80 Winter Olympics either, despite it being called that.
IMO, the US was very impressive until the red card. Being down a man will do that. And even then, the US still found ways to keep attacking, so much so that they forced the free kick which led to the 2-0 lead. The speed of the US was forcing BIH to grab jerseys, foul, etc all night.
Well you know a little nibble here and little head butt there. A red card can be given for a dangerous foul regardless of intent which in retrospect it was, but Messi chased down a player who took the ball from him and stomped on his foot and got nothing. Overall this world cup has tended to allow things to play out and not hand out cards for fouls which in other contexts are carded. Have the games benefited from that, in some ways yes, but it has produced inconsistent referring results and leaves it a bit unclear to the players where and when the rules will be applied.
I've noticed the relative lack of penalties; I think FIFA is making a concerted effort to not reward flopping because Americans are so opposed to the theatrics of flopping in soccer. As a downside, letting them play on through some of it means that some pretty dirty play has basically been ruled as A-OK in the tournament this year.
And agreed; that makes the straight red for Balogun even more jarring for me.
I agree i think a yellow card would have been sufficient in this case given the referee didn’t even see, or think the incident that serious himself, but only picked up on VAR and video replays often look worse than the incidents themselves.
Kotzsu you are so right. I can forgive Suarez or Zidane, because the are in the small group of truly special players, but I saw the bite and the butt and there could be no debate.
A friend who was a rugby player once told me, "Rugby is a hooligan’s sport played by gentleman, football [soccer] is a gentleman’s sport played by hooligans."
The red card exists to keep the hot-headed players from killing each other in anger, or as a failsafe when the yellow doesn't warn them off overly aggressive play. The yellow is meant to keep the competitiveness of the players from getting people hurt.
Having played quite a bit myself, sometimes people make aggressive challenges, and they hurt themselves, or others, but not with an intent to get people hurt. Where someone's challenge on the ball becomes a yellow is pretty contextual. In my rec league, any slide tackle where someone is going to ground will end up with our equivalent of a yellow card, cause we're playing in a rec league, and no one needs a broken ankle, regardless of how effectively someone slide tackles and only makes contact with the ball. But of course, watching the world cup, there's effusive praise for some of the truly amazing slide tackles we see.
My husband refers to that comment about hooligans often. In my own experience rugby guys may be gentlemen but they do some pretty gross stuff like see how many pennies they can stuff in their foreskins. I’m told this is one of their drinking games. Of the sports played in the UK cricket seems to be the only one that doesn’t lead to occasional outbursts of violent temper. Possibly because it is so slow.
There is an interesting breakdown/timeline for what British sport is played where. The oldest colonial possessions play cricket: Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent. The former white dominions such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa primarily play rugby while late British colonial and economic expansion spread football/soccer to South America and Europe.
A well taken slide tackle that fouls no one is a thing of beauty.
Yeah, but to whom did the Infant award it, someone deserving or someone to be placated, black (Jack?) boot-licked and brown-nosed so the Infant could make even more money. Balogun does not have that kind of cash, nor does the US Soccer Association. Of course, if they did, and used it as boot-polish, maybe the Felon would put in a good word with his buddy, the Infant....
From Reagan's last public speech as president:
"This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost."
Obviously, the GOP has "evolved" on this issue. It's remarkable how, given the advances of the Civil Rights movement, the GOP has somehow gotten more racist. They are the garbage dump of all the backlash racist trash our country has tried to drag kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century.
The Reagan quote above is 100% correct. I even remember Bari Weiss getting radicalized by an admittedly ridiculous online left reaction to a post she made about "Immigrants getting the job done." But now she has allied herself with the side that is focused on eliminating immigration entirely. And it's clear that we have attained superpower status because of our willingness to bring in the best minds from all over the world. But in today's GOP, their racism is stronger than their desire to maintain our global leadership, and in the end, they're going to find that trading in our preeminence in favor of their hatreds is a very bad trade. I even think they know they're throwing our power away, but their hate is so strong they do not care.
The GOP may have become more racist over time, but let's remember Nixon's "southern strategy," which was a direct response to the advances of the civil rights movement. And let's also remember the symbolism of where Reagan launched his 1980 presidential campaign.
Exactly! A timely reminder indeed!
"I am very proud to welcome all of you as fellow citizens of the United States of America. I invite you to join fully in the American adventure and to share our common goal and our common glory. . . . You have given us a birthday present beyond price—yourselves, your faith, your loyalty, and your love. We thank you with full and friendly hearts."
This was said 9 years before lil' Stevie (human butt plug) Miller was born. It's sad to think about what must have happened to him when he was a child to make him such a POS. Did some black or brown person cross him or beat him up. What happened to turn him in to such an asshole! When this national nightmare is over, I hope that we can put him in jail with some of the Mexican Mafia. I'm sure they would give him a warm welcome.
Knowing how easily butthurt that slime ball gets, it was probably that he was ignored by them. He probably thought he was the BMOC and they didn't know or care he existed.
What a pleasant thought!
That a losing investor in Trump's crypto schemes accepts that he had been "outplayed" by the president - read "cheated" - is about as clear an example of subservience as anyone could imagine.
Any person with a real sense of self would be furious, but these folks don't seem to have that understanding of themselves at all - they live to serve and be served up by their leader.
A friend of a friend that I've met over the years, recently (6 months?) got qualified as a Certified Crypto Investor and was publicizing this on FaceBook and had a few pretty enticing ads where it showed a happy couple standing for a photo with a caption of like "John and Susan just made over $24,000 dollars with their crypto investments"
I've noticed that he hasn't posted something in a very LOOOONNNG time.
Not outplayed, conned.
Remember, Trump is considered a "genius" for cheating people out of money.
I thought the same thing reading that passage.
It's the same behavior of gamblers that consistently lose money at casinos. How many of them blame the casinos or make a concerted effort to be sensible with their money?
🏁Official bulwark DSA scare campaign has commenced.
How wild would it be for them to interview on background one or two of their active DSA member subscribers to better understand the context in which all this scary stuff is happening
It was only a matter of time I suppose. Chait is a bad-take machine and no one should take his writing seriously.
Chait, (Elliot) Cohen and (Graeme) Wood are the Atlantic’s triumvirate of bad take merchants.
Cohen and Wood’s articles on the Iran War in particular have aged like milk.
Tim had Cam Kasky back on the pod yesterday, and he did a terrific job talking about the winning DSA candidates, and the voters choosing them. He was in Maine with Platner right before the primary, and had useful, intelligent take-aways about the Maine voters he met. I wish Cam could be a regular Bulwark contributor again, but he is out in the trenches. Bless him!
"The Russian barrage was the latest in the deadliest spring for Ukraine since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022, as Ukrainian strikes prompt Mr. Putin to respond militarily."
Is the New York Times now in Putin's pocket as well? It's quite a bit of revisionist history to make Vlad look like some sort of victim. Some of us here are old enough to remember when he started the war, of his own volition. A few here were even around when the concept of an attacked nation fighting back was deemed an acceptable response. I keep up with some international press, and they never seem to have this problem of reinforcing his warmongering and expansionist aims.
Like our own wannabe dictator leader, Vlad has gotten himself into a quagmire that he cannot get himself readily out of. He cannot seem to understand that the rest of the free world has a very different vision of what is happening in Ukraine, and why, than he has convinced himself to be the case. And above all he cannot admit in any way, shape, or form that he is wrong about anything. Sad that the Times has lost sight of that, as small words convey big meaning. At best maybe a new editor is needed. At worst, perhaps a certain sort of appeasement of a certain leader or leaders is taking place. Either way, this is neither journalism at its finest nor a shining light of truth to power. Bad for them, worse for the rest of us.
From another source (not my original thought): "Trump would not sign the Declaration of Independence today."
That statement caught me as I immediately knew it was true.
Come to think of it, that would be a great American tradition: Have every president sign a copy of the Declaration of Independence upon their inauguration and keep that copy over history as they all sign it.
They didn't have black Sharpies back then. And with Jefferson hogging all the space, he can't have the biggest signaure on the page.
If he HAD to sign it...he would probably take a sharpie and add "Some people are more equal than others" to it.
So true.
More likely he'd use the Sharpie and cross out the bits he didn't think applied to him and added stuff about only white males who like him get to vote.
He would approve a doc giving himself full power and then force others to sign it.
The rise of the DSA is fueled by growing incoming inequality and the U.S.'s continued support of Israel's brutal regime. Mainstream Democrats can slow down DSA's rise by pivoting and focusing on these two issues. But attacking the DSA will only throw fuel on the fire.
Like they did with Nader and Bernie, just freezing out anyone to the left of the establishment (read: "Corporate") DNC only makes that group less likely to vote for a democrat. Then they blame Nader and Bernie for losing, and don't learn a damn thing about reaching out to the people who left the party BECAUSE it went corporate. The "left" needs to stop with the purity tests, for sure, but the party needs to stop chopping off their left wing, too.
By attacking the DSA it will show that many "mainstream" Dems are just embarrassed GOPers. A lot of them aren't liking the fact that they're being exposed as the property of AIPAC.
It is amazing that even pro-Israel Democrats are asking AIPAC to stay out of their races. Getting branded as AIPAC-aligned is almost worse than having a personal scandal these days.
Metaxas is an intellectual? Really?
It'll never not be amusing to me to watch the likes of Metaxas act tough on social media.
Only in his mind is that man tough.
Thanks for this reminder! I actually make a habit of rereading certain documents over this holiday every year. The obvious are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - our founding documents. But then I also read J.S. Mills' On Liberty and lastly I read Dr. M.L. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Together these are a reminder of what it is to be an American and to understand that freedom isn't free.
Thanks
The Trump crypto grift would be kind of funny, actually, if the victims were actually bothered by it. But I think a large, very large, percentage of the fleeced feel like it was an honor to give their money to Trump, which is exactly what they did. I'm not even sure they understand what actually happened, but they all gave Trump hundreds of millions of dollars of their money for what I guess they thought was an investment, and now Trump has hundreds of millions of their dollars and they have digital trinkets worth a total of about zero dollars.
Pretty much just a straight transfer from their bank accounts to Trump's. And they'd do it again. Because there is no honor greater than being scammed by the great man.
It's the same behavior as chronic gamblers. They don't see themselves as victims of casinos. They see themselves as shrewd people of action who are just a few games away from a big payout.
I think there were two kinds of purchasers: 1) the same people who buy the sneakers and commemorative coins; and 2) people seeking favor, e.g. pardons. I think an analysis of the ledger would show penny ante sums; and much larger ones.
Yeah, the reporting I've seen on that tracks. Large donors tend to be internationals seeking favored status for their country with the Administration or else people angling for a pardon or leniency in an ongoing criminal matter. The rest are MAGA cult small dollar donors.