"Trump on Balogun: 'That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA.'"
oh, I see. the 'referee is suspect if you check his past.'
Jim McLaughlin, doing his level best to find the sunny side for the GOP, argued Republicans can still ride out the storm by drawing contrasts on "banning transgender athletes from women's sports."
There it is. There's the whole goddamn strategy in one clause. The house is on fire — gas prices underwater, Trump's approval on handling the economy at a limp 31 percent, his gas-price number at a wretched 23 in mid-June Fox polling — and the big plan, the war room's best idea, is to point at some trans fifteen-year-old on a track in Ohio and holler hey, look over there. That is not a policy. That is a broke-ass magician who's out of tricks, sweating through his tux, waving the same tired scarf for the ninth time and praying to Christ you don't notice both hands are empty and always were. It has worked before, God help us. And they are betting the entire midterm it works again, because they have got not one other thing in the bag — not a single solitary idea for the price of your insulin, your rent, the eggs, the heat that just cooked two hundred million people while these clowns workshopped bathroom bills.
Not if you talk to a MAGAt! I thought of posting on a local MAGAt FB page about the white supremacists marching on the 4th, which we haven't seen since 1925, and that the Repugnicants have enable this. HOWEVER if I did, they would have said "the Democrats started the KKK! Those are Democrats!! Democrats are Communists!!" Their heads are so turned around they don't know what century they are in, don't care about the Southern Strategy, and don't know a damn thing about Communism! If Fearless Leader said it, it must be true! If a meme generated by some Russians said it, it must be true!
Honestly, they don't care about facts. You can hand them facts on a sterling silver meme and they wouldn't believe it.
That trans kid thing isn't working anymore, and shame on Dr. Acton in Ohio for falling into their trap of addressing this. People in Ohio don't care about that trans girls, such as Ember Zelch who played softball in Chagrin Falls and probably weighs less than I do and I'm a very petite CIS female. (Ember testified several times against trans bans in our legislature before leaving the state for college.) Ohioans do care that the GOP has taken a wrecking ball to their lives.
Remember that last time, the oligarchs, particularly Thiel, dumped many millions of dark money into the Ohio election. IIRC, more money went to defeat Sherrod Brown than any other senatorial candidate in history.
And with Elon's thumb on the scale, who knows what the real outcome was?
My daughter spouts this off all the time. I’ve responded a couple times, “I don’t know if it’s true”. Now I just say nothing because she’s stuck in that loop.
The Dotard on Pennsylvania Ave has spoken again. He must be a direct descendent of the Vandals who destroyed Rome 1500 years ago. He has vandalized our history, he has vandalized our human rights, he has vandalized our democratic culture, he has vandalized our well being, he has vandalized our White House. It is far, far past time he must be thrown out of power.
Oh, it's even better than that -- the player is not only Black, he's able to play for the US because he has birthright citizenship. Rules for thee, but not for me....
He doesn't care. He's a winner and Trump wants him playing. He'll find a way to spin his birthright. I believe Trump enjoys cheating and laughing at people when he does. Cause it's so freaking funny doncha know? Especially on the world stage. Especially with a black player. Best of all with an immigrant story. What a joke and we're dum(b) to not think of it.
Cheating is how Donny rolls. From golf to selling imaginary worthless digital Trump tokens for $75 each to his MAGA followers. And pocketing $635,000,000 from them. He and Blanche are still trying to cheat the Treasury out of $1,776,000,000 of our money. The daily grift never stops!
This news about him cheating the World Cup made be burst out laughing. So in character!
Imagine how screwed up in the head you must be to play with top golf pros like Tiger Woods and cheat on every hole and claim you win tournaments. They are all laughing AT him. And he doesn't notice. It's like Mad King Ludwig. Or Commodus. He will cheat and steal every day until he is stopped by the good guys. It only takes a few.
So if it wasn't an infraction was it an infarction? Oh wait, that was the dead senator in Kentucky. You know, the one who was not merely dead but most sincerely dead? Anyway, we should all be proud that Donnie knows the word "infraction" and can use it in a sentence--even if he was just parroting the FIFA statement. And finally, I have it on good authority that the chelonian antidefamation league is extremely upset with McConnell for his tasteless parody of a hawksbill turtle.
I had to look up "chelonian" though I had a pretty good idea what it meant. Thanks for increasing my vocabulary. "Most sincerely dead" also cracked me up -- now I'm hoping that a house falls on Trump's head.
My understanding - and correct me if I'm wrong - is that the infraction was not called at the time, the player Balogun ran into was not injured and walked off/continued to play, and it was only because the refs reviewed stills and slo-mo footage later that he was given the red card. However, that kind of review is against the officiating rules, because he wasn't given any kind of card when it happened, and the refs can only review real-time footage when assessing an initial penalty, vs. upgrading from a yellow card to a red card.
Balogun handled the whole thing with class and dignity, and then Donny Dimwit had to go stick his fucking nose in the whole thing and Infantino made everything worse by indulging him. Only somehow, it's USMNT that suffers, not FIFA.
"...and Donny knows this how?" The same way he knows every judge who rules against him is corrupt; the way he knows every black or brown person's IQ Is Low; the same way he knows that every single person who criticizes him is either a communist, or ANTIFA, or has tRump Derangement Syndrome; or Hates America; or is a Left-wing Lunatic AND has a low IQ; the same way he KNOWS that every election that doesn't go his way is RIGGED; the same way he can prove that vandals destroyed the Beautiful-Perfect-and- Better-Than-Any-Former-President-in-the-HISTORY-OF-THE-WORLD, NAY, THE UNIVERSE-Has-Ever-Fixed-Up-Before-BUT-ESPECIALLY-BETTER-THAN-BARACK-HUSEIN-OBAMA....
Trump does not understand the game, but has helped to sink the US even lower in the eyes of the world with that action. I am boycotting the entire World Cup, even though I officially support the boycotting in the US only, but FIFA is so sickening I wash my hands of it. This is something I have been watching all my life. Not this year. And, due to reasons of non existence and dual citizenship, I have not grown up rooting for the US team, but the team of the country I am living in now. After they are out we always root for the teams of countries who cannot afford to pay top dollar for coaches. Usually in the Southern Hemisphere. That is how we roll.
No, it's simple. Donny couldn't attend any of the matches because they would have booed him senseless. Somehow he had to make the WC about HIM! You know how he craves attention. Perfect in: "Ooh, he (Balogun) was treated so UNFAIRLY! Hey, I know a guy..."
My dear departed husband would be losing his mind over this. Here's hoping the USA coach benches the red card receiver. Or Belgium beats their asses. That orange prick didn't even know what FIFA was until they handed them his peace prize. Absolutely disgusting to interfere like this.
I was watching. The ref initially did not call anything. It went to VAR, the final technological referee. Stepping on opponent’s ankle could cause permanent injury, so a serious foul. The action did not seem intentional, so possibly a yellow card, not red, various commentators said. FIFA said red card, and the decision could not be appealed.
The game’s ref did not make the decision. VAR made the decision, but the ref’s job was to announce it.
Trump’s attempt to blame and vilify the ref is more despicable than his predictable interference with FIFA’s head, Infantino.
If team USA loses to Belgium, the dishonor Trump has brought may be soon forgotten.
The problem is, the VAR used slo-mo and still shots, which was inappropriate for the type of decision the refs were making (whether to assess a penalty at all, vs. whether to upgrade a yellow card to a red card). From what I understand, the rules state that under the circumstances, the VAR should have used only real-time footage.
dumpy said he knows a lot about sports as he was a good athlete. How many of the numerous schools that dumpy attended will back that statement up??? Highly doubtful dumpy could ever have done anything athletic in his life, (except run away from the draft), be on a team or be a team player, for that matter.
Jeff, just one question for the wife of Mitch. Elaine Chou left for China 3 days after this incident with Mitch, reported she met with a senior VP of the CCP… why? And as most people know Elaine’s father is a shipping magnate, she is wealthy in her own right.. so why all the lying surrounding Mitch?
Well, perhaps she took to heart what was said in her wedding vows: 'Til death do us part... So she took that as her cue to hop on a plane and leave the details up to others.
Chao left the details of her marriage to "others" before her wedding to Mitch. He became $11 million wealthier right after tying the knot. Chao's father is one of the wealthiest shipping magnates in China. Remember the Fang Fang scandal (Chinese intelligence operative) that ensnared Swalwell (2011 - 2015)? Sorry, it's my pattern recognition flaring up again.
Per KY law, a brain-dead person can't be pronounced "officially dead" and removed from life support without the permission of the next-of-kin, ergo Chow-chow's disappearance.
What really pisses me off is the media's lack of interest in this. Remember fall 2016 when Hillary Clinton had a coughing fit and the media went into a paroxysm of brow-furrowing concern about her health, and the tab loads of course amplified it into stroke/Alzheimers/Brian death/god knows what else.
I was there when she had the coughing fit. I was standing maybe 20 feet from her near the stage. I have photos to prove it. She came on stage and started coughing. One of the organizers brought her water. She drank it. With a few minutes the coughing subsided and she delivered a barn burner of a speech. This was Labor Day, Cleveland, Ohio, Luke Easter Park. She and Tim Kaine both spoke. She was perfectly healthy.
Where is the media's over-the-top concern about Mitch?
I have another question. The Kentucky primaries are past and Andy Barr is the GOP candidate to replace Mitch, who is retiring. So if they were to hold a special election and some candidate other than Barr won, they would only serve a few months, right?
Anderson Cooper's too busy yukking it up with Andy Cohen to be bothered, and the other news orgs, except CBS are sayin"well, there's really no proof. We can't go barging into a hospital, can we?" Um, find some sources, dammit! But no.....
Hey, Fredo, not to be pedantic, but her last name is Chao. You're right in that her father founded The Foremost Group, a bulk shipping company. Despite being an immigrant, her family wealth apparently made her a rethuglican. And despite her parents fleeing China for Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, she is now reaching out to the CCP. Whar all the MAGAs and conservatives who scream about foreign ties and espionage? Also, her younger sister Angela drowned in 2024 when she drunkenly backed her Tesla Model X into a pond on her own TX estate.
Big money and power so often veer into the shadowy, sketchy world of backroom deals and hidden connections. This is never truer than now. Despite being immigrants, the Chao family was enormously wealthy and that bought their six daughters top shelf educations and entree into circles of influence. Elaine, the late Angela, and probably more of the girls all married rich and prominent men. Power naturally flows from wealth. And as is evident from the behavior of Thiel, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, the Ellisons, the Mercers, the Kochs, the Adelsons, the Jenkins family of Publix Supermarkets, the Cathy Chick-Fil-A family, not to mention the extensive old money Mellon clan, they have been unleashed by the corrupt SCOTUS allowing entities to pour unlimited money into our politics, which overwhelmingly goes to conservatives. The little people, which means more than 330 million of us, are seeing our self determination go down the tubes unless we do something and quick.
Official investigation was that Angela's blood alcohol was three times the legal limit and she accidentally backed into the pond while trying to execute a three point turn. It took several minutes for the car to sink but she was unable to extricate herself and her guests could not help.
1. Maybe Chou fled in order to escape any prying journalist questions.
2. I picture McConnell trapped in one of those Twilight Zone episodes where the main character is dead but doesn't know it, and everywhere he turns he's faced with the consequences of his horrific acts.
Sometimes, you accidentally trip and fall right next to the outlet and somehow, on your way to the floor, your foot or arm gets tangled with the power cord and whoopsie!
"Poor Mitch is daid
Poor Turtle is daid
His friends'll weep and wail for miles around (Miles around)
Oh, I saw something about this this morning. Under Kentucky law, there has to be a special election if there's a vacancy, but not if it's within three months of a regular election, which is August 3. If Mitch isn't quite dead, there's some provision for two independent doctors to make a determination, but it requires the next of kin to be involved ... but if she just happens to be in China, that means that there won't be a special election.
Basically, they really want to fuck over Thomas Massie.
Between Mitch the Glitch, Tom Kean, Jr, who disappeared for months without any explanation and Donny himself, who may be technically alive but is showing no signs of brain activity, the GOP is turning into one big Weekend at Bernie’s.
These two incidents you mentioned make Mark Sanford's "I was hiking the Appalachian Trail" while he was banging his mistress in Argentina seem almost frivolous by comparison
Didn't one Republican end up at a Waffle House at 3 am 50 miles from home,and claim he must of astral-projected his old bad self there?? Damn...I really miss tequila....
It's so typical of the Party of Family Values that after the married Sanford, who was governor of SC when the whole Argentinian mistress thing came out, left office he was later elected to the House. Adultery is family values to y'all?!
Nah, why should they worry? According to Dear Leader, he's everyone's Favorite President - with the exception of a few commies. The "real polls"(not the ones that come from Fake News and Left-wing Lunatic Universities) show his approval ratings are 'higher than anyone's ever seen before', and he's accompanied more miracles than ALL the Catholic Church's Saints. Plus, Elon kept access to the voting machines.
Absolutely 100% Moscow Mitch is dead but probably on a ventilator and a buncha IV drugs to support his cardiac function and BP. Think keeping a corpse alive like when they kept that poor brain dead mom alive to gestate her baby. The percentage of people surviving a full cardiac arrest out of hospital with any brain function left is vanishingly small, less than 1%, and THAT'S in a young, relatively fit person. Old ER nurse here and yup he's deader than a doornail
The damage that POS turtle has done to the US is immeasurable. I hope his soul has left his barely alive body and is getting a good look at hell and the room it will be locked in for eternity.
Agreed. Mitch McConnell probably flatlined before he hit the ambulance. This is a disgraceful and dangerous coverup. The Dems and Massie should be screaming.
Years ago, after I commented to the cardiologist on the case, I had a sickening feeling when I did CPR on his 85-year-old patient and felt his ribs "crunch" as they broke. The doctor told me that even if you revive a person over 80 with CPR, more than 90% die within a week anyway.
What does that tell you about how Glitch is doing; or was doing?
A good reminder that McConnell died (or a reasonable facsimile of) destroying the judicial system and therefore aspirations of democracy for some hefty "campaign" contributions.
Furthermore, he demonstrated for all a major weakness in our system when the entire government can be destroyed by a Senator from Kentucky and a weasel from Louisiana.
Missus McConnell scares the shit out of me, even when she's smiling. Especially when she's smiling. The mouth says howdy. The eyes say I will cut you. That she split for China 3 days after they scraped Turtle off the floor says a whole lot of something, but we'll probably never know exactly what.
Wifey Elaine Chao was the totally shitty labor secretary under W and transportation secretary for Donny. She has every connection in the book, and is probably busy making big money for herself while her 'beloved' is hooked up to tubes and wires. As Donny's Transportation secretary, she blocked any initiative that would have cleaned up our air- making congestion pricing harder in NYC, took funding away from bike lanes and transit, and rolled back clean car emissions standards- and lots more fun stuff.
For these corrupt Repugs, there is never a bad time to make sure the filthy cash keep on flowing- and they no longer even try whitewash how corrupt things look.
When McTurtle's first wife dumped him, he was very open about declaring that he wanted to marry a rich woman. She had the dough. He had the connections. A match made in the first ring of hell.
Do you remember finding out that Project 2025's plan was to spray us all with a fire hose during the orange sadist's first months in office? 10 major decisions/actions per day in the first month? (That's why I started keeping a list.)
They probably told her that he was brain-dead, but he can't be disconnected from the machines until after August 3rd, so she can't have a funeral until then, so what's the point in hanging around a corpse?
There is actually a precedent for this, from a rethuglican, of course. TX Representative Kay Granger was absent from Congress for months from July 2024 until it was revealed by the media in December of that year that she had been residing in senior living facility with "dementia issues" per her son.
Apparently the coach of the USA team has said only that Balogun is practicing with the team, and as not (yet) said he’ll play, regardless of what Trump wants.
Unlike Trump, he understands how the rest of the world looks at this, and how unfair it would be to the rest of the team if a U.S. victory was tainted with Cheeto dust.
He's managed to make a whole other demographic hate him - non political football (aka soccer) fans! There is real fury about this in the UK and I'm sure in other countries, especially Belgium who play the USA next.
I've no interest in soccer/football, and I'm furious on behalf of all the other teams. I know FIFA is incredibly corrupt (a sports writer called the organization "the apex predator of corrupt sports authorities"), but this absolutely is abominable. Way to ruin what appeared to be a grand good time for the fans and teams, to this point.
Me too, Joyce, the whole world had ‘FOOTBALL’ before the soccer now it’s the tell when something slippery is afoot. The players get screwed by FIFUCK as in scammers and money grabbers of all types.
Just when the world was starting to like the US again thanks to the World Cup, Trump has to come along and (bad word used as a verb!) it up again!
We can convert the world's oceans to Ranch Dressing and it will never be enough to remove the distaste Trump has caused, thanks to the morons who voted for him a SECOND TIME!!
By the way, Kentucky is another state where Republicans are allowed to write legislation specifically preventing Democratic governors from appointing replacements. Kinda because the problem is Democratic administrations enfranchise the minorities the unreconstructed hate.
We are so close to the election though and the field is set; Andy Barr vs. Charles Booker. An appointment would hardly matter at this point, and neither would a special election. Mitch was retiring.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
apparently, Dear Leader is at this moment holding an Oval Bordello presser to defend his meddling in the World Cup.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mpybzkhmvx2s
"Trump on Balogun: 'That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA.'"
oh, I see. the 'referee is suspect if you check his past.'
and Donny knows this how?
Uh, he's dying Jeff. I mean, that is what this looks like. Problem is, trump looks the same way. Trump looks as bad or worse to me, than McConnell
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-miles-davis-was-what-i-needed-to-write-this-shit
And let's just say this so we are clear.
Fuck the incumbents.
Jim McLaughlin, doing his level best to find the sunny side for the GOP, argued Republicans can still ride out the storm by drawing contrasts on "banning transgender athletes from women's sports."
There it is. There's the whole goddamn strategy in one clause. The house is on fire — gas prices underwater, Trump's approval on handling the economy at a limp 31 percent, his gas-price number at a wretched 23 in mid-June Fox polling — and the big plan, the war room's best idea, is to point at some trans fifteen-year-old on a track in Ohio and holler hey, look over there. That is not a policy. That is a broke-ass magician who's out of tricks, sweating through his tux, waving the same tired scarf for the ninth time and praying to Christ you don't notice both hands are empty and always were. It has worked before, God help us. And they are betting the entire midterm it works again, because they have got not one other thing in the bag — not a single solitary idea for the price of your insulin, your rent, the eggs, the heat that just cooked two hundred million people while these clowns workshopped bathroom bills.
Who are the 31% who approve of Trump's handling of our economy? That seems impossible.
Not if you talk to a MAGAt! I thought of posting on a local MAGAt FB page about the white supremacists marching on the 4th, which we haven't seen since 1925, and that the Repugnicants have enable this. HOWEVER if I did, they would have said "the Democrats started the KKK! Those are Democrats!! Democrats are Communists!!" Their heads are so turned around they don't know what century they are in, don't care about the Southern Strategy, and don't know a damn thing about Communism! If Fearless Leader said it, it must be true! If a meme generated by some Russians said it, it must be true!
Honestly, they don't care about facts. You can hand them facts on a sterling silver meme and they wouldn't believe it.
I don’t trust reports of 31% when the nuttiest billionaires own the airwaves and data.
It's common knowledge that morons comprise 30% of he population. As proven by the fact my lifetime idiot sister is a Trumper.
“It has worked before, God help us.”
That trans kid thing isn't working anymore, and shame on Dr. Acton in Ohio for falling into their trap of addressing this. People in Ohio don't care about that trans girls, such as Ember Zelch who played softball in Chagrin Falls and probably weighs less than I do and I'm a very petite CIS female. (Ember testified several times against trans bans in our legislature before leaving the state for college.) Ohioans do care that the GOP has taken a wrecking ball to their lives.
Let's hope Ohioans do care. They still voted for drumpf/Vance and Moreno after all the "they're eating the cats and dogs" bullshit
Remember that last time, the oligarchs, particularly Thiel, dumped many millions of dark money into the Ohio election. IIRC, more money went to defeat Sherrod Brown than any other senatorial candidate in history.
And with Elon's thumb on the scale, who knows what the real outcome was?
We have Thiel to blame for that faker Vance
Maybe now that the Haitians may get deported, they will think differently. Mike deWine sure does
We'll see. The cognitive dissonance required to vote R is enormous yet many have it in spades.
Mike DeWine is a broken clock.
I am so very angry
My daughter spouts this off all the time. I’ve responded a couple times, “I don’t know if it’s true”. Now I just say nothing because she’s stuck in that loop.
Did it ever really happen?
Oh boooy this is exactly what we need, more of this crotchety old conman sticking his bronzered nose where it don't belong!
The Dotard on Pennsylvania Ave has spoken again. He must be a direct descendent of the Vandals who destroyed Rome 1500 years ago. He has vandalized our history, he has vandalized our human rights, he has vandalized our democratic culture, he has vandalized our well being, he has vandalized our White House. It is far, far past time he must be thrown out of power.
Astounding that the player Trump is protecting isn't a lily white redhead named something like Sean, isn't it?!
Oh, it's even better than that -- the player is not only Black, he's able to play for the US because he has birthright citizenship. Rules for thee, but not for me....
Yep, such BS.
No. Trump thinks this is funny. Look at meee. I can do anything I want. Have anything I want. I'm a big cheating bully.
so now I have to root against the US. Bummer.
He doesn't care. He's a winner and Trump wants him playing. He'll find a way to spin his birthright. I believe Trump enjoys cheating and laughing at people when he does. Cause it's so freaking funny doncha know? Especially on the world stage. Especially with a black player. Best of all with an immigrant story. What a joke and we're dum(b) to not think of it.
Yes you’re right about Trump loves to cheat and laugh. That’s winning to him. He’s a horrible person
And then the MAGAts can say "see! He isn't racist! Would a racist do that?". Yes, a racist would do that if it meant he could win something.
🎯👏🏼
There must be a lot of bet money involved.
Anything for the sake of "winning."
Because Trumps past is so checkered, he suspects everyone’s is. 🙄
Personally I prefer gymnastics but I'm sure Trump could ratfuck that too.
trump ratfucks anything he comes near.
FIFA and dopey is Thee most corrupt duo in thee entire world, my head is on fire and it fucking burns!!!
Yep…takes-one-to-know-one. And the biggest psychopathic MAGAs believe everything is a trick and THEY are victims of it.
You know who is more than “a little bit suspect if you check his past”?
Donald J Pussygrabberbraggart
Cheating is how Donny rolls. From golf to selling imaginary worthless digital Trump tokens for $75 each to his MAGA followers. And pocketing $635,000,000 from them. He and Blanche are still trying to cheat the Treasury out of $1,776,000,000 of our money. The daily grift never stops!
This news about him cheating the World Cup made be burst out laughing. So in character!
Imagine how screwed up in the head you must be to play with top golf pros like Tiger Woods and cheat on every hole and claim you win tournaments. They are all laughing AT him. And he doesn't notice. It's like Mad King Ludwig. Or Commodus. He will cheat and steal every day until he is stopped by the good guys. It only takes a few.
Another reason why I have absolutely no interest in the World Cup!
I'm absolutely loving Norway's arc in the World Cup. Heia Norge!
So if it wasn't an infraction was it an infarction? Oh wait, that was the dead senator in Kentucky. You know, the one who was not merely dead but most sincerely dead? Anyway, we should all be proud that Donnie knows the word "infraction" and can use it in a sentence--even if he was just parroting the FIFA statement. And finally, I have it on good authority that the chelonian antidefamation league is extremely upset with McConnell for his tasteless parody of a hawksbill turtle.
I had to look up "chelonian" though I had a pretty good idea what it meant. Thanks for increasing my vocabulary. "Most sincerely dead" also cracked me up -- now I'm hoping that a house falls on Trump's head.
And his swollen cankles will stick out from underneath....
Now I'm imagining the socks . . .
🤣🤣🤣🤣
My understanding - and correct me if I'm wrong - is that the infraction was not called at the time, the player Balogun ran into was not injured and walked off/continued to play, and it was only because the refs reviewed stills and slo-mo footage later that he was given the red card. However, that kind of review is against the officiating rules, because he wasn't given any kind of card when it happened, and the refs can only review real-time footage when assessing an initial penalty, vs. upgrading from a yellow card to a red card.
Balogun handled the whole thing with class and dignity, and then Donny Dimwit had to go stick his fucking nose in the whole thing and Infantino made everything worse by indulging him. Only somehow, it's USMNT that suffers, not FIFA.
Donny has pull with FIFA, what with him being the inaugural and so far only winner of the prestigious (haha) FIFA Peace Prize
"...and Donny knows this how?" The same way he knows every judge who rules against him is corrupt; the way he knows every black or brown person's IQ Is Low; the same way he knows that every single person who criticizes him is either a communist, or ANTIFA, or has tRump Derangement Syndrome; or Hates America; or is a Left-wing Lunatic AND has a low IQ; the same way he KNOWS that every election that doesn't go his way is RIGGED; the same way he can prove that vandals destroyed the Beautiful-Perfect-and- Better-Than-Any-Former-President-in-the-HISTORY-OF-THE-WORLD, NAY, THE UNIVERSE-Has-Ever-Fixed-Up-Before-BUT-ESPECIALLY-BETTER-THAN-BARACK-HUSEIN-OBAMA....
somebody had way too much caffeine today.
I might start drinking caffeinated coffee again. You're on fire! Keep it up.
Trump does not understand the game, but has helped to sink the US even lower in the eyes of the world with that action. I am boycotting the entire World Cup, even though I officially support the boycotting in the US only, but FIFA is so sickening I wash my hands of it. This is something I have been watching all my life. Not this year. And, due to reasons of non existence and dual citizenship, I have not grown up rooting for the US team, but the team of the country I am living in now. After they are out we always root for the teams of countries who cannot afford to pay top dollar for coaches. Usually in the Southern Hemisphere. That is how we roll.
I'm rooting for Norway. They absolutely deserve a win. Haaland is simply amazing.
No, it's simple. Donny couldn't attend any of the matches because they would have booed him senseless. Somehow he had to make the WC about HIM! You know how he craves attention. Perfect in: "Ooh, he (Balogun) was treated so UNFAIRLY! Hey, I know a guy..."
My dear departed husband would be losing his mind over this. Here's hoping the USA coach benches the red card receiver. Or Belgium beats their asses. That orange prick didn't even know what FIFA was until they handed them his peace prize. Absolutely disgusting to interfere like this.
We can't have anything nice until this cheating creep is gone.
I was watching. The ref initially did not call anything. It went to VAR, the final technological referee. Stepping on opponent’s ankle could cause permanent injury, so a serious foul. The action did not seem intentional, so possibly a yellow card, not red, various commentators said. FIFA said red card, and the decision could not be appealed.
The game’s ref did not make the decision. VAR made the decision, but the ref’s job was to announce it.
Trump’s attempt to blame and vilify the ref is more despicable than his predictable interference with FIFA’s head, Infantino.
If team USA loses to Belgium, the dishonor Trump has brought may be soon forgotten.
The problem is, the VAR used slo-mo and still shots, which was inappropriate for the type of decision the refs were making (whether to assess a penalty at all, vs. whether to upgrade a yellow card to a red card). From what I understand, the rules state that under the circumstances, the VAR should have used only real-time footage.
dumpy said he knows a lot about sports as he was a good athlete. How many of the numerous schools that dumpy attended will back that statement up??? Highly doubtful dumpy could ever have done anything athletic in his life, (except run away from the draft), be on a team or be a team player, for that matter.
Jeff, just one question for the wife of Mitch. Elaine Chou left for China 3 days after this incident with Mitch, reported she met with a senior VP of the CCP… why? And as most people know Elaine’s father is a shipping magnate, she is wealthy in her own right.. so why all the lying surrounding Mitch?
beats the hell out of me
Well, perhaps she took to heart what was said in her wedding vows: 'Til death do us part... So she took that as her cue to hop on a plane and leave the details up to others.
Chao left the details of her marriage to "others" before her wedding to Mitch. He became $11 million wealthier right after tying the knot. Chao's father is one of the wealthiest shipping magnates in China. Remember the Fang Fang scandal (Chinese intelligence operative) that ensnared Swalwell (2011 - 2015)? Sorry, it's my pattern recognition flaring up again.
Likely Shoshanna!
😂
Per KY law, a brain-dead person can't be pronounced "officially dead" and removed from life support without the permission of the next-of-kin, ergo Chow-chow's disappearance.
Clever. This is like a fucking made for TV movie.
The Mitch is dead! Long live the Mitch!
And the plot thickens... Chow chow I love it. Funny, I don't remember a damn thing she did while Secretary of Transportation.
She didn't do anything. But she did UN-do plenty of things.
This kd!!
What really pisses me off is the media's lack of interest in this. Remember fall 2016 when Hillary Clinton had a coughing fit and the media went into a paroxysm of brow-furrowing concern about her health, and the tab loads of course amplified it into stroke/Alzheimers/Brian death/god knows what else.
I was there when she had the coughing fit. I was standing maybe 20 feet from her near the stage. I have photos to prove it. She came on stage and started coughing. One of the organizers brought her water. She drank it. With a few minutes the coughing subsided and she delivered a barn burner of a speech. This was Labor Day, Cleveland, Ohio, Luke Easter Park. She and Tim Kaine both spoke. She was perfectly healthy.
Where is the media's over-the-top concern about Mitch?
I have another question. The Kentucky primaries are past and Andy Barr is the GOP candidate to replace Mitch, who is retiring. So if they were to hold a special election and some candidate other than Barr won, they would only serve a few months, right?
Anderson Cooper's too busy yukking it up with Andy Cohen to be bothered, and the other news orgs, except CBS are sayin"well, there's really no proof. We can't go barging into a hospital, can we?" Um, find some sources, dammit! But no.....
In the garbage with their non-stop coverage of Trump's health.
Kentucky.com had something on Threads just repeating a statement from his staff that he's "improving" and "working with his staff."
How about some journalism?
What Jeff said.
I think it’s because he’s dead.
Looks like she must love Turtleface as much as the rest of us do--and as much as anybody in that party loves anybody but themselves.
"What's love got to do, got to do with it?"
😁😁😁
Hey, Fredo, not to be pedantic, but her last name is Chao. You're right in that her father founded The Foremost Group, a bulk shipping company. Despite being an immigrant, her family wealth apparently made her a rethuglican. And despite her parents fleeing China for Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, she is now reaching out to the CCP. Whar all the MAGAs and conservatives who scream about foreign ties and espionage? Also, her younger sister Angela drowned in 2024 when she drunkenly backed her Tesla Model X into a pond on her own TX estate.
Doc thanks for the correction, my memory sometimes glitches..It just seems very odd this whole scenario, at least to me..
Big money and power so often veer into the shadowy, sketchy world of backroom deals and hidden connections. This is never truer than now. Despite being immigrants, the Chao family was enormously wealthy and that bought their six daughters top shelf educations and entree into circles of influence. Elaine, the late Angela, and probably more of the girls all married rich and prominent men. Power naturally flows from wealth. And as is evident from the behavior of Thiel, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, the Ellisons, the Mercers, the Kochs, the Adelsons, the Jenkins family of Publix Supermarkets, the Cathy Chick-Fil-A family, not to mention the extensive old money Mellon clan, they have been unleashed by the corrupt SCOTUS allowing entities to pour unlimited money into our politics, which overwhelmingly goes to conservatives. The little people, which means more than 330 million of us, are seeing our self determination go down the tubes unless we do something and quick.
I remember that! I also remember reading that it may actually have been a murder. Not sure how all of that panned out.
Official investigation was that Angela's blood alcohol was three times the legal limit and she accidentally backed into the pond while trying to execute a three point turn. It took several minutes for the car to sink but she was unable to extricate herself and her guests could not help.
Two Things:
1. Maybe Chou fled in order to escape any prying journalist questions.
2. I picture McConnell trapped in one of those Twilight Zone episodes where the main character is dead but doesn't know it, and everywhere he turns he's faced with the consequences of his horrific acts.
Nicely thought out 2 things Nancie…
She's just getting instructions on how to handle his death.
Perhaps she feels she no longer has US protection for the "crimes" she committed under Trump I.
She probably left so she wouldn't have to declare him dead. If he is on life support they cannot take him off it without her permission.
I agree that's possible. If he is deceased, isn't it a crime to conceal a death? Would doctors sign on to that?
As long as he is on life support, they legally cannot remove him. There is a legal process involving next of kin, in this case his wife.
Aha!!! A conspiracy. How disgusting.
Trump's doctors would gladly sign in a nanosecond if asked by him.
Hah! He'd get a Ouija Board to contact McConnell for votes and SCOTUS would let him.
Sometimes, you accidentally trip and fall right next to the outlet and somehow, on your way to the floor, your foot or arm gets tangled with the power cord and whoopsie!
"Poor Mitch is daid
Poor Turtle is daid
His friends'll weep and wail for miles around (Miles around)
The daisies in the dell
Will give out a different smell
Because poor Mitch is underneath the ground"
(Apologies to Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Good call!
It could be that she took the chance to finally be rid of him. No way in hell was that marriage a happy one.
It was a business arrangement. Like Drumpf and Melanie.
Yeah, and a wife can't be forced to testify against her husband.
Power and money are the only things that make those people happy. She got both.
Oh, I saw something about this this morning. Under Kentucky law, there has to be a special election if there's a vacancy, but not if it's within three months of a regular election, which is August 3. If Mitch isn't quite dead, there's some provision for two independent doctors to make a determination, but it requires the next of kin to be involved ... but if she just happens to be in China, that means that there won't be a special election.
Basically, they really want to fuck over Thomas Massie.
Maybe he is in the cryogenic zone....just waiting to re emerge in all his glory.
Between Mitch the Glitch, Tom Kean, Jr, who disappeared for months without any explanation and Donny himself, who may be technically alive but is showing no signs of brain activity, the GOP is turning into one big Weekend at Bernie’s.
These two incidents you mentioned make Mark Sanford's "I was hiking the Appalachian Trail" while he was banging his mistress in Argentina seem almost frivolous by comparison
“I was hiking the Appalachian Trail” - Now that’s an oldie but goodie! Nice.
Didn't one Republican end up at a Waffle House at 3 am 50 miles from home,and claim he must of astral-projected his old bad self there?? Damn...I really miss tequila....
LOLOL!!!
It's so typical of the Party of Family Values that after the married Sanford, who was governor of SC when the whole Argentinian mistress thing came out, left office he was later elected to the House. Adultery is family values to y'all?!
They prefer cousins but a mistress will do.
It's almost like Republicans are afraid of losing their majority.
They could not be that underhanded! (Ha ha. You know I'm joking.)
Nah, why should they worry? According to Dear Leader, he's everyone's Favorite President - with the exception of a few commies. The "real polls"(not the ones that come from Fake News and Left-wing Lunatic Universities) show his approval ratings are 'higher than anyone's ever seen before', and he's accompanied more miracles than ALL the Catholic Church's Saints. Plus, Elon kept access to the voting machines.
'accomplished', not 'accompanied'. Stupid autocorrect.
Ugh I hope they don’t put Trump on a ventilator for weeks and weeks
LOL!!!
Ahahahhahahaha!!! No brain function. 😜🤣
I love weekend at Bernie’s but at least boys visiting Bernie’s house knew he was dead!
Absolutely 100% Moscow Mitch is dead but probably on a ventilator and a buncha IV drugs to support his cardiac function and BP. Think keeping a corpse alive like when they kept that poor brain dead mom alive to gestate her baby. The percentage of people surviving a full cardiac arrest out of hospital with any brain function left is vanishingly small, less than 1%, and THAT'S in a young, relatively fit person. Old ER nurse here and yup he's deader than a doornail
The damage that POS turtle has done to the US is immeasurable. I hope his soul has left his barely alive body and is getting a good look at hell and the room it will be locked in for eternity.
I hope that soul is just barely tethered to that body so he gets to see the hell he made for himself while futilely trying to cling to life.
Appreciate the learned commentary. If he’s not dead yet, he most certainly should not buy green bananas.
I heard George Burns say that. Also, "Why can't I be a country music singer? I'm older than most countries."
😂😂😂
Or maybe just blinking.
Agreed. Mitch McConnell probably flatlined before he hit the ambulance. This is a disgraceful and dangerous coverup. The Dems and Massie should be screaming.
You only get CPR when there is no pulse .
of course they couldn’t let him rain on daddy‘s big fair and month long birthday celebration
He's only MOSTLY dead…
thanks to this comment, I just added a Princess Bride gif to my post, and I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it first.
this is why I love my commenters
Years ago, after I commented to the cardiologist on the case, I had a sickening feeling when I did CPR on his 85-year-old patient and felt his ribs "crunch" as they broke. The doctor told me that even if you revive a person over 80 with CPR, more than 90% die within a week anyway.
What does that tell you about how Glitch is doing; or was doing?
With all dead there's only one thing you can do-go through his clothes and look for loose change
Maybe he's just pining for the fjor...Kentucky hollers. 😆
😂😂😂. Well, he is like a blue parrot 🤣
"He's not dead, he's just pining for the fjords."
Thank you Jeff.
A good reminder that McConnell died (or a reasonable facsimile of) destroying the judicial system and therefore aspirations of democracy for some hefty "campaign" contributions.
Furthermore, he demonstrated for all a major weakness in our system when the entire government can be destroyed by a Senator from Kentucky and a weasel from Louisiana.
A turtle and a weasel destroy a nation. Not a children's book idea
Of course, they had plenty of billionaire assistance. The country smolders but at least the outsized donors received their tax breaks and loopholes.
They couldn't have done it without the billionaires.
McConnell wasn't always a douchweasel; he was largely responsible for Bob Packwood's resignation from the Senate
Money corrupts.
Missus McConnell scares the shit out of me, even when she's smiling. Especially when she's smiling. The mouth says howdy. The eyes say I will cut you. That she split for China 3 days after they scraped Turtle off the floor says a whole lot of something, but we'll probably never know exactly what.
Wifey Elaine Chao was the totally shitty labor secretary under W and transportation secretary for Donny. She has every connection in the book, and is probably busy making big money for herself while her 'beloved' is hooked up to tubes and wires. As Donny's Transportation secretary, she blocked any initiative that would have cleaned up our air- making congestion pricing harder in NYC, took funding away from bike lanes and transit, and rolled back clean car emissions standards- and lots more fun stuff.
For these corrupt Repugs, there is never a bad time to make sure the filthy cash keep on flowing- and they no longer even try whitewash how corrupt things look.
When McTurtle's first wife dumped him, he was very open about declaring that he wanted to marry a rich woman. She had the dough. He had the connections. A match made in the first ring of hell.
Old Mitch's first political runs were funded by the tobacco industry... welcome to hell.... here's your Pall Malls.
Wow! I hadn't heard that before. Disgusting.
A disgusting pair. (Do I recall that Itch's daughters hated her so much that they refused to speak to her?)
The truth always comes out. But by the time it does, we'll be putting out so many other fires that we'll barely notice.
Bingo! I don’t even remember a time when there wasn’t a daily barrage of dangerous idiocy anymore 😔.
Do you remember finding out that Project 2025's plan was to spray us all with a fire hose during the orange sadist's first months in office? 10 major decisions/actions per day in the first month? (That's why I started keeping a list.)
They probably told her that he was brain-dead, but he can't be disconnected from the machines until after August 3rd, so she can't have a funeral until then, so what's the point in hanging around a corpse?
Her mission officially ends on August 4........Might as well start the debriefing now and spruce up the apartment in the homeland.
Ask Melania.
Gotta love the Star Trek reference.
The Republican party is nothing but evil...a bunch of ghouls. Glitch is probably brain dead and being kept alive with a feeding straw in his shell.
The speed that America is declining is rapidly accelerating.
Exactly. He’s brain dead but they’re keeping him alive so they can say he isn’t technically dead.
It doesn't matter if he isn't technically dead if he can't do his job. Senator is not a lifetime appointment.
We desperately need term limits.
Age limits. You hit 75 and that's it. Party's over. Go golfing or something.
I'll say. This is crazy. 🤦♀️
Right? But you wouldn’t know it by how long some of these living fossils have been in office
I read that they dont want to give any information so Thomas Massie cant run for his seat. Republicans are evil AF. :(
There is actually a precedent for this, from a rethuglican, of course. TX Representative Kay Granger was absent from Congress for months from July 2024 until it was revealed by the media in December of that year that she had been residing in senior living facility with "dementia issues" per her son.
Ooh! I remember that one! I thought that might have been Tom Kean's excuse/reason as well. But he rose from the rehab ...
Another case of ETTD.
There is always a Monty Python reference.
https://youtu.be/W4rR-OsTNCg?is=xVw7TaZG77JArngX
And maybe Mitch is just resting just like the parrot in this Monty Python sketch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaFDzTzKAT0
He's pining for the fiords.
CLASSIC!
😂😂😂 "I'M NOT DEAD!" "You will be a minute!"
Now, I'm dead. 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
I just wonder if he was actually able to walk one last time but too close to a high window. You know accidents.
Apparently the coach of the USA team has said only that Balogun is practicing with the team, and as not (yet) said he’ll play, regardless of what Trump wants.
Unlike Trump, he understands how the rest of the world looks at this, and how unfair it would be to the rest of the team if a U.S. victory was tainted with Cheeto dust.
He's managed to make a whole other demographic hate him - non political football (aka soccer) fans! There is real fury about this in the UK and I'm sure in other countries, especially Belgium who play the USA next.
I've no interest in soccer/football, and I'm furious on behalf of all the other teams. I know FIFA is incredibly corrupt (a sports writer called the organization "the apex predator of corrupt sports authorities"), but this absolutely is abominable. Way to ruin what appeared to be a grand good time for the fans and teams, to this point.
Me too, Joyce, the whole world had ‘FOOTBALL’ before the soccer now it’s the tell when something slippery is afoot. The players get screwed by FIFUCK as in scammers and money grabbers of all types.
Glad to hear that. Truly.
Well pointed out. Thank you!
Somewhere today I posted that same remark: Don’t play him!
Just when the world was starting to like the US again thanks to the World Cup, Trump has to come along and (bad word used as a verb!) it up again!
We can convert the world's oceans to Ranch Dressing and it will never be enough to remove the distaste Trump has caused, thanks to the morons who voted for him a SECOND TIME!!
No surprise as he takes a dump on everything.
plus the 40% who believe Trump is Mr. Wonderful!
Well, in regards to the turtle's wife abandoning him at this critical time, I bet Melania will do the same. Ah! TRUE LOVE!!
If looks could kill, trump would have been dead a long time ago. Slovenian Cruella hates his guts with an icy hot passion.
Her only redeeming quality
Her "go bag" is already packed.
That ‘go bag’ is full of gold bars.
What? Surely she'd take her payout in $TRUMP, right? Oh wait, she has her own cryptocurrency. Wonder how it is doing?
No shit!
McConnell isn't dead! He's only sleeping!
By the way, Kentucky is another state where Republicans are allowed to write legislation specifically preventing Democratic governors from appointing replacements. Kinda because the problem is Democratic administrations enfranchise the minorities the unreconstructed hate.
He‘s pining for the fjords!
Or that farm in upstate New York.
Rs play to win, and will lie, cheat, and steal to do so
Ds send strongly worded letters while peering sternly above their spectacles
I hate that you are so spot on accurate. I’ve seen this movie on rerun so many times the plot is driving me insane.
Ya me too 🙁
Funny how he lies, cheats and steals but ran casinos into the ground 😄 All those damn gaming rules I guess
He’s resting his eyes.
Resting his ayes?
Good one. Wait until he somehow votes on a bill with no proof of life
He’s blinking
Maybe if a princess kisses him, like Melania, he will wake up and speak to us?
He’s on a farm upstate.
We are so close to the election though and the field is set; Andy Barr vs. Charles Booker. An appointment would hardly matter at this point, and neither would a special election. Mitch was retiring.
McConnell isn't dead! He's only sleeping!...
Or is he just resting his eyes?
He's "blinking."
A millionaire lackey named Mitch
Turned out to be SCOTUS's bitch
His face is all purple
He looks like a turtle
Just toss his sad ass in a ditch.
A lying conniving old man
Fucked all of us straight in the can
By bringing us Barrett
Take THIS, ya geeze parrot
Go back to your goat fucking land!
I put this out yesterday, but I guess I jumped the gun:
Where's Missing Mitch
drumpf's Senate bitch
If he had only impeached
We would not have reached
Being driven into this ditch
You are a soothsayer, Doc.
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Brilliant!
Frosty- today’s edition is Top Ten material! Excellent🐢🐢🐢
Dave, I always appreciate your kind comments.
Well… I’m dead TIRED of all this shitty lying by this administration! It never ends! ( deep breath…)
Turtlegate is a test run for the BIG coverup they're planning when TFG kicks it, unless it happens on camera.
They’re working on the conspiracy theory even now.
Is he suffering as badly as he has made so many suffer?
Probably getting lots of pain meds -- IF he's not brain-dead, which I strongly suspect. This is like something out of the USSR.
KD - correct! Right out of the USSR- where Republutards are BFF with those Commies
If he's a veggie now, is it won bok? Yeah, I know that's racist but I'm Asian so sue me
LOL!!!
Don't tease me with hope.
If there’s any justice to be had
If he is alive, yes