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THOMAS MASSIE: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, & the White House -- and we're yelling 'election fraud'? We won all the damn elections. What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We’re not cracking down on the fraud. The problem is not the elections. We won the damn elections. The problem is that we’re wasting the opportunity voters gave us."

El golazo de Julián Álvarez 🇦🇷⚽ relatado por la televisión de Brasil 📺🇧🇷. Sencillamente impresionante #mundial2026 #argentina #julianalvarez

With all of the conspiracy theories swirling around Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden death just one day after returning from Ukraine, the timing of @CNN’s documentary on The Salisbury Poisonings premiere tonight couldn’t be more prescient!

Los brasileros son los mejores relatores de fútbol del mundo por lejos. De toda la vida. Golazo de Jualián Alvarez! 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

Argentina se ha plantado con ese camino porque Uruguay no fue capaz de clasificar como segunda, porque Portugal no fue capaz de ganar su grupo y después Colombia no fue capaz de eliminar en Octavos a Suiza. Dejar de poner estas cosas como si fuera un camino hecho a dedo, porque no es así.

🇦🇷🇪🇸 | EXCELENTE: Un youtuber español humilló a los fracasados que acusan a Argentina de “amañar el Mundial”. “No va a jugar con ninguna selección importante hasta semifinales... ¿Sois tontos? ¿Qué culpa tiene Messi de que Uruguay no pase de grupo? ¿Qué culpa tiene Messi de que Portugal no quede primero en fase de grupos? Argentina se podía enfrentar a Portugal con Cristiano... También es su culpa que caiga eliminada Colombia...”.

🚨 Zlatan Ibrahimović on Breel Embolo’s Red Card Against Argentina: 🗣️ “People will complain because they don't like the outcome, but football doesn't care about your emotions,it cares about the rules. Embolo made a mistake, and at this level, mistakes have consequences. You're already on a yellow card, your team is growing into the game, and then you make another reckless decision. Why? A top player must control himself in moments like that. Everyone wants to blame the referee, but I don't. The referee showed courage. In the biggest matches, officials are judged by whether they have the personality to make difficult decisions, and he did exactly that. If you keep making challenges that give the referee a decision to make, don't act surprised when he reaches for the card. Simple. People can debate it all night, but for me, it's the correct decision. Football is about discipline as much as talent, and if you lose your discipline, you lose your team. That red card didn't eliminate Switzerland,the decision Embolo made did.”

@YashRMFC Another dumb mother fucker 🤦🏻‍♂️ this is exhausting

If Embolo's red card was justified for simulation, then why didn't Enzo get punished for this?

@BillKristol Aww there there

Semi-finals: France vs. Spain England vs. Argentina + the refs

@B2Balzer @saoumaJJ The rule does not say that. Keep trying 👏

@chaskinando @saoumaJJ If in the 18yard box in order to draw a penalty Outside of that No

This is the moment that changed all the momentum of the game. @MelissaMOrtiz | @SachaKljestan | @bguzan | Bob Bradley

@MartienBall Morocco eliminated Netherlands. Sit down and cry some more 😂

Argentina are officially the first nation in World Cup HISTORY to reach the semi-finals without facing a single Top 10 ranked team. Must be a coincidence… of course.

🚨 Zlatan Ibrahimović slams Rio Ferdinand's VAR comments 🗣️: "I expect emotional fans to complain after every match, that's football. But I never expected someone with Rio Ferdinand's experience to make a statement as foolish as "I've never seen VAR review a yellow card." This isn't even the first time we've seen it. Amiron was sent off after receiving a second yellow for simulation in this same World Cup. The law didn't suddenly change because Argentina were playing. What surprises me even more is the obsession. Ronaldo fans don't watch Argentina because they support football, they watch every Argentina match hoping to find someone to blame. They don't celebrate their own team; they spend ninety minutes studying Messi, the referee, VAR, FIFA, and every replay, praying for a controversy. If Argentina win comfortably, they say it's rigged. If Messi scores, it's the referee. If he doesn't score, they still find a conspiracy. They lose more sleep over Messi than some Argentina fans do. At some point, you have to ask yourself: are you supporting Ronaldo, or are you following Messi's career full-time? Because it looks like Messi has millions of unpaid analysts who never miss a single Argentina game. That's not rivalry anymore, that's obsession. Football is simple. Sometimes referees get decisions right, sometimes they get them wrong. But when the exact same type of decision happens in another match and nobody cares, then suddenly it's the biggest scandal in football because it benefits Argentina, you've stopped looking for the truth. You're just looking for excuses. Messi doesn't need people to rewrite the rules for him. His football has spoken for over twenty years. If every Argentina victory forces you to invent another conspiracy, maybe the problem isn't Messi. Maybe it's that you're still struggling to accept what the world has already accepted."

🚨 “If You Don’t See It as a Red Card, Then Football Is Not for You” — Thierry Henry on Embolo’s Dismissal 🗣️ :“First of all, I want to give a lot of credit to the referee. In moments like this, under pressure, with the intensity of the game rising, it’s not easy to make big decisions — but he handled the situation very, very well. Calm, composed, and most importantly, consistent. That’s exactly the kind of discipline football needs. Now, when you look at the incident… I really don’t understand why Embolo goes into that challenge like that. Your team has just started to dominate the game, you are building momentum, everything is going in your favor — and you are already on a yellow card. You have to be smarter than that. You have to read the moment. There is no need to dive into a situation like that. You’re risking everything — not just for yourself, but for your team. At this level, that lack of control can cost you the game, and it did. And let me be very clear — if there are people who think that is not a red card, then football is not for them. The rules are there for a reason. Discipline is part of the game. You cannot complain when a player crosses that line and gets punished. For me, the referee got it absolutely right.”

@_Utd_Blake @Mufcjnr1 Yes, because Embolo conspired with Argentina, Messi, FIFA, the referee, so he could dive like a dumb fuck, get a second yellow, get ejected, and leave his national team at a disadvantage 👏 well done!

@Mufcjnr1 It's not a mistake in my eyes. It genuinely feels like they're trying to tilt this one in Messi's favour again.

🚨 🇩🇪 Toni Kroos Demands Answers from FIFA After Controversial Argentina Match: 🗣️"Explain this to me. Embolo gets booked in the first half. Switzerland fight back and Ndoye levels the score. Moments earlier, Paredes escapes without even a yellow despite a controversial challenge. Then VAR steps in, reviews Embolo's incident, and hands him a second yellow for simulation even though many believe there was clear contact. Just minutes after Switzerland equalized, they're suddenly down to 10 men. When decisions like these keep falling in one team's favour, it's only natural that fans start asking difficult questions about the officiating. FIFA has a responsibility to make sure every nation is treated equally. The World Cup should be remembered for the football on the pitch and not for controversial refereeing decisions."🎙️

@PghPennStateDad 🥱 fuck off

The left are absolute total pieces of shit. All of them.

@AdikeKizitoDev Rule 12. Simulation is classified as unsporting behavior and is punishable by a mandatory yellow card. Read a little.

@WolfRMFC That's inconsistency, but the Embolo dive is clear, Ref should have cancelled the Leandro Paredes yellow and moved on, giving same yellow card to Embolo is shameful.

Dont get me wrong Embolo’s dive was clear but just want to know why VAR gets used when it helps Argentina but wasnt used for Messi’s red card tackle against Algeria?

@WolfRMFC VAR intervened only because the Argentinian player was given a yellow card. Otherwise VAR could not have reviewed the action 🤷🏻‍♂️

@AdriRM33 You lost because Julian Alvarez pushed really deep in the back of the net. You were down one player thanks to your teammate’s pathetic theatrics. Go ask Embolo what he was thinking.

🗣️ Xhaka: "La expulsión a Embolo es una jugada en la que el árbitro MATÓ el PARTIDO. Si tienes que perder por una decisión del árbitro es muy doloroso." HONOR 👏🏻

@GlbalMadridista Rule 12. Learn to read. Had to be an imbecilic madridista.

Technically a simulation is a yellow. But I have NEVER seen them given outside of the box. This is nuts. How many fouls have the Argentinians simulated and not seen a yellow??? Countless.