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@SenTomCotton I’ll be cheering for the US, but the greatest thing about the World Cup has been - No Politics. Until now. All the politicians are now posting about it. Wish you would just stay away. You and your colleagues are a plague

I admit that I’m not the biggest soccer fan, but I’m glad President Trump urged FIFA to do the right thing. Good for President Trump, good for Folarin Balogun, good for the USA. I wish liberals could put their country ahead of their politics just once, but I guess that’s asking too much. Let’s join together tonight and cheer our team on to victory.

@ellencarmichael I am fine if Bolivian plays but the rationalizing on this is unbelievable. Just accept that Trump pulled some strings. This post tries to say that Euro’s are more willing to accept unfair outcomes. Super rationalizing based on enormous generalization

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged. Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait. To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations. In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted. The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards. Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure. So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve. Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less. Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal. Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

@ScottJenningsKY Ridiculous. Dramatic growth in money supply and artificially low interest rates drive unprecedented increase in housing prices. Illegal immigration inflating housing prices — ha ha ha

Revisting this debate from February ... turns out I was right. Putting millions of illegals in the housing pool drove up prices, according to the Federal Reserve. Supply and demand is still a thing, it turns out.

@nypost Everybody knows that the increase in housing prices was caused by the drastic increase in the money supply and artificially low interest rates. The Fed wa the primary culprit on both counts.

Biden's illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds trib.al/c3M9oC6

@AndyHermanNFL Andy wants this to be the “right” decision so bad. Trump put his finger in there and changed it. If you want to debate something debate that . It has nothing to do with soccer

U.S. got screwed with the red card in the game. Said f it. We ball. Outscored Bosnia despite being a man down. Balogun shook hands with the official anyway. Handled it like a total pro. Was told there were no appeals. Said f it. We ball. Bring on Belgium anyway. We’ll still win. We’re told today he can play. We say cool. Everyone else shows 0 class whatsoever. F it. We ball. See you tomorrow.

@AaronNagler Our guy is in! Let’s start rationalizing and name calling

FIFA played a whole ass World Cup in DECEMBER because of bribes but folks want to clutch their pearls over corruption now. Give me an entire fucking break.

@Peter_Bukowski This discussion is not about “should FIFA allow for a process for overturning a red card”. Please focus- they got a call from the most powerful person in the world and overturned it. Quit talking about sports

FIFA is obviously corrupt and I would also ask why, in a vacuum, you’d prefer a dogmatic assessment of punishment. If you think the red card was soft, isn’t it good to be able to suspend punishment for it?

@AndyHermanNFL @MarkOldacres Andy is a fan not a commentator

@MarkOldacres FIFA is like the kid in Algebra who somehow got the right answer but used the wrong formula and his work is completely f’d.

The audacity of the people in my mentions to imply this decision was in any way legit or correct.

@AndyHermanNFL Argue the call all you want. There are a lot of bad calls Jin every sport. Hard to feel good about how he got back in. FIFA is corruption

FIFA pretty much getting this wrong every step of the way is so FIFA. -Should have been a yellow on the field -Used the wrong VAR process -Poor decision to give the red after the review -Insane to not have a better appeals process -Horrible process and took too long to suspend the red All entirely avoidable. Remarkable. We’re on to Belgium.

@jammles9 Projection

Zohran Mamdani’s demeanor at this press conference is unreal. A police detective was just shot, and he’s standing there like he’s inconvenienced by having to respond. He clearly has nothing but contempt for the police.

@NateRoper_ Bregman was advertised as a team leader, but it seems like the opposite. Never shows emotion. Still trying to find his swing. Thumbs down seemed to be unnecessary resentment

The Cubs’ injuries hurt, but by far the biggest disappointment of the year has been Alex Bregman. He’s supposed to lead this team but instead he’s holding the team back. So far it’s been a nightmare.

@bungarsargon America is a tough place. Having someone speak for the underdog is ok - it got him elected. Why so angry with message that says this is not working for everyone

What makes America great, according to Mamdani, and the only thing that makes it great, is that it can be fundamentally changed by people like him. My column: The Disgraceful Mamdanis batya-us.com/p/the-disgrace…

@PackADayPodcast Malik is the best: great energy, unnatural composure, willing to go for it and able to make a variety of plays. Really interested to see what happens in Miami

Malik Willis or Aaron Rodgers?!

@SaraEisen Why do you want to dump on Mandani so bad - perhaps he is questioning the income gap but nothing against innovation or capitalism. Seems more like your problem

Mamdani rewrites 250 years of history on America’s birthday - denigrating wealth and innovation and capitalism which has made America exceptional

@BasedMikeLee Taxing and redistributing is happening everyday- right now. Tax revenues from the lowest earners is going directly into the pockets of big companies. If those investments pay off will bottom earners benefit- No

Threatening to use the power of government to confiscate and redistribute the wealth of others is fundamentally unAmerican. Pass it on if you agree.

I think the headline should have been Taylor Swift contributed $26M to charities in advance of wedding. How much did Travis kick in.

@MarkTepperSWP I don’t think that capitalism includes giving things away. Whose is going to support those accounts going forward

$MU investing $250M into Trump Accounts is capitalism at work. At a time when the far left is pushing socialism, this gives the next generation a chance to become investors from day one. That’s how you build wealth. That’s how you reinforce who we are as a country. #Capitalism

@RepNicole Ignore the Swifties make them pay. 💰

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce should reimburse NYPD for the 130 officers needed per day to keep their multi-million dollar, thousand person wedding at MSG safe. Our officers are already working overtime for 4th of July festivities & NYC taxpayers should NOT be on the hook.

@MattBelloni Hollywood is playing for box office. There are a few so called virtuous titles but horror, action and animation dominate

It’s funny how prevalent this view is on this website when the truth is the exact opposite….

@DSA_Watch Free healthcare, free childcare and free public transportation. Whether u support or not; these would all be a benefit to the “working class” but they are obviously not supporting

Batya: The DSA is pretending to be a working class party. It is the party of the over credentialed college elites who hate America.