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[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

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.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

On the red card scandal, I don’t think Europeans understand American mindset: we do not accept a wrong not being righted. In Europe, the customer is always wrong, and they accept bad things happen sometimes through no fault of one’s own. This is an impossibility to an American.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@MattWalshBlog Amigo, stop generalizing the Hispanic culture. We are not all the same.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@_CATNERD2 @SacredHope @csimons3 @NFL @TPUSA Colombia*

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@albertfonse11j Yes, this!

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@MattWalshBlog I am a legal immigrant, now naturalized and respectful of this country. You are referring to a specific amount of illegal immigrants. Generalizing is more divisive Matt. Its not ALL.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@MattWalshBlog Not all Latin American artists are the same. Bad Bunny is far from Pop. I just wish that people would take real interest in diving into the different genres before stating something like this. I get it we didn’t like his performance but don’t lump us all in it.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@MattWalshBlog I think you are referring to Reggaeton. I will give you that it can be trashy. However, Latin American Pop is not what you witnessed here. I am on your side most of the time, but this is a blanket statement without being specific.

[Kristina Cook @KristinaCo9561]

I sound mad, because I am.

For 6 years, my daughter needlessly suffered from treatment resistant “severe mental illness” that I now know was metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction that I could have fixed from day one on my own at home and in my kitchen. It was never Bipolar Disorder (and hallucinations during manic episodes), never OCD, never anxiety, not depression, not ADHD. It was her body screaming out for help.

This book was published in 1975. 50 years ago!!

In August of 2024, I found metabolic therapies. I changed our diet. I threw out ALL of my groceries and went to the farm. 7 days later, she was off her afternoon meds. 3 weeks after that, we found Brain Energy and added the ketogenic diet to our metabolic therapies. 3 days after that, she woke up an entirely new child. She was off all medication within the next 2 weeks and in remission ever since. From treatment resistant to living her best life in 6 weeks.

We are built from food. Not pharmaceuticals.

Get curious. Your child’s life might just depend on it.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@OhCanada2022 @FoxNews It tells you everything you need to know about them.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@FoxNews Nate probably had to follow their guidelines. They did not like Nate either. I am sure Nate did the best he could with his controllables, and delivered what they asked. Nobody was expecting the Emmys to say anything good for Charlie. It is like asking a pear tree for oranges.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@natebargatze @CBS @paramountplus @TelevisionAcad I can imagine the mai stream media, all deciding like a group project, “bohoo” “we didn’t like it so we’ll say it was bad”. No worries though, (not that you are worried lol) - We all know, we see you! You did great 😊

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@natebargatze @CBS @paramountplus @TelevisionAcad I think you did amazing. It was to be expected that some people, especially Hollywood, would have a hard time relating to wholesome humor. I think it was brilliant to put a mirror in front of their faces and confront their own (I may say Narcissism)

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@natebargatze @CBS @paramountplus @TelevisionAcad Keep up the good work! I am baffled by the reviews! Your true followers and all of us others that are not loud on the internet (probably 99%) of those who care for you, have zero regard for what the mainstream media wants to say.

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@natebargatze @CBS @paramountplus @TelevisionAcad You exposed their obsession with themselves, in a funny way! But of course they were not going to follow… 10/10 for you Nate. I’ve followed you for ever and enjoy everything you do!

[Rocks Paper Scissors @LivelyJacobine]

@natebargatze @CBS @paramountplus @TelevisionAcad Also, I think you balanced it well respecting and doing the best job with your controllables. It is to be expected for the world to expect worldliness. You brought light and wholesomeness, and some couldn’t handle it.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

George goes first. We don't hear his monologue. We only see Jerry's face when he's done. And he is frozen in horror. And George is his best friend. END.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

9/ The question is, and I mean this literally: Can civilization survive now that we have been made witness to the interior lives of others? Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and George decide they are going to share their deepest, darkest secrets? ->

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

8/ "Use every man after his desert," Hamlet says, "and who should 'scape whipping?" Meaning: if the world knew what was going on inside us, we would all be punished viscerally for it. Until 2007, for the most part, the world would not, could not, know. ->

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

7/ The part of him that dehumanizes Charlie Kirk and turns his assassination into a joke then threatens to dehumanize me in a way. And seriously, before social media, I would never even know he existed, or that he thought what he thought, and that was better for him and me ->