@AmitSegal If Dems take the House & Senate after the midterms, will Bibi go and address both chambers to denounce Trump & this deal? Fairs fair after all.
🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:
“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.
The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.
This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”
The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.
And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?
Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.
The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”
@HoodieUce@F1Sauce Lack of PR training?? Are you for real? He's had the press in his face since he was a child. For the most part, he chooses to speak his mind. A brave trait. If only more of our politicians would follow his lead
@CodingBear@BroWire_ He was aiming at the underside of the roof, forcing the water down onto the base of the 🔥 just like a sprinkler system works. Good work.
@roddreher@BRad24365 Perhaps because you and yours have done everything in your power to undermine those institutions for your own political ends? Now you cry foul? Pathetic.
@Acyn Did he mention he’s draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a record pace? Lots of which is going to Europe & Asia? He’s fucked up sooooo badly.
@jbarro@charlescwcooke Josh, what in your life, either professional or personal, gives you any credibility when discussing ‘ordinary Americans’? I’ve listened to Central Air, nothing in there reflects the slightest familiarity with the lives of 90% of America.
@maroonguy84@SteveGuest@mirandadevine Particularly as he found a way to turn it into a licensing scheme, so he gets to grift off the use of his name. There is no bottom with this guy.
@B_Christs_Amb@EWErickson Chuck Schumer recruited the present governor of the state to run against him, sadly she is as old as Methuselah & nobody could take her seriously for a 6 yr term. Shit happens.
@TrueFactsStated She couldn’t wait until after the midterms? There is no great wish to stir up all the Biden cover up drama while Trump is imploding in multiple fronts. This is just more selfish me-centric crap from a disgraced former First Lady.