I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning.
He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out.
a lot of people who claim to love this country actually just love capitalism and that they personally attained wealth through it
there’s no love for what actually unites America. there is zero civic pride. no care for the common good.
they don’t love the U.S. they love the USD.
Just to be clear, then. FIFA:
1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA
2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like
Smashing. All know where we stand
I’ve known Gianni since I met him around 1999. I’ve said this in many podcasts/columns.
He is a world class sycophant and arse-licker. He makes himself useful to power. If you cannot progress his own status you will mean nothing to him. Power is the objective. Not reputation.
The bigger argument will be when FIFA doesn’t do this for the next player to get a red card at the World Cup, because it will be very difficult to explain why not.
Pros and cons of neighborhood fireworks:
Cons:
-Upsets every dog in a 10 block radius
-Keeps neighbors awake
-Frightens people with PTSD, anxiety
-Risk of fires
-Risk of injuries (you and others)
-Risk of property damage (yours and others)
-Worsens air quality
I'm sorry it's fucking crazy that that billionaire lady is disrupting the busiest rail station in the Western Hemisphere the day before a holiday on a whim. We live in the tackiest second gilded age imaginable
Dan Goldman lost his race, so now he's on CNN inventing slurs and tropes I never uttered. I challenged you before, @danielsgoldman. Quote one thing I actually said. You won't, because you can't.
And I'm not surprised by @jaketapper laundering baseless accusations against me. He's auditioning for the Ellisons to join his mate Bari Weiss. I can understand.
Remembering that this is the same Kamala Harris who screened the Israeli propaganda film “Screams Before Silence” in the White House and spent her campaign telling Palestine organizers to get in line while touting support for the Israeli colony. No rehabilitating that.
She had a chance in 2024 to talk to us. Instead she said “I’m speaking” and had us kicked out of her rally’s. Her inability to do the right thing. Brought us another Trump term. We will not forget this in 2028. She can consider her presidential bid DOA
You can call it misdirected anger or an unreasonable purity test, but Democratic voters in deep blue (especially urban) districts are sending a very clear message — if you take corporate PAC money and/or vote to send aid to Israel, you’re on notice.
“Perfectly fine” for Trump 1.0 not the same “perfectly fine” for Trump 2.0.
Immediately after Oct. 7, Bill Ackman and his ilk organized a blacklist to bar Americans criticizing Israel from ever having a job in finance, law, Silicon Valley, etc. That led to a wave of mass firings over Israel.
Totally unsurprising that this created a massive backlash:
In 2023, Indonesia were stripped of the under-20 World Cup for refusing to allow the Israeli team entry.
Fifa's justification then was the vague "due to the current circumstances".
Quite a contrast to the hardline "FIFA is not involved in host immigration processes" now.