Trump supporter: “I’m totally against vaccines. Absolutely, 100%. Every single one of them. They’re poison”
Jason Selvig: “What about Polio vaccine?”
TS: “There hasn’t been a case of Polio in how many years, since 1960?”
JS: “Since the vaccine…”
TS: “Yeah”
For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
🇵🇱🇺🇦 FM Radosław Sikorski:
“Russia didn’t win the Crimean War.
It didn’t win the Russo-Japanese War.
It didn’t win WWI.
It didn’t win the Battle of Warsaw.
It didn’t win in Afghanistan.
And it didn’t win the Cold War.”
The idea that Russia cannot be defeated is propaganda.
@yowelector @cturnbull1968 It would probably not have been a living person then but a historic person. Would the Kennedy center also be “ The Harris and Kennedy Center”?
Why the USA will never be a football superpower.
Pay to play.
In England, from 10 to 16 I payed junior football. The teams were mostly started by a parent who wanted, for free, to give kids a team to play in. Those teams then joined FA sanctioned leagues ( Lichfield league, Walsall league in my case). Subs were about 50p a game ( subs are a fee for admin, pitch hire, referee).
The model in England hasn't changed much, save for the fact there's fewer teams and fewer leagues. But the cheap to play model, meaning the poor and rich can play equally, holds.
I'm staying with one of my best mates in Miami. Had a late night conversation 2 nights ago. 2 kids that play football.
$4000 per season, per child to play for a team.
Why?
US junior leagues are private enterprises (shock). The US equivalent of the Football Association offers no grassroots football, no level 1 to 3 cheap badges for Moms or Dads to take so they can coach the basics, no structure locally or nationally of organised leagues, just profiteers who start up a league, charge a fortune, and if you're a poor Messi-esque talent from the wrong part of Miami, sure you can buy a ball and play on a patch of grass, but forget organised football, you can't afford it.
So imagine, in a nation of 350 million, how many kids they're missing out on and will continue to after this successful World Cup for them.
Money, greed, pay to play.
99.9% of greats to play the game wouldn't have made it in America. Because they couldn't afford $4000 ( plus) to play. In subs my Mom probably paid £200 total over 6 or 7 years of junior football.
America, it's not all about money you know, it's about opportunity for all too. And you're pricing generation after generation out of the chance to be a part of this incredible sport you've seen first hand.
To the US Federation. Do fucking better. Organise local and national junior leagues, van profiteering, offer cheap coaching badges for parents who want to give their time for free to America's kids.
Football. Accessible to all.
@GroypinGary@ZeBakermann@RasmusJarlov@DeptfordWife1@ellencarmichael No. People thought it was corrupt with Ronaldo as well. FIFA wanted Ronaldo to play. Not europeans. Of course it doesn’t make it any better that your president, Rubio and every other politician is trying to overturn the red card.
This is obviously happening the day before
I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.
250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.
A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.
An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.
The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.
A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.
A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.
Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.
$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.
And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.
And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?
Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.
For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?
Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?
They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.
🇧🇷🇳🇴 Carlo Ancelotti ahead of Brazil's massive World Cup knock-out match against Norway:
🗣️ "I've prepared for over 1,400 matches. That may not be enough to understand football, but it's certainly a good amount of experience."
"Only one person has prepared more matches than me: Alex Ferguson, who has prepared for over 2,000. I take advice from everyone, but the only one who could really be the right person to give me advice is Alex Ferguson."
Gioggia Meloni visita un poverissimo paese della Basilicata e chiede al sindaco quali siano le tre priorità per rilanciare la zona.
«La prima è l’ospedale: c’è, ma mancano i medici».
Lei tira fuori il telefonino, parla per un paio di minuti e poi annuncia:
«Fatto. Entro una settimana arrivano i medici».
«La seconda è l’acqua: c’è, ma una miniera a monte ha inquinato le falde».
Lei riprende il telefonino, altre due parole, e dice:
«Fatto. Entro un mese le falde saranno bonificate e la proprietà risarcirà gli abitanti».
«E la terza?» chiede lei.
«La terza sono i telefonini» risponde il sindaco.
«Qui non prende niente».
@McveyRossA@Microinteracti1 Then ask the foreign fighters who have volunteered to fight for Ukraine. Do you think they want Ukraine to surrender to Russia?
@SteLanc1@Im_RobM Your right. If only Saudi Arabia could buy everything they wanted. Then you would probably be the best in the world. That wouldn’t be corrupt, right?