Super Mario MD

US physician who enjoys learning about finances and the stock market. A MotleyFool and SLOTH subscriber. #Bitcoin.

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@MyLordBebo Dear Iran. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s you next year, never to be a world player again. Courtesy of the USA 🇺🇸

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

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And since it's now in a Roth IRA, they would owe no taxes

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

All former FIFA-certified referees raise your hands.
🙋
That's right I used to both play & ref soccer. Now I mostly just mock it. Until they mess w/ Team USA.

This picture of the collision between Balogun & the B&H player looks awful, but it's complete garbage.
Wrong angle to see what really happened.

Balogun was closer to the ball and the B&H player came from his right AND behind initiating the contact. He caused his own suffering.

The ref got it right initially as a no call. They were both playing the ball. Even in a sport known for pitifully lame flopping sometimes two dudes just crash into each other and do some actual damage. Doesn't mean there was a foul.

The replay guy then saw an opportunity to take the Americans down a notch and the ref bought in and made an egregious red card ejection.

If any call was made it should have been against the B&H player who came from behind and out of the sight line of Balogun.

The outrage now is "How dare the Americans get this absurd attempt to weaken them overturned".

Taking a player out of a once in a lifetime game and tournament should be an exceedingly high bar. This was not.

The people pretending to care about the rules are really mad the Americans aren't getting screwed over. It's a common sentiment and all around the world hating Americans for being the Biggest, Baddest and Best is as much a national sport as Soccer Ball.

I've lived overseas for six years and traveled to several dozen countries. Furriners love to hate on us. I'm not saying it's all underserved, I'm just saying it's not new and it's everywhere.

I can't blame them, we're barely 250 years old and we have accomplished more than any country in history. We have invented more amazing things, freed more people from tyranny and lifted more people from poverty and that stings, especially for the Euros who think they own our history.

They do, the part that we left and left behind. The part we are making now they can only watch and be chafed about. Because they can't even come close.

So they were salivating at knocking a US star out of play on a BS call. Sorry Jacques Belgique, you're going to have to take on a full US squad. Good luck, I hope we make you cry some more in the game tonight.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

So to recap what happened with the USMNT:

• Balogun received a bogus red card
• VAR protocol isn't followed (no slow-mo)
• Trump calls Infantino to ask about the process
• US Soccer lawyers preapre & submit an appeal

FIFA's independent 18-person disciplinary committee then met, approved the appeal, and told Balogun he could play in Monday's match against Belgium.

That's what everyone is complaining about?

All rules were followed, and that same process is open to every other country. The only difference is everyone knows the red card was a mistake to begin with.

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@BosniaNTBall Now I get why soccer players cry when they get tapped on the shin. It’s expected of them so they can red card the opponent. The reward/risk ratio is huge!

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@EverythingRebs Now I get why soccer players cry when they get tapped on the shin. It’s expected of them so they can red card the opponent. The reward/risk ratio is huge!

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@FromValue Now I get why soccer players cry when they get tapped on the shin. It’s expected of them so they can red card the opponent. The reward/risk ratio is huge!

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@MaciejW1974 @MyLordBebo Yes please. All Euro teams stop playing. Forfeit the rest of the tournament.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

So far this year we have captured Maduro, neutralized Iran’s nuclear program, captured & killed multiple cartel leaders, and made FIFA reverse a red card.

America’s generational run continues.

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@CoffeeBlackMD No reasonable discussion. Just watch the game tomorrow and be glad you’re not in position to have to make that red card decision.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

“Do you know how many sex changes we could have bought for members of Tren de Aragua for what we paid for this?”

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@D162Michele Americans want freedom more than anything else.

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@CrossingBroad @Kevin_Kinkead Not all Europeans are Eurotrash, but I’m not surprised that the Eurotrash have trash opinions.

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@TheLaikYobaz

[Super Mario MD @mariozmd]

@HaretinaK Let me guess, Greece, Italy and Spain get the short end of the stick?

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

We literally nuked Japan twice and they have more appreciation for America than the average Democrat in this county.

Incredible stuff.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Washington seeing Zohran Mamdani at his desk defining what an American is

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Drone operator sends 2,500 drones into the air for a drone show celebrating America's 250th birthday in North Richland Hills, Texas.

"...For America 250, we celebrate in style!" said Sky Elements Drones.

Remarkable.