Chris Kim

random thoughts every so not often

[Chris Kim @notchriskim]

@SeanMcCarthyCom every day i respect zlatan more and more and more

[Elite Futbol Talk | EFT @EliteFutbolTalk]

🚨Ibrahimovic: Ronaldo called the World Cup “7 game tournament?”

For him Ronaldo it’s always 3 or 4 games not 7

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

*Zlatan on Messi missing the PK*

“Everyone misses PK’s. I’ve missed PK’s, Thierry has missed PK’s… Alexi was never asked to take PK’s so he couldn’t miss…” 😬😬

[MICHELLE. @Chefdoo195]

💣🚨BREAKING: Zlatan To Ronaldo After Portugal Wass Eliminated From The World Cup.

Listen carefully. I’ve Patiently Waited For This Day….

🗣️Cristiano set the rules himself: “You’re not a legend until you win with your country.” Boom straight at Messi after 2014. The world cheered. Social media crowned him.

Then Zlatan watched.

Messi came back, won Copa América… twice. Suddenly: “Euro is bigger.”

🗣️Messi lifted the World Cup. New rule: “Only seven games, doesn’t count.” Cristiano even said a legend’s career can’t be defined by seven games. The same man who once said the World Cup would fulfill him.

Now he is 41. Portugal exits. New quote: “World Cup doesn’t define me.”

Zlatan laughs.

🗣️By your own law, Cristiano, you fall short. Five Ballons d’Or. One Euro. No World Cup. While Messi? He took everything, danced through generations, and never once needed to diminish anyone.

That is the difference.

One talked like a king.
The other played like a god… and left as the greatest.

Ibrahimović has spoken.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Chris Kim @notchriskim]

@Underdog damn the loss to the knicks hit deaaron fox hard

[Chris Kim @notchriskim]

@NFLonDAZN both

[Chris Kim @notchriskim]

will taylor swifts wedding be following the energy saving rules while in NYC??

[Chris Kim @notchriskim]

“You a little girl!”

[Chris Kim @notchriskim]

I think this cake from carvel is cursed. I don’t believe it’s advertised to look this way. I did take a blurry picture so it doesn’t help. We still loved it tho :) @CarvelIceCream

[CHOQUEI @choquei]

🚨ASSISTA: Arquibancada percebe que uma pessoa ficou presa embaixo da bandeira na hora em que ela foi hasteada.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Massie lost because he wanted the Epstein List released and pedophiles held accountable. Trump didn't want any of that, so he had to go.

[Dr.mostafa project🇵🇸𓂆 @MostafaBNaim1]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez:

“We received a letter today demanding that Lamine Yamal be suspended because he raised the Palestinian flag yesterday during the celebrations of FC Barcelona. I think this is something laughable — asking me to suspend a player simply for raising the Palestinian flag.

I believe FIFA should instead be contacted to prevent you from participating in football because of what you have been doing for more than three years: systematic killing and genocide carried out in the most horrific ways.

Lamine Yamal will be honored, and this flag will become an icon of celebrations in the streets of Spain from today onward.”

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

It’s crazy how fast everyone forgot 'Epstein Files'

Here are some of the horrific videos and photos from Epstein files. Thread 🧵

1.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

And just like that… everybody stopped talking about the Epstein Files.

[Tommy Sheridan @citizentommy]

It is now officially recognised by the highest court in the world that Israel is guilty of heinous genocide. Now isolate them. Sanction them. Boycott them. Prosecute them. And most importantly of all militarily defeat them. Israel is a monster. A genocidal monster. Defeat them 😡

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The virus is called "covert mortality nodavirus" because it kills shrimp without any visible symptoms. The shrimp look fine. Then they're dead. It earned that name in aquaculture farms where entire populations would collapse overnight with zero external warning signs.

Now it's doing something similar in human eyes.

CMNV targets the anterior uveal tract, the middle layer of the eye. It triggers inflammation and sends intraocular pressure through the roof, mimicking glaucoma. Standard antivirals don't work because nobody was testing for an aquatic nodavirus in human eye tissue. Every patient in the study tested negative for herpes, shingles, and every other known ocular virus. Doctors were diagnosing it as idiopathic for years.

The research team in China sequenced fluid directly from patients' eyes and found a 98.96% genetic match to the CMNV strains circulating in farmed shrimp. 70 out of 70 patients tested positive for CMNV antibodies. They infected mice with it and got the same eye symptoms.

71.4% of cases traced back to handling or eating raw seafood. But some cases had no clear seafood exposure at all, which raises the question nobody wants to ask about human-to-human transmission.

The part that should concern everyone outside China: CMNV has been detected in 49 aquatic species across waters in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The virus is already global. The diagnosis isn't.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The Financial Times is reporting something that should be front-page news everywhere.   

Pete Hegseth didn’t just help design the Iran war. He championed it publicly, cheered it on, and sold it to the American people. And according to the Financial Times, while his own department was in the final stages of preparing to launch it, his broker at Morgan Stanley was attempting to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the defense companies that build the weapons we used to fight it.   

The investment didn’t ultimately go through, but only because the fund wasn’t yet available on Morgan Stanley’s platform. Not because anyone stopped it.  

If these reports are accurate, the Secretary of Defense was positioned to profit from a war he helped start, using information no private investor could ever have. That is a profound betrayal of every service member he commands, and of every American who trusted this Administration with their national security.  

No one should be cashing in on privileged information while lives and national security are on the line.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨

Donald Trump’s team is frantically deleting his old tweets — especially the ones where he viciously attacked President Obama’s Iran policies — in a blatant attempt to rewrite history and hide his past hypocrisy.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

The White House deleted this embarrassing video. So whatever you do- * DON'T REPOST IT. * Donald wouldn't like it if you hit "repost."

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.