All former FIFA-certified referees raise your hands.
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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.
Revisting this debate from February ... turns out I was right. Putting millions of illegals in the housing pool drove up prices, according to the Federal Reserve. Supply and demand is still a thing, it turns out.
They are finally admitting what we’ve all known for YEARS.
Hardworking AMERICANS and their families are paying the price of Democrat’s illegals first agenda.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! In a massive scandal, the Federal Reserve has quietly admitted that Biden's illegal alien invasion SURGED home prices by +30%, directly harming US citizens' affordability
This comes as President Trump has BLOCKED taxpayer mortgages and housing assistance to illegals
THE BETRAYAL OF OUR LIFETIMES!!
+30% in home prices?! The media should be talking about this 24/7!
BREAKING: President Trump reveals the details of his conversation with FIFA President Gianni Infantino over the controversial red card call on star American player Folarin Balogun.
"All I did was ask for a review because I didn't think it was a foul. And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff. I didn't think it was a foul. I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled."
"I think they made a really brilliant decision. I think the referee's call was horrible and nobody talks about that. They talk about the red card like it's fine, nobody talks the referee's decision to red card."
@DutchRico@CasinoCapital@yinzer_g The truth is, the government doesn’t want to pay for the potential medical bills. They could care less about the people. They just want you to pay your taxes (which includes your “free” medical) and shut up.
@yinzer_g@CasinoCapital In the UK, you have to pay a sugar tax for a regular Coke, Sprite, Fanta, etc. Many will drink Diet so they don’t have to pay the sugar tax.
They also have a television tax. Failure to pay results in fines ($1000+) or they try to remove your tvs from your house.
No joke.
What I've learned from World Cup travelers this week.
- Apparently the US is the only country with A/C
- Other countries don't use seasoning on their food
- You can only buy a gallon of milk in the USA
- You have to pay for a 2nd or 3rd pop at a restaurant outside of America. No free refills
- They love to party just like us and boy are they fun!
- Only we do flyovers before games
- America's spring is hotter than Europe's summer
-We have a lot to learn when it comes to soccer chants
- Ranch Dressing is a delicacy to be treasured
- Their media lies to them just like ours does to us
Can we keep em?
Palisades has been abandoned. Job sites are having their tools and materials stolen, random vehicles prowl the streets. The only time Karen Bass had a police presence here was to harass fire victims with seatbelt tickets when they came in to mourn their losses.
🚨 WTF?! California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) just helped DEFEAT a bill that would've blocked registered s*x offenders from holding public office
Wiener said it's "dangerous" because the crimes aren't a huge deal, and that some people just have "flaws"
This guy needs to be looked into 🤯
🚨 Today the California Senate Committee held a hearing on the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” known as AB 2624. This bill will criminalize and punish anyone from looking into fraud inside immigrant communities in California.
This bill was created only after I exposed billions of dollars in fraud throughout immigrant communities in the US. “Immigration support services” have become a billion dollar industry in California, and now that the fraud has been exposed, they are trying to criminalize those who look into the fraud.
The bill has passed through the California Assembly and is set to pass through the Senate and then to Governor Newsom’s desk. This bill was created by the Attorney Generals WIFE and will allow him to go after citizens if they film nonprofits and “immigration support services providers”.
Welcome to Califraudia.
BREAKING: Save Prop 13 just got our Prop #! We're now Yes on 43!
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Freddy's story is a quiet tragedy of modern social media. A German fan road-tripping through America, marveling at everyday life in the South, built a following of 753K almost overnight, purely on good vibes and genuine curiosity.
Then the machine turned.
Old posts resurfaced without context, critics attacked him for the audacity of having a good time, and the fame he never wanted disrupted the simple trip he came for.
And he left.
It's hard not to see it as proof that these platforms often chew up the very authenticity they pretend to celebrate.
🚨HUGE: Congressman @realBrandonGill just filed legislation to BLOCK illegal aliens from receiving TAXPAYER FUNDED MORTGAGES.
"The American Dream belongs to Americans. It’s time Washington started governing like."
God bless Rep. Brandon Gill for putting AMERICANS FIRST!
We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying, too...
But they are still lying.
The Save America Act is simple: Go back to Election Day—not election month—and require voters to prove they are who they say they are.
That’s how we earn back the American people’s trust.