The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸

Thinker of much evil, doer of none.

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

Oh, how language has changed! I’m re-reading Moby Dick. They’re talking about a seaman’s orgy. They’re referring to a staff party on a whaling ship.

[Dana Loesch @DLoesch]

This is welfare, not empowerment or anything of the sort.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

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[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

A black woman just won a Ben Franklin look-a-like contest

This is real

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Let today remind you that America is worth fighting for.

Happy Fourth of July!!

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[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

I spoke to Caitlin Clark about the officiating last year and truth is the @WNBA does not get the good refs. The good ones go to the NBA. The less good refs do college games. The refs not good enough for college, ref High school.
And the ones below that ref Catholic youth leagues. The refs not good enough for Catholic league ref mentally handicapped kids. The refs not good enough for that officiate in the @WNBA

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

I keep seeing this trend of people naming their daughters Juniper. Juniper is the ugliest and most off-putting plant in the garden. Rose, Lily, Jasmine, Daisy…so many pretty options to choose from and these people are going with Juniper!

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

If we learned anything from last nights USA World Cup game, it’s that FIFA is corrupt.

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

This is why we Americans prefer football to soccer! 🏈 Add flopping on top of inconsistent referees and soccer is basically unwatchable. Despite that, go Team USA! Make Belgium pay for that BS red card!

[Nick 🇨🇦 @Nick28T]

As a Canadian, I have no horse in this particular race… BUT, that’s never a red card on Balogun. And if it is, then how the hell did Messi not get sent off for the identical thing in the group stages?

As always, lack of consistency in VAR and Ref decisions.

[matt eichinger @mjeichinger]

“Why hasn’t soccer taken off more in America?” As a casual fan, I present to you exhibit A. Balogun has been intentionally held, kicked, fouled harder than this the entire game. Then this no intent, accidental contact foul draws red. Stupid sport can’t get out of its own way.

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

USA To the Refs and Bosnia 🇺🇸

[Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA]

I’ve watched almost all of every game of this World Cup and no play like that, which wasn’t even a yellow, was upgraded to a red.

Complete bullshit. And impacts the USA now and next game too, if they advance. Way to go FIFA. Well done.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Horrible call!!! The FIFA fix is in!!!! They hate us cause they ain’t us! #usa

[kelsie @iPad_Latino]

We had a really mean python at work and I gave him back to his owner and was like “he was trying to kill me” and his owner said “well, he only has so many ways to interact with the world. All he has is a face” and it Moved Me

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

@jason_howerton My daughter had constant strep and sleep apnea. We removed her tonsils two years ago, when she was almost 5. She hasn’t been sick a single time since then. She also eats way more and is overall much healthier. It was scary, but 100% worth it.

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

If we are living in a simulation, as many people have theorized, then what are dreams? What purpose would dreaming serve in a simulation? None, from what I can discern.

[The Evil Thinker 🇺🇸 @TheEvilThinker]

Liberal leadership has ruined Nashville! It used to be safe, clean, beautiful and fun. Now it is dirty, smelly and filled with drug addicts and drunks. I will never willingly come back to Nashville again and I used to love it here. Liberals ruin everything they touch.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Girl dads:

Do not bring little girls into the men's room. We do not want little girls exposed to adult, male genitals.

You are welcome to bring your girl(s) into the women's restroom.

Just give a knock, say you're a girl dad coming in, and you'll be fine.

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

Can someone please explain it to me like I'm five, why members of Congress are more upset that Elon became a trillionaire than they are that Somalis have defrauded our government out of hundreds of billions of dollars?