**Decided to launch it. This guy might have his problems, but the hysterical MSM doxxing makes this a WORTHY CAUSE!
Let's see if a working guy who showed up for a major trial and did what 78% of people think is the right thing can outpace Karmelo...Luigi...and Clancy herself. https://t.co/E5xVXqLet1**
Danny DeVito thought the Always Sunny writers finally went too far 💀😭
“First thing I’m thinking is: LAWYER. I gotta call my lawyer. There ain’t no way in hell I’m doing this.”
“It was an April Fools’ joke they played on me. It was disgusting.”
“I got ’em back a couple years later.”
Firmly rooted in the Word of Jesus, reading the Gospel every day, never stop dreaming of a land where there is peace and fraternity, nor stop looking at the world with wonder, nor stop facing the future with the light of hope. Do not let anything or anyone steal your hope.
Man just want to thank the @USMNT for the way they represented the our country throughout the World Cup!
Not just with your play but how you handled yourselves before-during-and after the matches. Know it didn’t end the way you’d hoped but that’s sports-important thing is YOU brought so much excitement to your country AND to your sport!
Thank you for this ride and taking people like me (know very little about the game) to look forward to each match and listening and learning along the way.
Keep your heads up lads-we appreciate all of you!
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.
McConaughey: "A nice guy gets along... They don't necessarily have discernment or judgment, not sure what they stand for or against."
"A good man has ideals he stands for and stands against. When tested, a good man is not a nice guy."
The Venn diagram between people who think you should get fired for using the R word and people who think you should be able to euthanize your child if it has Down syndrome is almost a circle
@peterrhague Yes, also a lot of people claiming that Red is the superior option even though if it wins it will inevitably result in a large # of people dying bc there is no way to convince everyone to vote Red. If Blue wins, no innocent people die which is why most are drawn to it.