Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦

Space, football and freedom: I will not trade any of them.
🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@businessjord @Dave_Eby Sure, every single Somalian goes around mutilating little girls...🙄
This guy is an international referee. He has lived in Turkey for years. But go ahead, blame him for his birthplace.
You don't like his skin colour, that's all.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@ChrisO_wiki The threats to the Baltics are a highlight here. We see a growing consensus between these criminals that their only way out is to dig a deeper hole and attack NATO territory. In a few months it will be the typical Russian "we have no choice".
Scary thought.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@DylanBurns1776 Yes, this would likely be totally ineffective, but let's not underestimate them. Remember the NK soldiers that fought in Kursk were praised by Ukrainians for their marksmanship, and downed a few FPV drones. We should take this seriously.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@SciGuySpace Luca! The only man to almost drown in space!

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@michaeldweiss I assume you mean....
https://t.co/EeVTvB2BhR

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@Leo_PeriaPeigne @clement_molin Bien d'accord... mais souvennons-nous que dans les années 1970 on disait: "If you want Brezhnev to know something quickly, tell the West Germans in strict secrecy. It will be on his desk in the Kremlin by tomorrow morning."😉

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@MiguelDelaney "What was the point of Infantino's cravenness to Trump?"
Selling tickets for $10K, gouging fans to the absolute bone and milking host cities for every last penny. That was the point.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@RealLeafPJ Your take is beyond idiotic. We're not talking about some random guy that showed up at the airport. Mr. Artan has a diplomatic passport, a valid visa, an invitation to be a referee in the WC from FIFA, no criminal record. What "vetting concerns"...?????

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@BladeoftheS The map is not comprehensive... they're adding red every day
https://t.co/zSHd0NbBam

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@Small_sam @wartranslated When your speech starts with the sentence "As we all remember", it really means "this is the BS we should pretend to believe".

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@Ceeya_Mav Well, if you check out Canadian media, you will see something.
Nothing crazy, teams arrived and were welcomed. Unlike other places...
https://t.co/u67cNjZ1GE
https://t.co/kdiP88S7aH

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@RespectIsVital @FIFAcom Because FIFA has become even more corrupt than it was back in any other WC. Which is something we couldn't even imagine was possible at the time.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@ABC Correction: a Somalian referee, best in Africa in 2025, selected by FIFA and carrying a DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT was denied entry to the US. The only "vetting concern" was his birthplace and the colour of his skin.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@wartranslated "Come to a war zone, dodge the drones, enjoy the smoke from blown-up ammo storages and... get 10 liters of gasoline!"
"If you die, your family gets a bag of potatoes!"

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@SkySportsNews Not sure how clean Platini is after all, but he would have been way, way better than Infantino as the head of FIFA. The sport would have been much better off with him leading.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@clement_molin Cher Clément, tu es vraiment jeune. Moi, je me souvienne de ce que je faisait à ton age pour changer le monde: rien du tout. Mais toi, tu le fais à tous les jours.

Merci! Tu donnes de l'espoir pour ce monde si troublant.

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@MahdiToure8 Malheureusement, on sait très bien quelle est la raison d'une telle manque de respect: la couleur de la peau.
C'est épouvantable!

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@Footballogue Mais M. Artan est somalien, né à Mogadiscio. C'est tout ce qui compte pour les Américaines. Quelle honte!

[Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦 @TrueGradient]

@laurnorman @ZelenskyyUa People forget that Zelenskyy was a (very successful) comedian. He's putting those skills to good use here.