++Sky News++ captured his words, as he explained: “”Yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man [Infantino] who is highly respected. I’m the one who got them to do it, not Biden. Biden was asleep.”

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    We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch

    Anyone who knew someone like Trump would ruin a well-oiled grift machine.

    This sorry excuse for a human being has less planning skills than a pool of piranhas.

    He could have called Infantino, have the suspension reversed and brushed away tbe journalist’s question with a joke, but he’s even worse than Berlusconi.

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    Well the ownership class of the US is a bunch of Karens. We know this.

    And we know FIFA is corrupt AF, even more than the NFL.

    What’s vulgar about it now is that it’s done without a lick of subtlety or tact. The corruption is out in the open. They’re doing the Qu’ils mangent de la brioche more plainly and more often than was ever done in France.

    ( Technical history fact: Marie Antoinette never said it, but the rumor was viciously spread and sped her way to the guillotine. The historic queen was classically trained and actually had tact. The French aristocracy, however, did not.)

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    But did they tell him that balogun not only is black, but got the citizenship by ius soli, two things he hate and wants to remove?

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      It’s just part of his cognitive bias manipulation.

      He has to keep up chipping away logical reasoning and at some point people just accept it as truth.

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      Robert Baratheon: What about Aerys Targaryen? What did the Mad King say when you stabbed him in the back? I never asked. Did he call you a traitor? Did he plead for a reprieve?

      Jaime Lannister: He said the same thing he’d been saying for hours… Burn them all!

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      Trump forgot that he’s president and still thinks he’s campaigning against Biden

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    Lol I bet the commissioner didn’t expect he’d brag about it to the public.

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      His references are out of control. I have to admit it’s pretty sweet that da mayor is a proficient footie shitposter.

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    Conspiracy time.

    Because of the 250 years of independence, the final will be rigged to be USA/England and the USA will win controversially.

    Then trump will keep the trophy

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      That might actually get people around the world to pressure their leaders to take action against the USA. From what I understand about most of the rest of the world, soccer is taken very seriously.

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      I’m already suspicious the USA have got as far as they have, yes Norway are ranked two places below, but Haaland is far far better than anyone the US can field. Chances are given the USA would have had plenty of Lantino countries in their qualifying group, they’re only chance of getting into the World Cup was automatic due to hosting it. I don’t know, maybe I’m being to harsh. Still it is utterly unbelievable that FIFA have reversed this.

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        The host countries are usually setup to get out of their group. US has generally been good enough on their own to get to quarterfinals when they qualify, but that’s when the real tourney begins.

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        Holy shit. As an American seeing the marketing and advertising for the world cup is sick. It’s so cringy… I feel bad for all the authentic people that love the sport.

        I wouldn’t doubt if there’s some business going on with FIFA on large corrupt scale though… American football is losing its pull of American culture… They needed a new sport to help them create submissive people.

        It’s about to get soulless like Hollywood and marketed pop music. …and the Americans will froth over it like hungry zombies.

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          And here’s me, loving that our sports are becoming international. The WBC this year was fucking awesome to watch imo, and I think it’s cool that American football is expanding in other parts of the world. We can only imagine what an eventual “World Football Championship” would be like.

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            I agree it’s cool on the surface… But you know it’s going to lose authenticity exponentially.

            That’s why I feel for the people who are genuine about it. It’s a double edged sword that probably won’t care about the genuine people.

            It’s like every authentic thing America touches starts to oxidize, and rust.

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              I don’t agree with that. Imo professional sports lost its authenticity years ago when they started letting advertisers and sponsors dictate the games.

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          I don’t think the US needs a new sport, most of the country is either brain dead from American Football, Basketball, NASCAR, Baseball. Basically anything the USA has invetend for themselves and every other country couldn’t give a shit about.

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            Rugby, netball, any motorsport, cricket…turns out different regions like different things, but there are often analogues.

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            Yeah most people in the US don’t give a shit about soccer, so I don’t get why you’d bother rigging it or other manipulation. Other than just because you are Trump and you just rug and grift and do shadey shit for no reason other than to do it.

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        You have the right of it otherwise, but one player usually can’t carry a whole team on his own. Not even a phenomenon like Haaland.

        Granted, they have a few other good players like Ødegaard too, but that’s still not necessarily enough to beat a well-managed team and Pochettino managed a few of the biggest clubs in the world before taking the US gig.

        Still, even if nothing else looks suspicious, the first withdrawn red card since 1962 at the request of the despot in charge of a host country is in itself enough to warrant an asterisk.

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      Will one of Starmer’s last acts as PM be to try and get Quansah’s red card overturned?

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          Nah, just the Neoliberal version of “honor”, which is timidness and excessive politeness, if not less obvious collaboration.

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            You know he didn’t have to resign right? He literally only did it for honor. The uk political system is driven by honor. They even pressured Boris Johnson to resign. Could you imagine a US president resigning before their term was done?

            The UK hasn’t had a single prime minister fill out their full term since 2015

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      I bet it’ll follow this script down to a T, hehe. I’ll show myself out.

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      france will lend a player to the americans, who then goes on to score the winner in extra time.

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      I’m saving this, just in case… maybe you got a career as psychic ahead of you.

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      If the US team managed to win, I would be fucking astounded. The team’s made the top 4 exactly once when they got 3rd place in 1930. 96 whole years without placing. I know the US doesn’t care about the sport much, but still shocked me a bit when I learned that.

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      The US will be losing and then some French players will help from the sidelines.

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    Man they really want the Wikipedia entry for US Men’s National Team results section to have an asterisk by the number 2026, don’t they

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    He went and did exactly what he always goes and does: he made the thing about himself.

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    Biden was asleep

    This is a fucking weird chirp coming from someone constantly falling asleep on camera.

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    That’s not a parody quote, it’s the actual quote in the Article, straight from the Horse’s ass.