Yet again, everything he touches turns to absolute dogshit.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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how the fuck did this piece of shit become a billionaire when everything turns to fucking shit? Boggles the mind.
Because half of Trump voters still think his family did not gain wealth from his presidencies.
When your voting base is this ignorant, corruption and deregulation festers, feeding into the ignorance/corruption cycle ad nauseum.
Well to be honest, because we made laws to make it so. If he had been born a plank of wood, and never spoke, walked, or did anything. He would be a billionaire today. We made bankruptcy laws to make sure the rich couldn't become poor by accident. Set bankruptcy at 10% of ones net worth, and every billionaire would fight it. Say you can sell a company was worth 1.4 billion, you can declare bankruptcy and it will cost pennies comparatively. The people who lose their houses are struggling, the companies don't lose anything but a oops.
So once again the world proves yet again whatever Trump touches turns to shit as the US loses 4 to fucking 1.
Whether the red card was bullshit or not it irrelevant. Sports fans everywhere know that shit calls get made. The issue is that a sitting president called up his buddy who happens to be the president of FIFA and had it overturned. That is fucking insane.
How is it an issue??? You act like as if he didn't fuk and kill little girls. This is nowhere close to issue, most dictators do this kind of things in football
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So annoying. Government should not give a fuck about games.
Worse, the people who should care, the sports fans, just keep throwing their money at fifa.
We are all fucked. Corporate sports and government grift, and people cant stop watching and/or don't care.
Reminder of the sponsors of this tournament:
Edit: Budweiser and Hisense are also sponsors
Aramco, Saudi Arabia's state owned oil company. One of the big reasons why Iraq and Iran were attacked.
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the red card was def harsh don’t get me wrong. balogun clearly didn’t mean to do that, but it’s understandable to preserve a level of safety in the game. you have FIFA saying at first that the FA will not rescind the red card given to balogun, then suddenly the president himself calls infantino and now the red card is suspended? come on. had this happened to belgium there would be uproar from so many americans. it is 1)insanely corrupt and 2) sets a very bad precedent cause now any country can just ask to get their bookings for players reversed. this is getting long but anyways please pirate all your world cup games!!
Edit: LOOOOOLLL GET FUCKED AMERIKKKA daddy trump literally cheated for them and they still lost what a bunch of clowns
This is hardly a new precedent. This is just fifa being fifa.
Corruption is spelled FIFA.
I have to say, this is so strangely captivating, I can’t stop looking at it honestly! Weirdly in sync between the two very different approaches! I have zero idea why this is so enthralling but I couldn’t just scroll away without explicitly voicing my confused enjoyment, so peculiar
I think its simply empathy, both are looking like they have a fun time and we want to join them.
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Really funny seeing people sob over the integrity of the sport as if FIFA isn't actively buying votes to line their pockets and hosting tournaments to sports-wash theocratic slave states (USA included).
The card system never made sense for international knockout play anyway because one ref with a grudge can, more or less, unilaterally eject a team from the tournament. Almost nobody has the depth to deal with a red card.
He will call Infantino about those four unfair goals against the American team, too.
Unfortunately anything beyond this point is tainted. The only thing that can save this is the USA coach deliberately not fielding Balogun.
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Funny. The American ambassador in Belgium has claimed trump didn’t and wouldn’t ever do something like that
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THAT'S CORRUPTION!
i.e. someone within trumps inner circle or trump himself had a bet placed on mondays game and called in a favour.
I’m surprised he’d intervene for a black dude
You have to understand its not about intervening for a black dude. To them and other rich racist assholes, they see the players as animals there to serve them. In this case serving as entertainment. They would be just as upset if their cock fighting chicken got penalized.
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A lot of people saying he shouldn’t even have gotten a red card because he didn’t do it on purpose; it was a reckless tackle and the injury was potentially career ending. If a drunk driver kills a kid you don’t let them of with a slap on the wrist because it was an oopsie.
if a drunk driver kills a kid
Bit of a false equivalency. Two players trying to play the ball and walking into each other is objectively not a foul. Extremely disingenuous to call it a "tackle". Making the choice to get behind the wheel while drunk is not the same thing at all
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I will exitedly open up a nice Belgian beer if they can make Trump angry this Tuesday.
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USA - Unscrupulous Scam Alliance
The best thing that could happen is the team refuses to play. By continuing to play, you are part of the problem.
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As if the peace prize wasn't bad enough, they now need to bring their corruption to the game itself.
If this doesn't alienate all member organisations, I don't know what will. They should pull the plug and start a new international federation with better accountability.
It's unbelievable how much stupider the US seems now VS ten years ago, and it already seemed kinda stupid, but it also seemed very capable. The only country that's fallen harder is Putin's dry gas station.
Well, the 2026 world cup is officially as enshittified as Don's diaper. I had a bad feeling at "hydration breaks".
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