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BREAKING: THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT! Furious soccer fans erupt in rage at Trump for ruining the US Men’s World Cup team with his wildly corrupt power play to get star player Balogun’s red card revoked!
Everything he touches dies…
America’s surprisingly dominant World Cup run ended in humiliating fashion tonight after Belgium beat the pants off the US National Men’s team, and angry fans know exactly who to blame: Donald Trump.
During the last game, star player Folarin Balogun was given a red card and a one-game suspension…until Trump personally called FIFA’s president, and the red card was rescinded soon after.
The Belgians were rightfully furious at the flagrant show of corruption and showed up to play like they were mad as hell, scoring four goals while the US Men’s team played out of sync.
Twitter immediately became a fiery rage-pit directed all at Donald Trump.
“unironically no joke zero doubt in my mind: Trump’s fault. He made himself the story and psyched out the team F*CK HIM. HE DID THE SAME SH*T TO THE KNICKS HE IS HUMAN F*CKING POISON EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES TURNS TO SH*T!” yelled political analyst Josh Ettinger (@ettingermentum) into the digital void.
“Haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago,” mourned @lukeisamazing.
“It’s cool that Trump doesn’t even like soccer, he just enjoys cheating. Doesn’t matter what the game is. He just loves circumventing rules and ruining things for everyone else,” complained @Integrity_Freak.
“We can still win this game if Mike Pence has the courage,” joked @PFTCommenter.
“Knicks game 3, now this… the Trump curse is clearly real” wrote @sam_d_1995.
“All Trump’s corrupt act ended up doing was poisoning the well, ruining the vibe and inspiring a Belgian team who were already superior to the USMNT. A sad but poetic ending to an otherwise very positive campaign from the USMNT,” said Jordan Patu.
Hard to argue with any of that!
Oh well. He definitely won’t have any interest in the Women’s World Cup, which America has won four times, so at least we still have that?

I have no idea but all of the assistance programs are and have been a mess.  Instead of a hand up they seem designed to keep people down.

We can do better

My European coworkers were asking if I think soccer will be more popular here now.  I said, I don't think so.  When I was a kid my siblings and I all played youth soccer.  Even then, once you got to junior high and high school, football is what we all wanted to play.  It was only the preppie kids who played soccer.  None of my kids ever played soccer.

Only my one good friend was really into soccer.  His mom was Swedish.  (He wasn't preppie and 3 years older than me and would take me out drinking when I was like 14-15 years old ... first time I ever got drunk it was in Swedish glogg that his mom made).  He's only person I really hung out with that played soccer beyond youth league.

 I have only watched soccer when the World Cup was here.  I'd rather watch hockey or baseball or football or college basketball.  This are my favorite sports to watch.  I have been watching the cubs games most every day.  I don't like even when they have a day off, like they did yesterday.   

Tanker set ablaze after being struck by projectile in the Strait of Hormuz
Suspicion immediately fell on Iran, which is suspected of attacking other ships using an unapproved route along the shore of Oman.

You know that brought on retaliatory strikes by US before

I don't care for soccer or hockey.  Starting to not care for baseball.