chasfh Posted July 6 Posted July 6 The horrifying thing about this is that when he said it, no one laughed, or even chuckled. Because he is dead serious when he says this. Quote
smr-nj Posted July 7 Posted July 7 4 hours ago, LaceyLou said: Honest question: does Drumpf know anything at all about soccer? I know next to nothing, but wouldn't be surprised if I still know more than he does. I’m sure you do. I’m guessing I do, too. (And I know practically nothing). ….but I do know that with his interjection into the World Cup, Trump has now absolutely ruined it. Everything he ****ing touches. Always. 2 1 Quote
Edman85 Posted July 7 Posted July 7 I don't know a damn thing about soccer, but still read the rule book and consulted a licensed referee before forming an opinion. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted July 7 Posted July 7 1 hour ago, smr-nj said: I’m sure you do. I’m guessing I do, too. (And I know practically nothing). ….but I do know that with his interjection into the World Cup, Trump has now absolutely ruined it. Everything he ****ing touches. Always. Welp, it's over now......LOL. Guess Donnie didn't threaten FIFA enough. But FIFA is crap anyway. Even more corrupt than the NCAA and SEC and Big Ten. And that's saying A LOT ! Thank You Belgium. Waffles for everyone !!!! Can't wait for the 3am tirade. You'll have to tell me how that goes. I refuse to follow him or even watch him for 5 seconds. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted July 7 Posted July 7 12 hours ago, smr-nj said: I’m sure you do. I’m guessing I do, too. (And I know practically nothing). ….but I do know that with his interjection into the World Cup, Trump has now absolutely ruined it. Everything he ****ing touches. Always. Ruined it for me too, Sue. The whole thing from the start. I couldn't root for my own country because I know this jackass would take all the credit for it. They had a nice run. But this is probably the limit for the U.S.. I could see maybe getting into the final 8 one day, but futball is a way of life for these European and South American countries. It's in their DNA, but it isn't for us. Doesn't matter if we hire the greatest coaches and have naturalized citizens coming here to play, it's just not the same. And after his phone call (either bribe or threat) to get our player reinstated, if they had won last night, it would have been all you heard about. So yeah, I'm glad they lost. Sorry, fellas. Maybe if we don't have a complete piece of garbage representing out country I can root for you again. But I wanted Canada to win the gold in hockey for the same reason (Patel's behavior proved exactly why). But, outside of baseball, it's getting harder and harder to enjoy sports now with all the greed and gambling. And baseball's about to shoot itself in the temple with the upcoming labor stoppage. 1 Quote
chasfh Posted July 7 Posted July 7 This is a Harris Poll from May on the economy. The stark realization here is that, even as every group is more pessimistic about the economic in May than February, the Republican number leapt by 16 points, while that for Democrats rose only nine points and independents ten points. It's getting harder and harder for Trump to **** on Republicans' plates and tell them to eat it because it's chocolate. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/07/cost-of-living-poll-groceries-gas Quote The affordability struggle crosses party lines: about half of all Democrats, Republicans and independents say they are having trouble affording everyday necessities like gas and groceries. Two-thirds of Americans – including 49% of Republicans – said they have little faith that the federal government will improve the cost-of-living crisis they face. Though Republicans have been far more optimistic about the economy than Democrats and independents under Donald Trump’s second term, the war in Iran seems to have soured those in the president’s base. While 49% of Republicans said the economy was getting better in February, just 27% said the same in the new poll. Meanwhile, 38% of Republicans say the economy is now getting worse compared with 22% who said the same in February. Quote
chasfh Posted July 7 Posted July 7 lol "Whitehousery". Trump may be succeeding in his relentless goal of dividing Americans and picking up the spoils, but he's also doing a splendid job of uniting most of the rest of the world against us. Oh dear. Such a shame to see the US lose at football after their insanely embarrassing president cheated for them. Still, it really brought the world together. The last time this many people cheered on a Belgian resistance, it was 1914 and the Germans had just crossed the Meuse. As you’ll be aware, the USA were dumped out of their own World Cup on Monday night by a wholly superior Belgium, after Donald Trump boasted that he’d personally intervened in three phone calls with Fifa president Gianni Infantino to get the red card shown to USA striker Folarin Balogun rescinded. Yes, the US cheats at football. Pass it on. You’ve heard a lot about ****housery during this tournament. We have even, excruciatingly, seen a few American commentators attempt to use the word in conversation. Guys, please, just – no. It’s not for you. You have ’erbs, “a couple things”, and “a ways to go”. But let’s call the events of the past few days by the name they deserve in all the languages of the world: Whitehousery. Some absolute Whitehousery has been on display and the world certainly has a way (singular) to go before we all forget it. As he made very clear, Trump really wet his Depends over Balogun’s ban, and spent Monday gibbering to the news cameras that he’d acted hideously inappropriately over the weekend by interfering because “I’m good at this stuff”. Righto. It’s somehow especially poignant that Trump genuinely thought he was going in to bat for the national side. After all, the only humane sporting reply to that is: oh my god, don’t let him bat! Look at the state of him! He can’t bat to save his life! Weird that Trump supposedly understands such a lot about sport, but doesn’t get that if you do something outrageously unfair, your opponents will so often use that injustice to fire themselves up and beat you. But look, maybe those aren’t the dynamics in the necrotic golf games Lindsey Graham lets him cheat in. (“Some people say you may outdrive him, but you’re not going to outdrive his caddie,” Graham told a grand jury in Trump’s election interference case in 2022. “It is what it is.”) A lot of people rightly feel sorry for Balogun, who never asked to find the president’s malevolently gelatinous form supposedly in his corner. In fact, presumably the London-raised Balogun particularly didn’t, given he’s precisely the sort of chap whose birthright citizenship Trump would have done anything to limit until the supreme court finally struck down his attempts to do so last week. But, to quote a phrase, it is what it is. No one, however, feels remotely sorry for Fifa president Infantino, to whom the focus must now decisively shift. Infantino produced some extreme bull**** explanation for why Fifa’s supposedly independent judicial bodies triggered the opaque article 27 and overturned the ban, which I saw ran in one US publication under a headline including the words “Infantino defends Fifa’s integrity”. Sorry, Fifa’s what? I can’t believe it’s come to this, but we’re now officially in the nihilistic “Bring back Blatter” era. Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter – last seen looking like he was sleeping in his car yet somehow finally contriving to be cleared of corruption charges on appeal last year – yesterday launched a two-footed attack on his successor over the whole business. “Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls,” he stated. By what then? Sacks of cash and luxury watches? Apparently not. “They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies,” Blatter thundered. Wow, who knew, etc. If it seemed like Uefa couldn’t hate Infantino more, meanwhile, it turned out it definitely could. European football’s governing body issued its own lengthy statement tipping all over the call. “When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined,” this ran. “We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision.” It had, Uefa declared, “crossed a red line”. A red line? A red line?! Call me cartography-obsessed, but I feel like we crossed that line a few moral galaxies ago. Maybe when Infantino was butching it out in the photocall at Trump’s Gaza Peace Summit For Ghoulishly Rapacious Businessmen (not its official title). Certainly when Gianni inaugurated the auto-satirical Fifa peace prize and awarded it to Trump just a couple of months before the president decided to truly live according to its values and launch a war on Iran. Anyway: developments. A rising tally of members of the European parliament have called for an ethics investigation into Fifa because of the Balogun affair. So, the European parliament calling for an ethics investigation and Sepp Blatter suggesting you’re bent – if irony could kill, we could be looking at a bloodbath. Unfortunately, it can’t. No football match could be as fixed as Infantino’s presidential security at Fifa – not even if Trump’s USA played the bribery-assisted 1993 Marseille side and it was overseen by corrupt German referee Robert Hoyzer. Infantino is simply unbeatable – currently – within the organisation he leads because of the way he’s played the member associations outside Europe with patronage and development cash. Eventually that will change – at Fifa, there’s always someone ghastlier and hungrier waiting for their chance in the end. But for now, Trump and Infantino are free to poison their own tournament. Let’s just hope the eventual champions realise their final tactical play will be doing everything possible to avoid these two villains annexing the glory. 1 Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted July 7 Posted July 7 If the U.S. had won last night, it would have been seen as a fake win, a hollow victory - because we all know how corruptable FIFA really is. And sorry, that had to be in the minds of those players too, maybe why they seemed so unsure of themselves at times, unlike any other game they played this tournament. It was a total loser move and FIFA showed their true corruption by overturning that Red Card suspension. Yes, it was a ticky tack call. Those happen every tournament and those calls happen in every sport. The real victory would have been accepting the suspension and going out and giving Belgium a battle, like winning the previous game a man down. But that didn't happen, probably the thing that saved what little integrity FIFA and the World Cup has left. France or Spain or going to win this. That one phone call derailed an otherwise great showing for the U.S. Like they need Daddy to fight their battles for them. It's weak. It's pathetic and I bet those guys didn't want it. It was kind of like the head of officials hanging out on the Dallas Cowboys party bus the week before an indefensible call that favorred the Cowboys against the Lions. We all remember that, right? We'll never see that Dallas win as legit (and they got boned the next week agains Green Bay on a terrible call. It's called Karma). What's next. If one of his buddies owns a team that goes to the World Series, is he going to force the other team's players to be deported? Don't say "that'd never happen". Can't tell you how many times I've heard that since 2016. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted July 8 Posted July 8 Thanks to Trump, the discount on the price of gasoline that the Midwest has enjoyed for many year as the only outlet for Canadian tar sands production will soon be over. This pipeline will increase the cost of crude to US midwest refineries. https://apnews.com/article/canada-oil-pipline-alberta-british-columbia-654fe58e72da9bd976563223b7759c2e?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Quote
oblong Posted July 8 Posted July 8 They'll just cry that Canada is being mean to us and not 'playing fair' by selling 'our oil' to 'China' and therefore the Gordie Howe will not open. Trump and his folks don't care about something hurting americans. All they care about is how to frame an issue to it's lowest common denominator in order to fool their idiot supporters who eat it up because they're dumb. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted July 8 Posted July 8 Saying paying it would cause financial hardship. The same guy who pocketed over $2 Billion since he was sworn in. Not bad for a guy “not collecting a salary “ Quote
pfife Posted July 8 Posted July 8 Its such a lie that he doesnt collect a salary. At the beginning of the first term he was collecting it then donating it. Who knows if he still donates, hes got a record of jamming charities. Or he donates it to something horrific 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted July 8 Posted July 8 23 minutes ago, pfife said: Its such a lie that he doesnt collect a salary. At the beginning of the first term he was collecting it then donating it. Who knows if he still donates, hes got a record of jamming charities. Or he donates it to something horrific Notice the “quotes” around salary. We know the real story 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted July 8 Posted July 8 (edited) Crude oil has risen by about $8/bbl this week with the collapse of the proto-deal with in Iran. That puts about 25-30 cents back on the price of a gallon of gasoline. In case you are trying to keep up: 4/8: The U.S. and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire 4/11: The U.S. and Iran fail to reach an agreement after face-to-face negotiations 4/21: Trump extends the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely 6/14: Trump announces the deal with the Iran is complete 7/8: Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is over "Art of the Deal" Edited July 8 by gehringer_2 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted July 8 Posted July 8 13 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Crude oil has risen by about $8/bbl this week with the collapse of the proto-deal with in Iran. That puts about 25-30 cents back on the price of a gallon of gasoline. In case you are trying to keep up: 4/8: The U.S. and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire 4/11: The U.S. and Iran fail to reach an agreement after face-to-face negotiations 4/21: Trump extends the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely 6/14: Trump announces the deal with the Iran is complete 7/8: Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is over "Art of the Deal" Maybe he should read the book Quote
chasfh Posted July 9 Posted July 9 5 hours ago, pfife said: Its such a lie that he doesnt collect a salary. At the beginning of the first term he was collecting it then donating it. Who knows if he still donates, hes got a record of jamming charities. Or he donates it to something horrific Is there proof positive he donated anything at all his first term? Quote
chasfh Posted July 9 Posted July 9 4 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: Maybe he should read the book Never. All he ever cared about was claiming the phrase. Quote
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