The issue is no other country with an ounce of couth

[boston bean]

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That would have called the head of FIFA and interfered.

Why? Because it is unsportsmanlike.

It is out of bounds to do so.

Teams/players and countries live with the lumps of bad calls.

But Trump and USA doesn’t have to live with a bad call?

Bad calls are made all the time. A president should keep his fucking trap shut and let the games be played as they are called, just like every single other game and competition.

[sheshe2]

1. He feels entitled.

You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissinginterfering with them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss interfere. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

[2naSalit]

2. +1...

Times 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!

[sheshe2]

5. Thank you.

[2naSalit]

6. YW...

[Prairie Gates]

3. Whether it was a bad call is disputable

I like how the Overton window on this has moved so far - mainly just for Americans. It's now an article of faith that Balogun's red card was a "bullshit call." That then authorizes all manner of sins and grossness.

I like your post because it argues that the subsequent behavior is ridiculous even if we accept that it was a bad call, which I suppose is what one has to argue for those who take that as an article of faith.

But that's far from universally accepted. Of course, if we don't agree that it was a bad call to begin with, that makes the subsequent corruption and temper tantrums all the more embarrassing.

[Marie Marie]

4. What a surprise - the man who notoriously cheats at golf would

stick his big fat thumb where it doesn't belong and plop it on the scale to benefit his team. Don't follow soccer enough to know if it was a good call or bad but what other world leader would use his influence to do such a thing? He is such an embarrassment.

[harumph]

7. Red card was a bad call - but displaying sportsmanlike behavior means taking your lumps

for good and bad after the decision is final. His interference makes us seem like big crybabies, and rightly so, to the rest of the world.
Crybabies like that homicidal giant baby in "Spirited Away."

[Tanuki]

8. Larry the Cat says...

Link to tweet

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[Fil1957]

9. It's easy to blame Trump, but doesn't FIFA have a vote? Do they HAVE to submit to him? Don't they bear some

responsibility? Perhaps the most? If no one knuckles under to Trump, his power is greatly diminished. People and organizations that do, are at least partly to mostly responsible for this disastrous presidency.

After all, Trump is just being Trump and doesn't know any better. It's up to the adults in the room to curb him, because they SHOULD know better.

[efhmc]

10. Please, please do not put my "couth" in the same realm as the pedopres. First of all, in the southern culture I was

baked in, the word couth was extremely "uncouth". To use that term put you some place you did not want to go in society.

[boston bean]

11. Gonna need more than that if you want me to change something.