So they must have put a bunch of makeup on McConnell or something right? Other than the vacant stare he looks healthier than normal- like his skin etc.

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

Getting to be the one to text the group chat is truly the reward for insomnia

I spoke with Mitch McConnell for about 20 minutes tonight and then he was like "Oh, wait Lindsey Graham just showed up, wanna talk to him?"

You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?

I haven't been watching the Argentina Switzerland match cause I had to run to the store but bluesky indicates the officiating has continued to be wildly inconsistent.

My hot take is that increased sports betting and the corruption that comes with that is going to eventually destroy all competitive sports.

I wonder if the increased sports betting is part of why the officiating has been so fucking awful

They both claim they could detect it grazing someone's hair in a way that was undetectable on video and claim that it didn't do something everyone can see on video which presumably their sensor did detect since you can see it on video. Real skeptical of any sensor based claims at this point.

The new rule is evidently if England's players slam into each other and leave their goal open, you have to stop playing immediately.

Egregious that if you are England you can collide with your teammate and while the other team has the ball and the ref will stop play to let you get up so that the other team can't score.

The announcer loved it but he is CLEARLY pro England so

Back to climbing lately and I got this v3 I have been working on!

McConnell is clearly the dry run for how long they can weekend at Bernie's trump when it happens.

I think I was in less pain doing this shit than my friends watching the match

I didn't cancel my aerial straps class to watch the game. Aerial straps is brutally hard and painful. Everything I'm seeing suggests watching that game would have been worse.

At this point I think all available data suggests trump is a curse on sports teams (this and the Knicks game he attended)

You know what would have made it harder for Trump to make this about him and likely prevented a scandal? If FIFA had a clear formal appeals process in place for red cards.

So Trump is a known liar. He constantly takes credit after the fact for shit he didn't actually do. Do we know if he actually called FIFA from any source other than him? I have struggled to find a clear answer there in articles about it.

Watching Haaland run is like watching Taysom Hill just shrug off tackles like they aren't happening.

Totally different situation without this.

Maybe Kane will get himself a second yellow and England can be down to 9 players

England being like "what do you mean there are consequences for our actions how dare you?"

and Kane flopping is embarrassing.

Even if I wasn't rooting specifically for Mexico I have to root against the English. They did atrocities to my people (Acadians)

Okay was it just me or did it seem like that second England goal was possible because the Mexican players had gotten upset about the first one? (Which obviously that is ... Not ideal)

I am curious whether the altitude impact will increase as the game goes on. One of the biggest things altitude effects is endurance.

FUCK YEAH

Boooooooo

My hot take is that I think if there was an actual formal appeals process for a world cup red card, the US would have prevailed that way. But because it is FIFA that isn't a thing.

I always think "uh guys, did you listen to those lyrics??" When I hear Born in the USA at a 4th of July event

My soccer hot take is offsides should be based on foot location not any other part of the body. It would be clearer and easier to understand and doesn't really change the nature of the rule, just makes it simpler to understand.

You know people can whine if they want but .... The good fairy (Pope Leo) gave them so many chances before he turned them into a goon (protestant) but they just wouldn't stop bopping field mice on the head (ordaining bishops scismatically).

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

Soccer is my favorite sport and always will be, but Jesus Christ they've got to do something about this VAR issue. Every exciting moment devolves into legalistic nitpicking and standing around. For a match like this to end with Zapruder analysis and trigonometry is simply not fun!!!

Still a good day for wolves to attack Cristiano Ronaldo

The chip on the ball thing is ridiculous as a premise because if you make it sensitive enough to detect some slight brush past someone's hair then you also made it sensitive enough to give false alarms.

Oh that's fucking bullshit he didn't touch it

If they fucking call this back

I screamed

They damn well better add more stoppage time for this 3 min celebration during stoppage time

Apt that he can only score when you can’t really defend yourself

I can't believe Ronaldo's strategy of "always being offside" has resulted in him being offside

Damnit

Oh god that was better than the Croatia goal. Oh god I can't stop cackling.

I love that when Croatia scored the TV cut to Ronaldo pouting.

I am torn. I want to root for Croatia because Ronaldo is an asshole. But I don't want Spain to have an easy round of 16 match ahead of our possible quarter.

Watching the Portugal game and manifesting that this game is important to the US because it is part of who could be in our quarter which we will def make. Which we will absolutely make.