Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

After roe, women are no longer free.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Second rate reporter says what?

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Republicans in disarray!

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Infrastructure week. at last.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

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  9. 9.

    burnspbesq

    OT; espn.com is reporting that Messi, Mascherano, Higuain, Aguero and others are retiring from international play for Argentina.

  11. 11.

    humboldtblue

    By Thor’s hammer and the castle of Asgard, Joe Hart was flummoxed by the vixens of the volcanoes!

  12. 12.

    Tony J

    Oh my giddy aunt. Why didn’t Jeremy Corbyn fly onto the pitch and save that? It’s like he didn’t even try!

    Hey, England, here’s an idea, why not use that ball thing you’ve had so much of and put it in their net?

  13. 13.

    humboldtblue

    @scav:

    So good.

    @burnspbesq:

    Corruption in the AFA is the driving force, they want the leadership changed. There may not be an Argentina Premier League this year.

  14. 14.

    Tony J

    We need a few minutes of slow passing, moving the Icelandic midfield around, keeping possession, calming, the feck, down. Why are we racing to throw whipping long ball passes to runners with 25 mins on the clock? Shrek needs to slow things down and have a word with his shell-shocked millionaires.

  15. 15.

    Tony J

    Deli-Dive!

    Wait until the defender actually throws in a challenge, son, otherwise you look a bit daft.

  16. 16.

    Onkel Fritze

    Rooney has never really delivered in any tournament for England, hasn’t he?

  19. 19.

    Shana

    I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but we saw an article in an English newspaper on Friday that said that about 10% of Iceland’s population had gone to see one of the games, missing an election back home. There was great concern that the missing 10% would screw up the election. I haven’t decided if that was a good thing or not. Probably not.

  24. 24.

    Tony J

    @Onkel Fritze:

    Now now, Wayne’s currently the reigning champion in the Bi-Annual “Looks like a Bulldog’s Arse” competition the squad runs at every tournament.

    Otherwise no, he hasn’t.

  25. 25.

    LesBonnesFemmes

    My goodness, are England going to flame out again. I could not watch the first half, and the Guardian commentary seems to be putting all the blame on Joe Hart. Is that the case?

  27. 27.

    Runt

    Just saw a clip of the last goal with Icelandic commentary. Would it surprise anyone that high-pitched screaming was involved?

  28. 28.

    BillCinSD

    @Tony J:

    Why are we racing to throw whipping long ball passes to runners with 25 mins on the clock?

    Have you never seen English play before?

  29. 29.

    Tony J

    Looks like Woy’s big gamble on returning to his original squad and not, apparently, doing any pre-match work on how Iceland actually play their football is not working out too well.

    The pundits back in the studio aren’t just ripping England’s performance apart, they’re poking their fingers into its flaccid, worm-pale carcass and making faces of bemused disgust. Rightly so.

    Will Woy have the balls to make some much needed changes?

  30. 30.

    Tony J

    @BillCinSD:

    Well, you have a point, but we’re supposed to be doing that in bare arsed panic with 5 mins to go. Everything in its season.

  33. 33.

    Onkel Fritze

    The first Jceland goal was basically a carbon copy of one of their goals against Austria.

  35. 35.

    Tony J

    Frigging hell. Ball in the box, five touches, the only one by an English player a goal-line save by the keeper.

    Not good enough.

  36. 36.

    LesBonnesFemmes

    Well there, now English folks can say nice things about Hart. Maybe that is the turning point? (I don’t think so, but I’vebeen wrong before.)

  39. 39.

    Tony J

    @raven:

    I tell you, mate, if you wanted a shiny example of exactly what England fans complain about with their team’s performances in big games, this is textbook.

    Slow, predictable, aimless, panicked, and ‘big’ players not performing well, but the manager won’t take them off until far too late.

    I don’t even have a bad feeling that we’ll lose this, It’s a reasonably comfortable feeling.

  42. 42.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Tony J: That Twitter account referenced above is a thing of beauty.

    #ISL seem to enjoy playing football instead of being an #ENG Olympic #DivingTeam.

  43. 43.

    Sloane Ranger

    England not moving the ball fast enough and useless around the goalmouth. England’s 2nd exit in 5 days looks imminent.

    A perfect end to a perfect week/snark.

  45. 45.

    Runt

    Rooney looks tired. And now that I’ve written that, he’ll probably score a hat trick.

  48. 48.

    Tony J

    @raven:

    It’s just so simple. Iceland are going to defend in depth, two solid ranks of four, holding position until an English player around their box gets the ball then they’ll mob him, two or three to one, deny him space or an angle to pass the ball. Clear the danger, repeat over and over again.

    The only way to get past that is with movement. Players pulling their markers with them, dragging them out of position so that when a ball does come in there’s room for other players to run into. Quick passing, carving out openings so that the defenders can’t outnumber you.

    Look at England when the ball comes forward. They’re just – standing – there, waiting to get the ball before they do anything. Iceland can defend against this all day, it’s what even semi-professional footballers train to do.

    Pathetic.

  49. 49.

    SRW1

    If England goes out, will Rooney follow Messi and announce his retirement from the national team as a last service?

  51. 51.

    Onkel Fritze

    Rashford in. In the 86th minute. Plenty of time to make a difference, I’m sure.

  55. 55.

    SRW1

    Awesome Iceland, absolutely awesome! Maybe people will now accept that dumping the Netherlands during the qualification to the tournament was not a fluke.

  58. 58.

    Tony J

    @raven:

    I… Okay, yes. That sounds massively better than ” Stand around with your thumb up your arse.”

    And we’re out. Deservedly. You wretched bunch of crap.

  62. 62.

    Sloane Ranger

    And once again the pampered millionaires can’t be arsed when there’s no pay cheque at the end!

    Now have to hope the Welsh dragon can pull off a miracle againt the Belgian lion.

  65. 65.

    Tony J

    Congratulations to Iceland. You had a plan, stuck to it and could have won by more.

    What a fantastic end to a really frigging awesome week.

    Somehow I just know Jeremy Corbyn is to blame. It’s like he didn’t even try!

  68. 68.

    otmar

    “The land that has more volcanos than football professionals, won against England”

    –the Austrian tv commentator

  74. 74.

    Tony J

    @raven:

    You know, in a week during which I got to enjoy the full sensory experience of an American Democrat in 2004 (as in, what the hell is wrong with a bare majority of my fellow countrymen?) it’s somehow fulfilling that the English team wipes its collective arse with the Cross of St George that you just – know – the mindless Brexitheads would have been planning on waving frantically in the wake of our national head-trauma.

    Our week of God-awful misery is now perfectly complete. Put money on Andy Murray to win at Wimbledon and dedicate his victory to an Independent Scotland, just to rub it in.

  75. 75.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tony J:

    Put money on Andy Murray to win at Wimbledon and dedicate his victory to an Independent Scotland, just to rub it in.

    Any blancmanges in the tournament?

  79. 79.

    Tony J

    @SRW1:

    It is terrifying isn’t it? Now imagine hearing it at two hundred yards coming from a line of axe wielding Iron-Age Hell’s Angels and you can see why most of Europe spent a few centuries in abject terror of these blokes.

    90 minutes was enough for me.

  84. 84.

    Tony J

    @raven:

    That might well be a piss-take… But I can’t be sure. When you’ve seen enough muppets banging their chests and grunting “Getting our England baaaaackkkk!” you get the impression half of your country are stupid enough to believe and say anything.

  89. 89.

    MCA1

    Funny tweet out there (paraphrased): English team says they were misled about consequences of allowing Iceland to kick ball in net. Asking for a do-over.

    Normally I root for the overdogs more in soccer than other sports, just because I feel the biggest flaw in the game is that the less talented side wins too often [b/c it’s too f’ing hard to score – we evolved opposable thumbs for a reason, and it was to pick up round objects and throw them! :^)]. Definitely feel that way when it’s some boring ass team like Switzerland (traditionally, at least) who just pack it in and pray a longball will bounce the wrong way and they take advantage at some point. I like the Icelanders, though, for their pluckiness, the miracle that they’re even here, the camaraderie and national lovefest they’ve started, etc. Plus, they do actually try to score goals and push the advantage when they can, and for whatever reason they’re pretty damned efficient at it, too. They take less shots but they’re usually good shots.

    That said, prediction: France will figure out how to score on this team. Pogba to Griezmann on shifty runs will eventually crack the egg.

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