Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Second rate reporter says what?

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Come on, man.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

The lights are all blinking red.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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Football (Soccer) Open Thread: Euro 2020 / Copa America

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  1. 1.

    raven

    Well, my surgery in in an hour or so and I’ll miss today but this will be good viewing through the hydrocodone haze for a while.

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    Shalimar

    The elephant really went out on a limb predicting the current France team is better than the current German team.

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    Amir Khalid

    Slava Malamud’s claim that there has never been a great Russian player is an overstatement. Has he forgotten the legendary Lev Yashin, namesake of FIFA’s Lev Yashin Award for the best goalkeeper of the year?

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    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:
    He’s right, though, about a team being only as good as its weakest players. George Best, possibly an even greater player than Pele or Maradona, never made it to the World Cup; his Northern Ireland teammates just weren’t good enough.

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    JML

    Spain v Sweden was the wildest 0-0 match I’ve ever seen, I think. Spain held the ball for an insane amount of time, but lost technique, creativity, and touch in the final third. Sweden was disciplined as hell defensively and never seemed to lose shape, but couldn’t covert their chances (and they had some great ones) on the counter. Literally every time Sweden possessed the ball Spain sent three guys to take it away: two on the ball and one moving to where they expected the ball to end up on the tackle. Incredible discipline and speed from Spain on that. But they never seemed to be comfortable going deep forward and the side to side probing for their usual million passes just never seemed to bother Sweden’s D.

    Agreed with what Malamud says above about soccer being a weak link sport: Poland lost that game because of a stupid second yellow that pushed them down to 10 men. He deserved the card, it was an easy call, and a dumb play…and it cost Poland badly.

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    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    @raven: Good luck with this, good luck with the PT afterwards, and may there be no storm-related power losses today in Georgia!

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    J R in WV

    Football in America: Marshall University, of Huntington WV, a small state U, won the NCAA Soccer Championship THIS YEAR, just a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps the most unknown national championship ever, smaller sport, small town in — where? West Virginia?

    We get this all the time: “I have an aunt in Richmond!” I have a cousin in Hawaii, too, but that also isn’t in West Virginia!

    Also hoping Raven is doing well with his surgery today, may be in recovery already… no idea how long it was expected to take. No neurosurgery is trivial, though! Good luck brother!!

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    billcinsd

    @Captain C: or his hatred for Russia has overwhelmed his ability to do actual research. I assume he was told about Yashin after his earlier tweet about Russian soccer sucking, so he really has no excuse.

    Yashin was born in Moscow, so he can’t even pretend Yashin was from a former Soviet Republic, unless he is doing a Trump Obama birth certificate thing

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