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Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Republicans in disarray!

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, it’s door #2)

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

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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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