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What's an unfortunate set of circumstances that were completely unavoidable and impossible to predict unless you had an IQ greater than that of a sea pickle.
It's a good thing Donald Trump is an idiot otherwise he'll be utterly humiliated. Fortunately for him he's incapable of such complex emotions.
Fuck Jerry Seinfeld though
He was never funny anyway. The rest of the cast are hilarious, but his character was just irritating, like him IRL
I was told hosting the World Cup would bring in eleventy zillion dollars.
if anyone is as corrupt as trump, it would be the president of fifa.
Turns out people don't want to come to your country when you harass them at the gate. Write that down, maybe we'll remember it for later...probably not.
No qualms about all the slaves who died building the one in Qatar but if the wealthy might be inconvenienced, then it becomes an actual problem
No qualms about all the slaves who died building the one in Qatar
Also relatively unattended. In part because of the atrocious reputation of the county. But far more because it was 50⁰ C on a cool day out there.
The American Games don't even have that excuse.
So far the immigration enforcement agency has managed to kill two people neither of them immigrants. Not that it would be better if they just killed immigrants, but at least they'd be sticking within their job description.
It is always going to be a "win" for the pedoking
Good
Excellent.
OK. First, FIFA booking out a heap of hotel rooms then dropping them when they realised they won't be able to scalp them is shitty behaviour, but probably not out of the norm. Raising prices to astronomical heights is also shitty behaviour, but it's the capitalist nation of the world so what do you expect?
The elephant in the room that got glossed over with one sentence in the article is: nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA. The place is a fucking disaster and the chances of a foreigner getting shot, locked up or deported for pretty much no reason is so high you've got to be a total fuckwit to want to go there. If I was given a free ticket to the US with spending money included, I'd still be asking for a refund.
I still hope the Canada and Mexico games are completely sold out though. Watching the juxtaposition of empty "free world" stadia vs full "shit hole country" stadia is going to be glorious.
nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA
You don't need that many people to fill a stadium. And anyone rich enough to travel around the world for a football match isn't going to be the type that TSA bothers.
Yeah, dumbshits may not even deport you back to your home country. You from Egypt? Maybe just put you on this plane to El Salvador. Close enough, right?
They won’t let that happen, they’ll give away tickets to homeless people to get bums on seats if that’s what it takes.
Literally bums on seats in that case.
Maybe they can use AI to fix this. :)
It'll be fun zooming in on the "enhanced" crowd to see all the people with three arms and Francis Bacon faces.
This is PR, the group matches may be half full but i guarantee you every game after will be packed. I wish i was wrong but this is just wishful thinking.
i guarantee you every game after will be packed
Time will tell. I suspect there's a certain bias, as the high rollers who can afford to fly halfway around the world to sit for a few games aren't the ones TSA will be manhandling.
But I can also see a lot of foreign news media scaring people off from the games based purely on the growing reputation of fascist Western travel conditions.
I guess time will tell. There's certainly not a shortage of locals who can fill a stadium. So it might be a moot point.
I do think we'll see a bunch of empty seats in high profile matches though. Corporate accounts love to gobble up more prime seating than they know what to do with.
Anyway, I won't be watching the World Cup.
Maybe they shouldn't have set the ticket prices at $7,000 for the nosebleeds
Nobody wants to be in the deportation world cup
Aww man, you're telling me they hiked the prices for nothing?
That's what happens when 70 million voters drink too much nasty Orange Kool-Aid. FIFA should move all the knock out stage matches, including the final, to Mexico and Canada.
And after FIFA gave the prestigious FIFA peace prize to that great peacemaker we call our President. (/s, if that wasn't obvious).
considering LA was the first site of the "ice invasion" it got people scared as it was heavily televised throughout the world. THE MSM realized it so they stopped reporting on ice raids as much as they did.
I don't feel like being shot because I will inevitably call an ICE agent a Nazi and tell him to go fuck himself.
If the World Cup has a lot of half empty stadia, I'd be happy.
It might be interesting if the Mexican and Canadian stadia were full though.
So, a lot of tickets have been sold, but no hotels have been booked so far? Maybe ticket scalpers don't need hotels?
And why the heck should anybody travel to the US under the current administration, where ICE puts random people in concentration camps?
good.