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A New York Times investigative piece is raising serious questions about the vulnerability of soccer’s World Cup to match-fixing.
America’s soccer fan is reportedly extremely distraught.
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Out: Romney a monster for doing his job trying to build businesses.
In: Hillary was just doing her job getting child rapists off the hook.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 16, 2014
Not only was Bob Dole a war hero, but without his contributions they never would have invented the pineapple.
— Lazer Cat (@Laser_Cat) June 16, 2014
Gravity has an unusually powerful effect on soccer players.
— Dave Barry (@rayadverb) June 16, 2014
It's cute how we let nations like Ghana pretend they're real countries with national anthems and everything.
— Doug Mataconis (@dmataconis) June 16, 2014
Most of the fun of cheering for Team USA, for most Americans, is when the US beats other countries at a sport they care way more about.
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) June 16, 2014
Ladies compare me to a European soccer team because if they touch me I fall down and start crying.
— Bucky Isotope (@BuckyIsotope) June 16, 2014
If Ghana wants to win it should attack the USA's weakness by shouting out Game of Thrones spoilers
— Eliza Bayne (@ElizaBayne) June 16, 2014
The World Cup. Now I know what it must be like for normal people during a primary season.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 16, 2014
Iran used a fake news website to trick some US officials into divulging password and login information.
Who can expect to get new jobs monitoring site security for HealthCare.gov
“It’s frustrating for students who are working hard.”—President Obama on the bill to reduce student debt blocked by some Senate Republicans
“I say student loans should be free, like VA healthcare!”
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Things Americans say while watching World Cup soccer:
Can we at least keep illegal immigrant criminals from coming over here? We don’t want them stealing heists from American criminals.
Make sure to join in the crowdfunding for Liberty Island which will be publishing my first novel.
It only takes $5 to get the ebook of my novel. You have $5. Everyone in America has at least $5.
It’s $25 for a signed copy of the print book. So if you’ve been dying to get me to acknowledge your existence, boom.
Not sure how to promote myself as a first time novelist, but I promise I am good writer. No write boring.
I can’t imagine someone who wouldn’t want a novel by me. Maybe if that person was the reincarnation of Hitler.
You’re not the reincarnation of Hitler, though. You would like a fun story about sociopathic, intergalactic hitman written by me.
Working in the IT department for the federal government seems like it’s very non-demanding.
Got an idea for a wacky comedy about an Obama appointee trying desperately and unsuccessfully to get himself fired.
So this is the United States of America that’s about to play a soccer match? Not some country called “Usa”?
Not to sound like an ignorant American, but what continent is Ghana on?
We put a man on the moon; I don’t care if we can put a ball in a net.
So when is the first game we play against a country Americans have heard of?
The clock counts up? What insanity is this? Has no one who plays soccer seen how a modern sport works?
But what country is best at playing Mario Kart?
But what if we lose to Ghana? I bet Barack Obama won’t take any of the blame.
Wow. This live update of the World Cup that Twitter has put on the sidebar is really exciting.
You have to give Americans credit for caring enough about soccer to make fun of it. We could just completely ignore it.
None of our tax dollars went to teaching guys how to kick a ball around, right?
“America just played its first game of the 2014 World Cup.”
“The what?”
“And they beat Ghana!”
“Who?”
So far, this is really in the running for best season of 24.
Speaking at the White House, President Obama said, “when I need to relax or clear my head, I turn to sports.”
Which may explain why he keeps treating foreign policy like it’s just a game.