So the 2026 World Cup is down to the last four. But before the tournament disappears, here are a few things on our mind about it.
Was there anything worse than having the boiled-egg countenance of Gianni Infantino flashed onto the screen ten minutes into each half of a game?
Speaking of images on the screen, I hate seeing “celebrities” who haven’t paid for their ticket imposed upon me.
What was a pleasure to see were the costumes and other get-up that the paying supporters displayed. For me, the best sign was held by a supporter of Jordan’s hapless squad. Wittily playing off a stereotype, his sign read: “I sold my camels to be here.” However, the nasty, racist policies of the Trump regime kept some of the most colorfully-attired, singing and dancing Africans (especially the Senegalese) who were at World Cup 2022 out of the United States. The scenes were drabber for their omission.
No matter the outcome of any game, cries of conspiracy rang out. Nobody, however, informed us if it was a Chinese thermostat or a Rothschild space laser that was involved.
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My grandson Benjamin (on the right) traveled with friends to the Argentina/Cabo Verde game in Miami to root for Argentina. After the game they celebrated with Cabo Verde supporters and exchanged national flags.
Benja’s verdict: "we all celebrated together very nice respectful moment.” Which brings up the following observation: the supporters of competing national sides sat together and mingled together, while in club matches, half the local constabulary has to be employed to keep rival fans apart.
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Did the World Cup lead other countries to reconsider their stance on immigration?
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Then again, lawyers for the Trump regime see no obstacle to destroying our country’s greatest symbol of openness to immigration:
“If the government decides very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors—that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast—nothing can be done? Judge Patricia Millett asked, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney.
“I think that’s right, yes,” the government responded.*
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A very important article in The Atlantic** tells the story of Izidor, who was rescued from a Romanian orphanage and adopted by an American couple. The article also discusses the findings about infants’ needs for adult attachments.
When Izidor was brought to the United States,
[a] 17-year-old from the orphanage, Izabela, was part of the airport welcoming committee. Born with hydrocephalus and unable to walk after being left all her life in a crib, she was in a wheelchair, dressed up and looking pretty. Rescued . . . on an earlier trip, she’d been admitted to the U.S. on a humanitarian medical basis . . ."
Would the Trump regime allow such a person into our country now?
** https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/can-an-unloved-child-learn-to-love/612253/
