The naked truth

 

Or just sportswashing? The Alt Right´s obsession with Sydney Sweeney continues. Something tells me it has nothing to do with, you know, politics... 

Sydney Sweeney goes nude in ad for sports trading app

Sån är kapitalismen

 

AB:s vikarierande assisterande andre kulturredaktör (ja, Jack alltså) upptäcker senkapitalismens realiteter. Den andra länken (en annan krönikör) får mig att undra om damfotbollen faktiskt är en lesbisk sekt. Eller åtminstone en sekt...

Kulturvänstern stretar på.  

Kvinnorna visade sig vara lika giriga som männen

Damfotbollen får aldrig bli som herrfotbollen

Frihet och välstånd

 

Hade Trump bara gjort den här typen av dumheter, hade det hela nästan varit roligt...

Trump vägrade lämna firandet

Red card for Trump?

 

So Belgium defeated the US in that soccer game. The "Trump card" didn´t work. That was that, I suppose. On to the next occasion for scandal...

Århundradets match

 

Belgien slog ut USA i fotbolls-VM. Trumps personliga ingripande för att ändra ett tidigare domslut hjälpte alltså inte. 

Vad synd, LOL.

Baloguns första ord efter VM-kontroversen

Moralisk kollaps framför våra ögon

The Trump card

 

So it´s official now. And the biggest news item on the evening news in Sweden (many Swedes love soccer and nobody here likes Trump). 

Trump himself admitted at a cringey presser that he *did* ask FIFA to cancel a red card against a certain US soccer player. Which FIFA also did. Like a crazy dictator in Turkmenistan, The Trump is meddling in...everything. Except...I don´t know...defending the Western alliance or something. 

Is this the Rubicon? After a fashion. 

Red cards and green lines

 

LOL. Trump actually interfered in the ongoing soccer world championship, demanding that FIFA should review a red card against a US soccer player. Cuz of course he did. This is the same Trump who got a "peace prize" from FIFA last year, as compensation for not getting a certain other prize in the same category...

At this point, I just laugh at this. Yes, I know. It´s not really funny. But there you go. 

Trump asked FIFA to review red card suspension

Soccer is gay

Sleepless in Seattle? Islam aint Woke, part 7,000. Note that *Iran* is one of the nation´s complaining!  

Egypt, Iran irate over LGBTQ+ pride symbols at World Cup match in Seattle

Vatican Taekwondo

 

Credit: Centro Televisivo Vaticano

Is this even true? Are you telling me that *Vatican City* has a women´s football team, a cricket team named after St Peter, and also competes in taekwondo?! Apparently, Pope Francis had a honorary 10th dan degree in taekwondo. An occasion for scandal, maybe? 

Sport in Vatican City

Vatican Athletics

Vatican Amateur Sports Association

Vatican City national football team

Vatican City´s national women´s fotball team

Vatican City cricket team

Vatican Taekwondo

Vatican City at the 2022 Mediterranean Games

Shameless

 

Funny how Breitbart News can´t get their propaganda straight. Or perhaps their readers don´t care? Isn´t the US far right opposed to birthright citizenship? Or does Eileen Gu count as a real Amerikan since her father was a White boy? And since when do these people care about Muslims being genocided?

LOL. The entire article just comes across as a low IQ rant by somebody who is angry that he couldn´t fuck the cheer leader...

But sure, he´s Aussie, so maybe they have other agendas down under. 

Eileen Gu proudly sings Chinese Communist anthem 

The white sport

 

The culture war goes to Cortina. This was inevitable, of course. 

AP complains that the Winter Olympics team are overwhelmingly White

Registrerat varumärke

 

Så här står det längst ner på SVT Nyheters startsida: "Olympic™, Olympic Games™ och Olympics™ är registrerade varumärken som ägs av IOK."

Så nu vet ni det. 

Dude

 

Is this some kind of joke? But then, Trump claimed last summer that he had convinced the Coca Cola Company to use real suger to sweeten its drinks on the US market (news flash: he didn´t). So this is true to form. Hah hah hah. Note the cringey sycophantic responses. 

Oh, and how is he going to implement this decree? Will the FCC revoke the licenses of any TV network that shows competing football games? Trump already tried *that* approach once, and it didn´t work... 

Trump planning decree to stop postseason football, etc  

En förutsägelse

 

Credit: Chabe01

Vågar man gissa att många länder kommer att bojkotta sommar-OS i Los Angeles år 2028? Visst, LA ligger i det liberala (och väldigt soliga) Kalifornien, men så längre Trump är president...

Vänskapsspel i Peking istället? Eller?  

Just in: Trump actually got the peace prize!

 

Check your news feed. Trump actually got the peace prize. Or *a* peace prize, at any rate. LOL.

And yes, it´s the first time it´s being awarded, so presumably it was the consolation prize for not getting the "real" peace prize (you know, that Norwegian one).  

We have a pope...or something

 

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Pro-Trump/pro-Vance Breitbart News tries to cope with the new Woke Pope in the State of Vatican City. See links below! Whatever. 

Personally, I would like to know why Prevost took the papal name Leo XIV. Leo XIII (the Pope most people-in-the-know think about when they hear the name "Leo") is still seen as one of the greatest popes in modern Catholic history (reigned 1878-1903). So choosing *that* name strikes me as...daring. 

Also, what does it tell us about Prevost´s political orientation? Leo XIII could be seen as a cautious reformer. But he could also be seen as radical, since his predecessors on the papal throne were arch-conservative. Leo XIII, by contrast, is associated with "Rerum novarum", the first social encyclical. It inspired the Catholic trade union movement. I read "Rerum novarum" years ago and didn´t find it particularly radical, but in its 1891 Catholic context, maybe it was. So perhaps the name signals that Prevost wants to be explicitly political and even somewhat "radical"?

I suppose we´re about to find out, aren´t we?   

Newly elected Pope opposed gender theory

Cubs or White Sox?

Vårt vänsterblivna predikament

 

Inte vänsterliberal

Det måste vara svårt att vara vänsterliberal. Först ska man stödja muslimernas rätt att bära slöja i Sverige. Och sätta slöjan på småbarn. Sedan ska man stödja protester i Iran mot slöjtvång på kvinnor. Och indirekt mot den islamiska regimen i landet. Och efter det ska alla ha regnbågsfärgade armbindlar under fotbolls-VM i Qatar. För att stödja HBT-rättigheter i detta muslimska land, där det tydligen är förbjudet enligt sharia.

Och sedan ska man fördöma bränningar av Koranen, alltså den religiösa skrift som används för att motivera just slöjtvånget och förbudet mot homosexualitet. Och man ska fördöma denna ”skändning” för att *konservativa* muslimer i x antal länder kräver att vi ska göra det?! Annars får vi typ inte gå med i NATO, och svenska kapitalister kan inte göra affärer i Irak.

Som sagt, det kan inte vara lätt att vara vänsterliberal.

Och det kommer att bli ännu svårare i framtiden, vänta ni bara.

Get woke, go broke

Tony Blair was one of the "New Labour" fakers who begun the bizarre phase of late capitalism we are currently living through, in which neo-liberal "free" market reforms are combined with a "woke" left-liberal culture. But it seems even this old hypocrite is now having second thoughts about it, well! But sure, maybe his recent schwärmerei for the Qatari absolutist monarchy can be squared with some kind of woke-ish pro-Islamism?

What´s really going on here isn´t simply Qatari investments, but the present energy crisis. EU and Germany have struck deals with Qatar about replacing the Russian oil and gas with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). When push comes to shove, LNG takes precedence over LGBT, it seems. 

I don´t think Qatar is really "pro-Western", but are simply doing some opportunistic gyrations, while flexing their economic muscle, which are indeed considerable. 

That being said, sure, if the only alternative to buying LNG from Al-Jazeera´s finest is to freeze to death in a Russospherian People´s Republic, I take the LNG anytime! 

Blair: Do not criticise Qatar

What principles? LGBT-Germany buys LNG from Qatar

Mitt i krysset

Credit: StellarD

Wolfgang Hansson sätter den! Kan alla hycklande liberala IS-kramare vara så vänliga och sluta upp med att attackera fotbolls-VM i Qatar? Tack! 

Västvärldens hyckleri om Qatar