I’ve got to say, this frightens me every single day. The criminal gamers that make up DOGE are relentlessly stealing data and destroying the federal databases carefully curated over decades. They’ve shoved out anyone with knowledge of the systems, and created back doors for Russians (who, somehow equipped with all the secure passwords they need) immediately began infiltrating our systems. DOGE traitor tots have also corrupted almost every website they’ve touched - e.g., SSA shuts down nearly every day now - and they’re gleefully firing people whose job titles they find suspect (personnel experts that they are, of course).
Not only does this put every person in the US in danger, it represents an incalculable loss of institutional knowledge that may be impossible to recreate. Oh, but DOGE is going to replace all those useless people with Grok, of course. That will make things all better. Another score for Elon.
Which by the way is not selling very well, are fans boycotting the tournament because it is in the US or because they feel that FIFA jumped the shark with yet another competition?
All of this points, of course, to the Supreme Court ultimately ruling in the administration’s favor on the merits of the case. But as Chris Geidner points out, making projections can be fraught and another important trans case is pending before the Supreme Court that could be a complicating factor in this case. As is the custom in emergency rulings, the court gave no reasons for its decision
Shorter: Scotus decided to rule before hearing all the evidence and argument.
Shorter Conservative Justices: Don’t bother us with the facts. Our minds are already made up.
Club World Cup usually takes place at the end of the year and is a minor add-on.
They used to do the Confederations Cup the year prior to the World Cup, that was the national teams from each continent (as winning prior cups in their respective confederations) plus the previous World Cup winner, this is the first time they got rid of it and it’s not national teams playing.
So fair to say it’s probably a mix. Unless you’re following specific teams in it, not so broad interest as the national teams to pay all that money to travel, likely saw them at home.
Add to that the collapse in travel as word spreads that we’re acting like russia does on a normal day at the border, perfect storm.
Henry Kissinger was the Secretary of State in 1975-76. I doubt even he invoked the power to deport someone who didn’t fit a certain foreign policy agenda.
Interesting in itself, but also it debunks the commenters here who were claiming within the last few days that the MSM were late in reporting about the administration’s chicanery around Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, as if the NYT’s story published a few days ago was its first story. (“We already knew about this, thanks to TPM and no thanks to the corporate news media!”) The reason TPM already knew about (some of) this was that the NYT began breaking the story on March 20. WaPo has also played a role.
