Dr. Gonzo

Austria have looked legitimately good, I think they win this

I guess if scoring goals is your weakness, penalty shootouts are awful.

France and England final for minimum entertainment, please.

Portugal in 2016 were genuinely terrible imo, so I think that's a fair comparison.

With Gomez and Konsa I don’t see the point in taking one of our better attacking players away from the final 3rd. Or even put Walker out left and put Trent in to give us a bit of creativity. But Trent’s maybe a player that’ll never fit in with a Southgate setup. I think Palmer needs to start, and Foden should be dropped. Foden’s another player I think doesn’t fit how Southgate wants to play. Eze and Toney I think made a strong case for getting more time on the pitch as well. I just don’t know if Southgate will really make any big changes. I think the squad while unbalanced, there’s probably a way to get it playing better with the kind of football terrorism Southgate is a diehard believer in. But I think he’s just going to keep doing what he’s been doing.

No they didn’t, the LA Kings are still a team.

I know barely anything about hockey & even I know Vegas didn’t even have a team decades ago

I hope to fucking god that Foden doesn’t start against Switzerland

Yup but they don’t have a weird media agenda against them.

Oh shit Foden’s done something finally

Good news, no half time subs

That the normally very positive @Stan I know and love has made a joke this dark over a football match is 100% proof that Gareth Southgate is a fucking terrorist.

The US broadcast makes me want to kill myself, so consider yourself lucky

I don’t think Bellingham, Kane, and Foden have gotten enough stick for how shit they’ve been this tournament

Gomez played left back for most of the season and played really well. It’s not like we don’t have options despite Southgate’s moronic choices.

I’m not surprised we don’t look confident. We won what looks to have been an impressively shit group in the least convincing manner possible. With a manager who’s I’m not convinced actually knows that Slovakia’s a different team to Slovenia.

Dunno how he’s still starting, honestly

This’ll be 1-0 I think. But which team wins I’m not sure

He’s arguably the best of a bad bunch. It’s like being the thinnest morbidly obese person though, so not like he’s actually any good.

Kind of wild too, especially when New York's 6 below them and 1 in 10 people in NYC is a millionaire.

Just for the record too, here's the real GDP and nominal GDP of each state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP#:~:text=The three U.S. states with the highest GDPs,billion)%2C Wyoming (%2450.1 billion)%2C and Alaska (%2467.1 billion).

You know that map just shows the percentage change of the RGDP right? California has the highest GDP and RGDP in the US... and it's not even close. But I'm okay with California leaving the US and Baja California leaving Mexico and having the Californias reunited.

It's not really though. The modern day democratic party is a right-wing party by any western metric. Just compare them to the dominant right winged parties of any western European country and they're virtually identical policy wise. The republican party is a far-right party, because they are further to the right than most normal right-wing western democratic countries' parties. America is probably the most right winged western nation there is. The last sentence of your post is funny though. Biggest group of whites who think the government is a social welfare fund are the republican politicians of the deadbeat broke red states that don't pay their fair share in taxes and just expect California, New York, and Illinois to pick up the tab for them. That group of dickheads has a "welfare for me, not for thee" approach. Not really looking forward to Trump inevitably winning and then him raising my taxes so I can pay for those pathetic dickheads telling California we just need to lift ourselves up by our bootstraps while they rely on our money to keep their fucking dogshit states afloat. I'll get my US citizenship if a California "Brexit" type thing ever makes it to a statewide ballot, just so I can vote for that. Not all of the US is dead weight, but a lot of it is & it would be nice to let them fend for themselves.

1.) Why should Ukraine accept Russia's further annexation of land? Why should any country trust that Putin's expansionist goals in Europe are over - they weren't after he invaded Georgia. They weren't after he invaded Ukraine the first time and took Crimea. Appeasing an expansionist dictator rather than standing strong against him in the first place is exactly how the allies found themselves in WW2 with their pants down. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. NATO and the EU are right to defend Ukraine and Ukraine is right to protect its sovereignty. 2.) The Afghanistan surrender was negotiated by the Trump administration and the Taliban were never going to respect any deal once they no longer had to worry about Blackhawk helicopters gunning them down. 3.) Why in the fuck would Egypt (or any country) accept a blatant violation of its sovereignty? No country would accept that. Egypt and Jordan have good reason for not accepting Palestinians, especially Hamas. It's not a problem with US leadership - it's a problem with Palestinian/Hamas leadership. If you want to blame world powers outside of Palestinians, look to the Arab world for the way they fostered these extremists for decades and to Iran's leadership who see Hamas as useful idiots that will get themselves killed fighting the US proxy in the name of their god. They're the reason Hamas are such an intolerable group of extremists that neighboring Arabs (particularly the Jordanians who are basically... ethnically identical to Palestinians in most respects) can't stomach dealing with them. 4.) Trump's never going to conform to standards that the base of extremist right wingers find morally repugnant. He's captured the Fox News base entirely 5.) He didn't need to hit that point on immigration because it simply doesn't matter to his base. The promise of widespread mass deportations is enough for his base. The bar for Trump to perform well was pretty low. He had to say enough of his rally bullshit to keep his base happy enough with his performance but not appear as deranged as his tweets and public appearances since losing the election had him look. So he repeated popular campaign slogans but toned down the absurdity from his rallies. Biden on the other hand had to not look older than Gandalf and he failed at that task miserably. Democrats need to find a new nominee pronto, because Biden's going to cost them the election. Someone like Gavin Newsom, who made Florida's mini-Trump governor seem like a clueless right-wing redditor, can at least challenge Trump on his outright bullshit and convince democrats and moderates that he'll be a better president than Biden because he's far less close to death. But I don't think the democrats have the balls to pull the plug on Biden's campaign. But fuck me, they absolutely need to because it's grim as fuck that America has to choose between a deranged idiot or someone far too old to be making important decisions for a super power.

God I wish these two would both get on a poorly constructed submarine and attempt to visit the Titanic.