One of the most corrupt organizations on the planet launches a "peace prize" whose first recipient will surely be the most corrupt political leader on the planet. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/fifa-to-award-new-peace-prize-at-world-cup-draw-in-washington
Post
Replies:
0
@dangillmor
As a football fan. Fuck. FIFA.
(Real football guys, not 'Murrican "hand run smash brain damage" ball.)
Both the Olympics & World Cup in the US need to be boycotted.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/16/fifa-trump-club-world-cup
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-world-cup-boycott/
https://www.sportbible.com/other/olympic-2028-donald-trump-la-tariffs-travel-ban-156375-20250404
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/22/2311772/-No-World-Cup-in-the-U-S
Please don't be like the spectators at Hitler's 1936 Olympics.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-16/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/how-hitler-used-the-olympics-to-charm-the-world-and-buy-time-for-his-plans/00000198-986b-dff4-a39e-b9fb6cb60000
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/22/berlin-1936-by-oliver-hilmes-review
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2024/07/05/hitlers-olympics
https://progressive.org/magazine/jesse-owens-and-the-anniversary-we-should-remember-zirin-20250310/
Corruption meets corruption, really the biggest disgust you ever saw.
Seems like bet-hedging against having troops in the streets for the World Cup.
Keep him waiting for the gold bauble.
@dangillmor
But it also has the chance to do the funniest thing ever to that failed businessman. Invite him, have the cameras on him . . .
. . .and then give it to Diego Forlán.
@dangillmor
I was in the audience for Last Week Tonight back in 2014 and got to ask a question during the pre-show warmup
All I said was, "Sepp Blatter or Roger Goodell?" and damn, John Oliver did three solid minutes on the monstrousness of Blatter and FIFA
And the org has only gotten worse
now now, there’s still the chance that MbS might outbid him
@dangillmor ...Did Trump have another stroke in that photo? He looks like he's stroking out.
@dangillmor FIFA jumping the shark (again?)
You get a peace prize and you get a peace prize and you get a peace prize!
