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As Churchill said, “Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

Let’s take this to heart over the time ahead

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George Orwell on writing:

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jilli1205

BREAKING: Trump's racist goons pulled the Uruguay World Cup team off their bus and deployed SNIFFER DOGS in a deeply racist show of profiling!

The Trump administration’s cruel border obsession is turning the American World Cup matches into an international embarrassment. Upon arrival in the States, the Uruguay national team – twice World Cup winners – was pulled over on the side of the road for a humiliating canine search of their luggage before they even arrived at their hotel.

In another incident, Iraq striker Aymen Hussein was detained for nearly seven hours at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, while a member of the Iraqi team’s photography staff was denied entry entirely.

Fans from across the world weren’t having it:

“Imagine training your whole life to represent your country at the World Cup, only to have your first touch in America be a sniffer dog checking your luggage on the roadside,” one post read.

Many pointed out the obviously racist pattern of teams from Latin America and Africa facing far more aggressive scrutiny than others. “What a coincidence that the fixation on registering and checking is always with American countries from Mexico southward or from Africa,” one blogger wrote.

Another referred to the United States as “A country that should never again host a World Cup. If you only like people from your own country, then don’t organize an event that should be open to the world.”

Oh snap, we were afraid something like this might happen. Stephen Miller and his horde of goons have no use for soccer, so let’s make a point, right?

They have already denied entry to fans, journalists, and soccer federation officials from Haiti, Iran, Senegal, and the Ivory Coast, all World Cup-qualifying nations that fall under the State Department’s 39-nation travel ban (the players and coaches got carve-outs).

They want to showcase Trump’s “America First” obsession to the whole world. They want to project to the MAGA masses that their hatred toward Black and brown people as well as Muslims are bigger than sports – watch us treat their elite athletes and symbols of their national pride like criminals. Aren’t we badasses?

Hosting the World Cup is a global honor, which provides a setting to celebrate global unity and amity through sports.

Instead, under Trump, that’s all discarded as woke. In its place is more of its petty cruelty and self-sabotage on the world stage.

"What has the United States become?" the more than five billion people watching across the world are asking themselves.

Think of people, say, crowding around a communal village TV in rural West Africa to get a snippet of the real America on the screen in addition to the football, and seeing and hearing about stuff like this.

What disappointment they must feel when they see America, which has always been the symbol and hope that a better life exists and awaits out there, now behaving like a bunch of merciless thugs.

Shameful. Embarrassing. Humiliating.

Mariah Neville Mihm

The World Cup should have moved elsewhere. Period.

Jimmy Doucette

I don’t condone any of this!!!! And Uruguay????? Come on!!!! As a US Citizen, I am ashamed!

Eileen Kaminsky

He embarrasses us once again.

Linda A. Luján

They should do it to him while he's out of the country.....and keep him there!

Eileen Taylor

Hosting the World Cup is an honor. Clearly one we don’t deserve. They and the Olympics should be held anywhere else but here in this atmosphere!!!

Beth Wagner

I’m glad that the World Cup was held here. It has brought unity and friendship to and from people from all over the globe. The visiting nations (and their fans) been a great boost of energy . We’ve been able to show them what Americans are truly like instead of the distorted view they’ve seen on the news or. have been told about from their media !

Stuart Baker

You know Norway, Scotland, England, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden were not checked.

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tomorrowusa

In MAGA world, the expression "vote fraud" is not about fraud – it's about legal voters voting who aren't MAGA.

Let's be clear about what Trump is really up to. This gift article is a column by Jamelle Bouie from the New York Times.

The Real Reason Trump Never Stops Talking About Voter Fraud

Donald Trump knew as well as anyone that he had lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square. He knew there was no conspiracy to commit voter fraud — no mysterious mail ballots, no “illegal” voting, no suspicious activity in key swing states. When he told his supporters that the election had been “rigged,” he was lying. His monthslong effort to “stop the steal,” culminating in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, was an exercise in deception. And we know it was an exercise in deception because Trump’s aides and allies said so. On the record. Under oath.

When Trump doesn't get what he wants, he lies and yells a lot. Right out of the Goebbels playbook.

There are two possible public Trump reactions to election results: 1} WE WON or 2) IT WAS STOLEN. He's not just a sore loser, he's intentionally trying to undermine elections.

As he often does, President Trump washed away all doubt when, in a recent interview with Kristen Welker of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he raged against supposed fraud. “The election was rigged,” he said of the 2020 contest. “It was a dirty election. And it’s happening again in California.” American elections, Trump continued, are “like a third-world country.” Recall that last year, Trump targeted Los Angeles with National Guard troops and agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. And consider the regularity with which the president says things like, “if you import people from Third World Countries, you quickly become a Third World Country.” The logic is straightforward. A city of immigrants, like Los Angeles, must also be a city of voter fraud, even if those immigrants are legal voters, entitled to participate in the political process. “Voter fraud” is not about fraud. It is about who votes and how. It is about the breadth and scope of the political community. It is, as with most MAGA obsessions, about who can call themselves Americans — entitled to govern as equals — and who are mere subjects. Trump’s obsession with voter fraud is just another expression of the reactionary populist belief that the people who inhabit a place are not equivalent to the people, who are entitled to rule.

Trump's whining and yelling about "Third World Countries" is just code for racism. From Trump's perspective, you're not a real American unless you're white and preferably male.

We should treat this contretemps in Los Angeles, as silly as it is, as a dress rehearsal for what will probably happen in November, if and when Republicans lose control of Congress. Any result short of victory for Trump and his allies will be denounced as “fraud.” Not because there is anything wrong with the system, but be because, as they see it, this is their country and theirs alone.

Contrary to what the doomers and Chicken Littles say, there are things we can do. The first thing is to ignore those doomers and Chicken Littles, they are probably MAGA AI bots anyway. But also...

Vote early AND in person. Almost every state now has early voting, take advantage of it. Trump flunkies currently run the USPS. The flow of mail can be manipulated. Even in better times, things can get lost in the mail. Natural disasters can disrupt or delay service. When you personally see your ballot inserted into a ballot box or vote counter, you can be sure you've voted.

Volunteer to be a poll worker. The hours are terrible but you do get paid in most jurisdictions. Contact your board of elections or county clerk. Some places allow high school juniors and seniors to serve as poll workers. We need honest and impartial individuals running elections at the local level.

Let local officials know you want no interference in elections from the feds. Elections are a state and local responsibility and ICE or other federal intimidation have no business in them.

A regular reminder that authoritarian Viktor Orbán was booted out of office in April's Hungarian election despite his attempts at extreme gerrymandering and control of most of the media. His control of the electoral system could not prevent opposition leader Péter Magyar from winning a supermajority in parliament.

Double check to make sure you are registered. If you have moved since the last election or will move before the next one, you must register at your new address – even if you just move across the street. Voter registration is totally geographic, don't give some MAGA official a technical reason to prevent you from voting.