Ok, all, I’ve been screaming about this for weeks, ever since Krispi Gnome started the nonsense about carrying your papers at all times and saying we may not let you in for any visitors coming to the US way back in the summer. Well, it’s officially become a problem, and it’s a mess. Visitors won’t be coming. With thanks to Raw Story:
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasingly aggressive deployment of federal immigration agents. “I had to cancel my World Cup plans,” wrote Ramy Abdu, a Palestinian academic and assistant professor of law and finance, in a social media post on X Friday. “Visiting the United States simply isn’t safe.”
No, it isn’t. It’s not safe for its *citizens*, let alone overseas visitors. We *used* to have the potential for visitors to spend lots of lovely money in our cities, and honestly, it’s looking like that has gone down exponentially. Our country is in horrible shape, and that could have helped some cities, at least, but it appears that’s going down the drain. Sheesh!
A total of 11 U.S. cities will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup and are expected to pay millions of dollars to fund the events, creating an estimated budget shortfall for host cities of around $250 million in what critics have called “the worst deal in FIFA World Cup history.” Nevertheless, Trump has celebrated the tournament coming to the United States, after aggressively lobbying for years to secure the hosting rights. However, in the wake of the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good – the Minnesota woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday – and Trump’s subsequent deployment of over 100 more agents to the state, critics have increased calls for sports fans worldwide to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Even though one of the cities hosting is just down the road from me, we should actually support boycotting. There’s no reason for people to try to come in, knowing they could be harassed and worse, say, disappear’d, at any moment here. It’s dangerous, with these yahoos running around with an attitude and a twitchy trigger finger behind the anonymity of a mask. It’s dangerous for us! They don’t need to put themselves through the stress and the fear.
“Would you have gone to watch the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936?” asked Pekka Kallioniemi, a Finnish social media analyst with a focus on propaganda and disinformation, in a social media post on X Friday. “If the answer is no, it’s time to cancel your US World Cup tickets.” //// Another X user, “Princess Kim K,” a pro-Democratic Party political commentator with more than 73,000 followers, declared the United States to be “unsafe,” and urged people worldwide to not only cancel their tickets to the FIFA World Cup, but for the 2028 Summer Olympics – slated to be hosted in Los Angeles, California – to be held in another country. //// “People need to cancel their World Cup and the Olympics need to be moved,” they wrote in a social media post on X. “The U.S. is unsafe!”
World
Please Listen Up
I am an American Citizen & until the trump regime is gone here in the U.S.
Cancel your World Cup tickets
Cancel your Olympic Tickets
Cancel your travel plans here
Don’t do business with companies here
Do whatever you have to do to protect yourselves
I’m sorry I can’t embed anything, but the above is from a post on Xitter. Do something else. Go somewhere else. Watch it on tv. Don’t risk it. It’s the year 2026, and we have this going on in our country. We shouldn’t be saying this. People shouldn’t have to hear this. But we are, and they should. It’s almost beyond comprehension. What has America come to? What have we changed into?
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It’s all, believe me, Trump’s fault. Duh!