It has been a real treat seeing the videos and photos on social media from people around the world who have traveled to America to attend the FIFA World Cup. They are clearly living their best lives as they embrace American culture while bringing a bit of their own to proudly display along the way.
Perhaps the most well-publicized among them has been a man named Freddy from Germany:
There have also been the Scottish fans:
There were the Dutch fans:
And there’s so much more where that came from.
Meanwhile, ahead of the game between the U.S. and Australian men’s teams, which was played on Friday in Seattle, the Seattle Times reported that some TDS-afflicted locals were conflicted about whether to support the U.S. team, with some admitting they would only be reluctantly supporting the team, and others admitting that they wouldn’t be:
From the story:
On one hand, it’s hard for the 47-year-old [Carey Lefkowitz] to imagine not watching the World Cup and rooting for the U.S. players, who hail from diverse backgrounds and have compelling life stories. He wants them to succeed.On the other hand, it’s hard for Lefkowitz to imagine enthusiastically cheering against their opponents, because he thinks Trump is tarnishing what it means to be American on the global stage.“It’s not how I expected to feel” about the World Cup, he said a few weeks before the tournament. “I still want the U.S. team to win, but everything that goes with that? I’m conflicted.”
“I’m an American and very proud of the freedoms we have,” Lefkowitz told the paper. “But I can’t lose my humanity, and that’s what I see as happening.”
Another soccer “fan” in Seattle noted that he had pulled up his American flag and replaced it with another team’s flag because he can’t stand Trump:
Ken Langner will be pulling for England because he enjoys watching the English club soccer league and has some English ancestry, he said last month. But he can’t afford tickets to the matches at Seattle Stadium, typically Lumen Field, and — as a progressive who believes his taxes should be spent on healthcare, not bombs — he said he can’t bring himself to fully back a U.S. squad in this moment.“I can’t do it,” said Langer, 69, a retired Boeing manager who has replaced the American flag he once flew outside his Everett house with a Manchester United soccer club flag. “We used to be the good guys. Now we’re not.”
Not that any of this is surprising when one considers several things, including the fact that leftists typically only feel “patriotic” enough to fly the U.S. flag when a Democrat is president, and how we even have Democrat public figures openly admitting to rooting for other countries in the World Cup:
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani can’t even be bothered to wear a U.S. team jersey
That comes despite Mamdani opting to wear an Arsenal-themed custom kurta to celebrate Eid ahead of the start of the World Cup.Mamdani was also present at the first World Cup game held at the New York New Jersey Stadium between Brazil and Morocco, but he opted to wear a New York City-themed shirt instead of a Team USA jersey.
In any event, the fans in attendance for the game in Seattle (which the U.S. won 2-0) clearly didn’t get the anti-America memo:
Endorsed.
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