Welp, the truth is getting out there…
About 250 years ago, America cast a spell on Europe and the rest of the world. That magic compelled 15-18 million people to uproot themselves and escape war, poverty, crop failures, and political instability to start all over again in the new nation between 1800 and 1900.
More than 15 million immigrants arrived in the first 15 years of the 20th century, mostly from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Funny how America’s critics gloss over that astonishing fact. Whenever they bother to mention it, they point to the industrial revolution, which created an insatiable demand for labor, as capitalism “enslaved” these unsuspecting workers.
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But once these soccer fans get here, an amazing transformation happens to many of them.
They fall in love with the U.S.
Perhaps they have relatives who left the old country to come here and have heard about America all their lives. Whatever their preconceptions about the U.S., nothing prepared them for how completely different it is from what they’ve been told or what they imagined.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
And the MSM is melting down, because all these folks are traveling, posting videos, TicTocs, X posts, etc. that are VERY contrary to what the MSM portrays the US as being…
A German soccer supporter who goes by @FreddyLA7 on X has been posting about his travels and has developed quite the following within the US…LOL
Among other things, he’s scored Ella Langley tickets for Tulsa from Ms. Langley herself, as they have ‘adopted’ her as their music for the trip. JJ Watt apparently gave them swag in Houston, where Germany was playing, and he’s discovered Waffle House!
While we may laugh about it, he is just one of many soccer tourists who’ve fallen in love the the real America, not the one portrayed by the world media.
All we can do is laugh and sit back and watch the MSM’s meltdown, especially now. We didn’t have to build special stadiums, hotels, or anything else. They’re basically using existing (mostly college) stadiums, and apparently only had to put grass on four of them (thanks to Michigan State University’s turf grass program, HERE).
And most of the complaining is about FIFA’s costs for tickets, travel, parking, etc. which none of us have control over…
And many of the tourists really can’t comprehend that Americans really don’t care all that much about soccer…LOL
I’m not a soccer fan either, but three individuals in our 12 person office are big fans. Two of them played it in school and as adult leagues as well so they are keeping the rest of us up to date on who won and who were outstanding and who needed more bench time.
I’ll be glad when the match is over and done. But its cool to see people who love the game light up when talking about it so …
Not really BORED by the FIFA hubbub, but (at age 15) I DID go to see the Atlanta Chiefs win the 1968 NASL championship.
Even went down on the field after the game, accompanied by my next-door-neighbor, who was Dutch and therefore understood the game.
Wish I’d kept the ticket stub.