Snerk...
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
This is column is almost like reinventing the the wheel. Was it better in Tsarist Russia,. Ireland with the potato famine. Italy run by who ever was in charge that day. Even Germany look and see how many immigrants came from there and I don't mean running from Hitler. This was in the 1880's and 90's. We are not taught anything of our own country and its a shame.
"And many of the tourists really can’t comprehend that Americans really don’t care all that much about soccer..."
Yeah, many Americans think soccer is kinda gay. Yet we all kind of get along, and our Euro visitors get the vibe. America is a wonderful place.