JD Vance attempted a charm offensive on Tuesday, and failed with the charm while succeeding in being offensive.
It happened during an announcement that former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, would be leading a task force for the 2026 World Cup, which will take place in the United States, Canada and Mexico next year.
Rather than stoke excitement for a global event that could be a tourism cash cow for North America, Vance decided to take a different approach — and joked about deporting the potential thousands of tourists visiting the U.S. for the occasion.
Oh hahahaha, now watch as you have the lowest WC attendance in history and be the first modern WC to lose money.
How does the world cup define losing money? Because the absolute devastation that the world cup leaves in it’s wake to already poor and impoverished populations is definitely not being calculated. The human cost of labor exploitation alone is awful. But I guess that’s what they mean by “profitable” anyway.
That’s for host countries that have to build stadiums. WC2026 is going to use existing stadiums in the US, Canada and Mexico, just like WC1994 the last time in the US. Not every WC is like Qatar that had to build all new stadiums for all the venues. It’s always preferable that a host country already has capable stadiums like WC2014 in Brazil or WC2006 in Germany.
Ticket sales are already going so badly that they’re CHEAPER on the secondhand market! Scalpers are taking a loss to get rid of them, which is pretty much unheard of for an event like a world cup.
People are even more wary of traveling to Trump’s US than to the Emir’s Qatar or Putin’s Russia.
Wait, are tickets for the 2026 World Cup already on sale?
I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take, and the event brings a bunch of brown people and Euros to town. Why would they care if it succeeds? If anything making it fail is part of their deliberate campaign of chaos.
I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take
Clearly you know very little about FIFA in general and Trump’s buddy Infantino in particular…
Neither have ever seen a despotic government they didn’t want bribes from.
I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take
Well that would be the first corrupt administration they didn’t jump in bed with at the first opportunity then.
Countries like Qatar, Brazil want to host the games for the prestige and the affinity for the sport.
US Republicans don’t give a shit about “soccer.” Being the brilliant dealmakers they are, they probably want FIFA to pay them.
Yeah, holding the world cup in dictatorships is kind of their thing.
At what point is it a fetish for them?
It’s just plain corruption, but I guess they get off on having lots of money?
As long as the cheque clears, they don’t care.
Genuine question, don’t almost all countries lose money when they host the World Cup?
FIFA literally keeps all ticket sales and broadcasting money. Your only hope is to entice more visitors in the future or be an European country that already has stadiums literally everywhere.
Genuine question, don’t almost all countries lose money when they host the World Cup?
No, they don’t. A lot of money is generated from the attendance via hotel bookings, restaurant meals, alcohol sales, day excursions, VAT taxes, etc. For the tourism industry it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
losing money on a sure thing would be totally on brand for donvict & co.
America will simply be the largest casino he’s bankrupted so far
Why people Talk about Casinos… He bankrupted Casinos but this destroyed the whole fucking City (anyway get my upvote)
I’m happy when my cell phone already writes the words I write and that’s already a frustrating act, if punctuation marks are added, the cell phone is in 1000 pieces on the wall.
Cities hosting the WC almost never recoup their investments. Sure, it’s a windfall for a select few, but it is a bad investment for everyone else.
It doesn’t have to be profitable for the “city” that’s socialized cost. It just needs to be profitable for capital.
They’ll burn $10 of your money to make $1 in profit.
They hope for tourist. So do the math. Carefully… you must using MAGA math xD
I don’t know why
you’reyou were being downvoted, you’re absolutely right.As documented by an excellent Last Week Tonight segment and also another, FIFA and a select few rich people and corporations profiting off of lucrative contracts snatch up all the income and leave everyone else with all the expenses.
I don’t know why
you’reyou were being downvoted, you’re absolutely right.I think you just answered your own question. :)
JD Vance attempted a charm offensive on Tuesday, and failed with the charm while succeeding in being offensive
Could have phrased it a bit better. “…but instead of charming, was just offensive”, maybe?
Nah, I prefer the implication of accidentally succeeding in achieving a negative result.
Fits the entire political career of the couch fucker like an inside out latex glove.
Ohh, I certainly wouldn’t put anything past them.
Anyone who is mad enough to visit the US for attending a sports game in this day and age almost deserves that treatment. Like, are you ok?
I wonder if the IOC will be using the World Cup as a test bed. This certainly will not go well - there will be horrific stories coming from the few athletes and tourists that DO come for some reason, and attendance will be otherwise annihilated. What are the chances that the 2028 Summer Olympics in LA get moved? They’ll have 2 full years to ramp up in another city elsewhere in the world, probably one that has had the Olympics in the recent past and has the infrastructure built out already.
It won’t be moved, like the Olympics wasn’t moved from Berlin in 1936.
That’s an interesting point. However, my understanding is that the world did not understand the full extent of atrocities being committed in 1930s Germany until after the war was over. I think in the age of the internet and social media, this certainly could be the first.
The world knows what’s going on in Palestine. Some people protest but the atrocities continue.
There’s no reason to think the US would be any different.
Doesn’t really feel like an apples to apples comparison because nobody is going there for vacation excited to see a major sports event. And certainly nobody would want to go there knowing full well that they’d be at risk of death (or in the case of the USA, permanent imprisonment) for daring to enter the country.
My point was that the world potentially wasn’t fully aware of the environment they were entering personally to attend the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, but everything happening in the US today is broadcast digitally and the world is very well aware of the environment in the United States today.
And steal their bike
Been to Canada and Mexico.
Flew over that shithole but that’s as close I want to come to that awful country, no matter who’s in charge.
I’ve heard plenty horrible stories from people I know who got treated badly by their gestapo cops and border goons.God, these guys are tonedeaf.
Honestly I don’t think they are. They literally decided they were fine with committing treason, and their overall plan is probably similar to the bullshit great replacement theory they push. Except that they are literally selling the country out from under us, and will eventually start having ANYONE deported if they aren’t a cooperative slave, or part of the plan. As Americans disappear, I guarantee that more Russians and saudis will come into the country.
You gonna deport the athletes too?
I bet they’ll do this to the ones who have a chance of beating American athletes.
That’s most of them.
Yeah, whilst calling them illegal migrants stealing “the good working people of americas” jobs
Guaranteed this happens to at least one athlete. That many non-whites coming in for a work trip? Someone is going to get arrested.
What a swell idea, Vance! I’ve been trying to figure out how to persuade my compatriots why visiting the US aren’t worth the risks, and it really helps when the Vice President makes my case for me. Cheers, buddy!
haha so funny, much laughing as our tourism industry tanks
these absolute abject cretins, fucking beyond a disgrace they are ‘leading’ this country
They represent who we are. Either fully mask off shitty people or lazy AF who don’t care. This is America until we prove otherwise.
So which one are you?
I’m just honestly so confused. Do they want to expel all non-white people and non-Christian white people, refuse entry to everyone including tourists, and basically just close themselves off from the rest of the world like a population of white hikikomori?
They don’t have any sort of plan or end game. They just enjoy being assholes.
Their end game is becoming another Russia. One where everyone is kept dirt poor and there’s a massive transfer of wealth to the the top 0.01%
Their end game is exterminating all brown people. They just want to make them suffer first.
Yes
It makes more sense if you think only in things, not processes. You notice how things are not great. Some are good, but a lot are bad. So, how do things be good? Get rid of the bad! When all bad is gone, everything will be good, definitionally!
No they want to kill all the non white non Christian people. That’s why they have a death camp
Yep.
Don’t you remember learning about Germany in school? According to history disabled people are going to the camps as well. And RFK has already annonced that they’re going on a list. Then it’s non-straight people. And then they came for…
Just Dumb does not joke around.
I’ve been to over 50 countries in all seven continents, and I’ve lived in four of those. Never did I feel anything that I would would describe as fear.
I will be travelling to the US for an exchange program next month. I am afraid. To the point I am actually considering cancelling what could be a career changing opportunity.
My feelings are your feelings… but I am not planning on traveling to the US.
Is the opportunity “once in a lifetime” or can you find alternatives like Europe? Tbh things are too fucked up now, even I am afraid to travel there a few weeks to visit.
Is the opportunity “once in a lifetime” or can you find alternatives like Europe?
Generally speaking, opportunities are difficult to find and if you let go of one, depending on what kind of opportunity it is, you might get another one in a few years, or decades, or never. Depending on what line of work you’re in, European opportunities aren’t comparable to American ones either. Tech industry in Europe is in a laughable state, for an example.
You should be concerned, the US government will change your job title to El Salvadorian Detainee whether you want them to or not.
I am in the US, and I despise what’s going on. So please do not take what I am about to say as a defense to what is happening here.
Things are pretty extreme right now, but they aren’t as bad as the extreme left media is making it out to be. I find news articles posted on Lemmy are often sensationalized. There are 100% things we need to worry about, and things I myself am fighting (most everything the orange man does). But I do not think it is so bad you should cancel a big opportunity for yourself. Obviously things are happening to people, but most people are traveling to and from the US without any issues. You aren’t going to hear reports about all the people who didn’t have any issues while traveling.
I do not think there is reason to believe anything would happen to you. The right doesn’t want you here, so they absolutely aren’t going to keep you here as a prisoner. If they wanted you out, you would gladly leave on your own accord and cover all the expenses. They wouldn’t spend more money making you leave if you don’t want to be here anyway.
extreme left media
Where is this mythical entity? I’d like to subscribe.
I would consider canceling any dealings with US if said person isn’t white, even that is a stretch for this dogshit administration. I hope we see a general protest by making the World Cup barren.
As a sane person I am deeply sorry for any strife our government causes. Do your best to stay safe!
I’m surprised Trump’s even fine with hosting the world cup in the first place seeing as every professional footballer is a migrant by definition.
it is a money maker considering they don’t need to build new stadium or infrastructure. However these things doesn’t mean much, I think what he cares about how the final draw up to 1.5 billion viewer… so if he get to be there handing gold medals or something he will be happy.
TBF the American women’s team is good.
That’s completely irrelevant, a migrant is someone who relocates for work-related purposes, 99.9% of football players are doing so, that’s the whole backbone of football, not including Sunday league players.
Yeah, true that. I misunderstood your original comment as implying that American players weren’t good enough to be professional!
And yeah, sports like this really do show how open most of the world is to migration, even if only of skilled workers. Vance’s ‘joke’ is a sign of how America is turning away even from that and becoming more insular. There are both positive and negative aspects to globalisation but I’m thinking that locking the doors, drawing the curtains, and gripping a gun is not a healthy response.
