[Gestures 360 degrees]

I hate everything about this - the music, the politicians, the "celebrities", the shameless advertising, the self-congratulatory back-slapping by people who have never done anything in or for the game.
This is all the things that football is not.
#WorldCupDraw

Deeply awful, and we all know it, even while those fools stand grinning like it's all real. It brings added emphasis on all the lies being told with a straight face.

I would hope so! It's just such an embarrassing sham. A non-corrupt sport organization would be condemning a country that may in fact arrest many of its fans for being non-white.

It's incredibly cringe. Now this Peace Prize bs. Half of the world is laughing at these jokers rn.

Right, which indicates that they've decided they can now operate in complete isolation from the base that put them there. Any other government knows you do not fuck with pocketbook issues (or shouldn't appear to.)

I suppose it's a symptom of being surrounded by sycophants, that nobody with the slightest marketing sense is willing to advise him against this rhetoric.