The incandescent lava lamp smoldered gradually as a prodigious handful of tourists from another hemisphere descended upon Seattle. “Candlepower is will power.”
In a narrative out of a Larry Niven sci-fi novel (author of Ringworld), the world along with tens of thousands of Australian soccer fans coalesced in the Pacific Northwest to witness the Aussies battle the US on the stage of hysteria and the World Cup. This vortex of temperamental chaos included cretinous locals protesting God knows what and the activist community in force funded by Michael Bloomberg took to the streets and issued red cards to attendees to the match with all the flair of a street evangelist. Red cards are used by soccer referees to signify that a player has been disqualified from the game.
Even though the despicable actions were not as extreme as hijacking a few square blocks in the city (CHAZ/CHOP), the gestures were a both a slap in the face to business owners and residents thriving from the tourists, but also to those who traveling at least 15 hours on an long haul jet to arrive in Seattle. At least the miscreants were able to follow the theme dictating radical political posturing in engaging the legions of fans and in doing so receiving compensation from Liberal and progressive organizations keeping the grift and industry of activism alive.
With the aftermath of the SpaceX IPO, Elon Musk was an afterthought as the paid deplorable carpooled from the area Portland and its outskirts, zany and destructive elements convened upon the celebration of the event and a US national team versus an Australia clash on the pitch. There were no trace elements of kneeling amid the stadium during the national anthems preceding the anticipated battle. A woman named Megan, or Megan R, has allegedly gone MIA as the match-up was the bigtime where adults practice commonsense outside of half-drunken scuffles within the confines of the involving hand slapping.
As the drama and intrigue of soccer being at center stage on the news cycle for the first time in four years, billions of dollars are exchanged with various American cities undeservedly being rewarded with an influx of capital in the style and enablement of a Heroin dealer who gets high on his/her own product before the withdrawals literally kick in. FIFA, the governing international body of foosball represents the cartel in this narrative of addiction and gross mismanagement which makes the International Olympic Committee look docilly accountable when comparing the redacted financial ledgers of both organizations catering to the gentlemen’s style of corruption for the sake of contrived diplomacy.
Curiously, cities awarded a slew of games for the 2026 World Cup exposition lean hard to the left with Seattle exemplifying the perfect marriage between the flawed model of European economics meeting with car campers. This enabled non-native-native population demographic and a convoy of derelict recreation vehicles are temporarily relocated to nearby residential and family neighborhoods for the showcase. This is nothing new in Seattle, as similar methods of public relations disingenuously duct taped and aggressive clean-up efforts were executed for the 2023 MLB all-star game, where the city council who identified as competent put on a vibrant and extravagant drag queen show by sweeping the desirably undesirable under the rug. Dignity has still not returned and various accounts from reliable sources have come to the conclusion that last bastion of reason and and the Megan R’s are now willfully cohabitating in suspended animation. However, the games must go on with the fanatics and municipalities getting their fix of opioids from the aforementioned cartels and drug dealers and the impending municipal economic crash hits once the matches end and the glow from being the center of attention wears off. This destructive cycle prompted by the dysfunction of partisan politics directed by the visceral sets in and the long hangover of Winter descends upon a city, a region, a continent and ultimately the globe.