The reigning monarch of our current regime was at it again yesterday, threatening to pull 2026 World Cup games out of Boston because apparently parts of the city have been "taken over" by some dangerous character called Unrest.
As usual, very few people of reasonable intelligence knew what the hell the Sovereign Lord of 'Murica was talking about. It does get harder and harder.
Oh, there was a brief outbreak of violence in Beantown at a pro-Palestinian rally earlier this month on Boston Common, but declaring parts of the city have been "taken over" because of that seems as fantastical as most pronouncements from Regimeville. In truth, it seems to be yet another instance of the Sovereign Lord inventing reasons to punish municipalities that either didn't vote for him, or that refuse to put up with his nonsense.
Boston would certainly qualify, given that its mayor (Michelle Wu) is both a member of the wrong party -- she's one of those evil Democrats the Regime seems determined to exterminate, either metaphorically or otherwise -- and someone who does not suffer fools gladly. Which naturally has put her crosswise with the Sovereign Lord.
More and more these days when he waves the Big Stick, it looks more like a Big Schtick. Every city he imagines under siege by murderous left-wing terrorists, after all, is an opposition city. And Sherman ain't burning Atlanta in any of them.
But the Sovereign Lord holds his fantasies close, because they play well politically with his base. And so, as night follows day, he's also maintained he could declare certain cities "not safe" for the World Cup -- among them, surprise, surprise, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, favorite political targets of the Regime.,
How he could actually do this, alas, seems another of his fantasies. The ruling body of international soccer, FIFA, confirmed its hosting plan three years ago, and FIFA suffers fools and their grudges even less than Mayor Wu. That it would be inclined to bend to anyone's whims now that it has contracts in place with 11 U.S. cities and five in Mexico and Canada is even more fantastical than the notion that Boston is a seething cauldron of violence unsafe for World Cup enthusiasts.
Especially when you consider the games wouldn't even be played in Boston, but in Gillette Stadium. Which is 30 miles from Boston and as remote from it as the mountains of the moon.
In any case, the imagined conversation between the Bullyboy-In-Chief and FIFA about moving games out of Gillette at the last minute would likely go like this:
President Donald John "Legbreaker" Trump: We're going to move the games.
FIFA: The hell you are.
Trump: I'm the president, and I say we are.
FIFA: Well, we're FIFA, and this is our show, not yours, bucko. We'll decide if it's safe to play games in, gee, the perilous hamlet of Foxborough, 30 miles from anywhere. Try to stop us, and the U.S. will never see another World Cup.
Trump: We'll send in troops. We can do that now that I'm the law.
FIFA: We'll send in lawyers. We have contracts. You try to make us break them, it'll cost you big time. Wonder how the U.S. taxpayers will like THAT.
And off to the courts everyone will go.
And, meanwhile, the games will go on.
And the Big Stick -- er, Schtick -- will add another dubious chapter.
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