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Spain beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time to win the 2026 World Cup – live
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Looks like everyone got successfully distracted from the epstein files and the genocide in gaza
Yes, that's right, brother, they organised the World Cup specifically to distract from the Epstein files. Crafty bastards had it planned since 1930!
It really wouldn't surprise me if this powerful Machiavellian cabal of pedos have existed since long before that. I'm not saying that it was actually planned this way, of course, but maybe we shouldn't be so quick to rule it out. :P
It was decided in 2018, two years into Trump’s first precidency. Maybe not to distract from the Epstein files, but that was what followed nevertheless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_bids
Trump planned in 2018 to lose the 2020 election specifically so he could be president again when this World Cup happened to allow it to be a distraction from the Epstein files.
Haha right, and that was only to stir up chaos to make path for third term!
It would be harder to believe that the winning team got awarded by a pedophile but that is now history. Governments and regimes have been using entertainment to distract and manipulate the public long before the 1930. A century later a football match is enough to make most people forgot about pedophiles running the country and an ongoing genocide.
OK, I'll explain because you seem to honestly not know how the FIFA World Cup is organised.
USA won the bid to organise the 2026 WC in 2018. The WC itself happens always once every four years.
Meaning: unless they're employing some stunningly excellent crystal ball operators, they could not have planned to use the 2026 WC as a smoke screen for the Epstein files OR the Gaza situation.
You don't seem to understand something really simple: an already planned and happening event can be used as a smoke screen. If you browse the news you will see nothing about the epstein files or the genocide in gaza but trump handling the world cup. Halftime shows have never been a thing in soccer and the president of a country is not supposed to deliver the cup. This already planned event was milked as much as possible to work as a distraction for all the shit that is currently happening in the world and it worked incredibly good.
Mate, the football World Cup is ALWAYS the largest sports event worldwide.
Sure, big events can be used as smoke screens but saying anything here was done on purpose is just showing your ignorance towards what the WC is. They had to have planned it in 1930 for it to happen now, they had to have known that the Epstein files would be a thing in 2016 when the bid started, and pulled some strings to win in 2018, and all that to use the largest televised event to hide the Epstein case.
It's just ridiculous. Those two events have nothing to do with one another.
Especially since they have an easier method available - Trump's (Epstein's?) billionaire buddies own all the US media! They can just decide that the files are to be buried under news about happy puppies and that's exactly what would happen.
On top of that, you don't seem to understand how moden news outlets (especially those online) and their readers work. The news outlets publish whatever garners clicks. People click outrage pieces the most, but they get bored quickly. Why do you think Zelenskyy is non-stop circling the world and talking to world leaders? He's doing all in his power to keep Ukraine in the media, because if it was up to the general public, the news coverage would be similar to that of the Sudan civil war right now - which is negligible. The elites don't even have to do anything for people to just lose interest, clicks to subside, and news agencies to move on from Epstein to other topics.
from the previous commend i made: "Halftime shows have never been a thing in soccer and the president of a country is not supposed to deliver the cup. "
You are acting more ignorant than anyone else here because i never said that everything was done on purpose
Read what's in the epstein files, you seem to have no clue.
replace happy puppies with soccer
You just said yourself that billionaire owns all the US media and they can decide what news are about.
They can't decide to use the WC as a smokescreen, because the WC happens once every 4 years and the host is selected 10 years prior. You can't really pump it up to "become" a smokescreen, because it already is the largest televised event on the planet.
What you're saying is the equivalent of suggesting that "the elites" have made the Sun to shine brightly on a July day in Texas. That's the default state of things, mate, nobody got to decide on that.
I'm only going to reply to this, because the rest is just silly, or commenting on standard Trump behaviour, which is "president of a country is not supposed to do" period.
You can pump it up to be a smokescreen exactly like every other event. If no media outlet talks about it, if the event isn't advertised, if no famous star play at the event and if no public figure award the cup, the coverage and popularity of the event goes down. If you do the opposite and spend a lot of money to sponsor the event the coverage goes up indefinitely and you can use it as a smoke screen.
What do you remember about 2022 winter olympics?
Why do you make stupid examples when it's clear what we are talking about? If the billionares who own all the media decides not to talk about the sun shining over texas you won't see many news about it.
Let's remember that this conversation started after i pointed out that this event successfully distracted people from the epstein files and the genocide in gaza, if you want to reply any further it could be useful if you let everyone know what you think about trump being a pedophile and israel government murdering kids in a genocide