Month: December 2025

Uproar as DOJ moves to drop FIFA corruption case week after Trump gets org’s ‘peace prize’

Political analysts dragged President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Wednesday after it moved to drop a corruption case against a former Fox executive who was convicted of bribery and money laundering charges.
The DOJ moved to drop its conviction of Hernán López, a former Fox executive who oversaw the network’s Latin American sports broadcasting business, who had been convicted of multiple crimes related to the FIFA corruption investigation that began in 2010. López was involved in a scheme to funnel millions of dollars to the heads of the international soccer organization in exchange for the rights to broadcast the World Cup and multiple high-profile tournaments in South America. He was convicted alongside a marketing company he worked with, Full Play Sports, in 2023, The New York Times reported.
Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York wrote a letter to a federal judge arguing that dismissing López’s case was “in the interest of justice,” according to the NYT.
It was announced just days after FIFA gave the president its inaugural “peace prize.”

I feel like in an actually functional country, this sort of overt and blatant and unabashed bribery would’ve landed the participants in jail overnight without even needing a trial to find them guilty, but the former United States is not a functional country, so. Cos Mushroom Cock is not a man who’s ever going to turn down a “gift”, let’s face it, and the cult isn’t going to stop him…

Israel’s Ben Gvir wears noose pendant as he pushes death penalty bill for Palestinians

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, was pictured in parliament on Monday wearing a noose pendant on his lapel, as he continues to push for Palestinian prisoners to be handed the death penalty.
Posting on X, Ben Gvir boasted about wearing the icon, along with other members of his Otzma Yehudit party, in support of legislation currently passing through the parliament.
“I and the members of my Otzma Yehudit faction arrived today at the National Security Committee discussions to continue advancing the death penalty for terrorists, while wearing a pin in the shape of a hangman’s noose – as a symbol of our commitment to passing the law and as a clear message that terrorists are sons of death,” he wrote.
“The time has come for the death penalty for terrorists!”
The bill was approved by a majority of 39 out of 120 Knesset members, with 16 voting against in Israel’s parliament.
It would allow judges to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on so-called “nationalistic” grounds.
The legislation would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.

No, of course not, and I’m only surprised this cunt isn’t also pushing for bounties on Palestinians or some other reward for Isarelis killing them… Also, frankly, I don’t know how the Knesset operates and mathematics has never been my strong suit, but I’m damned if I can work out not even a third of the membership of it constitutes a “majority” of any kind. Interestingly, the article also notes that Israel has the death penalty already, but the only time they’ve ever used it was against Adolf Eichmann; evidently that’s not enough for some. But let’s face it, Israel has been deploying the death penalty against Palestinians since October 2023 for the crime of, you know, being Palestinian… which, again, obviously not enough for some. Sigh.

Anyone who’s paid the least bit of attention already knew FIFA is one of the world’s most corrupt organisations, and for anyone who still didn’t know this, they just made it transparent:

Players often face fines and bans from FIFA for displaying political messages, as the football governing body has long proclaimed a policy of political neutrality.
But on Friday, the association’s chief Gianni Infantino handed United States President Donald Trump the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, further cementing his embrace of the Republican leader.
Critics pointed out that the award came less than 24 hours after the Trump administration carried out another deadly air strike in the Caribbean.
Craig Mokhiber, a former United Nations official who has campaigned to suspend Israel from world football over its genocidal war in Gaza, called the award to Trump a “truly shameful development”.
Infantino has refused to take action against Israel, arguing that football “cannot solve geopolitical” issues. […]
Infantino has previously warned against using football to stoke division. “There’s no more powerful tool than sport to unite the people,” he said in 2023. “Now we have to protect the autonomy of sport: the political neutrality of sport and to protect the values of sport.”
Two years later, critics point out that Infantino has created a prize to celebrate peace and unity, and then handed it to a president who called people from Somalia “garbage” just days prior.
“Giving Donald Trump a prize for peace is like giving Luis Suarez a prize for not biting people’s ears off,” football journalist Zach Lowy wrote on social media, referring to the Uruguayan forward who has been caught up in at least three biting incidents on the pitch throughout his career.

Yeah, this is how this infernally stupid year ends, evidently. I mean, I know there’s a few weeks to go so things could get stupider, but this feels like a peak. I hope it’s a peak and that’s not just wishful thinking on my part… but as it stands, yeah. Why NOT give that tiny-penised traitor a “peace” prize, nothing else makes any fucking sense any more, it’s as logical as anything else that happens in the modern world. Remarkably unattractive trophy at that: