Games with the Cousins

Scotland fans have a 'restored faith in men' 

The World Cup coming to America couldn't have come at a more opportune time. A lot of people are laboring under the delusion that the world hates us because of President Trump and all those other soccer loving countries are so much better than us, especially if socialism has a foothold. Then suddenly tens of thousand of football/soccer fans actually came to visit.

Someone described the World Cup as "...us having a giant sleepover with the cousins we never see because our parents hate each other."  He is exactly right. And when our cousins got here, especially those from largely socialist countries, they stumbled into a dream and began posting YouTube videos of themselves experiencing things they never see back home and tasting food they have no experience of, sights that flabbergast them and the incredible overabundance of goodness that is America.

These folks were blown away by Walmart, Costco, Bucees, not to mention the awesome stadiums, the concerts, the amusement parks, the forests, rivers, lakes and seashores. And the things they went home and tried to find but couldn't were things we Americans take for granted. Boston rolled out bagpipe and drum bands for the Scotland fans. One European girl couldn't get over ranch dressing and tried to teach someone/anyone back home how to make it and the cooks of England couldn't understand what ranch dressing actually was. Another tried Texas barbecue and couldn't believe it.

And in cities all over the country where the teams played, young people were struck by how much food restaurants put on your plate. One pair did a video complaining that the people back home lied about America. One guy said people told him not to go out after dark or he'd be murdered. An attractive Swedish girl  marveled that she could walk down the street at 10 o'clock and feel perfectly safe. Back home she'd have been attacked, robbed and raped if she did that in the neighborhood near her home.

Almost all of them remarked on how nice Americans were and many of them wondered whether they could stay longer or even move here. And America wasn't show off. We weren't running a PR campaign. We were just the fun-loving nice people we always have been. And now a lot of Europeans, Asians, South Americans, Australians and Africans have a much better opinion of the United States.

I never heard one of them complain about our president; not after the good time we showed them. And soccer isn't all that popular here.

Tom King © 2026 

Must Be That Common Core Math They're Teaching Our Kids Now

Democrat Math at it's finest!
Do the arithmetic and show your work 

This thing is going around the left-wing social media. I think it must be a low IQ test! Either that or some common core nightmare. Here's the deal; the straight poop if you will.

1. Common sense - 180 billion minus 172 billion equals 8 billion to give away. If you give a billion to each person you could make 8 people billionaires. That's all.

2. Regular Math - 180b-172b=8b
    8b(dollars)/8b(people) = $1 (each)

3. Real World Application -  Suppose you did send everybody in the world a dollar. Unless they gave you their bank account number you'd have to mail the dollar to them. In the US alone that would cost 75 cents last time I mailed a stamp. That leaves everyone with a quarter. In other parts of the world, international mail rates would require much more than a dollar to send the dollar AND think of how many people on how many computers would you need to find addresses for all those people. Admin costs alone would require billions. Sorry folks, Elon can't afford to give you all a billion dollars or for that matter split it up among you all.

4. Economic Reality - If everyone had a billion dollars, there would be instant economic disaster. Who would go to work for anything like what they are being paid now? Instantly there would be no workers. Why go to work if you actually were a billionaire? Truckers would stop trucking. Farmers stop farming. Factories, grocery stores, police departments, defense industries, the military and everything else would grind to a stop. Inflation would be nightmarish because you have billions of dollars chasing virtually no goods or services. A Big Mac would run you millions if not tens of millions of dollars even if you could get someone to serve you. If everyone had a billion dollars, the dollars would be worth nothing.

Time grows short.
The signs are there to see!

How stupid do the leftist propagandists think we are? It's obvious from the traction this is getting in social media from the progressive fan base that if they just are hanging out with their own people and judging the rest of us by that standard, the left clearly thinks we are all stupid based on the average intellect of their own supporters.

Lest anyone think I'm calling them stupid, I'm not. Marxism/socialism/progressivism/Democrat philosophy is a religion of sorts and it's adherents take this kind of thing as an article of faith especially if it comes from their cardinals and bishops in government and the media. For many of us we kind of switch off our brains where articles of faith are concerned. It becomes all about the feelings and far less about the truth. And our leftist acolytes immediately post this sort of thing to Facebook without another thought and then dutifully hate rich people like Elon Musk who is actually doing things that benefit actual people.

I'm glad I got through school while they were still teaching the old math.

Just sayin'
Tom King © 2026