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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 3h

100% agree with Dempsey. Tillman just became the most important player for the USMNT for the next cycles.

Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 5h

"Clientelism is bad. But I'm an effective client and I can get special treatment from daddy. I also very much believe in the free market."

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 5h

Season 3 was camp but the Amsterdam episode was peak.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 5h

You forgot Washington, DC

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 5h

A more salient explanation: This team is very good against equal/worse opposition and very bad against better opposition.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 8h

The letter "u" was banned in Vancover Washington after we all left.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty sure he was unaware of the world beyond the libertarian utopias of Vancover, Washington and Austin, Texas.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 8h

That... tracks. Blocked that dude a long time ago when he was trying to justify calling Mexicans by slurs because they "all crossed a river to get here."

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 8h

still wondering if i want to invite that energy back into my life.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 22h

I really want to like Jesse Marsch. I suppose I just like that he makes himself intentionally unlikeable.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 22h

Maren Haile Selassie has been a lowkey gem for Chicago Fire's post-World Cup regular season.

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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 23h

Alex Freeman: 2025: - First MLS start into breakout star - USMNT debut 2026 - Big money move to Villarreal - Breakout USMNT young player at World Cup - Champions League debut - Constant USMNT starter / pseudo “veteran” leader in this camp at 22 years old Unreal 2 years

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 22h

low accurate pass counts and shot counts across the board. cagey game.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm assuming he said San Diego as an immigration dogwhistle.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Both San Diego and Orange County have shifted dramatically toward the Democratic Party in recent years. There are obviously pockets that would still go for Zombie Reagan.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He wasn't joking. We shouldn't normalize it. Not normalizing it definitely exhausts my anger supply and robs me of other emotions (mostly joy). Are there ways to not normalize grandstanding, non-sensical threats of harm that don't exhaust me emotionally?

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

hubris, thy name is political expediency

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Respectfully, you're the Senator. What can we do about this that's better? What are you planning to do about this?

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The amount of Cavan Sullivan hype post-World Cup crashout is both valid and part of the problem. He's a special kid, but I really hope he has strong-ass ligaments.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The bureaucracy contained in five words ("League A and C Play-In") is equal parts efficient and exhausting. Probably the best kinds of efficient and exhausting.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cool. What can people do about this and what are you planning to do about this?

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Btw, I'm short on solutions here, folks. I'm as lost as you on how we will continue to have a country that doesn't actively want to antagonize, rob, and kill me. It just seems like it will get a lot worse before it gets better. And it'll probably be a few decades before the latter happens.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm aware that this is dissonance. I'm aware that I can fall into the same tendencies if I'm not vigilant. But I'm tired of these fucking idiots triggering me all the time. And in the rare event consequences ever reach them, I will not gloat.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Most of my family would probably cheer this shit on. They would tell me to "stop being so sensitive" and "you're a liberal pussy" when their lives are being threatened and I am concerned. But they receive faintest bit of criticism and "WHERE IS YOUR HEART?!?! I THOUGHT YOU WERE TOLERANT!!!"

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are the predictable consequences of holding ourselves hostage to our stupidest and most childishly insecure fellow citizens.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm usually above all the bluster, but the fact that we've never held Donald Trump to account for reckless endangerment like this is absolutely deplorable. Yes, that word choice was intentional.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cool, what are you planning to do about it?

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Men at a Delaware bar were loudly shouting that California deserved the wildfires after not voting for Trump. People want to see death to people that hurt their feelings. But they don't want to see those deaths touch them.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's not treason because people actually believe this is a good thing.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please always remember we are a very stupid country and we deserve all the pain we get.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know plenty of Southern Californians who would cheer this on. We are a very stupid country, and we deserve the pain we get.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know plenty of Southern Californians who would cheer along with this crowd of idiots.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He doesn’t look bad on the wing. Probably a good utility midfield sub moving forward. But he’s like 6th on this CM depth chart.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Would love to see 90 for Musah in that one.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mexico was supposed to be test. All I learned is that Canada will probably beat the USMNT so long as they don’t *checks notes* play the ball directly to the U.S. attack.

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No way FMF fires him after this do they?

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Matt Barger @mattbarger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026