BRILLIANTLY EUROPEAN – Belgium Files World Cup Appeal to Block U.S. Team from Fielding its Best Players

July 6, 2026 | sundance |

=Casual sports observers often wonder why the sport of Soccer has never been successful in the United States==. This story is a big picture example of exactly why.

The country of Belgium is filing an appeal with FIFA World Cup organizers to stop the United States from playing the game of soccer with their best players. You just cannot make this stuff up, folks.

Only in the sport of EU soccer can a bureaucratic agency file a parliamentary objectionwith the intent to force the official bureaucratic agents of the soccer administration,FIFA, to block a team from fielding their best players– because the business of the bureaucracy is more important than sportsmanship.

SEATTLE (AP) — The Belgian soccer federation isdemanding explanation from FIFA about a decision to let U.S forward Folarin Balogun play at the World Cupdespite getting a red card in his previous game.

Belgium takes on the United States later Monday for a spot in the quarterfinals.

The Belgian federation said it has still not received either “FIFA’s decision or any explanation regarding this matter. In these circumstances, it has no choice but to challenge the player’s eligibility for the upcoming match.” {LINK}

Here comes the really funny part.All the soccer nations continue tobe befuddled why soccer has never made progress within the American sport psyche. Think about it.

Soccer is a ‘sport system’ bureaucratically designedto fail when contrast to a brutally honest American perspective on sport.

Soccer succeeding in America is the inverse to Liberty succeeding worldwide.

Soccer is the United Nations of sports.

If soccer ever to succeeds in America, the United States is lost forever!

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/06/brilliantly-european-belgium-files-world-cup-appeal-to-block-u-s-team-from-fielding-its-best-players/

Rob Schneider Obliterates Alicia Keys’ “Women Have No Rights” Lie: “Name One Right That Women DON’T Have in America?!” — Then Drops the Hammer on Every Dangerous Job Men Risk Their Lives Doing

by Jim Hᴏft Jul. 6, 2026 8:30

Comedian and actor Rob Schneider just went nuclear on woke singer Alicia Keys after she posted her latest grievance-filled Instagram rant claiming American women still don’t have “an explicit guarantee to equal rights under the U.S. Constitution” and begging followers to help write some new “People’s Bill of Rights” for the country’s 250th anniversary.

Schneider didn’t mince words. He posted a viral open letter that perfectly sums up what millions of fed-up American men have been thinking for years.

Here’s the full letter in all its glorious, no-BS glory:

Dear Alicia Keys,

Name one right that women DON’T have in America?! I will wait.

Please know that women are FREE to join men working on offshore oil rigs, on deep sea crabbing and fishing vessels, logging trees with gigantic chainsaws, underwater welding for bridge construction and underground mining.

You and purty lady friends can also collect garbage and recycling at 6 in the morning and when you’re done with that you girls are welcome to risk your lives restoring electricity on high power lines.

These “rights” are waiting for you but you gals won’t do it, because you need men to do it.Because that is what men do: risk their lives day in and day out so you lovely girls can just pretend that all those things magically take care of themselves while you bitch and moan about perceived injustices and lack of rights.

So you go girl, Enjoy your electricity and your roads being repaired and your garbage being magically picked up every Tuesday morning and your fancy vegetables and grass fed steaks trucked into your grocery store at 5 in the morning, while you have Vietnamese ladies paint your toenails.

You can call it toxic masculinity, but you would cry your lovely fake eyelashes off when your Air Conditioning breaks down for more than 3 hours.

Your welcome!

Yours truly,

MEN

Schneider’s open letter perfectly exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of the modern feminist grievance industry. While millionaire celebrities like Alicia Keys enjoy every luxury modern society provides, air conditioning, reliable electricity, paved roads, grocery stores stocked with fresh food, and yes, even having their toenails painted, they sneer at the very men who risk their lives daily to make it all possible.

Men make up over 90% of workplace fatalities in America. They dominate the most dangerous, dirty, and physically demanding jobs: commercial fishing, logging, mining, construction, power line repair, and offshore drilling. These aren’t “privileges,” they’re sacrifices that keep the entire country running.

The radical left loves to demonize “toxic masculinity,” but without it, the lights would go out, the garbage would pile up, the roads would crumble, and the grocery shelves would go empty within days.

American women already have equal rights, full stop.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/rob-schneider-obliterates-alicia-keys-women-have-no/

Tennessee National Guard Heroes Fatally Shoot Armed Thug in Memphis After He Turns Gun on Soldiers During Downtown Pursuit

by Jim Hᴏft Jul. 6, 2026 8:45

Two Tennessee National Guard members assigned to President Donald Trump’s crime-fighting patrol in Memphis did exactly what they were sent there to do on Sunday,they neutralized an immediate deadly threatwhen an armed suspect turned toward them with a gun during a foot chase in downtown Memphis.

The man, identified by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson, was shot and killed after he fled from Memphis police officers who had observed him carrying a handgun.

During the pursuit,Johnson turned toward the National Guard soldiers with his weapon.

The Guardsmen opened fire in clear self-defense. Guard medical specialists on scene provided immediate first aid, but Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.

WBALTV reported:

Johnson’s older cousin, Terracle Nelson, 46, told The Associated Press that he was “as good a boy as can be.” Johnson was living in Nashville, working in construction and taking university classes, she said. He had just had his first child earlier this year, she added.

Nelson said she was present with other members of Johnson’s family when authorities told them that Johnson had been shot twice in the chest.

“I just want to know how they shot a 20-year-old twice in the chest — he hadn’t harmed anyone,” Nelson said.

[…]

Mayor Paul Young called the shooting an “unfortunate incident” and said he was waiting to see the results of the TBI investigation before commenting further, according to a statement provided by spokesperson Penelope Huston.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is conducting the standard review.

President Trump created the Memphis Safe Task Force last September after repeatedly warning that Democrat-run cities were being overrun by violent crime.Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee supported the deployment of the National Guard to back up federal agents and local police.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported when Trump signed the Presidential Memorandum establishing the Memphis Safe Task Force and when the first boots hit the ground:

In the first 48 hours alone, the task force made 53 arrests and seized 20 guns.

The operation has since racked up more than 10,000 arrests and removed over 1,700 firearms from the streets.

Beginning in June 2025, President Trump deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement to U.S. cities in a series of escalating operations. Troops arrived in Washington, D.C., in August 2025, Memphis in October 2025, and New Orleans on December 30, 2025. Deployments to Chicago and Portland became entangled in legal challenges and were suspended by January 2026.As of March 2026, active deployments continue in Washington, D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans.

The deployments have produced verifiable arrests and weapons seizures, and crime has fallen in every targeted city.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/tennessee-national-guard-heroes-fatally-shoot-armed-thug/

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North Korea Fires 12 Nuclear-Capable Missiles in Massive Test, as Kim Jong Un Supervises His New Destroyer Warship

By Paul Serran Jul. 6, 2026

Kim is building a nuclear-armed navy.

As Europe struggles to rearm, with the British Royal Navy scrapping plansfor new destroyers for cheaper alternatives, the North Koreans continue to relentlessly display their beefed-up military capabilities.

Kim Jong Un personally supervised the tests for a nuclear-capable cruise missile and other weapons launched from his new 5,000-ton destroyer, the Kang Kon.

The warship was repaired after damages incurred during in a failed launch ceremony last year.

(The incident was widely mocked worldwide – but there the destroyer is, while Europeans still struggle to leave the drawing boards with their new military plans.)

“The official Korean Central News Agency saidFriday’s event included test-firings of a strategic cruise missileand of the Kang Kon’s main gun and automatic cannons, as well as trials of its electronic warfare systems and assessments of its target-detection and information-processing capabilities.

After observing the tests from shore, Kim ordered officials to complete the destroyer’s trialsand place the vessel in active duty within two months, the state news agency said.”

“The tests came afterNorth Korea in late June commissioned its first 5,000-ton destroyer, the Choe Hyon, a milestone Kim marked with a lavish ceremony where he declared that the nuclear armament of his navy was proceeding as planned.

After years of prioritizing ballistic missile development, Kim has increasingly turned his focus to naval capabilities, including the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine.”

North Korea Changes Constitution, Will Launch Nuclear Strike if Kim Jong Un Is Killed or Incapacitated by a Foreign Attack – As Country Launches Nuclear-Capable Warship

Codifying the nuclear payback.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/ww3-watch-north-korea-fires-12-nuclear-capable/

Dana White Suggests God Himself Kept Storm from UFC Event, Now It Appears Storm Actually Did Split in Two Around White HouseSamuel Short, The Western Journal Jul. 5, 2026

UFC President Dana White could not overlook the break in the weather that allowed UFC Freedom 250 at the White House to proceed as planned.

That Sunday, June 14, was uncertain as forecasts did not look promising.

This was an outdoor event where fighters could step onto a canvas that, if wet from rain, may have proven hazardous.

Moreover, if lightning struck near the event, it could have caused a 30-minute delay, with every subsequent strike furthering the time before resuming the action.

This would have been a disaster not only for White, but for President Donald Trump, much to the joy of leftists always yearning for his demise.

The Washington Examiner noted a Thursday comment by White that will air as part of a Fox Nation documentary about the event.“God, Mother Nature, whatever you want to call it, those clouds splitting and going around us — listen, I don’t know how to describe it, but it was pretty d*** awesome.”

White isn’t exactly outspoken as a believer, but looking at the forecast posted by MyRadar Weather to social media platform Facebook just hours before the fights,how else could you explain what happened?

The timeline showed storms and high winds around 8:30 p.m. After 9 p.m., a downpour and possible lightning were predicted. By 10 p.m., the storms were forecasted to move east,but the event would be in a tailspin at that point with so many delays.

Journalist and podcaster Caleb Parke wrote to Facebook days after the event to reflect onhow it all turned out.

“Dana White says the storm appeared to split and move around the White House and the Ellipse. ‘The storm comes and splits at the White House and goes around the White House and the Ellipse,’ White said.”

“He added: ‘The President believes that… it was divine intervention.’”

“Whether you see it as an answer to prayer, an incredible coincidence, or simply a quirk of weather patterns,it’s certainly one of the most talked-about moments from the event.”

USA Today reported theday after that White called the event “absolutely perfect,” but with a price tag of $60 million, “we’ll never do this again.”

Note Parke’s statement from White about the president also calling the circumstances divine.

Was it just a coincidence?Founding Father Benjamin Franklin once said, “I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men.”

Indeed, He does.

For as many criticisms and complaints as we hear about our great nation,we still find moments to pause and reflect in knowing that amid the tumult, God is in control.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/dana-white-suggests-god-kept-storm-ufc-event/

Does God care about whether or not cage fights happen? It’s not the minutiae we should focus on, but the bigger picture in that He still looks over this country as we continue to prosper and enjoy unparalleled freedom.