{"id":1755686,"date":"2022-11-29T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755686"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:48:38","slug":"usa-barely-beats-iran-in-meaningless-international-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-barely-beats-iran-in-meaningless-international-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Barely Beats Iran in Meaningless International Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusa-barely-beats-iran-in-meaningless-international-competition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic depictions of an international soccer competition that most of our readers will find offensive and disturbing. Please proceed with caution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/em>\u00a0The\u00a0Free Beacon\u2019s decision to report on the World Cup does not in any way\u00a0constitute an endorsement of soccer, a fundamentally evil and anti-American enterprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States defeated Iran 1-0 on Tuesday to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup, a meaningless international soccer competition being held in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Christian Pulisic scored the decisive goal toward the end of the first half but suffered an unfortunate injury to his swimsuit area in the process. He was unable to return after halftime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, not really. Soccer is an inherently abhorrent enterprise that incentivizes faking, flopping, and fraud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was it an exciting game?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is Qatar hosting the World Cup?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because FIFA is an irredeemably corrupt organization and Qatar is a terrorist-supporting oligarchy willing to pay enormous bribes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Ben Rhodes okay?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not sure. He was presumably watching the game in <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/happy-anniversary-4-years-since-ben-rhodes-attended-commie-dictator-fidel-castros-funeral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Havana<\/a> with his Iranian buddies. He has a history of getting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neontaster\/status\/1001874117333798913?s=20&#038;t=y0EZrSbux5hDL94BXvNPPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotional<\/a>\u00a0when his team loses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happens next?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who cares?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States defeated Iran 1-0 on Tuesday to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup, a meaningless international soccer competition being held in Qatar.<br \/>\nThe post USA Barely Beats Iran in Meaningless International Competition appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1755689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}