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'Classless' Markwayne Mullin flattened over ugly World Cup comments
Gloating Is Not PolicyThe State Made the Contest UglyThe source event is simple enough: after Iran’s World Cup team was knocked out, Markwayne Mullin celebrated publicly, boasting that he was glad they were “done” and that visas had been pulled. The reporting point that matters is not the cheap shot itself. It is the machinery behind it: travel restrictions, denial of visas for support staff, a forced relocation of Iran’s training base from Arizona to Mexico, and weeks of government harassment that turned a sporting appearance into a political punishment.Power Did This, Not ChanceThe people…
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