Posted on 12/31/2024 8:50:53 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Here was a man once captaining France at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. He became a symbol of betrayal, infamy, and unthinkable cruelty as a Nazi collaborator. How does such a transformation occur? What compels someone to exchange glory for infamy? This is the story of a man who squandered greatness for greed and moral decay.
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Gotta admit there's siren call out there for those with money but how much fun can you have?
I worry about people like Obama having that quality but what separates them is the bigger picture, knowing they’re part of an ongoing movement. BJ was more out for himself.
The left is busy painting Trump as one of those just like they did with Nixon. Ferdinand Marcos had that talent as well as a lot of supporters. Vetting people is dependent on who’s doing the judging.
Perhaps the trick is to go to the mat with your own the big guys(Chappaquiddik) and drop the small potatoes like Gaetz-do it quick. Nixon recovered from 1960.
If Alexandre Villaplane doesn’t turn your stomach sufficiently, read up on another French “footballer” named Violette Morris.
From DNC Senator to NAZI collaborator and supporter... Joe Biden & Company....
Pete Rose who broke a rule and placed bets that his team would win…, thrown in with Aaron Hernandez, a homosexual murderer, and Benedict Arnold a traitor to America?
That’sa bit much
Why am I not surprised she was a lesbian?
Why are we reading this story and not say, the story of Stalin’s head of NKVD, KGB, a guy by the name of Lavrentiy Beria? How did he move from being an anti-Bolshevik to being a mass murderer supporting the Bolsheviks?
Football is Soccer and it sucks. Un- American Sport.
Exactly!
Way out of line including Pete Rose with traitors!
Come on. You can’t undo what he did. Neither can he. Those who insist on forgiving him would forgive Hitler.
**Violette Morris.**
Ok ya got me-who?
** Lavrentiy Beria? How did he move from being an anti-Bolshevik to being a mass murderer supporting the Bolsheviks?**
Sounds like a rich man’s Liz Cheney. Manchurian republican I guess.
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