Let’s get rolling, the weekend rolling, the middle of summer rolling and much more rolling with a Friday edition of Screencaps. I know you guys aren’t soccer fans, but you have to pretend, just a little bit, over the next month.
Guys, you have to stop and just appreciate the sights and sounds from the World Cup, like and her Cup anthem that she performed Thursday in Mexico to kick off the festivities. Half the time I have no idea what she’s singing, but it just feels right. It just feels like summer. It just feels like I’m about to spend a weekend on the patio suckin’ down Kirkland Select margaritas and grilling meat.
This is the mindset I need you guys to assume this time of year. Sports is just the background noise to our summer. Mix in the World Cup along with the College World Series. Mix in patio beers. Stop at a bar with a great patio scene. Watch both sporting events. Most of all, like Shakira, feel the energy. Let it run wild through your body.
Now, here’s the crazy part of that Shakira performance. European news outlets are claiming there might be a conspiracy associated with that performance. I’m serious. Yahoo! has a story posted this morning titled, “Did Shakira use a body double at the 2026 World Cup opening ceremony?”
Body double? What? How do you go out and find a woman who looks like Shakira who can move her hips like Shakira. These Euros are nuts. Trust me, I will be investigating this all weekend…on the patio…while drinking margs.
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I don’t know what big event is supposed to take place on The Ellipse, but I can say there are 10-foot fences surrounding the entire grounds. Inside, it looks like they’re preparing for a massive carnival. On the west side of the grounds along 17th St., there are maybe 100 port-o-lets lined up like you’d see at Lollapalooza. There are picnic tables. Food vendor pop-up buildings. Etc. Etc.
I’ll give Trump and the America 250 team credit, there’s no lack of activity in the city. There are cranes everywhere, including the where they’re building that ballroom. The construction around the White House in general is crazy compared to what I experienced in April 2025. There are construction workers and National Guard troops everywhere. It’s true, Washington, D.C. proper might be the safest place to spend your summer in the United States.
But it didn’t feel like a police state. It was actually quite quiet and relaxing walking around D.C. There were Guard troops walking the streets, but it wasn’t like they were ready to lay down fire on Iranian infiltrators.
Yes, it was clean. Bums weren’t lying around in the parks
