Gamesbids’ Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony Live Chat

[Sir Rols]

The Opening Ceremony of the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic Games is fast approaching!

After Paris 2024 what can we expect?

[Sir Rols]

If Trump is president I’ll be boyco… we’re all f*cked!

[Sir Rols]

On 2/13/2022 at 2:07 PM, Sir Rols said:

If Trump is president I’ll be boyco… we’re all f*cked!

Uh oh…

 

[Bear]

10 minutes ago, Sir Rols said:

Uh oh…

Time to keep our future Governor on stand-by, it seems...

[Ikarus360]

Welp.

The next world cup and olympics are surely going to be interesting, to say the least.

[Quaker2001]

Well, maybe if we're lucky, the LA 2028 games will be opened by the 48th president of the United States, JD Vance.  Can't believe this is happening.  I apologize to the rest of the world for this.  I guess I severely under-estimated how many stupid people there are in this country

[baron-pierreIV]

I'm still at a loss for words.  The country will be even more self-loathing!  My only hope is that Vance is more ambitious than Pence and plot DJT's quick demise!! 

[Rob2012]

Cancel the Games and give the money to Poland and the Baltics to develop nukes.

[Rob2012]

[StefanMUC]

1 hour ago, baron-pierreIV said:

I'm still at a loss for words.  The country will be even more self-loathing!  My only hope is that Vance is more ambitious than Pence and plot DJT's quick demise!! 

I’m sure he is. And that is part of the problem.

[Olympian2004]

Please excuse my double post - I didn't see that you were commenting the election here and I posted this in the "electoral tie" topic in the Off-Topic section.

But this is the election result that probably many of us dreaded, but hoped to avoid at the same time. I now have to try to wrap my head around so many things - and the fact that Donald Trump will open the Los Angeles 2028 Games is one of those things. I wonder which state the USA and its democracy will be in by the time that he will step up to that microphone in SoFi Stadium or the Coliseum...

Or shall we hope for JD Vance doing that job as then-President of the United States? I am not too sure about that. Donald Trump is simply awful, but he is also too undisciplined and negligent to execute all of his policies (if they exist, for that matter) properly. JD Vance is much more scheming and disciplined, and there are also way too many eager MAGA minions who could replace him.

I really wish the United States the best, but I can't shake off the feeling that they are now definitely screwed. And we, as world community, are screwed as well.

[Olympian2004]

If I may answer you here, @StefanMUC, in order to not spill this discussion into the "electoral tie" topic: What leads you to believe that JD Vance will open the 2028 Games? That question may also apply to @Quaker2001, of course.  

[StefanMUC]

16 minutes ago, Olympian2004 said:

If I may answer you here, @StefanMUC, in order to not spill this discussion into the "electoral tie" topic: What leads you to believe that JD Vance will open the 2028 Games? That question may also apply to @Quaker2001, of course.  

Trump is in obvious decline and the puppet masters Musk @ co will happily find a way (25th amendment) to get rid of him and install a younger poster boy of fascism asap.

[Olympian2004]

I don't know about that. I believe I read that the prerequisites for invoking the 25th amendment are pretty hard to reach. Trump is in mental decline, I agree, but still, I assume that no one in the MAGA movement would dare to remove their "great leader" unless he becomes a total doddering fool. And as you already said, it would probably not make anything easier if Trump were replaced by JD Vance or anyone else of those impossible people.

[Quaker2001]

7 hours ago, Olympian2004 said:

I don't know about that. I believe I read that the prerequisites for invoking the 25th amendment are pretty hard to reach. Trump is in mental decline, I agree, but still, I assume that no one in the MAGA movement would dare to remove their "great leader" unless he becomes a total doddering fool. And as you already said, it would probably not make anything easier if Trump were replaced by JD Vance or anyone else of those impossible people.

That's my thought as well.  To push Trump out of office might not be as easy as they want to think it is.

And my point earlier with Vance is less that I think he would open the games.  But at this point, that might be a better option to show off to the world than an even more aged and mentally declined Donald Trump

[Roger87]

11 hours ago, baron-pierreIV said:

I'm still at a loss for words.  The country will be even more self-loathing!  My only hope is that Vance is more ambitious than Pence and plot DJT's quick demise!! 

I don't think Trump is the bigger issue here. Vance is protected by Thiel and Musk. He's more dangerous, more weasely and younger. 

[baron-pierreIV]

If Felon 045-47 realizes that they just need him for one line, he's TOTALLY NOT GOING to go!  He can't be bothered to be a sideline prop for 4 hours.  If it's NOT about him, which it isn't, he won't be bothered.  Vance -- he reacted once to a FB post of mine, then blocked me--will be sent in his place.  !  I guess a badge of honor!! 

Edited November 7, 2024 by baron-pierreIV

[Bear]

If Republicans want to go back to how things were in the past, then it only makes sense we do the same for the Olympics. That means having the Governor open the Games instead of the President. Much more tolerable than having to see whatever person the Trump admin chooses to send for 4 hours straight...

[baron-pierreIV]

4 hours ago, Bear said:

If Republicans want to go back to how things were in the past, then it only makes sense we do the same for the Olympics. That means having the Governor open the Games instead of the President. Much more tolerable than having to see whatever person the Trump admin chooses to send for 4 hours straight...

No; personally snubbing the present #1 and #2 of the host country is NOT good form.  That's part of the pkg of winning a Games.  It's not the IOC's fault that the country picked Grendel and the Kraken!  Besides, coverage of OCs only show the head of state delivering that Opening line and/or dozing off like QE2 in London.   (I don't blame her; I think it was her 4th OG Opening.  Been there; done that.)  Or just when the USA team shows up -- but NOT throughout the OC coverage. 

Besides, he/they could get booed--or make sure they know they will be booed -- and maybe that'll scare them off from attending!! 

(BTW, I think Gavin will be termed out by 2028.  I saw the first ad for CA governor for another candidate last night!! )  

Edited November 7, 2024 by baron-pierreIV

[Bear]

1 minute ago, baron-pierreIV said:

(BTW, I think Gavin will be termed out by 2028.  I saw the first ad for CA governor last night!! )  

My god, I saw it too. "California get a cloo" or some random phrase. Like come on, we JUST finished an election, can we pause any campaigning for the next few months???

I know the Lt. Governor is running, Eleni Kounalakis. If she wins maybe LA28 can still have a woman open the Games 😇

3 minutes ago, baron-pierreIV said:

Besides, he/they could get booed--or make sure they know they will be booed -- and maybe that'll scare them off from attending!!

I hope LA28 is on call with Eurovision 2024 organizers regarding their anti-booing tech 🤔

[baron-pierreIV]

3 minutes ago, Bear said:

I know the Lt. Governor is running, Eleni Kounalakis. If she wins maybe LA28 can still have a woman open the Games 😇

 

Hmmm.  Kounalakis is running?  Velly intelesting!!  (Sorry can't publicly share yet why I find that most interesting!--but it might align with a personal project that might bear fruition.)  

[Michelle]

On 11/6/2024 at 7:15 AM, baron-pierreIV said:

I'm still at a loss for words.  The country will be even more self-loathing!  My only hope is that Vance is more ambitious than Pence and plot DJT's quick demise!! 

You might hate him. But he was democratically elected and seemingly has a plurality of the votes. As head of state he has the right to open these games! The end! 

[Michelle]

Was there this level of outrage when the Chinese leader opened 2008 Games? I’ll wait. 

[sebastien1214]

20 minutes ago, Michelle said:

You might hate him. But he was democratically elected and seemingly has a plurality of the votes. As head of state he has the right to open these games! The end! 

Speaking of that: I saw that in Sydney it was the Governor General of Australia, therefore the Queen's representative, who opened the Games. I imagine it will be the same for Brisbane in 2032. Doesn't it bother Australians that it is a person without the slightest democratic legitimacy (and whose only legitimacy is ultimately the colonial heritage) who opens the games, and not the Prime Minister?

(I should maybe put this on the Brisbane topic. But the discussion started here. Yeah, I don't know.)

[Sir Rols]

11 minutes ago, sebastien1214 said:

Speaking of that: I saw that in Sydney it was the Governor General of Australia, therefore the Queen's representative, who opened the Games. I imagine it will be the same for Brisbane in 2032. Doesn't it bother Australians that it is a person without the slightest democratic legitimacy (and whose only legitimacy is ultimately the colonial heritage) who opens the games, and not the Prime Minister?

(I should maybe put this on the Brisbane topic. But the discussion started here. Yeah, I don't know.)

Good question. It WAS an issue. There was no question of having the Queen (however much fondness or regard for her) opening the games. But who in her stead was tricky. The Prime Minister of the time wanted to do it, but it was (rightly) pointed out he was head of the Government, not the State. So it was naturally the Governor General as Head of State (or at least the local representative). Canada chose the same route for Vancouver.

As to changing it? I, and I expect most Australians, would be happy to replace the monarchy. The sticking point is what to replace it with, and how to choose them (appointed or elected). It’s the issue that sank our last Republic referendum. I expect to revisit the issue would be dangerous in these days, and get subsumed into a culture war. Possibly best not to stoke such division at this time.