Should the 2028 Olympics be removed from the nation of braindead cvnts?

[Roger87]

 

Also, the end of USMC Treaty? Cause BRICS wants Mexico... "Smart" negotiator Trump.

[StefanMUC]

3 hours ago, Roger87 said:

2026 FIFA World Cup will be a disaster in the making right?

 

At this stage, I’m not even sure anymore there will be a WC.

[baron-pierreIV]

11 hours ago, Roger87 said:

2026 FIFA World Cup will be a disaster in the making right?

 

Or at least it will be some sham.  I don't know how the idiotic Twamp State Dept. will handle the thousands of visa requests for the fans of the teams in Mexico & Canada who will advance to the rounds played in the US?? 

[Bear]

Finally got my hands on one, gotta be prepared no matter what 

[Bear]

Usually when someone hacks into the government I like to joke with my friends and say things like "omg why didn't they clear my student debt".

This time I'm actually pretty concerned 😭 I'd rather China have my data than Elon Musk and anyone involved with him...

[Bear]

Orgulloso de mi ciudad y mi comunidad

[baron-pierreIV]

/\/\  Unfortunately -- since LA is asking for federal aid -- such ill-timed demos by Angelenos at this time, aren't doing themselves any favors!!  He will just squeeze the aid.  Timing is everything.  

[Bear]

3 minutes ago, baron-pierreIV said:

/\/\  Unfortunately -- since LA is asking for federal aid -- such ill-timed demos by Angelenos at this time, aren't doing themselves any favors!!  He will just squeeze the aid.  Timing is everything.  

He already refused to give us aid unless we "opened" the water or whatever

[Bear]

Just now, Bear said:

He already refused to give us aid unless we "opened" the water or whatever

Wait, it was the voting ID: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-wants-california-institute-restrictive-voter-id-law-receiving-wi-rcna189458

[Sir Rols]

What the f*cking hell! Are these guys actually trying to hasten on Armageddon? 

[Quaker2001]

5 minutes ago, Sir Rols said:

What the f*cking hell! Are these guys actually trying to hasten on Armageddon? 

It's a darn good thing the US is hosting the 2028 Olympics.  There were plenty of calls for Israel to be excluded from the Paris Olympics which Bach and company rightfully refused.  But this feels like the kind of escalation that will make people ask that question again

[Sir Rols]

3 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

  But this feels like the kind of escalation that will make people ask that question again

You think so?

I’m just so f*cking angry, speechless and in despair. I don’t trust myself to write much more.

[Quaker2001]

1 minute ago, Sir Rols said:

You think so?

I’m just so f*cking angry, speechless and in despair. I don’t trust myself to write much more.

My fear is that this is going to amp up the level of anti-semitism in the world and those who are angry at Israel now will get even more angry now that they're teaming up with the US against Gaza.  I don't think the IOC would actually consider sanctions against them, but it's just more fuel to the fire that foreigners will have a less than favorable view of this country thanks to its leader.  And as much as you or other sensible people know that this is what many many Americans wanted to vote against, there's no ignoring this terrible reality that we're dealing with here.

[Nacre]

Hopefully this is one of the 3/4ths of the crazy things that Trump threatens to do that he doesn't follow through on rather than the 25% that he does.

The minority of Americans who want this to happen probably haven't considered that it would require concentration camps (and worse) to accomplish it. Once they do this idea should fade. Then again, I wasn't able to convince my conservative family members that invading Iraq would unleash chaos in the middle east and trap the US military into containing brush fires there for decades, so maybe people really are that stupid and/or awful.

[Bear]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/education-department-trump-executive-order/index.html

Trump administration drafting executive order to initiate Department of Education’s elimination

my future is once again postponed

[StefanMUC]

Now honestly, given the speed in which Xesla guy dismantles the US Government while his biggest fanboy utters the usual insane BS, does anyone still think LA28 will just simply go ahead as planned?

The spiralling towards collapse of the US is real, at least that’s the impression we’re getting here.

[Rob2012]

12 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

My fear is that this is going to amp up the level of anti-semitism in the world

A real but secondary concern when the fascist is proposing ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians and that wanker Netenyahu is seemingly welcoming the idea.

As Nacre says, let's hope this is just one of these things the senile old cvnt says but doesn't follow through with.

12 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

There were plenty of calls for Israel to be excluded from the Paris Olympics which Bach and company rightfully refused.  But this feels like the kind of escalation that will make people ask that question again

And rightfully so. I've been in broad agreement with you re: Israel's Olympic participation, but if Israel enacts what Trump is talking about, I won't be any longer.

12 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

It's a darn good thing the US is hosting the 2028 Olympics.

A darn good thing indeed! Because if Israel tries to create its own Mariupol they should have a friend, and maintaining their participation in the Olympics should be the issue of highest priority! A far-right, imperialist minded ally within the Olympic movement that Russia was so sadly lacking when it emptied Ukrainian cities and turned them into potemkin villages.

Oh Say Can You See...

Edited February 5 by Rob2012

[Rob2012]

Under the radar it looks like you're going to end up with Putin and Assad's pal, and an atrocity denier, at the top of national intelligence. I thought after the fall of Assad that appointment was going to be ditched, but I guess assuming the very worst of America is now the most sensible course of action...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-russian-connection-dni-trump-syria-b2692244.html

Edited February 5 by Rob2012

[Rob2012]

  

12 hours ago, Sir Rols said:

I’m just so f*cking angry, speechless and in despair. I don’t trust myself to write much more.

Don't lose trust in your own instincts. Write what you want.

I suspect 99% of people here will be in agreement with much of what you would end up writing anyway. Personally (and you might've noticed) I can think of no reason whatsoever to hold back.

Edited February 5 by Rob2012

[Guilga]

10 hours ago, Sir Rols said:

What the f*cking hell! Are these guys actually trying to hasten on Armageddon? 

When i read the news yesterday, i was flaggerblasted. This IS LITERALLY ETHINIC CLEASING. Unaceptable. Deviosly evil. Just pure evil. Just imagine: You get your land invaded and razed by a foregain country, which, okay, was indeed attacked first by Hamas, but you have no relation to them. You still get punished by a crime that you didnt commit, have your love ones murdered or injured in heartless attacks against civilian structure and refugee camps all with flimsy justifications like "theres tottaly a terrorist here in this hospital full of people", destroying everything on their path...just to not even disorganize the terrorists even after killing their leaders. And after all that, the foregain country, with help of the USA, still steal their home land from you, to become a riviera for foregainers, or may i say, colonizers. Expelled from your own land as a reward for surviving. This news kinda shows that getting rid of the terrorists wasn't really the intention, isn't it? Let's not forget about the hostages too, oh boy. They could have been released way earlier, if Netanyahu and his goverment, despite the wishes of their own citzens, didn't were so bloodthisty. But saving the hostages wasn't the plan. The plan was genocide, all to blame on the state of Israel, and also the United States for been complicit enablers of all this. Hamas is not the good guys either, but you don't need to raze an entire city to fight terrorists.

And i really hope Jewish people worldwide doesn't get mixed up with these idiots. And that they and Arab people can live in peace, despite these idiots always wanting blood.

 

8 hours ago, Bear said:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/education-department-trump-executive-order/index.html

Trump administration drafting executive order to initiate Department of Education’s elimination

my future is once again postponed

I really hope your future is not destroyed by these idiots and the people who cares doesn't let them get away with that... My lord, what they want to do with this, replace actual education with propaganda? Given how these blokes call the depatment a source of "woke indrocrination" if the article is any indication, that seems likely. As a techer myself, even from a different country, this is insulting. "Let's eliminate the future of our students cuz of culture wars", or more acuratelly, keep the slaves being slaves. "Let's have the states have control" for what? You know, all those woke things that they complain a lot, they are the ones who are actually more concerned in force through their ideology on people.

THIS IS OUR NEXT SUMMER OLYMPIC HOST COUNTRY EVERYONE!!

Oh boy, i hope my country doesn't take collaateral damage of this idiocies... 

[sebastien1214]

So, since Trump thinks that there is no problem moving 2 million people who live on their land, I imagine that it no longer poses any technical problem to move the million Israeli settlers who illegally occupy the occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories?

[Quaker2001]

9 hours ago, StefanMUC said:

Now honestly, given the speed in which Xesla guy dismantles the US Government while his biggest fanboy utters the usual insane BS, does anyone still think LA28 will just simply go ahead as planned?

The spiralling towards collapse of the US is real, at least that’s the impression we’re getting here.

I don't know what "collapse" would look like.  I'm concerned about the United States continuing to be a functioning democracy, but it's not like life as we know it is going to come to an end in the next 4 years.

Yes, I believe LA28 will simply go ahead as planned.  What exactly do you think that wouldn't happen?  Keep in mind we have the World Cup next year and that one will require coordination between 2 other countries that may not think so highly of us.  As much as Trump and his cronies seem to have a complete disdain for the rest of the world right now, he knows what that kind of world stage will mean.  He'll want it to go well.  Whether or not Trump allows that to happen is a different story.  I'm guessing at some point he won't be able to resist saying something unflattering about a country he doesn't like and that will spark some international furor.  As if that's not happening already and holy f**k there's still another 3 years and 11.5 months of this.

[StefanMUC]

18 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

I don't know what "collapse" would look like.  I'm concerned about the United States continuing to be a functioning democracy, but it's not like life as we know it is going to come to an end in the next 4 years.

 

It has already come to an end - figuratively - for many staff of USAID that have to get back home, pulling kids out of school and upending their lives abroad, just to give one example. Or for undocumented people soon finding themselves in Guantanamo.

And it will really end for people, including many children, that are dependent on programmes from USAID or other agencies, for vaccinations, or also for trans persons at home that will not get the support they need and deserve, in an already vulnerable and more at risk of suicide group.

But ok, let’s just go on and pretend it will go smoothly for the WC and LA because the Sun King loves the glory. And also just assume you will have free and fair elections in Nov 28 to get rid of him and his gang. Good luck.

[Quaker2001]

56 minutes ago, StefanMUC said:

It has already come to an end - figuratively - for many staff of USAID that have to get back home, pulling kids out of school and upending their lives abroad, just to give one example. Or for undocumented people soon finding themselves in Guantanamo.

And it will really end for people, including many children, that are dependent on programmes from USAID or other agencies, for vaccinations, or also for trans persons at home that will not get the support they need and deserve, in an already vulnerable and more at risk of suicide group.

But ok, let’s just go on and pretend it will go smoothly for the WC and LA because the Sun King loves the glory. And also just assume you will have free and fair elections in Nov 28 to get rid of him and his gang. Good luck.

Well, tell us.. what do you think won't go smoothly for the World Cup and LA 2028 that won't go according to plan?  I can't speak to the rest of the world's perception of the United States right now other than what's being expressed here which is obviously pretty negative.  But last I checked, we recently had an Olympics in China (during a worldwide pandemic, no longer) and a World Cup in Qatar.  I completely understand the perception that people may not want to visit the United States with Trump in charge, but that figurative end for a lot of people doesn't mean that mega events like the World Cup or the Olympics won't go ahead.  We all agree that the fallout from Trump's 4 years in office (and yes, I'd be concerned about future elections, although that's a problem for 2028, not 2025) will have far reaching effects, but you're still not really making a case for how the Olympics would be adversely affected.  As if every Olympics we can remember didn't have its fair share of fearmongering and negative press in the lead up

[StefanMUC]

Since you're asking, I'll say quite directly: civil war, sadly.

There seem to be no institutions able or willing to stop the coup that is currently happening so far, and in a country where not only MAGA owns enormous amounts of weapons, eventually people will start to take it into their own hands in my view.

Call that scaremongering, but would you have thought three weeks ago that Elon has unlimited access to the whole country's data without anyone really stepping in? And I do say all of that with a very heavy heart because a US totally absorbed with itself will open the gates of hell for the rest of the world too, not the least here in Europe. And it's absolutely sickening to think of it.