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Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics [Barf Alert!]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 27, 2025 | Joe Mathews, Syndicated columnist

Posted on 07/28/2025 6:32:29 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 07/28/2025 6:32:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Go ahead, who cares? You want to further degrade your image, have at it.


2 posted on 07/28/2025 6:38:05 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Red Badger

The last time I watched any Olympics was the sole event of the US vs Russia hockey game. Incredible!


3 posted on 07/28/2025 6:41:44 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Red Badger
I'm reminded of a spam phone call I received a few weeks ago.

Him: "I'm calling from Publisher's Clearing House about your winnings."

Me: "I see. When did PCH exit bankruptcy?"

*click*

I suspect the original article, slanted as it is against Trump, exposes the real issue: is California solvent enough and safe enough to hold the Olympics? Is California in general and LA in particular "clean" enough to host? (By "clean" I mean free of feces and hypodermic needles on the ground.)

4 posted on 07/28/2025 6:41:58 AM PDT by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
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To: Red Badger

Okay, then. To these leftists, Trump is Hitler. Hitler used the Olympics for propaganda purposes. Thus, Trump will use the Olympics for propaganda purposes.

Interesting logic......


5 posted on 07/28/2025 6:42:33 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: asinclair

Just move them to Mexico City, nobody will know the difference anyway.


6 posted on 07/28/2025 6:42:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Funny article. It must have been preceded by lots of angst and fear and loathing, and I laugh thinking about this loser tormented by such thoughts. HAHAHA.


7 posted on 07/28/2025 6:43:42 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Red Badger

I agree, cancel them. Who cares………..


8 posted on 07/28/2025 6:47:15 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: johniegrad

Los Angeles is only the barest of shadows, a lost memory, when compared to the city it was in’32 and ‘84. Please President Trump, don’t shame America. Close it down. Dump the Games.


9 posted on 07/28/2025 6:47:25 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
No, not the one in South California
They got one in South Patagonia


10 posted on 07/28/2025 6:49:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

And back in 1936, JFK’s dad and many Hollywood luminaries very admired Hitler.


11 posted on 07/28/2025 6:49:04 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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“Hosting an Olympic Games requires us to work together with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as it openly wages war against our city and state.”

Projecting, as usual


12 posted on 07/28/2025 6:52:01 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Demo rats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: Red Badger

“This event is now too dangerous for California. Hosting an Olympic Games requires us to work together with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as it openly wages war against our city and state”

I think you have this completely backwards.


13 posted on 07/28/2025 6:56:43 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Red Badger

Los Angeles has turned an inexpensive Olympics into an expensive Olympics.

Almost all of the sports facilities are pre-existing and re-purposed facilities, starting with the L.A. Coliseum that was used during the 1932 Olympics and was first re-used during the 1988 Olympics.

What has made the Los Angeles Olympics into a potential financial disaster are the many “infrastructure” projects tacked onto the event. Among these infrastructure projects is an expansion of the Los Angeles Airport. This project is currently projected to cost $30 billion (more than the entire cost of new or renovated sports facilities).

In view of the financial disasters of several recent Olympics, few cities were interested in hosting future Olympics. Then, the idea of relying mostly on existing sport facilities, greatly reduced the cost, and Paris and Los Angeles were approved for future Olympics.

But, leave it to the spendaholics in California to turn a fine idea of keeping the cost low of an Olympics into a sink hole of losses.


14 posted on 07/28/2025 6:58:05 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Red Badger

Just another attempt to kill the Olympics just like having a tranny last supper in France during the opening ceremony


15 posted on 07/28/2025 6:58:16 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: Red Badger

The President was at the Super Bowl this year in New Orleans. He might go to the next one in the bay area where the 49ers play. The one after that will be at SoFi stadium in LA. World Cup soccer will have a number of games in California next year as well. Shutting those down would be far easier than the Olympics.


16 posted on 07/28/2025 6:58:40 AM PDT by xp38
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To: OttawaFreeper

Hitler was the one who inspired reviving the ancient tradition of the Olympic Torch for the 1936 Olympics. All the smart people thought it was very cool of him.


17 posted on 07/28/2025 7:01:22 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Red Badger

They’ll hold them because of the opportunity to steal large amounts of taxpayer money.


18 posted on 07/28/2025 7:03:25 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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Karen Bass was handing out checks to illegal aliens a couple of weeks ago and this fool of a writer is whining LA can’t afford the Olympics. Wake up Joe. You know the real reason why LA is broke. Stop projecting all of your city and state’s problems on Trump. You and your fellow liberals created the economic disaster in LA and throughout the state of California!


19 posted on 07/28/2025 7:07:29 AM PDT by dowcaet
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can’t they have this event in America instead?


20 posted on 07/28/2025 7:29:55 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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