Behold! The Best Negotiator Strikes Again
Behold! The Best Negotiator Strikes Again
So Obama proposes a plan to an org than is known for saddling cities in debt and they turn the plan down. Trump 'gave them what they wanted to hear' and got the deal done. High IQ business moves right there.
LOL - The bidding process started in 2015 before Trump was even elected:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bids_for_the_2024_and_2028_Summer_Olympics
By March of 2017, there were only 2 cities in the running, Paris and Los Angeles, so they agreed to split them. Paris in 2024, Los Angeles in 2028.
Trump had fuck all to do with it as usual.
120You’re not giving him the credit he is due. He started the first Olympic Games. Without him, we wouldn’t have ever had them.
69The closing ceremony revolving around the Golden Voyager makes this a thousand times funnier.
9the TRUMP games. I feel sorry for the people living in the parallel universe where that happens...oh wait...we're still in time to watch that calamity in 2028 if the fucker doesn't lose.
2Even if he does lose, he'll be running in '28 again and be all over the Olympics because he can't stand anything competing for attention.
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Spoiler alert: Mexico's paying for it.
27Yes, so many countries were vying for the Olympics that the IOC felt the need to award two games at once before anyone else backed out.
23I, for one, am eternally grateful that we get to use our tax dollars to build a giant arena to host underpaid, soon-to-be-discarded prime examples of talent who can shit, fuck, and possibly die at our facilities before we never use them again.
We win!
21In Vancouver we turned one of the skating rinks into a multi use community facility that hundreds of people use every day. (see another one of my comments)
Good shit can come out of the games if your city plays it's cards right. But I don't blame you for being skeptical lol. The games were pretty controversial back in the
gameday.8That's actually fantastic to know! Obviously, that's not the norm, but keep shouting that from the rooftops to remind people that we're capable of doing better.
Thank you for proving me wrong today!
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There was literally no contest. For latest Olympics there were only two contestant cities Paris and LA. And out of fear that no city even contest for it in 2028 (as lately Olympics are a bad deal for a country, they are a money hole), they agree to preconcede LA the 2028 Olympics.
16Better LA than where I live... I never want to live in an Olympic city ever.
14I might be missing some of the larger municipal budget stuff but as a Vancouverite, they were awesome. We now have a subway direct to the airport and through a large suburb that needed transit and expanded the highway to one of our best local ski mountain.
And damn the vibe and party was rocking.
21Vancouver definitely seemed to avoid most of the negative effects most cities face. One of the rinks built for the games (The Olympic Oval i think is the official name) is now a community center with 2 hockey rinks, ~8 basketball sized multi-use courts, a fitness center, about dozen ping pong tables, and probably more I'm not aware of.
It's quite far from where I live so I don't use it often but last year I was part of a sports league that used the facility and I was completely blown away. On any given day there are probably 100+ people using the courts, playing basketball, volleyball etc.
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If you live in Denver, you maybe in luck. Looks like they pissed off the IOC pretty good.
"In a statewide referendum on 7 November 1972, Colorado voters rejected funding for the games, and for the first (and only) time a city awarded the Winter Games rejected them."
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Sure, Don…
7*hopefully you will not be president and by 2028 I can only assume your old ass will be pushing up daisies Rest in piss ya orange clown for ye shall not be missedb
5Pfft, art of the steal should be his motto, all he does is tale credit for shit other folks do
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