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This article ignores the most important part of this: Congress allocated a cool $1B in security funding for the games. This commission is simply about grifting that. Thats why Trump himself is in charge, he wants to hand out no-bid contracts like tic tacs.
Plus, it will hurt LA somehow. You can't have a democratic city with a governor he hates running things successfully.
Generally the Olympics fucks the home city when it leaves. Trash everywhere and tourist behaviour, lack of etiquette "I wont be here next week" types. And the infrastructure built for it.
All of it abandoned and left for the home country to figure out when it leaves. You dont want an Olympic regulation pool, track, and more, with an athlete's villa in that spot? Ah well we (the Olympic committee) fucked off after it ended so it's all yours to clean up!
The IOC sell the rights for billions then tell the athletes, the actual content creators, they have to be amateur. In that sense the athletes come across as complete mugs.
Obviously a small number of high profile athletes make loads of money, the rest are skint. Sound familiar? (Hint: hello capitalism), whose 'competition' ethos/blag is absolutely promoted by the games. Unfortunately for us all, we need global co-operation, if we are to divert course away from cataclysmic climate change, not global competition, with the many ending up skint while the few take all of the money. The olympics do not help; they are an anachronism
Trump using it for an illegal re-election boost, as he inevitably will, really puts another nail in its coffin. Pity the world cup is in the US (again). FIFA is killing that goose too.
Boy, NYC is in for a fun time when they elect Mamdani
He will 100% try to over rule it.
STOP THE COUNT!!!! COMMUNISTS RIGGED THE ELECTION. I've declared a state of emergency and putting myself as head of New York city
Sounds like a way to plant an army of ICE in LA.
they will never leave once they are there.
Uhhhhh