This is relatively small potatoes all things considered, but I keep wondering: how are we ever going to host the 2028 Olympics in an environment like this?
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And the World Cup in 2026!
may 23, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Months ago when #ICE started #kidnapping and disappearing people, I said to my husband, I bet the #WorldCup and the #Olympics will be moved elsewhere. I believe we'll even be sanctioned from participating due to #trumps #CrimesAgainstHumanity. #ICE and DHHS is #OutOfControl. #ICC #NATO #signalchat
may 23, 2025, 10:37 pm • 5 3 • view
The US is supposed to host the World Cup *next year* alongside Canadá and México.......
may 22, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
If Berlin could host the Olympics in '36... I feel like this is less of a stretch than it at first appears Which kind of fits because when I look around it looks an awful lot like Berlin 1932 around here. Now if you'll excuse me I need to renovate my attic and learn to operate a ham radio.
may 23, 2025, 1:22 am • 6 0 • view
World Cup is more immediate problem. Empty stands be bad.
may 23, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
Or World Cup? I will say it again, Fifa should yank the event from us OR fans boycott and support Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexico 🇲🇽
may 23, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
Today I saw a car hoisting a “TRUMP WON!” flag that was larger than the car. Covered in hateful stickers. It’s going to take a long time to dig out of this. There’s no way in hell I’d visit this shit hole country since he took over. If I could leave, I would.
may 23, 2025, 12:23 am • 2 0 • view
Honestly, we shouldn’t. I hate to say I hope the world boycotts. Otherwise, hosting a huge celebration of international cooperation under Trump would validate Trump’s place in that scheme.
may 22, 2025, 11:58 pm • 107 1 • view
100% this ^^
may 23, 2025, 12:03 am • 1 0 • view
You are EXACTLY RIGHT!!
may 23, 2025, 12:04 am • 2 0 • view
It’ll probably be some tacky faux gilded shit. 😒
may 23, 2025, 12:16 am • 2 0 • view
Lol good luck expecting anything from fifa scum or football fan morons and footballer imbeciles. I mean they went and played in Qatar just fine, and all those in media that grandstanded about human rights abuses,slavery in Qatar went there to get paid. Neoliberalism ruined everything,
may 23, 2025, 2:03 am • 18 0 • view
Will be like the Olympics in Nazi Germany or the Winter Olympics in Russia just before the invasion to Georgia.
may 23, 2025, 12:31 am • 7 0 • view
I mistook the games of Sochi instead of the Olympics in Beijing, but Russia also waited after the Olympics in Sochi to attack Ukraine.
may 23, 2025, 12:41 am • 5 0 • view
Beijing (2022) and Sochi (2014 - Putin invaded Ukraine/Crimea during the games) are examples of how the IOC governance prioritizes revenues over political stability, safety and humanity. Trump will make sure the games are held, at all cost.
may 23, 2025, 12:24 am • 2 0 • view
I hope they'll take it away from us/him.
may 23, 2025, 1:04 am • 1 0 • view
No way we should. It's embarrassing
may 23, 2025, 12:07 am • 1 0 • view
And the semiquincentennial, the nation’s 250th birthday.
may 23, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
I know @awalkerinla.bsky.social probably has some thoughts about this...
may 23, 2025, 12:29 am • 7 0 • view
Already replied lol
may 23, 2025, 12:33 am • 6 0 • view
I knew you had it covered!
may 23, 2025, 12:35 am • 1 0 • view
It's actually a huge deal! The World Cup is next year. There's a Club World Cup tournament in the U.S. next month!
may 22, 2025, 11:46 pm • 38 3 • view
Just because it’s your personal focus doesn’t mean it’s amongst the top 25 problems in the US right now
may 23, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
You're awfully optimistic that 2028 will even arrive.
may 23, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
Who's gonna come?
may 23, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
We aren’t going to host them! No one is going to stage Olympic Games in a war torn country. And that’s very likely what we’re going to be by 2028! Unless we simply lay down and accept the fucking Shitler and the treasonous Ratpublicans have planned for us and the nation! I will remain standing!
may 23, 2025, 6:16 am • 0 0 • view
Wonder how many visitors will end up in a totaly different country after trying to go through passport control on arrival
may 23, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
I can see it in my mind. We will be Berlin, 1936.
may 22, 2025, 11:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Hitler pulled it off back in the day
may 23, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
I think it’ll be wild if during the football stuff they start arresting a lot of visitors. Or maybe visitors will come together and protest in our stadiums?
may 22, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
And World Cup. What a clusterfuck disaster. I would be none shocked to see both of those events boycotted by numerous nations. To the point they may not actually happen.
may 22, 2025, 11:47 pm • 3 0 • view
I bet if Paris started today they could be ready for the 2028 games
may 22, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Great question. I feel confident in saying that somehow Donny will win gold in golf though.
may 22, 2025, 11:36 pm • 5 0 • view
And the 2026 World Cup!
may 22, 2025, 11:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Even more immediate, the Club World Cup and Gold Cup this summer. Club WC will have teams & (theoretically) fans from Central & South America, Africa & Middle East. Gold Cup is all Central & South America + guests Saudi Arabia. I can't see people from those places feeling safe coming to the US.
may 23, 2025, 8:59 am • 4 0 • view
With visitors and athletes risking getting detained and deported? You can't. Both FIFA and IOC need to tell Trump to stop the detaining and deportations now, or they will relocate, for the safety of their athletes an visitors.
may 23, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
The World Cup is being hosted in Dem cities nested in terrible Republican states
may 22, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
WE ARE GOING BACK TO THE MOON, BABY
may 22, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
@chrislhayes.bsky.social The Olympics will have to be cancelled. No decent nation would want to send their best athletes to a nation who can't respect other nations.
may 23, 2025, 2:20 am • 3 0 • view
Hitler might like to address this point. Just saying… ✌️
may 23, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
Hitler did it.
may 22, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah how is it not cancelled yet 🫢
may 22, 2025, 11:33 pm • 1 0 • view
on the bright side it would be amazing if the absolute shit show of the olympics finally breaks it
may 22, 2025, 11:32 pm • 3 0 • view
The la28 segment of last year's closing ceremony was an affront to taste.
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 3 0 • view
You Mean The [insert new name here] Games?
may 23, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
I think if the situation continues on this trajectory, some teams just won't come. It won't be safe for the athletes, their families or fans. Even if the teams do get reassurances that their athletes won't be harassed, international tourists won't come to see the games.
may 23, 2025, 12:25 am • 2 0 • view
Boycott.
may 23, 2025, 12:14 am • 3 0 • view
No foreigner in their right mind would set foot here!
may 23, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
Also, FIFA World Cup? Seriously—Trump is supposedly the one in charge of the planning! How’s that gonna work?
may 23, 2025, 12:58 am • 4 0 • view
So…many people bought tickets already! Are they going to arrest people as they come off the planes? www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...
may 23, 2025, 1:01 am • 2 0 • view
On the bright side, the U.S. could win all the gold if it's strongest opponents are all in a Salvadoran gulag.
may 22, 2025, 11:38 pm • 1 0 • view
You cunts can't think a minute into the future when all you're thinking about is Biden speech pauses and a left-wing Joe Rogan. You are dead set fucked.
may 22, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I've thought about that, too, I think it will be boycott by lots of countries. When we said we didnt want it coming to LA this is not what we meant!
may 22, 2025, 11:34 pm • 11 0 • view
Hell, isn’t the World Cup next year?
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 9 0 • view
I’m hoping that most countries boycott the Olympics.
may 23, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
It is not at all certain at this point that under three more years of Trump the US will still be a going concern to even host the Olympics.
may 22, 2025, 11:41 pm • 2 0 • view
you mean you mean trump take olympics?
may 22, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Watch “The Boys in the Boat” for a look at a fascist hosted olympics
may 22, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I just saw a news brief that Korean climbers had their visas revoked for no reason and won't be able to enter for a championship.
may 23, 2025, 12:10 am • 3 0 • view
There's no way foreign nationals should travel here for the World Cup or Olympics. I think they should relocate both to France, which could probably pick up from 2024 and do it again.
may 23, 2025, 5:58 am • 12 0 • view
World Cup 2026 is USA, Canada, and Mexico. They should just cut USA out of it on. Have it be Canada and Mexico only.
may 23, 2025, 6:10 am • 15 0 • view
Not only is it happening, we're probably paying for FIFA's security and shit
may 27, 2025, 2:17 am • 1 0 • view
They held it in Nazi Germany. Sigh...
may 22, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope that they ditch us.
may 23, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Do you want the 2028 Olympics to be successful, like the 1936 Olympics in Berlin? So that people can keep pretending things aren't so bad after all?
may 23, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
Right!?!?!
may 23, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
I've seen a reporter say that in Russia, compared to previous trips for UEFA competition matches, he felt the cops were ordered to not get on people's faces for no reason, but was legitimately concerned about going to the US as Trump is not concerned about projecting normality, quite the opposite.
may 22, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
We're not?
may 22, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I live in the KC metro area and we’re spending lots of money preparing for the World Cup next year. I’m thinking it may be a bust.
may 23, 2025, 1:20 pm • 1 0 • view
also: how do we get control back, ever? does ANYONE seriously believe these people will leave willingly? not even non-maga republicans believe that
may 22, 2025, 11:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Easier to win all the medals if you detain all the other countries’ athletes
may 26, 2025, 10:34 pm • 9 0 • view
Front row seats to a burning empire! Once in a generation opportunity.
may 22, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
may 22, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
…im wondering about NHL season next year
may 22, 2025, 11:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Oooooh don’t give me hope for blatant acts of defiance from progressive countries!
may 23, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
may 23, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
Like Qatar
may 23, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
Just like they did in 1936.
may 23, 2025, 7:11 am • 0 0 • view
I mean the nazis did it so im sure we will find a way.
may 23, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
We don't. If the IOC has any sense they'll just cancel it.
may 27, 2025, 5:17 am • 1 0 • view
Everyone else ought to boycott
may 23, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
I have the answer, but you won’t like it.
may 22, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
World Cup is next year! I don’t even want to think how disastrous that will be.
may 23, 2025, 8:25 am • 3 0 • view
we gonna have one of those olympic years that’s got a lot of asterisks
may 23, 2025, 2:18 am • 25 0 • view
Gonna make Berlin in 1936 look like Nagano.
may 23, 2025, 2:32 am • 8 0 • view
They tell me that the WONDERFUL TORCH RELAY was started in the 1936 Olympics. Terrific really. It's going to be something else, the likes of which NOBODY'S EVER SEEN. We're going to be WINNING so many gold medals. THEY LOVE THE GOLD!
may 23, 2025, 6:11 am • 0 0 • view
if i have to unduly see his ugly fucking face again i'm citing you as my 13th reason why
may 23, 2025, 4:45 pm • 4 0 • view
He will figure out a way to get his mug onto every "comemerative" merch etc. with the World Cup and Olympics. Two organizations, not exactly known for their lack of corruption.
may 24, 2025, 12:36 am • 2 0 • view
Olympic's? What about the World Cup, hosting together with our BFF's Canada and Mexico? 🤔🤯🤯🤯😱
may 23, 2025, 12:31 am • 3 0 • view
The last time the Olympics were held in the u.s was during a notably 'chiller' time to be alive and that shit still got blown up.
may 23, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
1936 Berlin Olympics have entered the conversation
may 23, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
We can't. I hope the Olympic Committee decides to pull out.
may 23, 2025, 1:12 am • 12 0 • view
$$$$$ Not a chance
may 23, 2025, 2:22 am • 1 0 • view
Not if no one wants to show up.
may 23, 2025, 4:29 pm • 1 0 • view
The athletes have trained their entire lives for this. They won't voluntarily bail.
may 23, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Let alone cohosting the World Cup.
may 23, 2025, 1:24 am • 3 0 • view
Oh I can just see him sitting in a special royal box in the stadium and everyone has to goose step in front of him. He will look just like Adolf
may 23, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
The same way autocratic countries from Mexico (1968) to Beijing (2008), to Berlin (1936) have?
may 23, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Gonna be Orban and Bolsonaro sitting in an empty stadium.
may 26, 2025, 11:27 pm • 6 0 • view
I’m thinking boycott.
may 23, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
Not even the Olympics! World Cup is next year and *multiple teams and fans* will be required to travel between the US, Mexico and Canada!
may 22, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Probably the same way Russia held the Winter Olympics, and I’m not joking. Okay I am but I’m also serious.
may 22, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Or fifa 2026
may 24, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
They are all going to boycott it!
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 5 0 • view
There could be a lot of boycotts so who knows. The way the Republican government is behaving it could just be the Tyrant Games.
may 22, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The 2026 World Cup will be a test
may 23, 2025, 5:57 am • 0 0 • view
I mean...the nazis did it
may 23, 2025, 2:36 am • 3 0 • view
Putin did. It's not that hard.
may 23, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
The answer is - we won’t be.
may 23, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 0 • view
Or the World Cup 2026
may 23, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
Violently
may 22, 2025, 11:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I hope the world boycotts the Olympics.
may 23, 2025, 1:19 am • 6 0 • view
may 22, 2025, 11:56 pm • 2 0 • view
For the 2028 Olympics, America will be treated the same way it and many other nations treated the Soviet Union in 1980 for the Moscow Olympics... with boycotts!
may 23, 2025, 1:00 am • 4 0 • view
I wouldn’t go to our country. I already feel held hostage by a bunch of lunatics
may 23, 2025, 12:12 am • 13 0 • view
The thing that’s gonna do it is the World Cup likely being a total disaster next year There will of course be moral/ethical/geopolitical arguments ready that the US shouldn’t host either event, but screwing up the world’s biggest event would be the thing to do it
may 22, 2025, 11:50 pm • 4 0 • view
The last time I looked at the World Cup Soccer demographic -- both fan *and* participant: they're all highly likely to get grabbed, gulaged, and disappeared under the current setup...
may 22, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 1 • view
We shouldn't.
may 22, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
may 22, 2025, 11:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Remember the halcyon days of worrying about whether the Olympians had enough condoms?
may 22, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I say this as someone who loves this country and wants it to be saved: I think it would be great if somehow the World Cup and the Olympics were moved or boycotted. ANYTHING that might wake up the percentage of Americans sleeping through this.
may 23, 2025, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
Do you think some countries will boycott?
may 23, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
may 23, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
Or World Cup in 2026.
may 22, 2025, 11:37 pm • 195 2 • view
Hitler hosted the 1936 Olympics and that was actually more welcoming to foreigners than we’re likely to be.
may 22, 2025, 11:38 pm • 90 4 • view
Suddenly part of Magneto Testament by @gregpak.net floats to my mind.
may 23, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
Wow! That's a pretty scary fact, isn't it? Sigh.
may 22, 2025, 11:50 pm • 24 1 • view
They tell me that the WONDERFUL TORCH RELAY was started in the 1936 Olympics. Terrific really. It's going to be something else, the likes of which NOBODY'S EVER SEEN. We're going to be WINNING so many gold medals. THEY LOVE THE GOLD!
may 23, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
The World Cup will be the canary in the cave. How will this administration handle 6M new tourist visas? They can't even do the basics, and all the best employees have been fired/demoralized. Then they gotta do it again in 2028 with 12M+: www.latimes.com/sports/story...
may 23, 2025, 2:30 pm • 5 1 • view
World Pride Next Month
may 22, 2025, 11:50 pm • 2 0 • view
And really it’s starting now
may 22, 2025, 11:52 pm • 1 0 • view
For fuck’s sake, nobody should come. Stay home.
may 27, 2025, 12:35 am • 1 0 • view
Yup. I think it will be a real problem.
may 23, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The World Cup is also being held in Canada and Mexico so… they can cut us out.
may 23, 2025, 3:10 am • 4 0 • view
As a Vancouver resident - I am wondering if we might be getting a few more games....
may 23, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Fifa is as corrupt as gop scum if more. And footballers are mostly imbeciles so they will play for $ anywhere. Its up to fans but given that US has more than enough share of morons it will be just fine.
may 23, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
Or the US Open 🎾 this coming September…
may 22, 2025, 11:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah, Russia, Qatar, Hitler, all hosted huge sporting events, and everyone went...
may 22, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
We’ll be lucky if the rest of the world doesn’t boycott the Olympics. We are a rogue nation that ignores the rule of law, international law and human rights.
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 5 0 • view
I’m betting there is going to be an emergency meeting and the World Cup is going to be moved. As for the Olympics I’m betting the only countries that attend are Russia, Israel, North Korea, and Iran. You know the villains of the piece.
may 23, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
We have the Club World Cup happening this year and the World Cup next year, so we've got problems coming even sooner than that.
may 22, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
cc @awalkerinla.bsky.social
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view
That's more than 3 years down the road. I think it's impossible to predict where things will be that far off. Lest we forget, this regime has only been in place for a little over 4 months.
may 23, 2025, 4:54 am • 0 0 • view
It will just be Americans competing. (Talking you were born here, mom and dad were, granny, gramps, great grands) oh and maybe have to be white. We nay not win any speed events though.
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 2 0 • view
A lot of countries will boycott it.
may 22, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not worried about the Olympics. I’m sure France will host them once the US economy collapses.
may 22, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
We should lose it.
may 24, 2025, 1:00 am • 3 0 • view
Spirit of 1936, baby!
may 23, 2025, 4:47 am • 7 0 • view
may 23, 2025, 6:05 am • 0 0 • view
Or the World Cup next year?
may 23, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
Who would want to come?!
may 23, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
It's gonna be a disaster and the people causing it will praise themselves endlessly for doing so.
may 23, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
I mean, I bet countries will begin boycotting.
may 23, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
Hard to imagine.
may 23, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
Well, you know, Nazi Germany was able to do it in the '30s.
may 22, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Ya ..... That's gonna be a mess.
may 22, 2025, 11:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Let’s see how the World Cup goes…empty stadiums I’m going to guess because who in their right mind risks deportation or imprisonment by goons to travel to USA right now? Especially from many nations that are openly targets for Trump’s deranged policies.
may 22, 2025, 11:41 pm • 4 0 • view
There is no way.😳
may 23, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
Check out @nolympicsla.bsky.social
may 27, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 0 • view
I'm concerned about the World Cup. I work in the entertainment industry & we've all been looking forward to the game we're hosting in Atlanta & all the work that comes around it for a long time, but who is going to want to come here?
may 23, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah I feel like the IOC must be nervous as heck right now, right?
may 23, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah we cannot
may 23, 2025, 12:15 am • 27 0 • view
SO. MANY. BOYCOTTS!
may 23, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
They need to take the Olympics away from us, like now.
may 22, 2025, 11:37 pm • 9 0 • view
Agreed. Something is going to go very wrong somewhere along the way and all fingers will point to trump.
may 22, 2025, 11:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Everything Everywhere All at once is going wrong
may 23, 2025, 12:02 am • 5 0 • view
And the World Cup next year!
may 22, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Ben, there are too many potatoes.
may 23, 2025, 12:37 am • 16 0 • view
We share a World Cup with you next year and we are....not thrilled.
may 22, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I suppose making it known there's a coin flip on every athlete, coach, supporter and fan who shows up getting sold into slavery is one way to rack up American wins
may 22, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I think they should boycott
may 23, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
FIFA and the IOC should start considering other places tbh. Wayyy too much of a shit show here. 😭
may 22, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Corporate greed didn't really think this all the way through
may 22, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think that q is small potatoes. We’re only one country on this planet - sure, we’re a bully, but the rest of the world have our number. I expect, without dems regaining the house in 2026, the Olympics will either not happen, or be moved.
may 23, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
Just because we can host the Olympics doesn’t mean anyone will show up.
may 22, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
would be the ultimate middle finger if most countries pulled out due to tariffs and/or an unsafe travel environment due to illegal kidnappings and deportations, get the olympics cancelled
may 23, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
You're not
may 23, 2025, 12:47 am • 1 0 • view
How did Berlin manage to in 1936?
may 23, 2025, 1:46 am • 0 0 • view
Not well. And on top of national politics a recent reactionary swing in local Los Angeles elections isn't helping
may 22, 2025, 11:33 pm • 5 0 • view
People are ignoring that sufficiently powerful "AI" (aka surveillance systems and propaganda engines) can allow these people to win forever. We have 1-2 years to save the future of humanity and get the moral arc of the universe back on track. We should not be fighting over dumb shit.
may 23, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
Imagine all the athletes traveling here to kick our fascist asses and win gold.
may 23, 2025, 2:33 am • 4 1 • view
Trumpists aren't going to tolerate any kind of Jesse Owens moments, I suspect.
may 23, 2025, 2:52 am • 3 0 • view
I am a climber and avid climbing World Cup watcher. The Korean athletes who were competing at the World Cup in Salt Lake City had their visas denied right before their trip and almost had to miss the competition. They were able to enter eventually but these situations are already happening 😭
may 27, 2025, 12:00 am • 11 0 • view
I was wondering the same thing, are people even going to want to come here without being afraid of being deported for some shady reason.
may 22, 2025, 11:40 pm • 3 0 • view
You need to get over it. It's not happening. And if it does, it will be the most humiliating event in human history. Not like this.
may 23, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
Tim may I introduce you to the IOC
may 22, 2025, 11:39 pm • 4 0 • view
We’re not. Unless this government is turned back, there’s no way the games will happen.
may 23, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
I truly don’t know how the World Cup and the Olympics will work.
may 22, 2025, 11:40 pm • 1 0 • view
They need to start the relocation process immediately
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 4 0 • view
We’ll one up the 1936 Berlin Olympics for sure.
may 22, 2025, 11:33 pm • 8 0 • view
Wasn't one of the stipulations for Olympics that he wasn't a fucking shitbag? And we all assured IOC that he'd be in check? What happened with that?
may 23, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
The Berlin Games all over again?
may 23, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
It will be a clusterfuck to put it mildly.
may 22, 2025, 11:53 pm • 2 0 • view
They should move it now. South Africa?
may 23, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
I keep saying US citizens should contact FIFA and the IOC asking them to relocate. It is not safe for citizens or anyone with legal status. Any visitors are not safe as we have demonstrated. This would be hardcore resistance. Short term pain for long term good.
may 23, 2025, 3:05 am • 6 0 • view
Maybe he’ll be impeached by then?
may 23, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Germany did it in 1936.
may 22, 2025, 11:40 pm • 2 0 • view
😬
may 23, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
I know I know.
may 23, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 0 • view
It’s not small ans I’ve been asking this since the end of January. And the World Cup?
may 23, 2025, 11:35 am • 29 2 • view
I hope they all boycott.
may 23, 2025, 11:37 am • 11 0 • view
Well if there's anything more corrupt and venal than the Trump administration, it's FIFA. It's just a question of who rips off who the most.
may 23, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Same way Hitler did. The US and Germany will go down in history as fascist Olympics hosts. Congratulations.
may 23, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
With any luck we don't
may 23, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
It's gonna be TERRIFIC, believe me. Did you know the torch relay was started in 1936 for the Berlin Olympics? People LOVE the FIRE.
may 23, 2025, 6:05 am • 0 0 • view
The semiquincentennial is the one that gets me. It’s going to be like May Day in Red Square.
may 22, 2025, 11:38 pm • 2 0 • view
That thought has been gnawing at me!🤬
may 22, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
And by the way, not for nothing but as unwelcoming as America is right now broadly speaking, the city of Los Angeles, where I live, is specifically struggling logistically. Those fires were not that long ago and we have *a lot* of other problems too. Our infrastructure is / will not be not ready.
may 23, 2025, 6:33 am • 3 0 • view
lot of
may 23, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah no one is coming for the world cup in 2026. I have repeatedly told colleagues in other countries to stay away until something changes. It is simply not worth the possibility of being detained over calling trump names online.
may 22, 2025, 11:35 pm • 3 0 • view
We can’t
may 22, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
and world cup next year, should be taken off USA to not allow countries with no human rights and despicable governments to host it, oh wait Quata and Russia hosted it recently, Fifa you should be ashamed of yourselves what's next Gaza!
may 23, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view
How are we ever going to host the FIFA Club World Cup NEXT FREAKING MONTH in an environment like this?!
may 23, 2025, 1:33 am • 2 0 • view
I don't care whether it's the World Cup in 2026 or Olympics in 2028, I just want to be clear that if our ATC system crashes the Argentinian team's plane with no hope of rescue, I will not hold them responsible for eating Republicans in order to survive.
may 23, 2025, 12:48 am • 3 0 • view
Which city won? We can probably swap them with a city in like Nicaragua, pretty sure Nica could handle the Olympics
may 22, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
They said the same thing about Woodstock. Glorious chaos in the sun & rain! “It’s going to be a holocaust!” And that was the good news.🤗 (PS—Just for the record I wasn’t there. Not even my parents were there. But they wanted to be🥰)
may 23, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
Or World Cup
may 23, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
Foreigners would have to be insane to visit this fascist rogue state.
may 22, 2025, 11:31 pm • 10 0 • view
Still can’t believe this is our beloved country. This is AWFUL. 😣
may 22, 2025, 11:54 pm • 5 0 • view
World Cup is *next year*
may 22, 2025, 11:36 pm • 110 0 • view
may 22, 2025, 11:40 pm • 10 0 • view
Funny looking handcuffs 😟
may 23, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
is that a Russian olympic bear? I had one of those a million years ago!
may 22, 2025, 11:54 pm • 5 0 • view
Me too!
may 23, 2025, 12:06 am • 3 0 • view
Same! Had forgotten about that guy.
may 23, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
as a footy fan, I keep thinking about this
may 22, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah yes, the World Cup, a sporting event that had famously never taken place in a problematic country that treats migrants horribly
may 23, 2025, 3:10 am • 44 0 • view
The issue is will teams feel safe travelling to the country or will they back out entirely over fear of players being sent to El Salvador. They don't care about general treatment of migrants but they care about the team's ability to travel without risking prison.
may 23, 2025, 11:22 am • 3 0 • view
Wait until you find out about the Olympics!
may 23, 2025, 3:59 am • 14 0 • view
The difference is those other countries are at least semi smart about their evil. The people in charge of this country are fucking idiots
may 23, 2025, 4:02 am • 8 0 • view
By 2028, California is either a Canadian province and/or Popeking For Eternity Donald Jehovah Trump I has walled it off like Escape From LA. Either way, IOC don't give a fuck as long as the check clears.
may 22, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Olympics? World Cup is gonna be a complete shitshow.
may 23, 2025, 12:23 am • 2 0 • view
They already held the World Cup in Qatar and Olympics in Russia, so long as LA manages to kludge together enough facilities it will probably go through with some short-term controversies nobody thinks about a year later.
may 23, 2025, 11:56 am • 3 0 • view
I feel like the ICE shenanigans will end up solving it for us when the rest of the world skips the US
may 22, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I've accepted that, for all practical purposes, the US will not recover within my probable lifetime. It is quite possible it will never recover. All I can do is remember: People plant trees knowing they will not live to see them bear fruit.
may 23, 2025, 12:43 am • 54 1 • view
OTOH, Canada us not that far a drive.
may 23, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
Germany was fine within twenty years, and two generations were dead and the entire nation was bombed to bits. Same with Japan. Unless you're a lot closer to death than I assume, "not in my lifetime" is needlessly pessimistic.
may 23, 2025, 2:47 am • 8 0 • view
Here's the unfortunate thing - perhaps part of the reason they were able to recover so fast is that these people were killed in or around the war. Lots of important Nazis were killed - we're going to still have MAGA for the rest of our lifetimes and beyond.
may 23, 2025, 2:54 am • 10 0 • view
Ooof. That's gonna leave a mark.
may 23, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
To be clear, I'm not suggesting anything. I think it's simply descriptive. We need to really focus on somehow converting large sections of MAGA out of the cult. I'm not sure how to do it, but I think it's the only real way out of this. Maybe only possible once Trump dies of old age.
may 23, 2025, 4:19 am • 0 0 • view
(To be honest, I don't think violence would be productive anyway. I truly wasn't trying to suggest that. I think, if anything, it'd probably give justification for MAGA to intensify their current authoritarian push and things would get dramatically worse for people, especially minorities)
may 23, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly. And we won't be trusted again by our former allies until it is clear MAGAism is a spent force. So before things can "recover" we need MAGAism to be dead *and* be dead long enough that others can reasonably it really is dead. Gonna be way more than 20 years.
may 23, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 0 • view
For all the good it did. Nazism is on its way back in Germany with the AfD (no matter how much they try to rationalize it otherwise), so much so that they came in second in the recent election, forcing the other parties to try and work around them to avoid letting them into government. (For now.)
jun 1, 2025, 9:14 am • 0 0 • view
Not if we arrest and prosecute them & for some of the highest level criminals, execution following conviction at trial.
may 23, 2025, 4:03 am • 1 0 • view
I would worry about people becoming martyrs to be honest. I'm also against killing. I think we need to look at dismantling the right wing alternative reality/media ecosystem. That might provide a pathway to bring people back into sanity from the cult of Trump/MAGA. No idea how to do that though.
may 23, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
That’s because the U.S. came in with dump trucks full of money to get German capitalism going again to thwart the Soviets Which country would come in to resuscitate this evil empire after we’ve collapsed? Who would want to?
may 23, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The day I realized that trump was the front runner and would likely be elected I told my husband "Our grandkids will have to clean this up" This time I said "scratch that, our great grandkids will have to clean it up now".
may 26, 2025, 11:57 pm • 2 0 • view
The oldest is 12. I believe THEIR children will have to put it back together. I'm terrified for my oldest grandson because in 6 years he could be drafted and think what a mess things will still be.
may 27, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
Average life exp. is 77. I’m 60. Math ain’t good.
may 23, 2025, 10:24 am • 5 0 • view
That's at birth; you're expected to live to 82.
may 23, 2025, 11:14 am • 2 0 • view
(disclaimer: I'm not an actuary)
may 23, 2025, 11:15 am • 1 0 • view
A big part of why they were "fine within 20 years" is precisely *because* two generations were dead and the entire nation was bombed to bits. It both killed a lot of the bad people and made it very clear what the consequences of following the bad people and the bad people's ideology were. 1/
may 23, 2025, 1:12 pm • 6 0 • view
This is what I came to say. It precisely because Germany and Japan were so utterly decimated that they were able to move forward so quickly.
may 23, 2025, 1:49 pm • 2 0 • view
and because there was a united states both willing and able to give them a hand up toward representative democracy after the bombing was over
may 23, 2025, 1:52 pm • 4 0 • view
who will create a marshall plan for the us once we've ditched the neoconfederates and fascists?
may 23, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
It's terrifying to realize it is a *bad* thing no one has the power to force the US into compliance with the same basic liberal democratic norms it once championed (if only for its own purposes). The only nations which might arguably have that power are antithetical to such norms.
may 23, 2025, 1:20 pm • 6 0 • view
MAGAism is going to have to be dead and gone (which itself will take years) for a sufficiently long time for our former allies to be willing to believe it is gone before they'll trust us again. 2/
may 23, 2025, 1:14 pm • 4 0 • view
And that's assuming the current fuckery hasn't led to a permanently changed equilibrium state. So I don't think >20 years is pessimistic at all. 3/3
may 23, 2025, 1:15 pm • 4 0 • view
I think 20 years is optimistic. Germany and Japan recovered because the US rebuilt them to serve as a sacrifice to stop the USSR. Nobody is gonna want to rebuild the US. I think Recovery in 50 years is probably optimistic.
may 23, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
West Germany or...?
may 27, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
Immigration agency will have to start employing more people to check visitors phones on arrival
may 22, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Burner phone business will boom though!
may 23, 2025, 1:27 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m also wondering how we can host the World Cup next year. This is not a safe environment to visit.
may 23, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
Gotta believe that at some point Paris and London will look around and say “Ya know, we still got all this stuff. We could do this again”.
may 23, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
I can't imagine how Canada could participate. I wish we'd hear something about the discussions they must be having. Those athletes have to be making plans NOW. 😬
may 23, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
We’re not going to be able to, at least not effectively, and organizers in LA have been pointing out for almost a decade that it’s a terrible idea for us to host them
may 22, 2025, 11:32 pm • 14 1 • view
Can't lose a medal if you deport the other competitors.
may 22, 2025, 11:37 pm • 8 0 • view
And who is still going to want to come?
may 23, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view