2024 Election Thread

[Kepler]

Honestly, probably will move onto running SLC's Olympics committee again. Worst kept secret is they want the winter games back.

I thought they were a shoe-in for 2030? Not sure why they would want it.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Actually, there is a likelihood that no one else would want the Winter Games. They have been struggling to find Host Applicants lately.

Most people have wised up to the fact that the Olympic juice isn't worth the IOC's squeeze/shakedown. Least of all the Winter Games, which are very niche and draw less than half the audience.

[Kepler]

The Olympics are a prime example that money destroys everything it touches.

Go back to 1924.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I thought they were a shoe-in for 2030? Not sure why they would want it.

1. They already have most of the Winter Games infrastructure in place from 2002, and within a 30-45min drive of downtown
2. They also have some of the most reliable snowfall in the world, unlike Sochi, Beijing, and many other recent hosts
3. Sure, they'll get shaken down for some upgrades and more luxury hotels, but they won't have to spend gobs of money hastily building an entire ski resort and village.
4. Once the games are over, millions of people are still going to visit those resorts and bring their tourist dollars with them, unlike the ones in China and Russia.
5. They just spent the last 4-5 years dropping a bunch of money to rebuild the entire airport and triple its passenger capacity, so it's time to start getting some return on that investment.

Utah is one of the few potential sites where the financial outlay is probably worth it for the state in the long run.

[Proud2baLaker]

Both Winter and Summer games should honestly just rotate between 2 or 3 cities each at the most (I think someone on this board may have suggested something similar?). Winter games could probably be Salt Lake (for reasons Fade noted) and someplace in the Alps and call it good (maybe someplace in Japan if you wanted a third site?). I don't really follow the summer much but I am guessing you could do someplace in the US, Europe, and Australia. I don't know. I'm sure China and Russian would pitch a fit but screw 'em.

[French Rage]

Both Winter and Summer games should honestly just rotate between 2 or 3 cities each at the most (I think someone on this board may have suggested something similar?). Winter games could probably be Salt Lake (for reasons Fade noted) and someplace in the Alps and call it good (maybe someplace in Japan if you wanted a third site?). I don't really follow the summer much but I am guessing you could do someplace in the US, Europe, and Australia. I don't know. I'm sure China and Russian would pitch a fit but screw 'em.

I've thought (maybe said?) the same thing. Pick maybe one spot in each hemisphere for each games, and alternate between them. Pick somewhere where maybe they could use the jobs associated with it, and it has some historical reason, so like Athens for one of the two Summer spots, lord knows they could use it. That way, you're building stadiums that will be used repeatedly, and your not building 20 different velodromes all over the world that will fall into disrepair. Anyone who profits from the corruption will be ****ed, but that's kinda the whole point. I get why when they started 120+ years ago they wanted to move it around, it was much harder to travel and there was no TV/radio, so if you wanted to experience them you need them to be physically near you. Now with easier air travel for those who really care, and high-def TV overage wall-to-wall for those who kinda care, there's really no reason to move them all around.

[Jimjamesak]

You could throw in Vancouver/Whistler into the rotation. The Milan/Cortina one coming up in 2026 will be interesting to see. Lillehammer could be thrown in as well.

It would be interesting to see a Southern Hemisphere Winter Games but there’s not any feasible place.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

It would be interesting to see a Southern Hemisphere Winter Games but there’s not any feasible place.

The only part of the Southern Hemisphere with both somewhat reliable snow & good vertical is the Chile/Argentina border region, where some Olympians go to train between June and August. However, their existing resorts and infrastructure are lacking, and both of those developing countries have far more important and less expensive ways to exploit their citizens.

[Chuck Murray]

The majority of illegals didn't cross an open border. Rather than shooting your mouth off about a subject you're woefully ignorant about, try instead studying up and maybe learn something along the way.

((( ... listing of a virtual who's who of liberal think-tank illegal immigration enablers zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... )))

Finally illegal immigrants are less likely to commit a crime than the average American and legal immigrants are even less likely. https://stevenrattner.com/interview/...nt-falsehoods/

Illegal immigrants commit a crime just by crossing the border, hence the "illegal" part.

So that's 100% criminals. You lose (again), slappy.

I have nothing but the utmost respect for legal immigrants who follow our laws and honor our country in doing so.

I did notice zero (0) of you responders indicated you were housing any of our illegal visitors in your homes ... ???

That's OK, I suppose ... when a whopping total of fifty (50) migrants landed on the fair shores of Martha's Vineyard at this time last year, the liberal NIMBY frauds welcomed them, opened their doors to them, and - oops - put them on a ferry back to the mainland, where they were put up at a military base. All at a time when, due to the end of the summer vacation season, there were multiple hundreds of homes vacant for the next six-plus months LOLOL ... "Hate Has No Home Here ... And Neither Do You Illegals!!!"

Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard moved to Cape Cod military base (bostonherald.com)

[Swansong]

That's... not exactly the flex you think it is.

[French Rage]

I can't believe when confronted with a population immediately in need of housing, medical care, and other services necessary for them to take the next steps, that they would move them to the mainland where such things are accessible and convenient, to a single large facility specifically designed for exactly those things, instead of keeping them on an island where none of these things are easily accessible and convenient, and have them spread in a dis-organized fashion over multiple locations not designed for such things. It's like they based their decisions on what the circumstances required and not over what makes for the flashiest publicity stunt!

[Slap Shot]

Way to nitpick one item out of more than a dozen. You did that because on the bigger picture your opinions are crushed by the facts. Keep swinging slugger.

[Swansong]

Way to nitpick one item out of more than a dozen. You did that because on the bigger picture your opinions are crushed by the facts. Keep swinging slugger.

And to do so in a en avent where 50 human beings were misled into their destination, dumped off on an island at night with no local notification, no plans for housing or anything else, and for "those libruls" to manage to get them to a more appropriate place for them that night/the following morning.

I'll reiterate. This is not the flex the right thinks it is.

[Bronco]

Wisconsin GQP votes to fire non-partisan official because they're whiny babies who see their power slipping away.

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin...4b03083b3e3b11

[Russell Jaslow]

Pretty much how we ended up with the games in Beijing last time.

Yeah, the IOC basically begged China to take those games. That’s also why the IOC ignored any criticism of China’s human rights record.