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tinrobot

(10,900 posts) Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:00 AM Jan 2017

Immigration ban may mean end of Los Angeles' Olympic bid

The International Olympic Committee votes in September whether to award sport’s biggest event to LA, Paris or Budapest, and one of the officials who will decide their fate condemned on Saturday what was among Trump’s first acts since taking office.

IOC member Richard Peterkin, of St Lucia, posted on Twitter: “Trump’s Executive Order on immigration is totally contrary to Olympic ideals. For him, collective responsibility trumps individual justice.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2017/01/29/donald-trump-immigration-ban-fanning-flames-hatred-throws-la/

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Immigration ban may mean end of Los Angeles' Olympic bid (Original Post) tinrobot Jan 2017 OP

Yeah, we're toast. Congrats to Paris. Charles Bukowski Jan 2017 #1

Yup, it will be Paris then Yupster Jan 2017 #6

No revenue loss there.... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #2

i'm in Los Angeles and the only way they should consider LA is if Trump is gone by the time they get JI7 Jan 2017 #3

I'd like LA to get the Olympics just to accelerate mass transit tinrobot Jan 2017 #5

Good catch...forgot about that titaniumsalute Jan 2017 #4

Tip of the Iceberg grantcart Jan 2017 #7

Remember when Chicago lost its bid in 2009? toddwv Jan 2017 #8

Charles Bukowski

(1,132 posts)

1. Yeah, we're toast. Congrats to Paris.

Reply to tinrobot (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:02 AM

Jan 2017

Even if Shithead lifts the ban, the damage has been done.

Yupster

(14,308 posts)

6. Yup, it will be Paris then

Reply to Charles Bukowski (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:10 AM

Jan 2017

Budapest already has their wall up.

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)

2. No revenue loss there....

Reply to tinrobot (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:04 AM

Jan 2017

JI7

(89,250 posts)

3. i'm in Los Angeles and the only way they should consider LA is if Trump is gone by the time they get

Reply to tinrobot (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:04 AM

Jan 2017

to pick.

while i have many criticisms of the olympics i have been thinking that LA would be a good place to hold the games. but only if Trump is no longer in office.

tinrobot

(10,900 posts)

5. I'd like LA to get the Olympics just to accelerate mass transit

Reply to JI7 (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:09 AM

Jan 2017

We could get a lot of light rail and subways built with that money.

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)

4. Good catch...forgot about that

Reply to tinrobot (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:06 AM

Jan 2017

You know Mr. Egomaniac probably never ever thought of that. Hell even Putie Poot got an Olympics. That would be Trump's shining fun thing to pay attention to for months.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

7. Tip of the Iceberg

Reply to tinrobot (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:13 AM

Jan 2017

How about international conferences?

Training of Iraqi military experts

How about training pilots for airlines that want to purchase Boeings? Before they can integrate the aircraft they have to log minimum hours which usually happens at Moses Lake, Washington

toddwv

(2,830 posts)

8. Remember when Chicago lost its bid in 2009?

Reply to tinrobot (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:32 AM

Jan 2017

The GOP cheered.

They will see LA losing the bid as yet another victory against the liberals.

That's the kind of people we are dealing with.

Steve Bannon: “I’m a Leninist. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”

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