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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It would be nice to see someone, somewhere finally hold him accountable for refusing to pay his bills.

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

I'd support something as easy as making him take off his hat when honoring fallen soldiers, at this point. Anything.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The hat thing is just a natural extension of no one in his orbit holding him accountable for decorum ever, which is most evident in his language. Sad to see, but yeah.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Or his vanity to hide that rash on his neck, when the wind would have otherwise blown his combover off to the side.

[-] joekar1990@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I think he's wearing a hat more because with dementia you get more sensitive to light. He's been sundowning more posting throughout the night on truth social and then falling asleep in meetings during the day. It's probably why they don't do a lot of morning events anymore. Everything is always in the afternoon.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If they really want to piss him off just invite the Obamas and make sure they show up on cameras. The meltdown would be hilarious.

[-] Blade9732@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Even better, invite the Biden's and have them introduced at the opening ceremony as the President and first lady, while Trump is in the stands watching.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Now it is my honor to introduce the undisputed and clear winner of the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden.

Tldr... Is there going to be a kid rock Olympics?

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

Actual olympics has the most atheltic people in the world competitng.

Kid Rock olympics have the least athletic, out of shape people in the world competing and dying of heart disease.

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I thought this would have something to do with him killing over 150 school girls & war crimes, but nope they just want money. Fuck them & fuck Trump too!

Can we just have the IOC ban the USA? It's not like the Olympics have ever been profitable for the host nation.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

They’re hosted by cities not nations, but these games were profitable:

  • London 1908 & 1948
  • LA 1932 & 1984
  • Sarajevo 1984
  • Calgary 1988
  • Seoul 1988
  • Barcelona 1992
  • Atlanta 1996
  • Salt Lake City 2002
  • Beijing 2008 & 2022
  • Vancouver 2010
  • Sochi 2014
  • Pyeongchang 2018
  • Paris 2024
[-] LeonineAlpha@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Living in one of the recent cities listed

Those games were NOT PROFITABLE. The IOC, etc, SAYS they were by:

Completely discounting Policing/Security Not including any venue construction costs And a whole bunch more sleeze (not) accounting (multi Billion$, for a winter, seen 10x higher for some summer bills)

Their idiotic "profitable" rhetoric is spuriously true, if you do some bullshit accounting, whereby the ticket revenues exceed the labour bill, on-site (and never mind they conned legions of "workers" into scabbing for "room+board volunteers" which was actually a cot and hotdogs in moldy leaking freight containers)

Multi billion $ hole, that we the people pay debt servicing on eternally, and our city became a haven for international money laundering after, one of the most unaffordable places in the world now...

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Its the OCOGS that report profits not the IOC.

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