# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 1)

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**Created:** [May 15, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178 "2021-05-15T18:35:41Z")\
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Heh, I’d forgotten how far flung everything was. A friend of mine went to a Brazilian soccer match in Santa Barbara, and she became a lifelong fan of … Brazil.

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4242 "2023-08-09T18:26:04Z")

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> [@carrps](#):
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> Los Angeles hosted the Olympics twice, and both times (I’m sure about the second; not absolutely sure about the first) made a profit. It can be done.

They’ll get another chance. Los Angeles is the host city in 2028.

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4243 "2023-08-09T18:32:19Z")

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I’m retired now. Let them do what they want!

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4244 "2023-08-09T19:09:47Z")

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Make sure to have all of your shopping done before the Olympics comes to town.

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4245 "2023-08-09T19:28:17Z")

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> [@DesertDog](#):
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> “US vs. Germany.”

Sure it wasn’t Brazil v. (West) Germany?

The U.S. was in a different group from Germany and failed to advance.

> [@carrps](#):
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> Heh, I’d forgotten how far flung everything was. A friend of mine went to a Brazilian soccer match in Santa Barbara, and she became a lifelong fan of … Brazil.

Wikipedia sez that Brazil played all their Olympic matches at Stanford Stadium or the Rose Bowl. Was this a pre-tournament friendly?

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Nah. It made no difference last time. Like literally no impact on me at all. I took off work, but I stayed home and had a pleasant staycation.

> [@SunUp](#):
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> Wikipedia sez that Brazil played all their Olympic matches at Stanford Stadium or the Rose Bowl. Was this a pre-tournament friendly?

Damn. My memory said Santa Barbara. She probably saw Brazil at the Rose Bowl, but I know she did go on to Santa Barbara. Unless that is another tweaked memory?

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4247 "2023-08-09T19:43:41Z")

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> [@carrps](#):
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> Nah. It made no difference last time. Like literally no impact on me at all. I took off work, but I stayed home and had a pleasant staycation.

Why did you stay home? Traffic?

I see the Olympics hitting your town as a different type of pandemic. Sort of like Christmas is. Stores very crowded, streets crowded. Lines out the doors at restaurants.

Spring break can be the same.

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4248 "2023-08-09T19:47:25Z")

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> [@SunUp](#):
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> Sure it wasn’t Brazil v. (West) Germany?
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> The U.S. was in a different group from Germany and failed to advance.

Looking up the stats it was US v Egypt. It was on the right week day and the only one matching the class schedule played at Stanford. I remembered the US was one of the teams because it explained the insane traffic.

> [@carrps](#):
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> Heh, I’d forgotten how far flung everything was.

You could say that. Two of the other venues were Harvard stadium in Boston and the USNA stadium in Annapolis.

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4249 "2023-08-09T20:45:56Z")

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> [@DesertDog](#):
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> I remembered the US was one of the teams because it explained the insane traffic.

That’s actually why I thought it might have been Brazil - they could have outdrawn the U.S. in a match on U.S. soil in the 80s. Then again, it was still (near the end of) the NASL era, and with the number of immigrants in the Bay Area, there were plenty of folks to watch…

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4250 "2023-08-09T21:33:59Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> I see the Olympics hitting your town as a different type of pandemic. Sort of like Christmas is. Stores very crowded, streets crowded. Lines out the doors at restaurants.

It wasn’t like the pandemic at all. Really. It was more like a two weeks long party!

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4251 "2023-08-09T22:12:02Z")

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I know this is the Pit and all, but that’s like 20 posts about an Olympics that happened almost 40 years ago. Can we please get back to hating on Trump?

Fucking treasonous scumbag.

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4252 "2023-08-09T22:13:53Z")

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Man, I hate Trump more than any forty-year-old sporting event. Even more than forty-year-old traffic problems!

There, how’s that?

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Trump took the Gold, Silver and Bronze in the Scumbagathon.

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I knew I could count on you guys!

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> [@BlankSlate](#):
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> Trump took the Gold, Silver and Bronze in the Scumbagathon.

I thought it was the Bronze.

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4256 "2023-08-09T22:20:13Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> I thought it was the Bronze.

He had it gold-plated.

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/4257 "2023-08-09T22:27:21Z")

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There’s an old joke: An idiot wins a Gold Medal at the Olympics. He was so proud of it, he had it bronzed.

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Either way TFG looks like an idiot, so it works no matter what.

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He didn’t win. He just took the medals.

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And had his whole head bronzed.

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