the median income is 6000 us a year. I know exactly what happened. Some poor brazilians have a brand new couch in their shack is what happened. and good for them. They should have stolen all the copper and become rich.

I am intrigued by both of your scenarios! I find them both valid and plausible. It’s too bad we can’t do one of those Trading Places-type deals and let me put $1 down right now, and then check back in six months to see who is right. It’s fascinating, especially since it offers even a remote possibility of Cheeto…

Yep. Trump supporters and the Tea Party in general would rather watch the entire world burn instead of compromise. There is a Vice documentary on HBO where John Boehner and a few other Republicans described all the crazy Tea Party lunatics driving the Republican party into the ground and the only thing they could do…

But hey...he didn’t send classified material in unsecured emails.

Reminds me of that time at work when I got fired for calling my co-worker a dirty fucking whore. When she complained, my boss had me thrown out the door. I tried to explain as the door slammed shut. “But my wife...”

That’s so disrespectful. Do you really think he would not let Melania watch via Skype?

Ooh Athens, the current greek economic problems can be traced to those Olympics. An expensive subway that was sold for pennies and many others.

Somehow the NBC version of this article will contain 99% less state of Rio after the Olympics and 300% more Michael Phelps.

They are golden, after all.

allegations that Trump rented out the same Moscow hotel room that the Obamas stayed in and hired a pair of prostitutes to “perform a golden showers show in front of him.”

The classiest golden showers....believe me

I think the Montreal-Olympics-Were-a-Disaster narrative was partly sustained by the aesthetic/maintenance of Olympic Stadium, which always looked like shit on TV and, diehards notwithstanding, rarely had decent-looking crowds. It was a nonstop reminder in our press. Different story if that was in Ottawa and no MLB…

My favorite fact about Denver/Colorado is they said fuck off to the 1976 Winter Games. They got the bid and everything and then just dumped it off at the goodwill when they realized what a shit sandwich they were in for. And this was in 1972.

Weird that the public isn’t clamoring for more golf in a city where median per capita income hovers around US$6000.

If you don’t have different countries competing to host every two years, how is the IOC going to justify those huge bribes?

Thank you for following up on this. It’s too easy just to ignore the situation after the games themselves happen relatively hitch-free and forget that it’s still a big fucking mess.

The Republicans would have worked overtime to change the casual understanding of loveable ‘ol Bernie a lot of independent voters had into “THIS MAN IS A VERY THREAT TO THE FABRIC OF THE PRINCIPLES THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON.”

Old time hockey...

You forgot

I am 100% OK with this.