Hello, Aaron Cormican!
Fortune favors the bold, they say, and most things they say are silly but this is entirely and completely true. The only multi-billionaires hedging bets, being careful, not acting boldly are multi-billionaires who have inherited their fortunes and are ashamedly dithering them away.
In any case, the United State of Florida, sensing bold opportunity, offered to host the 2021 Olympic Games today just in case Tokyo is not up for it.
You may have read the leaked missives, released days ago, suggesting that Japan may be cooling on the idea of hosting a once-every-four-years bacchanal in the heat-adjacent of Covid-19. Officials quickly denied the cold feet though Florida, smelling bold fortuity, declared desire.
Per Yahoo Sports:
Florida’s chief financial officer on Monday told the International Olympic Committee that the state would be happy to host the Olympics Games amid speculation that current hosts Japan may back out.
Jimmy Patronis sent a letter to Thomas Bach, the head of the IOC, “to encourage you to consider relocating the 2021 Olympics from Tokyo, Japan to the United States of America, and more specifically to Florida.”
“With media reports of leaders in Japan ‘privately’ concluding that they are too concerned about the pandemic for the 2021 Olympics to take place, there is still time to deploy a site selection team to Florida,” he said.
The letter, signed by Patronis and posted online, cited the supposed strength of state’s vaccination roll-out, its economic re-opening and sports events it has hosted during the pandemic, as well as the fact that its theme parks, including Disney World, are open for business.
How happy is Yahoo not to be Twitter or Facebook right now with all those monopoly issues? But also, conundrum. I love Japan more than any country save Yemen. I love Florida more than any state save Wyoming.
Where does that leave me?
Us?
Team Japan, clearly.
But good on Team Florida.
Fortune favors the boozy.
Kanoa Igarashi better get ready to claim a love of hush puppies, tax-free livin’ and tomahawk chops.
Bold.
But where would the surfing in Florida be conducted.
New Smyrna, obviously, but where else?
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you’ve got your title wrong. the surfer is from Hawaii, but Jaws is in Northern California.
If surfing isn’t on tv in all it’s competitive glory by summer let’s all get serious about boycotting surfing all together. We should all stop surfing, watching surfing, buying surfing stuff like red bull and surf brand jean, and move somewhere at least two hours inland. Are you with me? We could change the world!
America’s wang, and far more fecund than Baja (California’s wang). But still, for being our wang, Florida sucks. It’s supposed to get sucked. But it already sucks.
Chuck them in a Flow Rider! God please!
Is there a beach near Mar-a-Lago? Trumpy needs a mood lift.
Alternatively they could send all the Olympic surfers to hang out at del boca vista with Frank and Estelle Costanza. A spite move competition hanging with the spite move OG’s.
Nothing like being proven right to cheer a man up.
The press are the enemy of the American people.
Yes Mr. President, yes they are.
https://redstate.com/streif…
That they are Otto. Not just American’s though.
Not sure that’s gonna be enough to put the dust back on his Cheetos however.
He’s focusing on what’s important, primary GOP turncoats and election integrity. Just keep pushing America First. The policies being implemented by Biden’s Administration will do the heavy lifting towards showing the wisdom of Trump’s America First policies. It’s interesting how the media are trying to paint Biden to be so boring. Quite the smokescreen for his far left agenda policies.
Yawwwwn
“The press are the enemy of the American people.”
Interesting, where’d you read that?
Trump said that early on in his Term. It’s the reason why the press circled the wagons and commenced a full blown 4-year drawn out crusade to bash him.
Q-anonoa Igarashi, his conspiracy deluded cousin is claiming that he already won several world titles.
Apparently the electoral system cheated him out of the latest one
They’re going to invade the judges tower and steal the pallet furniture from the commentary booth.
It’d make a change from Pip storming the tower for the donuts
That’s “Igarshi” to you, cunt.
Who cares. Are Stab making bank of teen subscribes yet? Can you see lights on at Venice adjacent? Or do they now work by iPhone illuminance? I’ll come back tomorrow for the full scoop.
Apparently ‘Florida Man’ is a thing because it’s the only state which allows the early release of information regarding arrests etc.
Everybody who gets arrested on Kauai gets their name, gender, age, town they reside in, and arresting offense with time of day printed in the local daily newspaper here.
Can be embarrassing.
Just make sure the sandwich makers get equal tv time/pay.
Subway and McDonalds?
Send it back to Greece
And have all athletes take part
In an oiled wrestle
If they hold it anywhere but Typhoon Lagoon they are insane.
I surfed Typhoon Lagoon on a family Disney trip when my kids were little. It was the only part of the trip that I enjoyed.
It’s the only slightly redeeming thing at Disney. The rest is hell on earth.
I will be sure to mention this retard, Patronis in my American obituary.
What the world needs now is a heaping dose of Florida!