“It doesn’t bring out the best surfing.”
The Battle for Los Angeles ’28 was a turn few saw coming. The City of Angels was awarded the Olympic Games in 2017 though the initial thrill quickly gave way to pitched partisanship. Namely, where would the surfing portion be contested? Lemoore, California attempted to throw its CAT hat into the ring but it was quickly yuck-yuck’d by International Surfing Association leader Fernando Aguerre. Hawaii was floated except not seriously, which left San Clemente and Huntington Beach.
Supporters of each burgh dug right in, attempting to win the nod with Huntington Beach emerging as the early betting favorite. Alas, Surf City backers had no idea that San Clemente had a plant in the planning committee’s war room, resident of Lower Trestles and former CEO of USA Surfing Greg Cruse.
The Mickey Rooney doppelgänger sat down with the San Clemente Times, recently, sharing how he pushed the Spanish Village by the Sea over the line, praising its assets, before breaking out a blowtorch and burning Huntington Beach to the ground.
“In late July and early August (the Olympic window), Huntington is either flat or you’re dealing with sweeping south swells that wall up through the pier,” Cruse maliciously shared, continuing, “It doesn’t bring out the best surfing.”
Wow.
Necessary, you think, to go scorched earth after victory has already been achieved?
Cruse continued roasting the rubble by adding, “Almost every surfer I spoke with wanted it here (at Lowers). This is where they train. This is the wave that raised them.”
Burn baby burn.
The plan, as it is now, is to provide room for 4000 spectators and rope off snowy plover nests.
Very cool.
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They shoulda had it in Hawaii, or Santa Cruz, the REAL Surf City.
no use of the word scathing , it could have been appropriate
I have only heard recently that the 2028 Olympic Surfing event will NOT BE HELD IN HUNTINGTON BEACH very shocking? In addition there has been no push back from HB Leadership in trying to have the decesion reconsidered. This could bring millions to HB but it seems that your leadership is more focused on what flags are raised at City Hall than bringing in revenue for the city and its businesses. Seems very sad and pathetic.
I’m embarrassed for our city. These new city council members are the worst. They’ve brought Huntington Beach down to its lowest level since the beach riots back in the day. I just pray that they are ousted in the next election.
I agree with Cruse. Huntington Beach starts picking up from October into the winter, things get much better, it’s never been that great in the summers.
Events like the “OP Pro” or WCT Events in the summer, never gave it justice.
Having it in San Clemente instead, makes more sense.
Huntington Beach can draw a bigger crowd and provide better optics, but wave wise, no.
Never understood why they call Huntington Beach “surf city”, there’s way more waves per capita in places like Santa Cruz and San Clemente, ALL year around.
Shaka! MS
Shoulda considered the Real Surf City
Santa Cruz 🫣
Way more options up here, but all those angry college students and all the techies buying up the land, ruined things forever…
They should do it in Blacks — better waves and a nude beach — everybody wins!!
Heck yeah!
Blacks needs W to NW to break best.
Scott Bass once wrote a peer reviewed essay on locals and how they are defined. In this essay he brilliantly weaved the image of a groms pubic hairs into one of his definitions.
Thanks for the write up Chas! Almost as good as the autographed copy of “Reports From Hell” I am currently reading! Don’t really see the Mickey Rooney resemblance but as I have aged I have been compared to Steve McQueen, then Drew Kerry and now unfortunately . . . William Frawley. Beauty fades but sarcasm is forever! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
UhmYou’ve always looked like william Frawley
I reckon he’d do a better job as Mayor
scott’s mum?
Sofie has a plan. Elo has poopoo touch. WSL has nothing anyone wants…
Allusions to Huntington Beach burning is always a turn on.
Everyone knows that it’s the Olympics that bring the best out of surfing. The games could be here there or everywhere and they will be awesome. No matter what.
Huntington is basically Riverside/909 by the beach.
It’s Pismo Beach on really bad steroids.
Hey, don’t diss Huntington Beach, Surf City.
Good luck.
Everyone knows the host city loses money no matter what, which is why I used all caps to emphasize “SO MUCH MONEY $$$$$” part cause it’s going to go well beyond normal expected loses
I wish you well in your endeavors
LA made money in ’84.
Teahupo – Tahiti – French Polinesia- PARIS GAMES
Pipeline – Hawaii – ‘American polinesia’ – LA GAMES
Yeah, Pipe is really good in August for people like you. You should go.
got one for ya Barreled.
mid 90’s, early July
woke up early, walked out on my lanai and there it was: pipe going off 6-8 ft. solid
no one out. grabbed the board paddled out and was joined by a few of my neighbors.
about 10 of us on it for the first hour.
Rare, but it does happen
Ya, I am fully aware it happens. Ho’okipa gets good in summer too. Just wouldn’t recommend hanging your hat on it. Indo goes off in off season too but hanging for months on end to get a few days of epic waves ain’t for everyone.
South shore then.
Plenty of waves.
Forgot about this detail… love you too.
Pip loves pipe in the summer.
Bowls would be the call.
Can you imagine the LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS signage in Hawaii?
Not for long.
is Hawaii and SoCal…maga??
Socal yes, Hawaii not so much
Southern California is not MAGA. Orange County leans conservative but the rest is fairly left leaning.
Will 16 year old girl spectators in bikinis be able to walk around with “I suck dick” written in lipstick on their chests? If not they should switch back to HB.
Cell phones have ruined so much fun
You’re missing the point. That was just a segue and setup to blame everything on Bass and Newsome. Now you ruined it so Otto is going to take his ball and go to Tower 9.
So the buck doesn’t stop with them?
I neither know nor care. Politicians take no accountability for anything. But…if we are talking about where the buck stops in the US, I would venture to guess Trump holds that title at the moment.
Olympics and politics are too intertwined to ignore.
Trump is doing a great job.
How great is it to see that Milwaukee County Circuit judge who harbored an illegal get arrested by the FBI? Like Dems always like to say, “no one is above the law”. FAFO
Get your misinfo straight. The New Mexco Judge was harboring. The Milkwaukee judge was trying to conduct a trial.
When she stuffed that illegal in the jury room, that’s harboring.
She also illegally changed court documents to blind what would otherwise be open to the public.
And as for that New Mexico clown, yes, harboring too, but then the guns….and gun ranges. I’ve heard of take your kid to work day, but take your harbored TdA gang member to the shooting range day is something else
All hearsay until a trail is given.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
If the left was doing any of this, Otto would be shooting people in the streets.
but would it be the fed or the states that pay for the bullets?
Wow. The Left were already locking up US Citizens in a DC gulag, and instead of “shooting people in the streets” as you pronounce with such libelous gusto, instead I was here correcting you
Yeah, we’re going to do away with that as well. The records of the debate concerning that Amendment clearly, and unequivocally prove it was never intended to roll out the welcome mat for anchor babies. Never. The record is clear.
Orders for removal are Final Otders
Of course you would advocate for the destruction of the constitution. Hypocricsy at its finest.
He is the ultimate traitor to the US. Wishes death upon fellow citizens. Next level POS above Callahan.
How old are you?
Old enough to know you regularly act like a petulant child.
No wonder you didn’t want to show up at Tower 9.
Fact is, Congressional records thoroughly and unavoidably show the Framers did not intend the 14th Amendment to apply to illegal alien pregnant women waddling over the border to give birth to children just for the sake of citizenship, and the ability to ship in th rest of their extended family. No. They neither envisioned such,.nor would approve such. It was ONLY about slaves and the birthright of their children. Not like I expect you to care about blacks.
As a Constitutional Originalist, my interpretation is completely consistent with their intent and foresight.
Why should we risk national security allowing Chinese nationals women who are pregnant to fly into this Country, give birth, claim poverty, stick us with the medical bill, and return home so their future non loyal family can then run around here up to all sorts of no good? You’re simple minded. This shit is happening. Every fucking day.
Haven’t seen disloyalty like this since your hero FDR stuck a bunch a Japanese Americans in internment camps. FDR didn’t know loyalty, and neither do you
Birthright citizenship is the norm in the new world. Based on what the famers said trump was disqualified from being president. So much for what the framers said Blotto.
Wrong. Wrong. and Wrong.
Can’t wait to read your explanation.
bring it
You are a waste of time and enegery but feel free to read more about here.
https://constitution.congre…
It was applied to the slaves who were captured and brought to America back in the day.
Looks like your mother dropped you on your head as a child
Yup, 14th amendment to the constitution. It was enacted to protect the slaves.
FBI arrests a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities.~AP
….but you’re also correct. the New Mexico judge and his wife got arrested as well. FAFO incoming.
Harbor def:
verb gerund or present participle: harboring:
shelter or hide (a criminal or wanted person).
The Milwaukee judge didnt hide anyone though. Multiple parties and agencies were there that attested to it. Everyone has a right to a trial….
from the same AP article:
She faces charges of “concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest” and obstructing or impeding a proceeding.
call it what you want. play semantics.concealing, sheltering, harboring, hiding evading? all the same to the Feds.
you guys can never admit when you’re wrong. She tried to hide him and attempted to enable his escape from the Feds.
and fortunately for her, she will get a trial….in Federal Court.
Honestly based on the size of the judge, she should have just hid him under her gown. He would have never been found.
That is not even what I am trying to say. The point is the guy was literally at his court case. He lost his due process; which is protected by the constitution.
donuts have holes
just like your logic. full of em
He didn’t lose his due process. He has a final removal order. That’s his due process. Has nothing to do with his criminal case.
The courts decide his removal not ICE. You really ought to get out and learn more.
:An immigration court of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hears the related case.
If a judge rules that the deportation should proceed, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carries out a removal order.” – usa.gov
https://www.usa.gov/deporta….
He already had a removal order. He wasn’t at that court for deportation proceedings
how’s the negotiations between trump and China? He’s doing a great job empowering China , which will be his downfall as business’s shut in the USA/workers lose their jobs/investors won’t invest and trump keeps making shit up…like “I have spoken with Xi about negotiations on tarifs….” china says they haven’t spoken to him and just cancelled all pork imports from the USA and there will not be rare earth mineral magnets for the USA now……wonderful how he is now saying he might have to tax the rich and extra 2 % , but the poor american public is being taxed everywhere with the tariffs…..who cares about the smoke and mirrors of an innocent judge…..when the big picture is a downward spiral?
if it all ends up with the demise of bunnings and woolworths then im a supporter , fuck globalization ,one world politics and the push to a cashless society.
so the USA pushed globalization…now it’s nationalism…..so how much of a lifestyle/wages cut will you support?
Xi already blinked.
today China cancelled all pork imports from the USA, and doubled down that there will be no more rare earth minerals/magnets for the USA for at least 6 mths….musk alreay came out a said that without magnets his robotics projects are dead in the water……it is not in China’s interest now to negotiate a reduction in tariffs as they control the big game and don blinked , china doubled down!
China owns most of the main pork processors in the USA
so what does that mean?
The biggest problem again is that trump has said Xi called donny…he didn’t, don lied again and there are currently NO negotiations between the USA and China…..
We have our own rare earths here in the Mojave desert. But the environmental nazis don’t want it to happen. You might hurt some plants or some endangered pollywog that only comes out when it rains.
that’s an internal USA problem ..meanwhile in the next couple of years ……if there are no rare earth minerals delivered from China…this will shut down the USA’s manufacturing industry especially military……that’s a fact, so what can the USA do without cars/planes/drones etc……???
more bacon for us, less Moo Shu for China….and now we get to open our REE mines.
part of The Presidents tax plan is eliminating income tax for people that make less than $150k per year, but you know the Dems in congress gonna fight that one. much gnashing of Nancy’s dentures
hahahahaha https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1915873388599390251
he’s the laughingstock of the planet
Both Bass and Gruesome Newsom are scum.
Cruse isn’t wrong. How many US Opens at HB in Aug have featured marginal waves?
And they call that place “Surf City”? What a joke.
Well HB does have a very eclectic population of locals, so surely that is worth something?
Bass drum, snare drum, then symbol!!!!
Los Angeles is going to lose SO MUCH MONEY $$$$$ on these LA28 Olympic Games
Otto I’m worried you’re hopeful the Dems ruining LA will lose taxpayer money on the Olympics. Tell us this isn’t the case or for your penance I’d ask you to hand out some McDonalds gift cards to the homeless at the 405 and Santa Monica Blvd
Mayor Bass: “What homeless?! I don’t see no homeless!”
Homeless man in the wilderness: “Mayor Bass said she’d go Biblical on us if we didn’t roam the wilderness for 40 days.”
Keep this a secret from Bass but a car salesman told me to be careful pulling out of their dealership on Santa Monica Blvd as I might run over a homeless person napping on their driveway
Karen Bass is disgraceful.
She looks like someone’s stool, with a wig on.
Dems ran the 84 games and did a pretty good job
Yes they did, now look at the fiscal disaster in LA and CA.
LA actually turned a profit for the 1984 Olympics, I believe.
That was a great Olympics. But, LA faces many more hurdles this time around. We all saw the expense San Francisco incurred to make parts of that city inhabitable by others besides zombies and criminals when their communist friends from the CCP visited. Now multiply that by a few hundred. Enhanced security even more money. Beyond the usual. Way fucking beyond. It’s going to be a budgetary bloodbath
Increased Gas tax incoming !
otto FFS , “budgetary bloodbath”……your whole country is currently experiencing a B B …..wouldn’t be worried about the Olympics in 2 years time……what will the USA look like?
It already looks better than it did since November 2024
Otto , not sure where you get your daily economic/political information from but reality/facts are showing since Nov 2024…..
1) trumps popularity is now plummeting as is the USA’s
2) Inflation is going up again
3) unemployment is now trending upwards
4) USA manufacturing down for the 1st 1/4
5) small business’s are shutting as they need parts etc from china
6) USA’s cost of living up 2.6% .
7) china now calling out dons bluff on tariffs , and don /usa will now have to bend the knee to Xi as he’s holding all the cards against the worlds weakest strong boy……
ah yep everything is better for a minority , maybe that’s you Otto?
Whatever you say Komrade…🤭🙄🤨
not me mr maga , just the facts and not the nonsense that comes out of the USA’s admin
A vote for Trump is a “Falk You” to the Establishment. Can’t stand politics, but the daily meltdowns are awfully entertaining.
until the entertainment affects your life in a negative way…….which for a lot of us has already happening!
Nah, it will all pass. Just like Biden’s clown show, it passed too.
economically the USA/World will survive, but we will all have to take lifestyle cut……Biden actually increased USA manufacturing, killed inflation and left a very strong economy for donny……in 4 mths it’s all been unraveled with the idea tariffs are not a tax on the people….now the rise of china at the USA’s expense……all proven by the stats!
LOL dude trump is the establishment, that you think he isn’t is revealing
When Trump won this recent election, I had this sort of happy, warm fuzzy feeling inside of me….
that’s what she said!
True, I quoted your mom. Now, enjoy the next 3+ years, I’ll see you at the wax museum..
You’re not Wrong there Mate! 😉
I remember going to those Olympics. It was an amazing experience.