2020 Red Bull Rampage Cancelled

 Haha you’re getting downvoted for being hopeful. Stay classy PB.

 @CircusMaximus: I think folks may have missed the sadtire going on here...

 @Sethimus: not proven yet that it comes out of wuhan. The university of barcelona detected the virus in the water already in march 2019. So dont believe everything that orange guy is writing on twitter ????

 @BochyTheKid: how does the orange man write with such small hands? He's probably just mashing the keyboard and that's why he says so much bullshit

 @BochyTheKid:

Lol...some African country found Covid in a mango and a goat. It’s a f*cking scam invented by National Socialist Chyna to take over the world economy.

No wonder you like to suck Chyna cock. It’s in your genes.

 @sumarongi: why so serious? Any cracks in your tinfoil hat?

 @sumarongi: learn to spell, and people might take you more seriously

 Agree, the TrumpVirus has really put a wrench into my european vacation plans

 @cuban-b: and all the Fires caused by weak liberal policies in your state have ruined air quality for millions. Of course you only think of yourself.

 @krumpdancer101: Must be tough being so jealous of the civilized world, so I empathize with your situation. You’ll get back there one day, son.

 @cuban-b: Only if your mom is waiting for me Muah.. hope to see you soon

 @krumpdancer101: you can do better than that

 @cuban-b: I know I know. I was just giving back the same level that I felt I received.

 @krumpdancer101: since we took your jobs, you have nothing to give back. thank you for the offer though. good luck, son!

 @cuban-b: Took my jobs??? Haha any Day you would like to try just let me know. In fact I can send you a practice exam and we can share your results. When would you like to start?

 @krumpdancer101: LoL

 You sound a little owlie.

 Again with you. Is anyone saying Trump right now?

 perhaps if stronger leadership had prevailed the country wouldnt be ripping itself apart from the inside

 @deepstrut: exactly what weve been saying to all the governors of states with the anarchy. No coincidence same governors screwed healthcare workers via CON(certificate of needs) laws.

 we're just watching you guys with a big bowl of popcorn while your little hand orange man tries to act like nothing's happening

 I don't know how anyone can look at trump and not see a deranged, blithering idiot. He can't form a coherent sentence, and at the slightest criticism he cries on Twitter. Fucking Twitter. The President of USA used to be a respected position, and he's turned it into a fucking joke. It's appalling.

 @sfrucian: actually yea, thats why I posted this

 @Bikerdude137: I hope you all can enjoy it, because we aren't. My mom wanted to move to Canada BEFORE the orange was president. I gotta say, whenever we went to Canada everyone was very polite and friendly. You guys have a reputation (at least in my house you do)

 @Clarkeh: Word

 @rosemarywheel: i didn't say all of you are stupid, it's just the large majority of you are and that affects the good people, if you move to Canada at least you won't have an annoying orange for president

 @Bikerdude137: except you will have a more annoying little skinny pale white president

 @owlie: how can anyone be more annoying than Trump?

 @Bikerdude137: yes. Probably not for you, but thats the funny part.

 @owlie: how did you manage to answer yes to that?

 @Clarkeh: So vote Biden. He's 100% coherent. Dog faced pony soldier

 @Bikerdude137: I think its hilarious people get so worked up "Orange man bad". Meanwhile he's laughing too while killin it.buttercup comes to mind.
Many more annoying people.
Cuomo.
Schiff
Pelosi
Trudeau
*.*Kardashian
Anyone in hollywood with a twitter account.

 @owlie: you make a point with the more annoying people but he's still the dumbest person to become president which just shows the majority of the people in the us are idiots considering they chose him...

 @Bikerdude137: How’s your leaders blackface doing??? Hhhmmmmm and after it came out you all voted for him to remain in Office. Sounds like hypocrites as usual from the Maple Leaf.

 @krumpdancer101: you guys have Donald Trump as a president, until that changes you can shut up

 @Bikerdude137: sure blackface...

 @owlie: At the time of posting, there were 3 mentions of trump. One of them was mine.

 @owlie: I feel you bro. I empathize with your situation and am able to see your perspective, but your unconditional defense of the President is a bit concerning in terms of being worked up. I want to understand your stance - can you explain where the strong defense of the President comes from? (most of this is just joking around)

 @owlie: I'm not American, I obviously won't be voting... but you don't need to compare him to anyone to see tha, he is an absolute train wreck. Not compared to Biden, not Obama, not Bush, not anyone, but as you would judge any person you meet by your own code of ethics and what you feel is right, to see that as a person, Donald Trump is a lying, narcissistic piece of shit that would sell out the entire american population to make a few bucks any day of the week.

 @Clarkeh: funny you say this since your Prime Minister has been pushing harder and harder for the abortion bills to kill children with Down syndrome and other birth defects all the way up to birth. Guess that’s why you hate Trump since he believes “All Lives Matter”

 @krumpdancer101: Was that sarcasm? trump doesn't give a shit about anyone except himself. It's an embarrassment to everyone that he got as far as he did. Almost makes me think it would be possible for myself to become president except: 1) I am not good at lying, and 2) it seems like america isn't interested in having decent people as there leaders right now.

 @rosemarywheel: it’s funny when people talk about how they think they could be president. I guarantee your work ethic isn’t strong enough. Also hate to break it to you but not as many people like you as Trump. Why don’t you start with your local leader ship if you want to change things. The Seattle mayor is one you could work on. Even the governor of your state is a joke.

 @Bikerdude137: Oh, I did not think you called any of us stupid. All good there.

 @krumpdancer101: No, I DON'T want to be president ever. And I did not mean that I thought I would ever get enough votes. It was just that if someone who is that inappropriate with his words and actions, towards woman and their bodies, and people of color, minorities in general, and says whatever the hell he wants with no regard to whether or not it's true can become the 'leader' of the U.S., why can't a country boy who definitely gives a damn about the the lives of all people and the environment we live in (not to mention he can barely spell) do a better job? He is not a good human.

Also, please elaborate on Inslee. I have only watched a couple of his Covid announcement's, but it looks to me like he is making a bunch of unpopular decisions that absolutely have to be made to keep people healthy.

One last thing... by your comments so far I am pretty sure you and I won't agree on much anyway, but then again, you are 21 years older than me. I just want a leader who:

Treats everyone with respect, regardless of there skin color (it's just a difference in Melanin) or there gender, or where they were born, or who they love, or there education.

Does there best to make life as good as possible for every citizen of the U.S. (this is a huge category) Food, healthcare, schools, etc,.

Pretty much if I were president I would try to make every choice I made to go towards increasing the quality of life for everyone. And the huge Companies that rule the world need to do a lot more than just make money selling crap that people don't need.

 @rosemarywheel: yeah, i wasn't calling you stupid, i was saying that sadly most of America is..m

 @rosemarywheel: *.

 @rosemarywheel: just do research listen to people with a open mind that you normally wouldn’t and educate yourself. I am from a democratic household grew up a Democrat voted Democrat many many times and voted for Obama twice. Don’t let a party hold you captive.

It’s funny when I was voting for all those Democrats for all those years I was doing the right thing and now that I voted for Trump I am suddenly a racist, white supremacist or something along those lines LOL. So am I still all of those things if I vote for Biden this year?

I definitely am not a conservative but I know I’m also not a liberal a Marxist or democratic socialist. I don’t sit and blame people for their views but I definitely don’t shy away from asking you about them and if you have thought it all the way through. Just like I would want somebody to give me their side of the situation so I could see the whole story and create my own thought. When people just start screaming orange man bad, he’s a racist, he’s a bigot, he’s a...these are all lines provided to you by media and honestly make you sound brainwashed. I’m sure you could think of a more coherent statement than what the media provides you.

As far as Inslee goes he is a disgrace for what he let go on in Seattle. Again I am not a conservative but just ask yourself if a group of pro life demonstrators took over six blocks of the city, burned the police station to the ground would they have let it continue? Again don’t let your emotions pull you just ask yourself if you think that is right for the people that had nothing to do with any of it and lost their businesses and houses cause of it.

 @krumpdancer101: Good! I will write a longer reply later, but have stuff to do right now... thanks for a thoughtful, well-written statement. i like it.

 It's funny how nobody acknowledges that the the current state of affairs IS Trump's America. It's been 4 years. This is what you voted for. Saying 'it could be worse that this!' is ridiculous. This is already the worst it's ever been. '"Keep America completely F'd" is really what the McDonald Trump machine is offering.

If you are in a solidly-Blue state don't waste your vote on Biden - he's already got the electoral vote. Vote green party and help Dr. Pepper get to 5% and a funded $pot in the fridge with Coke and Pepsi. Red and Blue are 2 cheeks of the same ass. This is not a democracy.

 @krumpdancer101:
@rosemarywheel:

If you Continue to hold reasoned, civil and constructive conversation you will be liable for moderation.

 @Dropthedebt: Thanks, Mate! I am actually kinda liking this guy (@krumpdancer) (You too, though)

 @endlessblockades: it’s funny you say all this because you know that there are federal powers and state powers correct? The favorite thing of a liberal to say is Trump is not king and guess what you’re right he’s not. He cannot go into a state and in force powers on that state. So if you look the actual chaos that is going on is actually being caused by Democratic leaders. Would you like to start with the economy or with the violence? The economy is shut down in states that are blue. Just look what’s going on. You have the mayor of Chicago and the The speaker of the house going to get their hair done forcing salons to open to do their hair but won’t let any open to do anyone else’s hair. Where is the liberals with their Me2 movement and women’s rights? In Michigan the governor there had all beaches all parks and all outdoor activities restricted but her husband called in on the holiday to request his boat be put in the water so that they could go out on the lake??

Also as far as the violence that’s also in democratic states and cities. Just look at Oregon The governor is so hardheaded and doesn’t want to ask for federal help that she reached out to several different counties that are democratic to help with policing the riots in Portland and they all turned her down saying that her policies would endanger their officers and now they are attacking the Mayors house who is on there side.

Ahhh let me guess all of this is because of COVID-19 right?

 @Dropthedebt: never scared

 @krumpdancer101:

I'm not a Liberal. I did get pepper-balled at the Fed courthouse in Portland on July 27th just to see what was really going on. Violence is done to human beings not buildings/institutions despite what the scare-media wants you to believe.

But I guess Trump's solution to global warming-accelerated wildfires is for CA to do a better job 'raking up the leaves' because we've let our forest get too messy.

 @endlessblockades: here is the list put out by the Portland Police Department on what was done during the riot at the mayors house the other night.

– Broke into business, ignited bundle of newspapers to start fire inside the business.
– Above that business was an apartment building where people lived.
– Broke into dental office stealing dental equipment
– Used chair from vandalized dental office to set afire on street
– Used picnic table from neighboring restaurant to start a street fire
– Vandalized messages everywhere “Cops and Klan go hand in hand” and “ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards)”.
And that was not put out by the scare media but by the local police.

So what about the light rail in California? Billions spent, a second gas tax was added to fund it and now you just have dormant concrete structures as you head out east in California with no intention of ever finishing it. What about the Oroville dam that collapsed when a big rain storm hit? How about the extreme energy cost? That’s because they have to buy coal and nuclear energy from energy plants out of state because the green energy plants don’t make enough energy to support the states energy use. California is going down the drain quick. That’s why you all have lawmakers that are trying to scramble and create laws that will be able to tax people for 10 years after they have left the state. If you don’t believe me just look it up the legislation has been brought forward already.

 @krumpdancer101:

HAHA damn, you let Team Liberal CA really get under your skin! This isn't pro sports and you're not a player on Team Oregon or PNW Moderate FC or Republican United, are you?. I love Oregon and the money I made down here in the 5th largest economy in the world spends well in your beautiful state. What you don't see is that this is all a distraction. You are allowing yourself to be polarized by the game the Bossman is playing. Keep us infighting while they enrich their own interests. It reminds me of what the Christian Conquistadors did to the Caribbean natives with their 'God' tool . In the paraphrased words of a Jamaican: "they pointed to to the sky and told us to look at their god while they stole the land from under our feet"

P.S. All the vandalizing on your list sounds good to me. Those poor dentists and their offices. Team PDX scored.

 @endlessblockades: Wow you are now quoting conquistadors and Jamaicans LMAO. Perhaps you know some of the quotes Castro gave his people before he destroyed their country and murdered millions of his own people?

So if setting the first floor of a building on fire that house’s innocent people to get one person is OK then you are also saying that gassing a crowd of peaceful protesters to get the one non-peaceful demonstrator is ok? Just saying

 @krumpdancer101: HAHA I don't know if it was even called Jamaica and I was 'paraphrasing'. Not a fan of Fidel or ChÉ either. I was peaceful and I enjoyed being gassed. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to post my 'riot' videos here on PB. It's good to get outside and ride your bike or shout at the Feds instead of screaming at Hannity or Lemon like they want us to. I don't understand your burning building analogy, but I'm not advocating personal violence of any kind. Notice that the press has trained us to refer to vandalism and property damage as 'violence'. I think the word is wrongly defined and misused.

Remember: 1. Don't eat the 'food' - it is designed to keep you sick. Monsanto sells the seeds and the pills you need to keep living but buy the food and the pills until you die. "Next Customer!"

 @endlessblockades: hey I totally agree with you as a person who has also personally experienced police violence and was shoved to the ground with a loaded gun pointed to the back of my head and told not to move all over some pot so I can totally understand the want to release some energy and feelings towards the other side. I was gassed also. Marine Corps 99 at Paris Island. Got to spend about 5 min doing push-ups and running in place in the gas chamber. Guess I talked back to much.
So if someone cuts your brake lines or sets a apartment building on fire there is no violence in that? What if you crash and are paralyzed or you burn to death? That’s just property damage? In the words of Biden Come on man.

 @krumpdancer101:

No, people could be directly impacted in those scenarios, so that's different. I saw some small cardboard fires and low-grade roman candles fired at a heavily-fortified stone federal building. Then the hyper-militarized, Mossad-trained (thanks, Biden) feds and 'police' forces would pop out and fire on the crowd. That part was pretty violent.

 @endlessblockades: Wow. This whole conversation is way over my head. It is very educational. So to change the subject... what do both of you eloquent people think about the options for the presidency? do either of you feel there needs to be more than two party's to choose from? I registered as a Democrat, but I did not want to. Both party's seem like power-hungry $#!t-stirrers by now.

And by all means continue to debate (or argue if that's what this is) I appreciate that you are both more educated on the matters at hand than I am, and you'r both definitely smarter than me. I usually feel my way through situation's not think. Which would explain some of the stupid things I have said on PB during these Hot-button discussions on certain pinkbike articles. But I wouldn't mind knowing both of you. RoseMaryWheel

 @rosemarywheel:

I am registered with the basically dysfunctional Green Party. This is a global party and has had more success in the EU historically and is not very well known in North America. I copy -n- pasted the below info but the embedded links don't work. Google em if interested. If they could somehow reach 5% of the popular vote in a presidential election, the $ystem would be forced to give them the funding we taxpayers give to the Dems and Repubs and a seat at the table as a 3rd party. They usually get around 1-3%. The Dems will say "you are stealing our votes!" I say F that.



"Welcome to the Green Party of the United States (GPUS), an independent political party that is connected to American social movements, and is part of a global Green movement that shares key values, including our Four Pillars: Peace and Non-Violence, Ecological Wisdom, Grassroots Democracy, and Social Justice, and our Ten Key Values.


We are a federation of state parties. We have a presence in most states. Find your state party here.


Currently we have more than 100 elected officials around the country, mostly at the municipal level, working to enact Green policies. We run many candidates who put Green issues on the table in elections at every level.


We don’t take corporate money. We are working to build clean government that works for all of us – not just the 1%. We are fighting for the future.


Learn more about why a third party is necessary, how we need to fix our political system, and the issues we're fighting for.


Don't forget to sign up and join the fight."

 @endlessblockades: So far it sounds like a good idea. Personally I do not care how someone registered to vote (it's just another label) so long as they are a decent human. Trump is not a good human, but I know some lovely people who registered as republicans and voted orange. I still like 'em, and they are both really sweet. But should not the fact that he has married three younger supermodels in a row regardless of the age difference, and cheated on 2(?) of them while he was still married kinda tip people off he is a self absorbed cretin? and that's just his marriage situation.

 @krumpdancer101: Hi K, I know the media likes to call him racist. You ask me to think about things with a clear mind and make my own decisions. So how about this:

Trump wanted to build a physical wall across the Mexican/US border to keep out illegal refugees/emigrants, and 'Mexican rapists'. Bullshit. My dad said (and correct me if you believe this to be untrue) that someone started something like a go fund me and it raised millions. Enough people believe this guy they were willing to put up another Berlin wall to keep out a whole country? Wow. He said they take american jobs.

When trump gets off his rather large posterior and goes and works all day for most likely less than minimum wage picking bell peppers in the blazing sun because all the actual americans don't want to do that sort of work... wait. He decided the white house wasn't good enough for him and apparently spends more time in one of his mansions. he would never be seen in a field picking actual food.
Surrounded by actual real, live dirt. Especially a field that Mexican laborers touched. The only dirt he ever touches is the dirt that sits below his manicured golf courses.

Enough of that. I am blathering on. My point is some people say "oh, everyone just repeats what the media says" and you are right. And I do. You could say almost anything about his character and find something he said or did that makes it true. Except kindness, respect, humility, decency and care. Leave that to us mortals. His actions and words are racist.

Oh, and I am not religious, I do not believe in any gods or anything. But I believe in humans, and think we can together do great things. But only if we set aside our differences and find shared values and purpose.

I kinda wonder if you, I and @Endlessblockades should take this conversation to a political forum and start our own little thread. We can come up with an ever-growing list of hot-button topics and each pretend we were allowed to make up definite rules about the law about these things, and then discuss why we think this should be done why. It will definitely be good for my young neurons.

 @rosemarywheel: A lot of politicians have cheated on their wives. You do know Joe Biden‘s wife cheated on her husband with Joe Biden and then left her husband while married to him for Joe Biden right? Also the department of homeland security was just recently sued so they could release the situation that happened between Joe Biden and a secret service agents wife. The story was buried and now is being released and you can look it up. A lot of secret service agents filed complaints on him groping their wives during pictures. One of the biggest womanizers ever in the White House was John F Kennedy who was a Democrat and then you also had Bill Clinton who was a Democrat but people flock to them and don’t say they’re bad at all. Again you’ve got to do more research and see through the gray fog that is presented to you.
As far as the immigration situation goes ask your dad who built the cages that they now blame Trump for putting kids in. You do know the cages were built under Obama, his department of homeland security secretary has come out and stated they were built under Obama and the actual law of taking kids away from their parents when they crossed the border was actually established under Obama and cancelled by Trump when he caught slack for using the law. Trump just used what he was given. All of this is not me agreeing with Trump these are facts that are able to be researched and so that’s why I say don’t just get all your eggs from one basket. There is definitely many other opinions, facts and actual truths out there then what is presented. You and I probably won’t ever agree on immigration which is fine because we need different thoughts out there in the world. I probably see it from a different light than you do.
So if someone never worked in a field then they can’t lead?? Would love to see Biden&Obama out there!!! You do know Biden has been a political figure for almost 3 times your age?? If he was so great what has he done. I bet you could name more things the news has told you not to like about Trump in 3 years than anything positive Biden has done for 50!!

 @krumpdancer101: DDS

 @krumpdancer101: I don't think Biden or Trump is great at all. To be honest they can both stuff it. Personally I want more choices than the two current Party's give us. Heck, even if there were two people on each side to vote for, at least we would have twice as many options. And I meant about the Trump in a field thing was that he shouldn't rile people up about others 'stealing our job's' because 1) he probably never has done hard manual labor like that, and 2) most americans don't care who picks there food so long as it looks good and is cheap. So if he wants to whine about that, he can go be a farm laborer (earning possibly less than minimum wage)t o support himself and when someone from mexico comes and does the same job better and he gets fired then he can shout about it all he wants.

I did not know those things about Obama. Just goes to show all Politicians suck.

 The thing is that both of those things could kill you, but you can only control one...

 Travel in to Mexico is completely open. Travel into the US is open for the most part. Guys getting home is the bigger problem. Especially Canadians. Country is completely closed except for citizens returning home... which they would be. Europes restrictions are similar to the US. Essentially it really shouldn't be a huge deal to travel. You'd just have to be willing to fly out a little earlier than normal to go through the testing process. And then quarantine when you get home... even though it's voluntary in most places right now.

 Odd. If F1, supercross, ufc, baseball, nba, football can do it...

 @jrocksdh: I don't think the Rampage teams are making anywhere near the kind of money the people in those sports are making.

 @slovenian6474: he’s talking about logistics

 @onemanarmy: Right. I am too. I'm saying the logistic problems are more worth solving when there's a lot more money involved. Rampage pulls in a lot less money than F1 or baseball.

 @slovenian6474: it’s Red Bull’s number 1 most viewed event.

 @onemanarmy: Right, but for example the NBA poured like 150 million into their pandemic village. It works, but that's what it costs.

 sorry to say, but nobody wants to touch the garbage fire thats going on inside your country with a 10 foot poll... its not just the pandemic. its everything MURICA all happening at once. ...but mostly the pandemic.

 @sfrucian: true. But there’s a crap ton more people involved and way more travel with the nba.

How is the ews handling it? Serious question by the way.

Curious if athlete exemptions would work.

 @jrocksdh: Baseball, nba, football can do it because the players are already here and they live here... and they don't need to fly back to other countries.

 @billreilly: there’s 108 foreign players in the nba. Over 25 percent of the mlb is foreign. NFL I think it’s around 45.

 @sfrucian: ews event?

 @jrocksdh: lol people just downvoting to downvote now. Soft.

Yes... ews. Enduro World Series. There’s also cross country and dh events happening.

 it is happening. some 140,000 americans have died that didn't have to. don't be blind to it.

 @adrennan: almost 185k

 @DHhack: I stand corrected.

 @DHhack:+ Many more unreported. We don't want Utah to become the next Iowa, so that is good for my Utah brothers and sisters. A bunch of Euro-snifflers they don't need right now.

 @adrennan: the irony is foxnews still has the counter on their front page.