The Republican nominee performs in Costa Mesa! Town raises hell!
Ever been to Costa Mesa, the modest neighbor just inland of Newport Beach? It’s not too terrible of a destination. Plenty affordable Orange County standards and just up the hill from the playful peaks of 54th st.
The hip thrive in Costa Mesa. What Youth operates here, and The Growlers, (a popular psychedelic-surf-rock-band with a tendency to write songs that sound the same), call the area home as well. Their combined residencies attribute to Costa Mesa’s aesthetic of cool. Lots of black denim cuffed at the ankles here and as displayed on national television, a deep burning anger for Donald Trump.
Trump held his rally at the Orange County Fairgrounds last Thursday night, predictable, as the O.C is a conservative stronghold. Thousands came to hear him talk Muslims and Mexicans, but Costa Mesa’s Millennials and Latinos were also there… to raise hell.
As the right wing were entranced by Donald in the fair ground’s amphitheater, pissed-off youth paced the parking lot drinking beer and spray painting, “Fuck Trump” on the street. Mexican flags waved alongside American ones in protest of Trump’s wall and plans for large-scale deportation.
Innocent at that point, but then things got ugly. Traffic was halted, rocks were thrown and the roof in of a police cruiser was stomped.
Seventeen violent protesters were arrested. Right? Wrong? You can’t fight Trump like animals and give the fearful a reason to be so, that only plays into his hands. Peaceful protest and increase in voter registration, that’s the only route to curb the madness.
So how does this qualify as surf news?
Well, we’re in luck for Ryan Croteau, a semi-professional surfer who calls Newport home, was amongst the riot. In a video posted on his Instagram, he shakily films the precise moment when a wave of protesters crash against police forces. An innocent bystander can be heard saying, “Here it goes, we are about to get rubber bulleted”.
Ryan responds, “This is getting sketchy dude, let’s get out of here.”
As Ryan reflected afterwards, “Seen a lot of Trump rally videos but this was insane. Being in the center of this was just nuts. The tension was crazy. Seeing this gives you a real eerie feeling that we could all be doomed.”
What do you think?
Do you agree with Ryan Croteau that the US is doomed under Donald’s reign?
Will his racial rhetoric cause a race war? Or is the war already underway given the left’s obsession with race? So much irony!
Will this be the year, as Hunter S. Thompson wrote, that “we finally come face to face with ourselves, finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable?”
The amount of misinformation being spread by the media is sickening. How can the party that preaches tolerance, open-mindedness, peace and love be the ones committing the violence? Check out Stefan Molyneux’s videos on YouTube, the UNtruth about Trump. It’s a 2 part vid and I know most here won’t balance the hundreds of hours being programmed to hate Trump with 2 hours of the opposite side, but hell, give it a chance.
because it’s easy just to jump a plane from California and hit it, right? And, really, because nobody knows there’s waves in NZ, despite that whole Endless Summer thing, right?
make sure a good pair of gumboots is in there
Take a healthy quiver – small wave groveller, all-rounder and a decent step up for the Catlins and Dunnos back beaches. West Coast is worth a squirt as well. See if Negatron will let you stay with him in Westport.
Feel like I’m reading a “Mad Libs” that one of you guys wrote and this guy filled in the blanks.
bernie 4 prez
Insert Ryan Croteau for Ahab and Donald Trump for Moby Dick
“All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.” – Herman Melville –
Semi-pro surfer…hahaha. This aint 1998 buddy, that species is extinct
I must say all the potential candidates are worthless but it would be better to have Trump rather than Hilary/ Sanders. I don’t know about you but I want to maintain my freedom, have money in the bank and keep my guns to protect my family against those crazy lunatics and Islamic Terrorists out there. If you do some research on the these mass shooters that have occurred over the years you will find that they were both Non NRA members as well as registered Democrats.
Is this an attempt at parody?
I agree , I think Trump will actually build a wall around the USA , everyone will become billionaires , ISIS and those Crazy Lunatics will not get over the wall , and then you could use all the guns to shoot democrats , so the American dream will be achieved in 4 years , then we will all be safe ….big balls and bigger walls!!
I thought we agreed to stop letting jake write articles about his friends.
This is the worst writing and story coverage Beach Grit has published yet. “The left’s obsession with race” is something Drumpf would say. Then you quote Hunter S. in an attempt to be versatile. Jake your not dynamic with your writing, you just lack basic understanding. Please don’t make me go back to Stab, MORE R.PARKER.
*you’re
So Ryan crouto is my favorite surfer now? Tell me he does fugazi covers and we’ve got a deal.
Trump 2016!!! If the hipsters are against it, I’m in. It’s the easiest way to stay ahead of the trend.
I heard New Zealand is nice.
oh no, can’t go there mr longtom. didn’t australian politician peter dutton point out it is too nice? can’t have people thinking they can go there and live the good life life, like those refugees and stuff. better to let them die in concentration camps. trump would love that guy. scum one and scum two.
“This is getting sketchy dude, let’s get out of here.”
people en-masse rise against dictators and oppressors. a scuffle in a carpark and an OC duuuuuude thinks the world is ending?
“left’s obsession with race”
people getting shot with non-rubber bullets or being subject to symbolic violence because of their ‘race’ is racial obsession, duuuuuude.
“You can’t fight Trump like animals and give the fearful a reason to be so, that only plays into his hands. Peaceful protest and increase in voter registration, that’s the only route to curb the madness.”
lmao – only a privileged safe OC duuuuuude would write this.
please don’t give us more of Jake M Tellkamp just cause he be quoting hunter s. thompson, and shit.
surfies are so dumbs.
Beyonce knows.
I love you a bit…
oh, i see how this has to do with surfing. you got “wave” into the text. bravo.
America is mental. I think I’d rather take my chance amongst European jihadists.