Surf City trades in its trademarked moniker for something with more pizzazz!
A riot broke out in Huntington Beach, California today during a pro-Trump rally on the sands of Bolsa Chica, or “little girl’s handbag” in its English translation. Fox news reported:
A scuffle broke out on a Southern California beach where supporters of President Donald Trump were marching when counter-protesters doused organizers with pepper spray, authorities said Saturday.
The violence erupted when the march of about 2,000 people at Bolsa Chica State Beach reached a group of about 30 counter-protesters, some of whom began spraying the irritant, said Capt. Kevin Pearsall of the California State Parks Police. Three people were arrested on suspicion of illegal use of pepper spray, he said.
There were several other arrests and two people suffered minor injuries, but Pearsall said he did not immediately have further details.
The Fox News broadcaster said:
It got ugly. Fights broke out. Fists flying between Trump supporters and anti-Trump protestors. It gets pretty ugly. One person, reportedly, pepper sprayed. Another person punched in the face.
And nobody does gently disruptive like Huntington Beach! Who could forget the 2014 riot where some windows were smashed and some porta-potties turned on their sides. Or the 1986 riot that was actually a riot?
The best!
I wonder if we should throw a BeachGrit sponsored riot for this upcoming U.S. Open of Surfing? Only gently disruptive of course. Maybe we have someone go down on all fours behind an unsuspecting passerby and have someone else push the unsuspecting passerby over? Maybe we throw whipped cream pies? I’m open for suggestions.
This riot has been brought to you by BeachGrit! It has a certain ring, no?
Anyone who didn’t support Obama at their rallies was laid up, jumped, or arrested and charged with rioting.
Funny how when the tables are turned its still somehow ‘our fault’ even though they crashed our party, not the other way round.
Ha! Reminds me of when a pro-independence party won the local council elections here a few years back. Come Monday morning they were outside the town hall with their placards protesting …..against themselves?
Trump fans all look the same because he only pandered to baby boomer whites with no college education and a bit of money. Thats his entire base. There is no one else.
the only thing more annoying , boring and self-important than a bunch of Orange County Repubs is…..:..the whole D-bag of comments on this piece!!!! T-Rump lovers in OC on the march ?? I bet they were doing he elephant walk if you know what I mean….remember the Blues Brothers? “Illinois Nazis?! I hate Illinois Nazis!”
No only a certain segment is unhappy and its very small and unfortunately very vocal. When you talk about revolution you show true colors and what you are really after is a society in KAOS. You are nothing more than jealous of people who have built wealth. You epitomize a person with socialist leanings. There is no way you can make a society equal across the board except through opportunity which this country abounds in. Not everyone is equal and dont expect to have the same amount of economic or intellectual power of someone who saves and works with his wealth to grow it. You said it all in this one statement “stupid rich fucks… you have to fucking share a little!” Why should anyone give you something that you have not earned, and how is it you feel entitled to take it?
Only if the whipped cream Pies are prepared by the boys at Lamda Lamda Lamda!
They are holding rallies, because they realize that Trump is under daily assault from Beachgrit, and they want to him to know they support him, despite the onslaught from Smith’s and Ciarmella’s opinion-forming pens.
Well… the school’s food it’s the major exemple of the cultural baggage of Dump and his minions… and what they carrying…
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Ps: We are receiving first hand information that, Haird Lamilton … ops! Sorry … Laird Hamilton, is hired by Dump and his minions to produce the new menus and teach the children in America First schools to feed themselves …
did you see what Michelle did with school lunches? Why should someone in WAshington have say over what a child in Iowa has for lunch? Isn’t that up to the parents who pay for it?
Exactly … Michele implemented the program.
And Dump? Are he going to keep it? Will he stand in favor… as he did with Medicare (Obamacare), or any other previous government program?
And my friend, the family gives the first directions in the life of a child, but at this stage it spends more time in school, for this reason the importance not only of school guidance, but of the involvement of public administrations and neighborhoods.
Is just what the video shows, above the comparison!
To teach good manners, social involvement, give more than receive, know how to share.
None of this is Government Dump folder and its minions …
You can get this super edgy/ironic shirt (seen in riot picture above) in the Former.xxx Spring 2017 line! What a crazy, violent way to launch the line, am I right??!
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In 2015, we told some of the Vans Marketing team that they should use this for a tagline. The Vans US Open of Surfing “Its a Riot”
They didn’t find it very funny.
Question: which surf industry players are pro-Don Dump? It has long been known SoCal is a right-wing hotbed and some of the industry’s legends and founders were flaming conservatives and Republicans. How much of that persists? Time for all companies and their representatives to come out for or against Don Dump — and let the “free” market decide, right? Say it on social media. Support Trump? Simple yes or no. Then let capitalism work its magic. Much of social media consists of lifestyle marketing that has corporate messaging behind it. The time has come for thoughtful people to demand companies and their representative personalities make it clear — which side are they on? Because consumer spending is powerful. Don’t spend a fucking dime on anybody who won’t denounce the vile charlatan and his odious cronies, the regressive cabinet and profoundly un-American policies.
Absolutely right – they’re the big winners right ? They’re running shit right ? Should be nothing to fear
Except they know that the majority is actually totally against them
The majority actually gives a shit about clean water, just for one example
Yeah, because their production lines fueled by child slaves in North Korea weren’t enough reason to stop buying their shit…
It’s a travesty crooked Hillary and her big pharma/arms/banking buddies didn’t get in. You could be invading another country by now!
Hillary is the worst but please don’t use her bank ties as a way to legitimize trump… have you seen his cabinet picks?
I know nothing of US politics, let alone Australian! But I bought Trump’s book when I was younger, and fuck if I’d ever buy anything to do with her. That being said, I’d vote for Harry Potter if he ran for office
I have seen his cabinet picks and have to say that I think they were all pretty good selections. I think its high time a lot of government “services” become privatized. The lack of school choice is whats fueling these riots in California and else where. Not because these folks are more educated but because they are less. When you buy a surf board do you want the best that a skilled craftsman can bring to the market? Or do you want a board that the government has specified as appropriate and tested as a safe for average use.Its sad to see the lack of “tolerance” being displayed by the group who screamed for everyone else to be tolerant. So I guess tolerance only goes one way. I dare say if you enjoy having anarchists in your neighborhoods wait until you somehow offend them and they react to you. These rebels and their behavior have no place in our society.
Mr. Balz, rockin’ it with the totalitarian loyalty oath. Is is just that you can’t imagine that a person would have good reasons for view other than your own, or is it that you are unwilling tolerate a world in people disagree with you? “Un-American”, indeed.
Great idea to mix politics with the non-political. NBA viewership down when the commish got (left) political. NFL viewership declining (hey left politics worked for Kapercrak, didn’t it). ESPN circling the drain with their leftism. How’s Starbucks brand going after the refugee announcement? What about Target? Injecting politics is a sure way to limit your consumer base.
For the left, everything is political, but most people want a break, and are sick and tired of it. And by they way, this will backfire on your aims, bigly. The stupid idea to have Ivanka Trump’s products removed from stores has made her one of the biggest sellers online.
In fact, I just made a purchase in your name.
The election of Trump should teach us all a valuable lesson but it won’t. That lesson is that the fallacy of one man, one vote is horseshit. We should be marching in the street with pitchforks until they abolish the electoral college and right after that we throw that piece of shit to the curb. Rant over
you must realize the EC has some value though, right? Without it a few cities would decide our president. It’s a flawed system, sure, but with just intentions
I tend to think that the founding fathers were great thinkers and knew what could happen to liberty if we were to let the masses completely rule by count. They knew about mob rule which is what helped form the electoral college. I think that in the last election had the EC not stood up to the masses we would surely be on that down hill slide right now.
wait, now elites know best? mere comments ago you were lambasting federal school lunch guidelines in favor of the supreme knowledge of regular iowans but now those regular iowans can’t even vote in a president without a the dandies at the EC? make up your mind, man.
It’s like they think their ignorance is as good as knowledge. They actually think democracy is just standing up and marching for random xenophobic shit that you heard someone with a lot of money saying is the solution to fixing our economy.
It’s because they are failures, just like the asshole that they elected. First 100 days = total failure and every day has been a disgrace to our nation.
Seriously, props to the those who sprayed these folks with pepper
Excellent allocation of resources
I hope he keeps it up. Then dem Dems can reclaim the House. And so the disillusioned Trump supporters can see just how little he gives a fuck about them. If they can comprehend that.