Or maybe Mavericks!
Political propaganda used to be much more of an art than it is now. Today, a candidate or political party must merely hire a room full of Russians, Ukrainians, Indians, whomever, spend a few thousand dollars on Facebook and blast out some less than accurate news. Hell, I don’t even know that the room needs to be full.
It is an ugly job lacking nuance or appreciable style. Like a Thomas Kinkaid painting compared to the Picassos and Rembrandts of old. For in the past, physical photographs were altered. Men disappeared. Whole families disappeared. Cigars disappeared.
The Nazis did it well but the Soviet Russians did it better. For example:
Where’d the cosmonaut in the back go? Like magic, he never existed. Scrubbed from history.
Dana Rohrabacher, Republican incumbent serving greater Orange County, decided to go old school but also improve on the art. Instead of disappearing an erstwhile foe he added himself to the scene in a dynamic moment right before getting barreled at either Jaws or Mavericks. Pipeline? Do you know the wave?
It doesn’t matter because it is a job of which Goebbels would be proud. That Molotov would stand and applaud.
There Dana Rohrabacher is, crouched on his gun maybe built from American-made soft-top. Eyes pointed toward the exit. Buttocks tensed and ready.
To further drive the point home, Rohrabacher boldly declares in all caps (favorite of propagandists), “I RIDE WAVES HERE, AND MAKE WAVES IN WASHINGTON.” (real quick is the comma necessary in this sentence? Ben Marcus? Are you there?)
“Here” clearly being Jaws. Or Mavericks. An Oahu outer reef?
It doesn’t matter.
The best propaganda floats above question.
Rohrabacher is a Russian tool. Another facsist clown running with the McDonald Trumpakov clown patrol. Vote him out.
No that guy was a San Diego dude. This is the guy borat got to support arming pre schoolers.
Unfortunately that’s not a joke.
Meh…at least he hasn’t tried to pass himself off as an Indian to slide into cushy tenured college faculty gigs.
Boring.
Question. WTF is happening to Toledo? These conditions in Europe are so set up for his talents. It’s painfully obvious Medina is far stronger in his mind thats the ugly truth. More than Julian too who’s gonna bet against Gabriel at 12′ second reef Pipe with the title on the line?
Guy is Alpha Omega.
Toledo is yet to become a complete Surfer… hence his place just shy of being a contender. If it comes down to Pipe? Julz and Gabe yes… but Toledo? he doesn’t even come into the Pipe conversation…. I’m sure he will, but not yet.
This is true. The shortcomings are most visibly seen in bigger hollow waves but also show up in bigger facey waves where his ability to manufacture speed isn’t required and so his primary advantage over his competitors is eliminated. I think for him to win a world title it would require a season of poor (smaller) surf at many of the events which would give him a distinct advantage. Short of that, and assuming GM and JJ don’t retire early, it’s hard to see either one of those two not winning every year for a while.
If only Felipe had Kanoa’s competitive savvy who has managed ( intelligently) to get to the 1/4 finals in Portugal without catching a wave over 3ft ?
A “political maverick” at Mavericks its genius level marketing come on!!
I just read his Wikipedia entry and I am rather unimpressed with his general moral conduct.
The disconnection between his apparent perceptions and reality could not be better illustrated by that leaflet. Fantastic work, that graphic designer.
the guy on the bottom right of the soviet pic is definitely related to raspberry tits.
And Miki Dora in the same row but second from the left . Does that make him a Democrat or not to far right ?
considering they’re soviet…
is that a Carroll second from right on the top row?
A Russian government toady as well. Fucker flys to Moscow more than he surfs, guaranteed.
No comma necessary! Not that I’m one to talk about commas. I use them with such exuberant abandon. In this case, though, the “and” does the job just fine without any help.
I dunno. It could be the dramatic pause to the spoken word, and thus valid.
Dramatic pauses in the spoken word indeed. Did you ever read the grade school classic Flowers for Algernon? A masterwork in the genre of heavily comma’ed importent prose:
“Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because, it makes writing, better, she said, somebody, could lose, a lot, of money, if a comma, isnt in, the right, place, I got, some money, that I, saved from, my job, and what, the foundation, pays me, but not, much and, I dont, see how, a comma, keeps, you from, losing it, But, she says, everybody, uses commas, so Ill, use them, too,,,,”
Painful like menopause ?
are you saying menopause are dudes who dig commas? Clever, clever, clever!
Grammatically speaking, a comma should go before the conjunction in this case – no? I was taught that if the two could be separate sentences on their own, comma goes before the conjunction.
You’re right! I just looked it up. AP Style calls for a comma. Fuck, it’s good my job ain’t copyediting!
Yeah, that shit’s boring! Your writing is good, so frankly I think you can put a comma wherever the heck you feel like (or not).
Two separate clauses (subject + verb, and subject + verb), thus comma needed. At least that’s what learnt in Danish primary school.
Anglophones, however, seem to be very stingy with their commas.
Oh, and what a fucken tosser.
Surfing will soon be erasing Hayden Cox from its history just like the Russkis did his granddad from this picture.
Hayden who ?
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Black to match the colour of his ( soul , just joking ) rails ?
https://www.westpac.com.au/…
Rohrabacher huh? – just another bit of evidence that taking the “and lastly, no surfing” clause out of the Potsdam Agreement was a mistake.
Some BG propaganda from the vault!:
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Why couldn’t Komrade Dana get the brain eating amoeba?
One word answer: brain.
Mic drop!
There are few humans worse than Rohrabacher.
And sorry for ripping the flyer before I sent in the pic.
It’s ok to be jealous of a man about to get that barreled on a wave of consequence.
Fair point.
sentence short so doesn’t need comma
I see some potential for the BG billboard
really? fuck it, I was about to accuse Chas of making shit up to meet some kind of quota.
Cringe