You can't script this!
The end is officially here and don’t it feel grand? Don’t it feel thrilling? Better than you could have even imagined? A Volcom tagline victory 20 years late but better late than never?
It is better than I could have even imagined and I’m only glad I have the luxury of witnessing it now instead of later.
Today instead of tomorrow.
Ding dong the establishment is dead.
Officially, unequivocally dead. Lying there on the floor, eyes rolled back, belly protruding, pulse gone.
Laying there too.
Youth won.
20 years late but won.
The fraudulent debacle that is Iowa and its caucuses (bringing a harsh association shame to Chechnya) is laughably rich. Love Trump or hate him he destroyed establishment Republican politics with a hammer four years ago. Love Bernie Sanders or hate him he just destroyed establishment Democratic politics and the final death rattle, the last gasp, escaped the establishment’s chubby corpse last night in Iowa.
Pete Buttigieg.
Yeah.
#MayorCheat.
If you haven’t been paying attention, the first political primary in these United States of America was conducted last night. It is a normally staid affair but this year a candidate the ailing establishment didn’t want was threatening to crush before rolling to an easy victory.
So salt was thrown and a completely false Wall of Positive Noise™ narrative pushed forward, claiming after an almost 24 delay and after a poll got scrapped because it didn’t align with the desired outcome of a complete bland corporate patsy and now the Democratic Party is in the same exact position as the Republican Party.
Absolutely broken but better yet controlled by outsiders.
Owned by outsiders.
Brought low by a billionaire-funded app.
The billionaire-funded World Surf League is next with it’s bland, transparent appeal to some false, cowed, idiotic, shrunk-to-nothing audience and its “punk but bloated” surrogate is next.
The People™ are outside and in numbers great enough to rip the Wall of Positive Noise™ down brick by brick, spraying the whole thing with gasoline then pitching a match while the roof, an unfortunate casualty, motherfucking burns.
I ain’t young anymore but so fucking long establishment.
It was almost fun.
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I’m just reading this blog for the photos. No, really.
I tried to look up some of the odd references in the article but they really didn’t help.
From what I gleaned, Professional Surfing Competitions are run by “the man” and are as “political”, “commercial” and “establishment” as all the other “professional” sports out there. And I’m including the Olympics in the “professional” category. There are no true amateurs left. Hell, even kids are playing in semi-pro “traveling” leagues. (Baseball, Soccer and I’m betting parents are shelling out thousands for Kobe’s Mamba Academy for their health.)
So, professional surfing needs a “disruptor” to overturn the “establishment”? Is that what this article is about?
Or is it just about the American political establishment?
PS – All I know about professional surfing I learned from “Reef Break”. Just watched it. Entertaining show.
PPS – Pluto TV has a “surf movies” category.
I wonder what the title would be? First man? First dude? First partner?
Performances by Cher, Sam Smith?
His fondness for private jet travel isn’t helping his case either.
Ahh LGR, I too lament the death of gay jokes and the days of calling each other gay for just about anything all day everyday. Let’s wrap this with an ever popular gay joke tribute.
https://youtu.be/8ls4NNb3c6g
Bernie’s wife and her best friends own Old Towne Media LLC. I didn’t say it was illegal. It IS self enrichment at the expense of your poor schlebs who donate to him. You bankroll Bernie’s extravagant lifestyle, not me. Knock yourself out.
Universal healthcare doesn’t work in a country this populated. I thought ObamaCare was supposed to give everyone healthcare. Yet, to this day there are how many people still without health insurance. The high price of prescription medication is a joke. At the moment there is a bipartisan bill sitting in the Senate awaiting approval, which Trump addressed last night.
Where the hell is the money for college going to come from if everybody gets to go.
More importantly, who the hell wants to go to college anymore. Bastions of liberal bias and absolute disregard for one of the America’s most sacred ideals, free speech. God forbid you be a conservative on a college campus these days. College should not be free for everyone. Earn it. There’s plenty of free money students can apply for, if they just put a little effort into it.
Obamacare got neutered and isn’t a good measuring stick for universal healthcare IMO, whether you are for or against.
Look up Old Towne Media LLC.
Sanders funneled over $83 million through Old Towne for ad buys. Industry standard is 15% commission. Filings prove disbursements of over $10million to Old Towne Media LLC.
But go ahead and keep believing what you want
Imagine Bernie on the world stage……… Just imagine.
Sit down gramps.
Ecology 101 – 8ish bil people, food ain’t get to everybody.
God – well, Me actually – created gay sex to control overpopulation.
Pity the one who miss associating sex with pleasure, satisfaction, fun rather than this biblical bullshit, laws of nature say like that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…
Like a petulant child.
But….but…but, Bernie’s about the good for all….hahaha
Gee, I wonder why the $anders Institute shut down in early 2019. Hmmm…can you say political liability?
on another matter, pls hook me up on ya thorough xp… vacation time set starting dec 05, thinking pipemaster, hows the scenario – accom, touring, prices & stuff (poke places ha!) – that time of year… how much it’d set me back for say 20/25d, solo/couple ballpark… no direct flight, where should I hub…
boastful as usual, like a tang faced sotu speech…
clap clap, although I suspect too much reason for the woke set.
look at the smirk at the faces on the two butt pirates, you can tell they are gay just by the shit-eatin grin on their faces.
nttawwt…
Yeah! Ain’t happiness fabulous?!
I guess that’s how you find them on the down low, right?
N0t sure if anyone has read this but it’s wrong, and cringe, and heartbreaking that editors of magazines must now resort to promoting their own establishments, I just vomited on my DM’s…… “Standing well above six feet in his signature Doc Martens and carrying 187 pounds of pure Panhandle power, would it surprise you to learn that Stab’s Editor in Chief is as comfortable carrying an intellectual discourse on the current state of professional surfing as he is playfully prodding its marquee figures and hosting not one but two of the industry’s most highly acclaimed programs—all of which is not to mention his own, World-Tour-level ability on a classical longboard? Of course it wouldn’t!”
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
it takes being a nigga to get to utter the nigga word… are you gay?
no doubt you are….but be proud!
& fabulous!
this joke is so nineteen seventies…
ah homophobia, misogyny’s crippled sister…
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Democracy? bahahahahaha…good one! Now back to the Sharks.