"Are you taking cocaine or not?"
And I have had enough. Had too much. Can’t take no more for I love me some politics. Always have and thought I always would except something has happened since Donald J. Trump ascended to the highest office in these United States of America.
The media has lost its ever-loving mind.
On the right, craven sycophants fall all over themselves to justify the unjustifiable, or at least unjustifiable according to conservative-ism’s most cherished values. On the left, perpetually triggered adult-children have devolved the entire discourse to “Trump is farts and smells like a butt, according to unnamed sources close to the President.”
It’s asinine and there is nowhere to turn. Fox is a silly circus, CNN has become the National Lampoon. NPR, with its paternal tone and know-it-all dismissiveness, is often worse. The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS, etc. all laughable.
There is officially nothing to read, listen to, watch… except for an anti-depressive surf-adjacent website that you know and love.
BeachGrit!
I have more fun, more thoughts provoked, reading the comments here than anywhere which made me think. Let’s chat more.
Like here, there is a major conundrum that has kept me awake at night. Donald J. Trump and his presumptive challenger Joseph R. Biden Jr. are both very old and say wacky things. Trump maybe on purpose. Biden certainly not.
Take this recent interview where he happened to ask if the British-born journalist was a “junkie.”
Ok.
You’re Biden’s people. There is absolutely no way you let him onto a debate stage, right? How could you?
But how in the world do you get out of it? The first one is scheduled for Sept. 29, a month and a handful of weeks away. Unless his “mental slippage” strategy is of the classic “rope-a-dope” variety, he will get pummeled into oblivion.
So what’s Team Biden’s play here? The bunker strategy can only go on so long.
No?
The real problem is, most of this politicking makes no sense here in California.
Trump definitely isn’t talking to Californians, because he knows we know he’s full of shit and aren’t buying it.
Trump is always barking about Making America Great Again and yet he ignores the one company doing that old school/new school = Tesla.
As America used to do, Tesla is the world leader in tech, design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and service.
They are changing the way cars are made and sold, and they are accelerating the inevtiable transition away from stinkpots to electric cars.
So why isn’t Trump touring the Tesla plant in Fremont?
Because he knows California wants nothing to do with him. Because California is progressive, California is productive and California is rich!!!!!!
Who needs some gasbag fossil with one foot in the grave? Not the Golden State.
So California looks at the rest of the country the way Norway and Switzerland look at the rest of Europe” “Poor bastards, better them than us.”
California is way ahead of the curve. The rest of the country needs to catch up and they think Trump is going to lead the way.
He’s not.
Matt Warshaw once described another Surfer editor as “A drunk stumbling across the freeway who doesn’t get hit.”
That is true for Trump. He’s just a bored old rich guy, having a laugh.
He won’t answer because we all know the answer
I’m not sure I called you any names here LGR. I said his views and opinions were racist. They are.
Maybe pay attention to the reasons behind the black lives matter protests? There’s some good evidence that black people are getting killed by police for no reason and have been for a long time.
Last, you like trump because he doesn’t lie? He lies constantly. He’s made a career on lies. You may happen to agree with his lies, but they are lies.
Is using the word asinine a seppo thing? Why use the word instead of dumb Or am I just a dumb ignorant Aussie.
C’mon! Finland ranked first on the World Happiness Report report for 2018, 2019 and 2020. I do admit living in coastal France for past 25 years and forgoing the joyous Finnish winter.
Bordertown pretty good, I grew up in Salla in Lapland near Russian border.
Try “Deadwind” another crime drama you might enjoy.
I’m am SO SCAREd of 17 year old kid’s marching too!!! Stay safe, I know boomers can’t run anymore. #this statement is PURE VIolence
Ur friends sound like assholes
That’s because you parrot trumps opinions and they are racist, misogynistic and bigoted. I wouldn’t even say conservative anymore. You gave up that title a long time ago.
The difference is that liberals “attack” conservatives for their bigoted views. Your views are a choice.
Then there are conservatives attacking Jews, black people, immigrants, homosexuals, etc. those are real attacks and they’ve massively increased since trump was elected.
Your manufactured fear of being a conservative is a lie.
Haha
Triggered!!
I liked the bit about the monkey at the beginning and the end. The bits in the middle I didn’t like as much
I seen something on the ole’ YouToobz that had a Noam Chomsky (who crazy ass progressives went after for saying free speech was good) voiced ad saying it’s less a vote for Biden and more a vote against Tump…Sound logic.. In fucken bizarro world!
“I’ll take the turd sandwich thanks, I’ve had enough douche lunches this week”
Seems like voters around the globe have been facing these plague or famine choices of late but then when was it ever Beyoncé or Rihanna?
Fine point.
Rhianna all day btw
Yeah Anna of the North. Oh wait. What are the choices again?
Oslo’s finest!
Fuck Chas that is some gorgeous writing, thanks!
Biden is ridiculous. The journalist is clearly on Ibogaine.
Truth is he has chosen a VP but forgotten who it was or where he is or supposed to be doing
Politics on a surf site. Because someone mentions cocaine (I’m guessing).
Chas, mate, have a good hard look in the mirror. You are the perpetually triggered adult child. Don’t believe me? Listen to any podcast you speak on.
Always popping off for entertainment. Never triggered.
Trump said Biden will hurt god. Fuck god. Biden 2020!
A friend gifted me a pack of oxy 10mg. Please advise.
Take one!
Do I crush or keep as whole tab. Slow release.
Skin pop them whole.
Crunch those suckers in between your chompers and feel breeze for a few hours
Edit. You have great friends!
They are very great…my friends i mean. Sent me 45 of the fuckers in the post! God bless Australia post.
He’s on glue.
Trump tweeted a video of a guy shouting “white power”. Maybe for cornball surfers thats not a big deal but I’m not a goofy white boy so what do I know. I guess protesting white supremacy and police brutality makes me a perpetually triggered social justice warrior.
Nah. Like any normal non racist when I seen that I thought it was fucked. But honestly, what to believe? Even if he said, “fuck white power” in his tweet and had the vid, the headline still would have been “Trump tweets white power vid” and not “trump denounces white power vid”. Still, didn’t happen that way.
But Biden.. c’mon man!! There has to be better options.
In Finland our PM Sanna Marin is a 34 year old woman. As prime minister, Ms. Marin heads a government that is remarkably female and young. The other four parties in the government are led by women, three of whom are, like the prime minister, younger than 35.
We have intelligent civil discourse, draw your own conclusion.
America has the government it deserves. Interesting article Chas, I not follow USA politics closely but often fly to America and agree, your political media seems very poor.
You guys should really think about invading and bringing us democracy. Open arms and all that jazz. Liberation!
Too warm, not enough saunas, bad rye bread.
Wondering… you seem to fly the female flag quite prominently in your post. As though male vs female has a certain connotation and thus preference with it. Are you able to expand more on why having a majority female government is more desirable? I imagine there are certain traits that maybe are stereotypical to a certain gender…. but maybe don’t necessarily relate to gender but more ideology? I can’t imagine you’d be flying the same flag if you had, say, a majority of Ann Coulter’s running the show?
Ideology, culture and perhaps certain gender traits (empathy, kindness). I am not familiar with Ms Coulter (Google interlude). No after a short analysis Ms Coulter seems unsuitable, she seems to be an American version of Madame Le Pen.
Three Nordic countries currently have female leadership and seem to be doing quite well. Just something to consider but your point is well taken.
Perhaps I have an unconscious bias as I do have three daughters 🙂
Isn’t a comment board supposed to be like a pub – no talk of politics or religion! Apart of course from Rory Parker’s political bid – that’s fair game. Looks like he has some good policies. But can I ask is it somehow offensive for those from Kaui to have a blow in try to represent their best interests? https://www.civilbeat.org/2…
But why can’t we talk politics and religion? It’s too much fun!
Well as the pubs are closed here I suppose I could be a bore and talk religion and politics! Getting back to Rory, surely he is breaking some Woke rule. Is Rory running for the council akin to those Hollywood movies where a white teacher goes to a ghetto school and sorts everyone’s problems out, and everyone is happy in the end, except for the Eddie Rothman character?
Imagine the opposition research against Rory. His self-penned exploits seeking cheap drug induced memories as found here on Beach Grit should be one-stop chop shop for any opposition campaign manager.
Perhaps he would thrive in the chaos of his tales of dildo fixations and narcotic paranoia.
His sermons from the podium might be ‘calculated unhinged’ enough to win over the Undecided Middle Middle what exactly, I’m not sure.
Undecided Middle Middle Drawers, where every home pharmacy is kept.
I liked his interview inHonolulu Civil Beat. Further left then I would prefer but the guy isn’t faking it. He’s playing it the way he feels it just like he did here.
Best writer ever on BG
Do you really want to have your Jebus Cult examined closely?
I mean, I love you Charlie, in a loose, embracing-of-humanity and not really knowing who you really are sort of way, but the belief in the supernatural goobly-goblins by an otherwise vaguely rational / functioning 1st World adult is not a good look.
Architecture or not. Give me a tree over the most considered church architraves any day.
Examine! Notre Dame even post scorching über any tree!
Are there any Hispanics that comment here? I assume so as they are an incredibly diverse community.
Unlike African Americans.
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