Only a surfer knows the feeling.
America’s Independence Day celebration is now, officially, in the books and did you have a wonderful time with family and friends? Barbecuing in the backyard, maybe, enjoying a deeply discounted Bud Light? Or did your revelry involve something a little more… leaded. Maybe hoovering lines of cocaine off a White House toilet while humming the Star Spangled Banner?
But certainly you’ve heard the news that, yesterday, the President’s residence was briefly evacuated when a bag containing a “powdery substance” was found in the West Wing.
Per America’s old foil, the BBC:
The discovery in the West Wing, which contains the Oval Office and other working areas for presidential aides and staff, led to a brief evacuation.
Secret Service agents found the suspicious powder in an area that is accessible to tour groups while doing a routine inspection.
President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland at the time.
A senior law enforcement official told the BBC’s US partner CBS News the substance was found in a storage facility routinely used by White House staff and guests to store mobile phones.
The White House complex was closed as a precaution around 20:45 local time (00:45 GMT) on Sunday after it was discovered.
A preliminary test later confirmed the substance was cocaine.
After many shocked gasps, the public immediately wondered who would do such a thing. Who would dare.
Suspicion immediately fell upon President Biden’s son Hunter, a recovering addict who has an established relationship with the crack varietal of cocaine. That suspicion only deepened when photos of the first son surfing in Malibu with Strider Wasilewski resurfaced.
The Daily Mail reported, two-years ago, that Biden donned a “VERY tight” wetsuit and enjoyed a Malibu session with the popular World Surf League broadcaster, straddling a large pink foamie. Wasilewski can be seen pushing the artist into a few waves, pure glee stretching across Biden’s classically handsome face.
The relationship between cocaine and surfing is well documented, as you know, plus historically significant. Could the President’s son have discovered the link and made like an ASP tour standout circa the early 2000s?
Or are you less conspiratorial in your thinking, imagining that a boardriders’ club was touring the White House and being generally sloppy.
If you had to party with either Hunter Biden or Donald Trump Jr. who would you choose?
Currently more questions than answers.
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These days more nomad than anything else (work takes me around the country pretty much constantly). But I do find myself near Hip from time to time. Even though everyone says she’s over the hill, I’m still in love w/ his wave. If you can’t find god in the pre-dawn lineup there, you may as well give up.
Sunny Garcia went to prison for far less than this POS got away with because daddy is prez.
the original shaka guy had middle fingers gulped by a tiber shark. fuck me!
ELO can you carry Marshall speakers?
Socrates a gear head? I had no idea what I didn’t know. It’s all I know – nothing.
I hate elitist pigs. Kill the rich. Feed the children. House the homeless. Kill the rich.
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kiss the irishman~
no grill. Pelosi tar tar…
with burns and stains on their dresses. check the WH coat rack and the laundry room…
Unfortunately no, just a mainlander…travel around trying to politely borrow a wave here and there from the true tropical locals. Perhaps one day our paths will cross but in the meantime I’ll need to do a deeper dive on stuff beyond Taoism and Buddhism to keep up…although have a decent start on Michael Chase’s art project, at least enough to survive the first beer of the conversation.
Definitely Biden albeit that he’s a bit of a prat. No chance of a sneaky line or two with any Trumps. They’re waaay to high on Diet Coke and other such godly poison’s too be any fun.
On your point regarding history/religions, I’d supplant religion with art and design were one have to choose between the two’s respective significance to the study of history. Of course they’re inextractable, whether talking about the world’s most-practiced faiths on down to an offshoot of a subsect of an isolated uncontacted tribe’s beliefs. And of course, it could be a chicken vs. egg sort of debate, but it’d be fun to have at it with a knowledgeable cat like you. I’m on team art/design, in all its varietals.
Biden for sure. DTJ seems like a cunt and would probably leave you to pay the tab.
are grams ur yours? aye or respberries…cough~
I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all
enemies foreign and domestic. I never expected that to put me at odds
with an illegitimate President.
just our contributions and such
from Chris Dixon…what’s in Hunter’s tool kit?
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advice to Hunter when paadling upstream without a paddle. more from Chris Dixon!
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Agree w/ all of that. We should have a beer one day!
I’ll meditate on that idea. if so, let’s do it on a surf charter boat named Ship of Fools. backside Santa Cruz Island. or mo betta, San Nicholas Island (The Island of the Blue Dolphins).
you rented one from the library…late fee~