The all-important surf vote!
It is impossible not to be at least vaguely aware that citizens of these United States will march to the polls in just over a year’s time with the task of electing our next president. Conventional wisdom suggests only two viable options. The same two options as four years ago. 80-year-old “Sleepy” Joe Biden and 77-year-old Donald Trump.
On the Republican side, the base seem to truly love their aged showman (Trump) and are not put off by his age or antics. On the Democrat side, though, there is much consternation about putting up an octogenarian with, clearly, diminished facilities and an almost universally disliked VP.
One might think, therefore, that other options would be welcomed but no. The Democratic National Committee has preordained Biden, like it did last election, and he will be wheeled out come hell or dementia.
Thus making Laird Hamilton and Kelly Slater’s public backing of a “disruptive” candidate that much more intriguing.
Who could have ever imagined a man, or woman, carrying the surname “Kennedy” would be a Democratic outsider but here we are in brave new days.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., extremely muscular, tan, married to Larry David’s television ex-wife, son of the assassinated Robert Kennedy, nephew of the assassinated John F. Kennedy, should be the savior of the left but the DNC has decided it hates him, the mainstream media following suit, tarring him wherever he goes.
Laird Hamilton and Kelly Slater, though, ain’t sheeple and have thrown their weight behind baby RFK, flying right into the teeth of “the way things are supposed to be,” even attending fundraisers even though Slater has a reputation of being notoriously cheap.
Kennedy, taking to X, wrote, “At Kennedy for President fundraiser in Malibu with Big Wave surf deity Laird Hamilton and his wife volleball champion @GabbyReece + With @KellySlater, 11 time World Surf League Champion at Brentwood fundraiser.”
Will they be punished for the move? The New York Times publishing a nasty expose on Slater’s environmentalism? The Washington Post putting Hamilton on its front page as “cancellable cultural appropriator?”
I once promised the all-important “surf vote” to Republicans in Florida even though I couldn’t really deliver.
Politics, man.
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R.F.K lets f—-ing gooo!
I had to read this a couple of times to process it and gain the visual I didn’t need, as I’m sober right now. You’re truly sickAF! BRAVO!!!
So a guy who loves turtles, the oceans, and owns a “sustainable” clothing company is publicly supporting a guy who speaks out against the E.P.A. and overall climate regulation. You’d think Kelly was a kid in the Florida public school system in its current state with decisions like this.
If it’s a Conspiracy Theorist then stupid surfers are all on board.
probably exactly the same thing that Laird and KS11 have to say about it.
Surprised Laird hasn’t thrown his hat in the ring
I’m going too build a wall once they put sleepy joe to bed.
Think Laird should change his name to Lord.
Lord Hamilton has far better ring and just run for president
don’t fence o’ thread me in…both had they’re chance. next!
Sounds like the commenters have never heard RFK jr speak. Too bad. Amazing how some people can watch the MSM propaganda, and even though
they have been wrong on nearly everything (remember “the vaccine will
100% prevent you from getting Covid”, and my favorite “the Russians blew
up their own pipeline” which they just spent $8 billion on!), and they
just keep believing the nonsense. RFK jr is the best candidate of my
lifetime, and the smears by the MSM are failing to take him down…
Ha, yeah. So we can hear him say stuff like this (from Forbes):
Kennedy Jr. was caught on camera telling fellow diners that “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” according to a video made public in the New York Post, which also shows him saying the U.S. “put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes” and labs in Ukraine collected Russian and Chinese DNA “so we can target people by race.”
Dude sounds like a genius.
Cool. One of these guys.
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Burkhart, you bastard!
uncle love~
my book~ para-palegic surfers at CHoombs by Hwlwn Keller~braile is over-rated, Frenchie? fritas~
Ah brings back memories of spending the lockdown arguing in beach grit about the vax. Good times
But hes blue??
RFK needs to embrace fascism more, to get the Dems vote
Dems would never support a conspiracy theorist like Jr.Fascism is Maga which is the republican party’s mantra.
Yeah theyre such good people, if you like evil
Evil? So your casting religious judgement on Americans you politically disagree with whilst worshipping the Pussy grabbing King of Lies.Keep your religion out of my country.
No
What fucktard that RFK guy is. Kelly’s hair has clearly not disappeared but grown inwards if he’s actually supporting that.
As an australian its hard to understand why people would want to vote trump back in. He is a hollywood version of putin.
Because I build walls , big beautiful walls, bigger more beautiful walls than anyone else in the world.
Actually best walls in the universe. Big beautiful shiny walls.
And we make Mexicans pay for them!
Remember that shit red built wall in Berlin?
Our American wall is bigger and better, and shiny!
Look at my wall. Where is sleeping joe anyway? I heard they changed the Oval Office Name to the dementia zone?
A wall so big, not even a bailey’s ladder will help getting over it
I’m not even a US citizen but man, aren’t we all truly fucked with what’s on offer.
On a bizarro world, presidential race between kelly and laird. Who would you vote for?
Giant asteroid.
gorilla…
I’d go Laird!
I can see him as a benevolent trump, but this may be a totally baseless assumption.
honey, did you like my short shorts!
We know Kelly has the turtle vote.
My political leanings used to be relegated to “who will leave me alone the most”. Nowadays, it’s that and “who does the belligerent
twitterX ghouls hate these days so I know who to listen to”.That said, I live in California, so my positions mean nothing at the end of the day!
we’re back in caves or livin cheap outta a tent. if lucky a food truck. my soul kitchen has gas…can I borrow a match~
Our tents will come with a carbon tax!
buy yeti and get a free case of Bud!