"The situation is extremely Biden-esque."
Last night, American Democrats had their worst nightmare come true. President Joe Biden wandered out onto an Atlanta, Georgia stage and appeared “uneven” during his first, and maybe last, debate with challenger Donald J. Trump. The major national news medias, generally kind to the octogenarian, attempted no sugar coating and are now openly auditioning someone/anyone to take his teetering place.
Australia’s Irukandjis find themselves in a very similar situation.
Tyler Wright, as you know, is a two-time world champion and also on the Olympic team that will soon fly to Head Place. Exciting days etc. except Wright has withdrawn from the currently running, though entirely forgettable, Oi Rio Pro. As reported on these very pages “Tyler has been advised by her doctors and specialists that she needs some treatment and would prefer her sitting out Brazil. Tyler will be 100% ready for the Olympics.”
The “100% ready for the Olympics” ringing hollow.
As, and also reported here, “Surfing Australia has readied evergreen Sally Fitzgibbons to be on standby should Wright’s medical woes continue.” The team has even purchased flights for the longtime professional surf competitor all the way to The End of the Road.
Eric Haakonssen, Surfing Australia’s performance support and podium manager, went as far as to say, “If the event looks likely to start later in the window, we will adjust those flights to depart later just in case.”
The question, I suppose, for proud Australians is who they would rather see not paddling into lurching Teahupo’o beasts: Wright or Fitzgibbons? A question that must be answered soon seeing as the month of July is but days away.
Emotionally strenuous times.
What’s a podium manager?
Also, and while you’re here, do you have any suggestions for who the Dems should enlist as their own Sally Fitzgibbons?
All input welcome.
More as the story develops.
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I hope she dosent get raped by her in laws, spouses brothers or sisters.
Nobody goes to Brazil to practice for Tahiti (except maybe philipe)
Needs theme music:
https://youtu.be/4zYaCkXbFg…
https://youtu.be/WOOye9EB7U…
why must i be like that? why must i chase the cat? ain’t nuthin’ but the dog in me.
Having messed up hormones is an easy fix if she will admit she wants to have no excuses.
They should take a page out of the book the US Democrats are reading and prepare a trans person to step in if the opportunity allows.
I don’t think the IOC will put up with that shit. That’s a peculiarly AWFL Luxury Belief.
And a joke, like our politics. Not as big of a joke as surfing in the Olympics though. That’s a real big laugh.
It’s getting easier to list the things that AREN’T jokes.
Short list for sure
Just send Sally. She may not put up better scores than Wright, but her wonderful accent and huge smile makes her the best representative for Australia.
And the podium manager will have more time for sunbathing
Sally is the bob Irwin of surfing but that doesn’t mean anybody wants to see her throwing spastic shakas and coming last again (much less say anything )
Only a gorilla knows the feeling
Lets be honest Chad, that was complete fucking nightmare for anyone and everyone in the US, regardless of where you lie politically. Neither of those dumbfucks made any sense whatsoever. Only a partisan fool would say otherwise. Can’t we have a choice of someone who is under 70 and actually understands what the questions being asked are about?
I’m just wondering whether this shit is new, or if our system was always this bad, but only with modern high speed digital communications did it become so obvious.
This is the first time in my lifetime that we are looking at 2 geriatric fools hoping to run the cuntry. Sure, it’s almost always a lesser of 2 evils vote type thingy but this cycle is untenable.
zactly barrelled….. you’re voting for or against one person.
not exactly inspiring.
We need new talent like the women’s tour does. Who is the Democrats Caity Simmers?
My bet, Gavin
Some people in California have no idea what a laughingstock the state has become to many other Americans. Gavin is the symbol of all of it, mostly correctly.
The state budget deficit, the exodus of residents with high but not billionaire incomes, the bullet train, announcing the EV mandate days before telling people they couldn’t charge their cars due to grid overloads, permanent water shortages that surprised nobody, etc
such a laughing stock it’s the world’s 5th largest economy. for the 7th straight year. not saying that’s a good thing, necessarily! but it’s the truth, like it or not.
california at it’s best has always been, is, and will be the future of america. not saying that’s a good thing, necessarily! but it’s the truth, like it or not.
good, bad, and fuggin’ ugly – CA is the brains, brawn, belly, bulge, balls, & brown sewer trout of us.
Yeah, that’s the bullshit people in California tell yourselves while you are arrested for going to the beach.
If you think it still sells anywhere outside certain parts of California, that’s just telling me you don’t get out much and talk to people.
lot of talk about how these 2 geezers should not be allowed to run because of the cognitive decline of geezerhood, right?
well, when do we get to talk about completely banning the geezer set from voting at all, since they’re ostensibly so geezer’d out?
and more importantly, when can we start cognitively testing all voters????? cuz the voting rolls would thin out, massively.
they did this to black folk. let’s serve it back to ’em all!
Inside word is Newsome gonna be side slipped in at the August DNC…3rd debate will be slickster versus slickster.
both slicksters, tho one would wipe the floor with the other in a policy debate. not saying his policies are the best (let alone good) but he knows his policy shit. the other knows jackshit & exposes himself badly when “getting into the weeds.” could even be argued he has no policy or ethos besides political expediency.
unfortunately, it wouldn’t matter who wins if it was slickster v. slickster. cuz we already know the $$$ will always win, D or R in the presidential palace.
Handily avoiding any primaries
yep…no time for media to uncover previous bong usage and the occasional broad.
we are frogs in a pot.
one guy, completely unfit for anything but reality TV & hellified guaranteed to clean house at all levels to replace the collective experiential knowledge of policy & governing with evil, attention-seeking ideologues in roles of power but ever-bowing to their all-powerful demagogue.
the other, feeble & bumbling while allegedly defending the very foundations of democracy but not fathoming how much of a threat to it he poses by staying in the race against the other guy. his ambition or politician’s megalomania blinding him to the fact that he alone might deliver an unintended death-blow to democracy by choosing years ago to run for term 2.
frogs in a pot. but the maxim that “we get the president we deserve” sounds about right.
The collective experiential knowledge of policy serves no purpose but to enrich and empower the most sophisticated corruption in world history.
Before Biden’s decline, he was a major player in this.
The good governance you imagine is a fiction that serves to exploit us.
did i imagine good governance? or just experiential knowledge of policy? it is due to these policies, tho massively fucked, that we have chickens in (most) every pot, and white picket fences, and conduct war on far away shores instead of on our own, and digital entertainment with which to opiate ourselves (like this). the list goes on.
I agree with you it’s far from good & galaxies away from what’s probably best, but it’ll do for most Americans, for now. and they’d rather have comfort, I believe, than anything else, including their guns n bibles. I’m with you tho dude, just so we don’t mistakenly engage in the ol’circular firing squad!
Like Joe Biden’s handlers…I recommend chocolate chocolate chip ice cream.
It seems work miracles for him…
It’s not laced with anything. Biden isn’t on any drugs! This is just a totally absurd right-wing conspiracy theory! Safe and effective! Big pharma loves you! — Everyone on MSNBC responding simultaneously
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The medical community of Australia, is probably censored like the rest of the gub hubs. So, as your brother across the pond, I’ll give you a hint; “Munchausen Syndrome”
Have a nice day….
I actually feel sorry for her at this point. She’s obviously got some serious issues, but she’s acting them out, not fixing them. Being nuts doesn’t look fun, and by the time she leaves the scene, she’ll have made herself persona non grata in a lot more venues than Beach Grit.
Beach Grit is certainly the vanguard, but even The Soynertia follows eventually.
I agree…it’s obvious that she has significant emotional issues and they are likely manifesting themselves physically.
I hope she really looks inward to get healthy and stops with all of the unnecessary victimization.
Who the hell is “she”?
Edit-I’m guessing “she” refers to Tyler but the Munchausen comment threw me off as my mind goes straight to “by proxy”.
By proxy is usually fucked up parents abusing their children to get attention or whatever they do it for
Munchausen’s is when an individual does that to themselves.
I have a rule and its don’t feel sorry for anyone that gets paid to surf
That does sound like a good rule.
what about if I paid you $2 to paddle out on a 9’0″ styro/epoxy blend assym quad SUP? would that change your tune?????
$2 isn’t really enough to bring your spouse and your shrink to 5 continents and several remote islands over the course of the year.
I still don’t know how to feel about her staffy lookin rump
Good bad indifferent
A nice ass is a nice ass.
I surfed today, so I’m pretty much ready for the call up if she’s out. It was the tub in Sydney, so pretty much the same as Tahiti 🤷🏻♂️
write up?? what was like?
Got a couple, bit wonky with the tide…
what size yellow tracksuit should a Taiwanese child start stitching up for you in case you need it last minute for the opening ceremony?
4XL plz
TW playing both sides of the coin if it’s pumping she’s sick , if it’s tiny she’s in and if she losses it’s because she’s sick , can we like just fuck her off now.
No cunt gives a shit
but all the assholes do