"My real point is that voting for Trump is as bad if not worse than supporting Tate."
It is difficult to say where Stab Magazine’s headquarters is today. Once based in Bondi, Australia before moving to Venice, California before moving to Oceanside, also California, chasing that very-difficult-to-grab “cool” perpetually five-to-seven years too late. Online is, anyhow, where the subscription surf website finds itself today and online is where the trouble arises.
After a series of failed big-for-britches editors writing in Stab’s “royal we” vernacular, the blog landed on one Mikey “Michael” Ciaramella, the pocket-sized pal who declares “creating small fires and putting them out, one day at a time” as current job description on LinkedIn.
Well, small fire lit, though not put out today after the diminutive fella went on a wild anti-Trump pro-Andrew Tate screed in his very own comment section. The unfortunate turn occurred in a pompous “exclusive’ interview probing superstar surfboard shaper Matt Biolos’s lawsuit against hideous actress Lady Gaga’s use of the word “Mayhem.”
Readers might have been less-than-completely-interested as some questioned why Lost team rider Cole Houshmand’s recent celebration of self-proclaimed woman hater Andrew Tate was not, at the very least, brought up.
In what universe is a mid-pack CT surfer taking a picture with some internet troll more interesting than Matt Biolos suing Lady fucking Gaga (and potentially winning)?” Ciaramella penned after an apparently misguided below-the-line critic dared ask why the story wasn’t covered.
Though he wasn’t done, continuing after a few more light barbs directed his way:
You do know who a majority of Americans voted into office last year, right?
26 sexual assault accusations against Trump, 34 felony charges, and he’s big fan of Epstein — “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
San Clemente is a Republican town, and several past and current CT surfers have come out publicly as Trump supporters. I’d imagine more of them lean that way quietly as well.
That, to me, is far more condemning (and interesting) than a thoughtless IG story post. And yet it’s not something we cover because 1. politics aren’t our lane and 2. supporting a predator doesn’t necessarily make you one too.
After general confusion over the li’l buddy’s pronouncement delivered from a very tall horse, Ciaramella continued:
My real point is that voting for Trump is as bad if not worse than supporting Tate. Yet somehow, voting for Trump seems to be broadly accepted in the surf world, while posting an IG story with Tate has people up in arms.
I personally find both Trump and Tate despicable. Maybe Cole loves both of them (or not). You’re more than welcome to be upset about what he posted, but this doesn’t make it a story for Stab.
Ummm.
Wait. What’s not a story for Stab?
Hi Chas honored to be here!
Yet another reason why Stab will never get a dime outta me. Fire the midget and I’ll consider it again. Until then, No HamSammish.
Hurry… someone tell me how im supposed to feel!!
The way you feel!
You have never answered me- were the Yemen men really surrounding a TV watching a surf contest?
Regardless of all the other stuff, I’be always found it odd that anyone who calls them self a surfer could ever vote for a candidate who is at odds with environmental concerns.
He seems like a very confused man and I found this part most humorous.
I do a politics every morning.
What in the fuck is this re-hashed nonsense.
As much as I would prefer just to say fuck you, I don’t think that would help because I think you might not have the full context and you might actually agree with me if you did (or not, we’ll see).
MC wasn’t backing Tate. He actually was very anti Tate (and anti trump). He was lecturing the crowd on how even covering the story was beneath stab, how they stay out of politics, how dare anyone suggest this was even worth their time, etc. It was extremely pretentious. It was at odds with the reality of the stories stab has actually covered.
And it wasn’t the first time stab has acted like their premium subscribers are ignorant 12 year olds who should sit down and shut up. And I don’t feel like shelling out for a ‘premium’ subscription to an outlet that patronizes its subscribers and insults their intelligence.
The editorial side of that operation has never been why I subscribed, I just like some of their video content. But this was just too much, and had built up over time, including from the ‘access’ journalism craziness and then the shutting down the comment section at one point bc they didn’t like the noise. So had nothing to do with the actual viewpoint, as much as I think Tate abhorrent. It was mc’s lecturing, it was the condescension, it was the history of same, etc, etc.
MC is and always has been insufferable and his writing is pure trash.
although you ave to admit, when he and Morgan went up in the cherry picker above the KS tub on the inaugural, it was pretty funny.
will we be seeing a tower 9 Royale?
Gravy v. Rocks on the under card?
keep the fire burning Chad ,
Fascinating realm we live in.
Still struggling to find the meaning behind this story?
Is it just about Mike’s intellect and how he’s able to state the obvious to a mass of glass half empties?
Go Mikey, go.
You go girl.
https://youtu.be/_3eC35LoF4U?si=CV8s5XaAingdNAgI
Burning down the housh
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sign language is very powerful when spoken correctly.
marsha may is da bomb…
maybe Chas/DR should ask Matt what he thinks about one of his sponsored guys hanging out with Tate?
define “hanging out”
Tate events must be the raddest sausage fest, and all that closet homo energy getting around.
Xox
Id still get a selfie with Mike Tyson, no doubt
I remember posting this when Mikey “oh shit Christian Fletcher is gonna murder me” C. first left Beach Grit. Didn’t realize how prophetic it’d be. That first impact is fast approaching
https://youtu.be/rxGuNJ-nEYg?si=55QX0v7rg97KxKiP
He’s such a barnacle goose
little mans complex manifests in many different ways….even throwing oneself off a cliff and bouncing down the cliff face of “Surf Journalism” to only find onesself at a sadly deteriorated STAB.
STAB lost it’s soul when Chans Ghost was exorcised and Cavvy was relegated to a Psilocybin cell.
Now there’s a couple handles I haven’t heard referenced in awhile.
that’s insane , did Italo watch this ???
So are we to believe that the guy wearing a shirt with a Biscuits & Porn logo has a moral compass? And isn’t into exploiting women? Is it just gay porn Mikey?
ha, let’s not get crazy — biscuits and porn is an OBX institution
So no porn then?
the old fashioned kind
A little racist and very sexist? Like the good old days? Kinda like how Stab used to be?
Reminds me I haven’t been there in a bit. Need waves !
Chas and Derek, you might have just created a very small little monster by formerly having Ciaramella write for BG.
When he left we lost our only White Dude for Harris.
Guess Mikey has no problem with Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff cheating with his children’s nanny, getting her pregnant, then forcing her to have an abortion.
Nanny sex=paying for sex
Matt Gaetz???
went over to see what the fuss was about and now fully triggered by MC’s bullshit responses. multiple posts, doubling down — or digging deeper, depending on your perspective.
Went to cancel my premium sub and turns out I had paid the annual — so my fist shaking act of defiance doesn’t even take effect until August!!!
Lol, I tried (and yes, I did cancel, but I still have a few months left to watch the premium comment madness from a semi comfortable distance).
**But it was refreshing to see a number of comments to the effect that BG got it right, so kudos to DR and Chas.
I won an annual subscription through one of their competitions but I shan’t be coughing up for one in the future. Their video content is very good (aside from that Stab highway shit) but the whiff of ‘we’re cool because we hang out with pro-surfers’ is overpowering and skewers their perspective.
agreed — really liked their first few episodes of the how surfers get paid series, and the recent Rasta stuff was great … but the editorial stuff is pretty insufferable most of the time.
I luv your victorian principles!!
we can’t help it !
we didn’t have a victorian era over here … also, MC was taking down the Don harder than Tate in his comments, would think you would be aghast!
I stay neutral in the morality wars
Beach Grit – Ultra Hard Moral & Ethical Compass!
That’s a scary thought.
These are wild times