Next stop Pyongyang!
From LGBTQ+ Pride flags being ripped off lesbian athletes in Abu Dhabi to the feting of a contest in El Salvador where “less than one hour away is the Terrorism Confinement Center at the pointy end of the Trump administration’s mass deportation program”, the WSL don’t have a prob doin’ biz with dictators and totalitarian regimes.
As Chas Smith wrote a couple of weeks back in his April 1 bit,
Known for being one of the most socially progressive of all sports’ leagues, the “global home of surfing” is reportedly planning on sending two or three of its stars to plant a bush outside the mega-complex, during one of the lay days, in order to brighten the overall mood.
“For the inmates, chiefly the ones there accidentally, the bush will represent life’s simple joys,” the director of the non-profit WSL PURE declared, continuing, “A small reminder that happiness comes from within.”
That last bit was seen as a subtle jab at Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who toured the facility recently and reminded the inmates that happiness can also come from a $50,000 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona.
Today, Chas Smith gives hell to the WSL for talking progressive but doin’ biz with whoever got cash.
“What other regime could host a World Surf League event? North Korea? Might we be hearing to the People’s Republic of Korea? Showing the beautiful lands? Showing how the Dear Leader treats his people like children? Also by locking them up never to return?”
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My son and his mates call BYDs: “Chinese Spy Cars’.
Can I use this post if I give you proper credit? IT is so spot on!
Oh, should I feel guilty for driving German, American or Japanese cars due to what happened during WWII?
I expected this to be about Trump!!
Turkmenistan. This is their last president:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS546uLd26M
Their current president is this guys’ son, after he won an election in 2022.
The wave pool will bring the world together. Believe. Stoke will become Universal.
With a new wave pool being built in southern Utah the Mormons will bring everyone together for their stoke! Especially young, fertile women looking to convert to their brand of religion and the subservience they’ll learn to enjoy!
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/southern-utah/why-is-massive-wave-pool-being-built-in-southern-utah-city-in-drought-conditions
20026 World Tour.
By TESLA
– Russia
-North Corea
-Venezuela
-El Salvador
-Afghanistan
– Abu Dhabi
-Teahuppo,FRANCE(?)
– Pipeline (USA)?
– Angola
– Cameroon
-Angola
– INDONESIA
-MALDIVES
FINALS
– FLORIDA
Countries where people LOVE surfing, but the WSL just don’t care enough…
– BRAZIL
– ISRAEL
-FRANCE
– MORROCO
We’ve been using other Countries for decades. Treatys, and laws, and ICC…sometimes u have to take a detainee to certain Countries, so u can ask him certain questions. This isn’t new, this is the first time I’ve seen it produced for public consumption.
It sounds like you’re talking about detainees from war zones in foreign countries being rendered to third party countries like Bush did during the “war on terror”. That was bad and a violation of international law that the US does recognize.
I think the difference here is that people are literally being taken off the streets inside the United States and are disappeared to a foreign country with no due process. How do we know these people are actually criminals, gang members, etc? How do we know they are not citizens?
Just take the word of the government?
The slope gets real slippery from there… next thing you know they are disappearing your friends and neighbors or even you.
Ok, back to lightweight surf talk.
Obama continued Bush’s practice of renditions
Depends on how much it pays, and who is paying me! I could care less the back story, and all the feelings.
You offer a reasonable assertion that I 100% agree with. But I’m left to wonder if you were as troubled during the last 4 years when immigration laws were ignored? Who came in, which NGO’s used taxpayer dollars* to pay for their housing in affordable housing units and Section 8 housing around the country? And while they work without paying taxes but receive the benefits of taxpayers is that an economic problem US taxpayers are unfairly encumbered with? So the draconian measures being deployed by the short-fingered orange one are in some cases draconian but are they necessary to resolve a problem in need of a solution?
BTW, the surfing was great last weekend in Orange County!
*Thereby circumventing Constitutional law
I’d like to leave an article about an Alernative Prodan here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/16/fist-fight-king-charles-luca-prodan-argentinas-post-punk-god-sumo
Wasn’t Bethany’s complaint/prediction that a bunch of people from poor countries were going to go trans to compete in women’s comps and snag all the $$$?
They still make better money on onlyfans
Are you kidding?!?!
Think of all those bearded bikini dancers on the beach!
next year:
WSL presents the North Sentinel Island Pro brought to you by Diet Coke.
…brought to you by Diebetes and Smallpox.
Chas, it’s gone to hell in a handbasket & there’s no redemption, not even Jesus can save this trainwreck
Does that Jesus guy surf?
Pick another axe to grind mate, Or at least be entertaing about it.
This has to be the ultimate Beachgrit pisstake
I don’t think Rabin appreciates the quality of the bagels in Israel!