Thank you, surfing.
What a run it has been for El Salvador’s popular president, the self-styled “coolest dictator in the world,” Nayib Bukele these past few weeks. First, the “Global Home of Surfing” came to town for the 4th stop on its Championship Tour. World Surf League broadcasters Joe Turpel, Chris Cote, Mitchell Salazar etc. heaped so much praise on the country, so much buoyant language, that the surf fan, listening at home, becoming certainly convinced that El Salvador is a modern utopia where all freedoms are guaranteed and presumed innocence a national treasure.
Well, if holding the surf world in palm of hand is not enough, today, Bukele is in Washington D.C. visiting United States President Donald J. Trump at the White House.
Dressed in a last decade throwback trim navy blue suit at black t-shirt, the 43-year-old signaled his commitment to keeping wrongly deported folk in his glorious mega-jail, responding to a question about the Supreme Court’s ruling the man must be returned by saying, “The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
Bukele praised his country’s turn from the “murder capital of the world” to the “safest country in the world,” a sentiment that was echoed loudly in the World Surf League booth, and while the two world leaders did not get around to discussing Jordy Smith’s impressive win or Isabella Nichols missing her twin sister’s wedding, there is no doubt that it was top of mind.
Back to the lavish tributes ladled onto El Salvador from the World Surf League, do you imagine other potential despots around the globe are taking note?
Might we see the Great Leader Sonbong North Korean Pro on tour next year?
Mitchell Salazar and co. making word monuments to the tidiness and fierce pride of the Democratic People’s Republic?
Here’s to hoping.
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I thought they were Greek?
You don’t need an SSN to pay taxes. Undocumented immigrants pay through an ITIN.
I suspect the majority of the illegals would like to be legal, pay taxes(to support the services they currently receive for free) and become solid citizens. There should be a logical amnesty program for that process and I suspect this administration will get to that soon enough. That is after they finish sending back as many bad actors as possible. Tough measures for tough times continue for now…
After reading the comments the FSB has worked it’s magic on this site. Think I’ll just tend my bees keep the birdbath full and try surfing a bit more.
Don’t get your panty in a bind. Trust no one presented by the mainstream media- right, left, and center. It’s a big dog and pony show. Break out of the matrix. It’s not easy when the vast majority are fooled, heck 99% of the world still believes that we live on a spinning water ball.
I’m strangely OK with the WSL travelling around the world laundering the images of awful dictators and autocrats, like a trust fund vegabond JRE. Perhaps the gang can break Duterte out of the gulag and shred Cloud Nine?
My uncle convinced me if u drove around Hillcrest you would turn gay. All he was saying was gay shit was going down, stay away if u don’t want to see. I was kid, thought u turned gay.
You’d be surprised how many illegals pay taxes using fake SSN’s. It’s rampant in the construction industry.
No. I was just hoping there really wasn’t a 50ft. woman out there looking to kill me.
Make Prison Great Again!…
The Putin Pro?…
He looks like an electric foilboarder with no surf skills.
Mitch Saladbar should be open to North Korea, he is after all, a world traveller and seeker of knowledge with more than ten countries under his belt. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Theyre not talking about foreigners; this is from today after Trump literally said he was going to start deporting “home grown criminals” and told Bukkake he should build 5 more prisons for these “home grown criminals”. Then Stephen Miller went out and said the first qoute.
If Discuss allowed videos I would show you.
I’m a believer that many if not most illegals deserve an opportunity to stay in the US or return to the US IF and only if they have a fairly solid employment history while in the US, have generally abided by US law and are willing to pay taxes going forward.
Why have any laws at all?
You ask the perfect question! The previous administration chose to ignore US immigration laws versus using immigration laws to bring in the right immigrants thereby threatening the sovereignty of the US. So in the case of this Garcia guy he is back in his country and no longer breaking the laws of the US. BUT had he been a good guy and wasn’t hanging with bad guys, he might still be in the US…in the immortal words of Charlie Sheen “WINNING”
“facilitate
this guy’s returnthe release” was the language..
These comments Otto be good
Fuuuck I need to open a prison! Any investors in the chat?
its gotta be just concentric rings of barbed wire in a desert and tents – then I’m in!!
What makes Nayib Bukele a dictator, he was elected correct?
I think chas is antiantifa
Heard he keyed his own E-bike
Looks like one.
As a left leaning centrist Chas has always felt like a right leaning libertarian but with some lefty takes with certain womens’ issues.
Interestingly, his father is Palestinian – Lebanese.
Who said Trump can’t work with Palestinians.
Self described amongst other things.
Originally, yes. Re-election a bit suspect with law changes to allow him to serve more consecutive terms than constitution allows. Sounds familiar. Trump wants to be him.
So was Hitler, dude
Ooooh Hitler. Ya totally
Rachel, is that you.
Geez, things must be tough at MSNBC for Madcow to be writing articles for beach grit.
may want to read the Supreme Court ruling again.
it says that the “Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ release of man deported to El Salvador”.
says nothing about him returning to the U.S.
To facilitate means to make something easier.
However, deportee entered the U.S illegally in 2011 and is a Salvadorian
The left chooses odd sorts for martyrs. Cold blooded murderers that shockingly execute healthcare CEOs on the street, terrorist supporters over here on student visas they falsified by not declaring their intent to actively support declared terrorist groups, and now this MS-13 member.
Give me the Proud Boys any day!
When did we have protests and legal defense fund bake sales in support of the Proud Boys?
No, just presidential pardons.
Sure, but has Trump or MAGA held signs supporting tarrio at protests, raging on college campuses for his immediate release?
Insufferable
I do it for the people.