"If you look back in the 50s and the 60s, surfers were the outcasts..."
Odd what vacuums will do. But you are certainly aware of Huntington Beach, California and its pivot from Surf City, USA to MAGA hotspot. The Orange County town of nearly 200,000 souls has long shared the generally conservative outlook of its neighbors though, according to a new feature in The Telegraph, went rabid for Trump and his brand of gilded populism after Governor Gavin Newsom went heavy-handed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Don Ramsey, very involved in city politics and sitting on the board of the Surfers’ Hall of Fame, shared, “Oh, hell, these people were p—ed, We said: ‘No f—ing way that you’re shutting our beach.’”
Four MAGA, or “Make America Great Again” council members were elected during 2020 and, last year, all seven seats became occupied by red hats.
Each, according to the story, either a surfer or “ex-surfer.”
They all posed on the beach, standing next to the biggest fish in recorded history while throwing shakas before retreating to nearby Duke’s to share how the MAGA surfer is the new “ultra-liberal pot-smoking surfer.”
Mayor Ken Burns, an ex-police officer declared, “A cornerstone of surfing culture is you’re relaxing, you’re out there, it’s just a chilled life, you know? You’re at one, just doing your own thing. That’s kind of what MAGA is – just let us live.”
Council member Don Kennedy agreed, adding, “If you look back in the 50s and the 60s, surfers were the outcasts – like, oh, there’s just a surf bum. Now all that guy wants to do is surf. You know, surf, relax, listen to music. That culture is probably indicative of not wanting a bunch of government oversight or anybody on your back.”
Or tranny books in libraries, gay-ass flags fluttering in the wind, protesters being all faggy, homeless men baby trafficking, etc.
The original surf ethos.
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Surfer’s have been deporting folks off their beaches forever. Typically not chill about it, but definitely very MAGA. Gotta always listen to those snowflake “you don’t own the ocean” responses. But now we just rename bodies of water, so yes we do!
“That’s kind of what MAGA is – just let us live.”
What the fuck?
MAGA surfers are 40-year-olds who started surfing last year and go left on rights.
Or right on lefts.
MAGA hate wind but love whales. They give boats a pass, bros.
We’re chill people who just let live…
Oh yeah!
Then or than, why can’t my cousin in Ar-Kansas get an abortion? She’s so sweet. Ever since she was four she would always say to me, ” Uncle Tess, I can’t wait until I become with child so I can get an abortion.”
And now she is 13 and can’t get an abortion in her state. If she was legal she’d have to catch it in the first 6-weeks and she ain’t that quick.
And my cousin, who or whom, lives in HuntingBeach Pier, who or whom, is a nazi lowrider now can’t say anything anti-semetic or he’ll get a DOJ charge.
And my other cousin, who likes to set cars on fire, hit a Tesla the other week and now he’s got a Terrorism charge. He ain’t a terrorist. He just likes to set cars on fire that’s all.
Yeah, live and let live alright.
When Americano takes Gaza, Canada and Greenland Beach Grit should try to get a beach resort property going in one or more of them places.
Live and let live…
We’re taking your country, bros, for a resort.
What is a “ex surfer” ?
me
MAGA: we have the greatest military in the world.
Also MAGA: We have to keep guns so we can defeat our armed forces in case they go all tyrannical.
The Wisconsin Militia could take Canada by themselves.
By the way, in 1976 I eliminated 16-Yugoslavians single-handedly.
wow did you eliminate them by …..???
Glock 17 with a 30-round mag, and, of course, plenty of sperm.
Doesn’t say a lot for all the us-made arms the Canadian military has
Does the Wisconsin Militia have surface to air missiles?
the US won’t fold but be certain China/Europe can and will replace the USA!
Don’t get your hopes up. It’s just going to be China.
it’s not hope , as it’s quite sad to see the USA unravelling so quickly , a lot of good people are going and getting hurt…mostly the vulnerable ones ….at this stage if don keeps going Europe will add UK/Canada and Australia’s working on free trade agreement with Europe we are the most vulnerable of all as we solely rely on china as out biggest customer………
Clearer, more fucosed shots of the point grinderess ..throughout the story would have been appreciated
Yeah or the “<insert prime=”” ministers=”” name=””> surf squad”
Lyndon Larouche 2028!
Such a diverse bunch of beet headed old men, lads need to lay off the ivermecton and testosterone. They look so “relaxed and chilled”, no way any of them could explode.
weren’t surf nazis born/labelled in Huntington or was it Malibu?
Malibu! Our Matt Warshaw has discussed but I would also argue they were absolutely ignorant and employing Nazi garbage as middle finger to establishment. Not that it cleans it. When you actually have the power and are claiming that’s new surf bum…. I get irritated.
didn’t Miki get painted with the nazi brush……sorry for the PTSD /Miki,LOL?
Local surf artist (whose work is all over the surf coast) got some of his paintings banned from a show in Lorne because some of them depicted surfers with maltese cross / iron cross symbols on his boards. He was told by the dim witted curator that they are “nazi symbols”. He explained that no, the surfers he depicted were not fucking neo nazis, they were anti establishment and in fact the complete opposite meaning. Too bad she said. Not allowed to show them!
You should bring that up at your next wine moms soiree
Stop gossiping with women in Whole Foods, it’s making you softer than you already are.
this is largely what’s happening today
Huntington Beach…fuck, what a dump.
All I notice is a increase of foreign ” bucket list” extended vacation tourist type surf beginner kooks in the 25 to 30 year age bracket ,that follow like for like what ever surf adjacent advertising campaign is on social media or the WSL it’s so fucken lame.
Is that Mat Johnson!
I don’t know who coulda done it if it wasn’t me, but I never, I mean never, pissed in your steam iron.
How dare you write:”Odd what vacuums will do” under the picture of Peggy Gordon (the point grinder).
Shame
I only have 1 eye and never read the whole sharticle.
We wouldn’t hold that against you. I didn’t read the whole thing either. I think I got distracted by the first hyperlink.
My kind of place. Gotta send the Mayor a HamSammish.
Utah, gimme 2 ✌🏻
True surfers support a welfare state, these cunts have obviously never been on the dole
Suck on a welfare state.
Support??
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he actually swore at his inauguration that he would preserve protect and defend the constitution of the USA……..at least he’s honest for once that he actually doesn’t know what the constitution is…or as can be seen now has some serious cognitive problems…as it looks like he forgot his inauguration ……..I mean did you see his Alcatraz pitch……FFS he’s cooked his orange matter!