Thanks. This summer saw them perform basically all of I See Good Spirits… Confessions of a Knife, and the Kooler than Jesus EP. It was amazing. Their main tour is over, but they still announce a show here and there. Hopefully they will be back at it this summer.
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Christ, what a Fox-hole.
I don’t know what kind of cognitive issues one has to have to suggest that the athletes attending the Olympics aren’t there because of merit but somehow got selected to check a diversity box. How does he think that even would work?
Oh, it’s darker than that.
At Fox headquarters:
“How’s Jennifer Aniston clone number 253 developing?”
“Not bad. If we trim off the flippers, I think she’ll be good to go on air.”
“Thank God. I was afraid we’d end up with another Doocy.”
Wait - it isn’t?
Reading about the early (revival) Olympic games, they sound like something I could at least place in. They were hilarious disasters. At the first American summer Olympics, many of the Marathon participants were basically random people who happened to be in the area, less than half of whom finished the race. Two people almost died, including the eventual marathon winner, in part due to “performance enhancing” drugs he was given - brandy and strychnine - so he could finish the race (although he was literally carried by his trainers over the finish line). One racer stopped to pick and eat some fruit, got sick and had a nap during the race (and still came in fourth). The (initial) winner drove most of the way. Etc.
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I think conservatives go looking for stuff to get angry about (this seems to be Rush Limbaugh’s entire modus operandi), so I’ll bet this guy would never even have noticed if not for news reports about the diversity of the team. These guys get so riled up about affirmative action that it’s a given some conservative talking turd was going to see “diversity” and think it means “quotas.”
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Revved up like a douche, you know, the gomer on the right.
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I swear, whenever I hear a garden variety bigot or a white nationalist start spouting off about ‘racial purity,’ “Duel of Banjos” from Deliverance starts to play in my mind.
I’m no geneticist by any means, but I still know diversity is highly important when it comes to species adaptation and genetic evolution.
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I suppose he was thinking: "Look at the Russian team at the last Winter Olympics. They were all-white and look how well they did!”
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See my earlier comment
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Notably Racistly, only minorities can ever possibly be charity cases. There has never been and will never be a circumstance where a cishet white person* is ever less competent or capable than a minority individual. Any inclusion of a non-white person is always at the expense of an actually-more-qualified whitey.
I’m amazed my keyboard didn’t self-immolate as I typed that.
*) I use “person” instead of “man” in this instance only because the Olympic teams are already mostly gender-separated to begin with, so women can’t possibly threaten the ability of white men to participate, but minority women can still impinge upon the seeming inherent qualifications of white women.
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Usually under many layers of rocks, earth and mud dating back millennia. Fossils don’t like being dug up and brought into the modern daylight, either, you know. Hence the expression ‘which stone did he crawl out from under this morning?’
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Chuck Tingle, is that you?
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A descendant of the honorable Sir Dipp Shyttington. A noble family if ever there was one.
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I literally just now finished watching an '88 retrospective about Bryan Boitano and Debi Thomas… Is this idiot also still wondering when the wall is coming down? Die already you fucking artifact.
And trying to push a conspiracy theory that olympians didn’t earn their place? at any other time in my life I’d be more shocked, but in the age of Trumpspiracies where the press are evil liars, science is fake, the earth is flat and white men/police are the real victims, challenging the process of olympics qualifying is just one fucking more. shit is coming apart at the seams.
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John Moody Pounded in the Ass by a Darker, Gayer, Different Olympian Athlete.
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As will Daft Punk’s next album.
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It seems to me that he is yearning for the time when the Winter Olympics was seen as the exclusive playground of the pure, Nordic, Aryan races, uncontaminated, as were the Summer Olympics, by the presence of colored people like Jesse Owens.
Go Jamaica!
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I propose Tomato Awards
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and just look at all the brunettes and redheads, and the curls!
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Geezus, it’s as if the Third Reich reincarnated with the minds of the Three Stooges.
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