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Whitewater Horn

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  1. It was actually type 2A diabetes. But man did he look like such a cool alpha badass MAGA warrior all kitted up and ready for duty.
  2. Wout was cooked by that point, and I surprised he was able to even make an initial burst and try to get the wheel on MVdP’s attack. Then to hold off Bettiol, Poga, and Pedersen for silver was impressive. Great to see MVdP finally get that world championship.
  3. What a race and a memorable finish. Suiting with the best one day racers on the podium.
  4. Still hanging on. Wow.
  5. User name checks out.
  6. I imagine Filippo Simeoni agrees.
  7. I guess that’s the best way he could get some attention since he can no longer go on extended tv attacks and suffer for the cameras.
  8. “Tadej, how are you?” “Fucked. I’m dead.” Honest answer. Thank you live tv.
  9. What a win for Gall!
  10. Damn, Pogacar all over the bike. That’s too bad. Really wanted to see a battle on this monster. Maybe we’ll a race to the summit and another to the finish.
  11. I noticed his jersey all the way open just before he started to slip back.
  12. The real kings are about to be starting this thing for real. We’ll see who has the legs, lungs, and mental strength to take the HD prize.
  13. As well as all of us who refuse to stop following it.
  14. I think I get what G650 is saying. Pog had a great time and a second place finish, but his aero discipline, position on the bike, and overall body language wasn’t the peak, powerful, focused, and relentless Pogacar we expect to see. There was great effort there, but lacking the focus and savagery you see when he’s “on.”
  15. I knew it was an incredible TT by Jonas, but was wasn’t sure if it was historic. Now we know. Vingo is a bad man.
  16. Jonas isn’t exactly charismatic, but lumping him in with Froome is pretty harsh, lol.
  17. Yep, Pog is gonna have to turn himself and Yates inside out tomorrow trying to break Jonas. We already know that he can gap him with that explosive acceleration, but hasn’t been able to break him. If he has to do that more than a few times on the Loze, that is going to be destructive to himself. The pressure is all on UAE, and I hope they make it exciting. What a race so far.
  18. And Pogacar had an amazing ride. That was something special from Jonas. Somewhere Roglic is smiling.
  19. Statement.
  20. This. The Col de La Loze is a true monster of a climb. It’s a long ass slog before even reaching the start of the brutal part once you get above Meribel. Aside from the altitude, the gradient on the last 7k is almost constantly changing, disrupting any kind of sustained rhythm. Oh yeah, throw in a 20% wall a few k from the end and another short steep pitch before the line. There will definitely be selections made, and it’s going to be a blast to watch it go down. Hopefully the weather is clear enough to give us those incredible views from high in the Savoie. Full Bart Scott.
  21. Fucking idiots. How much more close to the riders do you need to be? That shit is so dangerous and hopefully that doesn’t end up putting any riders out. Those things are hard to forget. Besides the recent ones like “sign lady,” I still vividly remember Thor Hushovd in a sprint finish wearing the yellow jersey getting lacerated by a spectator holding out one of those green PMU fans, and of course that Armstrong guy getting his handlers snagged on a spectators cheap musette in the way up Luz Ardiden. Kinda surprised we haven’t seen any significant jackassery or race interference involving drones.
  22. That is so much more accurate and succinct point than my dumb, long-winded ass is capable of making.
  23. This something that boils my blood about this tribalism based around MAGA and the new brand of conservatism embraced by much of the mainstream Republican Party. My family has a long history of adoption and involvement in the Texas foster care systems across several generations. I even adopted my own children out of foster care and have been heavily involved in advocacy and volunteer activities for almost 15 years. Unfortunately, I’ve seen a lot of the horrors of child abuse and neglect up close. Some of those things have required a good deal of therapy to keep from going full psycho vigilante on these monsters. My own daughter suffered unspeakable and rage inducing abuse and neglect for the first five years of her life. A part of my heart will be forever broken after a single reading of her case file. I’ve done my damndest to make her feel safe and loved, to try to be a living example of a good man and positive role model. She just graduated high school in May and is more happy and well adjusted that I dared to dream 15 years ago. But part of me still screams and rages for what her first five years of life were like for her The point I was getting to is that I’ve seen these victims and the criminal perpetrators close up and often for many years. The majority of people abusing kids do not fit the narrative being pushed by Qanon and MAGA. It’s complete deflection. So many of these pieces of shit try to hide behind phony Christianity and phony patriotism. It’s maddening that this nonsense has any traction at all.
  24. Oh, for sure. I’ve known some of them and distanced them from my life when I knew they were actually bought in. I think the majority of these easily fooled and even easier led are just going through the motions to be “on the team.” They’re not the kind of people who make an effort to genuinely educate themselves or do any substantial research, they just want to stay current on the talking points and “what are we outraged about this week”. When I’ve engaged with these people and press them to support their claims, the common response is, “well, that’s what I heard.” They don’t really have many actual beliefs or well-informed opinions they can support with facts or knowledge. They have the narrative that was provided to them.
  25. What’s even more disturbing to me is that I don’t think most of them actually believe it. When they’re alone and not online, they know it’s bullshit, but it’s bullshit necessary in furthering a particular narrative that fits their brand of political and social tribalism. Just like the election nonsense, it doesn’t need to be true. It just needs to fit the wishful thinking groupthink to have a rallying point around which to fling their shit. It’s delusional, self righteous fantasy fueled by tribalism run amok to push the notion that people they don’t agree with, like wealthy liberals, Democrats, and “Hollywood” (not sure if it’s only actors & producers, of if it goes all the down to PAs, caterers, etc), are the principal consumers of sex trafficked kids and women. You don’t have to do extensive research of arrests and convictions involving trafficked and abused children to see the factually ridiculous nature of that assertion. A soon as I started seeing “advertising” about this movie on twitter, I could sense where this was going.
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