“My real point is that voting for Trump is as bad
if not worse than supporting Tate.”
It is difficult to say where Stab Magazine’s
headquarters is today. Once based in Bondi, Australia before moving
to Venice, California before moving to Oceanside, also California,
chasing that very-difficult-to-grab “cool” perpetually
five-to-seven years too late. Online is, anyhow, where the
subscription surf website finds itself today and online is where
the trouble arises.
After a series of failed big-for-britches editors writing in
Stab’s “royal we” vernacular, the blog landed on one Mikey
“Michael” Ciaramella, the pocket-sized pal who declares “creating
small fires and putting them out, one day at a time” as current job description on
LinkedIn.
Well, small fire lit, though not put out today after the
diminutive fella went on a wild anti-Trump pro-Andrew Tate screed
in his very own comment
section. The unfortunate turn occurred in a pompous
“exclusive’ interview probing superstar surfboard shaper Matt
Biolos’s lawsuit against hideous actress Lady Gaga’s use of the
word “Mayhem.”
Readers might have been less-than-completely-interested as some
questioned why Lost team rider Cole Houshmand’s recent
celebration of self-proclaimed woman hater Andrew Tate
was not, at the very least, brought up.
“In what universe is a mid-pack CT surfer taking a picture with
some internet troll more interesting than Matt Biolos suing Lady
fucking Gaga (and potentially winning)?” Ciaramella penned after an
apparently misguided below-the-line critic dared ask why the story
wasn’t covered.
Though he wasn’t done, continuing after a few more light barbs
directed his way:
You do know who a majority of Americans voted into office
last year, right?
26 sexual assault accusations against Trump, 34 felony
charges, and he’s big fan of Epstein — “It is even said that he
likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the
younger side.”
San Clemente is a Republican town, and several past and
current CT surfers have come out publicly as Trump supporters. I’d
imagine more of them lean that way quietly as well.
That, to me, is far more condemning (and interesting) than a
thoughtless IG story post. And yet it’s not something we cover
because 1. politics aren’t our lane and 2. supporting a predator
doesn’t necessarily make you one too.
After general confusion over the li’l buddy’s pronouncement
delivered from a very tall horse, Ciaramella continued:
My real point is that voting for Trump is as bad if not
worse than supporting Tate. Yet somehow, voting for Trump seems to
be broadly accepted in the surf world, while posting an IG story
with Tate has people up in arms.
I personally find both Trump and Tate despicable. Maybe Cole
loves both of them (or not). You’re more than welcome to be upset
about what he posted, but this doesn’t make it a story for
Stab.
Ummm.
Wait. What’s not a story for Stab?
