Getty Road's Megathread

[GettyRoad]

Could be, I don’t bother to try and sleuth that.

I would have to say the obsession with 80’s and 90’s celebrities is weird but honestly I would think a bot would bias towards more modern ones simply due to the training materials being more available.

People like Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky transcend generation to generation, they aren't as cowardly as today's celebrities.

Any modern celebrity is afraid of cancel culture. Supporting Trump publicly is a kiss of death and socially unacceptable, I know for the fact that most athletes are closet Trump supporters, it's just that they won't say it out loud due to fear.

Back in the 80s, most of the athletes would go to Reagan-Bush or Bush-Quayle rallies, even some of the minorities.

 

[soundforbjt]

People like Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky transcend generation to generation, they aren't as cowardly as today's celebrities.

Any modern celebrity is afraid of cancel culture. Supporting Trump publicly is a kiss of death and socially unacceptable, I know for the fact that most athletes are closet Trump supporters, it's just that they won't say it out loud due to fear.

Back in the 80s, most of the athletes would go to Reagan-Bush or Bush-Quayle rallies, even some of the minorities.

Yes, I’m sure you know lots of professional athletes...

 

[allisolm]

Yes, I’m sure you know lots of professional athletes...

He must. After all, how else could he know for a fact that that most athletes are closet Trump supporters.

 

[fskimospy]

People like Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky transcend generation to generation, they aren't as cowardly as today's celebrities.

Lol. So in other words you’re just making shit up.

Any modern celebrity is afraid of cancel culture. Supporting Trump publicly is a kiss of death and socially unacceptable, I know for the fact that most athletes are closet Trump supporters, it's just that they won't say it out loud due to fear.

Do you now. What’s your basis for this? What professional athletes have you spoken to that say this? Please name them.

Back in the 80s, most of the athletes would go to Reagan-Bush or Bush-Quayle rallies, even some of the minorities.

‘most of the athletes, even some of the minorities’. Lol.

Why are you so obsessed with race?

 

[Drach]

Getty reminds me of the right wing media.

 

[nakedfrog]

This reminds me of one of my favorite Batman comics.

 

[esquared]

Maybe Getty is gone.

US disrupts Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated home, business routers: DOJ

The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small business routers.

abc7.com

 

[nakedfrog]

A thousand seems like a pretty small number, considering how many home and small business routers are out there...

 

[Amol S.]

Maybe Getty is gone.

US disrupts Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated home, business routers: DOJ

The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small business routers.

abc7.com

Maybe you are correct, Getty has not logged in all day according to his profile.

 

[GettyRoad]

Lol. So in other words you’re just making shit up.

Do you now. What’s your basis for this? What professional athletes have you spoken to that say this? Please name them.


‘most of the athletes, even some of the minorities’. Lol.

Why are you so obsessed with race?

I haven't spoken to a professional athlete since getting an autograph from Curtis Granderson in the 2010s at Yankee Stadium.....

Most professional athletes are right-leaning because of taxes, meritocracy, etc. They like Trump, or align with his policies.

Fact.

Where Did All the Trump-Boosting Jocks Go?

Many of the athletes who proudly supported the president in 2016 have gone quiet. That says something about his political standing.

nymag.com

 

[GettyRoad]

He must. After all, how else could he know for a fact that that most athletes are closet Trump supporters.

A lot of them are, baseball star Trevor Bauer himself admitted it.

Trevor Bauer goes on long rant defending tweet about liberal bias

Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer is determined. That much was clear when Bauer attempted to pitch through a painful cut on his pinky finger against the Toronto Blue Jays in the playoffs. Bauer even considered cauterizing the wound with a soldering iron just so he could take the mound. It...

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Paratus]

Maybe you are correct, Getty has not logged in all day according to his profile.

Guess they missed a botnet.

 

[fskimospy]

I haven't spoken to a professional athlete since getting an autograph from Curtis Granderson in the 2010s at Yankee Stadium.....

Most professional athletes are right-leaning because of taxes, meritocracy, etc. They like Trump, or align with his policies.

Fact.

Where Did All the Trump-Boosting Jocks Go?

Many of the athletes who proudly supported the president in 2016 have gone quiet. That says something about his political standing.

nymag.com

Trump supporting due to meritocracy - lol.

I just found it funny that yet again you found a way to make this about race. You are totally, totally obsessed with race.

 

[GettyRoad]

Trump supporting due to meritocracy - lol.

I just found it funny that yet again you found a way to make this about race. You are totally, totally obsessed with race.

Trump is seen as more accomplished than his father, despite the business being shut down yesterday. Why? Trump's father never was in the media eye, Donald was. Donald is the show, he is the attention seeker, he built a great brand that now extends to capturing the GOP and capturing young men.

Also, race is central to America.....

 

[GettyRoad]

Trump supporting due to meritocracy - lol.

I just found it funny that yet again you found a way to make this about race. You are totally, totally obsessed with race.

Sports is the last meritocracy left in occupations, along with entertainment.

Athletes see themselves in him, they are wealthy like him as well, and they benefit from his tax cuts, so it is not a surprise Bauer, etc. support him.

 

[fskimospy]

Sports is the last meritocracy left in occupations, along with entertainment.

Athletes see themselves in him, they are wealthy like him as well, and they benefit from his tax cuts, so it is not a surprise Bauer, etc. support him.

Not relevant. Trump is a nepo baby, the opposite of meritocracy.

 

[DaaQ]

I haven't spoken to a professional athlete since getting an autograph from Curtis Granderson in the 2010s at Yankee Stadium.....

Most professional athletes are right-leaning because of taxes, meritocracy, etc. They like Trump, or align with his policies.

Fact.

Where Did All the Trump-Boosting Jocks Go?

Many of the athletes who proudly supported the president in 2016 have gone quiet. That says something about his political standing.

nymag.com

I don't think this says what you think it says. Link is from an August 25th 2020, appears to be an Op-Ed and has a tag of "games" Anyway let's roll on.

Context:

Gilmartin is a baseball D-lister

To:

Because Gilmartin isn’t just a soft-tossing left-hander. He’s also the husband of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The two were the focus of a soft feature in the Tampa Bay Times back in March, in which Gilmartin said he studiously avoided talking politics in the baseball clubhouse, though, “[Kayleigh and I] align fairly evenly on stuff like that.” And now he’s unemployed. Considering the Rays’ Twitter account greeted Opening Day by saying, “Today is Opening Day, which means it’s a great day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor,”

Wait there's more.

the once-symbiotic relationship between Trump and conservative athletes isn’t what it used to be. And as the Republican National Convention gets underway with its parade of Trumps and Scott Baio–level celebrities, there is an undeniable paucity of athletes and sports figures there to support the president. As in 2016, UFC president Dana White will be in attendance —he’s as steadfast a Trump loyalist as you will find— and old Trump pal Herschel Walker delivered a “he’s not racist!” paean to the president on Monday night. But otherwise, the slate is entirely barren of anyone involved in sports at all.

Now here is where I think, (PLEASE NOTE THE I THINK) Cult of Trump comes in. Due to the male soap operas on cable tv in the evenings. Bold and underlined mine.

This is unusual for the RNC itself, which once nominated a Bills quarterback for vice-president, but particularly so for Trump, who, as a golf-resort operator, former football-team owner, boxing promoter, and member of the WWE Hall of Fame, has as much of a connection to professional sports as any president in United States history.

Then there is this Doozy here.

Trump is constantly using sports to advance his interests, whether it’s tweeting in support of college athletes who “want to play,” complaining that he’s “tired of watch 14-year-old baseball games,” finding friendly college football crowds in the South or, most famously, turning Colin Kaepernick and kneeling athletes into enemies of the state. He only seems to be enjoying the job of president when he’s hosting championship teams at the White House, even when he’s only offering them fast food. It’s no wonder he’s always so aggrieved when they don’t want to come.

But in 2020, the sports figures left publicly supporting the president are mostly the kind of freak-show acolytes you see among Trump supporters in the celebrity world

Trump’s sports supporters tend to be characters with shady histories like his own, people like Curt Schilling, Tito Ortiz, Mike Ditka, Dennis Rodman (though he is wavering), and golfer John Daly, who’s such a Trump supporter he actually recorded a video at a Trump club in April, for the Trump Organization’s official YouTube channel, that includes an, uh, inventive therapy for dealing with COVID-19.

This is not to say there aren’t high-profile sports figures still on the Trump train. Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross hosted a fundraiser for the president last month that brought in $12 million, and he is hardly alone among NFL owners,

Tom Brady is widely considered Trump’s most high-profile athlete supporter, but he distanced himself from the president years ago — he didn’t attend either of the Patriots’ last two trips to the White House — and the pair’s “friendship” has always felt more celebrity-transactional than particularly political. (Though they certainly share an affinity for quack science.)

And the kiss of death:

Trump is widely perceived as the one thing most anathema to people in sports: a loser. Sports figures want to be heard. But more than anything, always: They want to be on the winning team.

To be clear, this article is from August 25th 2020 that OLD Getty linked.

Bold emphasis mine.

A lot of them are, baseball star Trevor Bauer himself admitted it.

Trevor Bauer goes on long rant defending tweet about liberal bias

Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer is determined. That much was clear when Bauer attempted to pitch through a painful cut on his pinky finger against the Toronto Blue Jays in the playoffs. Bauer even considered cauterizing the wound with a soldering iron just so he could take the mound. It...

sports.yahoo.com

 

[GettyRoad]

Not relevant. Trump is a nepo baby, the opposite of meritocracy.

True, but he built his own brand, like how Niners' coach Kyle Shanahan did to break away from his father's shadow.

 

[GettyRoad]

I don't think this says what you think it says. Link is from an August 25th 2020, appears to be an Op-Ed and has a tag of "games" Anyway let's roll on.

Context:

To:

Wait there's more.

Now here is where I think, (PLEASE NOTE THE I THINK) Cult of Trump comes in. Due to the male soap operas on cable tv in the evenings. Bold and underlined mine.

Then there is this Doozy here.





And the kiss of death:


To be clear, this article is from August 25th 2020 that OLD Getty linked.

Bold emphasis mine.



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Trump supporters don't break away.....8 years later, a lot of them still do support him. A majority of white athletes do, period, especially in baseball, football and hockey. That is factual.

 

[DaaQ]

True, but he built his own brand, like how Niners' coach Kyle Shanahan did to break away from his father's shadow.

What exactly IS his brand? Besides gaudy gold letters on a building?

I mean it was widely reported how bad he screwed over workers hired by him, did the work requested BY him, and he refused to pay the bills for work performed.
That went back many years before 2016.

I mean y'all got this supposed billionaire, flopping around for Vince McMahon before the "You're Fired" show came along.

 

[DaaQ]

Trump supporters don't break away.....8 years later, a lot of them still do support him. A majority of white athletes do, period, especially in baseball, football and hockey. That is factual.

How old are you if you don't mind my asking?

EDIT:
You say you don't like the guy, but post all this doomsday genz white male athletes are still on his bandwagon stuff. It is really perplexing.

 

[GettyRoad]

What exactly IS his brand? Besides gaudy gold letters on a building?

I mean it was widely reported how bad he screwed over workers hired by him, did the work requested BY him, and he refused to pay the bills for work performed.
That went back many years before 2016.

I mean y'all got this supposed billionaire, flopping around for Vince McMahon before the "You're Fired" show came along.

That and he created jobs in NY, FL and elsewhere....he is seen as a job creator, the tax cuts help create jobs and you get a tax cut if you are wealthy, like Bauer, Gretzky, Verlander and Upton want it to be....

 

[GettyRoad]

How old are you if you don't mind my asking?

EDIT:
You say you don't like the guy, but post all this doomsday genz white male athletes are still on his bandwagon stuff. It is really perplexing.

I'm in my 30s.

 

[DaaQ]

I'm in my 30s.

So are you worried Trump will be elected? Or are you wanting Trump re-elected?

 

[GettyRoad]

So are you worried Trump will be elected? Or are you wanting Trump re-elected?

I don't like Trump, I find him stupid. Yet, I admire the fact he brought people out of the apolitical daze and made people reflect on what type of a country we have had for 40+ years....