Usain Bolt - World's Fastest Man - Throws Shade at Ivanka and Jared

[tecelote]

Usain Bolt gave a short speech at Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference. He was great.


--- snip ---

Usain Bolt: I see Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are in the house.

-Some applause.-

Usain Bolt: Jared, I bet right now you wish you could run as fast as me.

-Laughs.-

Usain Bolt: Unfortunately, you can’t run from controversy, my friend. Colluding with the Russians, huh?

Herb Allen (off mic): We’re not talking about politics tonight, Usain.

Usain Bolt: OK, Herb. I’ll lay off the traitor. Funny, you never hear about governments colluding with the Jamaicans. We probably had a lot of the same information on Hillary but we’re always so baked it’s hard to keep it straight. Right? But I kid the people of my homeland…

-Laughs.-

--- snip ---

From this blog post...
http://mankabros.com/blogs/chairman/2017/07/14/herb-allens-sun-valley-conference-2017-day-3-worlds-fastest-man/

[murielm99]

1. This is real?

Wow.

[Barack_America]

11. I don't think this is real.

[Achilleaze]

2. Usain may lay off the republican traitors for an evening

But other decent, honest Americans will not rest until all republican traitors are locked up. It's a patriotic thing.

[oasis]

3. Telling it like it is. nt

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

He's very good - funny and not so subtle

[jaxind]

5. Applause

I wish when he said that Jared and Ivanka we're in the house, there would have been absolutely no applause! How great would that have been if there had been complete silence after their names were mentioned!

[Goonch]

6. Bolting

[demmiblue]

7. :)

[Tanuki]

8. Good. Jarvanka should be shunned and condemned, not feted and rewarded.

Ussain Bolt, btw, just received ESPY's Best International Atlete award a couple of days ago. He is obviously blessed with extraordinary physical gifts, but he has also worked his tail off for years to achieve his success. Jarvanka fell out of the womb into a pile of money, and would not have any status or celebrity based on their own achievements. And they repay the world for their rare good fortune by selling out our country to an adversary for cash and personal perks. Good on Ussain for "going there" and publicly calling out a traitor.

[elehhhhna]

13. Why Jarvanka when IvanRed is so much more fitting?

[panader0]

14. How about Jarvanka IvanRed?

[elehhhhna]

22. Deal!

[Perseus]

9. That was great

I hope they show it on national TV, at least the part where he says 'I'll lay off the traitor.'

[Raster]

10. Bravo, Mr. Bolt!!! Bravo!

[LittleGirl]

12. if this is not true

it's still hysterical!

[panader0]

15. Usain/Obama

[oberliner]

16. The fact that some DUers believe this is real and not parody is disturbing

To say the least.

[linuxman]

17. Confirmation bias is a motherfucker.

I've got accounts at 6 different discussion forums, but without fail, more people get suckered here than at any other. It's embarrassing.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Poe's law is alive and well on DU

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.

[leftstreet]

19. How did you know it wasn't real?

I'm curious because I'm not that familiar with Bolt



DUers don't always indicate when something is parody, so I'm never sure

[oberliner]

21. The Manka Bros. website

Is a parody site that runs this kind of thing all the time.

Also, common sense.

On Day 2 of the Sun Valley event, the fake blog reported on a production of the Rocky Horror Show with Barry Diller playing Frank, Brian Grazer playing Riff Raff and Sheryl Sandberg playing Janet (with the Meatloaf role going to Harvey Weinstein).

[Tanuki]

23. I've never heard of Manka and didn't read his other blog posts,

so had no context. I think there's a difference between satire and just making up stuff about random people like Usain Bolt.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. That's great! "OK, Herb. Ill lay off the traitor."