PHOTOS: Virus Revs Engine As Thousands Of Maskless Bikers Attend SD Rally | Talking Points Memo

Tens of thousands of bikers have descended upon the South Dakota city of Sturgis in recent days for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally — virus be damned.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1325052
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Until now…

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What our state has to offer is death. Welcome to SD!

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JFC! He’s on oxygen.

That has got to be the weirdest outlaw biker I’ve ever seen.

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If you’re gonna thin the herd, the Sturgis Rally is almost as good a starting point as the RNC Convention…

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I recall, early on in the infection, cell phones were traced from Spring Break in Florida back to locations, some of which became centers of infection.
Would someone be good enough to conduct that same test here?

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Queasy Rider! On a Hover-Round! With a hideous tat!

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Hell’s COPDers!!

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But he’s protected by a +2 Helm of Trump.

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Thousands of old men with diabetes and COPD crowded together (often indoors at bars) during a viral pandemic. What could possibly go wrong?

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They’ll get my oxygen tank when they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

AKA next Tuesday.

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This is why citizens of the US are forbidden from entering other countries. We are the shithole the world fears.

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If the Governor of South Dakota was genuine VP material she would have shut this thing down. Instead, she’s fluffing His Nibs with talk of adding his face to Mt Rushmore.

My mother-in law always insisted that bikers all have a death-wish riding around on their murdercycles. With the kind of enabling these economy-first decisions makers are promoting, they’ll be a great many used hoggs for sale come Christmas.

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If I’d thought of it sooner, I would have looked into buying a large billboard in Sturgis for the rally. It would have shown a person in a mask with the message:

HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOULD DIE
FOR YOUR GOOD TIME?

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Not surprising at all

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You know you’re desperate when you have to depend on a massive rally of drunken bikers to get out of the red.

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Rugged individualists spending their social security checks like drunken sailors as they wheeze, cough and ride their bikes down the streets in a veritable jubilee of viagra and miralax-laced abandon.

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I have a theory that there won’t be a massive resurgence of the virus after the first wave finally subsides because all the goddamned morons will have already had it.

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And speaking of clueless assholes in the time of a pandemic (which I believe is also the title of a novel by Marquez), Nikki Haley, the epitome of “Republican feminism” (yeah, I couldn’t hold the laughter in, either), decided to Tweet with loudly poutrage about her order from The Popcorn Factory being late to her dear, starving nephew for whom, seeing that she probably has more cash in her change purse than most of us here have in our bank accounts, Ms. Haley could probably buy a brand new XBox with all the trimmings. The scorn that is thrown at her in the replies are a poem of sarcasm and insults, which Nikki so dearly deserves:

https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1292810162344988672

Here’s a brief report on it from rawstory.com:

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Ya want to think “They can’t be that stupid”
But Ya
They’re that stupid
The governor has provided a bunch of sound bites that are going to sound pretty stupid in a few weeks
See: Desantis, Ron

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