The Kentucky Derby is so sadly American

[Anonymous]

Also very American that the 80-1 odds won. You have to be lucky to get ahead in America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why isn't the Kentucky Derby held in other countries?

Probably the same reason Boston is hogging the Boston Marathon and the White House Easter Egg Roll is always at the White House.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bunch of preening white people in a muddy field under perpetually overcast skies thinking they are “sophisticated” and doing their best cosplay of American royalty.

Meanwhile, a bunch of Latino immigrants are actually getting sh#t done, training and riding the horses, running the event. It’s sadly comical.

Is there a better allegory for the degenerate navel gazing of the American elite? I’m watching this on TV and just gobsmacked by how they interview wealthy housewives about their dumb hats while ignoring everyone who makes it happen.

It’s funny, because outside of the Derby, all of the “elites” are white trash. Rich white trashy, sure, but white trash all the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A bunch of preening white people in a muddy field under perpetually overcast skies thinking they are “sophisticated” and doing their best cosplay of American royalty.

Meanwhile, a bunch of Latino immigrants are actually getting sh#t done, training and riding the horses, running the event. It’s sadly comical.

Is there a better allegory for the degenerate navel gazing of the American elite? I’m watching this on TV and just gobsmacked by how they interview wealthy housewives about their dumb hats while ignoring everyone who makes it happen.

It’s funny, because outside of the Derby, all of the “elites” are white trash. Rich white trashy, sure, but white trash all the same.

Said the person who had everyone wondering what on earth they meant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bunch of preening white people in a muddy field under perpetually overcast skies thinking they are “sophisticated” and doing their best cosplay of American royalty.

Meanwhile, a bunch of Latino immigrants are actually getting sh#t done, training and riding the horses, running the event. It’s sadly comical.

Is there a better allegory for the degenerate navel gazing of the American elite? I’m watching this on TV and just gobsmacked by how they interview wealthy housewives about their dumb hats while ignoring everyone who makes it happen.

You’re literally an imbecile.

[Anonymous]

*yawn*

So, an America-hating liberal know-it-all attempts to lecture the unwashed masses about the evils of capitalism by using a storied horse race as a metaphor for all that’s wrong with our country.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also very American that the 80-1 odds won. You have to be lucky to get ahead in America.

No, just refrain from doing really dumb things. And do your homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A bunch of preening white people in a muddy field under perpetually overcast skies thinking they are “sophisticated” and doing their best cosplay of American royalty.

Meanwhile, a bunch of Latino immigrants are actually getting sh#t done, training and riding the horses, running the event. It’s sadly comical.

Is there a better allegory for the degenerate navel gazing of the American elite? I’m watching this on TV and just gobsmacked by how they interview wealthy housewives about their dumb hats while ignoring everyone who makes it happen.

You’re literally an imbecile.

In regards to your comment about Latino immigrants. I just read that remittances to Mexico in the first quarter were the highest they have been in years. I forget the exact number but it was in the billions. Are those immigrants complaining?

I have no desire to ever participate in the Derby and I think it is stupid. However, if others enjoy it, all the power to them.
And if poor immigrants are making a living from a stupid event, all the power to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also very American that the 80-1 odds won. You have to be lucky to get ahead in America.

No, just refrain from doing really dumb things. And do your homework.

What does this mean? What are you trying to say?

You can't admit that the long shot won? You don't know?

[Anonymous]

Horse racing is far more popular in Europe. In the UK you can watch it any day on TV. Their race festivals are can more extensive and common. Ascot, Newmarket, Aintree, Cheltenham…the Royal Ascot is basically black tie, as well.

If anything, the Derby is the closest thing we have to British horse racing, not American.

[Anonymous]

What a loon, OP. Get a life.

[Anonymous]

The defining goal of those on the far left is to make everyone feel as miserable as they do, on the assumption that we will build a better society after all this “reckoning” has taken place.,

All the evidence suggests we’ll just end up with a bunch of bitter, perpetually disgruntled people constantly finding new things to whine about.

[Anonymous]

I just checked a map and confirmed Kentucky is in fact in the United States. So yes, you are correct, it is so American.

[Anonymous]

POC clean the offices and houses of privileged white people in the DMV. It's vaguely nauseating when those white peoples put on weird hats and clothes for a horse race they'll wTch in their living room with sone frost bros and female equivalents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:POC clean the offices and houses of privileged white people in the DMV. It's vaguely nauseating when those white peoples put on weird hats and clothes for a horse race they'll wTch in their living room with sone frost bros and female equivalents.

You clean offices and houses because you are stupid.