Djoker Has Australian Visa Revoked. Again.
Novac Djokovic is the latest in a long string of bad sports in the tennis world. I must confess that the only real sport I follow, and indeed still play, is tennis. It’s a great sport you can play well into…er…uh…maturity, and helps those of us who play stay in shape. It’s also a brilliant sport to watch in person and even on television, though it is better in person.
All that said, like other professional sports, tennis has its bad guys. Back in the 70s it was John McEnroe, who raised being an asshole on the court to a fine art form, but players like Jimmy Connors, who on occasion acted out; Ilie Nastase, nicknamed Nasty Nastase; Dennis Ralston in the 60s, and a few others were all close seconds. There were fewer on the women’s side, but Serena Williams is famous for smashing racquets and screaming during the match to throw off her opponents when she’s behind. Nick Kyrgios is also well known for being a jerk on the court.
Bad sportsmanship is one thing. Being a shitty person is a whole other thing, and that’s the spot Djoker occupies. He’s famous for smashing racquets, screaming at crowds who don’t worship him, and was booted from the US Open in 2020 after he hit a line judge in the throat with a ball he had slapped during one of his rages. On top of all that, he’s a notorious anti-vaxxer. At the height of the pandemic in 2020, Djoker held a private tournament in Serbia that turned into a super spreader event and where he himself contracted the virus. It got so bad that the final match was cancelled.
Learning nothing from that disaster, Djoker has flouted public health rules in many countries; he did it again in Australia last week, but this time got caught by a functioning government not star struck by the world’s number one player. First, he refused to get vaccinated, and then refused to disclose that fact to the public. Then he lied on his immigration form saying that he had not traveled internationally in the last 2 weeks when, in fact, had traveled to Spain for an event the previous week. Worse yet, he appeared in person for an interview the day after he had tested positive for COVID. Appropriately, Australia cancelled his visa and ordered him to leave the country. He refused, of course, and was then isolated in a quarantine hotel while his lawyers appealed the ruling. The judge in the case restored his visa based on a narrow ruling that he was not given sufficient time to respond to the government’s decision.
What did Djoker do then? He immediately started practicing for the tournament exposing who knows how many people to possible infection. Wisely, the minister of immigration for Australia cancelled his visa again today, but rather than just getting on a plane and leaving, Djoker then immediately appealed the ruling again; another hearing is scheduled for Sunday. It’s expected that he’ll lose this appeal.
Australia has some of the most strict COVID policies of any country in the world, and has had relatively low infections as a result. Melbourne was especially strict, with almost 300 days of lockdown over the last 2 years. Djoker’s flouting of Australia’s health policy and wanton self-interest has turned the Australian Open into a circus where everyone is talking about Djoker, and actual tennis has taken a back seat to his malignant narcissism. In fact, he has become TFG of tennis with all the bad traits that label carries with it. He couldn’t care less about other people; rules don’t apply to him; he ignores science and good public policy; he’s simply a shitty person.
Fingers crossed that he gets his on Sunday and is sent packing back to Serbia so he can fume and watch great players not him compete for the first Grand Slam win of the year. I’ll be celebrating his deportation.
If only they played tennis or actually did anything more “athletic” than opening a bag of snacks, every anti-vaxxer maskhole selfish covidiot could be Djoke. He is some poster boy for the insanely selfish stupid.
Then again, we could also look at our conservative SCROTUS with their recent ruling against vaccine mandates. Sumthin, sumthin, sumthin about precedent? Rule of law anyone? Apparently not with the Roberts court. Freedumb! Religious freedumb!!
1Let’s see. What other lying (hero to himself) anti vaxxer does he remind me of? Hmm. Oh, kaaron rodgers. Two sports brats.
2Kaaron. I like that.
3Agreed, El Jefe, but the complaint about players like Pete Sampras and Andy Murray has always been that they’re boring, i.e., not “colorful” assholes. Are there no nice guys who finish first?
4Hopefully, he will be banned from the US Open as well. His marketability has taken a big hit which is delightful Karma.
If Trump was President, he would make a big deal out of inviting Djokovic to the US to rub Australia’s face in it. Never forget what an awful POS he was and is.
As a Green Bay fan, I can’t wait for the team to get rid of this cancer Rodgers.
5Buttermilk Sky, look at Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal! Superstars and also decent guys.
6I hope he gets kicked out of Australia, sent back to Serbia, and reconsiders his life as a jerk. I’m pretty sure that last hope isn’t going to happen, though.
7As someone who gritted my teeth and got through those 6 lockdowns totalling 262 days in Melbourne, I am very pleased that the entitled tennis player has his comeuppance. Justice Kelly returned his visa last week, but it only came out later how much Djokovic had lied to authorities, so if Djoko gets Kelly again, Kelly might be feeling a little aggrieved. But most of Melbourne is feeling aggrieved that he got a visa in the first place.
8Speaking of total assholes, a few days ago a Floriduh Republican Party official overplayed his road rage and eliminated himself from the gene pool.
And it was his second time for a road rage incident in the exact same place, a few years before he was arrested and convicted for it; slow learner.
Basically, a Mr. Kuczwanski in his BMW, caused a minor highway accident with a Prius.
While the Prius driver waited in his vehicle for the police at a Circle K parking lot, Mr. K rammed the parked Prius broadside and pushed it some distance.
Then Mr. Kuczwanski pulled out his pistol and fired at the Prius driver, missing him. The Prius driver then got out his own weapon and fatally shot Kuczwanski dead.
After an on-scene police review with witnesses and video, the Prius driver was free to go.
Mr. K Beamer probably figured that the Prius guy was a weakass librul he could intimidate and stomp on, a slight miscalculation.
Naturally the Rethugs and Mrs. K are defending the asshole, with all the usual ‘nice, religious, family guy’ bullshit.
The Tallahassee O.K. Corral, brought to you by hordes of Republican assholes..
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/13/2074414/-Florida-Republican-is-shot-dead-after-allegedly-ramming-car-and-shooting-at-driver
9Djokovic is such a special snowflake.
10Yeow, this Floriduh Beamer vs Prius story has some legs. I did a few searches and it’s got lots of articles and stories about it all over the web.
All with huge numbers of comments, and 99% in favor of the Prius guy, who finally and fatally defended himself against the Rethug BMW rageaholic [the usual RWNJs seem uncannily quiet about this].
This is a good summary and comment chain on a serious political news website:
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/485132-john-kuczwanski-killed-in-road-rage-incident/
This one, ‘Liberal Gunowners’, has a great logo image, a freakin big snowflake cradled on crossed M-16s, luv it; worth a look just for the logo [reddit has chingos of sections about the ‘Shootout at the Circle K’..]:
https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/
Czech ’em out… [Mr. JK sure checked hisself out.. pau, pa’ya, finis]
11It ain’t just the Circle K Corral either, scads of fast food joints are getting shot up too.
In a Phoenix Wendys, some poor 16 year old got a bullet to the brain because a whackjob didn’t get enough effing BBQ sauce:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/15/2074821/-Fast-food-in-the-NRA-s-America-16-year-old-shot-over-barbecue-sauce
JFCWTF
12Lenore @ 8, welcome and thanks for the down under perspective.
Jet Harris, hope you’re doing better. We were positive, but almost asymptomatic for a week and half and now back to work.
Sandridge, I’d bet money that Beemer driving f**ker thought he was terrifying a Prius driving snowflake right up until a second amendment solution ……..well….. solved itself.
13P.P. @13, That seems the way it played out, and the general consensus.
Big jerkoff Rethug politician Beamer driver, with a previous road rage AND a brandishing conviction [at the same location], goes all road rage condition red on lil ol’ latte-sipping libtard Prius pilot [presumed]. Gets giant ‘Oh Shit!’ newsflash as his lights go out..
Reading various accounts of the incident, Mr. K left the office early, heading for a family event. Wife said he called her that he was going to beat the rush hour traffic, yaddayadda.
I can’t help but wonder if the initial minor contact highway accident didn’t occur with him yapping on the cellphone with her. He allegedly drifted out of his lane and struck the Prius.
Then they both pulled into the Circle K, the Prius driver got out and had a few words with Mr K, then went back to sit in his Prius and wait for the police.
Mr BMW probably stewed a bit, figured that no g’damned little Prius jockey was gonna eff with him.
So Beamer guy commenced to t-bone the Prius on the driver side, pushing it sideways some distance across the parking lot. Then, really flaring off, he pulls a pistol and effing shoots at the Prius guy.
Prius guy, being attacked with TWO means of deadly force for no valid reason, unlimbers his own weapon and wastes Mr K through his BMW’s windshield, SYG’in probably no more than 6 or 8 feet away over the Beamer’s hood [probably a head shot]. Hell Yes!
I gotta wonder how FuxNooz, OAN, Noozmash, NRA, et al., are covering this, if at all.
Prius guy’s life is certainly in jeopardy now, with Mrs K trying to whip up the RW MAGAot rabble. The Rufous Ratbastard will probably invite her down to Mar-A-Pendejo muy basta.
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14[BTW, ran across a fantastic BMW cartoon: Bmr salesguy is telling his customer ‘before I give you the keys you need to watch this mandatory instructional video’: across the showroom some people are watching a screen, a sign states the title ‘BMW Presents- How To Drive Like An A-Hole’.]
Here’s the Beamer cartoon, can it run in the WMDBS ‘toons thread?
https://images.dailykos.com/images/634835/large/BMW.jpeg
Attribution: memes.com
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