Finally, One for the Good Guys
Right now, tennis bad boy, notorious anti-vaxxer and all-round shitty person Novak Djokovic is winging his way from Melbourne Australia to Dubai after being deported for violating Australian immigration laws, lying about it, and then insisting that rules don’t apply to him. He dragged immigration officials, tournament officials, the tennis world, and indeed the entire population of Australia through almost two weeks of drama just because he doesn’t want to get a simple safe and effective vaccination.
A three federal judge panel ruled on Sunday afternoon that Australia immigration officials were within their rights doing their damn job and enforcing the country’s immigration laws. Even better, there was no court that would receive an inevitable appeal from Djokovic. The decision was final. The decision was unanimous and, to add insult to justice, the panel ordered Djoker to pay all of the costs incurred by the government for this sorry chapter of his life that resulted from his own decisions and conduct.
After years of bad guys all over the world getting away with actual murder, from Rodrigo Duterte Wrecking to Philippine government to Vladimir Putin’s murderous rule over Russia, to TFG’s teflon life where he’s never been personally held to account for his entire corrupt existence, wins for good guys are few and far between. Of the thousands of Deplorables who stormed the US Capitol only about 700 were charged with crimes and most of those are only petty charges. Less than 20 are charged with serious crimes and only 11 charged with what all were guilty, sedition. Bad guys get off scott free on a daily basis, especially willfully ignorant anti-vaxxers who are participating in mass illness and death simply because they’re assholes.
Because bad guys win almost all the time, it’s rare when one of them gets theirs, especially famous ones like Djoker. Like other narcissists, he believes that simply because he’s really good at hitting a tennis ball he can inflict his warped existence on everyone around him with no consequences. Australia proved him wrong, and that victory is especially sweet.
What’s infuriating, though? This entire episode was easily avoidable by Djokovic doing the right thing and just getting vaccinated. Just think of all the lives he could save, especially in his native Serbia where anti-vaxxers have caused the virus to surge again in a population that’s only 47% vaccinated. That’s the real tragedy of Djokovic’s failure at being a decent human being.
Djoker is a brat as are many in the world of entitled sports brats. He could have done some good for his country, but he chose to make a stupid statement for stupid imaginary freedumbs. That sucks.
It sucks more when conservatives on SCROTUS twisted and tortured legal precedent to strike down vaccine mandates. They are supposed be jurists ergo somewhat wiser than the average one trick athlete known for hitting a ball. 6-3 on the highest court dumber or more perverse than the average dumb jock. That is the tragedy.
1Unlike our SCrOTUS, the Australian Supreme Court is principled. Look for the djoker to be a martyr of the right wingnuts world wide. Maybe he can get on stage with trumpf (and mike lindell) soon. He’s got all the requirements- narcissist, liar.
2Before someone corrects me, it wasn’t the Australian Supreme Court but a 4-judge panel. Just the same, a principled decision.
3Steve from Beaverton @2 already happening at Fox Not the News. Let’s see if I can identify which puppetute is shilling for Djoker. Not a blond, not Judge Winebox. Overactive breeder married to another Fox fluffer who was once a Tea Bagger member of the House. From that stellar cast of stochastic terrorists, I do believe that would have been the female Compost-Dufus.
4Steve from Beaverton, gonna have to correct you. It was three judges, which constitutes the full Australian Federal Court. And what a good job they did too!
5So many prominent people, especially brats, right-wingers, and the rich, think they are entitled to do what they want and to hell with rules and the law. It’s time for a mass yanking up by the scruff of the neck and prosecution of prominent scofflaws.
6I’ve never been too bothered by the hundred’s of MAGA rioters being charged with lesser crimes. As evidenced by the call to Capital Lost & Found, most of these people are rubes, duped by the Trump crime family. Now that 11 Oath Keepers are charged with seditious conspiracy, I expect to see that charge become common as arrests march up the coup’s leadership ladder. All of the screaming and squawking from the Right tells me that they expect more serious charges too.
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