Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, a leader in the bro podcaster movement against political correctness and wokeism, responded Tuesday to the charges against star New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs with skepticism in an Instagram video posted on Tuesday and picked up by Us Weekly., saying “I gotta remind a couple people before we get into this. First of all, in this great country of ours, America, it’s innocent until proven guilty. And what team won the first Super Bowl after 9/11 that brought this country together and stood up for everything great about this country?”
“The Patriots,” the Boston-area native declared, adding “So I believe in the rules of this country. No team has taken the higher road, had better moral integrity, than the New England Patriots.”
As for the circumstances of the case against Diggs, accused of choking his personal chef during an argument over her wages, Portnoy said “I have a personal chef. I just hired one. A lot of you people out there probably don’t have personal chefs. You don’t know the intricacies of working with a personal chef,” adding “I find it peculiar a personal chef can have all these back wages owed and still be cooking. If you’re owed all this money and the guy is not paying, you stop cooking, or you’re on a salary and the money is getting paid. So how do you have so many back wages that suddenly you’re getting choked out?” referring specifically to Diggs choking the woman because she wanted to be paid weekly instead of monthly, a condition which apparently also had led to the backlog.
“As founder of the self-consciously lowbrow Barstool Sports digital media empire, Dave Portnoy has, over the past decade, parlayed an outsized, aggressively macho social-media presence into a status as a right-leaning populist champion,” Politico wrote in a glowing 2021 profile of Portnoy.
Ahem. No, there was no reason to do a real-time breakdown of Portnoy’s words, the above inert MSM-ification was the proper scaffold to drape his utter cuntishness upon. Whether he was “joking” or not is irrelevant (he probably wasn’t given the parsing of the circumstances of the dispute between Diggs and the victim), the key ingredient to the edgelord’s “bruh, lmao” ethos is the nebulous “irony” to his deliberate inversion of moral courage as displayed here.