The MAGAts are losing their minds over Harry Gant's car

[jmowreader]

https://www.autoweek.com/racing/nascar/a39933113/why-harry-gants-1991-skoal-bandit-is-banned-from-nascar-darlington-throwback-weekend/

In September 1991, NASCAR legend Harry Gant won all four Winston Cup - the premier NASCAR series - races in the same car. Back then teams had multiple cars, so (1) running the same chassis week after week and (2) sweeping an entire month's races was pretty spectacular.

This weekend, NASCAR decided to have a "throwback weekend" at Darlington Raceway, SC. Old stock cars were going to parade around the track during the pre-race festivities. Current NASCAR Cup team Trackhouse Racing, who owns Gant's car, was going to run the car in the event.

Here's the problem: In 1991, Harry Gant was sponsored by Skoal, a brand of chewing tobacco. Because of various settlements made between the government and the tobacco industry between 1991 and now, no tobacco sponsorship can be displayed at a sporting event.

Needless to say, the Trump supporters in the room are losing their minds over this. Some of them are accusing NASCAR of being woke, others think they could "remove the word Skoal from the car" - which would be impossible without painting the car white; it is basically covered with Skoal logos...I mean, it fucking says Skoal on the inside of the hood, the dashboard, underneath in case the car rolls over - and everything short of blaming Biden for keeping Dale Earnhardt out of the driver's seat. (I know what you're going to say, but if those airheads think JFK Junior is going to be Trump's running mate thinking Earnhardt is going to show up at Charlotte to take some hot laps at the 600 is not outside the realm of possibility.) They're also pissed that NASCAR allowed "Winston Cup" stickers, which are two inches high and completely invisible five feet from the catch fence, on the cars but didn't allow Harry Gant's car with its foot-high logos to run.

In reality, it's one of the funniest things you'll ever see.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. TFG supporters are idiots

[KS Toronado]

2. They could change the logo from Skoal to Skaol or Skyall, etc

Call it a parody.

[jmowreader]

5. Or they could just leave it in the museum

[KS Toronado]

7. "Trump supporters in the room are losing their minds over this"

I read the entire link above and never seen rump supporters mentioned. I'm a liberal Nascar fan and not
the only one, be nice to see it on the track again but honestly I could care less one way or the other.

[jmowreader]

8. Who but Trumpers use the word woke?

What tracks have you been to? I’ve been to Rockingham, New Hampshire, Sonoma and this year I’m doing Pocono. I definitely want to do Charlotte and a plate track.

[KS Toronado]

12. Reread the article again

and again I never saw the word "woke" being used, it was used in the comments section though.
Then done a search on "The MAGAts are losing their minds over Harry Gant's car",
only one showed up, this one is the only one with those words in the headline title.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. Fuck that car and their tobacco sponsor.

[Demovictory9]

4. everything is "woke" to them. New Star Trek has more women than men on the bridge... WOKE!

[jmowreader]

6. Not everything

Just the things that aren’t grooming children.

[Layzeebeaver]

10. OMG what about that start trek episode with...

… fat child napper!

That one should drive them crazy.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

13. "Hail, hail, fire and snow...

Call the Angel, we will go
Far away, for to see
Friendly Angel, come to me."

Do you mean the Gorgan in ST:TOS "And The Children Shall Lead"?

[Layzeebeaver]

14. Yes! That's it.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

9. The newest series "Strange New Worlds"...

Had clips of the Jan 6 insurrection (the gallows, & the rush to the building) during footage they showed of when old earth nearly destroyed itself during the premiere episode. The Rw will probably call that 'woke'.

[Demovictory9]

11. they are calling it "woke" but mainly for the representation of women/poc actors

read the reviews in Amazon prime

but some allude to other progressive issues... so must be referring to Captains speech and the J6 footage