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SF City Politician Unleashes Epic Tirade: ‘It’s On Like Donkey Kong’

Outgoing San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly recently became so furious over political games by his colleagues during a vote for an interim mayor, that he dug deep for an epic political simile: “It’s on like Donkey Kong.”

Daly’s rant came after board President David Chiu switched his vote at the last minute, thus defying his colleagues who had reached a consensus after hours of debate. That’s when Daly invoked the video game slogan, and also vowed to “haunt” Chiu:

The San Francisco Chronicle untangles the confusing back story, as well as traces the history of the “Donkey Kong” phrase. ABC News also explains exactly what led to the tongue lashing:

SF City Politician Unleashes Epic Tirade: Its On Like Donkey Kong

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  • donh2
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:53pm

    Spoken like a man who still plays outdated video games in his mother’s basement.

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    • Idaho Kirk
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:58pm

      I’m betting he was D&D master back in the day! Now he attends renassance fairs, dressed as a great wizard warrior. This thing is just too funny to me!

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  • OnceA9R
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:40pm

    SF has had Billy Wilson, Ted Kwalick, Gene Washington, Terrell Owens and Jerry Rice and he uses a football metaphor and disrespects the city?? I can’t figure out if Daly is nothing more than a progressive wide receiver or a tight end in the city by the bay

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    • Idaho Kirk
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:51pm

      I’m just suprised that the manly man could make a football analogy!

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    • lionslayer44
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:39pm

      oncea9r, im not a 9r fan but i am a Jerry Rice and Gene Washington fan. Jerry Rice is the best ever and his name should never be included in anything with terrell owens. t.o. has no class cant catch a ball anymore and complains constantly. For 20 seasons Rice’s game never changed and he says he can still play today. by the way this was difficult to say for a cowboys fan.

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  • Idaho Kirk
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:36pm

    I am laughing my butt off picturing this guy storming out, getting in his Prius, slamming the door (CLANK), flooring it, and silenty crawling out of the parking lot at a break neck speed of 2 1/2 mph.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:54pm

      Then he slams the door on his favorite bar and flops down on the bar crying. “Please give me a Mary Margarita and make it with a double sprits and a lime twist.”

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    • Idaho Kirk
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:00pm

      Lmfao!

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    • arjundawg
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:41pm

      hahahaha….. nice

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:31pm

    Hay it” San Fran and those west coast twits will put anything in their Pie Holes

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  • Idaho Kirk
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:29pm

    I am shocked! Not at the tirade. I’m shocked that a progressive could make a football analogy! Such manly men in SF!

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:28pm

    I think he wants to smoke a donkey kong..

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:27pm

    Go smoke a joint and chill

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:25pm

    Communist go crazy when they don’t get there way

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  • whototrust
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:19pm

    Reminds me of a small child who didn’t get his way, blah, blah, blah.

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  • DMcPher316
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:16pm

    and to Sgt…..not ya…but HELL YA!!!!!

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  • DMcPher316
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:15pm

    so let me get this straight…this guy is a progressive and he’s pissed because the progressives lost a seat on the board? Gee, is that a glimmer of light I see at the end of the san fran prgressive tunnel? aaahhh….no just some hippy burning a flag….oh well never mind.

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  • rbqueen
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:13pm

    This story really shocks me to the very core of my being. Someone that is helping to run San Francisco is using examples of a “manly” sport to describe how they are running San Fran? I can see them talking about football and the players as they oooh and ahhhh over their muscles or something like that but to actually use real football metaphors in describing how SF should be run is almost beyond my comprehension.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:12pm

    *

    Bad news for ‘progressives’ charging the goal line. They are in for far worse than a fumble. They have set the stage for a defensive touchdown for the other end in the Nationals.

    They step on the pedal— We hit the NOS switch…

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:45pm

      Mohandas K. Gandhi was a member of the Indian National Congress party, a center-left political party. On the Political Compass, Gandhi is in the lower left quadrant, a Libertarian Leftist. You should do more research before choosing a handle.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:27pm

      Rose

      The Republican party was the left pretty much until the 1930′s. The libertarian left actually. That‘s how they spawned so many off branching shoot off people in the early 1970’s when the Libertarian party was formed from membership of the GOP at the time.

      Coinkydink, or what? :)

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:39pm

      @Ghost, No, dear, by the 1930s, the GOP had become the party of big business, anti-immigrant and anti-women’s rights. There was a bigger tent, with a broader belief base, but it wasn’t the anti-government fringe that has come to dominate it now. The place of the GOP as the liberal party began to shift right with William Howard Taft. For someone on this site to claim that Gandhi was a Republican is another demonstration of how little any of you understand of history or international politics. Gandhi believed in Socialism, classlessness, and communes.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:53pm

      I do have to concur with Rose, ummm, to a tee!

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:54pm

      Also, how amazing the flip-flop occurred, ironic for sure!

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  • Krutch
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:11pm

    The whole state is a joke! Glad I didn’t stay there when I got out of the service, I might have gotten infected too!

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    • mitcha_ca_sux
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:55pm

      Most of California does not resemble SF. Most of Cali now resembles Tijuana.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

    You just have to wonder how they even get out of bed every morning.

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  • Sgt.Crust
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

    We The People, of The Blaze, please join me, stand with your right hand over your heart and recite OUR Pledge of Allegiance:

    “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

    Here and now, I will take a shot of Whiskey to SEAL THE DEAL, and I pass the bottle to each of you! Give me a Yea, if you participate, or a Nay if you will not.

    I am going to write this in my own blood, and by God I mean it, and will defend our great country with my last drop of it, so help me God!

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  • Zonepuppy
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

    Gee, politicians not telling the truth! What next, spending too much of someone else’s money?

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  • moriarty70
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

    I’m just waiting for the lawsuit. Nintendo tradmarked that phrase for the new Donkey Kong Country game.

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  • untameable-kate
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:05pm

    OK I was actually embarassed for him since as a progressive he probably lacks the ability to see anything he says as mind numbingly daft. Boy, those San Franciscan men sure are studly, huh?(shudder)

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:14pm

      I was stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco back in the mid 1980′s. There was something of a dearth of what you or I would consider “normal” men, though to be fair there were some (well, they appeared to be anyway). The city has wonderful areas in it (or did), I especially liked to hang around the Irish district at the time, great bars (whodathunkit). For the life of me though you couldn’t have paid me to live there voluntarily, that much is certain.

      The affectation of “males” with that particular ideology (not all, but enough to notice) is particularly off putting. I really don‘t understand how they’re able to reproduce, their attitudes/affectations seem to me to be natural woman repellents.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:30pm

      They remind you af the Shakers right?

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    • BoilitDown
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:19pm

      @untameable-kate
      On your earlier comment, “People who are protected from feeling the pain of their mistakes never learn from them”, which was very good, I have an added thought.
      The process of evolution relies on correcting weaknesses and adding wisdom. Without that pain, of which you write, evolution levels off and even reverses in my observation. All sorts of unintended consequences have come from shielding human beings from their own mistakes and the mistakes of their leaders. This lack of evolution is, of course, a lack of progress, thereby making people the antithesis of “progressive”. Isn’t that ironic?

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:30pm

      Evolution depends on natural selection. The human race can’t do anything but get weaker since the weak are not only saved and nurtured but with the help of progressives are flourishing.

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  • Rowgue
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:05pm

    So basically that translates to “I’m a moron and think a stupid phrase from a washed up rapper is more intelligent than anything I could come up with.”

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  • oldguy49
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:03pm

    that pretty much says how california is run…………….

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  • WTH
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:03pm

    Progressives don’t even like or trust progressives. California will go down in flames and we need to let it crash hard.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

      People who are protected from feeling the pain of their mistakes never learn from them.

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    • justanamerican
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:15pm

      “People who are protected from feeling the pain of their mistakes never learn from them.”

      Well said !!!!! and should be a lesson to all politicians

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:15pm

      Agreed, let it crash and burn, they brought it on themselves by electing progressives repeatedly.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:32pm

      Can’t wait for the Brown call to Barry
      Hey, Barry,
      Nancy and I have been chatting – the state needs Oh say $500 billion, you know to kinda get our legs back under us. Whata say you tell the kraut Treasury Sec to pint of some more green backs. Whats 500 more to the national debt. Don’t think Kansas will miss their piece huh! Kinda like lets spread it around like you always say!!

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    • ok3wire
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 3:21am

      Unbelievable that, that guy thinks he even has any power to threaten someone. When are we going to wake up and take hubris away from that son of a gun? I just don’t understand how someone can be so full of themselves to expect others to actually respond to them. Where is leadership these days? Is it sitting in the corner waiting to be called out?

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    • johnnycatt
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:42am

      They DO need to crash HARD! I will say this, Mississippi, ain’t bailing them out… Remember when they were having rolling black-outs in L.A. due to a lack of electricity? Mississippi’s electrical co-operatives refused to sell Cali power because Cali refuses to build new power plants… Cali expected everyone else to do it for them… The electrical co-ops, here, felt it was wiser to keep their electrical “reserves” in case Mississippi needed them, rather than contract them out and shift the “rolling blackout” to us… Capitalism is BOSS!!

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  • HillBillySam1
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:02pm

    Is that phrase a euphemism in San Francisco??

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  • Cobra Blue
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:01pm

    As San Fran, Ca slowing sinks into Marxism….remember citizens of SF, you have brought this upon yourselves.

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  • warmac9999
    Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:01pm

    Let’s face it. Any city that can have Pelosi as their representative is looney and a lost cause it. Let the losers squabble among themselves as that will keep them busy and out of the hair of the adults who are trying to fix their mess.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:19pm

      I enjoyed my time in San Francisco in the mid 1980′s, but even then it was kind of clear what path it was going down, sadly. It’s a beautiful place, I hate to see it ruined by such a lousy type of person as seems to be the stereotype these days.

      That’s besides the point however.

      My only question is, when did we start electing 8 year olds to office? What next “I’m butter, you’re glue, bad slips off me and sticks on you“ or the ever famous ”He’s touching me! No I’m not! Yes you are!”

      Geesh. Kids.

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    • RightWrite
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Leave it to these Frisco wackos to bring a donkey into their twisted mix. The Frisco freaks!

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    • Highland
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:35pm

      Do intelligent people know or care what Donkey Kong is?

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    • RightWrite
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:36pm

      They HATE it when you call San Fran by the name Frisco.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:48pm

      These people have destroyed the City. It smells like human waste everywhere you go in the city. But I guess that is a sweet smell to the people running it.

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    • Beattendown
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:53pm

      Danm those twinkies!!!…Someone must have sliped some into those Starbucks cups

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    • Egad
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:10pm

      ISAAH Ch 3

      4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

      5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:14pm

      Can we just dump San Francisco into the ocean without being accused of polluting the oceans? Claim we are doing it to grow new coral reefs or eco systems for the fishies and stuff?

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:44pm

      Highland, I do know what Donkey Kong is, but in this case I could care less. I would be the happiest man on the planet if all progressives ate each other!

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    • nptden
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:34pm

      Sink Progressives call them what they are ‘socialist/marxists’.. It’s on like Donkey Kong….Progressives are only mainly in a few states, like Cali, Oregon, Ill and NY….Time to work it.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:59pm

      FRISCO, Frisco, Frisco … I will stop when they grow a brain .. FRISCO!

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    • PlanetXenu
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:07pm

      politcal squabbles are stupid anyway, but thats was…AWESOME!!!! I saw UFC match!
      THEY WILL MEET IN THE CAGE!!!! AAAAAARRRGGGHHH!

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    • johnnycatt
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:34am

      @PlanetXenu… There ain’t gonna be no “cage match”… These are Liberal-progressive-type “men”…

      Ever notice progressive/socialist men are scrawny “weenie-men“ that talk about ”being tough” and we all giggle a little bit…. and liberal/socialist chicks are always, um, shall we say..uh… UNattractive!
      No. no, “cage match, the closest they will get to a “cage match” is their boyfriends having a little slap-fest near a zoo…

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    • P-Daddy
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:56am

      Agree with GhostofJefferson……..

      If I have to pull this city over somebody‘s going to get a whuppin’…….
      Oh wait, you’re into that? (deep sigh) never mind………

      States can secede from the union but can we vote one out? Just sayin’………

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