[SilvieWaldorfMD]

From the article: "Multiple contestants referred to the U.S. Virgin Islands as a country, and the leader of the USVI, president. The U.S. Virgin Islands is a U.S. territory/dependency, and it is led by a governor, not a president."

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Not PR-realted, but close to PR.

[1Old Pro]

A local individual told the Consortium that the scene brought her back to a grisly moment of her youth when she was raped.

What??!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

A local individual told the Consortium that the scene brought her back to a grisly moment of her youth when she was raped.

Why did this even get into the story? How is it related?

[DannyTN]

The contestants should have to be virgins from the Virgin Island.

[Kickass Conservative]

The obvious question is, were any of them actually Virgins?

[subterfuge]

There are rules people!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A local individual told the Consortium that the scene brought her back to a grisly moment of her youth when she was raped.

Oh please honey child.

Not that this is right but that is an overstatement in the extreme.

[Steve_Seattle]

If this was so important to the locals - and I really don’t blame them for wanting a local woman to win - why wasn’t there a requirement that the contestants must be residents of the Virgin Islands?

[buwaya]

Partly also a race thing - The actual Virgin Islander contestants were black-mulato, as is the actual population.

The finalists weren’t black.

I sympathize with the complaints of the VI people. They should have had one of their own there.

[Magnum44]

I think we need photos of the contestants to judge for our selves...

[airdalechief]

https://viconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Miss-Universe-USVI-2019-1-1700x1133.jpg

[BenLurkin]

Worked with a pair of sisters from the Virgin Islands many years ago. One was a striking beauty. Both had knock-out accents.

[Yo-Yo]

Rulz!

[2banana]

Kinda like when Hillary ran for senate in NYS?

[rigelkentaurus]

Denmark - here is a deal for you. PR and USVI for Greenland. Even up trade.

[Getready]

Cheating at a beauty pageant? Isnt anything sacred anymore?

[know.your.why]

I personally think there should be a No Makeup contest instead of a Mo Makeup contest.

[Wuli]

It IS an industry, and girls bent on getting into the top tier, and ambitious enough, only need to learn the minimal rules in different venues and then doing what it takes enter multiple contests until they either give up the quest or win.

The pageant owners are the pageant owners, not local residents anywhere, and it is the pageant owners not “votes of local residents” that determine the entrant rules in any locale.

Now then, it is possible, in any locale, state or territory, if they don’t like a pageant’s rules because they do not protect the locals enough, they can, legally, not allow a pageant’s operations in their area.

On the other hand, should they do so, they could be hurting their own locals, as their own locals could become unable to enter a pageant they would like to enter.

I actually do sympathize with the VI locals. However, if no laws or rules were broken, they were most unfortunate in not understanding the result they saw was possible, like it or not.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Did any of the contestants list Epstein’s pedo-island as their address? Just wondering.

[Seruzawa]

Need Captain Renault meme for this