Donald Trump chose to show his manliness by cheering a cage-fight last night. Ah, how American.
Providing a better vision of American goodness is NPR’s Scott Simon, who provided this commentary on Caesar’s affinity for gladiatorial combat yesterday on Weekend Edition Saturday:
But mixed martial arts are not burlesque, like pro wrestling, where actor-athletes like Epico Colón and Ember Moon play characters that hurl and hurt each other according to a script. Mixed martial arts is real violence. Fans will tell you how it combines boxing, wrestling, judo, capoeira and other techniques.
But all that translates into two human beings who punch, grab, kick, knee and gouge each other in a cage, even after an opponent hits the floor, to the roars of thousands.
Sen. John McCain once called MMA “human cockfighting,” though he later worked with promoters to fund research into brain injury in the sport.
At least six fighters have died from MMA matches since 2006. That’s actually fewer deaths than boxing, or high school football. But a spectator sport doesn’t have to be deadly to be damaging.
A president, like any of us, is free to enjoy any entertainment or diversion. But what they choose draws attention.
There is so much to do this weekend in New York: a food fest in Little Italy; Dia De Los Muertos at the Green-Wood Cemetery; comedy clubs, jazz joints, and plays; the New York Cat and Dog Film festivals; and the New York City Marathon on Sunday, where athletes will use their feet to run, not kick someone in the chest. There are lots of ways to enjoy a weekend in New York without cheering for anybody’s bodily harm [Scott Simon, “Why Is Our President Spending Saturday Night at a Cage Fight?” NPR: Weekend Edition Saturday, 2019.11.02].
That’s Donald Trump: sending unhealthy messages to our children every chance he gets.
Drumpf’s hangers on convinced the guy who can’t take a punch that he is a tough resourceful fighter with a double chi…..chin of granite.
Trump would have gotten in the cage, himself, but his bone spurs were acting up!
I am not a cage fighting or mixed martial arts fan in the least, yet I can’t help but wonder whether criticizing Trump for his apparent enjoyment ofthis lawful entertainment distracts from recognizing his much more unacceptable actions.
It would not be surprising if such criticism fed into the Charles Krauthammer’s “Trump derangement syndrome” theory and undermined the ability, if any, of people to see Trump for what he is: a danger to the safety and lives of innocent adults and children he attacks on Twitter and by unilaterally messing with the rule of law, and ultimately, as observed by Gary Kasparov, a fundamental danger to the continued existence of our democratic republic.
It is noteworthy, however, that according to media reports even cage fighting fans booed Trump. See e.g.,
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/politics/trump-ufc-fight-madison-square-garden/index.html
Cage fighting, Mexican style. Ya gotta love this American taxpayers. Who would’ve thunk it.
“The CBP is patrolling to look for damaged sections and have them repaired (welded back in place)
Smugglers come right back and cut through the welds. Even faster the second time since the welds are softer than the original metal
CBP repairs again, the smugglers cut again and now they stick the old sections back in place to try and fool the CBP
CBP slows down and does closer inspection to spot the breaks, repair again. The smugglers come back and now they use putty colored to look like a weld to conceal the cuts
etc.
The US government had not disclosed the cutting incidents and breeches. WaPO got the information from former officials. CBP doesn’t want to say what this is costing in terms of extra patrols and repair work.”
We need to put another 25,000 to 50,000 American troops on the border holding hands. If we are a little short on the numbers, hire Mexicans for the real hot desert spots. It costs less than a hundred bucks for a cordless saw… Talk about David and Goliath, here ye be.
Cage fighting Mexicans are even building 3 story tall ladders…out of the cut sections of the impenetrable beautiful fence, no wonder Chubby is getting booed, he’s a fraud.
“They’re building better ladders. Up to 3 stories in height, some built with rebar (or reused bollard sections? 🤣) to defeat anti-climb panels. Once on top of the wall they deploy rope ladders to get down the other side.”
Send more troops, more money. We don’t have enough money for our schools, so what, Mexicans can teach us engineering, I guess that’s all you need, as farming is sure a bust.
Go to trade school in SD and learn to weld. Plenty of government jobs where it never snows. Wall welding … the next big thing.
Do you know who is a really good welder? Mr. Rhoden, that’s who. Trade schools teach you how to weld with a torch, Mr. Rhoden can weld with a glare.
It’s interesting to hear what the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center had to say when he was in Minneapolis last week. William R. Evanina is also a former CIA and FBI operative and currently chief advisor to his third Director of National Intelligence since 2014.
Evanina was here for the annual Cyber Security Summit for Business and Government. He listed 4 leading threats in the business of computer weaponization against U. S. targets:
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
Notice who’s missing? Yeah. I don’t see Ukraine either. Internet Idiot’s latest and favorite bogeyman appears to be missing but Pootie and his boys are there. Evanina would know if Ukraine was really a threat. They’re not. It’s just Internet Idiot trying to cover up for his hero, Pootie.
As the great Madam Speaker Pelosi has said, “With [Internet Idiot], all roads lead to Russia.”
grudz … I’m having LG Rhoden make me a branding iron in the shape of a goat, so I can properly greet you at Tally’s breakfast. BOHICA
That’s really swell, Mr. Lansing. Did you know that Mr. Rhoden can weld titanium with a stream of his urine?
I’d let you fry up my breakfast taters with your fancy new iron, welded by a stream of Mr. Rhoden’s urine.
That wouldn’t be the first time a cook incorporated urine in your food, I’ll wager. We have a way of dealing with a horse’s patoot like grudz.
More poor modeling: Traitor Troll’s hero, Pootie, is cranking up the arms race in the Arctic. Lucky for the rest of the world, Norway is on it.
In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia’s Military Buildup
http://flip.it/WBf.y9
Traitor Troll’s justices evidently take their bad role modeling lessons from him.
“On Oct. 29, Brian S. Brown, president of the conservative advocacy group National Organization for Marriage (NOMA), tweeted a photo of himself with justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito and boasting about a ‘great day- at the US Supreme Court. The tweet raised alarm bells for court critics.”
NOMA has written an amicus brief for a case coming up to allow religious discrimination against LBTG people. In fact, NOMA writes lots of briefs for regressive, pro discrimination cases before SCOTUS.
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Bad Role Model should consider this before he acts any stupider:
“The new Fox News poll shows 41% of registered voters are against impeaching President Trump. Of those, 57% say no new evidence could cause them to change their minds.
“That would put Trump’s true base at around 23% of registered voters.”
Political Wire
I’ve been saying his supporters are only about 25% of the voting population. Problem is, SD seems to be making up for New York’s paltry 5%. Sorry.
Faske Noize poll from Sunday has drumpf losing to HRC by 2-3 points. Gawd that has to hurt!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He lost to HRC by 2 points in 2016. Look where that got us.
HRC is not on the ballot. The only reason for Fox News to poll such a figure is to get people looking backward… and looking backward means we lose.
Trump is a terrible role model. Trump undermines our every effort to raise good kids. That should be all we need to say to win 90% of the vote.