This stuff is crazy, I don't always watch the news but saw this picture and wondered what's all that about and then I learned they are having fights on the White House lawn. They plan to have 14 fighters face off on the White House Lawn.
UFC Freedom 250 event.
This reminds me of Roman Gladiator events before Rome fell. Maybe they will have a vomitorium meal before watching large men beat the crap out of each other.
Not much different from all this....
As crass and crude as the spectacle was, it did have a certain twisted logic -- Trump has associated himself with UFC stuff since the 2000s, when he promoted a few of those types of events himself, so it's not like he's some trendie who recently found out about it. I'm struck by that, because it suggests a personal affinity that goes way beyond hanging out with UFC guys for the sake of it. The audience it attracts, presumably, consists mainly of "his" people, i.e., spectators who won't boo him mercilessly, like they did at the Knicks game (partly, I'm sure, because they resented the huge security spectacle that his presence generated, and also, because NY tired of him way before anybody else did) -- which is catnip for his ego, I'm sure, as fragile as it is. The way things are going for him, I imagine he needs a truckload of that catnip right now, so he can inhabit that 24- fantasy world he needs to live in -- or he would just fall apart. I'm not a psychologist, but I'm guessing it's more for him, and about him, than anything else. Or, for that matter, what "we" (the non-Trumpists) may think. --Mr. Peep
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, your headline is well-placed -- I'm seeing a million memes with that theme, so I'm guessing that a lot of others have reached that same conclusion. Just when you think the bottom can't get any deeper, they find some way to do that -- as I learned recently, after stumbling on some really garish "reality" program, where the sex talk was so crude -- it made Bill Cosby look like a choirboy, by comparison! Imagine how hard you have to work to reach that level of grossness, one so bad that I felt like taking a cold shower after checking it out for a couple minutes! --Mr. Peep
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