So begins "Dana White Thinks Everyone’s a Fighter/The U.F.C. president on his decades of friendship with Donald Trump, his relationship with Joe Rogan, and his 'awesome' night at the White House Correspondents’ dinner" in The New Yorker, written by David Remnick.
I wanted to quote that here because I feel as though I'm seeing a trend in Trump-hating writing. There's a choice to couch descriptions within a problem of the distortion of reality. In this article we have the idea of the Framers microdosing. Last night, I blogged a WaPo writer saying "at least half of life with RFK Jr. feels like something you dreamed"... though "It sure feels real in your lower intestines, doesn’t it?"
Why did the writer take us inside her body like that? It's one thing to say my mind is off, I feel like I'm on drugs or I must be dreaming or maybe I'm crazy, but it's another thing to invite us into the nether regions. People often speak of their "gut reaction," but it's rather intimate to bring up "lower intestines." At least we're not directed to think about the colons of the Founding Fathers.
Anyway, speaking of getting physical: mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts for the celebration of America's "two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary next month." Next month is June. The 4th of July is in July. But the fighting on the White House lawn is June 14th. That's Trump's birthday. Can't he have what he wants?
What did George Washington do on his birthday? It's 4 in the morning, and I'm writing this wide awake and sober: I'm going to guess nothing.
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With Trump, you get a bit of everything. Just sit back and enjoy the ride, 'cause we won't see anything like this again.
Way better than Drag Queens showing their bare breasts at the White House during their "Pride" month. When is Veterans month???
Rogan and his MMA philosophy is not just about the fighting. It’s about physical fitness, diet and strength. I’m not at all into the MMA thing, but I do appreciate Rogan’s perspective on taking care of your body.
It’s like when kids get a bouncy castle on the lawn for their birthday, except the kids you invite want to fight the other kids until they tap out.
Yah, I was waiting to hear about how unpresidential this is but in a tough election year Democrats don’t want to see the images of all the Biden house guests on X…
How soon before Mark jumps in and tells how this is worse than the Aztecs' celebrations?
Journalism is broken. Every entity in America that turned away from its core mission to become anti-Trump in full has lost its way and now wanders aimlessly trying to regain its purpose. Instead of observing events and recording them accurately journalisting now too often is an inward struggle that the writer records as if their own story should impart some meaning to events. But it doesn’t. I’m weary of reading about a reporter’s mental challenges and attempts to make Trump out to be a different historical figure than the one we can see with our own eyes.
Abraham Lincoln got in a knock-down drag-out contest (MMA in the 1830's) for the position of Best Fighter in the US Army while he was a militia captain in the Blackhawk war. He made it to the finals but was then defeated. Of course, he was a married man, a father and a corporate lawyer by the time he got to the White House. Still, it was good training for politics then and it's a good image for DC politics now.
Why did the writer take us inside her body like that?
Because constantly harping that things are “unprecedented” and violate presidential “norms” isn’t getting traction anymore.
“Authoritarian” has also worn thin.
They need a reality where Trump is totally unacceptable to the electorate and, unfortunately for them, it’s not this one. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Remember that weird Jaguar commercial that came out right after the 2024 election?
'Copy nothing', 'Create exuberant', 'Live vivid', and 'Break moulds', and 'Delete ordinary'. That's Trump, except he is doing the masculine, populist version.
Trump will eventually be history. What will we remember?
Hopefully, a functioning border patrol, Medicare and Medicaid without massive corruption, queers acting like normal people, unapologetic military might, women having their own spaces and beneficial trade agreements will seem ordinary and mundane.
In fifty years, maybe we look back and think, 'Remember how weird it was right after Covid?'
Althouse is a mostly aware Delaware-ian of the Twelve Mile Circle variety. Texan? No.
And they say we don't need a big ballroom,
https://jrocknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20210414_091445-700x800.jpg
Thanks to wildswan: Lincoln getting into a last man standing fight when was in the army. Since MMA is apparently a desecration of the country's founding, it's an easy google: did the founders enjoy dog fighting or cock fighting? The answer I get: dog fighting did not come to the U.S. until after the Civil War. There was plenty of cockfighing before that. An early Congress tried to ban it. Jefferson would have liked to eliminate all dogs, but presumably not in a public spectacle.
"backyard fighting" scene happens in Barrayar when Cordelia introduces Beta Colony-style hand-to-hand combat practice at Vorkosigan House. Sergeant Bothari easily overpowers Droushnakovi—throwing her to the mat twice—which prompts Count Piotr to express outrage at these unconventional sparring matches
Libs who write for the New Yorker need to understand that not everyone in the country likes the same sports and activities as they do.
At least it’s not WWE.
I would rather be a nation of MMA fighters than a nation of intellectuals and professors.
What did Washington do on his birthday?
This will take a little research, but my first response is Valley Forge.
And I gave two links to confuse the British.
I feel like Althouse sent me on this quest, and now I return from my research battles with a garner alert for my hostess.
If you don't know, and live, "cowboy code", then you ain't Texan. And no part of you, not even your lower intestine parts, is Texan.
In 1778 at Valley Forge, a group of drummers and fifers from Proctor's Artillery gathered in front of their commander in chief's quarters to serenade him on his birthday.
The soldiers were probably inspired by the British custom of honoring the King's birthday. It is significant that they singled out Washington at this time as the figure whose birthday would celebrate instead.
Remnick who did that massive tongue bath for Obama
Aren't the lower intestines literally full of shit waiting to be excreted? Along with smelly gas waiting to become fart?
Maybe the writer is trying g to tell us something about their writing
John Henry
Why did the writer take us inside her body like that?
Because they have no tangible facts to back up any of their assertions. Therefore to slander without fear of reprisal, they implore us to trust their gut. I suspect if challenged, we would find they are actually gutless.
Washington Praying in the Snow
See also: Did Washington Kneel in Prayer at Valley Forge?
Yale says, NO.
USA says, YES.
There Are No Atheists in Foxholes
See also War is Hell. That was on his infamous "No Apologies" tour. Not sure if Ozzy Osbourne was with him. Maybe it was Blue Oyster Cult.
I remember how he celebrated Christmas.
The Germans were like an innocent skydiver getting swatted by a Cessna. "Nein! Nein! Lick my asshole!"
“What did George Washington do on his birthday?”
The answer is throngs of well-wishers, artillery salutes, church bells, and a ballroom:
“Philadelphia, the seat of the new government, was the site of some of the most elaborate festivities. Members of Congress, state officials, members of the Society of the Cincinnati, clergymen, diplomats, faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania, and a throng of other well-wishers gathered around President Washington to congratulate him on his birthday. There were artillery salutes and the bells of Christ Church rang out every half hour. At night, the City Dancing Assembly held a birthday ball attended by the most respectable and powerful citizens who were honored by the company of the President and First Lady.”
I have never seen in its entirety a MMA fight or a WWE event. I do feel more antipathy towards Drag Queen Story hours or rap artists, but let a thousand flowers bloom. I read The New Yorker. From what I gather, The New Yorker is in favor of Drag Queen Story hours and is actually enthusiastic about some rap artists. Perhaps a statesmanlike compromise is possible. Maybe Bad Bunny can give us a rap version of the Star Spangled Banner and a some drag queen can read The Little Engine That Could prior to the fight to inspire the participants. Build bridges to our fight rinks and steel cages.
Just imagine how much more dignified the MMA fights would be if held in a new ballroom rather than on the south lawn.
George Washington may not have thought of it, but Andrew Jackson would be front row cheering.
Remember foxs coke up assistant worked for the new yawker
I'm guessing David Remnick misses the good old days of Joe Biden's gay/trans party on the White House lawn. Good times. What?.
David Remnick is just another pencil-neck, needle-dicked mook scribe from the Big Apple.
Don’t mind the maggots.
He was boozing eith yeltsin from the start
So, Trump is having Martial arts fights (not "brawls") and we're supposed to go: "Oh my dear, that's so...vulgar".
Remmick of course, didn't seem to get upset at Biden's Gay-Trans celebrations. I wonder what the founding fathers would've thought of that?
Its always annoying when low-class liberal/leftist journolists who pride themselves on their "earthy" talk and are OK with drugs and vulgarity pretend to be the superior high-brows and morally superior.
I went and skimmed through a couple of New Yorker magazine issues and was shocked at how low-brow and just plain dumb most of it was. Once the "old guard" left, the whole thing degenerated into leftwing politics, and womens issues. A magazine for NPR listeners.
The White House is a Six Flags. Wouldn't this need to be built inside the ballroom for it to be safe?
The Texas City disaster was one of the worst in USA history. Almost 600 killed. If it had occured in NYC or a NJ port we'd have 20 books on the subject. But because it was Texas, its rarely mentioned.
As the absurdity of the left/Democrats becomes more apparent through TDS their media megaphones double down. “Everything Trump does is bad, immoral, fascistic, or whatever. Everything!” They are on a crusade to get him murdered. If they regain Speaker of the House - third in line for POTUS - the crusade will extend to Vance.
John Cornyn's political career died from 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'.
Texas City fertilizer explosion of 1947, and the great Galveston hurricane of 1900, where the death estimates only come in the round thousands, because nobody knows how many. How did that come into the conversation, though?
I could do without the spectacle of bloody fights for sport on the White House lawn, but like apparently everybody else, I much prefer it to tranny boob competitions with rainbow motifs. And it provides more useful visuals for our allies and enemies both.
As for the insipid Legacy media, well maybe this is the new style guide, they just want us to feel sick about it, they want us to feel something is off-center and vaguely unwell, without going to the trouble of saying why, with evidence. De-emphasize the coverage on the weak candidates of their own, the lack of message and the prospect of approaching mid-terms, which might not be the sweep they were hoping for.
The micro-coverage of Trump's health will start next as a reinforcement. The nation isn't well, that's the message. Maybe their prospects are so bad, they're moving toward subliminal campaign techniques a little early.
Can't he have what he wants?
Why can't Trump just have what he wants?! Why is everybody always trying to deny him that? The world would be a much better place if we all just give Trump what he wants!!
Did somebody say Six Flags? Yeah, somebody needs to do a little A.I. editing, if you know what I mean, bring this puppy up to date. Maybe it could be a sesquicentennial commercial: "There once was a country that worked so hard......".
Trump says his doctor’s visit went perfectly — and that’s good enough for the legacy media. No follow-up questions needed. This is the same media that obsessed over Biden’s health every single day for years.
Trump’s refusal to release any of his medical records has reporters wondering just what it is that Joe Biden is hiding
"Did somebody say Six Flags?"
https://newrepublic.com/post/210909/ufc-fight-venue-construction-white-house
You have to admit — this looks like a roller coaster ride at Six Flags.
Snarky Conservative Writing if Harris Had Won:
Just as the Founding Fathers might have anticipated (had they been microdosing while drafting the Declaration of Independence) the American republic will celebrate its two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary next month with an LGBTQ interpretive dance performance on the South Lawn of the White House.
It's a funny setup and hosting brawls outside the White House is weird. You can admire Trump's 'don't give a shit' attitude and still point out when he does weird things.
I'm guessing David Remnick misses the good old days of Joe Biden's gay/trans party on the White House lawn. Good times
But have you ever paused to wonder why we have to pick one kind of retarded shit over another kind of retarded shit? Why can't we have zero retarded shit? Shouldn't that be an objective? Imagine an America with zero trans strip shows and also zero MMA fights on the White House lawn. What a country that would be!
Thats your team of freak shows
Inviting 4,300 people to watch the MMA fights on the South Lawn of the White House without the protection of sniper nests atop the proposed new ballroom undermines the urgency of the security arguments Trump’s lawyers are making in the ballroom case.
People who have never watched a prime era Ric Flair promo are naturally going to struggle to understand Trump's ability to get away with stuff.
Sherman, not Washington, said "war is hell," of course. I did not mean to suggest that the spirit of Washington inhabited Sherman and he burned down Atlanta to unite the country.
But that would be a pretty good movie, right?
Washington's Dream
Sherman knew you had to break the enemys spirit
I would rather be a nation of MMA fighters than a nation of intellectuals and professors.
"I would rather be governed by the first 2000 living MMA fighters than the entire faculty of Harvard."
-- William F. Buckley Jr.
undermines the urgency of the security arguments Trump’s lawyers are making in the ballroom case.
..the 'crazies' don't want to kill random people...
Turns out that my law firm represented the UFC (because we represented the Fortita brothers who owned it, along with the Station Casino chain). At least until the UFC started taking off (~UFC 100). Then several of our Entertainment attys spun out into their own Entertainment firm. Leaving - me, as their patent attorney.
We had a very aggressive young attorneyette in our IP/Entertainment practice group. She pushed her way onto the UFC account. And one of the perks was seats. Often, back then, ringside seats. Being a woman, she almost dreaded attending a match. All that male violence. She went anyway, and immediately turned into a fanatic. It was atavistic. The endorphins were almost overwhelming.
Yes, a lot of men love fighting. But a lot of women love men fighting too. My partner’s parents were that way. Her father was a NV Golden Gloves champion (I believe light heavyweight) - which he had in common with one of the state’s most famous US Senators (I believe Welterweight). A lot of bar fights, until her mother went into premature labor with her older sister. She gave him the Choice. He picked her and the family. And her mother’s father used to fight during the Depression to put food on the table. $10 just to get beat up.
My point is that there is something atavistic, something primal, about fighting.
Finally, the UFC is real fighting. None of the stylized fighting you see on TV wrestling, where they fight night after night. A lot of that is staged. Not the UFC. Bored at work one afternoon, I dug into it. The Nevada Athletic Commission, which the state agency charged with regulating all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat—including boxing, mixed martial arts, kickboxing, and other related combat sports, in the state. After bouts, UFC fighters are checked out by physicians, and are medically suspended if they can’t pass, until they can. That sometimes takes much of a year. And the results were that about 60% of the UFC fighters were medically suspended after their bouts. Not 60% of the bouts had suspended fighters, but 60% of all fighters were medically suspended. Meaning that there were plenty of winners of bouts medically suspended too. Usual suspensions were a month or two. Some quite a bit longer.
“ Sherman, not Washington, said "war is hell," of course. I did not mean to suggest that the spirit of Washington inhabited Sherman and he burned down Atlanta to unite the country.”
Sherman was realistic. He didn’t like war, because of the human cost, but it was his job, and he was good at it.
He didn’t march across Georgia for the fun of it. He had two purposes. One was to starve the Confederacy into surrender. The other was because it allowed him to forgo much of his baggage train, which in turn allowed him to maneuver around the Confederate forces trying to stop him. Which they were desperately trying to do because of the first point - he was eating up and burning the Confederate’s bread supply. Which is a third point - he tied up a lot of their forces that way, who otherwise would have been helping protect Atlanta. And they never really did bring him to battle before he got to the ocean and was evacuated.
Someone made the point the other day that military and civilian leaders who haven’t personally seen war tend to be a lot more blood thirsty than have. Sherman had, and was realistic about it.
At Instapundit: “Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs has been arrested for allegedly strangling and suffocating a woman. Which sounds bad. But it could be worse per sports media — he could have introduced President Trump at a rally.”
“Inviting 4,300 people to watch the MMA fights on the South Lawn of the White House without the protection of sniper nests atop the proposed new ballroom undermines the urgency of the security arguments Trump’s lawyers are making in the ballroom case.”
Of course, if Trump had his ballroom, the UFC fighters could be held inside there…
But make no mistake. The USSS will have full control over the tops of the buildings that snipers could use to shoot at the front lawn. They know them well, and man them often (not to be sexist, but most USSS are male - though I have often seen one female whom I wouldn’t want to meet in a back alley).
My theory about Butler is that they have priorities and manpower constraints. A First Lady has priority over a former President. Dr Jill apparently decided to go somewhere close by, on late notice. And as a result, they pulled experienced agents from Trump’s detail.
Remember, former Presidents don’t usually hold massive campaign events. Much more typical was Jerry Ford, who had an USSS guard station at the bottom of the hill below where he lived by Beaver Creek. And the better ones would ski or play golf with him (he was very good at both).
How can we make the white man cool?
Micro-dosing!
"The Founding Non-Binaries"
What did George Washington do on his birthday? He karate-chopped down some cherry trees. (The first rule of Founding Fathers Fight Club is you do not talk about Founding Fathers Fight Club.)
Libs who write for the New Yorker need to understand that not everyone in the country likes the same sports and activities as they do.
David Remnick has famously and lovingly written about the blood sport of boxing for more than forty years — you couldn’t have picked a worse example to make your point.
It shows how immoral Americans have become that they think "War is Hell" by Sherman meant killing civilians. The US Civil War was fought in such a restrained manner, that Sherman's act of sending Civilians out of Atlanta to turn it into a military base was consider incredibly cruel and immoral. As was his allowing "bummers" to burn down a few houses.
Then there's Columbia. Sherman didn't order it burned. But didn't put enough Guards out to keep it the fire from starting.
But that's it. Union soldiers if convicted of rape were hanged. Murder of civilians was punished. POWs were taken and treated well and sent to the rear. That was the Civil war version of "war is Hell". Not firebombing cities, or killing school girls.
Wildswan, not sure if you were joking about Lincoln boxing in the Black Hawk War. I do know that when he was a country lawyer, following the circuit judges on their circuits, he would do feats of strength to entertain the other lawyers, and the feats included a bit of rasslin. With his freakishly long limbs, he had the leverage.
Also, TR boxed John Muir on the WH grounds. If today’s greens were like that, there’d be a lot more support for the global warming thing. CC, JSM
Fighting is fighting. I dont see much diffence between Boxing and mixed martial arts. So why one is labeled "Brawling" or "Bloody" and the other isn't? Boxing is the much more dangerous sport because of the large number of blows to the head.
President Theodore Roosevelt was permanently blinded in his left eye after a severe blow from a sparring partner during a White House boxing match in 1905. The injury—likely a detached retina or cataract—was one of the best-kept secrets of his administration
Despite loss of eyesight in his left eye, he went on safari in 1909 and was still a good shot. Later, he went on exploring in Brazil in "The River of Doubt" and barely survived.
He wanted Wilson to let him go to france in 1917 and fight, but I doubt he told Wilson about his being blind in one eye!
Gemini says:
Regional Fighting Styles: Instead of organized, English-style ring fighting, colonists and frontiersmen favored brutal "rough-and-tumble" brawls. These chaotic, no-holds-barred scuffles involved gouging, biting, and stomping, which lacked the structured rules of a formal prizefight.
Honest Abe was a wrestler.
I've had this recurring fantasy I imagine while driving around town. Benjamin Franklin suddenly appears in the seat next to me. I drive him around Vegas, and explain all that's happened in the 250 years he missed. My favorite part is where I pull out a $100 bill and show it to him.
I sometimes change it to other founding fathers, or famous people from the past who I imagine would be most fascinated by what they see. Maybe take the Wright Brothers to the airport.
The founding fathers never even saw a photograph or imagined it possible.
This is the same media that obsessed over Biden’s health every single day for years.
First of all, no, they didn't. They assiduously avoided mentioning it, except in glowing lies.
Second, if they had "obsessed over" it, it would've been justified, based on the 10am lids, the stumbling, the mumbling, the "lifelong stutter" that wasn't, and the never-ending efforts of his staff to bundle him out of sight as quickly as possible in any public appearance.
Whatever you got on Trump? He says crazy stuff. As he always has. Because it's his personality.
"This is the same media that obsessed over Biden’s health every single day for years."
Wow.
Your problem, Rich, is that everybody here lived through those times and watched the media studiously avoid what everybody could see.
Why do you waste your time so?
An era you are living through or have lived through may seem like a dream, but that only sinks in for most people if the media keeps repeating the idea. The Biden years certainly seemed like dream or delirium or a nightmare, but that feeling won't be endlessly expressed in the media. Look forward to hearing that the Trump years were a dream, a nightmare, or a crazy fantasy for the rest of your lives.
On the other hand, the past fades away and is forgotten without somebody reminding us of it. If the high life of the 1920s were a real, lived experience for you it must have seemed like a mad dream to you in the 1930s. And that perception lives on for us because of books, movies, and TV.
Muir and TR were friends, but Muir was pushing 70 during TR's term and there's no record of them boxing.
MMA was the one sport to not shut down during Covid ... which would partly explain why the left hates it so much.
It shows how immoral Americans have become that they think "War is Hell" by Sherman meant killing civilians.
I actually thought "war is hell" was the remorseful cry of a general who was sad to send good men to their death. I was a little surprised to find out he meant, "war is hell for other people."
I stand corrected on TR v Muir. They did go on a rugged camping trip together out West. And TR boxed a bunch of guys in the WH. Guess I glommed the two together. CC, JSM
As I was sitting here considering the Roman Empire, I realized that the Emporer would probably have put on gladiator fights rather than MMA matches. I think we can all agree that some gladiator action would be much less controversial.
What was good for the Romans...
"At least we're not directed to think about the colons of the Founding Fathers."
Hey, why not? Yoo-hoo! AI, . . . any founding fathers have gut trouble?
Yes. A few were noted for recurring digestive issues, especially in later life.
John Adams
He frequently complained in letters about stomach and bowel troubles, including indigestion and what sounds like chronic GI discomfort.
Benjamin Franklin
He had recurrent digestive complaints along with gout and kidney/bladder problems; his correspondence mentions diet and bodily discomfort often.
George Washington
He suffered from periodic abdominal pain and severe bowel illness episodes (including dysentery-like illness during military campaigns).
James Madison
He was known for a generally fragile constitution, with recurring bouts of poor digestion and abdominal complaints reported by contemporaries.
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