I'm reading "Joe Rogan called the White House UFC event ‘so America.’ He’s right. The 'Claw' bursting out of the White House grounds is the perfect metaphor for the moment, injecting bloody spectacle into the country’s birthday celebration" in the Washington Post
I'm reading that because it's by the Post's architecture critic, Philip Kennicott. He writes:
[T]he UFC match isn’t about celebrating the foundational myths of American democracy. It inhabits a landscape of darker myths, like the perpetual struggle of the frontier, the faux chivalry and resentments of the Lost Cause, the Darwinian drama of survival in a world of hostile forces, enemies, chaos....
Trump takes pleasure in presiding over conflict. The world comes to him, where he, the perpetual winner, lords over contests, over victories and defeats. You’re fired. You don’t hold any winning cards. You’ve lost the match. For many Americans, there is nothing surreal about this delight in domination. It simply reflects the world they live in, where people are losing all the time, at the gas pump, at dead-end jobs, in marriages that founder on the shoals of stress and poverty....
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of crowing over domination. But that is a thing, the crowing, and I see it too much everywhere. Have for years.
Regards,
Lori (reader_iam)
They don't get it. People like me have waited our whole lives to see dirt bike jumping over the White House lawn.
To be a truly great man, I believe that there also has to be a sense of humility. This is one of the reasons I admire George Washington so much, for example.
Conflict and competition are inherent in human nature. Kennicott is displaying his version of these traits via his criticism of the event and the men creating it by attempting to lord over it himself, paint it as some despicable “faux chilvary” affair.
For many Americans, there is nothing surreal about this delight in domination. It simply reflects the world they live in, where people are losing all the time, at the gas pump, at dead-end jobs, in marriages that founder on the shoals of stress and poverty....
So, are "many Americans" bullies, or perpetual losers?
Or is the writer going for "root causes" rhetoric here, and wanting to tell us that yes, "many Americans" are bullies, but they're bullies because they're perpetual losers?
So much of "journalism" these days seems to be people who consider themselves to be elite, mouthing what they hope (or assume) sound like sentiments of compassion and understanding toward their inferiors. Sentiments that, when you scratch the surface with a fingernail (Mohs hardness scale: 2), turn out to be smirking condescension. It never seems to occur to them actually to try to understand people with a different background from theirs - only to process their already-distorted perceptions of those people through the black box of their education and social in-group markers, such that what emerges from it always meets their expectations.
A few weeks ago, on our way across the country, we spent a night in Elko, where my husband had done an internship in mining in college. We ate at a Basque restaurant that we'd gone to together some thirty-plus years ago. A big family, clearly locals, was having dinner at the next table - what appeared to be grandparents, parents, a couple of young teenagers, a few younger children. Lots of baseball caps and work boots. A girl of about twelve or thirteen said something about "hulking troglodytes" and all the adults cracked up. I doubt that any coastal "journalist" would believe that anyone in that family could even pronounce the words, much less know what they meant.
It's not feminine. Maybe that's what's bothering them. They're not used to that.
Both contestants come out the octagon winners for having been in the fight. It's not war, it's sport. The guy who lost one fight will come back more determined than ever to win the next one.
You could say all that same dire bullshit about the Olympics Games too, if you wanted to take that attitude.
One of the main events has zero Americans participating. Why are we watching foreigners wrestle each other on the White House lawn?
(Answer: Because this is all just a just a kickback for Dana White. It has little to do with America.)
You could say all that same dire bullshit about the Olympics Games too, if you wanted to take that attitude.
But tennis is so much... cleaner. They even towel themselves off between points.
Jamie said...
So much of "journalism" these days seems to be people who consider themselves to be elite, mouthing what they hope (or assume) sound like sentiments of compassion and understanding toward their inferiors. Sentiments that, when you scratch the surface with a fingernail (Mohs hardness scale: 2), turn out to be smirking condescension. It never seems to occur to them actually to try to understand people with a different background from theirs - only to process their already-distorted perceptions of those people through the black box of their education and social in-group markers, such that what emerges from it always meets their expectations.
Nailed it. Well said as always.
He didnt mind the actual violence going on in dc four years actually longer back to june 20
Wut? They's furaners?! Then ah dun changed muh mind. Ah'm agin it!
These are the same weaklings and losers that put a tarp up so you couldn't see the shadow of Trump's name in the Tramp and Kennedy Center.
The entire "elite" establishment is so pathetic and vile.
Tehran: Dog Day Afternoon Redux - American Thinker https://share.google/HIKImF0h2Z8GafGjd
And they are not myths phillip the are the support beams
An architecture critic is a fine resource for smirking condescension. But remember, that guild loved Mies Van Der Rohe
One recalls the insufferable ellsworth toohey of the fountain hea (growing i thought could there be such ridiculous figure?)
A middle-finger to the DC establishment.
This event, the Kennedy Center renaming, the August IndyCar race, the gigantic Arch, the Reflecting Pool, fixing the fountains, etc. are all to -- in the language of his peers -- "shift the Overton window" about what is possible and to kill sacred cows.
Had Trump served peacefully as T45 and T46 (no lawfare, no Biden), he'd be remembered as a populist pressure release and a fluke. In serving as T47 after lawfare and Biden, he's set on shaking up the culture as much as possible and forcing in a new era.
I wonder if Philip Kennicott and Fenton Kenilworth know each other.
The Claw?
Reminds me of Baron Von Raschke.
https://theclawfilm.com/
"The faux chivalry and resentments of the Lost Cause" - FO Philip Ken
The victorian gent (tom wolfe) but it serves decay not renewal
I rather read what Freddie on X has to say.
This is exactly the kind of person whose opinion I have no interest in, but he gets paid to have one no matter how predictable.
Thats more chaff bezos has to dispose of
"D.D. Driver said...
One of the main events has zero Americans participating. Why are we watching foreigners wrestle each other on the White House lawn?
(Answer: Because this is all just a just a kickback for Dana White. It has little to do with America.)"
First, it's not wrestling. Second, how is this a kickback?
Seriously, "resentments of the Lost Cause"? Geez Louise, it's just a fun entertainment spectacle. Get over yourself.
the kind of person whose opinion I have no interest in, but he gets paid to have one no matter how predictable.
And if he suddenly doesn't get paid; others like him will claim it is a denial of free speech.
Unrestrained patriotism is what makes it American. We are not Brits or Greeks. We are exceptional. Leave that self-doubt to those who deserve it.
There is nothing so distasteful and worthy of scorn and condemnation by our elites as acting like we live in the Darwinian universe they themselves believe and preach.
"..The 'Claw' bursting out of the White House grounds is the perfect metaphor for the moment.."
hmmm..
and WHAT was 'the perfect metaphor' for the Biden era?
having naked LGBTQIA2S+ dancers in the Rose Garden.
Constructing a sentence without contradiction is apparently more difficult than drawing construction plans. Stick to reviewing buildings bud.
Note there are only losers in this crappy fainting couch version of events: “You’re fired. You don’t hold any winning cards. You’ve lost the match.” If I wrote this as a parody it would be unbelievable. Leftist losers always focus on the loser, because they hate winners. The obvious love Trump has for intense competition and for winners especially drives the whiny dnc media retards insane.
"The faux chivalry and resentments of the Lost Cause"
The faux intellectualism and contempt of Philip Kennicott.
Btw, losing does not make one a loser. Refusing to compete does.
"Everything about 'the Claw' feels tawdry, especially when they turn on the lights, which send bolts of blue and white illumination down the 154-foot interlocking steel arches...”
Kennicott’s review makes this sound totally awesome! Can’t wait!
It is a special day. Donald Trump is celebrating his 80th birthday, while the republic he leads is marking its 250th anniversary. To commemorate the twin milestones, the octogenarian-in-chief has chosen a fitting tribute: a cage fight on the South Lawn of the White House, staged before several thousand spectators.
In a nod to America’s immigrant heritage, the UFC’s “Freedom 250” event is headlined by a Brazilian, a Georgian, a Frenchman, and a half-Mexican American. Inside the octagon, they will punch, kick, throw, and choke one another until only one remains standing. The family-friendly spectacle doesn’t stop there. In the name of gender equality, the six bouts of human cockfighting will also feature “octagon girls” in red, white, and blue hot pants and bustiers — as previewed in Maxim magazine.
These global UFC stars are risking brain injuries, disfigurement, and permanent disability (not to mention potential deportation or jail time). They are presumably participating out of a deep love for America — and the promise of a handsome paycheck. The UFC, led by Trump’s close friend Dana White, has touted the event as historic, promising “the biggest bonus in UFC history.”
That generous reward is being stumped up by Singapore-based Crypto.com, a company with close ties to Trump and his family ventures. The $1 million bonus, to be shared among the winners, will be paid in CRO — the cryptocurrency Crypto.com created out of thin air. Trump Media conveniently bought $105 million worth of it last year. With CRO’s value having plummeted roughly 82% over the past 10 months and trading volumes remaining thin, the fighters will enjoy the added thrill of trying to actually cash out their winnings.
One might expect the American public to be grateful for such a grand spectacle held in their honor. Yet once again, Trump supporters’ claim that he has a thankless job rings true. According to a recent poll, only 16% of Americans approve of the White House UFC fight, rising to just 31% among Republicans.
Trump simply wants to give Americans a brief reprieve from worries about war in the Middle East, rising inflation, and the nation’s rapidly depreciating global reputation. As usual, the fake news media and woke Hollywood had to ruin it. SAD!
As someone said about today’s New Englanders and. Bostonians, they’re Puritans: they believe you should be able to do whatever you want by they have strong opinions about things some people do.
Democrats have bad taste -- Fetterman's hoodies, Hillary's pantsuits, Obama's disgusting library, etc. Nevertheless, the Democrats believe they have more “highly developed” tastes than the donut eating rubes who vote Trump.
Have you seen The Iron Claw on Netflix? A surprisingly good movie.
I've never been a fan of pro wrestling. The movie is based on a true story about a family of pro-wrestlers in the 1980's. I know, I know. I passed over the movie several times, but it's not at all what I expected. It's not about about wrestling.
Or, ya know, it's just a sporting event full of spectacle and grander that happens to be at the WH. Philip Kennicott and his 50¢ phrases such as "faux chivalry and resentments of the Lost Cause" and "Darwinian drama of survival in a world" are such insufferable prigs. They have nothing, absolutely zero, in common or understanding of Middle America.
Sir, this is a Wendys vibes
Help! My dingy is stranded on the shoals of stress and poverty!
Architecture critic = wated life.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
Trump simply wants to give Americans a brief reprieve from worries about war in the Middle East, rising inflation, and the nation’s rapidly depreciating global reputation. As usual, the fake news media and woke Hollywood had to ruin it. SAD!
Trump has lowered both inflation and gas prices.
Both were higher under Biden.
And we have a manufacturing job boom just starting now.
You are just a liar and everyone is laughing at you. Your garbage only works on a dwindling number of retards dumb enough to vote for democrats.
One needs a subscription to Paramount Plus to see the fights. I wonder what Trump will be charging us to see the National fireworks display on the 4th.
Oh, Sod Off Swampy.
"Trump has lowered both inflation and gas prices. Both were higher under Biden."
Not to be picky Achilles, but isn't the meaningful comparison between today and the date Trump took office? If you want to say he lowered gas prices even though they are 25% higher than when he took office, who is the retard?
jim5301 said...
"Trump has lowered both inflation and gas prices. Both were higher under Biden."
Not to be picky Achilles, but isn't the meaningful comparison between today and the date Trump took office? If you want to say he lowered gas prices even though they are 25% higher than when he took office, who is the retard?
People who don't understand averages and moving data sets.
You never complained about any of the 20% inflation under Biden. Nobody cares about dishonest stupid pieces of shit like you that lie with snapshot statistics.
Philip Kennicott Is a cunt, that is all
Time for additional culling of the herd at the WaPoo, Jeffrey Bezos.
“I wonder what Trump will be charging us…”
Be glad it’s not on federal charges, jimmynumbers numbers, you seditious twatwaffle.
“…founder on the shoals…”
ai: “The phrase "to founder on the shoals" is a metaphorical expression meaning that a plan, business, relationship, or idea has completely failed, sunk, or collapsed due to a specific hidden obstacle.“
‘Flounder’ in the other hand: “1. As a Verb (Action)To flounder means to struggle clumsily, thrash about, or have great difficulty finding your footing. It can be physical or mental.”
Compare and contrast the two words.
"The Continuum of Failure: Linguists at Merriam-Webster note that flounder represents the clumsy, active struggle before a collapse, while founder represents the definitive collapse itself. They are two chronological stages of the same unfortunate event."
It might be just complicated enough for a Bobby Finn treatment.
Becoming a trillionaire like Elon Musk IS rocket science. That's why there's only one.
How can you read this drivel?
"[T]he UFC match isn’t about celebrating the foundational myths of American democracy. It inhabits a landscape of darker myths, like the perpetual struggle of the frontier, the faux chivalry and resentments of the Lost Cause, the Darwinian drama of survival in a world of hostile forces, enemies, chaos...."
Projection much? Let's parse:
"foundational myths of American democracy" - does he mean "We the people," or is it the myth of 'We, the Government, are here to help you?'
"a landscape of darker myths, like the perpetual struggle of the frontier" - meaning 'the oppression inherent in colonization.'
"the faux chivalry and resentments of the Lost Cause," - gotta bring up slavery, of course.
"the Darwinian drama of survival in a world of hostile forces, enemies, chaos...." - the hostility is real. The enemies are real. The chaos is real. To deny it is surrender.
The left are never unhappy with their donor billionaires.
Soros money and chi com money are welcome - as pocket lining and democxratic destruction alliances.
Not the Craw ! The Craw ! !
I wonder what Mel Brooks would have said about turning 80, 19 years ago.
"jim5301 said...
One needs a subscription to Paramount Plus to see the fights. I wonder what Trump will be charging us to see the National fireworks display on the 4th."
Yes you do. That was true before this event and will be after dumb fuck. Nothing to do with Trump.
Face it, it’s just another gauche spotlight that Trump revels in. Just like his daily announcements of this or that in the Oval Office with 42 adoring subjects behind him.
Is there an occupation of less worth to society than architecture critic? I doubt it.
""D.D. Driver said...
One of the main events has zero Americans participating. Why are we watching foreigners wrestle each other on the White House lawn?
(Answer: Because this is all just a just a kickback for Dana White. It has little to do with America.)""
The UFC does not pay locations that host events. They pay the UFC to come there, and pay them alot. However, the Federal Government is not paying for this event, in fact the UFC is picking up all costs. So the idea that it's some kickback to Dana White is retarded. Trump helped Dana White when he was starting up by having fights at his casinos (no one else would have them). White and Trump are close friends. White is loyal to Trump. If anything this a way for White to say thanks.
"And we have a manufacturing job boom just starting now."
Quite right -- if reporters told the truth we would see how wonderful the emperors clothes are!
The idea of restoring manufacturing to America sounds appealing, but the economic reality is far more complicated. Over the past four decades, US companies moved labor intensive production overseas because wages in countries such as China, Vietnam and Mexico were often one-sixth of American rates. That single factor, far more than trade policy, drove the global supply chain shift. A factory worker in Shenzhen might earn $4 to $5.35 an hour, compared with $26.80 to $33.50 in Michigan. Even allowing for shipping, management and compliance costs, the savings were immense.
Now, Trump imagines that tariffs can reverse this process. Yet tariffs are simply taxes paid by American consumers and businesses. They raise the price of imported goods but do nothing to narrow the fundamental labour / cost gap. Unless Americans are willing to accept far lower wages or far higher prices, many of these industries cannot profitably return. Automation may offset some of the difference, but only in capital-intensive sectors such as semiconductors or car assembly. Most routine assembly and textiles will remain cheaper abroad for years to come.
The real challenge is not tariffs but competitiveness: investing in skills, advanced robotics, and energy efficiency so that American factories can match Asian productivity. Protectionism may win applause at rallies, but it cannot repeal arithmetic. The U.S. cannot build a sustainable industrial base by pretending that a $33.50-an-hour worker can compete with one earning $5.35 unless the output per head rises by a similar multiple. Tariffs disguise that truth temporarily; they do not solve Trump’s mistaken idea.
Neither couples dancing nor choreographed acting. Perhaps an albinophobic banner projected onto the Whitehouse. Or celebration of demos-cracy aborted in darkness is more suited to the left-adjacent palette.
Just to clarify, the Post describes Kennicott thusly: "He is now the Post's culture critic, focused on cultural issues and the arts in general." That seems like a poor reporter choice for this event. Is the Post now going to start sending sports writers to cover upcoming arts events.
“ Trump Media conveniently bought $105 million worth of it last year. ”
And why was that? Either Ivana or Lara explained. The Trump organization was debanked as a feature of communist democrat lawfare. Banks they had been doing business with for decades, got on their knees. So they put money in crypto so they could keep doing business. Then they made out like bandits. I hope scott bessent has something special for those banks.
The left: There shall be NO fun.
Fun only exists when our creepy liars are in charge.
Religious adherence to lies(D) is fun.... for the cultists.
A workmate from years past was the son of the classical music critic of the major newspaper in a very musical American city. Due to a personnel issue, he was drafted to review a show by the Temptations sometime in the early 70's. He sent me a link to the article, still available today. I thought of that while reading this.
I'd watch a video from Rogan and Brendan Schaub on the architecture of DC with greater pleasure and interest. One of these is not like the others.
ai: "The Surprising Etymology: The word [tawdry] actually originates from the 7th-century Northumbrian Queen Etheldreda (or St. Audrey). In her youth, she was fond of fancy necklaces. After her death from a throat tumor, she founded a monastery and was later canonized. Annual fairs were held in her honor, where cheap, brightly colored lace necklaces—known as "St. Audrey’s lace"—were sold. Over time, this evolved into "tawdry lace" and was shortened to mean any cheap, gaudy ornament or item."
St Trumpian merch. And now I know, the rest of the story.
To clarify, Dad was the reviewer. He had some interesting interpretations of "Papa was a Rolling Stone".
Wasn't Philip Kennicott a character in an Ayn Rand novel?
After her death from a throat tumor, she founded a monastery
Sounds like quite a woman.
so, a serious question:
what are gas prices in Madison this morning?
it's $3.69 here; and falling fast
Speaking of fighting the Lost Cause, Trump won. Yet, the Washington Post and its writers can’t get over it.
it must be so depressing to know your creative writing is showing no improvement in your team’s poll numbers.
I paid $2.91 for E15 yesterday.
"So the idea that it's some kickback to Dana White is retarded."
It's sad, but inspiring to see him fight adversity like that. A role model for those afflicted.
Ah do declare! The faux chivalry of the octagon is givin' me palpitations, like Melissa French Gates! It's all too polite! Make it stop!
Trump's a New Yorker. If you want to look for the origins of UFC it goes back to America's 20th century urban culture. The founder of UFC roomed with Trump at the New York Military Academy. That may explain his soft spot for the thing.
In 46 BC, after winning a brutal civil war and securing his position as dictator, Caesar constructed a massive temporary wooden amphitheater in Rome to host gladiatorial fights.
Now consider the “cage” constructed on the White House lawn to celebrate the United States and President’s birthday. After 2,000 years of human progress, the United States has somehow regressed to an ancient state of brutality, populism, and corruption. There are no “better corruption. There are no “better angels of our nature” left.
"Tawdry " is not the right word to describe The Claw. That's how you would describe a dress, not a spectacle such as this. There needs to be a better word that would be worthy of P.T. Barnum himself.
“One needs a subscription to Paramount Plus to see the fights.”
Cool. I happen to have one of those. Watching the fights tonight for the first time ever. 5 PM AZ time.
Thanks folks! Ya never know what you’ll learn on the Althouse blog.
Is the Post now going to start sending sports writers to cover upcoming arts events.
…if NYT says the best person for political reporting and commentary is the food critic…
Philip Kennicott is preaching a sermon or writing a poem. Facts don't matter much to him. He's on a roll.
Ha, ha. Sad!
Trump does something, the left has a hissy fit. Otherwise known as "Another day ending in "Y".
It's Eeyore if he had an advanced degree and dabbled in poetry. And listened only to NPR.
Well, here we are going to the moon and having wrestling concerts while there are still people in the lowest 10% percent of the income distribution and the Kennedy center has a tarp on it. This kind of thing needs a federal district judge to fix it.
Trump relishes in the visage of sweaty muscular handsome men grappling for his pleasure.
So at the WaPo, even the architecture writer is an America-skeptical leftist. For some reason, I find this completely unsurprising.
Most of the criticism of Trump boils down to Lefties not being in charge.
Trump inhabits the real world, where people get fired, get hired, progress, then lose it all. Where you have to work hard, not only to gain your position, but to keep it. Where you are only as good as your next action. "We know what you did for us before. What are you going to do next?"
Though Trump has lived like a king, he has always had this connection to the common man and woman. This is not new. It seems that it has always flustered the elite class.
Those who don't relate to the common man and woman, our academic class and our journalist class, don't approve of anything Trump does or would do, so this MMA display is seen as both gauche and out of place. But it reaffirms his connection to 'his people'. At least some of them.
I think it's clownish, but it doesn't bother me. It is also a Big Show. Maybe the biggest ever. No one has ever seen a show like this at The White House. They're all talking about it. In other words, it's classic Trump.
Kennicott regards himself as the paper's "cultural critic." "Cultural critics" regard themselves as the court of last appeal on matters relating to ... practically everything.
Someone who had a more friendly feeling towards the country might see in UFC something of the strength required to brave the elements, weather hard times, and defeat Nazism, but Kennicott sees only dispossession of the natives, slavery and grim Darwinian struggle.
You can also see in his writing the war between high and popular culture. The Kennedy Center was commissioned at a time when American power was supposed to be wedded to high culture. How did that turn out? Really. Not very well for high culture at all, but one can make up for it by putting down the pastimes of the proles.
Philip has a bit of the naivete and straining after elite culture of his namesake, Sinclair Lewis's Carol Kennicott in "Main Street."
As usual, Trump is authentic.
I used to, but no longer, appreciate the theater of politics as some honorable business where decorum and style are a standard. All the while the tax payers being robbed, interns are being sexed up in the Oval Office, and self-promotion and enrichment are happening every single time. It's just a fraud, and I have no problem with any President, left or right, dropping the pretense. This event is just as honorable, if not more so, than the kabuki theater usually doled out, mostly intending to enrich donors and friends, and pretending to be something you never were, while giving the public some watered -down apology show.
My great, great uncle was a pro wrestler. Tore Johansson, who immigrated with my grandmother and her sisters. Like some modern wrestlers, like Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant, he rode his wrestling career as the 'Swedish Angle" into acting in LA. He rose to such heights that Ed Wood came knocking, and he starred in Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Beast of Yucca Flats, and other memorable films. There is a large dose of theatricality in these events.
"..Now consider the “cage” constructed on the White House lawn to celebrate the United States and President’s birthday. After 2,000 years of human progress, the United States has somehow regressed to an ancient state of brutality, populism, and corruption.."
where as, consider that in the last admin, paid government employees were filming gay porno videos inside congressional buildings.
remind you of anything? like when Caligua turned the Roman Senate into a bordello?
how about when Claudius' wife got into a competion with The Biggest Whore in Rome?
but; tell me again, how Trump is the wicked one?
Louddogblog @11:43 👆🏽
The writer used “tawdry” because a word to pathologise adult entertainment is virtually nonexistent today. Or maybe ever. A case when an author’s reach exceeds his grasp. Or something. See my post on tawdry the word etymology 👆🏽
One of the main events has zero Americans participating. Why are we watching foreigners wrestle each other on the White House lawn?
(Answer: Because this is all just a just a kickback for Dana White. It has little to do with America.)
Maybe you should shut up if that's all you got.
"Why are we watching foreigners wrestle each other on the White House lawn?"
If it triggers you, don't watch. Problem solved.
The word for it is a noun: "extravaganza". Actually there should be a word for just our version, which seems to be unique in the world: "Ameriganza".
Let’s summarize. If you don’t like “the Claw” and you don’t like the UFC, you are simply an elitist snob.
Marc Thiessen
@marcthiessen
I’ve never been to a UFC fight, but I once went to a monster truck/motocross rally in rural Maine and saw a part of America I’d never experienced before. Trump is opening the White House to those Americans and it’s awesome. If you’re offended by that you may be an elitist snob"
Sometimes it's too easy to simply dismiss the left as hating America. But just look at this event. Just how are the rest of us supposed to think anything else?
People are having fun. It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. The fighters and their teams will never experience anything like this again. But looking at the left's reactions - at something they're under no obligation to watch or participate - and it's pure hatred.
Well, fuck them. The rest of us are having a great time.
American Studies was invented specifically to flog these four theories. Then, when actual scholars began exploring them, the real subtleties of history expanded the field. This is just dumb nostalgia from a calcified ideologue.
The very same people criticizing this worship "graphic novels."
Wow, Todd. What a filmography. Your great, great Uncle certainly entertained people who needed some escape. I've seen him in old films. His face is unforgettable.
Let’s summarize. If you don’t like “the Claw” and you don’t like the UFC, you are simply an elitist snob.
Big Mike: That strikes me as a little extreme. It is very much possible to not be a UFC fan and yet not begrudge enjoyment of it. You don't have to be an "elitist" snob to not enjoy it for oneself.
Regards,
Lori (reader_iam)
We can't have different strokes for different folks? That would be a shame. Sorta boring, by my lights.
And per Todd's Uncle, he starred with Abbot and Costello. Professional wrestling isn't real domination: like slapstick filmmaking, they train for years to feign injuries and mock current political stereotypes, especially international ones. That is why this spectacle is so popular with working-class men across all ethnic boundaries and thus so threatening to elite liberals. How many of you tight-asses found the indie series Glow, about female professional wrestlers, "transgressive and fascinating"?
The frontier struggle isn't part of the "foundational myths" of America and/or American democracy? Seems like it's an important part!
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