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Wait - there is a literal Ultimate Fighting event? Or have I been duped by the comments? Cuz that’d be the trashiest thing ever. Last person I personally knew who went to the White House 2 yrs ago was chastised for wearing open toed shoes, this is a whole new low for such a previously sacred place.
Yes, there is a literal UFC event at the US Presidential Residence.
Oh my god the US has reached levels of cringe previously undocumented
Does Idiocracy count as documentation?
No idiocracy had the idiots open to look for who they thought would be an expert to help them out of their situation.
President Comancho going to make an appearance?
Hard pass
It’d be sick if this was actually Terry Crews replying.
He's too good for this tackiness.
We shouldn't be having a 250th birthday party for the nation.
We should be having a funeral.
I haven't followed the UFC for years since I realized that Dana White was an evil man and the UFC is an exploitative organization which abuses all of its fighters.
But I am guessing that this event will be on Pay-Per-View like most of their events, and so the UFC will cover the construction costs.
But at for who is paying for it, I would argue that all Americans are paying for it as a weakening of the Constitution, as Presidents historically can't favor any specific private company using the White House, which if I remember correctly, are laws related to the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
And all humans everywhere are paying for it as a strike against basic human dignity and the progress of civilization. We're back in Ancient Roman times watching gladiators fight in the Colosseum.
If Trump is involved, the answer is always taxpayers. This is an expense to taxpayers, even if UFC pays for parts of this. Staffing, security, utilities - WH budget.
Who’s paying
They voted it in
This is the US to its core. Half the other sides voters will subscribe to this pay per view.
Trump is a symptom.
All the people who didn’t vote for him get to pay to line his pockets.
The people who did vote for him are rich grifters who don’t pay taxes or poor dumbasses who don’t make enough to pay taxes.
The reasonable Americans seem more and more to be the exception rather than the rule
Bread and circuses, now with 90% less bread!
Who's paying for this UFC bullshit that they're building at the White House?
Same people who are paying for the fucking ballroom.
It's not even a real sport. It figures Trump's favorite sport would be two guys beating each other senseless. He's nothing short of the American Caligula. He'd have them fight to the death, if he thought he could get away with it.
I mean, whether it's a "sport" or not feels more like a semantic argument... but you're spot on with everything else. I'm not a Roman history buff but this definitely reminds me of "Gladiator". 🙃
Hey, the best way to defund the oligarchy is to live a frugally as possible, cancel all your subscriptions, buy the least branded, least advertised bulk products you can. Don’t buy from major chains when you can avoid it. Turn on an ad blocker, or even better adnauseam.
If you can’t get some digital media direct from the artists, pirate it. Fuck the ethics discussion, any money you spend through an app store or through a major subscription service is quietly getting funneled to this shit.
Deny them your dollars and put your money away till things improve. Be a consumer on strike if that’s the least you can do.
ethics went out the window when corporations kept price fixing and bribing politicians for covering their crimes.
“Rules for thee but not for me” the oligarchs say.
This isn’t for another couple of weeks what are they doing. Also, this is pure white trash.
All we need is a NASCAR event on the White House lawn and the circus will be complete - modern gladiator battles and modern chariot races? How could the plebians possibly be upset?
Does anyone not know the answer to this question? It's just like it was in the feudal era. If you saw something being built, it was either for the church or the king and you paid for it.
I believe the term is "rhetorical question".
The taxPAYers
It's in your job description. Don't complain /s
The bread has gone stale and the circus is lame
Oh! That wasn't a joke?
Well you can have an Idiocracy President-Camacho-style-intro without lights and stuff.
That'll get trump all revved up for his post-fight, tween adventure. /s
It's paid for by the UFC. The UFC can afford it because paramount. Paramount can afford it because we pay them every month.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
And Paramount is owned by Larry Ellison. A big Trump supporter and donator.
Also his kids each own a big Hollywood studio. His daughter owns Annapurna and his son Skydance. So if you bought a Annapurna videogame you donated to their cause.
Worshipping pedophiles and watching grown men smash each others faces in is more important to Americans than living.
Change my mind.
Next up, we turn The Ellipse into the Circus Maximus. I mean, it's already got the right shape for the chariot races.
Pussy-slapping contest
That made me snort my morning coffee. LOL