Construction is underway at the White House to build a temporary structure for next month's UFC fight.
    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 days ago

      Idiocracy is one of the most unrealistic portrails of the US executive branch (the house of representin is spot on) President Dwayne Elezondo MtnDew Herbert Camacho is actually the best fictional president. He had a problem,

      • found the most qualified person to solve it.

      • listened to them (reluctantly) then.

      • didnt take much credit for it, once it was solved

      No other president would have done any of those things… Perhaps Carter.

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        I’d believe that would definitely make Comancho the greatest president the US had ever seen.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    10·
    7 days ago

    Who would have thought that the big birthday party of the most powerful nation on earth would be reduced to something like this. They threw a good national birthday party back in 1976.

  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Elect a reality tv star as president get a reality tv presidency.

    (That being said, he’s not leaving)

  • MrNesser@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    Romans had the collisuem and the gladiators i guess Trump has to cheap out to entertain the masses

  • VeryVito@lemmy.world
    1621·
    8 days ago

    No worse than LBJ’s demolition derby arena or Carter’s Tractor-Pull-a-Palooza, except for the fact that those are totally made up and never occurred because why the hell would they ever have???

    • cmbabul@slrpnk.netEnglish
      20·
      8 days ago

      To be honest, neither of those sound nearly as tacky or gauche as this does to me, something about it being UFC/MMA or if it were boxing during it’s peak or even pro wrestling make it this gross mix of gladiatorial combat, organized crime, and carny shit that really shouldn’t be anywhere near the President. Its not wrong to enjoy any of those as entertainment even if someone is currently the President, hell I love pro wrestling when there good storylines and characters, I’m not what you would normally call a classy person. But this gives me a very particular ‘ick’ and I’m not quite sure how to describe it.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I can’t believe UFC is still a thing. I stopped watching when every fight was a title bout. And here we have interim intermingled heavy weight title bout. It was all meaningless at that point who has the title. And they want every fight to be a title bout cause it sells more ppv.

    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
      16·
      8 days ago

      LBJ didn’t have to resort to tough guy tropes and ritualized masculinity displays to convince people he had the biggest dick in the room.

        • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
          5·
          7 days ago

          I don’t disagree with you in any way, however, I would pay more money than I’m willing to admit to watch a literal presidential dick measuring contest. I think we all know who would likely place last, but even if he didn’t, I would enjoy his reaction to losing for the rest of my days with great relish because he couldn’t possibly be first and that’s he would care about.

          And I’m pretty much only able to confidently hope this because we all know that apparently LBJ had a hog, and I appreciates that about him, even though yeah fuck him for the war crimes.

  • ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl
    86·
    8 days ago

    What a fucking disgrace. The exact type of spectacle you’d expect from the magats. Obsessed with being alpha while simultaneously the biggest fucking losers you’ve ever seen.