Biden had Elton John entertain on the White House lawn. Trump wants to have a UFC fight. What's next, gladiators fighting to the death?

 

• While this may seem just snarky, I am deadly serious when I write Substacks like this. Things like this offer a frightening insight into Trump's malevolent sadistic mindset and personality.

President Biden had Elton John entertain some 2000 guests on the White House lawn (article).

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Donald Trump is floating the idea of having an Ultimate Fight Championship (UFC) fight with 20-25,000 people in the audience on the White House grounds. (See story)

Two very different social media reactions were published in the RawStory article about this.

Trump told rallygoers he wants to mark the country’s upcoming 250th anniversary with a “full championship fight” on the White House grounds in addtion to staging events at national parks and historic sites.

There’s a well known saying about this. You can get it on a t-shirt or button here.

By now I think most everyone knows what the UFC is. If you don’t, here’s the Wikipedia page.

You can tell a lot about the culture of a country by which sports are the most popular. I won’t get into this since there are so many articles about it (see Google search) and because it is so obvious. It doesn’t take deep thinking to see why certain people are attracted to particular sports, whether by participating in them or as observers.

There are people who enjoy a bloody dog fight or a cock fight and who, if it was socially acceptable, would watch a death match involving people fighting each other or animals. 

Trump seems obessesed with alligators. He might wish he could stage to the death alligator wrestling fights between immigrants and hungry giant gators. He’d rather put political enemies in a pit with a ravenous gator, but Trump wouldn't dare do this even though this would be a delicious fantasy for him. He wouldn’t want to literally eat Adam Schiff or Gavin Newsom for dinner with a side of fava beans (click here if you don’t get it and for the hidden joke click here); but he would probably would enjoy watching an alligator eat them.

These Trump pleasing battles with toothsome reptiles wouldn’t be the tame type you’d see at a park like Gatorland (right below). They’d be like the AI illustration below (left).

From bull fighting to baseball, we see vast differences in the types of sporting events that draw huge crowds.

The popular movies “High Noon” and “Gladiator” focused on life or death encounters. Children learn about the events which were held in the Coleseum in ancient Rome where gladiators fought each other or animals.

The following is from an article in The World History Encyclopedia. 

The above illustration depicts the most common gladiator types in ancient Rome. These professional fighters, drawn from various backgrounds including slaves, prisoners of war, and volunteers, underwent rigorous training to master the use of weapons and various combat techniques. The gladiators were classified into types, such as the Thrax, murmillo, Samnite, and retiarius, based on their equipment, fighting style, and the cultural or regional origins that influenced their armaments and appearance. The gladiatorial games were in many ways a reflection of Roman society's values, glorifying themes of courage, skill, and the spectacle of life and death in the arena.

We all have seen movies or shows about people on hunts where the prey was another human. Squid Game is about a contest where the losers die. We’ve also seen movies where a Roman emperor gave a thumbs up or thumbs down at the end of a match to tell the victor whether to kill the loser or let him live.

Trump would relish being that emperor.

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They are here legally, White, armed to the teeth, and itching to shoot people. What is Trump going to do about it? By Hal M. Brown Trump's ICE thugs are too busy to protect us from them.

 

The article shown above is well worth reading (link). It is about a man named Ian Rogers. The article, by Mike Spies1, was published on the anti-gun violence website The Trace and also in Rolling Stone. It prompted this blowback on a the website Bearing Arms: Rolling Stone Unintentionally Gives Masterclass In Media Bias.

Here’s how Spies’ article begins:

By November 3, 2020, the day of the presidential election, 44-year-old Ian Rogers had been preparing for the implosion of American civilization for so long that it seemed like a foregone conclusion. He could see the coded signals, the power-grabbing, and he was confident it would all culminate in the Democratic Party stealing the White House for Joe Biden and establishing a police state. Rogers, who had spent most of his life in California’s wine country, where he owned a car repair shop, expected to lose cherished freedoms — in particular, gun rights. A feeling of profound, imminent loss had settled over him. If armed resistance became necessary, Rogers considered himself a man of action. When the election results came in, he decided it was time to move.

Between November 25, 2020, some two weeks after most news organizations declared a Democratic victory, and January 13, 2021, court records show Rogers initiated a series of domestic terrorism planning sessions with his best friend, 37-year-old Jarrod Copeland. Over text message, they discussed how to carry out an attack against institutions they saw as liberal. Among the targets discussed were Twitter and Facebook, both of which had recently banned Donald Trump; the California governor’s mansion, inhabited by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom; and the Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento.

I’ve been thinking about Trump’s Amazing Alligator Alcatraz. Even though it could be the name of an amusment venue, it is a far cry from being a Florida theme park with thrill rides, unless you consider making taking a journey through the Everglade swamps to be thrilling. (In fact, the Alligator Alcatraz would not be impossible to escape from. Click here:  2

Trump, of course, wants you to believe his ICE thugs have a dangerous job rounding up people who would like nothing better than sneaking up behind you with a baseball bat and bashing your head in. In case you missed it, this is what he said: 

(Reference)

Trump, if you recall, has an affinity for baseball bats being used to threaten people Read article:

Trump seems to feel baseball bats are an extension of his manhood:

But I digress…

There are thousands of people who are like Ian Rogers. They are White ideologues who may be loners or may belong to far right groups. Some may be apolitical people who unleash their personal demons and become mass shooters. After a shooting it is frequently revealed that many of them them telegraphed their violent intentions on social media.

It is, or ought to be, the role of law enforcement to try to find these people before they kill anybody. If they do locate them, consider what’s more dangerous for law enforcement personnel, arresting immigrants, even those who may appear to have gang tattoos, or arresting these well armed people. Many of the latter group not only have an arsenal of weapons which they practiced using, but they have fantasies about getting in shootouts with the police.

Ian Rogers was arrested in 2017 without violence. He plead guilty to conspiracy and illegal weapons possession and received a nine-year prison sentence. This was before he could act on threats like the following: I think I’ll do a drive by and unload a couple drums into that commie building. He was referring to the Democratic Party’s headquarters in Sacramento.

Rogers was not a major right-wing militia member, but he did have an affiliation with the 3 Percenters. Below is from from the article:

Trump won the election, and around then Rogers joined an offshoot of the Three Percenters, which he later told police was “basically a prepper group” that interacted on Facebook, held weekly phone meetings, conducted field-training exercises, and hosted barbecues. Rogers told investigators that he’d tried to join the official militia, applying through its website, but never heard back.

This is just one person. How many others more or less like him are there? I venture to guess thousands. Some, as I write this, may be actively plotting to commit acts of violence.

It would be a far better use of law enforcement resources to go after them.

Alas, I doubt that very many people, except those in the pre-Trump and Kash Patel FBI assigned to anti-domestic terrorism, have the ability to do this. 

Let’s not forget who David Fugate is (see Wikipedia). Trivia points if you guessed this before reading further.

Read this and weep:

Thomas C. Fugate III (born 2002 or 2003) is an American political appointee serving in the United States Department of Homeland Security whose responsibilities were expanded to include serving as the director of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3).

He completed an undergraduate degree in Politics and Law from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2024 and worked as an intern at the Heritage Foundation. He succeeded counterterrorism scholar Bill Braniff, who resigned following the cutting of staff at the center. Fugate had been a "special assistant" at the Department of Homeland Security in an immigration office. He had also worked on the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign and attended the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Do you feel more secure now?

Arresting armed criminals is generally left to police or federal SWAT teams. Does any objective person think that the typical ICE agent could accomplish this task? Furthermore, should this even be something they are ordered to do? 

ICE, it could be argued, ought to be entirely disbanded. Instead, when Trump’s Big Beuatiful Bill is passed it will be expanded. (See: ICE’s $175 billion windfall: Trump’s mass deportation force set to receive military-level funding.) I doubt the elimination of ICE would have a detrimental effect on the everyday lives of anyone except those who now live in fear of being arrested and deported. They are not like the police who we count on to be there when we need them. 

This brings up the unfortunately hypothetical question as to what these 20,000 (that’s how many there are) people would do if they lost there jobs.

I don’t see jobs that include “lack of empathy” in the list of qualifications. I wouldn’t want them in jobs that involved human interaction, or even dealing with pets. I’m racking my brain over this. They have a right to work someplace. Since so many factory assembly lines are robotic, the only suitable occupation I can think of is working in a slaughterhouse.

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Spies was interviewed on MSNBC this morning.

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In fact much of this is a crazy fantasy from Trump. This actually isn't at all like Alcatraz which was close to impossible to escape from. Yes, three inmates—Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin—successfully escaped from Alcatraz on June 11, 1962. Their fate remains a mystery, as they were never found after their escape. Making it though the Everglades seems to be quite possible. It would be easy to avoid pythons. Alligators can run at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour in short bursts on land, but they typically average around 11 miles per hour over longer distances. In water, they can swim at speeds of about 20 miles per hour. We luck and skill someone could avoid them. They not interested in attacking, let alone eating, anything as large as a person. Alligators can attack people, but such incidents are rare and often occur due to human behavior that provokes them, such as swimming in their territory. Most alligator attacks are preventable with proper awareness and caution around their habitats.December 2024 report on islands.com states, the Florida Everglades is home to 200,000 alligators, specifically, Everglades National Park: "The park, spanning 1.5-million acres, is a vast subtropical eco-system that includes swamps, wetlands, and mangrove forests that form the only place where you can see wild alligators and crocodiles in one spot." This may seem like a lot but the area is big so they have to be spread out.

The Trump MAGA hat, the greatest fetish for the greatest president, By Hal M. Brown

 

I can imagine what residents of other countries, not merely their leaders, think if they spend any time following American news. Not just political news, all the news. They might think that we’re consumed by the a story about somebody with a strange middle name, Sean Diddy Combs.

They may think we are as interested in him as we are in Donald Trump and his manic move to make the news. Always showing how he’s making good on his promise to make life miserable for immigrants by rounding them up and having them detained in the the Everglades where if they try to escape they’ll be eaten by allligators.

They are probably so used to seeing Trump wearing a baseball hat that they think this is normal. It still gets to me. If they are paying attention to the news they may notice the new hat Trump wore when he visited his Alligator Alcatraz:

These days baseball hats are simply called hats. For example, a MAGA hat. Nobody says “I am going to wear my MAGA baseball hat to the rally.” Still, the hats did originate with baseball. Here’s an article from Smithsonian Magazine:

Like many people in developed countries Americans are interested in fashion and what celebrities wear. For example just the other day we had articles like The best and worst outfits from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s celebrity wedding.

Depending on the fashion of the times presidents often wore hats. The 6’4” Lincoln was famous for wearing a hat that made him look even taller than those around him.

JFK occassionally wore one:

Trump, the preening narcissist, is 6’3” and is taller than most of the people he’s photographed with. He also pays a lot of attention to how his hair looks and I have no doubt is dismayed by the fact that it doesn’t look like it used to. Read article:

For him, the hat serves the purpose of branding and hiding his hair.

The words on baseball caps have gone from just designating sports teams to just about anything you can think of. Until I began to write this and did some research I didn’t know that MLB caps (major league baseball) had become political symbols (read: When Hats Became Symbols of Political Movements).

Of course any history of hats as political symbols will include the two versions of the MAGA hat, the one with four letters and the other with the words spelled out.

There are two meanings of the word fetish used as a noun. One has a sexual connotation but the other applies to the MAGA hat: an object believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner. (Reference)

I doubt the “Gulf of Mexico” hat will be more than a footnote explaining how Trump’s magical hat fetish evolved unless Trump visits the gulf and actually walks on water.

One benefit of the MAGA hat being so identified with Trump is that I don’t have to explain the meaninn of the following image, at least to those familiar with a description related to her encounter with Trump from Stormy Daniels.

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