really insightful take as always from @dieworkwear.bsky.social (+ the reason why it is dangerous to lean to far into a critique of the aesthetics and dismissing the sport rather than focusing on all the corruption and money being wasted)
Kyle Green
IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services
derek guy
looking pretty stormy at the White House right now
