How Trump allies could profit from White House UFC fight
President Donald Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company before announcing a UFC fight on the White House South Lawn to mark his 80th birthday. He helped design and is marketing branded medallions tied to the event called "UFC Freedom 250" and organizers are offering VIP hospitality packages priced as high as $1 million per person. The UFC is controlling credentials for who can access the grounds, and large crowds of fight fans have converged on Washington for the unusual White House fight night. Those moves link presidential authority to private commercial benefit and create clear conflicts of interest from staging a profit-generating event on federal property.
The UFC fight hasn’t even started yet, and the official White House Twitter account just posted the most complete, surreal proof of the total 4chan-weeb takeover of federal power that I’ve ever seen, or likely ever will see:
I was among the people who took GamerGate deadly seriously over a decade ago (thanks to growing up in the 2000s reading Something Awful and 4chan regularly) - and yet, somehow, I feel like I didn’t take it seriously it enough?
What did I just watch on an official federal communications account
A lot of people talk about Gen Z takeover but the use of some very old memes makes me want to blame my generation. Or at least some dude who has had their brain cooked online for 25 years
You know what's great? Spending your entire career building the idea that anime, as a medium, is something everyone can enjoy - that it's not something aimed at weird gooner Nazis, but rather a diverse community of fans ... Only for the weird gooner Nazis to pull shit like this EVERY. FUCKING. DAY.
that felt like a 2007 tried to make a 1980’s Saturday morning cartoon ad
A couple of weeks ago on here there was the best comment about this era that was something like - "We elected 4chan to the WH and we will never recover our dignity" and yep, that's it. Great job everyone.
I just tried to give my computer monitor a wedgie out of sheer spinal reflex.
I'm not up to date on all the references, but what strikes me from what I do know. All the non AI generated references are old. I mean 'over 9000' is 20 years old now. Not even a 67 or a skibidi toilet. They have lost the sauce.
"Is this the golden age" over the meme about how the guy has no idea what he's talking about is a bit too much for me.
Looks like even his former sycophants on X have turned on Trump. Well, except for this guy.
watching this video aged me
Wild to start with a One Piece quote, end with a Persona 5 finisher, and think "Yeah we're the good guys in those stories" Not that they put any thought into it to begin with
Absolutely bizarre to think about the fact that this shit is going to be viewed as part of history and social science lessons on fascism, White nationalism, and plutocracy.
Makes me ill. Surreal. And yes GamerGate feels right.
Video of Trump’s White House UFC event shining bright lights into the sky last night
If you showed me this with no context, I’d guess a casino grand opening before I’d guess the White House
No man has ever soiled and sullied the whitehouse like this scumbag. He’s an embarrassment to the nation
definitely a flight hazard for Reagan how many seats did they sell at 1.5 million and how many seats are they paying seat fillers to fill?
Huge waste of our tax money! 🤬
We always knew hum as a Coney Island con-man. A fundementally low-class rich kid with the taste of a WalMart home furnishings buyer. This is the USA that the world now sees.
Nothing says freedom more than two grown men beating the shit out of each other.
Nothing says ‘look at me” more than illuminating the sky of an entire city without regard for the pilots trying to land at the nearby airport or for the residents nearby…
I have never prayed harder for a severe thunderstorm than I am for tonight in DC...
Fucking light pollution and human trash
Trashy and horrific, just like trump
All vacant all the time
This spectacle brought to you by the same people that found Obama’s tan suit a national disgrace…
Tacky is too inadequate a word to describe this.
What about the *freedom* for our immigrants in Nazi concentration camps? 😳😳😳😳
Will the states ever get the respect it once had in the eyes of the world back?
That's going to cause at least one near miss with a plane