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IDIOCRACY IS REAL | Luke Thomas Gets Political · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is
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official. We live in idiocracy.
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I'm sure that you saw the
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news over the weekend
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from President Trump. I made a whole
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video about this where we talk about the
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fact that Donald Trump put out a post on
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Truth Social over the weekend
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kind of suggesting or
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in the post itself declaring that he
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wanted UFC CEO Dana White
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to be the new US press secretary.
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In that video that I made on this
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channel, I kind of indicated that I
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thought it was a troll job. I mean, the
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thing with Trump is you just never
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really know. You never know if he's
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being serious or not. You don't know if
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he's being halfway serious in certain
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ways. It's really really hard to tell.
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Well, I'm sure you've seen by now that
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it's not serious. The whole thing was a
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con. In fact,
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what's kind of funny about the whole
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thing is he basically said to the media
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yesterday
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that
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the reason why he did it is they were
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having a bad media day. There was just a
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lot of bad headlines and a lot of bad
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articles and a lot of bad talk about him
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and his party and the political defeat
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that they had recently suffered among
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other issues as well. Pete Hegseth's
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potential impeachment, you get the whole
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idea.
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And he just wanted to change the tenor
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of the coverage.
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He just wanted
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to interject a little distraction.
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He just wanted to
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get the media to look that way
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so that they wouldn't be any there
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wouldn't be subsequent
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more bad stories. Now, on some level it
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worked. There was a level of distraction
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that was devoted to it. But the problem
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is that the historical situation that he
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finds himself in in terms of this kind
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of electoral defeat and what could be
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coming, investigations, legislation, you
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name it, it didn't really slow any of
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that down at all. So at best it was a
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mild distraction. Although to be fair,
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it got me certainly. Although I again,
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you watch that video, I called it a
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troll job from the beginning. Well,
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Dana White visited the White House
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yesterday. And the good news is he's not
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going to be the press secretary, but
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we do live in the twilight zone. I want
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to look at not going to look at
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everything, but I want to look at a few
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clips from his visitation yesterday and
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I want to make a point about why this is
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happening because yes, it was for a
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media distraction and yes, you know,
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these two have been chummy for quite
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some time, but I think there's a little
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bit more going on underneath the surface
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of it all.
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Let's talk about it.
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I think he'd probably like the job.
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He loves the country and he would do a
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hell of a job. So
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you were here, he was here and Dana,
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please say a few words. Dana White,
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thank you.
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You can you can mark me down as he would
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not do a hell of a job.
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I saw Steve Inskeep from NPR being like,
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yeah, Dana would be a quick study
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in some of these matters. He would be he
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would have figured this out pretty
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quickly. And I'm like, gang,
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he is openly disdainful of reading.
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He told Canadian reporter Aaron
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Bronseter during the pandemic, he was
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there was a
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he was being interviewed and Bronseter
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was like, you know, favorite TV show,
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favorite movie. This is at the time
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everyone was still kind of locked in
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their homes.
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And then he gets to favorite book and
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he's like, this is verbatim, I don't
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like books. I don't read.
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I don't think that kind of guy is going
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to be a quick study on
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anything.
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I've always wanted to do this. Who has
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the first question?
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I have zero political aspirations.
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I was at a fight for Zuffa Boxing in
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London when he called me and
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told me that he had done this and the
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last 24 hours of my life has been
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insane.
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But yeah.
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Good to see you. Yes, ma'am.
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have a question.
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There was an pound for pound UFC cage
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match between President Trump and former
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President Joe Biden. Same age,
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same weight and considering weight
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styles make fights. Could you give us an
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analysis of
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The toughest, most resilient
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Oh dear Jesus God.
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Man, I got to say, I'm sure that's some
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kind of maga plant there or maybe they
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work for some kind of maga aligned
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outlet. This is basically
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indistinguishable at this whatever this
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is from a UFC press conference.
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It's basically indistinguishable. Those
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are the exact kinds of questions that
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you get. Hey, if a dinosaur ate Jell-O,
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how much could it eat?
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Hey, if Abraham Lincoln
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had too many beans at Chipotle,
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would he be blown away by modern bidets?
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I mean, this is the kind of thought
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leadership that you typically get at an
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MMA press conference. You're getting it
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with this kind of hand-selected group.
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Now, I mentioned that he would he would
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do bad in this job in in a real
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scenario. So would I, of course. I mean,
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it's a tough job.
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But like this is not the real thing.
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This is this is what he's used to in
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MMA.
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Hey, Dana, what's your favorite kind of
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scratch and sniff sticker?
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You just
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you know, this is why the sport isn't
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free fall.
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Could you give us an analysis of
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The toughest, most resilient human being
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that I've ever met in my entire life.
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Oh yeah, he's resilient all right. I
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agree with that. He's very resilient.
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Yeah, in fact,
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after he tried to steal a presidential
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election using a fake elector scheme
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among other attempts,
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he should have gone to prison.
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He probably should have gone to prison.
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And he didn't. And part of the reason
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why he didn't is because the Ultimate
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Fighting Championship helped to launder
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his reputation to put him back into
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power. You're right, Dana. Resilient
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indeed.
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Many times during, you know, the last
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eight, 10 years, whatever it's been, I
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have told him what why why do you keep
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doing this? Why are you doing this? When
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he was going through everything that he
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went through.
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So he didn't go to jail. You know
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precisely why he's doing this. So he
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didn't go prison.
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Come on.
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Let's not pretend like we don't
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understand what the game is being played
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here.
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And I mean as tough and as as resilient
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as I thought he was after he got shot
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I uh yeah
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I he's he is a one of one unique human
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being and uh
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yeah.
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That's right. There aren't many orange
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Hitlers, but we've elected one.
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And waiting he's a very very powerful So
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let me ask wait wait wait. So let me ask
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you the big question.
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Dana, would you like to be press
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secretary of the United States of
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America?
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Look at the sign you'd have this behind
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you all the time the White House
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Would you like that or do you just want
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to stay with this ridiculous UFC?
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Huh?
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Thank you for the offer sir for for the
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offer I have no
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no I do not want to be in politics now.
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I am devastated to hear this. Goodbye
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everybody.
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Just having a gag.
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Just having a laugh.
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Thank you everybody.
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Just to conclude our country is doing
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really well. We're respected by
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everybody in the world something that
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was not true two years ago.
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Our country is doing better than it's
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ever done before. Thank you very much.
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I mean he'll say anything. You know what
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I mean? Yeah the country's doing great.
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You sure about that, bro?
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Got to be honest with you.
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Seems like there's trouble afoot.
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In no small part to you being a [ __ ]
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dumb ass. I like how he's talking about
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the health of the country after he
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floated the idea of a fight promoter
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becoming US press secretary the week
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after
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he got his [ __ ] rocked in a historical
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fashion in a tidal wave of an election
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result. I'm like
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yeah I mean don't get me wrong there's
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going to be pieces to pick up that we're
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going to have to put back together, but
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this
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doesn't exactly inspire confidence,
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nor do I feel like it's especially
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accurate at the present moment. In fact,
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this just looks like a gigantic [ __ ]
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circus in the
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biggest halls of power
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tends to make rational people a little
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nervous.
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Just to confirm, did you tell the
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president no to the press secretary job?
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I don't tell the president no to
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anything. I No, I didn't say no. I
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literally everybody every media outlet
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was calling me and I didn't want to be
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disrespectful and say anything until he
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he he said something first. So
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And Mr. President
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Like understand something, man. Like
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we might be at the beginning of the AI
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bubble being popped with this Jensen
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Huang situation because we'll see.
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Certainly prices are out of control. The
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war in Iran has not been brought to an
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end, even if for the present moment,
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there's been a cessation in military
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direct military conflict.
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The world is still on fire. The country
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is still on fire. The people are angry
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and they're up here just goofing off in
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your face, having a gag
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about all of this, rather than treating
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government with the seriousness that it
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requires.
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Like just look at this picture, bro.
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Look at the amount of emergencies that
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exist presently
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that nothing is being done about. To say
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Well, I should say not nothing. Some of
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it are is being
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like directly exacerbated as a matter of
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fact. But just look look at this
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picture.
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Look at this picture.
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And like what Trump is focused in on is
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destroying a municipal jewel so he can
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make a golf course that nobody here
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wants. He wants to tear down the Kennedy
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Center. He completely wrecked
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the reflecting pool. I guess we'll see
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how long that lasts before whatever
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changes he made ultimately come undone
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again.
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Prices are out of control again, as I
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mentioned.
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The whole situation with Iran, I mean,
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there's just
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it's just endless, endless things that I
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could point to here, and they're up here
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goofing off, playing in everyone's face.
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Because of course, none of this stuff
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touches them.
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They're not the ones that have to worry
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about any of these
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if they get sick, they're going to have
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healthcare. They're going to have money
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in their bank, and their children is
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going to have money in their banks.
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You know, and their children this is
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generational wealth that both of them
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have amassed, and which, you know, in
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the case of White Well, no, actually no,
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both of them have enriched off of people
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in very, very questionable ways, I think
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is a good way to put that.
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Although White's doesn't come down to
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illegality, Donald Trump's does, but
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you get the point.
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None of the things that are harming the
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world that that that Trump has set in
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motion and the UFC helped set in motion,
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none of it really affects them. So why
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not just have a big laugh?
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Let's have a Let's just Let's just treat
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this in a very jovial, friendly, fun
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Aren't we having fun, everybody? Aren't
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we having fun? Isn't this fun? Isn't
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this lighthearted? Let me say something
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about this very quickly.
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This is not directly just tied to this
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particular moment in time, but I really
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do believe I am not in any way
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anti-casino.
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I I'm not. There is a place in society
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for casinos and for places to have
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casinos,
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but I am against, and I think what has
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happened is that, the exporting of
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casino culture of which
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this explains everything you see in this
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picture
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the exporting of casino culture beyond
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its natural boundaries. Like, for
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example, it used to just kind of be in
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Atlantic City, or it was just in Las
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Vegas, and that's fine by me. I have not
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not one issue with any of that. But
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taking that and then exporting it out
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with all of its attendant practices and
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all of casino culture's attendant
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priests, I think has been extremely bad
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for the country.
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I think that it has unleashed
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a set of forces because of who is
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involved and what their sense of
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frankly right and wrong is, what
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matters, what is important, what
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solutions should we invest in,
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what kinds of company do we keep, what
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values do we hold.
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Anybody who has spent a lot of time in
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casinos, and I've spent the last 20
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years in them
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in ways that most people will never ever
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understand except unless they're
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degenerate gamblers. And I'm not even a
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gambler. I don't even gamble. I just
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have to be there for MMA.
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I don't think people understand. You can
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as a localized industry, it's a thing
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that a country in fact maybe even should
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have.
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But taking what makes a casino culture
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and a casino city work and taking the
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people who are involved in that and then
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pushing them into federal power is such
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a bad idea,
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is so bad for the country.
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I I really do believe I'll have more to
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say on this in future videos. Taking
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casino culture out of where its natural
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boundaries are
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with its practices and its priests
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is a disaster for the United States.
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We were having a very bad press day
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and I said I don't know why I thought of
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his name. He's been my friend for a long
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time. I said, you know, I think I'm
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going to get
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Dana White to be my new press secretary.
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I said it to a group of
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the press and that was it. I was sort of
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kidding. And then they wrote the story
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as though I wasn't kidding and you were
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inundated and I was inundated and he was
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here anyway. We We thought we'd have a
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little fun and we brought Dana here. He
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would be
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fantastic.
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A lot of people thought that there was
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this mix up, that there was this Black
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woman who had worked in the Pentagon in
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the press corps and that, because she
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had the same name She had a W as a
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middle initial, but because she had the
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same name Dana, White that there must
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have been some kind of mix up. And I'm
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like, "Dude, since when was the Trump
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administration in the business of
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promoting Black women?" I mean, that's
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just not a thing that they do. What are
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we talking about? That that that never I
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never bought that explanation. I know a
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lot of people thought that that made
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sense.
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That never made sense. This, what you're
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hearing made sense. One, he actually
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does think that Dana would do a good
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job, right? And he put out AI slop
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videos where Dana is like literally
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shouting at people because why? They
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valorize force of will. That's what they
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do. That's that's his style of
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leadership. I'm not negotiating. I'm not
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going to be clever. It's just force.
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It's just imposition. That's what they
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like, right? That's their sort of way of
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going about things. But like he
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genuinely thinks he would do a good job.
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That is part of it. And the other part
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too is what he says here. I do believe
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him that they were having a bad press
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day and he was just toying with the
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media. And again, it got me I'm guilty
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as charged. Guilty as again, I didn't
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believe it, but that I responded to it
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and I reacted to it. Yes, it got me in
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that particular sense.
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But I I really want you to focus in on
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this. I've said this before. Like
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they're trying to put the band back
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together.
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One thing that Dana White has said
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previously about Donald Trump was that
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during the his sort of exile after he
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lost the second election, right? So he's
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out after January 6, 2020 and they're
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trying to rehabilitate him in part so he
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can go back to power so he can avoid
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going to prison
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for his crimes.
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But one thing he said was like the guy
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was down a lot. He was getting attacked
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a lot and we wanted to make him feel
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better. And I think he does feel better
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when he goes to these events. And
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historically, historically, the fans are
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cheering for him for the most part. You
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know, again, early early kind of stages
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not so much, but certainly, you know,
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closer to 2024 there was plenty of that.
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The fighters all blow him. It's, you
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know, it's this sort of like ridiculous
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gobble fest that you'll see there.
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There's plenty of that too. And I think
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he really really enjoys that. He doesn't
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sit up in the box. He sits down ringside
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or cage side. They put their belts on
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him. I mean, it's a whole thing. So I
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can understand why he feels that way.
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Now, of course, at the last Yuri
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Prochazka fight in Miami, I think this
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was Yuri versus Carlos Alberg,
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um he walks out and it wasn't nearly the
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same kind of applause. I mean, it wasn'
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necessarily like hardcore booing, but as
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I described it at the time after talking
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to people who were there, it was kind of
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quiet. It was kind of quiet. It just
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wasn't a lot.
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I don't know what he'll get if he ends
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up showing up on Saturday. The point I'm
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trying to make is
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he still wants to recapture that.
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That's why he's partly doing all this.
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Having a gag, sure. He thinks Dana would
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do it, sure. But he does want to feel
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good. He is reeling. He literally said
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that hey, we were having a bad day and I
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kind of wanted to change it up. I wanted
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to find a way to get this, you know, off
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of the the home pages of the Washington
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Post and New York Times and Wall Street
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Journal and whatever else, Fox News,
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anything. Just just just to put
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something else on there that's
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lighthearted and fun. But more than
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that, he wants to be made to feel good
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again and he's relying on what the UFC
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and the UFC world can do for him. Again,
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the UFC is by far, by far not nearly the
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most pro Trump sport of any that exists
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currently, but it is certainly the most
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hardcore avowedly right-wing. I mean,
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even independent of Trump support,
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especially the online community,
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hardcore right-wing, hardcore
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right-wing. This is his audience. This
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is his audience. These people are
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reeling after getting their [ __ ] rocked
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on last Tuesday. And what is happening
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is they're looking for a port in the
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storm. They're looking for a little old
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magic. They're looking for that same
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razzle dazzle that they used to enjoy
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and they want to fire up the band to get
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all of that going again. And maybe he
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'll get some of that
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on Saturday if he ends up showing up for
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UFC 334. But just understand like part
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you cannot understand Trump
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rehabilitation, Trump
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magnification, Trump propaganda. It's
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not possible to even tell that story
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without the Ultimate Fighting
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Championship's efforts.
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I hope everyone understands you should
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always always always always for the rest
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of time, you should associate the UFC
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brand with MAGA. There is no brand that
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is closer anywhere.
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It is that the two are inextricably
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linked and that they might backpedal
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based on these electoral results, good
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luck trying. You can never outrun this.
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This is a scarlet letter and this is a
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stain that will follow you. It is
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literally central. I'm not even kidding.
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It is central to the president's
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happiness.
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I mean, noodle that through.
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The way he wants his image projected, he
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needs them. The way he wants to be
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received by crowds, he needs them.
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The way he wants to show what strength
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looks like, he needs them. The way to
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reach audiences with his advertising, he
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needs them.
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Over and over, you can see this role. A
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lot of people were like, oh, well, they
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just like him and maybe it's a little
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bit of like, you know, he's powerful,
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we're going to scratch his back. No.
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These two entities are like
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psychologically, spiritually linked.
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The Trump administration and the UFC,
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these are these are the UFC is merely an
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extension of it.
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It is not distinct from it. I mean, it's
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not a part of the government as such,
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but of course,
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they might get this great contract with
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the FBI. They signed the memorandum
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memorandum of understanding with Marco
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Rubio, Secretary of State. They
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obviously had the White House lawn. They
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they might get this legislation passed
19:43
through to destroy the sport of boxing.
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Like, there's a lot of ways in which the
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UFC is just the sports arm, sports
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department, and frankly, to a degree,
19:54
the propaganda department
19:56
of the Trump administration. And they're
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trying to like grope in the dark for any
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kind of way to restart this process and
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to get that connection back with the
20:06
kind of audiences that the UFC serves
20:08
up, young men in particular. They're
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trying to put you could see this, right?
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They're trying to put the band back
20:13
together again, but Humpty Dumpty,
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mm-mm, you can't put it back together
20:17
again. It's just not going to work. It's
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not the same reality anymore. We're in a
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very different place. I do think that
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there's always going to be a hardcore
20:23
MAGA contingent within UFC, unless
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there's like a major like they sell the
20:27
organization and there's a major
20:29
leadership shakeup. Yeah, maybe maybe in
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that particular world that's something
20:33
different, but as long as the people who
20:34
are in power now remain in power, this
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is a MAGA brand. The way they run it is
20:39
MAGA friendly. It's not friendly to
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anybody else or any other political
20:43
project. It is for it's a right-wing
20:46
sport. It's a right-wing organization
20:48
for a right-wing political project. The
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This is the way to understand them. And
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this was a frivolous moment in certain
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ways, but it was also a a revealing one.
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It's a revealing moment about where
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these people are actually aligned, what
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their priorities are, and what they're
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still looking to do to recapture that
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old magic. But it ain't going to work
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this time.