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      Run for office! I finally know someone who decided they’d had enough and are just going for it.

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        here’s the problem with that… the salary for most offices is abysmally small. Like, poverty line. So, who can afford to run for office? People who already have wealth and a safe income. You can’t just quit your job to run for local office when it pays $15K yearly.

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        Yes in a few countries that’s a good idea, although in the US with all its legalised bribery and regulatory capture I don’t know if there’s much point.

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    Lots of FBI agents gonna get their balls kicked in.

    I’m surprisingly okay with that.

    (Groin shots in UFC are illegal so they tend not to defend against them as well as one should in actual combat. This is the difference between combat sports and life-and-death combat.)

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    Kash Patel is a UFC fanboy.

    Just like everyone else on the admin payroll, he is just using the position as his personal entertainment budget and holiday fund

    Next he’ll pay George Lucas to come visit him to “advise on Star Wars defence systems” while he gets his collectibles signed.

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      That’s already happened. Ronald Reagan was a big fan of SciFi and created a think tank of SciFi authors to advise him on potential threats of the future.

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      It’s fucking wild that right after attacking the largest support of global terrorism, they’re holding this event at the WH and you know security will be a shitshow.

      I’ll be shocked if it’s not attacked

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          I’m kind of hoping the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that sending teams to the US to compete right now us just as bad as sending teams to Russia. The world should boycott it, and let the US claim its trophy after the Saudis field the only other team.

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            and the cherry on top would be FIFA losing their pants on this WC after boot licking the rapist pedophile so hard

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          It ain’t hope, it’s the most likely result.

          I’m pretty good at risk assessment, and the clown show trump has running the FBI can only “stop” the attacks they plan like they guy on the terrorist list they let in just so they could have a CI frame him for an assanaition plot

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        right after attacking the largest support of global terrorism

        We shot ourselves? Surely that was by accident.

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        Largest supporter? I would have thought that was Saudi. Most of the groups US were fighting or dealing with originated from strict Sunni groups. Iran was working against many of those groups.

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          If you want anyone to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re authentically asking questions, you really need to switch off one of the largest troll instances.

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    There are subsets of BJJ created specifically to help law enforcement subdue and cuff a suspect. But that’s not what MMA fighters know. It’s substantially different.

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    Train them to… what? Get their shins instantly broken by someone with capped boots and realise real fights don’t have rules like UFC does? Cops have guns and tasers and stuff because they’ve already learned this won’t work.

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      “Oh no when I put one guy in a guillotine choke his three buddies left boot imprints in my skull who could have seen that coming except everyone???”

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    Lol, I’m just picturing a bunch of middle-aged guys throwing their backs out trying to suplex each other.

    As ridiculous as everything with this guy is, going on free dates with his girlfriend and sending himself to a different sports fantasy camp every week is seeming much less damaging than what a lot of other cronies have been up to. I’ll take funding a manchild’s excursions over a pointless war any day.

    Send him up in one of Elon’s rockets next for his space camp adventure!

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    Don’t we have any fucking work to do in this country? The childlike carelessness of this administration is horrifying.

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      This gonna be the real “jumping the shark” moment.

      That was right after the peak of Happy Days, that was when it got so ridiculous that it was undeniably a shadow of it’s former self.

      Just like how they thought Fonzi jumping a shark would be cool, they think this will be cool.

      But they’re gonna fuck it up, and it’s gonna be a cringe fest.

      As disappointing as it is, this will have a significant effect right before midterms.

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    Taxpayer money going to the UFC, historic opportunity to waste a bunch of fucking money, assholes.