CEO Dana White has long been an ally of President Donald Trump and his administration. Agents would be trained in hand-to-hand combat.
The FBI plans to offer the Ultimate Fighting Championship an exclusive one-year contract to train its special agents in hand-to-hand combat, according to a document released by the agency in September.
The UFC, according to the bureau, is “the sole qualified vendor” capable of providing tactical training that meets FBI standards. The justification for the contract cited the “expertise” the multibillion-dollar global media business has in mixed martial arts, striking techniques, grappling and takedowns.
The bureau said that market research determined that “no other vendor can provide comprehensive training encompassing all required skills at the necessary expertise level within the required timeframe.”
Shit like this shows that it’s not just Trump that’s the problem, but that the MAGA movement as a whole is based on grift and political favoritism at the expense of competent governance.
No kidding?
I am sarcastic because the situation has been clear for 30 years at a minimum.
You are welcome. You say that, but almost nobody gets it still. Even on lemmy here. We are so fucked.
I was agreeing with you, and calling OP Captain Obvious. Sorry, should have been clearer.
You’re right. The Zombie Apocalypse hit the world hard in the 80s. Most of the zombies don’t know they’re zombies. Some of us do and are flabbergasted others can’t see it.
I’m tired of being a zombie. Time to eat some brains, no?
If the zombies are getting off on brains, maybe eating their brains would be really good no? I think we should look into that.
Agreed.
America is the problem. The whole country allowed (and is still allowing) this to happen.
MAGA isn’t the hero America needed, but it’s the one they deserve.
The analogy isn’t quite right, but I know you wanted to use the quote.
MAGA is Joker, and the US doesn’t have a Batman anywhere, maybe a few Gordons but they don’t have enough power to do much. Although as all analogies do, this breaks because MAGA leaders would never burn their half of the money for a message. They want every dime for themselves.
No sir/ma’am/other, Joker hates Nazis. It is documented. Besmirch not his evil name.
Joker would court MAGA just to lead them off a cliff.
It scares me that Americans want to go back to life before trump. As an American it looks like the left just wants to be able to get back their personally unearned privileges again.
Ignorance is bliss IS their culture.
Life before Trump is exactly what led to having Trump.
Exactly!!! It’s like the culture is the virus but no one wants to admit it or is even capable of understanding because the culture dominantly focused of escapism and distraction from reality.
Just as an example… People don’t even understand their individuality was marketed in order consolidate them into demographics that are more easily controlled. And that’s was in the analogs days.
Now we have automated ai profiling and exact psychological pin-pointed specific marketing to each individual that is able lead them on whatever path is needed. …But for some reason that’s not the thing people are talking about, instead they talk about the marketed topics of Ai slop, and looping recycled drama of consumer ai.
People think they are fighting the power or fighting for progression and freedom, but they are just acting out preconceived paths that are marketed to them and funded by the same people they claim to protest.
But if people would just vote differently and stop doing purity tests then the system would fix itself /copium
I mean little improvements at least. Vote for a candidate you can agree with on some and then keep moving the needle in that direction. But it doesn’t seem to happen in America and times are getting hard so people are shifting to the right.
The maga’s are sheep, it’s the corporate gangsters behind him that are the problem, make no mistake. Also the evangelicals obviously.