If it meant getting a full-blown Brehein essay out of it, then, yes, it should have counted. That movie got the shaft in A History of Violence, and it got overlooked here.

I’m not a tough guy on the internet or off it.

Yeah, you did. It’s just my tendency to want to find something semi-redeeming or explanatory about Trump’s success that I stretch until I tear something.

I mean, I basically agree. I just think he owns the room by being a shithead. Other dudes are charismatic, they’re just not shitheads.

Internet tough guy Conor fans are my favorite. Haha

Yes, he’s the only fighter to have a tough, interesting backstory.

Trump is a master at self-branding and self-promotion. As much as I despise to type that.

Eh, say what you will about Trump, but he has his own “charisma” and swagger.

Yeah, that was definitely one of those “Alien vs. Predator” fights where no matter who won, we lost.

He’s the Trump of MMA. He’s an unapologetic clown and a racist and a moron who wallows in his own vapidness....But he’s white. And that’s specifically why so many people like him and why he’s impervious to consequences.

Definitely. The election of Trump and his continued support through all sorts of actions that would’ve sunk literally any other candidate in any other era, seems to be proof that this country has finally and definitively lost its mind and its soul. Nothing matters anymore to a large swath of the country except abject…

It’s such a shame thst all most people took from his writings was the drug use and depravity and that he sort of embraced that as the years went on, because he truly was one of the most profound and truest writers in the American tradition. For a time all the drug use and debauchery played an actual moral function in…

Whoa, hey, calm down now, Mr. Mitchell. And stop being a rotten bigot.

Is it? There are some of us who have been waiting for that Khabib/Cucuy matchup for a long time. Putting Holloway in there is a GREAT consolation, but Khabib/Ferguson will go down as one of the all-time “What if”s.

I believe that Biden has actually been a fight before. I’m not sure Trump has ever even had to, like, get winded for any reason. Even if the size advantage worked in Trump’s favor, Biden would just have hold out like 17 seconds before Trump would feel his cardiovascular system working for the first time. He would…

Eh. He would probably be HW champ in the UFC within a few years. And would conceivably be making more money. But, yeah, probably not enough to justify leaving the relative comfy confines of the wrestling scene. Just goes to show how stupid the guys who run MMA are. Pay your athletes respectably and you’ll attract guys…

I really just meant the bandwagoners have long since jumped the wagon. But, ok, yes, lots of shitty lakers fans everywhere.

That’s a shitty good fan.

Idiots high schoolers from Colorado who think rooting for a shitty Los Angeles team makes them better basketball fans than everyone else.

Running a centrist is what got us into this situation in the first place.