Jon Ossoff

The other side is like, why is this event happening at all?

And the answer is, this is the reward from the Trump administration to the UFC for what can only be described as their unique contributions to keeping him out of prison.

There's really no other way to say that.

That's why this exists.

It is sports washing of the highest order.

It is a political reward in giving them something that he gave them.

I mean, a mainstream sport that was really hot during that portion of the pandemic, putting all their chips in on a guy.

You can't buy political coverage like that.

You can't make a rally be anything like that.

It is something that is literally not even available for purchase.

This is the return to them for that opportunity.

And so a lot of folks, let me just say this, a lot of folks make an idiocracy argument about this, which I understand the optics kind of lend itself.

It is a gigantic mistake to look at these people and think, oh, this is idiocracy.

It might look that way and maybe they say stuff that makes you feel that way.

But these people are not screwing around.

They're highly skilled operators and their ability to manage these channels of power, I think, speaks to that.

So it is significant, but it can vary depending on what we're talking about.

Okay.

partly the iran war is throwing a huge wrench into all of this i mean i'm sure you i don't know if you follow do you follow sports at all like have you oh yeah just not fighting sports basketball yeah i mean golf i'm not really but i understand what's happening with live you know i watch rory my brother from another mother when he's in a major i get i do a little

So you get the idea that like there's clearly like pressure due to what's happened over there.