#098 - UFC: Ultimate Fascist Consciousness

We are taking a hard turn this week and covering a topic that we would ordinarily have no business covering: sports. Or, more specifically, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The immediate reason for doing a UFC episode is the upcoming “Freedom 250” fight extravaganza set to take place on the White House Lawn, at the express invitation of Donald Trump, for which UFC CEO Dana White has gone on a media promotion tour. It would be one thing if White was promoting the event amongst the typical UFC-friendly media outlets in the Joe Rogan manosphere, but he is branching out to the mainstream liberal media in a fascinating way. In this episode, we analyze White’s interviews with liberal outlets like NPR, the New Yorker, and the Breakfast Club, among others. To us, it looks a lot like Dana White and the UFC are serving as a bridge to create a new Blue-Brown alliance between MAGA and a liberal establishment coming to grips with the fact that the hard right MAGA movement now IS the Republican Party, and it’s not going away anytime soon. As we cover in the episode, it’s no surprise that the UFC has become a cultural bandage poised to heal the breach between left and right as we collectively stumble into ever-lower depths of hell. It reflects the classic American values of brutality, faux-equality of opportunity, and the myth of might makes right. Besides titillating audiences with the spectacle of bloodsport, of course. BUT THERE IS SO MUCH MORE!!! The history and ownership structure of the UFC places it at the beating heart of the Fourth Reich: it’s rooted in the military industrial propaganda complex, it’s passed through the skeezy filth of off-strip Las Vegas and Trump’s Atlantic City, and it’s now a global property held by a consortium of private equity capital fronted by Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ari, the Hollywood super-agent who straddles the line between Clintonite neoliberalism and Trumpian fascism. Ari Emanuel was also the inspiration for “Entourage” protagonist Ari Gold.We dig into this incredibly rich tapestry that weaves together multiple nodes in the ruling class nexus that’s driving us all off a cliff of insanity and have a few laughs along the way. You won’t want to miss it.Patreon: www.patreon.com/fourthreicharchaeologyEmail: [email protected]