{"id":40484,"date":"2024-06-25T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40484"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:35:31","slug":"this-isnt-a-roman-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/06\/25\/this-isnt-a-roman-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"This Isn’t A Roman Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long time readers know of my ill-considered inclination to compare the current state of the United States to the decay of the Roman Empire in terms of overpopulation and the deadly infighting experienced in Rome after the destruction of Gaul, but I think this is getting a bit ridiculous:<\/p>\n

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Former president\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a> expanded his portrayal of migrants as violent with a suggestion that they could be pitted in fights for entertainment.<\/p>\n

During a speech to Christian conservatives on Saturday afternoon, and again at a rally in Philadelphia that evening, Trump claimed that he told his friend Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, that he should start a spinoff competition featuring migrants, as part of his riff onrestricting immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid anyone ever hear of Dana White?\u201d Trump asked during his speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition\u2019s \u201cRoad to Majority\u201d conference in Washington. \u201c\u2026 I said, \u2018Dana, I have an idea. Why don\u2019t you set up a migrant league of fighters and have your regular league of fighters, and then you have the champion of your league \u2014 these are the greatest fighters in the world \u2014 fight the champion of the migrants.\u2019 I think the migrant guy might win; that\u2019s how tough they are. He didn\u2019t like that idea too much.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anyone for a traipse to the Colosseum? We’ll have hot dogs and shrimp while the illegal immigrant beat on each other, eh?<\/p>\n

Gah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long time readers know of my ill-considered inclination to compare the current state of the United States to the decay of the Roman Empire in terms of overpopulation and the deadly infighting experienced in Rome after the destruction of Gaul, but I think this is getting a bit ridiculous: Former \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40485,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484\/revisions\/40485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}