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.”
Every time I think Republican performative machismo can’t get any more ridiculous, they go and prove me wrong.
Kash is a Zika baby.
The gravy seals wouldn’t last 10 seconds grappling a stuffed animal.
The stupidity of this aside, this isn’t the weirdest thing historically. Like boxers were often brought in to train soldiers in hand to hand combat for example. But the fact its UFC in particular is kinda the problem here, it’d be less notable if it was just mixed martial artists being brought.
It’s hard to make this government more laughable every day, but they live for the challenge.
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.
Joker would court MAGA just to lead them off a cliff.
No sir/ma’am/other, Joker hates Nazis. It is documented. Besmirch not his evil name.
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.
But if people would just vote differently and stop doing purity tests then the system would fix itself /copium
Weird so now FBI agents are going to gently cuddle the criminals until they tap out?
The most ridiculous administration.
Donnie and pals are easily some of the stupidest people we could have found for the job.
It’s all a grift. This is just another way to funnel government money to his pals and supporters.
It really is that, because all the UFC does is host the fight and pay the competitors. They don’t actually train fighters. At most they introduce them to coaches.
All the training is done by people paid by the fighter in preparation for the match. If the FBi wanted to, they could interview that network of fighters and coaches, look into giving their agents mma training, etc.
Besides that, I feel that mma requires years of training and have no idea how much time the bureau spends on hand to hand combat training. My personal take is that mma can harm your body, brain, and mind and you’re better off doing firearms training if you want to be able to protect yourself.
They are stupid, but principally they are gangsters that have eliminated any authority that could check them.
Idiocracy, except run by the most malicious, dumb, and lead deficient assholes on the planet.
I’d like to see how fast a well-trained and fit FBI agent would have a UFC fighter tapping out.
Keep in mind, the FBI doesn’t generally get the fatass Meal Team Six LEO members that regular law enforcement hires.
Idk about whom to root for in that situation. The FBI, while now somewhat professional, are not the good guys, and they never have been, not entirely.
I like taking down organized crime, but they won’t be doing that now. Plus they have a shitload of mormons.
So we can sue Dana white if they kill someone trying to choke them out?
His company trains them, an incoming rational administration can hold him liable for what I’m sure is gonna be bullshit.
