The Dumbest Timeline
A new ongoing series?
So, I frequently post about things happening in front of our noses as well as things that remind me of personalistic authoritarian dictators like Kim Jung Un, but now I may need a new tag focused simply on really dumb things in this stormy, weird timeline in which we live.
To wit, via Deadline: Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity”.
“I’m thrilled to announce this historic seminar between the FBI and the UFC at Quantico,” said Patel in a statement released today by the UFC. “This is a tremendous opportunity for our FBI agents to learn and train with some of the greatest athletes on earth — helping the world’s premier law enforcement agency be even better prepared to protect the American people.”
The training will provide insight into UFC fighters’ training methods as well as fighting techniques and tactics. It will take place at the FBI Special Agent Academy in Quantico on March 15 and 16 and is for “academy students as well as senior FBI staff from around the world.”
Because, obviously, people who fight as entertainers are far better trained than those in one of the world’s premier law enforcement agencies. Plus, I hear tell that no one else at Quantico knows anything about fighting.
Weirdly, it might just be that putting a podcast host in charge of the FBI was a bad idea.
(Spoiler alert: rhetorical question)
Is this in any way better than adopting the wrestling kayfabe ethos as a governing style?