Here is what Trump has wrought: He has made it acceptable for people to be as bigoted and stupid in public as they want, with no sense of shame attached to their bigotry or their stupidity. When Trump attacks DEI, he is openly avowing his racism and misogny. When he rants about immigrants, he doesn’t mean white immigrants, he means nonwhite immigrants.
Thanks to Trump’s malign influence, we get a story like the following, which appeared in the New York Daily News. Bryce Mitchell is a mixed martial arts “star” who flaunts his bigotry and ignorance and belittles the schools that tried to educate him and inculcate a sense of human decency.
MMA star Bryce Mitchell praised Adolf Hitler as a “good guy” and denied the Holocaust happened in a rant on his new podcast, “ArkanSanity.”
“I honestly think Hitler was a good guy, based upon my own research, not my public education and indoctrination,” the 30-year-old fighter said in the first episode.
“He fought for his country, he wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out who were destroying his country and turning them all into gays,” he added. “Was Hitler perfect? No, but he was fighting for his people. He wanted a pure nation.”
After co-host Roli Delgado countered that genocide was bad, Mitchell then denied the Holocaust.
“That’s what your public education will tell you Roli, because you believe your public education because you haven’t done your own research. When you realize there’s no possible way they could’ve burned and cremated 6 million bodies, you’re gonna realize the Holocaust ain’t real,” he said.
Mitchell, who competes in UFC’s featherweight division, was roundly denounced by others in the fighting community following his comments.
“Each and every day MMA finds a way to reach a new low,” broadcaster Ariel Helwani wrote on social mediaThursday. “A new way of embarrassing itself and those who are fans of it.”
“It just continues to baffle me at how unbelievably stupid — not to mention bigoted — some of the people in the sport or associated with the sport can be,” Helwani concluded.
Mitchell is no stranger to saying divisive things aloud. Last year, he said he planned to home school his children to prevent them from “turning gay.”
“That’s the reason I’m going to home-school Tucker, because I don’t want him to be a communist,” he said in an Instagram video while holding up his son. “I don’t want him to worship Satan. I don’t want him to be gay.”

Why, oh why, do these people have a platform? And how do they amass so many followers? I wonder if his mother is proud. SMH.
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This was always what Trump’s “telling it like it is” support was about, code for, and where his saying the “quiet parts out loud” was always leading. The increasingly harder part to believe is that there is media or voters that didn’t realize this. This is a big part of what conservative “values” have always meant. Oh, their more educated leaders will gussy it up with IQs or some eugenics bs but it’s still just stupid bigot hate.
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“Oh, their more educated leaders will gussy it up with IQs or some eugenics bs”
I wouldn’t consider them to be “more educated” if they are using IQ scores for anything.
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Appears he has been hit up side the head a few too many times.
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So many of these muscle-bound freaks believe in bullying, violence and bald-faced unapologetic hatred against people they presume to be weak. Bryce Mitchell is a truly appalling human being who has been emboldened to spew his venom with Trump and Musk in the White House.
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What this man actually believes is more a function of what it will give him in dollars. Same as Trump, totally transactional.
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Like the “. . . and Musk in the White House.”
Considering how close he is to Putin and has multiple business contacts in China where they demand that anyone doing business there give them whatever information that the Chinese Communist government wants. . . well it just makes sense to have him in the White House. . . makes sense to the Russians and Chinese, eh.
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Diane’s blog…..more important than ever -right now.
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here, here!
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For a good portion of the 90s to now, the world began with the internet. To them, if they don’t see it on the internet, it doesn’t exist. Millions have memory-holed common knowledge.
I remember in the early days of the net, people started making totally absurd claims to draw eyes. (They sure didn’t draw brains.) People became sucked into thinking the REAL truth could be found on the net on the sites of idiots. And people like believing they know secret truths, that they are too sharp to fall for mainstream experts. The entire QAnon phenomenon owes its existence to this phenomenon.
The Sucker Population has passed critical mass and is approaching self-destruction. If we could convince these nimrods that gravity isn’t real and if you step off a the roof of a 20-story building, you will float gently to the Earth below, we could eliminate many who are not worth keeping alive.
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The Internet convinces people to believe the wildest things. No evidence needed. I have read wild claims about who was raking in millions from USAID: George Soros, Caroline Kennedy, Hillary, Chelsea, and many more.
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Common sense is called “common” because it’s so rare.
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I done did my reserch & founded what I wanted to lern that fitted my beleafs! I don’t need no stinkin’ pubic edumacashun!
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You sound like you are channeling Bob. Where is he. I miss his voice.
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Bob’s off making movies and trying to live a zen life. He posted earlier with links to his videos.
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Thank you. I needed to know he is okay. I hope he is finding some peace.
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Thank you. I needed to know he is okay. I hope he is finding some peace.
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Hi, Lisa, and Speduktr! Miss you!!! Much love to you and yours!
–The Prodigal Bob
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Good to see your (grandpa?) sock ears. Visit again some time.
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My friend Krystal was always telling her kids not to just leave their socks wherever they decided to take them off. So, on that morning, I was walking into her kitchen, and there was the kid, and his socks on the floor, so I picked them up and put them on. LOL.
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🙂
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wow that’s Slippery Slope connection and argument.
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I don’t understand what you are trying to say. Please explain.
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But then I think I am replying to a bot so. . . .
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Dangerous and deranged.
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It’s viral to some extent, which is very disturbing.
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“I honestly think Hitler was a good guy, based upon my own research listening to Tequila Shot Joe the Downlow Guy on the Internet, not my education, because I have none,” the 30-year-old fighter said in the first episode.
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Trump, Musk, and their Republican accomplices are doing everything in their power to weaken our Country and throw it into confusion.
Now why would anyone do that?
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