So here's what happened in today's Stupid Olympics.
There are two people named Dana White.
One is President and CEO of the UFC
The other is Dana W. White, who served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary James Mattis
Their pictures are below. He's the white guy. She's the Black woman. I'll call them UFC Dana and DOD Dana to make it easier for you.
Suzie Wiles, shortly before being replaced by Count Stephen Miller, advised Trump that his new Press Secretary should be Dana White.
And Trump in all his finite wisdom, immediately assumed the UFC Dana, who has never done anything to prepare him for press secretary, and not DOD Dana, whose entire career has been in preparation for that.
Now you might be saying, "Kelly, not everyone knows about DOD Dana. It's an honest mistake."
But he's NOT just "everyone." He's the President of the United States. And this is a man whose administration has been firing Black people, women, trans people, and so on, insisting that none of them got their job based on merit.
And then he's going to name someone completely unqualified to be Press Secretary because the President is a fan of the UFC.
And he didn't even think to ask anyone. It never even occurred to him to ponder whether UFC Dana is the person he should pick as Press Secretary.
Stupid and incurious are a dangerous combination, and this man is both of those things.
And that got me to thinking about the two Dan Sullivan in Alaska. And I get it now. The man who is too stupid to know the difference between two Dana Whites thinks Alaskans are too stupid to know the difference between two Dan Sullivans.
Relevant tonight.
Liz Cheney: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
the most ridiculous part i think has to be this online reporting
distracting citizens with debate about "psi vs aqi"
and then this idea that psi levels in diff part of singapore is different. cmon la brother our country so small, u tell me the haze psi 200 in the west 150 in the east meh? just take the highest number and assume its all across like wtf is this shit man
Visitors at an aquarium were surprised to see a leopard shark on another shark’s fin.
Staff clarified it wasn’t aggression but typical courtship, sharks hold fins as part of how they show interest,
this is how sharks flirt
Is it just me or anyone else noticed social and spatial awareness completely vanishing? People freezing in doorways, hogging the entire sidewalk, planted in front of exits, blocking whole aisles, stopping at the top of escalators… Get out of the way. Other people exist here too.
carlos refusing to leave sparkles out of the road trip to madrid with raul fernandez, motogp rider, and prioritizing it over raul’s dog plushie
“sparkles straight in NO discussion” 🦄 🤍😭
carlos was never the evil person yall kept trying to make him in the last few weeks, he always speaks to drivers individually about issues rather than passive aggressively using media he always said to charles to keep it between them and to not bring it on radio as well, texted oscar to communicate despite getting slandered, prime recent example of taking alex to a breakfast to apologise. He will always value communication and you judge him from the two lines that the media uses to create engagement every time