#UFC fight can’t hide #MAGA male weakness

By Amanda Marcotte, June 17, 2026

"Above all things, the Ulitmate Fighting Championship spectacle on the White House lawn on Sunday was Donald Trump’s birthday present to himself. The self-proclaimed 'Greatest President in History' once again reminded the public that the only record he’ll set is in White House corruption, using the fight both to line his own pockets and enrich his billionaire benefactors. But if the 80-year-old was hoping that proximity to half-naked men punching each other would make him look more robust and virile, the opposite happened. Despite the dramatic music and his ever-thickening foundation application, Trump looked frail and his ever-present hand bruise was hard to ignore, despite the efforts to cover it with makeup.

"The painful event was an almost too-perfect symbol of the larger problem infecting Trump’s White House: it’s run by men obsessed with looking tough, but who are, in actuality, weak and incompetent. The more they fail, the more they grasp for these theatrical but ineffectual displays of masculine preening, hoping that the public mistakes loud and violent displays for strength. This may fool the hardcore MAGA base into perpetuity, but increasingly, it’s becoming evident to everyone else that all the chest-pounding theatrics are just a cover to conceal the weakness that defines MAGA manhood."

Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/17/ufc-fight-cant-hide-maga-male-weakness/

#USPol TrumpSucks #MAGAMen #MaleFragility #Overcompensation #ToxicMasculinity

A quotation from Horace

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

Overcorrection: When Fixing Becomes the Flaw.

https://wp.me/p84YjG-5fb

#Overcorrection #DecisionMaking #Balance #RiskManagement #BehavioralPsychology #Overcompensation #UnintendedConsequences #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/2025/06/25/overcorrection-when-fixing-becomes-the-flaw/

【EDITOR'S CHOICE】
No evidence of a generalized potential ‘cost’ of apical dominance for species that have strong apical dominance

#ApicalMeristem | #BranchingIntensity | #BudBank | #Clipping | #LeafSize | #LeafingIntensity | #MeristemAllocation | #Overcompensation

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac053

Thinking today about how to engage a peer for their #addictive, #toxic, and potentially #abusive behaviors both observed and overheard from other sections of their #community.

Their fatal flaw may be the utter devaluation of self, but with a burning compulsion for validation.
They throw everything at any volunteer/leadership position, but intentionally overdo it and are frequently altered.

But how might I address their #martyrdom and #overcompensation tendencies?