It’s a single story.
Whether you look at it through the angle of sports, corporate media, Hollywood, AI, or politics, the money all flows in the same direction and to the same people.
It all goes to the top.
The rich become richer while everyone else becomes poorer. It’s the same gang of billionaires increasingly consolidating power by capturing our political, media, and cultural institutions.
These wealthy men realized that politics is downstream from culture. If you can capture sports and media, you can win over an entire generation, especially men, who treat Sunday Football as Church and obsessively watch UFC fights, which has become an in-kind donation to Donald Trump.
If you doubt the connection, just look at how many appearances Trump and his MAGA minions have made at UFC fights and check out how America celebrated its 250th anniversary at the White House. (UFC matches sponsored by Crypto, because of course.) Billionaire Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, just flexed his muscles to ban Macklemore for the sin of using his platform to say, “Free Palestine.”
It’s a big club that uses money, sports, culture, and faith to whitewash and launder their ongoing grift and theft.
Sports journalist Pablo Torre keeps his eyes on the ball and realizes the story of oligarchy in America can best be explained to the masses through professional sports. ▶He won the Pulitzer recently for uncovering how billionaire LA Clippers’ owner Steve Ballmer used secret, corrupt backdoor deals to circumvent the salary cap and pay his star player, Kawhi Leonard, who was also clearly in on the scheme.
Torre also just revealed how Life Surge, a faith-based financial organization, preyed upon its supporters by using Tim Tebow, a former NFL quarterback, as a spokesman for their product. You too can become rich if you spend an exorbitant amount of money, up to $44K, on their educational material and classes!
Torre joins The Left Hook for the first time to discuss how the White House and billionaires are turning America into a casino, using sports to launder their corruption and prey on well-intentioned but increasingly desperate fans who are trying and failing to “make it” in an age of rising income inequality.
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