Maybe Mayor Joe Ganim should be part of the undercard for tonight’s Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson boxing match, the tussle between 27-year-old You Tuber-turned boxer and 58-year-old former champ at a jammed Arlington Texas Stadium streamed globally on Netflix with each banking tens of millions.
Will this thing be scripted or real? I am partial to the hysteria over the Joey Buttafuoco versus Chyna match.
Ganim, see video above, got into the pre-fight groove whacking a heavy bag. The things pols do to burn frustration.
Hmm, Ganim versus Trump? The battle between political senior citizens. Let’s roll them out in wheelchairs for a showdown at the Black Rock senior center.
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FANTASY FIGHTS
– A President Elect vs a long-time municipal official? Have you already received so many punches to your head in your lifetime to invent such a “battle between political senior citizens”?
How about a tally of “gut punches” received when employees hired as best and most appropriate (loyal) disappear from “your corner” of the battleground, the “ring”, during the “rounds” of the fight? Disappear looking for pardons, or entering legal claims against the leader, and having little or nothing to say positive about the experience?
Perhaps that is what a primary focus on “entertainment” rather than “governance” earns the body politic. Not all seniors are destined for deserting the community for health, fiscal, or other limitations. Time will tell.