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The 6 year old in me is very disappointed to learn that Hulk Hogan is a dumb piece of crap.
IIRC he got canceled way back during or shortly after his reality show when he went on a racist rant over a recorded phone-call to his son who was sitting in jail, the context of which sounded very similar to a lot of Trump conservative meltdowns.
Almost. Hogan was a bull (I think), and was giving the old third leg drop on this dudes wife. The dude was secretly recording, and Hogan started ranting about how he didn't want his daughter to date black guys. He used much worse language.
~~The call you are referencing~~ was after his son crippled a man when he wrecked while allegedly racing, and all they were worried about was making the passenger look bad and a reality TV show when Nick got released.
I'll be damned. Looks like Hulk and Nick did discuss racially insensitive things, to put it nicely.
Look BROTHA, it’s like this— The Hulkster is super rich and extremely racist, but mainly Hulkster just doesn’t wanna pay taxes
Peter Thiel funded Terry Bollea's lawsuit against Gawker. It's saddening (but not surprising) that he's a real shitbird too.
Oh Terry.... What have you become?
So is Hercules, and the Walker Texas Ranger. It’s all disappointing.
This isn't surprising. Hulk Hogan is a huge racist.
Remember when his drunken piece of shit kid killed someone and Hulk Hogan Said it was probably karma?
I thought he killed someone too, but now all I can find is that he left somebody brain damaged to the point of needing lifetime care. Fuck Mandela
Edit: According to SRS Hogan stated the guy and his family should live their second life as black people for karma
... nah dude W~~W~~TF
He also ratted out the union organizers in the WWF.
He did say brotha a lot.
I don't know if Brooke was fucking the black guy's son. I mean, I don't have double standards. I mean, I am a racist, to a point, fucking n****s. But then when it comes to nice people and shit, and whatever. I guess we're all a little racist. Fucking n*****.
-- Hulk Hogan, who was taken out of the Wrestling Hall of Fame for three whole years after he was recorded saying that.
And then Peter Thiel, pissed that Gawker outed him, bankrolled Hogan's lawsuit which took them down. I remember lots of people on Reddit regarded it as a victory because Gawker sucked, which it did. They didn't care that a billionaire found a way to destroy a media outlet that told people something about him that he didn't want them to know.
Peter Thiel is, of course, also a big Republican supporter.
Hogan was already a piece of shit for being a racist. He didn't need to make me dislike him even more by getting into politics, even if his racism made clear which side he was on. Fuck him with a ten foot dick.
I've hated Hogan since the 90s, when I found out what a cancer he was backstage at WCW. Didn't help when I found out he's the reason wrestlers don't have a union.
For a lot of us fans, Hogan has been the devil way before we knew he was a racist POS.
I believe Hogan has been known to be a massive piece of shit among wrestling fans for decades now. Some of the stories I've read about the dude... Not great.
Ric Flair might be the only bigger shithead
Hogan is famously a liar of epic proportions and shut down a potential wrestlers union in the 80s. I know many of us were hulkamaniacs at some point but he’s a piece of shit.
I haven’t kept up with ole Stone Cold but last I checked he was threatening people online for being racist and homophobic. So if you want a decent person that was once at the top of the business he’s a better choice
Edit: I should add that I know Austin beat his wife when he was king of WWE but seems to have changed his ways and bettered himself. Doesn’t excuse that he did it but like I said he’s about the best in the wrestling business
Your childhood heroes are losers
Thank goodness there are still some good ones left of our childhood heroes.
I’m looking at you, Lucy Lawless Warrior Princess (who has the power of flight per The Simpsons), and especially looking at you LeVar Burton (who has the power of summoning rainbows with his mind)!
Fuck Kevin Sorbo.
Lucy Lawless is an absolute treasure of a human being.
When your fan club has a week dedicated to being charitable, you're deserving of those fans.
god, ever since I heard Hulk Hogan was a snitch I hated the guy. This just confirms he's a shit pile.
Hulk Hogan is a character, terry is just terry.
Terry is a piece of shit, the hulk is just a charicature they're hired to speak and the hulk is not actually he's reading a script they hired him to read.
It's very stupid and Terry is also a massive shitstain but let's be specific about who we're shitting on and why.
Not just a snitch but iirc there's been allegations he's racist too for years now.
MRW I've been comparing US politics to WWE for years
Another connection is Vince McMahon and his wife, both of which are right wing pieces of trash. Linda herself served in the previous Trump administration.
I feel very, very different from these people. Literally nothing in common. Holy crap.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho! Camachomania!!!
I would take Camachomania over Trumpomania any day. Any. Fucking. Day.
Camacho wasn't that bright, and was in over his head, but at least he was smart enough to realize that, and he had the best interests of his people at heart. And when he found somebody who was smarter than him and might actually have solutions to the problems his people faced, he actually listened. Though he did sentence him to "rehabilitation" when the plan initially appeared unsuccessful.
For that alone, Camacho would be a better president than Trump.
You keep seeing peter thiels name here, right... Weird, huh.
j.d. vance is thiel's longtime lap puppy and trump's new VP pick after trying to have the old one publicly executed.
thiel is also at PayPal with elon. peter is like the "cool senior" at high school with the upturned collar when elon musk is a freshman. Thiel says to elon one day, "hey Elmo, carry my books to class." elon enthusiastically complies and while his hands are full, thiel takes all of the blood emeralds out of elon's pockets, pantses him in front of his crush, and then says, "now say thank you daddy, for letting my little weiner see the sunshine, Elmo" elon complies, pants around his ankles, and then thiel pushes elon over, and drives away with his crush, as they both laugh at elon. Elon then says to himself, "Man, that guy is so cool." Right as vance is confined as VP pick, Elmo (who said earlier this year that he wouldn't donate to either trump or biden) just started "donating" $45 million dollars a month to trump in perpetuity.
Are you starting to see who's in charge?
You should learn more about potential shadow president thiel.
That fuckers names been in my head since I read about DARPAS Projects TIA and Lifelog, his ties to them, and how he helped fund Facebook, right after founding Palintir which makes predictive policing software.
I feel like a fucking madman even saying that shit, but this guy seems to always be up to something no-good.
Jesus fucking christ.
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Oh man, we're gonna get an Idiocracy world where porn is illegal, not one where you can get a handjob at the Costco Starbucks 😢
As someone else once said and I am paraphrasing uncredited because I don't remember who they are: "In the Idiocracy universe, when they discovered a man who was smarter than everyone else, they put him in charge of stuff. That makes it a wiser world than our own".
Wait, you mean that the union-busting, back-stabbing, "I got mine," racist piece of shit supports Trump???
Well, now I'm offended!
What a fucking loser
kif_sigh.exe
We’re only 4 years from recreating Idiocracy. Hell we might already be there. Save us, Luke Wilson. You’re our only hope.
President Camacho realized he needed to put the smartest man he knew in charge to save the world.
The current crop of Republicans, uh... don't.
Do we get to call them Trumpamaniacs now?
Is this real?
*The above comment is not intended to question the post but rather a wrestling joke wrapped in sad commentary on the state of things. Please act accordingly.
Edit because markdown.
