Smack Down
Tim Walz says he can beat up MAGA voters so the wrestler Kane offers to fight him. Here’s more from The Salty Cracker.
Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
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Did UFC Bud Light Themself?
In today’s video, we react to the Ultimate Fighting Champisonship, or UFC, and its new partnership with Bud Light. Earlier this year, Bud Light sparked massive controversy by sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney. Here’s more from Awaken with JP.
The GOP’s ‘Kayfabe’ Rumble
Professional wrestlers use the term “kayfabe” to describe rivalries that are not at all real, but staged to attract public attention and hype the next big upcoming showdowns. Here, Jordan Sather wonders aloud if the Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis rivalry fits into this definition.
What if the two of them are in cahoots, supposedly drawing blood, when in fact, they are churning the waters and determining which Republicans might be RINOs or fakes. Sather doesn’t swear up and down that’s what is happening. But he labels this scenario as being within the realm of possibility, so something to bear in mind.
How To Spot A Phony
Lionel Nation turns to big-time wrestling, and specifically play-by-play announcer Gordon Solie, to show how Americans have lost the ability to spot a liar, a phony, a shill, a con and a poseur.
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The Cream Team
Jamie Dlux revisits an old case involving the World Wrestling Federation or WWF. Younger wrestlers and announcers say they were expected to service male members of Vince McMahon’s federation hierarchy if they wanted to keep their jobs and move forward.
Lemmings Don’t Jump Off Cliffs
As The Corbett Report community notes, lemmings jumping from cliffs is a figment of Walt Disney’s imagination, not a real phenomenon. So how else has our perception of the world been shaped by the media?
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The Dead Kennedys touched upon this Disney charade in their punk-rock song “Potshot Heard Round the World.” The relevant refrain, “Ever notice news Is staged like TV wrestling shows with Reagans and Khaddafis cast as Cartoon villains and heroes or those wildlife documentaries, where a Lion from a zoo kills a deer tied down ahead of time at the perfect Camera angle when lemmings balk at dying for Disney they’re just Hurled off the cliff.”
Kane Running for Mayor
WWE superstar Glenn Jacobs — Kane — explains why he is running for mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. Kane, a Republican, won election.
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Take That, CNN Scum
Donald Trump makes a second appearance on WWE Monday Night Raw and lays another epic smackdown on CNN’s fake news network. With cameo appearances by Hillary Clinton, John Cena and Pepe.
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Fatwa Out on CNN
Parody based on speculation that the wrestling meme President Trump Tweeted that set off #CNNBlackmail was not the GIF that HanAssHoleSolo posted to Reddit.
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Powers Goes Full Nazi
CNN analysis Kirsten Powers tweets that she would have exposed the individual behind the Donald Trump wrestling meme. And that she would have published the meme maker’s name and picture. #CNNblackmail. More from CBC News.
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