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When there is a second wave, the protests will absolutely be blamed and not the six week campaign by the government to strip unemployment benefits from its citizens in a brazen attempt to kickstart an economy at the expense of the wellbeing of its people
I don’t think The Rock would be a good president but I am positive that DeSantis would 100% fall for the ‘It doesn’t matter what your name is’ gimmick during a debate
Dwayne Johnson reveals he was approached by political parties last year asking him to run for President.
He says the parties had ‘deep-dive’ research and polling data that proved he could be a real contender.
CM Punk intentionally getting suspended right before a business downturn every year to protect himself as a draw is one of the all time great worker moves. This man is thinking on levels we cannot comprehend, playing a game with rules we shall never know
A source tells TMZ the reason Joe Jonas filed for divorce from Sophie Turner:
“She likes to party, he likes to stay at home. They have very different lifestyles.”
@ZDominical
@jackcorrbit
There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s a durable flooring that is affordable for many people. The OP just doesn’t like it and has decided this is somehow a moral issue
I’m not sure there’s a more pro wrestling idea than being 66 and visiting the grave of your dead peer and friend and then immediately trying to book a match against his 83 year old brother
I think Peacock should stop censoring old WWE and start fucking with it like George Lucas does with Star Wars. Just add The Fiend to 2003 Raw or something shit. Go crazy
TK working an entire company into a shoot and ruined a WM main event. Sir, you have the heart of a true DVDVR poster and I apologize for ever doubting this.
A double standard:
@730hook
28-1 career record, on winning streak calls out the Champ, a logical challenge sparks online outrage
Jinder has literally lost every single match he's in for the past year, immediately gets title shot, where is the rage
#AEWDynamite
TOMORROW on TBS
Wrestling is about finding 3-7 undercard guys you go crazy for and obsessively watching them until you can credibly argue for their inclusion on the list of the best wrestlers ever
My favorite Kurt Angle story is always him & Eddie Guerrero getting into a fight backstage. Eddie lunged at Kurt with a single leg takedown and promptly got destroyed. When asked after why he tried a single leg on an Olympic champion, he responded "because I'm a fucking idiot"
I’m going to say this a neutrally as possible: if you’ve been posting this entire time about Punk creating a toxic workplace and being a danger, having two EVPs and a CEO actively avoid mediating is equally if not more appalling. Any manager in any company would be fired for this
The meeting between The Elite & CM Punk being canceled was a “semantic issue, depending on which side you're talking to.”
There was a Collision-Dynamite taping in Atlanta. So Tony Khan asked The Elite, ‘we're all going to be in the same place at the same time. Would you like to
One of the most compelling things about CM Punk is that his political enemies are consistently saying and doing things that inadvertently bolster his side of the story or make him look cooler
Remember when Rush made a shirt using fan art he found on twitter and when he got called out he said ‘who gave you permission to draw my body? I am ingobernable’
One of the more outrageous things at the time was the consensus opinion (even amongst most ROH fans) that Danielson did not have the charisma necessary to have his act translate to TV/bigger arenas
watching roh back in 2002-2008 had to have been the coolest shit. you were really there watching the best wrestlers in the world go at it knowing it was just you, the couple hundred people in the audience and a few thousand people on forums who knew about them. what the fuck
I think people say they are ‘sick of superheroes’ because they lack the language or inclination to say that a constant barrage of homogeneous, grey copaganda and great man theory rings false when we see the real police murdering and the only response is to give them more money
Let’s talk about the “sick of superhero movies” complaint. A complaint so overused, and so quick, that it’s become an empty, perplexing declaration. I genuinely have no idea what folks even mean by it anymore, outside of a desire to be the contrarian within a larger discussion.🧵
It’s so funny to willingly post your joker origin story and have it be ‘I became a fascist because someone said my name was Eve Fartlow’ and decide that this is going to get you sympathy
I was a progressive. I believe in the rights of all, including Jews. The latter got me tarnished with labels. The antisemites went to lengths. They made fake tweets by me to "prove" that I'm a racist, a TERF, an islamophobe, an ableist. They gave me a hate name – Eve Fartlow.
I had this thought today: WWE should’ve had all wrestlers play as themselves in the latest 2k game and streamed it, but honor all results as real no matter the bugs. When we go back to live wrestling, anyone who had the belts would be champion moving forward. Just embrace chaos
Roman Reigns cut a promo about the inequality in how a corporation treats its labor force and then beat up a bunch of cops. This is the best WM angle ever
I like all these trad accounts looking at stuff like this and deciding it’s an indictment on like, personal effort when in reality the reason stuff like this doesn’t happen is because private equity firms decided that a project like this needed to be .001% more profitable
@historyinmemes
Disney artists studying the nuances of a deer's movement for the movie Bambi in 1942.
This level of effort and dedication to a craft is unthinkable these days
When did wrestling fans start wanting wrestlers to act like normal people who have reasonable responses to interpersonal conflict? Wrestlers should be people that literally cannot function socially outside of professional wrestling. It’s just fan fiction otherwise
I watched the preview for that Bright netflix movie and thought ‘who could possibly write a line as dumb as ‘faerie lives don’t matter’’ and then Max Landis’ name popped up and it all fell into place
Legitimately nothing more annoying than wrestling fans and journalists doing their normal ‘I’ve known about this for years, I just never said anything’ about an alleged sexual assault
Watching Chris Jericho just wing it these past few days has really put into perspective how preposterous it is that the WWE hires the most charismatic people on the planet and then doesn't allow them to do anything except what failed soap writers come up with
I like when people are like ‘Dave Meltzer is an impeccable journalist who could never be replaced’ and then two days later he prints that during Shibata’s surgery they removed his brain and then put it back
Kenny Omega in the face of Sasha’s fine ass:
-Unfazed
-Unmoved
-Zero stutters
-Zero voice quivers
-Eye contact the entire time
-She walked up to HIM.
Verdict is in, Omega is shoot cool.
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@TommyEnd
on Paul Heyman's advice: "Paul has always said to me ‘Tom, I think you’re five years ahead of the business. As brilliant as you are, I think that’s also sometimes your biggest issue is you’re so far ahead mentally that people have to catch up.'"
@kathbarbadoro
It’s amazing that Ramona Flowers, a character whose entire purpose is to deconstruct the manic pixie dream girl trope, is actually just surface level desirable for like 85% of dudes who like Scott Pilgrim.
MJF would be making fun of the sports team of the town their in and John Cena would say something that would likely destroy any chance of MJF drawing ever again
I didn’t watch Dynamite but from my timeline, I can gather AEW is a company that has brought in Shaq and has brought in Gangrel and for some insane reason is not booking their entire promotion around Shaq vs Gangrel
It has never been easier to discover, watch and learn the history of professional wrestling and if you choose to only watch what is currently on television, you’re functionally illiterate. Modern wrestling is built upon and informed by the wreckage of the past
The concern over spots like this ignore the unspoken secret of wrestling: there is far more long term bodily trauma associated with wrestling that people find aesthetically and artistically pleasing. No one is saying ‘is it worth it’ while watching Kawada.
This is an interesting perspective, because I think it unintentionally reinforces that most fans view ‘objectively good’ through the aesthetics of their childhood rather than any true critical value
Eddie Guerrero x Juventud Guerrera. If some older fans seem like tough critics today, it’s probably because this is the standard many were watching 25 years ago. 👑
It owns that Democrats are now just openly talking about how they backed a fascist coup in a foreign country and theyre mad at Trump because he fumbled the illegal and hostile takeover. Just super tight. Vote blue no matter who, y’all
7/ Then, it got real embarrassing. In April 2019, we tried to organize a kind of coup, but it became a debacle. Everyone who told us they’d rally to Guaido got cold feet and the plan failed publicly and spectacularly, making America look foolish and weak.
I'm coming to the conclusion that Shawn Michaels' Showstopper gimmick is probably the most damaging thing to ever happen to modern wrestlers, for it made a generation of wrestlers and fans think "having a good match" constitutes character development
I asked if people had ever been helped by cops when they’ve been robbed. The consensus was lol no. They’ll probably just show up and shoot your dog many people joked which is funny because it’s true but also not funny because it’s true. Some other replies:
Earlier within the pandemic, someone mentioned the Matheson story "The Box" was completely ruined by COVID in America. Would you take a million dollars if someone you didn't know died as a consequence? Of course, most people would do it just to go to Applebees
One time Buff Bagwell hired some 20 year old to do his tweets for him and all of the smartest twitter wrestling fans thought that Buff was a big ally and gave him money. Hard to believe I know
THIS SATURDAY
@CMPunk
will be on commentary for
@RoderickStrong
vs
@SamoaJoe
Owen Hart Foundation
Men’s Tournament Quarterfinal on
#AEWCollision
!
Punk fights the winner of
Strong vs Joe
in the semifinal NEXT Saturday!
Don’t miss Saturday Night Collision
@ 8pm ET/7pm CT on TNT!
It continually befuddles me that we live in a time in which 95% of wrestling, from all over the world, across multiple decades, is available for free and yet people who make entire accounts devoted to wrestling can’t be bothered to watch any of it
It’s pretty obvious that Zelina was not fired for a pro union tweet, but an independent contractor being fired for refusing to give up outside sources of income is even more reprehensible
WWE is really dead set on making sure we know that HHH is the new guy. Surely he won’t resign in disgrace due to discovery from a far reaching law suit
One of the cool things about being a wrestling fan is that you will constantly be confronted with people who watch and care about it as much as you but understand literally none of it
@colettearrand
You’re joking right? He’s shown zero personal growth. Still as incapable of regulating emotions and working with coworkers. Just last week he delivered an unhinged promo attacking coworkers that reportedly won’t even culminate in a storyline
I saw RVD at a convention once, taking pictures at a booth. He was the highest person I'd ever seen. Every time he took a photo and did his pose, he would quietly say his own name to himself and then giggle