Republican National Convention

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  • mace1229
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    jerparker20 said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Good lord sweet baby jeebus. Now, that’s a party to be proud of!

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9njHkVh56-/?igsh=MTQ1c2x4YWRrN3dscA==
    Saw it last night Just bizarre. Idiocracy playing out in real life. But a large segment of our country-people eat it up. Modern day bread and circuses.
    I really don’t get the hate for Hogan. Rock was terrible, Trump was long and dry. But Hogan was a nostalgic act and was fun. He’s an entertainer known for exactly one character, so of course he did his speech in character.
    It’s like inviting Paul Reubens and being surprised he showed up as Pee Wee, having Mr. T speak and being shocked he came in character and pitied all the fools, or inviting Penn and Teller and being surprised Teller didn’t talk and they incorporated some magic into a speech.
  • CM189191
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    mace1229 said:
    jerparker20 said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Good lord sweet baby jeebus. Now, that’s a party to be proud of!

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9njHkVh56-/?igsh=MTQ1c2x4YWRrN3dscA==
    Saw it last night Just bizarre. Idiocracy playing out in real life. But a large segment of our country-people eat it up. Modern day bread and circuses.
    I really don’t get the hate for Hogan. Rock was terrible, Trump was long and dry. But Hogan was a nostalgic act and was fun. He’s an entertainer known for exactly one character, so of course he did his speech in character.
    It’s like inviting Paul Reubens and being surprised he showed up as Pee Wee, having Mr. T speak and being shocked he came in character and pitied all the fools, or inviting Penn and Teller and being surprised Teller didn’t talk and they incorporated some magic into a speech.

    well for starters, Hogan is stumping for a child rapist to be President

    that seems like a pretty good reason to hate someone

    not enough for you?
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,119
    Bahahahahahahaha! POOTWH’s contagious. Bahahahahahahaha! Don’t operate heavy machinery around him or drive with him in the car. Bahahahahahahaha! “Unmatched” is right. 
    From Letter From an American:

    But that was just in the first ten minutes. Then Trump ignored the teleprompter and things veered far off course, reflecting the candidate that has stayed in the safe spaces of Mar-a-Lago and rallies of his loyalists for years. Trump rambled for more than 90 minutes, making it the longest acceptance speech in U.S. history and outlasting the interest of the audience, some of whom fell asleep.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    Oh, and congratulations by the way. Explains a lot. A lot. From Letter From An American:

    For years, observers have noted that Trump’s approach to politics is patterned on the “kayfabe” at the heart of professional wrestling. Kayfabe is the performance aspect of professional wrestling, in which the actors play out relationships and scenes in which there are good and evil, love and hate, loyalty and betrayal. According to journalist Abraham Josephine Reisman, in old-school kayfabe the actors never let their masks slip, and while the audience knew what they were seeing must be fake, they played along with the illusion.

    But in the 1990s, the barrier between reality and illusion blurred as wrestlers and promoters tried to increase the viability of the fading industry by tossing reality into the performances: real-life insults—the more outrageous the better—and real-life events. Decoding what was real and what was not drove engagement until in 1999, an estimated 18% of Americans, about 50 million people, called themselves fans. This “neokayfabe,” Reisman wrote in the New York Times in 2023, “rests on a slippery, ever-wobbling jumble of truths, half-truths, and outright falsehoods, all delivered with the utmost passion and commitment.” 

    Neokayfabe, Reisman wrote, “turns the world into a hall of mirrors from which it is nearly impossible to escape. It rots the mind and eats the soul.”

    Trump participated in a storyline in this neokayfabe with World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon in 2007, in part billed as a battle over hair. Eventually he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, and many observers have made the link between neokayfabe and his approach to politics. Indeed, he even blended the two explicitly when he chose McMahon’s wife, Linda, to head the U.S. Small Business Administration during his presidency.  

    Neokayfabe and politics came together again last night at the Republican National Convention, as Linda McMahon, wrestler Hulk Hogan, and musician Kid Rock, whose music has been featured at wrestling events and who is also a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, all participated. 

    “So all you criminals, all you lowlifes, all you scumbags…. Whatcha gonna do when Donald Trump and all the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you, brother?!" Hogan yelled to wild applause after ripping off his shirt to show a Trump-Vance shirt. Like the other performers at the convention, he painted a portrait of Trump’s presidency, and of the United States since Trump left office, that was a fantasy of good and evil. Hogan reinforced that there was no way Trump was going to reach toward unity in Milwaukee. His approach to the world cannot be moderated. It depends on the idea that there are two teams in the performance and one must vanquish the other.

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  • Poncier
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    Halifax2TheMax said:
    WTF? Did POOTWH forget his cape? And would you look at the paunch! Need a new tailor, POOTWH.


    Paunch? What punch?



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  • Gern Blansten
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    edited July 2024
    CM189191 said:

    I was going to say "let's imagine if XX did that at the DNC convention" but there is no equivalent to Hulk Hogan....but imagine Beyonce doing that? Oh the maga outrage
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  • Merkin Baller
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    edited July 2024
    CM189191 said:
    mace1229 said:
    jerparker20 said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Good lord sweet baby jeebus. Now, that’s a party to be proud of!

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9njHkVh56-/?igsh=MTQ1c2x4YWRrN3dscA==
    Saw it last night Just bizarre. Idiocracy playing out in real life. But a large segment of our country-people eat it up. Modern day bread and circuses.
    I really don’t get the hate for Hogan. Rock was terrible, Trump was long and dry. But Hogan was a nostalgic act and was fun. He’s an entertainer known for exactly one character, so of course he did his speech in character.
    It’s like inviting Paul Reubens and being surprised he showed up as Pee Wee, having Mr. T speak and being shocked he came in character and pitied all the fools, or inviting Penn and Teller and being surprised Teller didn’t talk and they incorporated some magic into a speech.

    well for starters, Hogan is stumping for a child rapist to be President

    that seems like a pretty good reason to hate someone

    not enough for you?
    Trump’s Epstein connection doesn’t seem to be a problem, even though Bill Clinton’s Epstein connection was a problem for Hillary. Not unlike the classified documents trump stole not being a problem as compared to Hillary’s emails. 

    Weird, I know. 
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,050
    where is the post convention bump?

    i never happened. because that shit show is turning a lot of people off.
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  • josevolution
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    gimmesometruth27 said:
    where is the post convention bump?

    i never happened. because that shit show is turning a lot of people off.
    When was it like a few months ago? 
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