Now the news cycle has certainly moved on with Joe Biden announcing that he wouldn’t be standing which took everyone, including Joe, by surprise. While I’m not suggesting anything untoward, I do have to say that I wouldn’t be paying any ransom for President Biden until I had proof of life. At the risk of starting another conspiracy theory, did anyone else find it strange that it was done via a post on social media and that we didn’t hear from the man personally? Only a personal message with the President on camera would be…
Aw, let’s be real. Some people would be saying that it’s a deep fake created by AI. I mean, when you see posts about how Michelle Obama is a man or that the CloudStrike thing was a setup so that the Democrats could steal the election…
Anyway, I was more interested in the fact that the Republicans thought that it was a great idea to have a professional wrestler to be one of the speakers at their convention. I mean apart from the fact that Hulk Hogan isn’t actually his real name, he was a musician who only became a wrestler because his music career wasn’t all that successful. This is too close to the Trump life story: The man who only became the guy in “The Apprentice” because all the other business people who were asked were actually busy making money and it was only Trump who had plenty of time on his hands, thanks to other people handling his bankruptcies…
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve nothing against professional wrestlers. I mean they’re a wonderful part of show business, much like a professional magician, but that’s the problem: Nobody believes that a professional magician is actually capable of magic and only a complete idiot would believe that wrestling, as seen on TV, is a genuine sport. Both are entertainers and we are watching the illusion, with that willing suspension of disbelief that allows us to enjoy a movie even though we know it’s fiction.
I was about to write that it seemed somewhat inappropriate that someone like Hulk Hogan – a man who’s made his fame and fortune by pretending to be involved in a fake contest between good and evil – would be an appropriate choice for the Republican Convention but I stopped myself because – unlike Trump – I’m capable of thinking before I speak…
Well, sometimes, anyway.
The more I think about it, Hulk seems like the most appropriate choice of all. Apart from the fact that Hulk is not his real name, he was involved in the sort of wrestling matches where most of the action takes place outside the ring and largely consists of the various contestants trash talking each other about who is going to take over, be victorious, make the other person sorry, show people who’s boss, get revenge and a thousand other things that go before they grapple and whack each other with chairs, before becoming too groggy to look behind them even as the pantomime crowd shouts, “Look behind you!”
Now if that description of a wrestling match doesn’t sound like Trump’s whole approach to politics, I don’t know what does.
Yep, Hulk Hogan. MAGA supporters should not only love it, but they probably think all that wrestling was genuine!
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