On Sunday July 2, 2017, in his Twitter war with CNN, the president of the United States dropped a gif meme like an awkwardly-aimed missile, in which footage of him pounding on Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania 23 was altered so that McMahon’s head is the CNN logo. Behold: It’s so bizarre to be writing about this. I shouldn’t be surprised after the recent trajectory of increasing surrealism in the Trump storyline—the orb, covfefe, Reality Winner,…
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Based on my What Rusev is Saying post from months ago, Google sends me boatloads of traffic on the topic of Rusev, Lana, what they’re saying and what they’re up to. Recently I’ve had several search terms to the effect of why is rusev bulgarian again. It’s a real puzzler, isn’t it? Suddenly, after their break up, Rusev is waving the Bulgarian flag. So representing Russia was all because Lana is such a pretty girl?…
I have to say, the raging TNA hate I sometimes encounter on the internet is pretty chilling. Some of it is such overt hit piece journalism, and by some rather well regarded wrestling journalists! I won’t name names or go into details because I don’t have time to go dig these things up, but I see this pattern playing out repeatedly: somebody calling themselves a wrestling journalist says something derogatory and dismissive about TNA, maybe…