Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has joked about body slamming Vice-President Kamala Harris in front of a fired up crowd, and questioned her racial identity.
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“Do you want me to drop the leg on Kamala?!” he shouts, referring to one of his iconic wrestling moves.
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Hogan continued to make more comments about Ms Harris including one about her Indian heritage.
Kamala Harris is bi-racial - her mother was from India and her father is Jamaican.
“Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian?” Hogan asked the crowd, before using an outdated and stereotypical greeting associated with Native American Indians.
The video stops after he could be heard saying he “was going to get heat for that one”.
Never meet your heroes - former hulkamaniac
Same here. I should have paid more attention to Andre.
I never watched wrestling, but Andre seemed like a nice guy when I heard about him on the vince mcmahon behind the bastards. Hulk sounded like he sucked.
Andre the Giant was great in The Princess Bride.
Hulk Hogan sucked in Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
My dad used to run into him regularly when he worked as airport security in the 70s. He was a fantastic kind man with an incredible sense of humor. My dad had lots of good stories about him that he used to tell me about. So, another data point to back up your thinking.
Andre was a good guy. Shame about Hulk.
I’ve never been a fan of wrestling but I loved Andre. From everything I’ve seen and heard, he was the nicest guy you could hope to meet. There are some great stories about him out there too. There’s video of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about a time when he and Andre were arguing over who would pay the check at a restaurant and Andre literally picked Arnold up and put him on a piece of furniture. And another similar occasion with Andre and Wilt Chamberlain. The Cary Elwes book, As You Wish, about the making of The Princess Bride has a lot of stories about Andre from the cast too. It’s well worth the read if you’re a fan of the movie.
Never meet your heroes - former hulkamaniac
I was never much of a Hulkamanic, but I was a huge fan of the Ultimate Warrior who turned out to be a huge decroded piece of crap too. My all time favorite though was always Rowdy Roddy, and my second favorite was Da Maniac, but the one time I met him he kept calling me the N-word and gave me a bucket of acorns.
“Aw, you got kids, Maniac?”
“Nah…not anymore…”
Uhh… what?
but the one time I met him he kept calling me the N-word and gave me a bucket of acorns.
Is there any context to this? I’m genuinely curious.
Me and some friends were looking for a way to give back to the troops. So we decided to do a big wrestling thing. We got a hold of a local legend in the wrestling scene named Da Maniac. We were getting all the details ironed out for the show and he kept calling me the N-word. He also started to autograph parking tickets and tried giving them to us, plus it looked like he was living in his station wagon. He ended up getting arrested right before the show, so we had to do our own thing. We tried this whole eagle/bird of prey tag team thing. But I think we came off more like pigeons than as eagles. But we got another friend from school to wrestle against us. He showed up in this racist Arab costume and called himself the tali-bum (he was homeless at the time).
Thank you for the context, though coming back to this, I got no closure on the acorns. What was that not about?
The closure is this is the plot of one of the episodes of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
For anyone who isn’t a wrestling fan, Hogan is universally hated by most fans and people in the business these days. He’s a racist, a backstabber, union buster, sexual deviant, and a pathological liar. He will lie about the most easily disproved bullshit. He’s a perfect example of Trump’s fanbase.
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This is not politics.
As much as I want to agree with you, this guy was one of the key speakers at the RNC. He’s the embodiment of the Republican party’s political discourse.
Do better MicroWave, one less post an hour won’t hurt ya.
Damn, man. Beggars can’t be choosers. How much content do you submit to keep this community active? Just down-vote and move on. No need to make it personal.
ow much content do you submit to keep this community active? Just down-vote and move on. No need to make it personal.
Amen!
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See that’s just it, I’m not the one criticizing submitters.
Throwing peanuts from the peanut gallery is easy. Being the change you want to see isn’t. Start submitting to this community and let’s see how you fair, Mr. 1-month-old account.
You should take your own advice.
Sometimes people need a taste of their own medicine.
Edit: Definitely struck a nerve. I wonder, does Lemmy have vote manipulation detection?
Only when mods and admins look at the post, so nothing automated.
I wonder, does Lemmy have vote manipulation detection?
I wish!
This is not politics.
Everything is politics in one way or another. In this case, it is explicitly political. Because the washed up, union busting snitch, pro wrestler and D-list actor is giving a political speech at a political convention for a major political party for the nomination of a politician.
Like the only way it could be more political is if he was running himself.
How very disgusting, this Mr. Hogan!
Notorious racist and wife beater Hulk Hogan, threatens to physically assault a black woman. Nope not surprised at all…
threatens to physically assault
a black woman.the current vice president.I feel like that’s the bigger deal here.
I’m just gonna borrow this for a while
He was like my AllMight as a kid.
Fucking sad. I hate all that time wasted even as a hobby. Piece of crap.
Mr Hogan, is a racist, union busting piece of shit.
Just a reminder, that while under oath in court, Hogan said this:
Hulk Hogan has a 10 inch penis. Terry Bollea does not…no I do not have a 10 inch penis”
Which is a really weird thing to have to clarify one of your lies in court. Essentially he’s saying his fictional character, whose penis you never need to think about, ever, is 10 inches. However he himself the real individual does not. And he was asked to clairify this because video surfaced of his best friend filming him having sex with his best friends wife. And his penis clearly wasn’t 10 inches.
God another one that can’t tell Indian from Native?
Trash. Ignorant trash.
Not a surprising move from Peter Thiel’s best friend. Pretty much in line with what his puppet Vance said.
Hulky. Buddy. Just go wrank off to some AI pics of her like all the others like you are doing
Totally normal and not weird 🤡
Secret service, are you listening?
