The 6 year old in me is very disappointed to learn that Hulk Hogan is a dumb piece of crap.
god, ever since I heard Hulk Hogan was a snitch I hated the guy. This just confirms he’s a shit pile.
Didn’t he kill gawker? That was pretty cool.
Not really. He was pretty much hired to do so by Peter Thiel.
Your childhood heroes are losers
If, in the 2000s, you wrote a novel detailing the reality of the Trump presidency, campaign, his manipulation of SCOTUS & it’s subsequent rulings, I think it would have been rejected as farcical - pure sick fantasy. Trump world is grotesque and I feel like a lot of our media still hasn’t articulated just how fucked up all of this really is.
Well I feel dirty now. Hogan was my hero when I was growing up. I was 100% a little Hulkster back in the day. The night he revealed he was joining nWo is seared into my mind. I honestly looked up to the guy. Turns out, all those times he played someone looking out for the little guy, the weak, those who couldn’t defend themselves… was 100% just acting.
This is 100% why they say, never meet your heroes. I am disappointed and my day is ruined.
I don’t know if Brooke was fucking the black guy’s son. I mean, I don’t have double standards. I mean, I am a racist, to a point, fucking n****s. But then when it comes to nice people and shit, and whatever. I guess we’re all a little racist. Fucking n*****.
– Hulk Hogan, who was taken out of the Wrestling Hall of Fame for three whole years after he was recorded saying that.
And then Peter Thiel, pissed that Gawker outed him, bankrolled Hogan’s lawsuit which took them down. I remember lots of people on Reddit regarded it as a victory because Gawker sucked, which it did. They didn’t care that a billionaire found a way to destroy a media outlet that told people something about him that he didn’t want them to know.
Peter Thiel is, of course, also a big Republican supporter.
Hogan was already a piece of shit for being a racist. He didn’t need to make me dislike him even more by getting into politics, even if his racism made clear which side he was on. Fuck him with a ten foot dick.
Be nice to that dick. Nobody wants a 10ft dong around, so have some compassion. Let it get creative, at least. I mean, what else is it for, after all?
The Danes have already thought about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dillermand
John Dillermand is a Danish stop motion animated children’s television series about a man and his very long penis.
The series is aimed at four- to eight-year-olds
What the hell is going on over there?
Kids that age think a very long, prehensile penis is funny.
He doesn’t go around fucking things.
Republicans say they’re against human trafficking but Hulk’s lawsuit is what took down the journalist outfit that blew the whistle on Epstein (Gawker).
Say more about this?
Gawker was an online news/celebrity gossip site that ran in the early 2000’s. They were pretty notorious for some of their unethical practices. Like finding the unique IMEI numbers of celebrities’ cell phones in Manhattan then tracking them and putting their real time locations online in a user friendly map causing them to get ambushed by fans while doing errands like shopping or getting a haircuts.
They made enemies with billionaire Peter Thiel by outing him as homosexual when they published his text messages sent to a male sex worker he was patronizing.
While there’s little proof it’s believed that Thiel along with the Republican party changed a long standing law that prevented third parties from funding other people’s lawsuits.
Regardless Gawker would get sued by Hulk Hogan when they published a private video of Hogan going into detail about his deeply held racist beliefs (saying the n-word numerous times, saying he didn’t want his daughter seeing black men).
This lead to Hulk being disavowed by the WWE. He was removed from their Hall of Fame and banned from further appearances.
Thiel funded Hulk’s defamation lawsuit as revenge for their earlier humiliation of him. A lawsuit Hulk would not have likely been about to pursue otherwise. While few would argue the merits, the damages were wildly inflated to the tune of 100’s of millions. Hulk was long past his prime and even his modestly successful reality TV series was long forgotten at that point so he wasn’t worth anywhere close to that amount.
While a fair ruling would have likely left Gawker intact this pointedly vindictive one forced them into bankruptcy. They closed their doors shortly there after to the delight of the right wing.
While many found Gawker’s “Nightcrawler” like approach to journalism abhorrent. Unflinchingly procuring and publishing the most salacious celebrity gossip regardless of consequence, or newsworthy merit. Often in ethically dubious ways.
It’s none the less a large part of why they broke they Epstein story first, which many in the media now admit was an open secret. They were true to their name, willing to expose some of the most powerful people on the planet on stories that defied all convention knowing that even the most upstanding and righteous person would compromise themselves to “gawk” at it.
I think they took a lot of pride in this, being able to bring down anyone of any race, creed, color or class to read their “dirty” tabloid. They know what your base desires want, even if you won’t admit it to yourself.
You meet people this brave (reckless?) once in a lifetime with this brutal effectiveness. Sure there’s plenty of war time journalists every bit as brave but their high morals seem to keep them from getting really dirty like Gawker did.
Maybe some will find that view offensive. None the less, if you relished the thought of a notorious child sex trafficker hanging from his cell. It’s not chic online influencers and trendy memes you should thank. It’s those reviled gossip hounds at Gawker. RIP ;__;
From what I remember, the whole Gawker vs. Hogan lawsuit was over a sex tape. I don’t remember anything racist.
It also contained sex but it was the racist stuff that destroyed his career and provided grounds for the lawsuit.
