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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe RNC just added Hulk Hogan to their speakers tonight. Hogan is openly racist.
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I could post more evidence of his racism, but that should be enough.
EDITING to add that PatriotTakes, who'd posted the last of the three tweets above, has already found and tweeted video of Hulk Hogan mocking Trump in 2012:
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The RNC just added Hulk Hogan to their speakers tonight. Hogan is openly racist. (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jul 2024
OP
Ocelot II
(130,614 posts)1. For Trump's GOP, racism isn't a bug, it's a feature.
Blue Owl
(59,150 posts)2. Too bad it isn't the REAL hulk

RussellCattle
(1,928 posts)3. Instead of yelling at a chair, like Clint Eastwood, Hogan can smash the chair over someone's head. This is Repub......
......."high theater" and very entertaining for the low information voters.
ImNotGod
(1,194 posts)4. all those years of steroids turned his brain into mush. nt
flvegan
(66,295 posts)5. Wasn't Peter Thiel involved in Hogan's suit against Gawker?
Or am I remembering that wrong?
highplainsdem
(62,254 posts)6. Yes, he was.
DBoon
(25,008 posts)7. Thiel financed the suit
It ended up putting Gawker out of business, and sent a message to the rest of the media about attacking very wealthy individuals who have a taste for vengeance.