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highplainsdem

(63,087 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 03:01 PM Jul 2024

The RNC just added Hulk Hogan to their speakers tonight. Hogan is openly racist.













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
For Trump's GOP, racism isn't a bug, it's a feature. Ocelot II Jul 2024 #1
Too bad it isn't the REAL hulk Blue Owl Jul 2024 #2
Instead of yelling at a chair, like Clint Eastwood, Hogan can smash the chair over someone's head. This is Repub...... RussellCattle Jul 2024 #3
all those years of steroids turned his brain into mush. nt ImNotGod Jul 2024 #4
Wasn't Peter Thiel involved in Hogan's suit against Gawker? flvegan Jul 2024 #5
Yes, he was. highplainsdem Jul 2024 #6
Thiel financed the suit DBoon Jul 2024 #7
 

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......
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 03:13 PM
Jul 2024

......."high theater" and very entertaining for the low information voters.

DBoon

(25,144 posts)
7. Thiel financed the suit
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 03:59 PM
Jul 2024

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.

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