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Referees may just have terrible Constitution stats relative to the wrestlers. Much lower HP.

"Why don't they pull out the Megazord when the bad guy is normal-sized?" Shut up and learn to have fun.

Yes, Bret took the Chest-First Bump feat when he leveled up early in his career.

Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 5h

Tables are a damage multiplier. You must run off an Irish whip, you cannot resist. Life is much easier for the nascent wrestling fan if they simply accept genre tropes and go with it.

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And what consequences will Musk, Noem, and their cronies ever see for making such recklessly false statements? That's the infuriating thing. They did their damnedest to destroy this woman's life, and what will happen to them as a result? Nothing. It's fucked up.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 7h

Jesse Welles, dude of the moment who echoes a big part of the conscience of the United States. youtu.be/5vQDUi2azk8?...

youtu.be

Death By Firing Squad

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, he lost and vacated the presidency despite trying to overturn the results. It was enough. The *follow-up* from politicians and prosecutors wasn't enough. The people held up our end.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 8h

I understood that to mean "no AI as it relates to my daddy. Otherwise, I don't care because it doesn't affect me personally."

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 8h

Can't call out Riyadh when your business daddy's business daddies are entwined with Saudi Arabia.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 9h

Everything in the clip is from MITB 2026 on Saturday night.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 9h

Still cracking up at this clip being shared elsewhere and the reaction to it was "wait, this was all from ONE SHOW?" Stunning how the Fed has just completely fallen to shit with no commitment to in-ring quality.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 9h

Gonna do a literal Gene Blaster and create a clone Tsuji that's pleasant and welcomes foreigners.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 10h

Where did he say anything about the 80s? $10 is light if you want to take a kid to the arcade today and have fun for any length of time.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 10h

Cody Rhodes is such a piece of shit.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 11h

Tsuji and Newman won the world title for the first time this year, Oiwa won the G1 and challenged Tsuji, Uemura was a G1 finalist, Boltin will get the opportunity here to show what he can do. NJPW is still frustratingly NJPW with its booking at times, but they're giving it a go here.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 11h

The non-title three-way setup is interesting here. Yeah, it's all but a certainty Omega pins Oleg to set up a title challenge against Tsuji, but it'll give Oleg the opportunity to show out at a main event level. Can't say NJPW isn't making an effort to get guys underneath to that next level.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 11h

Folks keep raising the specter of TK bringing him back. Why would he? He let Max walk before he was radioactive. What incentive would he have to bring him back in now?

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Right. My gut says they knew what he was gonna say and threw him under the bus to minimize blowback to themselves, which, in my mind, is incredibly shitty.

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And even then...come on, it's Max Caster. You know you're rolling the dice putting a mic in his hand.

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The only way TNA has relatively clean hands in this is if they vetted his rap beforehand and he delivered something different than planned on the live mic.

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Would like to see some journalists push TNA to answer for whether they vetted his rap beforehand. If yes and he delivered it as approved, why was he held accountable for it? If no, why was TNA so hands-off for their biggest show of the year with a guy with a history of saying controversial shit?

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So was the line about using Moose as a glory hole.

Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 21h

I can tell you I'm more likely to watch NJPW the more AEW integration there is, so if they're aiming to get the most possible eyes on the product, using AEW guys seems like a shrewd business move.

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I like that significantly better than 946.

Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 21h

Still the dumbest stable name I've ever seen and it's not particularly close.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 22h

Well, in the same rap, he makes a homophobic reference to Moose being a glory hole, so he's an equal opportunity dumbass.

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Andrew @andrewskeets.bsky.social · 23h

I'm sorry, I don't think that's true. I actually recall him generating quite a bit of backlash dating back years, from myself included. I would further speculate that his edgelord bullshit and the fandom's reaction to it fed the go-away heat that necessitated his jobber run to rehabilitate him.

There were two other lines that were a lot more offensive in that rap than the Riyadh line, so while I think TNA throwing him under the bus for that line is cowardly, I kinda don't care that he ended up reaping the consequences.

To my understanding, Bound For Glory actually wasn't a terrible show, but now everyone is gonna be talking about this fiasco coming out of it instead of anything about the long game of the promotion itself. #LOLTNA truly never dies.

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Without exaggeration, he might have literally killed his career last night. Nobody's going to want to take a chance on this guy.

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The problem is making light of the Riyadh attacks is gonna run afoul of the typical MAGA chuds who are bought and paid for by the Saudis and would be his theoretical audience.

In that same promo, he dropped a homophobic line about using Moose as a glory hole. No thanks, I'm good.

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My issue here is mainly with the "that responsibility is ours" empty rhetoric. You fired the guy for what he said, you haven't accepted any responsibility. You gave him the mic and left him holding the bag.

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I don't have much sympathy for Caster given his history of questionable comments in exactly this context, but TNA throwing him under the bus when they had to know exactly what they were getting is pretty shitty.

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Look, it's not Caster's first rodeo here and he should have known to shy away from any potentially controversial subject matter, but it's pretty shitty of TNA to claim to take responsibility, then get rid of him. That's not them taking responsibility at all.

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"That responsibility is ours, and that's why we're firing Max Caster, because we take responsibility."

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I don't think 100% of the fault here lies with Caster, but unfortunately he's going to shoulder 100% of the consequences.

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It's fine, he can be the kid who tries to make peace between warring parents.

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Agreed. bsky.app/profile/andr...

I'm a little suspicious of the notion they could have met Sheamus's price, but to the extent this was within their decision-making discretion and they picked Caster over Sheamus, LOL.

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It's your biggest show of the year--Sheamus is a much bigger marquee impact guy than Caster. He also comes without the risk that you hand him a microphone and he blows up your business relationships.

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LOL, if this is accurate, they fucked up on multiple levels.

From Dirt Sheet Radio's Facebook: "False Finish reports TNA considered having Sheamus answer Moose's Open Challenge at Bound for Glory before going with Max Caster."

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Ineffectual moron commands reality to reshape itself to his whim, and reality responds, "Fuck off, asshole."

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Pretty remarkable how they're such shit at this point.

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"Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible."

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I dunno, "here's a bulleted list of all the positive things we've written about you" seems a little cringey. An independent outlet shouldn't have to defend the tenor of what they report about any given subject to that subject.

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It didn't even work for Bowens. It would have been hopeless for Caster.