@daimoon.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics, teaching and writing about politics, ideology and pro-wrestling, with a bit of Wales 🏴 when I can. https://www.davidsmoon.co.uk
Circus music fit for a carny
06.08.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jesse Ventura has gone incredibly quiet since the election - before which he was both a massive critic of Trump and (before endorsing Harris-Walz) touted as a potential RFK Jnr VP choice. Would be very interested to know Jesse’s view on his old acquaintance RFK Jnr now.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
“one of WWE’s most recent overtures to Trump and his MAGA movement appears to have gone unnoticed: The company just provided the niece of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, an opportunity at becoming a WWE Superstar.”
😘👌
WWE fans boo Trump when shown on the screen at SummerSlam
I think this is the first time the WWE has put any images of their Hall of Fame member up. Can see why.
But further evidence the wall they’ve had between themselves and Trump is cracking, even if not UFC yet. youtube.com/shorts/ZWWa7...
The attempt to keep portraying WWE as “not political”, while celebrating Trump in the strangest ways - he “admits when he’s wrong”? Trump?
Yeesh.
Note the shout out to Saqiq Khan from HHH, a man Trump continuously slags off, but there’s still negotiations over a London WrestleMania ongoing.
It gets worse: bsky.app/profile/daim...
02.08.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“He is one of the most intuitive people, I think, that I’ve met …
My world is not a political world. My world is a world of entertainment.
I’ve always enjoyed my interactions with him … and he’s in our Hall of Fame. So my hat’s off to him.”
- HHH on Trump
www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2025/8/2...
This is America
01.08.2025 07:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TKO’s wall separating UFC’s embrace of Trump and WWE’s hesitant silence about him is further cracking:
The official account posts a video of HHH doing ‘the water spit’ outside The White House, as Trump signs an EO reintroducing the ‘Presidential Fitness Test’.
www.fightful.com/wrestling/tr...
“It would be an exaggeration to say that Hogan is responsible for what America is today. But not much of one.
Hogan, like his friends Vince McMahon and Donald Trump, was both a symptom and a cause of what we have become.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-hulk-h...
“the return to childhood is what the impulse to fascism is always about. That’s why Hogan was such a dangerously effective weapon for the Republican Party that he so dearly loved …”
Searing stuff, by @josie.zone 💪 www.thehandbasket.co/p/hulk-hogan...
On Trump & Hogan together: “The message, messenger, symbols, language, audience, and the meaning and emotions they created together were all one. A type of rare semiotic unity had been achieved. The Democrats had — and continue to have — no real answer for such power.” www.salon.com/2025/07/27/w...
27.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Hulk Hogan … was basically Donald Trump with muscles and a mustache.”
www.politico.eu/article/hulk...
Putting aside the serious stuff, Hulk Hogan to me will always be defined by JP Sarro’s impression on The Lapsed Fan: this version of an utterly paranoid maniac constantly scared of being rolled up from behind, terrified of others being pushed & stealing his heat *is* Hogan. youtu.be/KJnFip22UDI?...
24.07.2025 22:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WWE co-founder calls Hogan a 'global phenomenon'
Uh huh… and is there anything else about this co-founded that should be mentioned? Like about his current situation and accusations against him? Nope? Cool cool.
24.07.2025 21:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hulk Hogan on hidden camera about to say some insanely racist shit
For those who don’t know, the quote was:
“I mean, I’d rather if she was going to fuck some n*****, I’d rather have her marry an 8-foot tall n***** worth a hundred million dollars. Like a basketball player. I guess we’re all a little racist. Fucking n******.”
If you’re omitting that … brother!
The Guardian has made a video package celebrating Hulk Hogan that at no point mentions the on (hidden) camera racist slurs he never truly apologised for - then ends with him choking Booker T. Just incredible failure to tell the full story by the UK’s main liberal newspaper.
youtu.be/2DZ_inQwde0?...
Vance says he had plans to go for a beer with Hogan
U.S. defence secretary pays tribute to Hogan
Trump Jnr pays tribute to ‘legend’ Hogan
Rolling live news:
The Vice President: “we promised we’d get beers together”
The Defence Secretary: “RIP”
Donald Trump Jr: “R.I.P. to a legend”
…
“Live coverage starting soon”
24.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Live stream BBC story on “Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies aged 71”
BBC News giving Hulk Hogan’s death the live rolling news treatment usually reserved for a Royal? Brother.
I guess we’re waiting to hear the President of the United States’s eulogy. Such is politics now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...
Where: East Side townhouse Table seats: 30 Guest list: Mort Zuckerman, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, David Blaine, Donald Trump, Leslie Wexner of the Limited, disgraced British Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, Bill Clinton aide Doug Band Menu: Private chef, though last month Rocco DiSpirito cooked dinner after Epstein bid $50,000 for his services at a Hamptons charity. Make it MY place: Epstein hates restaurants, so he often entertains at home. “The dialogues are so engaging that serving even the most extraordinary food sometimes seems inappropriate, like eating pizza at the ballet,” he says. “I had rich shock!” one stunned guest says about Epstein’s house, which the owner claims is the largest private dwelling in the city. At a recent dinner organized by Ghislaine Maxwell, Blaine amused a group of barely clad models with card tricks. Alas, Clinton—around whom the evening had been organized—never showed, though his Secret Service would have appreciated Epstein’s numerous security cameras
Since we’re all discussing Epstein now, here’s a nice vignette that says a lot about how politics works:
In 2003 Peter Mandelson, the current UK Ambassador to the US, attended a meal with Donald Trump, the current US President, and Jeffrey Epstein (& other luminaries).
nymag.com/nymetro/news...
The main academic article is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The newspaper version is here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In my niche role as ‘the academic who wrote about Kayfabe and politics’, I’ve had a bunch of people send me this. @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social chatting the same on Novara. Good stuff - spread the word on #kayfabe: youtu.be/58V91oKE0MQ?...
08.07.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trump announces UFC fight on White House lawn for America’s 250th birthday
It really is remarkable the point we’re at.
04.07.2025 10:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So, the public can’t alter their government’s position on this by voting (party consensus), peaceful protest (ignored, over-policed), or non-violent direct action (“terrorism”), and they can’t chant against it at music festivals (“racism”).
Have they thought at all about the consequences of this?
Zohran Mandani being a pro-wrestling fan is perfect 👌
25.06.2025 20:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sami Zayn tweet: “I’m in NYC where you at @ZohrankMamdsni ? Zohran reply: “send me a DM!”
Incredible tag-team
22.06.2025 08:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Headline: Donald Trump sends message to wrestling legend Brock Lesnar's daughter after major sporting success
Headline: Brock Lesnar named in sex trafficking lawsuit filed against Vince McMahon, WWE
‘Congratulations to Mya Lesnar on the WIN — Great Genetics!'
Those genetics would be WWE/UFC’s Brock Lesnar, currently named in the sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/others...
By contrast, CM Punk attended the “No Kings” protest - hanging out with the teachers union (currently battling Linda McMahon as Education Secretary)
15.06.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The #TKO + Trump + Military rallies relationship continues:
“Around 7 p.m., the big screens onstage that displayed the American flags turned to logos for UFC, the mixed martial arts business”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
