Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has joked about body slamming Vice-President Kamala Harris in front of a fired up crowd, and questioned her racial identity.

“Do you want me to drop the leg on Kamala?!” he shouts, referring to one of his iconic wrestling moves.

Hogan continued to make more comments about Ms Harris including one about her Indian heritage.

Kamala Harris is bi-racial - her mother was from India and her father is Jamaican.

“Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian?” Hogan asked the crowd, before using an outdated and stereotypical greeting associated with Native American Indians.

The video stops after he could be heard saying he “was going to get heat for that one”.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      3 months ago

      This is not politics.

      Everything is politics in one way or another. In this case, it is explicitly political. Because the washed up, union busting snitch, pro wrestler and D-list actor is giving a political speech at a political convention for a major political party for the nomination of a politician.

      Like the only way it could be more political is if he was running himself.

    • macarthur_park@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      65
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      3 months ago

      This is not politics.

      As much as I want to agree with you, this guy was one of the key speakers at the RNC. He’s the embodiment of the Republican party’s political discourse.

    • lennybird@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      39
      arrow-down
      14
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Do better MicroWave, one less post an hour won’t hurt ya.

      Damn, man. Beggars can’t be choosers. How much content do you submit to keep this community active? Just down-vote and move on. No need to make it personal.

        • lennybird@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          28
          arrow-down
          14
          ·
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          See that’s just it, I’m not the one criticizing submitters.

          Throwing peanuts from the peanut gallery is easy. Being the change you want to see isn’t. Start submitting to this community and let’s see how you fair, Mr. 1-month-old account.

          You should take your own advice.

          Sometimes people need a taste of their own medicine.

          Edit: Definitely struck a nerve. I wonder, does Lemmy have vote manipulation detection?

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    3 months ago

    Remember when Hulk used to rip his shirt off, and he didn’t have to cover his gross old body with another shirt?

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    3 months ago

    Maybe Hulkster shouldn’t be mentioning race considering racial stuff pretty much made him persona non grata in pro wrestling for years.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    3 months ago

    Just a reminder, that while under oath in court, Hogan said this:

    Hulk Hogan has a 10 inch penis. Terry Bollea does not…no I do not have a 10 inch penis”

    Which is a really weird thing to have to clarify one of your lies in court. Essentially he’s saying his fictional character, whose penis you never need to think about, ever, is 10 inches. However he himself the real individual does not. And he was asked to clairify this because video surfaced of his best friend filming him having sex with his best friends wife. And his penis clearly wasn’t 10 inches.

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    3 months ago

    He was like my AllMight as a kid.

    Fucking sad. I hate all that time wasted even as a hobby. Piece of crap.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    3 months ago

    Isn’t this threatening an attack on the vice president? IIRC, the Secret Service frowns on things like that.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    3 months ago

    Mr Hogan has hit his head one time too many. Go take a nap grandpa!

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      3 months ago

      Just to make things clear:

      hogan did not have a high flying style where he was constantly being spiked on his head. Even his famously “amazing” wrestling in Japan was basically just a bit of grappling and submission work.

      This is not something like benoit where an infamously violent and impulsive bully suffered enough concussions (and steroid abuse) that he snapped and murdered his family.

      No. hogan’s debilitating injuries and constant pain is because he kept jumping up and landing on his tailbone. His stupidity?

      He is just really fucking stupid and always has been.

      • Zier@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        So you’re telling me he’s had it super hard in his rear so often it’s messed up his head? That checks out!

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    There are a lot of people who we should seek opinions from, and there are a lot of people who we should avoid opinions from. Anyone who thinks Hulk Hogan is in the latter group is in the latter group themselves.