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Jesse "The Body" Ventura threatened a potential return to the Minnesota governor's office following the shooting of a mother by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 79 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't want him to run, I was a bit embarrassed he was governor when he was, but I do like what he says here.

Americans in position of visibility and authority need to normalize talking about the Republican party as a domestic enemy to the Constitution, in particular. Not calling it what it is just normalizes it.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Considering everything about him, Jesse regularly has far better takes than you’d expect. And as far as former pro wrestlers go he’s practically woke

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Vote red and become dead. Might as well take what you can get at this point because any non red will be better.

Oh, agree completely. He's a slightly unhinged mountain man grandpa who happens to be very very right on this issue. But beggars can't be choosers at this point.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Jesse really wasn't that bad of a governor, all things considered. He pumped a lot of money into education across the state and focused on reducing class sizes. He made public transportation a priority. He also supported gay rights and abortion.

His hostile relationship towards the press really bothered me, but even that was never as bad as Trump's outright war on journalism and at least he was very consistent in speaking to the voters directly when he felt he was being misrepresented by said press rather than just screaming FAKE NEWS like that's a valid rebuttal...

He wasn't perfect by any measure, and there's a lot he can be rightfully criticized for. But compared to any Republican governor (at least in my lifetime)? Far better.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep, at the very least he was governing trying to be good, and had/has a conscience. No comparison to the outright evil for evil's sake going on now.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i dont think people have forgiven him, at least the wrestling fan community over him ditching the wrestlers, because they wouldnt unionize with him which he started, he practically asking to "out to wrestlers to be fired" . he felt safe to do it because had sag-afta money as a backup plan. hulk hogan and vince wouldve retaliated against the wrestlers.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago (2 children)

While Trump was avoiding the draft, Jesse stood against the Predator.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He didn't have time to bleed.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Ah, about time to rewatch an old classic. :)

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 8 months ago

he dint stand with the wrestlers, when he was with raw/wwe when they tried to unionize.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

draft-dodging coward:

"You know, if you're young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam. We have our own Vietnam. It's called the dating game," he said during a discussion of Trump's well-publicized germaphobia and the ongoing AIDs epidemic.

"It's pretty dangerous out there Robin. It's like Vietnam," Trump said earlier in the interview.

"It is, it is," Stern said. "The dating scene is like Vietnam."

"Dating is like being in Vietnam," Trump said. "You're the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-stds-vietnam/

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dodging the Vietnam draft is actually one thing I can't fault Trump for. The whole war was horse shit and had nothing to do with protecting the country.

But comparing it to the risk of getting AIDS is definitely the stupid bullshit I'd expect from him.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 27 points 8 months ago

i think it's more about using one's privilege to negate the consequences of being poor that everyone else had to suffer

most of the wars were/are bullshit, but yes--vietnam especially

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I still do because we all know he didn't do it for some "war is bad" mentality.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Hell even without that mentality he was bitch about it claiming he had bone spurs. Meanwhile a similar tier of shitheel in the form of Ted Nugent had to at least shit his pants.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's probably part of why he preferred to rape children, he thought they'd have fewer stds.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

trump has been trying to embody the "i'm dominant" character for his entire life, as evidenced by pretty much every bullshit thing he says, and the fact that he actually paid people to bring him news articles that praised him.

he's a weak, cowardly, insecure fucking loser who still hasn't been able to convince himself that he's literally jesus fucking christ, even though he's brainwashed millions of poor and uneducated incel degenerates (which he explicitly can't fucking stand either) into thinking that he is.

"is that your bible?"

"ITS A BIBLE"

i've said it before and i'll keep saying it: when he finally kicks the fucking bucket, that day will be my own new personal holiday

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I will be setting fireworks off with you when he dies, and on each annual after

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

his grave will need 24/7 security to keep people from shitting on it

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

If you read some of the victims' statements, it sounds like he was very paranoid about germs and demanded they use rubber gloves when forced to jerk him off.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For some reason, I thought he had passed away, but I must have been thinking of Rowdy Roddy Piper...

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

We've also lost the Macho Man Randy Savage.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, come on back up from the Baja.

(Will Sasso impressions have supplanted most of my reference to him these days.)

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

That impression is the funniest shit to me. The way he says ‘Baja’ just hits right.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you did abandoned the wrestlers when they couldnt unionized with you, for fear of retaliation from vince and HULK HOGAN.

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He was leading the unionisation wasn't he? Until Hulk Hogan ratted him out?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yea he was, when the other wreslters were to afraid to join him, he said fuck them and left the company. he had no forethought, because he was financially secure because had acting income from sag-afrta union. the wrestlers did not. hulk was the snitch, thats why he was getting all the spotlight in raw and wwe, he was pratically like the rock when it comes to acting contracts.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Solving problems in USA 101! Maybe you could run for mid term election, but lots of time tor final exams elections.