Seriously, that reading list just rendered him unfuckable.

Why are you focusing on four hours of cable TV a week instead of understanding that those four hours are working double duty as a pipeline to their other channels and assets? They’ve integrated everything and it’s all a front door to something else.

He makes perfect sense.

It’s a virtuous circle if you’re one of those guys, but a vicious one if you aren’t. If I start winning, fans start liking me more (usually), merch sales go up, Vince sees this making the company more money, so I get a bigger push, more wins for me, more money for me, more merch sales for the…

“Every single person who works for WWE from top to bottom is absolutely just as valuable as the next.”

Do you think Ryback should be paid the same as John Cena then? Because that was Ryback’s point.

The WWE is not a wrestling company. That’s absolutely correct. So why are you trying to apply wrestling logic to it? It’s a content company. That’s what they do. TV shows get rid of less popular characters all the time; that’s what this is.

No, this is his point: “Every single person who works for WWE from top to bottom is absolutely just as valuable as the next.”

People do pay to see John Cena. Smarks, rightly, think he’s boring (although the U.S. Open Challenge should be a weekly TV staple), but he’s unquestionably the top face in the company.

Yeah, so this is totally untrue. WWE is now a content engine, and they measure the performance of everything on that network, from which personalities on which shows get views, how long those programs are being watched, and whether clips from RAW and Smackdown featuring Ryback or anyone else are getting shared on…

The Washington Generals are watching how this plays out very carefully. Could be landmark decision in the making for jobbers of all kinds.

Nobody pays to see Ryback. I think that’s about as close to a reason as I can muster.

English books are mad today, but I’d bet they are salivating at the thought of every low table fan betting on their crap team next year.

The Rasmussen poll is a cherry picked outlier, polls aren’t predictive at this point, and national polls in general aren’t all that predictive once we get into the general election (state polls are more relevant).

I’m just here to add that the Rasmussen Poll is INSANE, even for a typically baldly conservative organization. Note how their numbers only add up to 80%? Well, that’s because Rasmussen has like 15% of voters voting for someone other than Trump or Clinton, which is just fucking ridiculous. Their numbers are insane…

It’d be interesting to count how many times the Republicans have invoked their masculinity, specifically, as a means of garnering support for their ideas. It’s so common it goes unnoticed.

Butt-ass kinja

“Bleeding out his ankle, out of his whatever...”

Lay off the vodka comrade.

Easy Vladimir.