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Exactly.
Yeah, no, it is noteworthy.
But I also think like the politics of wrestling are actually very equivalent to kind of, you know, when people talk about like kind of the bro podcasters, they can tell who the underdog is and they can tell who's being an asshole.
They will only root for the asshole in a wrestling sense, but they kind of they understand what power looks like and the misuse of power and they do not like it.
Wrestling is great because it's both a sport and theater.
It's very, very hard.
And also you're acting through the entire thing.
But there are so many tropes that are so easy to understand.
And one of the easiest tropes in wrestling is rich asshole guy.
Rich asshole guy who's a heel.
Everybody gets that.
And then the face is nice underdog guy you're rooting for.
People get that.
Now, yes, sometimes people root for the rich asshole, which is why Trump is in the WWE Hall of Fame.
But people wanted to see Vince McMahon get his head shaved.
People wanted to see Vince McMahon get hit with a chair at
There's a real theme here of people wanting to see Vince McMahon get hurt in various ways because he's a terrible person who's kind of responsible for multiple deaths.
But that's a different story altogether.
That is the American populism, not the like Steve Bannon anti-elite bullshit in which he's trying to take over Europe with the help of Jeffrey Epstein.
But it kind of like we don't like rich assholes.