I haven’t watched wrestling in ages 2006?

And I enjoyed it as a kid and teenager.

Then you get into adulthood and I guess it changes.

I did watch this Wrestlemania and holy hell was it garbage. Undertaker match was terrible. If you can’t wrestle anymore don’t.

Watching Raw in that shitty performance centre in Orlando is annoying. It’s like you people can’t afford a bigger centre?

If Jerry Lawler was still on I’d watch. Just to hear him. But yes like part time right?

I think Vince is smart and creative. But, what stifles the product is the overproduction and cues, and more micromanagement.

I had 4 weeks in September/ October, but just took three weeks off next week. As the wedding I was going to is cancelled.

Unfortunately I work in an essential government owned company.

So we aren’t shut down yet. But I think this is going to get worse, so eventually I will be.

This thread is toxic.

Like wow.

I feel bad that you people don’t have universal health care. Hopefully this pandemic doesn’t get worse for you. As America needs to be strong in a world of chaos and a rising China.

Paying people a liveable wage shouldn’t be a left or right issue.

Greed is the issue. That’s what I’m ending on. Fat cats are lefties and righties. There is more in common with both sides than you think.

At the end of the day poor people and working people always get fucked.

Fuck Bezos.

I agree with the sentiment from mitchejw. This is a view I came to have years ago.

I’m from Canada, and my great grandparents were American born and raised. So I have a love for the US.

The problem is corporations that sell out there industries. They outsource for cheap slave labour.  Roots in Canada used to be made here, and the majority isn’t (we had a thriving textile industry in Toronto and Montreal), Doc Martins used to be made in England, and now the majority aren’t, Converse were made in the USA until 2001, and now they ain’t. We can go on and on about industries and there are numerous.

These corporate rats have sold out there countries.

I’ve got no problem about making a buck, I do have a problem with greed.

When you’re paying the same price for runners that were made here before and now they’re made with slave labour, that’s fucked.

Unions aren’t the problem. They have their time and place. The greatest generation coming back from WW2 saw the need for worker protection.

Our mainstream parties have sold us out. Conservatives and Liberals up here in Canada. Democrats and Republicans in the USA. There truly hasn’t been a good Republican since Richard Nixon. As for a Democrat, maybe Jimmy Carter. As Bill Clinton fucked up Glass Steagall. I liked Barrack Obama, but the bailout was bullshit.

I personally try and buy 95 percent of my stuff from ethical sources or a country with standards. I remember going to a Brian Wilson show in Toronto and he had rad shirts but, they were made in Honduras. And I declined getting it after finding out. I thought that’s fucking cheap. Probably not a choice Brian made. But, he sings about the American dream. And I just couldn’t stomach that. In 2017 when I went to see Tom Petty in Kansas City it brought me so much joy seeing that a minor detail of where the shirt was made mattered to someone in the chain of command. As every shirt they had was made in the USA. You don’t get anymore American than Tom fucking Petty, and obviously that mattered to the guy.

Henry Ford paid a fair wage, so people could buy his products.

I realize with my iPhone and some electronics it’s just not possible. Hence the five percent. However, Kyocera Mobile, and Sony Xperia has lines made in Japan. I had a dual sim one but, unfortunately it didn’t work on my mobile network at the time, and I returned it. Now it would with my ATT that is Rogers up here when roaming.

My rant is I don’t reward these assholes with my money if I don’t have to. I used to have a great store in Toronto called Groovy Shoes that had New Balance shoes made in the USA / UK, one would get nice mark downs on them too. Now the store eats shit, and I need a new source. Fuck Guns N’ Roses for being too cheap to use Los Angeles apparel for their shirts. I assume U2 are a bunch of fuckheads too. If anyone has any official concert shirts let me know. New Era baseball hats again you really need to check for the made in USA ones. And fuckhead Nike has the MLB jersey license now I doubt your authentic 300 usd jersey will be made in the USA like Majestics authentic ones were.

I’m that annoying person that looks at where shit is made on the packaging. I’ll even contact the company. I think shit should he labelled properly too. Arm and Hammer toothpaste no label up here where it is made, found out it was mass in the USA(which is good) versus Colgate being made in Mexico. Oh that Salmon is made in China, fuck that I’ll take the other then.

My rant is these fuckheads fucking their people over for greed. Then claiming they love their country and people. Yet sell them out.

Then we are beholden to China. As we can’t produce our own goods here. Imagine that. A World Health Organization saying oh not to worry China has that Covid 19 under control. The story then keeps on changing and before you know it a fucking pandemic. Yet we can’t produce goods in North America as hey I want that 3 dollar fucking T-shirt.

What the fuck would we do in a trade war with China or an actual conflict? America has to be able to stand on its own and be able to put its foot down, and that would be extremely hard with our over reliance on Chinese goods.

Now there is nothing wrong with the Chinese people let me make that clear. There is something morally wrong with its leaders, and the terrible working conditions they have.

This prevents people in the West from being able to criticize China on its human rights abuses and concentration camps for the Uighurs, and dissidents (Tibet / Hong Kong). What kind of weak-kneed leaders do we have that can’t criticize a fucking despot? Oh wait ones that don’t want to offend their source of cheap goods, yet keep allowing the working class to be fucked.

Up here in Canada our dear leader Justin Trudeau is weak on that file. Especially, with a couple Canadians jailed due to that Huawei executive being under house arrest. Oh and we still haven’t banned Huawei from 5G yet. Apparently it takes a long time for these dipshits to say no to blood money, and even when Canada’s intelligence agencies have said not to do it.

I’m going to end this long rant on a quote that I enjoy from the late Carl Sagan:

“ I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”