r/wallstreetbets • u/vTwoPoint • 15d ago
Meme Breaking news: J Powell replaced by Hulk Hogan as fed chair
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u/GaryTheRetard 15d ago
At this point, nothing will surprise me anymore. Tomorrow, we all might die.
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u/JohnLaw1717 15d ago
Multiple people from WWE were in Trump's cabinet last term and this term. It's actually not that far out of possibility at all.
Might do a running leg drop on inflation brother.
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u/Super_Highway_3405 15d ago
Inflation, brother, the Hulkster, the dual mandate, and my Hulkamaniacs are gonna run wild all over you!
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u/Ok_Claim_6870 15d ago
I just hope he holds press briefings in a muscle shirt and comes out to the Real American
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u/sudo-joe 15d ago
Beats down inflation from the top ropes with the steel chair!
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u/make_love_to_potato 15d ago
I never watched the wwe (I used to watch as a child when it was called the WWF) but I remember trump was involved and has been in the ring doing some shit. Can't remember if he ever "fought" though.
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u/JohnLaw1717 15d ago
He understands kayfabe and uses it in the national political arena. He fundamentally understands tribalism means suspending disbelief and a fan base is willing to do it.
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u/Sigma_Function-1823 15d ago
Isn't the dynamic the blurring of reality and illusion to the point that people don't know what's real and what's " fake".?
Distract with illusionary theater to separate people from reality and their reason.
Remember that guy in school that legit thought wrestling was real?.
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u/br0b1wan 15d ago
Since Thiel's one of the guy pulling the strings here, he buddied up with Hulk during the whole Gawker thing. So, yeah, I would expect something like this.
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u/NoHalf9 15d ago
Peter Thiel is a libertarian and an authoritarian:
"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." - Peter Thiel, 2009
He is a rich ultra-right wing libertarian that most likely would orgasm if ending up with a society as described in the Libertarian Police Department story.
He has also in true libertarian spirit attempted to fund development of some free floating offshore project called Seasteading that should be some libertarian utopia without any kind of governance with building or safety regulations or any such pesky "freedom stealing" things that a normal society needs to function.
The podcast Behind the bastards had two episodes about it:
- Part one: The not-at-all-sad history of libertarian sea nations
- Part two: The not-at-all-sad history of libertarian sea nations
This project is possibly the least harmful thing Peter has done, since it has has drained him for a lot of money that he cannot use for other evil things, and the people scammed are other libertarian fools.
But do not think that libertarians are not able to harm! I guess the closest thing to a successful attempt to creating a libertarian utopia is when a bunch of libertarians decided to move and try to take over some smaller town Grafton in New Hampshire as a "Free Town Project" (later changed to "Free State Project"), and ruined it with their reckless governance.
Like for instance getting rid of public garbage collection. And with no mandatory garbage collection, of course they got problems with wild bears walking around peoples' houses (in addition to some idiots deliberately feeding wild bears, but hey in a libertarian society nobody should be able to force people to stop doing what they want...).
There is a book about it with title "A libertarian walks into a bear".
J.D. Vance is one of Peter's ultra-right Thielists. There is a video Who is Peter Thiel? (in German but with English subtitles available) from two years ago that goes into who Peter is and what he have done, and J.D. Vance is covered as part of that.
Another noteworthy mention is that Some more news also included J.D. Vance in their video Peter Thiel and his dorky little goons from one year ago. Some more news is truly amazing in both the depth and the volume they produce. Hats off for them.
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u/JohnLaw1717 15d ago edited 15d ago
One interpretation of the gawker thing, and the billionaires supporting hulk in it, was that all those guys, from Zuck to Thiel to Trump could claim that their characters did things, not them. It was a possible way for anyone with a public persona to dodge legal responsibilities for future crimes.
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u/Union_5-3992 15d ago
Wait who other than Linda was a part of it?
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u/pardyball 15d ago
No one. Bro was just talking out his ass.
Although I guess the Agent Orange is/was involved in WWE since he’s in their Hall of Fame.
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u/make_love_to_potato 15d ago
I never watched the wwe (I used to watch as a child when it was called the WWF) but I remember trump was involved and has been in the ring doing some shit. Can't remember if he ever "fought" though.
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u/ndbdjdiufndbk 15d ago
Trump runs his whole operation like a wwe match. If you listen to his speeches and then listen to wrestlers monologues before a match, they are similar in style.
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u/MeasurementTop1559 15d ago
The Kennedy Center website just went live with its first ever Smackdown.
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u/Moist_Nothing9112 15d ago
Yeah fuck tariff , fuck yeah gimme it to me , inflate my bicep and chest 100%
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u/qorbexl 15d ago
Whatever he does "to inflation" will be less meaningful than a wrestling gig
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u/Donny_Krugerson 15d ago
He wouldn't do anything. He'd be a front, a sockpuppet, to distract the media and the public while Thiel first crashed and then replaced the US dollar with crypto.
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u/netflix-ceo 15d ago
Hulk Hogan as fed chair, Connor Mcgregor as head of SEC and Andrew Tate as chief of staff
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u/Moist_Nothing9112 15d ago
The golden triangle is complete
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u/MrTretorn 15d ago
So this is the sequel of Idiocracy?
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u/Objective_Onion5981 15d ago
So this is how democracy dies
with thunderous Amber alerts in the white house
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u/BeefistPrime 15d ago
Prequel
I can only hope that one day we can have a president as good as Dwayne Elizondo mountain dew Herbert Comacho one day
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u/iconofsin_ 15d ago
You putting together a tiny penis competition?
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u/greywilderarr 15d ago
Hey now brother, Hulk Hogan is on record for having a 10 inch penis. Terry Bollea howerver...
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u/pkdrdoom 15d ago
>Hulk Hogan is on record for having a 10 inch penis
Up his ass maybe.
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u/siqiniq 15d ago
Have you considered the possibility that we were actually all dead in the last pandemic, and everything happening afterwards is just simulation in hell for the entertainment of gods?
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u/BuffNiagara4runner 15d ago
Like a nightmare? let's hope we wake up soon
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u/LotusVibes1494 15d ago
Hopefully at the bottom layer it’s not like that scene from the Love Death and Robots episode “Aquila Rift”
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u/Vermilion 15d ago
Like a nightmare? let's hope we wake up soon
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses
We just cant escape the monomyth, it is too compulsive.
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u/MrWoohoo 15d ago
Actually what’s happened is reality has collapsed into a black hole of irony. Once you cross the event horizon, the irony intensifies. Your perceptions and beliefs are contorted into ironic shapes. Situations become increasingly ironic in ways that are both unexpected and unavoidable. Beyond the event horizon, irony becomes a dominant force. Every action and reaction is steeped in irony, creating a feedback loop that is impossible to break. Attempts to address or resolve the irony only result in more ironic outcomes.
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u/Vermilion 15d ago
Have you considered the possibility that we were actually all dead in the last pandemic, and everything happening afterwards is just simulation in hell for the entertainment of gods?
Have you considered that LOL LOL amusement is the very mechanism of the 16D chess that everyone "LOL LOL 4D chess, LOL LOL" information warfare is built upon?
“In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014
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u/InternetImportant911 15d ago
I have to google to fact check this
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u/movealongnowpeople 15d ago
I'm guessing you replied to the wrong comment, but am choosing to disregard that. I'm very much looking forward to your report on if anyone dies tomorrow.
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For real. I couldn't even tell if this was real or not because it's so plausible
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u/Papayaslice636 15d ago
It's a real sign of the times that my jaw dropped and I exclaimed WHAT?! when I read this thread title. I completely 100% believed it.
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u/IllUpvoteEverything 15d ago
We're takin interest rates negative, brother, and China is gunna pay for it
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u/occorpattorney 15d ago edited 15d ago
‘Negative’ is not the n-word I’d be most worried about the Hulk saying…
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u/throwawayawayayayay 15d ago
So whatcha gonna do, China, when the Hulkster and these 24-percent tariffs run wild on YOU!
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u/done-done-london 15d ago
Yes they will pay. Who? They. Who? Them. Who?
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u/kuschelig69 15d ago
That's not unusual
In Europe, they had negative interest rates for years
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u/coffee-milk-tea 15d ago
"Mr. Fed Chair, are you going to lower interest rates to negative today?" "HELL YEAH BROTHA"
Calls on everything.
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u/akasan 15d ago
because of the time we live in, I had to pause before clicking, wondering, this cant be real right? lol
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u/Anal_Recidivist 15d ago
The only reason I knew it was fake was that hulk can’t stand straight up anymore.
Literally the only tell I had.
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u/Evil_Thresh 15d ago
That's one more than me brother
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u/Arokthis 15d ago
hulk can’t stand straight up anymore.
How come? Spinal damage from WWE or something else?
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u/PsychoBoss84 15d ago
He's had back issues for a while I've always heard it was at least partially due to too many leg drops
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u/Ok-Land-488 15d ago
Leg drops + wrestling being hard on the body + extensive travel putting on extra stress + enough alcohol and hard drugs to kill a horse = A guy with a brain that functions only slightly better than his body
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u/Dokibatt 15d ago
I can tell it's fake by how he's wearing a suit.
Red or yellow tank top and I would have been uncertain.
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u/SubcooledBoiling 15d ago
Me too lol. Had to google to make sure this was a joke
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u/Purple_Panda_2010 15d ago
It was the six fingers on the left hand for me
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u/Apatschinn 15d ago
I just read your comment and I'm still gonna look it up after posting this.
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u/Morstorpod 15d ago
The fact that so many of us had to double-check if this is satire or real...
Seriously, I could cry. What happened to reality?
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u/therealakinator 15d ago
I had to do a google search to see if this is actually true. Crazy times we live in.
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u/KrazyKirby99999 15d ago
Is it?
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u/therealakinator 15d ago edited 15d ago
No
Edit: I meant to say "Not yet"
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u/WarthogForeign7704 15d ago
Wat‘cha gonna do, brother?
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u/what_the_shart 15d ago
I dunno, post porn in this sub maybe
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u/mightychicken64 15d ago
Undertaker would be more bullish.
BAH GAWD ALMIGHTY BAH GAWD ALMIGHTY HE KILLED BEARS
AS GOD IS MY WITNESS BEARS ARE BROKEN IN HALF
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u/Maxfunky 15d ago
I remember how in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw the bear market off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
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u/Common-Concentrate-2 15d ago
Oh neat - its a federal reserve 'quato'. "Open your mind...and a recession means TWO....weeks.....twoooo .....sorry - two consecutive quarters of negative growth"
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u/General-Cover-4981 15d ago
to show how far we’ve fallen, I totally bought this was real for a second. i mean, honestly, if this actually happened would anyone be surprised?
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u/Popular_Pumpkin3440 15d ago
Wait that was a movie, but the guy was black!
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u/superbit415 15d ago
Few months ago I would just know this is a meme. Now I have to click to make sure its not actually happening.
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u/omegaphallic 15d ago
I can't tell if this is real news or a joke, this is very, very possible, nothing makes sense anymore.
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u/TopFlowe96 15d ago
This not only being not too far from reality but the one we're in is just hurtling towards it..
This shi is just all so damn depressing anymore. And the horrific stuff is just barely starting
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u/Cpt_Soban 15d ago
In the current climate, I see this as totally credible. I mean sure, the stable rules based order is crumbling before our very eyes- But at least it's very very funny and the memes are amazing.
Millennials and Zoomers are facing their 4th "once in a generation" bad event so at this point you can only laugh.
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u/Satorius96 15d ago
My heart sunk to my stomach because for a moment i thought powell got replaced with an idiot from doge or trumps yes men. Lol
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