10 Things You Learn Watching WWE TV After 9 Months Away

There was an episode of Raw recently, that fell Martin Luther King Jr day. This inevitably mean that WWE produced one of their famous video packages, that clumsily tried to argue that Civil Rights was a battle won long ago because Halle Berry won an Oscar. Or something like that.

It was the standard WWE shallow political grandstanding that we have gotten used to over the past few years. However, while previously, you could just roll your eyes at WWE's attempts to seem sincerely progressive, this year it felt particularly gross. Some of you no doubt heard that over the MLK weekend, the new American windbag in chief, Donald Drumpf, got into a spat with one of King's real life friends and allies from the Civil Rights era, Congressman John Lewis. Drumpf called Lewis ‘all talk, no action', despite the fact that it was literally Lewis's heroic actions (and the actions of many other brave black Americans) that actually changed history.

And who is potentially going to be working for the vile, Fanta skinned, baby handed creep, who attacks Civil Rights legends, next year? The McMahon family of course. Specifically, Linda McMahon has been nominated by Drumpf for the role of Small Business Administrator.

It's hardly surprising since the Drumpfs and the McMahons are friends. But it's also incredibly difficult to take any progressive message that comes from WWE, with even a grain of seriousness. Linda simply wants the status and the power that comes with political office, that she failed to gain without the use of patronage. And she wants that power so much, she is prepared to align herself to a man who undermines every single narrative that the new WWE tries to tell the world about itself.

They should be ashamed of themselves. But they won’t be.