Monday, July 22, 2019

WWE Is Shook, or Now Orton Is Replying to Ospreay Tweets

Orton didn't even take bait; he just attacked Ospreay for no reason.
Photo Credit: WWE.com
So, if you missed Seth Rollins and Will Ospreay getting into a dustup because Rollins was dumb enough to take Ospreay's bait on Twitter, well, lucky you, I wish I were in your shoes. However, you are now greeted by an even DUMBER turn of events, because this timeline is the worst and dumbest one. This time, it was a WWE wrestler quote-tweeting the rape-enabling bully unprovoked, and that wrestlers was none other than Randy Orton. Ospreay tweeted something incredibly sappy and faux-inspirational:

You'd think the only wrestlers who'd reply or quote-tweet it would be his mates telling him it was the dumbest shit ever or agreeing with him, depending on how much of a suck-up that person was. Orton saw it as the perfect opportunity to hit him with a RKO outta nowhere of a tweet with all the capriciousness of any RKO actually hits nowadays:
Seriously, I can't understand why he'd post that quote-tweet of that particular Ospreay missive, or at least I couldn't until I realized that Orton probably didn't have any beef with him personally, but that Ospreay "started a war" when he sassily replied to Rollins about who was the best in the world (spoiler alert, it's neither of them). Rollins may have gotten a talking too, but I doubt it's because he sullied the good name of WWE but rather he was incredibly bad at tweeting. WWE, despite being the world leader in sports entertainment, is operating as if it's an underdog, like when World Championship Wrestling burst onto the scene and punched it in the mouth by not only debuting Nitro head-to-head with RAW, but kicking its ass for 83 weeks in the ratings. While WWE's having its own modern issue with ratings, it is still on top worldwide overall.

But to understand why WWE would go into attack mode when it doesn't need to is to understand the conservative mindset, that they can't garner sympathy with the "liberal media" unless they're the underdogs, the victims. In case you haven't noticed, in no way, shape, or form are the demographics that mostly make up conservative party membership here or in the United Kingdom marginalized, so they have to make up reasons. Whenever someone criticizes an anti-same-sex marriage bill, they are being mean to Christians. When someone who isn't White or male is cast in a prominent role in a franchise movie, it's White genocide (no, seriously, look up that term and see what they take it to mean). It's all bullshit, but they peddle it and the media laps it up like a dog slurps water on a hot day. Vince McMahon is more than happy to take up that mantel against these foul, evil upstarts in All Elite Wrestling and the foreign invaders from Japan trying to usurp his crown.

Obviously, there are more tweets than the ones I embedded above, and obviously, Orton is holding his own much better than Rollins did. That's not the point, which is that WWE is lashing out because they're afraid. They're paranoid. That's why Orton is going off. He's a company man's company man. That's why I can only imagine who next has tweets in the barrel. The Miz? Becky Lynch? Alexa Bliss? Dolph Ziggler? I don't see this onslaught stopping, and although Ospreay is a bit of a twit at BEST, I'm not sure he deserves to be targeted by the biggest wrestling company in the world because he was an idiot once. Granted, Ospreay deserves to be raked over the coals for numerous reasons by people far more righteous than the folks fundraising for Donald Trump or taking money from Saudi Arabia. However, that's another post for another day.
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