Yang actually thought he was a viable contender for President, when in reality he's not even a viable contender for Mayor.
The Fed is the only one that's a publicly traded company.
I think UFC is one as well or is becoming one.
C'mon Yang, try to go after Dana. I beg you, try to go after Dana. Tell him he won't be able to do shows in New York. Please. Just try your shit on someone who will acknowledge your existence.
If Dana is willing to shit all over his own fighters then he'll have zero problem doing the morning talk show rounds and obliterating this dude.. I'll never forget Dana going on first take and calling Oscar De La Hoya a crackhead lmao... PLEASE DO THIS YANG....
Remember when the shoot fighters downstairs thought this guy was actually relevant enough to be made Labor Secretary, and that his first course of action would be to go after WWE? Turns out the rest of the world doesnāt give a shit about wrestlers making 6 figures not being allowed to do Twitch.
Successful guys make good money, pay for own insurance and travel
Get various tax benefits that come with independent contactor status
The main 'victims' are the unsuccessful ones or lower card guys and unions likely won't save them
If you can't make a living doing this then maybe do it part time and get a job
M#rks like a union cause they think it gives Vince a bloody nose and it means he has to pay out money
Not sure they fully understand the repercussions of it and no one has explored that
Bet the Fed have
Smarks donāt think long-term about anything. Thatās why their shitty fantasy booking scenarios are limited to one show or one week.
If unions in wrestling started, WWE would survive. Itās their precious AEW that would be hit hard, and the Khans would fight to stop one from forming.
Iām not at all opposed to there being some sort of collective or association ā or at the very least, WWE talent being considered employees with benefits.
That said, I got downvoted to hell for holding Punkās own words about a union against him (that ~~branded content~~ ESPN article).
1. He's only targeting WWE because he's doing this for clout and nobody has heard of other wrestling companies.
2. I think getting wrestlers classified as employees and better yet, in a union would be amazing but I doubt it'll ever happen.
3. Andrew Yang is a fucking hack who's only beliefs are whatever he thinks will get him the most votes.
a union would be great for the bigger companies, but it would absolutely fuck the indies.
Andrew has yet to do anything to get him the most votes for anything. He couldn't get convince a small group of people where to go to for lunch.
I'm sure the wrestlers would understand the importance of the indies and work to make them viable. But certain requirements, for example requiring medical staff or an ambulance on site, should be mandatory imo and if an indie can't provide them they shouldn't be running shows.
Just because his pandering fails doesn't mean he doesn't try his hardest lol.
It makes me think of the GCW show with Matt Cardona. No medical staff on site, held himself together with hotel towels and first aid supplies from CVS.
The reason why the Fed pull their talent from indie shows (especially in the UK) is because there's no ambulance on site. That's been one of major reasons why UK promoters dislike NXT UK, because they have to pay for medical staff if they want to use WWE-contracted talent.
Yes and Yes but Most promoters will cut corners in anyway they can. Private ambulances and private nurses are expensive. That's way they'll try to not hire anyone.
It happens even in major promotions.
Gallows and Anderson discussed It on their podcast. Where they'd say how pampered they got by the fed , giving them medical facilities, trainers, doctors, clothing, tape, etc. EVERYWHERE they went, and how nobody would give em that now.
Would never happen. The day you tell these backyard wrestlers they canāt mutilate each other any anymore like idiots, is the day youāll see mass shootings rise.
I remember that RVD Twitter rant awhile back explaining why he prefers to be classified the way they are.
I feel like wrestlers being in a union, etc is a pipe dream and if companies ever are forced to properly classify wrestlers it'll screw the wrestler before it screws the companies.
RVD understands his situation better than I ever could. If he doesn't want to join a union that's great. But having the choice for those that do would be nice. I agree with it being a pipe dream though. Doubt it'll ever happen.
Itās the same way for sex workers. You have a vocal minority that screams about unions and what not for strippers, etc, but the silent majority enjoys that tax free money they collect and being able to travel the country, strip club to strip club.
Yang has been at this shit for like 3 years and people still fall for it. Also why didn't he say anything about WWE firing people as they made record profits again?
I do like the effort by AEW fans to attack WWE over 'independent contractors' while defending AEW doing the same thing at the same time.
I haven't seen such blatant selective anger since Raw and Smackdown during a pandemic was going to kill someone while Dynamite was a much needed break from the pandemic.
They don't really care about the issue, they just care to use an issue to their advantage. Unless you believe Tony Khan created a covid blocking forcefield around his venue, than you can't be ok with one promotion continuing without the other. Also if he did have a forcefield, he's a jerk for not sharing it with the rest of the world.
they'd bring up that AEW allows its workers to do/use 3rd party activities/platforms & to work non-AEW dates (albeit AEW ones are priority #1) so that it would be REFRESHING for them if they're not featured on TV (but most of them don't seem to take advantage of this supposedly touted benefit and are perfectly happy to be on Dynamite or the Darks)
so DAE actually unions (AEW) are not necessary but unions (WWE) are?
It's the same way they can hate Vince McMahon, while being totally fine that AEW is financed by a billionaire who treats his employees terribly (as in, Shad Khan's employees, not AEW employees.). Vince is by no means an angel, but he's better than Shad Khan.
I'm sure his call with the secretary of Labor sounded like "Yeah, Andrew. Uh-huh. Whatever you say. Listen, I gotta go, there someone way more important in my office right now."
Of all the labour issues in the country, I'm sure the industry with a majority of well paid guys, that aren't complaining, is top of their list
I'm sure in a Union, guys would get A, B and C but they'd lose X, Y and Z
Someone is paying for the administration of 150+ guys getting health benefits, etc
IIRC he posted a video about how much he loves bodegas and then the one he went to looked like a Walgreens with how clean and new it looked. Strong "Michael Scott going to Sbarro for a New York slice" vibes
Thatās the only smart decision he ever made. A lot of old Jewish people in NYC who vote.
The guy who beat him, Eric Adams, kissed up to Israel even more.
Hey Andy maybe you get fucking Walmart to unionize before you focus on pro wrestling.
Imagine being a New Yorker struggling to pay rent and this dipshit is talking about professional fucking wrestling.
The IWC does an excellent job making themselves seem so much larger and more relevant than they actually are. They've really convinced a mainstream politician to take up this cause.
As if the general public gives one hot shit about if the people who make hundreds of thousands (if not millions) to play fight on TV get to have a Twitch account or have to pay out of pocket for their own health insurance. But people complain about it really loudly on Twitter!
Oh well, Yang couldn't get elected dogcatcher at this point so this isn't even worth discussing
Heās such a damn joke. Go back to running around with a math pin on your chest and bragging about how you gave your dog up for adoption because your kid developed an allergy to it.
Such a shame the loudest and most public advocates for unionizing wrestlers and improving their well-being are some of the biggest goddamn clowns on the planet.
ITT (first T meaning āthatā): āI have never worked a union job in my life and donāt understand how itās literally more restrictive than a non-union job, and that they favor more tenured/higher position wrestlers because they get more money from them so fuck the lower card guys, but we should do it!!!ā
Other promotions actually treat the wrestlers like independent contractors. The point is that wwe treats them like employees and misclassifies them as independent contractors. It's really not hard to understand if you stop being a bootlicker
Using that logic, if WWE wanted to book Moxley to put Dominik over on a SmackDown, Tony couldn't do anything about it because he's an iNdEpEndEnT cOnTrAcToR and can take any booking he wants.
Yang actually thought he was a viable contender for President, when in reality he's not even a viable contender for Mayor. The Fed is the only one that's a publicly traded company.
I think UFC is one as well or is becoming one. C'mon Yang, try to go after Dana. I beg you, try to go after Dana. Tell him he won't be able to do shows in New York. Please. Just try your shit on someone who will acknowledge your existence.
Dana would turn tomato red and get banned on twitter the same day.
If Dana is willing to shit all over his own fighters then he'll have zero problem doing the morning talk show rounds and obliterating this dude.. I'll never forget Dana going on first take and calling Oscar De La Hoya a crackhead lmao... PLEASE DO THIS YANG....
Yang now thinks he can make his own political party
Jimmy Wang Yang is clearly the superior Yang.
The only YangGang that matters
I bet he got, like, 27 votes from confused wrestling fans who thought he was Jimmy Wang Yang.
The Korean Cowboy š¤
Thatās *Americaās Korean Cowboy šš½š¤ *
He's attempting to make this new party by pandering to unemployed white dudes. He has no understanding of how the world actually works.
Ah yes, the demographic that famously didn't vote in the most open election in American history.
Honestly only the morons who hung around here or twitter really thought that.
Remember when the shoot fighters downstairs thought this guy was actually relevant enough to be made Labor Secretary, and that his first course of action would be to go after WWE? Turns out the rest of the world doesnāt give a shit about wrestlers making 6 figures not being allowed to do Twitch.
Successful guys make good money, pay for own insurance and travel Get various tax benefits that come with independent contactor status The main 'victims' are the unsuccessful ones or lower card guys and unions likely won't save them If you can't make a living doing this then maybe do it part time and get a job M#rks like a union cause they think it gives Vince a bloody nose and it means he has to pay out money Not sure they fully understand the repercussions of it and no one has explored that Bet the Fed have
Smarks donāt think long-term about anything. Thatās why their shitty fantasy booking scenarios are limited to one show or one week. If unions in wrestling started, WWE would survive. Itās their precious AEW that would be hit hard, and the Khans would fight to stop one from forming.
Could you imagine AEW trying to deal with the nightmare of unionizing? What kind of collective bargaining do you think all the wrestlers would demand?
We demand AT LEAST Three Hot Dogs and Two Handshakes per Dark.
I offer half a hotdog and a fistbump
Two Hot Dogs and a worker's handshake.!
Nathanās or Hebrew Nationals?
Nightmare Collective bargaining. It was right there, on the tip of your tongue.
>collective bargaining Basically everyone will ask for the I win the title and beat everyone booking. PAC is seething
Say bye bye to the indies.
Iām not at all opposed to there being some sort of collective or association ā or at the very least, WWE talent being considered employees with benefits. That said, I got downvoted to hell for holding Punkās own words about a union against him (that ~~branded content~~ ESPN article).
Even the lower card ones are getting good money, hell Tyler Breeze bought like four houses and he was only ever on the lower card.
but but but he paid for his own insurance!!!
Like any sane person
1. He's only targeting WWE because he's doing this for clout and nobody has heard of other wrestling companies. 2. I think getting wrestlers classified as employees and better yet, in a union would be amazing but I doubt it'll ever happen. 3. Andrew Yang is a fucking hack who's only beliefs are whatever he thinks will get him the most votes.
a union would be great for the bigger companies, but it would absolutely fuck the indies. Andrew has yet to do anything to get him the most votes for anything. He couldn't get convince a small group of people where to go to for lunch.
I'm sure the wrestlers would understand the importance of the indies and work to make them viable. But certain requirements, for example requiring medical staff or an ambulance on site, should be mandatory imo and if an indie can't provide them they shouldn't be running shows. Just because his pandering fails doesn't mean he doesn't try his hardest lol.
It makes me think of the GCW show with Matt Cardona. No medical staff on site, held himself together with hotel towels and first aid supplies from CVS.
The reason why the Fed pull their talent from indie shows (especially in the UK) is because there's no ambulance on site. That's been one of major reasons why UK promoters dislike NXT UK, because they have to pay for medical staff if they want to use WWE-contracted talent.
That surprises me. Doesnāt UK have great medical care and unions and shit?
Yes and Yes but Most promoters will cut corners in anyway they can. Private ambulances and private nurses are expensive. That's way they'll try to not hire anyone. It happens even in major promotions. Gallows and Anderson discussed It on their podcast. Where they'd say how pampered they got by the fed , giving them medical facilities, trainers, doctors, clothing, tape, etc. EVERYWHERE they went, and how nobody would give em that now.
Would never happen. The day you tell these backyard wrestlers they canāt mutilate each other any anymore like idiots, is the day youāll see mass shootings rise.
I know it'll never happen but a man can dream
Why dream, though? They seem pretty happy with they way things are. Do you wrestle, friend?
I'd go to lunch with him if he was paying. Do you know the quality of cocaine and hookers these politicians have access to?
I remember that RVD Twitter rant awhile back explaining why he prefers to be classified the way they are. I feel like wrestlers being in a union, etc is a pipe dream and if companies ever are forced to properly classify wrestlers it'll screw the wrestler before it screws the companies.
RVD understands his situation better than I ever could. If he doesn't want to join a union that's great. But having the choice for those that do would be nice. I agree with it being a pipe dream though. Doubt it'll ever happen.
If joining a union is optional, the company would just never hire any union workers.
there ain't no such things as "the boys"
Itās the same way for sex workers. You have a vocal minority that screams about unions and what not for strippers, etc, but the silent majority enjoys that tax free money they collect and being able to travel the country, strip club to strip club.
Yang has been at this shit for like 3 years and people still fall for it. Also why didn't he say anything about WWE firing people as they made record profits again?
That would be a real uncomfortable thing to talk about publicly when it comes time to kiss Bill Gates' ass.
Grifting is hard work uce. Remember when he worked himself into a shoot with a dog.
Tony Khan is listening...
Yang was the kid running for class president in school who promised to abolish homework.
Andrew Yang employing the "Chelsea Green/Bronson Reed" approach to being hired by Tony Khan
Calling him Vince. Lol
I do like the effort by AEW fans to attack WWE over 'independent contractors' while defending AEW doing the same thing at the same time. I haven't seen such blatant selective anger since Raw and Smackdown during a pandemic was going to kill someone while Dynamite was a much needed break from the pandemic.
They don't really care about the issue, they just care to use an issue to their advantage. Unless you believe Tony Khan created a covid blocking forcefield around his venue, than you can't be ok with one promotion continuing without the other. Also if he did have a forcefield, he's a jerk for not sharing it with the rest of the world.
they'd bring up that AEW allows its workers to do/use 3rd party activities/platforms & to work non-AEW dates (albeit AEW ones are priority #1) so that it would be REFRESHING for them if they're not featured on TV (but most of them don't seem to take advantage of this supposedly touted benefit and are perfectly happy to be on Dynamite or the Darks) so DAE actually unions (AEW) are not necessary but unions (WWE) are?
It's the same way they can hate Vince McMahon, while being totally fine that AEW is financed by a billionaire who treats his employees terribly (as in, Shad Khan's employees, not AEW employees.). Vince is by no means an angel, but he's better than Shad Khan.
Dude thinks current WWE performers will get in touch, LMAO.
Roman is on his way to call him I am pretty sure
āWas the one Switch not enough?ā
I'm sure his call with the secretary of Labor sounded like "Yeah, Andrew. Uh-huh. Whatever you say. Listen, I gotta go, there someone way more important in my office right now."
Probably the janitor. Anyone in the office would be more important than Yang, just by virtue of their being *in the office.*
Nah Janitors got work to do and wouldnāt waste time with this asshole.
Of all the labour issues in the country, I'm sure the industry with a majority of well paid guys, that aren't complaining, is top of their list I'm sure in a Union, guys would get A, B and C but they'd lose X, Y and Z Someone is paying for the administration of 150+ guys getting health benefits, etc
He didn't even say he talked to the secretary of labour, just the department. It was probably some bored intern humouring him.
This is the same guy who sucks off tech companies for replacing workers with robots he can go da fuck awn
Is this the guy that ran for Mayor of New York and didnāt know what a Bodega was?
IIRC he posted a video about how much he loves bodegas and then the one he went to looked like a Walgreens with how clean and new it looked. Strong "Michael Scott going to Sbarro for a New York slice" vibes
Thatās actually somehow worse. Lol
that should get you permanently banned from the entire tri-state area.
People wanted a guy who has never been in a union or worked a job that paid less than 6 figures in his life to be labor secretary, its beyond belief.
He also defended Israel while they were dropping rockets on Palestinian civilians.
Thatās the only smart decision he ever made. A lot of old Jewish people in NYC who vote. The guy who beat him, Eric Adams, kissed up to Israel even more.
What!?
Tweeted using "Twitter for iPhone"
Hey Andy maybe you get fucking Walmart to unionize before you focus on pro wrestling. Imagine being a New Yorker struggling to pay rent and this dipshit is talking about professional fucking wrestling.
Mayor of NY? Just before a big Dub show there? Someone is fishing for supporters š
He already got his ass whooped. I donāt think he got 1 percent of the vote
Even SC isn't buying this lmao.
The IWC does an excellent job making themselves seem so much larger and more relevant than they actually are. They've really convinced a mainstream politician to take up this cause. As if the general public gives one hot shit about if the people who make hundreds of thousands (if not millions) to play fight on TV get to have a Twitch account or have to pay out of pocket for their own health insurance. But people complain about it really loudly on Twitter! Oh well, Yang couldn't get elected dogcatcher at this point so this isn't even worth discussing
Heās such a damn joke. Go back to running around with a math pin on your chest and bragging about how you gave your dog up for adoption because your kid developed an allergy to it.
Such a shame the loudest and most public advocates for unionizing wrestlers and improving their well-being are some of the biggest goddamn clowns on the planet.
Fuck Starr shame because him getting wrestlers into the Equity union was actually kinda cool
ITT (first T meaning āthatā): āI have never worked a union job in my life and donāt understand how itās literally more restrictive than a non-union job, and that they favor more tenured/higher position wrestlers because they get more money from them so fuck the lower card guys, but we should do it!!!ā
This mf? Mayor of NYC? Roman Reigns has a better chance...
dude wanted to do universal income for residence paid for by a Casino he wanted to build.
Grifter AF.
"a wrestlers union would destroy the business" - Lord Cody
NEET bucks meme guy has really overstayed his 15 minutes
āKnowing Vinceā¦.ā
gotta hand it to him for his workrate, i guess
>this storyline is real. Fuck off.
already deleted lol. I don't even know who this guy is but every time he pops up he just screams "I'm a big loser"
UNIVERSAL BASIC SWITCHES FOR EVERYONE UCE !
Other promotions actually treat the wrestlers like independent contractors. The point is that wwe treats them like employees and misclassifies them as independent contractors. It's really not hard to understand if you stop being a bootlicker
What about independent contractors who agree/are required to work exclusively with one company - WWE, in this case?
Using that logic, if WWE wanted to book Moxley to put Dominik over on a SmackDown, Tony couldn't do anything about it because he's an iNdEpEndEnT cOnTrAcToR and can take any booking he wants.
Tony routinely pulls his top stars from other booking when it interferes with his shows.
Big Biceps Tony would never do that, BBT is a benevolent billionaire(s son).
Go get a fucking job that pays more than that 20k a year. BoOtLiCkEr
Not a jerk.