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I’m not and never have been a huge fan of John Cena either way – and I dont particularly dislike or like him.

Quinetessnal (I know, I love spelling!) all American boy was his image in the WWE – but that was a long time after the Attitude Era, and being all my favorites were during that era (and to this date, I make it a point to watch and read everything “Steve Austin” related! – and probably also the Rock to an extent) – but not just that – I try and listen to the Steve Austin podcast as often as I can – and being I didnt really watch WWE after that, my feelings for this guy?

Probably a nice enough guy.

Other than that, big fat zippo either way.

But the Steve Austin podcast is a great one, and even Cena showed up there once!

My favorite podcasts on that show were Austin/MacMahon (classic, Austin talking about his own “firing”!) – Austin/HBK (Shawn Michaels), but there’s plenty of other great segments if you’re a WWE fan of yore.

I am!

Anyway, Steve Austin is by far my all time favorite WWE superstar, but there were plenty of other great ones too.

But anyway … this isn’t about that.

This is about John Cena’s recent kow tow to China – a shocking one in my book – but really, it’s not that “out of the ordinary” given Hollywood in general has been kow towing to china for AGES NOW.

From “Meg” to “Mulan” (both atrocious movies, and the only positive in the former was Jason Statham who tries to make a go out of a mess, but even he couldn’t salvage the movie despite being his usual great self in the movie) …. and even one of the recent Stallone flicks “Escape 2” and “Bullet to the Head” – Hollywood in general has completely sold out to China.

A fact constantly made by the great Mike Pompeo and others on the right for one, and they are … well, right.

I’ve been bitching up a storm about these movies and the mindset as well for ages.

Not only are the movies utter crap – there is an element of unnatural jingoism to them that are flat out nauseating.

I mean, the Meg for one was about a prehistoric underwater shark, and somehow, by the end of the movie, Hainan Island and Sanya showed up choc a block full of Chinese chicks ready for the massive shark to gorge on.

And of course, the obligatory “red” flag flying as a Chinese couple got married on a boat, and those annoying rat like pink dogs the Chinese so seem to love (I’ve never seen a German shepherd -my favorite breed – or any real dog in China till date!).

Just flat out annoying.

But Cena?

He apparently made the mistake (not) of referring to Taiwan as a country, and hey – I get it!

(During an interview in Taiwan for his latest movie Fast and Furious Fitness 9).

I mean, I call it a country too.

What do you call an island with its own government, military, foreign affairs and the whole she bang?

Obviously a country!

Much like going from China to hong kong doesnt warrant a “it’s part of China” response that it gets from the idiots that jingo up and down in China (I mean, look, dude, you pass….um, IMMIGRATION? Light bell! – or bulb!) …. calling Taiwan a country doesn’t even mean one is interested in politics or Chinese politics.

Thats just the natural reaction!

And I’d expect Cena to say just the above and then shrug his shoulders and say “politics? whatever!”

That would get him off the hook no matter what his personal opinion may or may not be.

As it stands though, he’s issued an official apology video with some broken Chinese basically saying he’s “so so so so so so sorry!” (and to calm some of us down, he never really said what he was sorry for).

But still, the intent is CLEAR.

And he hasn’t satisfied anyone.

Folks lik eyours truly, Pompeo, Senator Tom Cotton and the rest are livid with what has been said.

Rightly so!

When a citizen of the free world kow tows to a repressive dictatorship and is forced to apologize for his/her remarks on politics or seeming politics – not on!

The NBA has no problem with people kow towing to China either, it would seem – as you can tell from the “Hong Kong comment issue”!

Back in 2015 I believe during the pro democracy protests in Hong kong, someone who was a somebody at the NBA tweeted ONE line in support of Hong Kong, and of course, that was enough.

It set the Tom Tom’s and Jingoists off.

And he had to apologize else China threatened to pull the NBA.

Typical CCP style. Threaten and bully to get what they want, and throw a hissy when those of us with some sense refuse to get pushed around and bullied.

There’s only one way to deal with a bully, my friend.

Fight back x 100000!

Aka Bozo Schofield (he’s just a puny example though – there are plenty – but given his recent scam of cheating Chinese women – the more gullible and older ones, though there are plenty of young ones too – out of money to help them acclimatize in the UK or some such nonsense – he’s been on a “pro CCP” tom Tomming tune as of late too).

Anyway, all Cena said during the video was “so so so so sorry” – thats what it boils down to, and if you didnt know context and just saw the video – you wouldn’t even know what he’s talking about.

In the past, Cena would probably have said it upfront in the video because the China market would be “too important to ignore”.

Now, he’s walking the tightrope between “not pissing the Chinese off” and “keeping the ROW happy as well”.

A disaster, my friend – from every standpoint, but most of all marketing.

What you see is what you get is how it SHOULD BE.

You’re either here or there!

You’re never in the middle.

And some of cena’s Chinese fans have said the same thing ie. “we won’t accept this hollow apology until and unless WHY you are apologizing is made clear”.

Fair enough.

Hey, I’d say the same thing!

You’d think Cena being in an industry where marketing is KING more so than others would have known this, but he seems to be doing exactly what Universal Pictures tells him to do!

Regardless – in one word – as Senator Cotton rightly said – PATHETIC!

As is the current Biden admin push on (and as I write this, they have done it) CLOSING the investigation into the China virus – an effort led by Mike Pompeo.

Just pathetic, even more so.

I mean, don’t we need to hold the CCP accountable for the devastation they spread globally?

Of course we do.

The whole world does!!

And though most of us have been saying it since forever, ever since this “panic demic” started, the facts coming out since then have only proven even more than this damn thing was started in a lab in Wuhan, and spread to the rest of the world by the CCP – who never reported it when it first leaked, and did all it could to cover it up while shutting their own country down and allowing the damned thing to travel everywhere else globally, and of course the WHO aka CHO was NEVER allowed a look in and when it was, it was never allowed to operate freely — and despite all this, I can just imagine Biden saying the following.

“Oh well. IT happened. There’s no sense pissing China off further!”

It’s just PATHETIC. PATHETIC!

And combined with his pampering of Iran, it only serves to heighten the sense of unease I felt after the stolen election.

That something was – is – very very wrong here!

Anyway, back to Cena.

If he had simply responded in the “I made a mistake, lets get it over with because …. ” way I mentioned above I’d have far more respect for him, as it stands now, I sure won’t be watching Fast and Furious Fitness.

I never have, for that matter.

The only connection I have with the brand in any way, and it’s not even a connection is in 2010 I thought of a name for a fitness book – NO, it had NOTHING to do with the movie itself!

Nothing at all.

If it did, I would never have made 0 Excuses Fitness the flagship brand.

But the first book is Fast and Furious Fitness, and thats the only connection there – direct or not, and it is a book that will get you into just that sort of shape if you “do” what it tells you.

Currently, we’re down to the last few Collector’s Editions (two) – and if you want this gem – my first, and one of my best – then order NOW my friend.

No more reprints.

Once gone, they’re gone

And thats that from me.

Back later!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee