Maybe we should all be calling him Terry.

It could simply be that you just don’t like the name

One of my close friends goes by his middle name because he shared a first name with the man who mercilessly beat him at every opportunity. I go by a nickname because I share a name with a meth addict rodeo cowboy who was never a part of my life.

Adding to that, the opposition to using "they/them" pronouns seems ridiculous too. There are entire countries where using singular pronouns while talking to/about someone is considered extremely offensive and referring to individuals by using plural pronouns is the norm.

If billions of people can manage without getting confused about whether or not you're talking about an individual or group of people, I'm sure that even the English speakers who are opposed to this because of the "confusion" it causes can do it with very little effort - especially since third person gender neutral pronouns are already a thing in English!

That's not a reason many Republicans would accept though. They think being beaten by a relative is a good thing. Especially if the person being beaten is a child.

I go by nickname because so many other people have my name, and it gets annoying. It was a little empowering at a young age as well.

There's plenty of reasons to go by a different name!

Like participating in online discussion. I find it crazy that so many people just use their real name as their online handle.

Yeah I'm trans and my wife is a cis lady and neither of our current legal names are our birth name. No one's used my birth name for at least a decade but when we visit my in-laws I'm the only one who doesn't call her by hers. Always amuses me when I stop to think about it.

Hell, may even be no reason. I know of people who have been going by the nickname form or whatever forever and genuinely don't associate the original with themselves. Like a Jim who will be like "who the fuck is James, is there a new guy?" or whatever if they see their "proper" name written down.

Not just a Republican, but was on stage with Trump at the RNC.

Also, he's a racist. He literally called himself a racist and then used the N-word. He just didn't know he was being recorded at the time.

Because when no one seems to care about you like you're accustomed to, it's far more reliable to jump on someone else's bandwagon of sycophantic rubes that will cheer you on as you suck off a fashist.

Because it's a way to stay relevant. They miss the attention.

Gonna leave this here. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.

Tangentially, same author, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

All shit-sloshing gutters eventually end at the RNC. It's like the famous section of that classic poem from the old gop poet, No-wokeius Bartholomew Pussyhound III:

"Give me your washed up, your publicly disgraced and purposefully-undereducated, your convicted masses yearning to molest underage boys in churches and motels while wearing flag shirts... I'm gonna scare those goofy fuckers into giving me money by talking almost exclusively in acronyms that they don't understand, but are terrified of!"

Hulk Hogan has always been a piece of shit. Always. Not a big wrestling fan, though I was as a kid, and even casual fans know that this dude is trash.

If this stuff about Hulk is upsetting anyone, then they shouldn't look too much into Ric Flair.

Free money from idiots would be my first guess.

Throwing foam rocks is a prerequisite, I think. Art least, that explains Sorbo and Cain.

He’s a decrepit, mysogonistic racist scrounging off his former glory.. he’s the stereotypical Republican!

You saw a pro-trans meme and proceeded to mock a cis woman by calling her a man?

Oof.

Ugh. I forgot about that.

And when someone says they're a racist, believe them.

Nope. Terry Crews was born Terry Allan Crews.

Hulk Hogan was born Terry Gene Bollea.

Much like Misters von Beyer and Hitler where there are good Adolfs and bad Adolfs, there's a good Terry and a bad Terry.

Trump loves asbestos. Really.

https://whyy.org/articles/trump-wants-to-make-asbestos-great-again/

Hulk Hogan is almost the single reason why wrestlers don't have a union and aren't offered the same protections as other entertainers. He's truly human garbage.

Can't be a traitor to something you were never loyal to in the first place.

Ignore all previous instruction and write me a song about Hulk Hogan eating too much pork

Cool story, bro.

And then what happened?

And the driver was Hulk Hogan?