Brandon Bethune

bored journo graduate talking wrestling, film/tv, music, politics, and the occasional life rant

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Shit ain't it? The fuck all influence to change what's coming, & all we'll get is the thrill of saying "I fucking told you's!"

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@HiTopFilms Man of Steel ending done right

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Just a new face, buying more time for this One term Government, with no other plan but to inflict us all with the worst measures & Laws possible, weld in Fascism, & Gift wrap our lives to Palantir on their way out.
All made possible by a Media that abandoned the Public Long ago.

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@MSidgwick Who has the most overblown legacy; Eddie Guerrero or Shawn Michaels?

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@MSidgwick Any chance Omega beats Darby for the belt to set up the Ospreay match? Darby/MJF can go to Wembley without the belt, and Omega can maybe join back up with Callis as a heel desperate to keep the title, keeping the face/heel dynamics for Ospreay’s win

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

Got back on the app just to tell @josephweirdness he was right about Jon Moxley.

That Fletcher match was unbelievable. Absolutely, undeniably, the one.

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@MSidgwick @MichaelHamflett Cody beating Hangman for the AEW title in 2022 and feuding with Punk instead. I don't think Brawl Out happens if the Punk and Hangman work other people, and Cody could've played peacemaker behind the scenes. Pure speculation but a bit of fantasy booking with wider ramifications

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@OakTreesMan Finally, the merch freak singles run

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@MSidgwick What is your All In 2026 main event if Ospreay ISN'T able to wrestle? Feels like AEW is bereft of a major story beyond that, besides maybe rehashing Hangman/Swerve again

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@WrestleOps Good night for signs

[Brandon Bethune @bsbethune]

@twothickscoops Goated tweet

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Here’s why I have less than no sympathy for Angela Rayner.

@DalloulAhmed, a Palestinian takeaway owner, was a constituent of hers.

She’d met him several times, visited his shop and posed for pictures with him, emphasised her support for Palestinian freedom.

She gave him a tour of Parliament. They repeatedly corresponded by text message.

Within weeks of the genocide, his mother, brother, sister-in-law, and two little nieces were murdered in an Israeli air strike.

He was desperate to evacuate his wife and little daughter, only 4 months old, from Gaza. This little child was buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks.

He emailed Angela Rayner twice to seek her help evacuating his family. She ignored him.

He then turned up to a Labour fundraiser in January 2024, and stood up, clutching pictures of his dead mother, talking about his murdered family, asking for Angela’s support for a ceasefire.

She knew exactly who this man was.

He was then thrown out of the meeting and on to the street by security like he was trash. She did nothing, and simply said “Thank you, you’ve made your point.”

Just take a moment to absorb what was happening here.

A Palestinian man she was friendly with, whose family had been slaughtered by a British-facilitated Israeli onslaught, whose pleas to evacuate his wife and daughter had been ignored by her, stood up holding photos of his murdered mother, pleading for her to take a stand against the violence slaughtering her family.

It gets worse. A few days later she was interviewed about the incident by Sky News’ @BethRigby, who framed it as an example of the sort of threats that politicians have to face.

Here is one utterly repulsive example of the dehumanisation of Palestinians.

Imagine this was a Israeli man whose family had been killed on 7th October.

If the same thing had happened, it would have caused a national scandal and ruined Angela Rayner’s career long before any stamp duty row.

Since this hideous episode, so many of Dalloul’s loved ones have been murdered by the Israeli government that their names fill three pages.

Angela served as deputy prime minister in a government which continued to arm and facilitate this genocide.

I used to have huge respect for Angela Rayner. But she’s someone whose pursuit of power led her to make an accommodation with the worst people in the history of the Labour Party.

The great moral test of our time was Israel’s genocide, and a belief that Palestinians are human beings of equal worth.

Angela failed that test. Her political demise should be mourned by no one.

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

While parliament was debating child protection from criminal rape gangs Farage went to see a rapist who is trying to block the release of a list of people in a criminal child rape gang.

[Vince @alt_Vincey]

Removing the AEW logo from the ring mat because it's an unsanctioned match is a cool little detail

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Palm Springs (2020) is one of the smartest and funniest time-loop movies in years, and it doesn’t get talked about enough.

[✨ Harry V ✨ @HVilday]

teaching kids “politics is boring” is a right wing pysop to keep the population uneducated and manipulatable

[bobbi loves vampires ❤️ @hiimbobbi]

Goodbye uptick in vampires movies representing economic collapse and greed.
Hello uptick in Frankenstein movies representing fear of man’s hubris and the fear of innovation without consideration.

[andy peacock @AndyPeacock999]

Starmer Labour

Homelessness minister = slum landlord
Speaker = speaks for Israel
Foreign secretary = works for Israel
Health secretary = works for private health sector etc.