Something that sucks about being an engaged observer of reactionary politics is you can easily clock when comedians have fascists sympathies but it’s illegible to normies or even your lib friends until they pop off like this. This applies to so many rising comics the last few years.
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My instincts are on point.
Which is just a day that ends in Y for others in the creative field
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The best right wing comedy has always punched horizontally, somehow evading the pitfalls of punching down, but even that's meh...
I knew, without knowing, that CK Lewis was a POS just from his comedy routines, which tended to WAY TOO OFTEN, use a racial thing as a punchline.
He REALLY should know better than to share his stupidity.
Then again, he married a Republican girl, so...
Has a great chance to fuck that up this Saturday though
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But here he's unable to contain his aggrieved rage about Hillary & Obama & Hunter Biden & "witch hunt" & "Russia Russia Russia."
it has accelerated in the past 10+ but knowing some of the neo-fascistic terminology circa 2005-06-07-08, and seeing blog comments, then Twitter/FB posts, YouTube comments, I'd see those signals and think "uh oh. 🤞 It's an outlier"
oh, for the days of the klan's reach being mostly periodical-based (/facetious comment. Those days were bad too. The reach was just smaller.)
I’ve tried to tell so many people who Theo really is and am always laughed at
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