Posted on 10/08/2020 9:25:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A few times in my career, I have genuinely feared for my life.
In Arkansas, I posed as an ultimate fighter at a cage match and challenged anyone in the audience to take me on. When my fake ex-boyfriend volunteered, we engaged in some heavy petting, triggering a near riot. The crowd—including some recently paroled prisoners with swastika tattoos—erupted in homophobic slurs and started hurling metal chairs at us. Had I not ducked into a trapdoor and out an escape tunnel, I think the crowd would have beaten me senseless.
Moments like that are frightening. Today, though, I’m truly terrified—for the survival of democracy itself.
A year ago, I spoke out publicly for the first time in my own voice because I feared that our pluralistic democracies were at risk of being destroyed by a flood of hate, lies and conspiracies spewed by demagogues and spread by social media. Since then, this toxic brew has exploded into the open and—with just weeks until the election—these conspiracies threaten to kill democracy as we know it.
For most of my career, I’ve been reluctant to take a public stance on the issues of the day. I’ve felt more comfortable in character—or in a mankini. Yes, a lot of my comedy is uncomfortably pubescent. But when it works, satire can humble the powerful and expose the ills of society. As Abbie Hoffman, who helped lead the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War during the Democratic convention in Chicago, liked to say, “Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.” By getting people to reveal what they really believe, I have at times exposed the ignorance, bigotry and conspiratorial delusions that often lurk just below the surface of our modern lives.
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This fifth column foreigner needs to be deported with extreme prejudiced. Let him kill 'sacred cows' in his homeland.
"Baron Cohen is a comedian, actor and screenwriter. He appears in the upcoming films "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
You've got to be very, very desperate to take any advice or guidance, or even pay attention to, this fourth rate so-called celebrity!
Perhaps the crowd was upset because you insulted them, the sport they came to watch, and did so with a homosexual meme that has long been used against wrestling and UFC fighting fans.
Ever think about that?
Cohen is not an American.
The US is not a democracy.
Yes yes... we must stop Qanon... Sascha... but antifa? BLM? 1619? Those aren’t conspiracies are they - because you support those CONSPIRACIES and, worse, demand opposing views are censored.
FU
Oh brother... the reason why you did the wrestling stunt was to intentionally elicit a very vitriolic reaction. YOU did it on purpose! Now when it works...you consider yourself nearly a victim of murder? That’s like complaining about the lion attacking you when you jumped the Zoo fence. Idiot.
Sad to see him become yet another partisan hack comedian. His first movie was truly a favorite of mine.
I see. He’s a comedian who likes to push the envelope and be provocative, who is then surprised when the people he’s insulting are provoked.
What a horse’s ass.
Exactly.
They have no original thoughts, no knowledge of history, Constitutional Law, nothing but BS go-along Hollyweird hate America crap
I’d love to put chicken s***s like this guy on an LST heading for the beaches at Iwo Jima
Well, gee, this is really quite surprising.
In Arkansas, I posed as an ultimate fighter at a cage match and challenged anyone in the audience to take me on. When my fake ex-boyfriend volunteered, we engaged in some heavy petting, triggering a near riot. The crowd—including some recently paroled prisoners with swastika tattoos—erupted in homophobic slurs and started hurling metal chairs at us. Had I not ducked into a trapdoor and out an escape tunnel, I think the crowd would have beaten me senseless.
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It always amazes me when someone makes a living greatly offending others in order to laugh at them, but then runs behind his mommy when the offended want to kick his ass. I would have respected him more if he just accepted the risks of doing what he does. But when he suddenly has this “epiphany” that his actions ellicit violent reacions and that these reactions are a call to Left-wing social action...well...screw him.
I can't stand this pr*ck. I never saw anything he did as funny. When I learned about his politics my disdain grew exponentially.
This creep likes to push buttons and when challenged he plays victim.
“We Must Save Democracy From Conspiracies”
You mean like the Russia Collusion Hoax?
Sachs whatever his name is I saw last night in Chicago 7 trial movie. His depiction of Abbie Hoffman was so bad. I mean if I saw this portrayal in a high school play I would tell someone to get this guy to figure out what accent he was going for. It switched so often it was not even funny.
Then BTW the ending, with another non American,
Edward John David Redmayne, playing Tom Hayden, lecturing the judge with the emotional appeal of the courtroom applause, with no clue as to his association-marriage- with the treasonous Jane Fonda responsible For the deaths of our POWs
I despise that we lost more than 58,000, have many more wounded and the countless tragedies involved with the war in Vietnam Nam that Kennedy Got us into and Johnson mishandled and Nixon got us out of finally,
But the producers, writers and directors could get the facts straight The actors could be informed. They are not -not in this case.
I expected this when going into the movie. I need to know what kinds of lies Hollywood is spewing especially so I can properly respond to people like this guy
Abbie Hoffman does not impress me, regardless of how he died. This actor is even less than that his opinion is uninformed to say the very least.
Dear Brits, stay the hell out of our politics. It’s not safe for you to do so at this time.
Christopher Streele was a major player in the Russia Collusion Hoax.
Are British provocateurs a threat to the United States?
Id say so. The Brit media can have at it all they want but Brit celebs, Royals, and others need to be advised.
Its interesting that he usually targets the US working class for his setups. Nearly always anyway.
Nothing in universities, the media, or the bureaucracy, or Wall Street.
His style is always to punch down.
Sounds like Pelosi.
History is nothing but conspiracies. Not always the ones we imagine, but there is always skulduggery going on. We are not in the loop on our leaders deliberations.
It is not paranoid to think that we are regularly denied information and lied to, it is simply the truth.
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