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Laughter Can Defeat the Left
WSJ ^ | July 27, 2021 | Harry Stein

Posted on 08/15/2021 5:59:43 AM PDT by Humane1

They make themselves ridiculous as they try to kill comedy. ‘A transgender weightlifter and a horse walk into a bar . . .” “That’s not funny!” Welcome to the wonderful world of woke comedy. And it’s not as if they say it with the indulgent attitude your mother used to have—when she knew it was inappropriate but was kind of amused anyway. No, these people are not joking. They’ll kill your career, get your children to turn on you, dredge up your every purported misstep, and make sure all of it goes on your permanent record. We’re talking a mentality that blacklisted the “Seinfeld” episode in which Kramer stomps on the Puerto Rican flag to put out the fire he’s set with a sparkler, and forced HBO to saddle “Blazing Saddles” with a dreary three-minute introductory spiel by an academic explaining to the unwary—i.e., idiots—that “racist language and attitudes pervade the film. But those attitudes are espoused by characters who are portrayed here as explicitly small-minded, ignorant bigots.” No wonder that even non-edgy comedians like Jerry Seinfeld won’t go anywhere near a college campus. In a remarkable turnabout, today’s students have all the live-and-let-live joie de vivre of Dean Wormer from “Animal House.” ...Progressives have been getting away with comic murder for quite a while now, not only being unfunny, but also—through their dominance of entertainment and especially social media—empowering themselves to dictate what others should be allowed to find funny. Nowhere is this more evident than in political humor. Whereas progressive internet snark-meister ...

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KEYWORDS: comedy; left
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To: FLT-bird

@ post 15 - for the lolz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk-qqmlXlzQ


41 posted on 08/15/2021 8:55:36 AM PDT by week 71
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To: Carl Vehse

Yep... As I said I do not disagree with you...
When there is no deterrence where there is no fear of prosecution.


42 posted on 08/15/2021 9:08:14 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Carl Vehse

You are correct. 100%


43 posted on 08/15/2021 9:17:16 AM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Carl Vehse

LOL. Totalitarians don’t stand trial. That was the entire point of stealing the election. If you wish to defeat Totalitarianism simply “don’t play”. Live your own life and walk away from “society”.


44 posted on 08/15/2021 9:56:18 AM PDT by wastoute (Anyone who believes PsyOps are not involved has never met a PsyOps Officer.)
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To: dsrtsage
What's the difference between an antifa chick and a Muslim woman? The antifa chick gets raped AFTER she gets stoned.

Doesn't matter either way to the Muslims. For example:

Ahmed went rushing up to his Imam and said "I was walking by the train tracks and ran across an awesome woman. I took her home and we made love in all the ways Allah permits!"

Imam: "Wonderful! Her face must rival the beauty of the full moon."

Ahmed: "I do not know. I never found her head!"

45 posted on 08/15/2021 10:05:14 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: HandBasketHell

“Purge the RINOs and the Left will be defeated.”

No, sorry. To defeat the left we must, AT A MINIMUM, remove every employee of every media organ, and stop the left from cheating in elections.

People are acting like this cheating started in 2020. Come on, JFK in 1960 wasn’t even the first instance.

Know how Trump won in 2016? The left overestimated their own popularity. They thought they had produced enough fraudulent votes to win, when the fraudulent votes were added to the genuine votes.

Imagine their chagrin when it turned out that Trump was more popular than they thought, and that they had lost the election because they under-cheated.

The day after the election the most obvious fact in the observable universe was that they would not make that mistake in 2020. To anyone with as much intelligence as a tablespoon of bat guano, it was clear that they would commit fraud on a scale heretofore unseen even in the foul dens of the Satanic left.

We knew that President Trump needed to take unprecedented measures to prevent this fraud. He did not. The steal succeeded.

The only way—THE ONLY WAY—this can be stopped is for armed men to confront the leftist criminals and prevent them from tampering with the vote. At the same time, Satan’s media must be stopped from lying about these events, using whatever means are necessary.

We either do these things, or our Republic is lost.


46 posted on 08/15/2021 1:14:47 PM PDT by dsc (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. G. K. Chesterton)
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