Watching rich, old, privileged, white millionaires and billionaires like Elon Musk, Bill Maher and Joe Rogan, constantly whine about “cancel culture” and the loss of their “freedom of speech” would almost be funny if it wasn’t used over and over and over—by rich, old, privileged white men on their incredibly large platforms. They wanna be seen as the victims sO damn bad.
Anyway, I hope all the twitter refugees who will eventually be returning to tumblrdotcom don’t bring any of that whiny bullshit with them.
“I’m not entirely sure why we need an anti-woke comedy club. It seems like the biggest comedians around are also ‘anti-woke’, whatever that really means. Louis CK, a white man who repeatedly says the n-word on stage and who has been accused of multiple counts of sexual harassment, still tours. Dave Chapelle, for all the noise of transphobia whenever he performs, is one of Netflix’s biggest stars and has leaned harder into being anti-woke since his first controversy.
“...The answer, when the discriminatory nature of their act is laid bare, is always that it’s a comedian’s job to challenge things. But if you’re playing at a club where you know you’re preaching to the choir, you’re not challenging anything. If you’ll only tell jokes about trans people to a crowd that already hates them and with no ‘threat’ of being recorded, what do you believe you are challenging, and how? You’re preaching to an echo chamber when your humour and views never have an opportunity to be challenged in the first place, and if they ever are, you have the face of the person who did it on file, which feels like a threat in and of itself.”
Legendary musician Jack White of the White Stripes excoriated Trump-loving celebrities by name for buddying up to Donald Trump in public at a UFC fight in Las Vegas over the weekend. Trump was spotted glad-handing and chatting with Joe Rogan, Guy Fieri, Mark Wahlberg, and noted antisemite Mel Gibson. Jack White took to Instagram to share his thoughts:
"Anybody who ‘normalizes’ or treats this disgusting fascist, racist, con man, disgusting piece of shit Trump with any level of respect is ALSO disgusting in my book. That’s you Joe Rogan, you Mel Gibson, you Mark Wahlberg, you Guy Fieri. This is a statement from me, not a discussion/debate.” —Jack White III
Joe Rogan became the victim of a brutal fact-check on his own show when he went off on President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline, citing a speech in which Biden was actually quoting former President Donald Trump.
During a conversation with his guest, MMA fighter Bo Nickal, Rogan said some voters now regret voting for Biden in 2020. Then the two launched into a criticism of the 81-year-old president’s state of mind while mocking him for a recent speech during which he said something about losing the Revolutionary War because of a lack of airports.
“If you had any other job, and you were talking like that, they would go, ‘Hey, you’re done,'” Rogan said.
Moments later, Rogan’s producer Jamie Vernon interjected to play the clip Rogan referenced, which was actually a video of Biden mocking Trump for his comments about airports in the Revolutionary War.