Today’s blacklisted American: “Progressive” leftists in Seattle can’t even take a joke, blackballing four comedians
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They’re coming for you next: Not surprisingly, a comedy club located in the heart of Seattle, in the very same CHAZ neighborhood (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) that leftist Antifa thugs took over in 2020 after the death of George Floyd, has cancelled the scheduled appearance of four comedians, apparently because all four were considered too moderate and not “progressive” enough for that radical community of close-minded fascists. As rationalized in an email to the comedians, comedy club officials explained:
Capitol Hill is known for its progressive values, and we’ve received significant feedback expressing concerns about the alignment of these upcoming shows with the neighborhood’s ethos. This feedback includes concerns from local advocacy groups that are deeply embedded in our community and work towards upholding its values.
Given the feedback and to avoid any potential negative impact on both our club and the artists involved, as well as to maintain the harmony within our community, we believe the most responsible course of action is to not move forward with the shows for Dave Smith on April 11th, Luis J Gomez for May 31st-June 1st, Jim Florentine for September 20th-21st and sadly Kurt Metzger on October 11th-12th as well.
The email also added most dishonestly, “We truly value the art of comedy and the diverse perspectives it brings to our lives.”
What a crock. If this club and this leftist neighborhood “truly valued … diverse perspectives” it would have welcomed these performers. To do that however threatened the bubble of communist, Marxist, racist, and close-minded ideas of the “local advocacy groups that are deeply embedded in our community.” Can’t have that! Imagine the horror had they been exposed to diverse ideas or even funny jokes about different ideas. Better to silence comedy and all laughter than to hear something funny these leftists might not like.
All four comedians used the same agent, who was able to almost instantly get them rebooked at a different comedy club, only twenty minutes outside of Seattle. I wonder if that club might find itself swamped by lefty protesters when these comedians show up to perform, screaming and shouting and threatening violence should any of these comedians dare to tell a joke!
The future as imagined by the “progressive” left,
everyone a mindless drone
It is this close-minded, fearful thinking I was referring to in my essay earlier today, when I described the present fork in the road on which we stand.
We unfortunately also have a curse that often limits our abilities, and that curse is the lust for power. Rather than adapt and invent, some humans would rather wield power over others. These individuals generally don’t know how to adapt and invent, and are often frightened of such new things. They then act to control everyone else, and the result generally is poverty, ignorance, and collapse.
This Seattle comedy club and its leftist community illustrate beautifully these power-hungry cowards, who can’t tolerate an open society or creativity from others. Rather than encourage new ideas, they wield power to shut it down.
On the other side are the open-minded fearless explorers of the unknown, who not only wish to conquer the stars but are unafraid of laughing at all kinds of jokes, even ones that poke fun at themselves.
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Click for original video.
They’re coming for you next: Not surprisingly, a comedy club located in the heart of Seattle, in the very same CHAZ neighborhood (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) that leftist Antifa thugs took over in 2020 after the death of George Floyd, has cancelled the scheduled appearance of four comedians, apparently because all four were considered too moderate and not “progressive” enough for that radical community of close-minded fascists. As rationalized in an email to the comedians, comedy club officials explained:
Capitol Hill is known for its progressive values, and we’ve received significant feedback expressing concerns about the alignment of these upcoming shows with the neighborhood’s ethos. This feedback includes concerns from local advocacy groups that are deeply embedded in our community and work towards upholding its values.
Given the feedback and to avoid any potential negative impact on both our club and the artists involved, as well as to maintain the harmony within our community, we believe the most responsible course of action is to not move forward with the shows for Dave Smith on April 11th, Luis J Gomez for May 31st-June 1st, Jim Florentine for September 20th-21st and sadly Kurt Metzger on October 11th-12th as well.
The email also added most dishonestly, “We truly value the art of comedy and the diverse perspectives it brings to our lives.”
What a crock. If this club and this leftist neighborhood “truly valued … diverse perspectives” it would have welcomed these performers. To do that however threatened the bubble of communist, Marxist, racist, and close-minded ideas of the “local advocacy groups that are deeply embedded in our community.” Can’t have that! Imagine the horror had they been exposed to diverse ideas or even funny jokes about different ideas. Better to silence comedy and all laughter than to hear something funny these leftists might not like.
All four comedians used the same agent, who was able to almost instantly get them rebooked at a different comedy club, only twenty minutes outside of Seattle. I wonder if that club might find itself swamped by lefty protesters when these comedians show up to perform, screaming and shouting and threatening violence should any of these comedians dare to tell a joke!
The future as imagined by the “progressive” left,
everyone a mindless drone
It is this close-minded, fearful thinking I was referring to in my essay earlier today, when I described the present fork in the road on which we stand.
We unfortunately also have a curse that often limits our abilities, and that curse is the lust for power. Rather than adapt and invent, some humans would rather wield power over others. These individuals generally don’t know how to adapt and invent, and are often frightened of such new things. They then act to control everyone else, and the result generally is poverty, ignorance, and collapse.
This Seattle comedy club and its leftist community illustrate beautifully these power-hungry cowards, who can’t tolerate an open society or creativity from others. Rather than encourage new ideas, they wield power to shut it down.
On the other side are the open-minded fearless explorers of the unknown, who not only wish to conquer the stars but are unafraid of laughing at all kinds of jokes, even ones that poke fun at themselves.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
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3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
The four comedians should get together for a show somewhere, somehow, with each one making jokes about the comedy club and the triggered children who would have suffered so horribly if their respective shows had not been cancelled.
“We truly value the art of comedy and the diverse perspectives it brings to our lives.”
Hard to get past the obvious here, but somehow the CHAZ 2.0 cranks up on their hill have managed that.
The movie “Idiocracy” was mildly amusing. Now it seems to be prophetic.
Typical Bovine Swill juvenile, childish, authoritarian, you must do as we say crap.
These people are all now mentally damaged individuals, and it can only become more cancerous and violent.
Actual self-reflective comedy in Seattle, a counter intuitive notion.
This is what a “progressive” joke looks like: https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5d25f1f6c107e5000918e49d/master/pass/TNY-AOC.jpg
The CCP Chinese best friend, they won’t have to fire a shot.
Related: https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/a-i-is-of-course-politically-woke
See, now here is an advertisement that I am sure a “progressive” / woke Seattalite authoritarian would become enraged about.
Its funny, its honest and in the honesty, there is humor. Dark though it may be.
https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1762870104377676179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1762870104377676179%7Ctwgr%5Ec4dd40ce0216916f3726e825b7c2a9d15aae1066%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Fricky-gervais-dutch-brand-vodka-advertisement-commercial-big-pharma-drink-aware%2F
30 Minutes with Dave Smith
GaS Digital (August 2023)
https://youtu.be/XGK1SXNMG44
32:27
Maybe it will burn down.
Burn? No. It needs a neutron bomb…leave the infrastructure
If sentience requires self-awareness, and you are unaware that your actions are a parody of your beliefs; I have to question your sentience.
Sadly, I have to agree with those who suggest that those people who live in deep blue districts like Seattle are so committed to their woke / DEI ideology that nothing short of a total breakdown of their society will convince them that they are in error. Some, probably, not even then. Before such a collapse, they will double down on their efforts until the very end, all the while blaming others for their plight and demanding that they be subsidized.
Earlier this evening, I heard a story on the BBC to the effect that the Cuban government — for the first time ever — is asking for aid from the United Nations because of its inability to supply and distribute subsidized milk to children under 7 years of age. This, of course, is the all too predictable end point of DEI ideology, and at some juncture the government of Seattle will no doubt be making a similar request to the State of Washington and / or the federal government. “Please help us; we have done all we can.”
https://voz.us/for-the-first-time-in-history-cuban-regime-asks-un-for-help-due-to-food-shortages/?lang=en
The funny thing is that nowhere in the BBC’s report was any mention made of what kind of economic system presently obtains in Cuba, or that it has been on the brink of a food crisis almost from the inception of its embrace of socialism in the early 1960s. Instead, the present crisis was attributed to the COVID19 pandemic (and the loss of tourists) and economic sanctions levied by the Trump Administration. You know the drill.
The thing of it is, the DEI Kool-Aid drinkers in Seattle desperately WANT to live in a place like Cuba (or, even better, in North Korea), and — again — nothing short of reality kicking them in the teeth with such things as food shortages (or perhaps the complete breakdown of law and order) is going to do much to dampen their enthusiasm for their great woke experiment. As I have said before, they are “perfectly possessed,” and they are not open to questioning the alternative reality that they have created for themselves.
As a thought question: what would we do if Cuba were to suddenly become our 51st state, and how would we go about effecting the
transition of their culture and society to conventional American norms? Unhappily, even if traditional America should prevail in the November elections, we would be looking at exactly the same problem of reintegrating a number of blue states and cities back into the American mainstream. How might this be accomplished, if at all?
Milt: Nicely put, but one clarification. DEI is merely an outgrowth of Marxist/communist power games. Cuba didn’t fail because of DEI, it failed because it has been a communist centrally controlled dictatorship for more than three-quarters of a century. As Margaret Thatcher said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Cuba did that many decades ago, long before DEI was evented by Marxist radicals in the racist black & women studies departments in academia.
Dave Smith:
Libertas Special (2017)
Directed by Luis Gomez
https://youtu.be/fwNmL0AN49U
1:03:57
Joe Rogan Experience #2067 (November 2023)
Dave Smith
Hyper-Inflation and Fractional Reserve Banking
https://youtu.be/g6LS7GO7Qkw
12:19
“We truly value the art of comedy” – the CHAZ chucklehut
That’s the funniest joke we’re likely to read today.
BREAKING: Chinese police use Irish taser to subdue individual.
https://twitter.com/PiQSuite/status/1755949438206410956
Jerry Seinfeld FIRES BACK At Woke TV Host Over ‘Mostly White Males
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4UNpFZJKII
“Candace Owens x Dave Smith”
Candace Owens Podcast (March 1, 2024)
https://youtu.be/AcYavHCyoUY
(2:32:14)