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People often ask me why I give celebrities such a hard time. I mean, celebrities are all saints, right? They are perfect in every way and never do anything wrong at all, according to their fans anyway. So, obviously I am the devil incarnate for I have dared to be liberal while at the same time holding celebrities to the same standard that I hold "normal" people to. That is sacrilege in many liberal circles these days. So where do I get off giving celebrities a hard time? What did they ever do to me? Well, in this episode I hope to finally answer that question for all of you once and for all. There are people and then there are the images that people create for you depending upon the goals they are trying to achieve. There is no honest way to become rich and famous. It does not exist. That is a fantasy. The Pandora papers clearly demonstrate this. But first, a brief history of the myth of Pandora's Box and why it still remains relevant today. "Pandora was created as a punishment to the mankind; Zeus wanted to  punish people because Prometheus stole the fire to give it to them. Her  gifts were beautifully evil, according to Hesiod. Hephaestus created her  from clay, shaping her perfectly, Aphrodite gave her femininity and  Athena taught her crafts. Hermes was ordered by Zeus to teach her to be  deceitful, stubborn and curious." (greekmythology.com) One may consider this creation story sexist like the story of Adam and Eve, but keep in mind that many women in Greek Mythology, such as Athena, are not stereotypical in the least:

 Pandora was given a box or a jar, called “pithos” in Greek. Gods told  her that the box contained special gifts from them but she was not  allowed to open the box ever. Then Hermes took her to Epimetheus,  brother of Prometheus, to be his wife. Prometheus had advised Epimetheus  not to accept anything from the Gods, but he saw Pandora and was  astonished by her beauty, thus he accepted her right away. Pandora was trying to tame her curiosity, but at the end she could  not hold herself anymore; she opened the box and all the illnesses and  hardships that gods had hidden in the box started coming out. Pandora  was scared, because she saw all the evil spirits coming out and tried to  close the box as fast as possible, closing Hope inside. According to Hesiod Hope indeed stayed inside because that was Zeus’  will; he wanted to let people suffer in order to understand that they  should not disobey their gods.  Pandora was the right person to do it,  because she was curious enough, but not malicious.

I tell you this story not so that you will obey the mythical god Zeus, but so that you can see that, if you close Pandora's box after being curious enough to open it, the only thing you will do is close off your access to hope for a better world. Once the box is opened, it cannot be closed or your hope for a better way of life will be closed off to you forever. But enough with the mythology. What is in the Pandora papers and why is it so important? Well, you can pretty much boil it down to two words: tax fraud. "Leaked records show that, for as little as a few hundred dollars,  celebrities and other wealthy people have opened companies offshore and...saved hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars  in taxes. But those savings come at a cost to the public. By  routing income and other assets, at least on paper, to offshore  jurisdictions with low tax rates, the rich and powerful shift more of  the tax burden to ordinary citizens who pay taxes where they work and  live, leaving them to bear the cost of services and infrastructure like  schools and paved roads. Economists say that offshore holdings deprive  governments of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue every year. (ICIJ.org)" If you want any hope for lower taxes, listen up.  

Demi Lovato thinks you should stop calling aliens aliens because the aliens may have their alien feelings hurt. This is so interesting to me because now we are getting into the territory of protecting the feelings of those we do not even know exist. Even if they do exist, who is to say they would be offended by the term? Humans are the ones who are offended by that term, so I never refer to humans that way. But we have no evidence to suggest that an alien species would be anything like us. In fact, many scientists believes aliens do not even have emotions. So, what is the big deal here exactly? Always remember that ideas such as race, beauty and class are human social constructs that are bandied about for political gain. They have no real grounding in reality. We use them as tools to further our political agendas. I have never called a human immigrant an alien, but then again I have never called a human immigrant an immigrant either. I usually refer to them by their name. Why not just wait until you learn the name of someone or something before you call it anything at all? Why is there this need in people to classify things according to their political worldview? Because none of this is about protecting or respecting different species. It is about projecting worldviews into far away places that will one day become colonies of the planet earth. Where do you think this space exploration stuff is going? Do you think America would waste money to go to space if its government was not hell bent on conquering it? That is all this is. Over the years, I have grown tired of the moral conquests of both the left and the right. I am not interested anymore. I do not care what Demi Lovato thinks about aliens at all. I also do not understand why actors are allowed to pretend that they are scientists or linguists with no formal training whatsoever. These celebrities are not ambassadors of peace and good will. They are marketers for the various companies they work for. Do you really care what companies want you to call aliens? Hell, I do not even care if companies go out of business. I also find it a bit perturbing that vast amounts of money are generated from alien fantasies and no one seems to wonder who benefits from all of this hype. If you look into it you will find that organizations like SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) are receiving massive funding to basically sit around dreaming up little green men. Meanwhile, no one has the wherewithal to cure cancer or search for an aids vaccine or help you get dental insurance. Everyday, the alien thing is becoming more and more of rich man's vanity hobby, not the fun science fiction it once was. Even some scientists agree. "But some astronomers worry the funding boon is distorting science.  Fernando Camilo, chief scientist of the South African Radio Astronomy  Observatory, says Breakthrough Listen's voracious appetite for time on  large telescopes leaves him uncomfortable. "It leaves less time to do  astronomy." Others say SETI's high-risk, rush-for-the-prize approach  could distract funders from a more rational, stepwise search for  extraterrestrial life. "We do have a really thoughtful process on what  gets funded and what doesn't," says Harvard University astronomer David  Charbonneau. "That doesn't happen with rich individuals." (science.org) That is the key argument right there. Why are we wasting time looking for aliens when we have so many scientific problems we can solve with a more rational, evidence based approach? Is it the job of science to fulfill the fantasies of the wealthy? Perhaps that is why so many people refuse to understand science. Perhaps they have grown tired of playing the rich person's game. Religion remains more attractive to many than science specifically because of odd projects like these. A church gives at least some money to the poor. Demi Lovato gives money to failed astronomers. Bravo Demi, bravo.

When I was young, I was a poet. I published my first poem by the time I was sixteen. I had written so many poems that my sister had to buy me extra journals just to keep up with my furious pace of writing. There was so much to say, and so little time. Back then, I wrote mostly for clarity. Writing your thoughts down in verse tends to help you see things that you otherwise would not have seen, to hear things that you otherwise would have ignored. In art, we create perfect worlds so that we can see the faults in our own real world, and, hopefully, fix them before it is too late. I wrote copious amounts of literature because I knew trouble was coming. I knew that the fault line was beginning to rumble, that the fabric of society was being eaten by ravenous moths, that those moths had laid their larvae in our schools, in our libraries, in our governments, in our histories. You can kill all the adult moths you like, but they will keep laying those eggs and more will appear until you actually wash the filth out of your clothing that is. Today we are doing our best to rid ourselves of the adult moths, but we still have not had a thorough enough cleansing to snuff them out for good. This makes sense because larvae fly under the radar. They cannot be seen, nor heard. And so it is the job of the poet to make them known to a world that has proven unsuccessful at seeing problems for itself. The poet brings clarity, but it is up to you to take action. So what will you do? What will you do when all the scapegoats have been washed away? What will you do when all the threats have been vanquished? What will you do when the protests finally stop? What will you do when crime goes back down? What will you do when the politicians have had their elections? What will you do when the police stop taking your calls? What will you do when the college professors walk off their jobs? What will you do when the healthcare professionals go on strike? What will you do when the unemployed get new jobs? What will you do when the hiring managers are your enemies? What will you do when those who have been defeated, temporarily, rise again? What will you do when the people you have wronged gain positions of power? Will your enemies forgive you? Do they have a reason to? It is easy to say what goes around comes back around, but that is not what actually happens. Hamlet does not simply take his revenge in the fashion of Karma or an "eye for an eye". He goes much further than that. Revenge has nothing to do with equality; equality prevents revenge from ever occurring in the first place. But if there really is no equality. If it really is just every person for themselves, the what, exactly is to stop the people you have wronged from having their revenge on you? Everyone is touchable. Everyone can be gotten to. No one is immune. Those in despair can be become obsessed with revenge. It can become an almost religious experience to get back at others. Revenge gives people god like powers. Revenge can also drive people mad, causing them to have a blood lust that is downright insatiable. If you do not make up with your enemies before it is too late, there will come a time when they have the advantage. Everyone expects to be forgiven, but how do you know everyone has the power to forgive? And will forgiveness be enough? Will you need acceptance too? Will you need a friend? A lover? A leader? What if they forgive you with silence? With apathy? With just desserts? Once you burn a bridge to the ground and dance on its ashes there is nothing left to rebuild. It is gone...forever. Some day you will need those that you have wronged. And they will look at you and laugh. Then, there you will be, alone and with nothing: no prospects, no future, no career, no hope...nothing. What will you do? What will you do? What will you do? The next time you turn down those who are left out just remember that they remember too. So what will you do? What will you do? What will you do?  

These days, whenever someone criticizes anything or anyone, even things that everyone used to agree was awful such as life-threatening diseases or poverty, the rich and famous cold-heartedly mutter, “haters gonna hate” and go about their business. Apart from this being the most painfully redundant statement ever made by the rich and famous, it is also extremely hypocritical because the rich and famous are some of the biggest damn haters on the planet. Celebrities and politicians argue with each other on social media all the time, but they also demand respect from perfect strangers on social media as well. Much of this anti-cancel culture nonsense is just a bunch of bullies complaining about not being able to bully others any longer. But if you fight back against their bullying then you are the aggressor. A perfect example is the mass banning of Occupy Wall Street Twitter accounts by everyone’s favorite pretend liberal Jack Dorsey. In 2018 Dorsey suspended several Occupy Wall Street accounts with no explanation. Twitter claimed it was trying to clean up accounts associated with Trump, but instead wiped out eighty accounts (with a combined 5 million followers) that were created as early as 2012, long before Trump came on the scene. Dorsey has flip flopped on cancel culture repeatedly, one minute championing internet free speech and the next banning accounts at will because, well…he can. It’s not enough that Dorsey controls a successful company, he has to wipe out your tweets if you disagree with him too. Sounds like a sore winner to me. Many people who are successful are like this. They get in their heads that the things they say are the best because they have done well for themselves. There are all kinds of musicians doing this all the time. Just look at a list of these songs, all by rich people, basically bragging to their old friends about how awesome they are for having some dumb corporation buy their songs: "Gives You Hell" by The American Rejects, "What Goes Around Comes Around" by Justin Timberlake, "How Do You Like Me Now?" by Toby Keith, "Haters" by Hilary Duff, "Don't You Just Hate Those People?" by Jennette Mcurdy, "H.A.T.E.U" by Mariah Carey, "Jealous" by Nick Jonas (seriously though, no one is jealous of Nick Jonas), and "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift. The irony of all of these songs is that they are decrying bullying while at the same time bullying the people who bullied them. I mean think about it. All of these people are now worth millions of dollars, they all live in mansions, they all have health insurance, the eat the best food, wear the best clothes, and hobnob with kings and queens. Haven't they taken over the role of bully now? They are making money by shit talking about their old friends on national television in front of millions of their adoring fans for crying out loud! Is that really brave? Is that what you call courage? Talking shit when you know you have millions of fans who will back you up regardless of how crazy you sound? Is that what we are now calling "gansta"? Is that really hood? Now anything anyone else has to add is “cancel culture”. Jerry Seinfeld has bemoaned cancel culture perhaps louder than anyone else. But he has also done a lot of canceling of his own. The comedian ran to the defense of his friend Michael Richards after Richards said “nigger” about 100 times, but he certainly was not about to defend Bobcat Goldthwait’s opinions. Seinfeld went as far as to trash talk Goldthwait on his show “Comedians With Coffee in Cars”, stating that Bobcat was a “loser” and “not funny”. All of this because Bobcat told a joke about Seinfeld sleeping with a teenager, which is true by the way, a few decades back. Yeah, it’s true that haters gonna hate, but a lot of times y’all don’t realize that the biggest haters have hit sitcoms or TV specials. What those people are really communicating to us is that only the rich and famous deserve the luxury of free speech. Bunch of sore winners if you ask me.

Psst, hey conspiracy theorists...I have a secret to tell you. No, no seriously listen close. Closer...closer. Press your ear up against your phone or computer. Quick, hurry! They might be watching. Are you ready for the secret? I am watching you. That is right. I have my eyes on you, all the time. Why? Because you are a threat to humanity. You sit there in your boxers downing sustainably raised Oreo cookies and farting out tweets all day about Alec Baldwin so, to put it bluntly, you are some lame ass nerds who need a serious reality check and I am here to give it to you. You may think that conspiracy theories are harmless, that if we simply let time pass then they will go away, but you are wrong. Take vaccines, for example. A lot of people think anti-vaxx theories are relatively new. Many believe they started in the 1990s after the fraudulent study came out linking vaccines to autism with no evidence whatsoever. But they actually started much sooner than that. "While anti-vaxxing has been largely absent from presidential politics,  opposition to vaccines has been around for at least as long as  vaccinations themselves. When Boston physician Zabdiel Boylston began  rubbing slices from smallpox sores into open wounds to try to protect  the healthy from outbreaks in the early 1700s, his (then unproven)  inoculation method was met with immediate resistance." (The Pacific Standard) The 1700s eh? Well, that's only around 300 years or so. I am sure that everyone's fears will alleviate as soon as we relax the mandates, right? Yeah, no. "In the United States, local and state authorities began implementing  mandatory vaccination policies in the early 1800s; Boston was the first to do so in 1809. Today, vaccinations are considered to be one of the greatest public-health achievements of the 20th century by the Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention, reducing deaths from preventable  diseases like polio, smallpox, and measles by nearly 100 percent. Yet  opposition has never been fully eradicated." (The Pacific Standard) Nor will opposition ever be fully eradicated because people do not handle you conspiracy theorists in the appropriate manner. They believe that coddling you and kissing your boos boos will make you want to please daddy and mommy, but I know that will never happen. I know that you conspiracy theorists get off on fantasizing about all kinds of things that are not really because you are just too terrified to live in the real world. Children, scared children that is, engage in imaginative fantasies all the time in order to protect them from getting their feelings hurt. Conspiracy theorist are grown ass kids who continue to do the same. They believe the moon is a projection, that JFK was murdered by George Bush, that the earth is flat, that aliens built the pyramids, and all other whack a doodle beliefs that normal people would scoff at. This is a threat to our safety and so I have come to cut through the bullshit. Today I offer you some lesser known conspiracy theories that, no doubt, will pose just as much of a threat as anti-vaxx conspiracy theories someday. Conspiracy theories always begin with a small cult following. Then, once a time of pain and anguish hits, people cling to them like Katy Perry trying to cling to her sanity. But no more. I will expose as many conpsiracy theories as I can for the frauds they are before they become popular and destroy even more lives. I will follow and mock you wherever you go. I will discredit everything you have to say. This is the Conspiracy Watch. For now, I bid you bittersweet dreams conspiracy theorist; here's looking at you bitch. 

The beginning of 2020 was a careless year, perhaps the most careless I have ever seen, and 2021 has been no different. The grandiose calls for "more empathy" and "equality" amounted to jack shit in the end. The same people who were oppressed in 2020 are still oppressed today. Literally nothing has changed. In fact, it has gotten quite a bit worse. The extended benefits are gone and the infrastructure bill has absolutely nothing in it that will be of any worth to real people because billionaires whined until they go their way as usual. And you all allowed that to happen. You sat by and did nothing to prevent it. Why? Because you do not care. You do not care about me. You do not care about your friends. You do not care about your family. You care about yourself. You are selfish. That is the end of it. You are so selfish that you think everyone is judging you; that is yet another act of selfishness. Why would anyone care what you do in your spare time? Why would anyone care how you dress? Why would anyone care how much money you make? Why would anyone care how popular you are? No one does, but you certainly do. You care how you are perceived by others; that is why you are all over social media spreading your various unwanted opinions to the world. You need to feel that you are somehow in control of others. And so you, because you are fighting for control of the world, you assume, incorrectly, that other people are trying to stop you from being the best, the brightest, the biggest. But no such thing is going on. No one is listening to your stage play. People fell asleep during your performance long ago and now they are looking for the exit. All those beautiful pictures you took will eventually wind up in the garbage. All those connections you made in your social circles will eventually dissolve. All the jobs you pursue, if you gain them at all, will eventually be taken from you. The "status" you currently have means nothing. It is a show, a parade, an advertisement that was written, directed and produced by none other than you. No one cares. This may sound harsh, but it can actually be quite the relief. Study after study has proven that human beings are self absorbed creatures, that they only care about themselves. Of course people will continue to refuse to accept this simple fact because people are performers. They love to feel like their view of the world is reality. And so people keep freaking out when they spill mustard on their shirt. They fiddle with their clothing to make sure they do not look fat. They prepare themselves to go out, sometimes for hours. And for what? Nothing. No one saw any of it. Do you know what they saw? Themselves. All that time you put into your look was for you. It makes you feel good to think that you are prettier than everyone else, that you have more money than others, that you are the best person to ever live. Everybody wants to be the king; nobody wants to be the fool. But if everybody wants to be king and assumes that they are kings, does it not follow that kings do not care about commoners? Do you really care about your subjects or do you allow them to starve on the street? Indeed, do you not dictate to your subjects what they can and cannot eat? Do you not instruct your subjects to bow before your righteousness, to adopt your moral creed? Of course you do. You are like everyone else. So run to your social media pages and decree with gusto your ten commandments, unleash your punishments upon the world, take your revenge. You are Hamlet. You are Iago. You are Agamemnon. You are Achilles. You are Macbeth. Your anxiety about what others think of you, is nothing more than a veiled threat. People better bow before you or you will go mad with jealousy and destroy all who stand in your way. Everyone better notice when your hair is frizzy. They better not like your outfit. They better be making fun of you. Because you hate yourself so everyone else must, as per your royal decree.  

For years now we have been subjected to the tomfoolery and overall ridiculous behavior of Robert Kelly. Over and over again, his behavior has been excused, dismissed and even completely ignored as "harmless boyish behavior" that "any man would do were he in his position". I take offense to such a vile claim. Who is to say that sexual urges are uncontrollable? All of us have no doubt fantasized about things; there is nothing wrong with that. But, when you take those fantasies to the next level by forcing yourself on or controlling others, that is when you have gone too far. That is called breaking the law. Unfortunately, fans often make excuses for their heroes. They elevate these famous people to an almost god like status, where they can do no wrong. Then we wonder why they would dare do such a thing. Why not? If there are never any consequences for their actions, then why follow any law at all? What is the point? If you are under the impression that you can do no wrong, then why would you ever stop yourself from doing anything? Such is the case with Robert Kelly, a man who believed he was untouchable, that he could get away with anything. Well, that time has swiftly come to an end. As I have said before, the bigger they are, the harder they fall; and the harder they fall, the harder I laugh. There is no such thing as too big to fail, nor is there such a thing as too famous to go to break the law. Social media and proper marketing got R. Kelly off the first time around, but it did not help him this time. "After more than 25 years of accusations and a federal court trial in New York  that lasted seven weeks, R&B singer R. Kelly has been found guilty of charges including sexual exploitation of a  child, bribery, racketeering and sex trafficking involving five victims.  Kelly faces a possible sentence of 10 years to life in prison." (PBS News) Twenty-five years is a long time, especially since everyone knows that R. Kelly married singer Aliyah when she was only fifteen years old. Aliyah's parents eventually had the marriage dismantled. Kelly got a fake identification card for Aliyah so he could marry the singer. A lot of people claim to have love for Aliyah, as well they should; she is undoubtedly one of the best performers to ever live. But what kind of love makes it okay for a grown ass man to have sex with a fifteen year old girl? You are aware that women experience difficulty giving birth at such an age, right? You should be. Your actions have consequences and you need to recognize those consequences. What we should not be doing is making excuses for people with power; that only serves to bolster the culture of abuse that we have created. Kelly deserves jail time for his heinous crimes. Yet Bill Cosby gave an interview to defend Kelly because he knows how easily you all can be swayed by the love of celebrity, "Cosby believes the pervy singer “was screwed” and that “he wasn’t going  to catch a break” during the month-long trial, according to his  spokesman, Andrew Wyatt...“The deck was stacked against Robert,” said Wyatt. “His constitutional  rights were grossly abused. I don’t know anywhere but in this country in  the United States that a documentary can bring criminal charges against someone.” The deck was stacked against the guy who got away with banging teenagers for years, hey? Thanks for the cracker jack analysis Bill, but I think I'll stick with the law on this one. This just shows that those who prey together, stay together. They all protect each other, these abusers, because they know that kind and decent humans would rather have them in jail, not running around touching little girls. Have some more pudding and sit down.

I am not one for mystical sayings; however, sometimes what seems mystical is nothing more than an simple aspect of reality that has been romanticized by mystics. Such is the case with the unavoidable damage that is always caused by greed. As I write this, celebrity Paris Hilton recently donned a bridal gown completely made of toilet paper as some kind of attempt at humor (I have a theory that once you become ridiculously rich all humor within you dies and turns into cruelty) that just turned out to be yet another example of celebrity privilege during at time of great distress. People are once again emptying store shelves of staples, thus causing inflation to shoot through the roof once more. This will undoubtedly be blamed on Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress, but it is really the fault of hoarders. I have stated repeatedly that hoarding, apart from often times being a mental disorder, is a threat to the nation in general. These people sit around all day watching idiots on youtube blather about the impending end of the world that people have been incorrectly predicting for thousands of years now. This frightens them and causes them to venture off to Costco to buy out all of the food and supplies; these people are literally a burden on society. They cause havoc everywhere they go. Hoarding should be discouraged, but instead it has a whole online community that has renamed itself "prepping" in order to maintain a more positive image. But really all they are doing is stealing from the likes of you and me. You are only supposed to purchase what you need during an emergency. The suppliers are still having a hard time getting food to their locations. This is no fault of the media or the government, which both have reported on this over and over again. This is the fault of idiots who believe that milk and chocolate chip cookies will somehow save them from impending doom. But that doom is manufactured by the very people who are preparing for it. Now, because of this ridiculous decadence, our schools are experiencing food shortages. Again, this has nothing to do with supply shortages, which are a whole different animal. This is due to slow shipping by the businesses that are short staffed, largely by their own choice, and greed of the citizenry. Perhaps we should start having elections for CEOs and people within our communities. If you hoard, you are an automatic no go for me. Schools are now experiencing shortages of staples like milk, chicken nuggets and kitchen cleaning supplies. Do you have any idea how utterly frightening that is? Probably not. Jake Tapper probably told you it was all good, kissed your boo boo with some irrelevant poll and made you feel better. Do you have any idea what happens when a staff of a cafeteria are forced to provide their own cooking and cleaning supplies? Do you have any idea how unsafe that is? How unsanitary? Probably not, some hoarder on youtube probably told you clean cooking and eating was not essential during the end times, that you would be caught up in the clouds by some spirit guide that would make all the food poisoning go away. You do realize that flu season is here, right? Do you know what happens when you combine salmonella, e. coli, the flu, and covid-19 during the coldest days of the year? Go to a school and I am sure you will find out. In some school districts parents are already being asked to provide bagged lunches for their kids; keep in mind that many parents rely on the lunch programs provided by their schools, not everyone can pack their kids a bento box with sustainably raised chicken breasts and quinoa. I am getting a little sick and tired of having to explain common courtesy to people. Once you start to screw around with the well-being of poor children, who already suffer far more than other being on the planet, you have a special place on my shit list. I will no longer be silent. Hoarders suck. Dick around on youtube all you want, but keep that shit at home.

Blackfishing, a term developed by black women to describe white celebrity's who adopt black physical features in order to trick others into thinking that they are black, is the new blackface. Blackface was used to openly attack black people onstage and make them seem culturally irrelevant to the American experience. Blackface was also utilized by white celebrities to mock black people, often times stereotyping blacks as lazy, uneducated, useless, and unimportant. Blackface minstrelsy is considered by many to be the first original form of American entertainment; one of the main reason why racism remains a problem to this very day is because it was ingrained in American culture by this racist "performance art". Initially, blacks were not even allowed to play these characters because the all white entertainment establishment considered black people to be too unintelligent to be able to rehearse and memorize lines. "White men would darken their faces to create caricatures of black people, including large mouths, lips and eyes, woolly hair and  coal-black skin." (AP News) John Gruden's recent comments about black football players having "big lips" is nothing new; he is merely pulling from his deeply racist culture. Surely, such a degenerate and childish form of entertainment must have developed as a Southern response to losing the Civil War, right? Wrong. That is a myth that dimwitted networks like the History Channel have promulgated. Here is the real history of blackface, "The practice took hold in New York City in the 1830s and became immensely popular among post-Civil War whites. In fact, the Jim Crow  laws that enforced racial segregation in the South took their name from a  character played by blackface performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice. He said  his act “Jump, Jim Crow” (or “Jumping Jim Crow”) was inspired by a slave he saw." While it is true that blackface became much more popular in the south after the Civil War, it was actually the racist "genius" of good old New York City that invented it. Racism remains a huge problem in New York to this day. Though it loves to paint itself as some bastion of Civil Rights, the New York entertainment industry rarely hires black performers specifically because of its very racist roots, this idea that white performers are superior to black performers. Now you know why every time I hear Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind", I cringe at the thought of a black man encouraging other black people to have such a racist state of mind. That godawful song remains my least favorite Jay Z song of all time to this very day, but white people sure do love it, don't they? White people loved blackface too and they still do. Who could forget Robert Downey Jr, Ted Danson, Billy Crystal, Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Falon all dawning the blackface makeup only to then pretend that they were not mocking blacks for laughs? White people can forget, but I ain't white. An African man once told me that the elephant never forgets his fallen brethren; instead the forlorn elephant will stop at the grave site of his ancestors and mourn sometimes for hours. Consider me the elephant in the room of the black world. I will never stop mourning my ancestors; you cannot make me forget. I owe you nothing but the truth, and the truth is not as pretty as pictures on Instagram. This is the real world. There are no filters. "In 1848, after watching a blackface act, abolitionist Fredrick Douglass called the  performers “the filthy scum of white society” in The North Star newspaper. Blackface performers, he said, “have stolen from us a complexion denied to them  by nature...to make money and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow-citizens.” Now we have blackfishing, and, once again, white people are putting on makeup, clothing and hairstyles in order to portray themselves as stereotypes to make money while pandering to their white fellow citizens. To be frank, this sucks. Boo! Get off the stage!

Downers are always the loudest people in the room, not because they have something important to say, but because they thrive on killing intelligent discussion. Downers suck the life force out of us all in order to prolong their nonsensical suffering, which is the only thing that gives them comfort. Downers may appear depressed or forlorn, but really their ill tempers and contrariness is just a way of exerting control over others. The reality, of course, is that downers are notorious for their weak and feeble minds. They lack a sense of control in the only place they have any control whatsoever, their minds. It takes a weak-minded person to attack others and then hide behind the veil of "comedy". If you are going to attack someone, the least you can do is own up to your actions. But downers like Joe "Right Wing Slogan" Rogan and Steven "The Downer" Crowder never take responsibility for any of their actions. America offers idiots like this adulation because they are portrayed as individualistic heroes, fighting against the horrors of what they have termed "cancel culture". But, when the tables are turned, and they are the ones doing the canceling, cancel culture is just fine. In fact Joe "Horse Boy" Rogan currently has a video up on youtube entitled "Joe Rogan Cancels the Cancelers". Wait, so it is completely acceptable for right wingers to cancel people (let us not forget that Trump fired someone on a weekly basis while in office) but the so-called "radical left" is berated for calling Rogan out for taking horse pills and encouraging people not to get vaccinated? Right. Okay, whatever, but I am not going to go for that. Rogan is currently throwing a hissy fit (guess I should say a horsey fit) because CNN told him to stop telling people to take horse pills. Rogan is even threatening to sue CNN for "defamation of character", which I am pretty sure is a term that he heard on Judge Joe Brown. The irony and hypocrisy here should not go unnoticed. Rogan has repeatedly defamed people's character on his show including, but not limited to: trans people, gay people, non-binary people, liberals, black people, Asian people, Mexican people, immigrants, women, and anyone who is a half a pound overweight. He makes a living off of his unintelligible and derogatory shock humor which seeks to elevate far right conservatism to divine status, yet he is offended when people state facts. This is the anti cancel culture crusade: railing against those who criticize you so that you can be the one to cancel them. They are the biggest hypocrites of the modern era. But Rogan is nothing compared to Steven Crowder, who reached an all time low recently by being openly racist against Asian people on his dumb show "Louder With Crowder", even the title reeks of stupidity. Crowder, much like Joe Rogan, hates, well, everyone, especially people who are not white, straight and male like he is. He already has a strike on his youtube channel for making offensive remarks against the trans community. Crowder alleged that Trans woman had raped a female inmate at a California prison causing the woman to become pregnant. The problem with his claim is that it never actually happened. "No one in California's women's prisons has become pregnant while in custody, according to a California Department of Corrections and  Rehabilitation (CDCR) spokesperson." Crowder received a week's suspension for his incorrect comments and then proceeded to bitch about "free speech" on twitter. Now he is at it again, making outrageous stereotypical comments about the appearance of Asian people. The truth is that Crowder, Rogan and all of his counterparts in the right wing movement do this intentionally to generate engagement on social media. It causes prolonged discussions which lead to more advertising time and more depressed people buying shit they don't need. This is the algorithm that Rogan and Crowder are slaves to. Why would you like to listen to people who are so weak?