Fallon will probably find out that even by avoiding offending the pricktator he's going to end up causing some slight somehow. And we all still remember when he ruffled the pricktator's head-gerbil.
In this current political environment, every time I hear some figure talk about "both sides" I get a little suspicious. And of course there is still the lack of solidarity.
Yes, the lack of solidarity it telling. He probably tells himself he's protecting his crew, his staff etc, but honestly that's how you become complicit with evil, by trying to save that which is dearest to you. Your family, home, job. This is why it is those with nothing to lose are reliably at the front of resistance and revolution. It is rare that those with much to lose actually put it on the line. Colbert is brave, and braver still now that his job has an expiration date. This is not a coincidence, this is human natute and the regime looks to exploit it.
Everyone has their own line of ethics drawn in the sand. Not everyone will stand up when pushed. I fear the day we find out is coming for us all, and soon.
I used to watch Fallon clips along with clips from Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers and the Daily Show. I faded him out of the line up because his humor remains too "adolescent male" for my tastes and THAT fails the present moment. Sure, Fallon thinks he's anodyne enough for the current moment, but should Trump not drop dead in a timely enough manner, Fallon and his "great team of writers", not to mention his Tonight Show band, The Roots (Jimmy, please look across your soundstage to see why your show will NEVER be acceptable to a government of "anti-diversity" White Supremacist autocrats) will soon enough also be "gone". At least the guys I still watch are willing, so far, to go down fighting.
Now which odious high-level Nazi do we think the Baroness ended up as mistress of?
When I read the title, I thought of that scene in "The Sound of Music." It's powerful - so powerful, that when I first saw it, I knew that Captain von Trapp had done the right thing, and I was only 4 years old! Maybe it was because it was 1965, only 20 years since the end of WWII, and all adults then remembered the war, which was communicated to us Boomers. Yes, there was cheering in the theater! Sadly, many Boomers seem to have forgotten what our parents taught us about Nazis. As for Fallon, BrandoG is right. His humor doesn't have to be political, but he should be standing FOR his fellow comedians, instead, he thinks to save himself by being a coward, and apparently one that isn't very funny. However, that won't save him, as has been pointed out, should trump gain total power. It's my hope that won't happen (total power for trump), but it won't be because of Fallon, it will be because of his brave colleagues who are funny and mock the regime, and because of We the People standing up to the regime, not to mention the airports NOT showing Nazi Barbie's propaganda video at TSA checkpoints.
My fun fact about TSOM was the city of Salzburg where they were filming it at first refused to display Nazi flags for the film so the producers said instead they’d just use actual footage from the Nazi era showing people cheering the flag and marching with the Nazis in the city. So the city decided to relent and let them fly the flags for the movie as that wouldn’t look as bad.
I don’t really mind that a comedian like Fallon tries to be apolitical—some comedians’ comedy just works that way (Gaffigan, Regan, Bargatze—very funny comedians but their acts are not edgy or political at all, to the point that Gaffigan even had to publicly denounce Trump because a lot of fans had assumed he was a closet MAGA—same thing Taylor Swift had to do! In her case because the alt-Right held her up as their Nazi goddess. Nope, folks, Swift is just about a solid PR operation). I imagine if he tried being edgy, Fallon wouldn’t be able to pull it off.
But outside of his act, he really ought to be speaking out for his colleagues. Nazis always go after the jesters first, as ridicule is the one thing they cannot stand as it exposes them for their weakness in a way that serious criticism cannot. And even Falcon’s bland shit won’t insulate him from the rage of that orange bag of shit. Totalitarians cannot stand the idea of any culture that is even neutral—it must praise him, or not exist at all. Comedians should be loudly united on this, before they get buried.
Hey where are last year’s “free speech for comedy” warriors? A lot of them have gone quiet lately.
"Free speech" in this political environment just means that you should be free to spew racial, ethnic and sexual slurs without people calling you an asshole for it.
Some of those warriors could well be all in on that Saudi comedy festival too.
Fallon will probably find out that even by avoiding offending the pricktator he's going to end up causing some slight somehow. And we all still remember when he ruffled the pricktator's head-gerbil.
In this current political environment, every time I hear some figure talk about "both sides" I get a little suspicious. And of course there is still the lack of solidarity.
Yes, the lack of solidarity it telling. He probably tells himself he's protecting his crew, his staff etc, but honestly that's how you become complicit with evil, by trying to save that which is dearest to you. Your family, home, job. This is why it is those with nothing to lose are reliably at the front of resistance and revolution. It is rare that those with much to lose actually put it on the line. Colbert is brave, and braver still now that his job has an expiration date. This is not a coincidence, this is human natute and the regime looks to exploit it.
Everyone has their own line of ethics drawn in the sand. Not everyone will stand up when pushed. I fear the day we find out is coming for us all, and soon.
Kimmel = Antifa. Fallon = Profa.
I used to watch Fallon clips along with clips from Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers and the Daily Show. I faded him out of the line up because his humor remains too "adolescent male" for my tastes and THAT fails the present moment. Sure, Fallon thinks he's anodyne enough for the current moment, but should Trump not drop dead in a timely enough manner, Fallon and his "great team of writers", not to mention his Tonight Show band, The Roots (Jimmy, please look across your soundstage to see why your show will NEVER be acceptable to a government of "anti-diversity" White Supremacist autocrats) will soon enough also be "gone". At least the guys I still watch are willing, so far, to go down fighting.
Now which odious high-level Nazi do we think the Baroness ended up as mistress of?
When I read the title, I thought of that scene in "The Sound of Music." It's powerful - so powerful, that when I first saw it, I knew that Captain von Trapp had done the right thing, and I was only 4 years old! Maybe it was because it was 1965, only 20 years since the end of WWII, and all adults then remembered the war, which was communicated to us Boomers. Yes, there was cheering in the theater! Sadly, many Boomers seem to have forgotten what our parents taught us about Nazis. As for Fallon, BrandoG is right. His humor doesn't have to be political, but he should be standing FOR his fellow comedians, instead, he thinks to save himself by being a coward, and apparently one that isn't very funny. However, that won't save him, as has been pointed out, should trump gain total power. It's my hope that won't happen (total power for trump), but it won't be because of Fallon, it will be because of his brave colleagues who are funny and mock the regime, and because of We the People standing up to the regime, not to mention the airports NOT showing Nazi Barbie's propaganda video at TSA checkpoints.
My fun fact about TSOM was the city of Salzburg where they were filming it at first refused to display Nazi flags for the film so the producers said instead they’d just use actual footage from the Nazi era showing people cheering the flag and marching with the Nazis in the city. So the city decided to relent and let them fly the flags for the movie as that wouldn’t look as bad.
I don’t really mind that a comedian like Fallon tries to be apolitical—some comedians’ comedy just works that way (Gaffigan, Regan, Bargatze—very funny comedians but their acts are not edgy or political at all, to the point that Gaffigan even had to publicly denounce Trump because a lot of fans had assumed he was a closet MAGA—same thing Taylor Swift had to do! In her case because the alt-Right held her up as their Nazi goddess. Nope, folks, Swift is just about a solid PR operation). I imagine if he tried being edgy, Fallon wouldn’t be able to pull it off.
But outside of his act, he really ought to be speaking out for his colleagues. Nazis always go after the jesters first, as ridicule is the one thing they cannot stand as it exposes them for their weakness in a way that serious criticism cannot. And even Falcon’s bland shit won’t insulate him from the rage of that orange bag of shit. Totalitarians cannot stand the idea of any culture that is even neutral—it must praise him, or not exist at all. Comedians should be loudly united on this, before they get buried.
Hey where are last year’s “free speech for comedy” warriors? A lot of them have gone quiet lately.
"Free speech" in this political environment just means that you should be free to spew racial, ethnic and sexual slurs without people calling you an asshole for it.
Some of those warriors could well be all in on that Saudi comedy festival too.
Yep—a very limited crusade for free speech indeed.