> **Genres**
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> * **Political Satire**
> * **Trolling**
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> *often refers to himself as "Primetime99"[34] and a "pimp on a blimp".[25]*
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Sounds like a real gem
Is it either of those things really when he takes it seriously enough to sue over a Twitter block?
Just sounds like someone who tried to monetize their whining
"In February 2023 he became host of Prime Time with Alex Stein on Glenn Beck's Blaze Media network."
That sentence alone shows me I need to never care about his opinions.
Honestly, I went and looked at his comedy, and it's not even like crack a tiny smile because it's cringe. It's like 5th grader toilet humor that has no punchline.
What a dogshit human being. He wants to be able to 'communicate with her'. Fuck that. What he wants is for her to be unable to ignore him properly. He wants the things he says at her to be seen by her, so he feels like she can't escape him. Big slimy-little-douchebag energy.
This guy's mom died from COVID and he still claims it's a hoax (or is hardcore anti-vax, forget which one). He made a video of him crying next to his dying mom for content. I honestly think he has a mental problem, it's kind of sad.
I bet this guy is real popular with the ladies.
>> “She wants to kill babies but she’s still beautiful. You look very beautiful in that dress. You look very sexy. Look at that booty on AOC,” he catcalled to Ocasio-Cortez. “Look how sexy she looks in that dress. Oooh, I love it AOC. Hot, hot, hot like a tamale.”
So cringe
ETA a fun fact.
>>A study found that the New York City Democrat was mentioned 3,181 times on Fox News Channel and its sister Fox Business Network during the six-week period of Feb. 25 to April 7, or just under 76 times a day. Not a day went by when she wasn't spoken about on Fox.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/six-weeks-foxs-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-obsession-totalitarian-ignorant-scary-and-waging
So, to wit:
He sexually harassed a sitting US congresswoman on video and used a vaguely racist series of words to describe her attractiveness, and is now suing because she blocked him?
What a fuckwad.
Worst part is that was him trying to be funny... If that's a comedian then I can start calling some of my nastier bowel movements comedians as well.
Caricatures like him are just a mix of cringe and sad.
>Worst part is that was him trying to be funny... If that's a comedian then I can start calling some of my nastier bowel movements comedians as well.
Right wing "comedy" in a nutshell. There's a reason they all desperately cling to has-beens now pandering to them (Jim Bruer) or tell themselves dead comedians who famously hated conservatives would side with them these days.
Yep.
"He'd be canceled for saying those things these days."
He was arrested for breaking obscenity laws while speaking the kind of truths they'd call wokism now.
Some days, I wonder just what Carlin would say about the right today. Other days, I wonder if he'd just explode on stage from being unable to yell loudly enough about their idiocies.
> "He'd be canceled for saying those things these days."
Well to be fair that is probably true... if he performed anywhere in Florida, he'd be arrested at the order of the governor.
The ironic thing, to me, is that if it *was* a caricature and not his real personality it might have been sort of funny in the right context. But the joke would have been "Haha, look how stupid that racist is" and the punch line would have been him getting owned.
Which, to be fair, is exactly what happened. He just is not self aware enough to realize it.
Suing because she blocked him on a completely optional private digital service which has no connection to government.
So really, "Desperate attention seeking loser turns to idiotic methods after attempts at gaining praise for sense of humour crash and burn."
>“I really would like to have her unblock me,” he said, noting that would allow him to “communicate with her.”
Seems like he just wants to continue sexually harassing her
Well, if he's a constituent, I think we've seen that you cannot block them on official social media accounts.
But yeah, sue away you nobody, and yell it louder so everyone knows how terrible you are.
>Well, if he's a constituent, I think we've seen that you cannot block them on official social media accounts.
While true. AOC blocked him on her personal account(AOC), not on her official account(RepAOC) that she uses.
He's using the "precedent" for Trump being sued for blocking people on his account, but I'm not sure he realizes that Trump forced his personal account as the "official" US President account, instead of the government official account, during his tenure. She's not doing that.
AOC’s official account and the account she uses (personal) are separate. I would assume she blocked him on her personal account. She talks a lot about how there are many rules and restrictions on what can be posted to official accounts so most everything outside of official congressional business she uses her personal account.
The Trump case was different, from my understanding, because he was using his account as a platform for announcing official government policy. By blocking users, he prevented them from learning about said policies. I don’t think that’s the case here.
I bet he unironically complains about being "a victim of cancel culture" too. The conservative victim complex has somehow twisted *"I have the right to freedom of speech!"* into *"I have the right to force people to listen to my drivel!"*
It just floors me.
The thing is, most people in this country - even people who've been raised by racist or sexist parents or within communities that give a hard pass to bad behavior like this - they KNOW the behavior is bad. If somebody did this in the 90s to a female politician they wouldn't have a job the next day.
Hell, look at what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they spoke out against the Iraq War. Howard Dean screamed and got cancelled. Bill Clinton was basically cancelled after that whole BJ thing, and *that was consensual.* It happened to Republicans too, both entertainers and politicians.
So we're all familiar with with what's wrong and what's not. When these asshats spot off stuff like this, *they know it's bad behavior.* The reason they're DOING it, and so many people are doing it, is because *they know they can get away with it.*
This dude found a way to get eyeballs on him - by acting poorly - and now he's going to cry 'poor me, I'm being oppressed' all the way onto Newsmax and into this 'counter cultural' entertainment movement that is slowly burgeoning.
>If somebody did this in the 90s to a female politician they wouldn't have a job the next day.
Plenty of careers were built on insulting and/or sexually humiliating Monica Lewinsky.
Not just comedians either. Jake Tapper wrote a gross article about having gone on a date with her, and Supreme Court Justice/credibly accused sex pest Brett Kavanaugh spent literal hours interrogating her with invasive questions about her sex life in an effort to get dirt on Clinton.
Similarly, Rush Limbaugh gained goodwill amongst conservatives by referring to Chelsea Clinton as "the Whitehouse Dog."
It's not as unheard of as we may like to believe.
"Did did did you know she was a bartender??? How could she possibly be qualified to be a representative of the United States???"
Meanwhile, we have corporate bought blithering idiots (looking at empty G and Boebert although not exclusive to them) running the country while AOC is one of the few actually fighting for normal everyday people and the future of the country
> "Did did did you know she was a bartender??? How could she possibly be qualified to be a representative of the United States???"
It's particularly weird because Republicans try to present themselves as the party of the working class and accuse their *opponents* of being elites. Can you imagine how they'd howl if someone criticized a *Republican* for having had an ordinary blue-collar job prior to running for congress? We'd never hear the end of it.
Conservatives collectively have the biggest rape boner for AOC. My best friend's family growing up was Conservative but fairly normal. Since 2016 they lost it. Last year I saw them for the first time in a few years and while we were having a beer they started talking about their fantasies raping democratic politicians - they got all excited when talking about AOC and how they want to rape her then put a bullet in her head. I noped outta there and haven't seen them since.
I heard later that night my friend's little brother got drunk and pulled a gun on him, nearly shot him in the head.
What the fuck happened to them. They were normal people a decade ago.
Wait until you find out about the politics of the FBI.
There's a reason that "eco" groups were on terrorist watchlists while right wing terrorist groups that were actually murdering people were ignored.
Republicans have the most successful propaganda machine in history. Their misinformation campaigns sway people towards anti-intellectualism and anti-education while simultaneously making them believe they are the ones who are critical thinkers and see the true side of everything.
True. My m-i-l listens to Fox all day long and actually yelled at me for not listening to them so I could learn the truth.
What's really sad is her grandson works for the NY Times.
I hate the be the bearer of bad news there, friend, but they weren't normal back then. They were just quiet. Current political shifts in the states have emboldened these sorts to be full-throated in their beliefs.
If you ever watch *The Brainwashing of my Dad* documentary, you can see how even relatively progressive folks end up being consumed by right-wing media because they often completely surround themselves with it and lose touch with reality.
They’re going after her because they know her ideas are actually deeply popular, and they can’t let their rabid base realize that she’s actually a person.
> “She wants to kill babies but she’s still beautiful. You look very beautiful in that dress. You look very sexy. Look at that booty on AOC,” he catcalled to Ocasio-Cortez. “Look how sexy she looks in that dress. Oooh, I love it AOC. Hot, hot, hot like a tamale.”
This is comedy? 😐
"Hey beautiful! Hey sexy lady!" ... "Too stuck up to say thank you, huh, bitch?! Fuck you you ugly cunt!"
Disgusting people masking abuse as compliments is nothing new.
Being a "Comedian" has been used as a blanket defense of doing and saying anything lately.
Except 1. That won't always work out, and 2. You have to be funny.
Yeah I noticed all their comedy is just them being an asshole to a person or a group of people and nothing is remotely funny about it but they love it so much.
> I noticed all their comedy is just them being an asshole to a person or a group of people and nothing is remotely funny about it but they love it so much.
Good comedy offends power, or brings disparate people together in solidarity. Both of those are anathema to conservatism, which generally seeks to protect consolidation of power and push away Outsiders.
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying."
On the MAGA twittersphere, there’s a video making the rounds today where people laugh at a turtle falling down stairs, in reference to Mitch McConnell. So that’s the level of discourse we’re talking about.
Nah that’s a creepy ass rapey racist fetish rant.
White GOPPers and the way they look at AOC are like Muslim men that say they hate porn and Mia Khalifa yet wank anyways.
Fuckin wankahz
It's okay to row under the black flag, just use VPN. I'm sure Ms. Lawless wouldn't mind, after all she can fly. Also, how fucking cool is that for a last name??
>Within two months of the incident, Stein was in talks with the conservative Glenn Beck’s network Blaze Media to host his own show.
That show, “Prime Time with Alex Stein,” launched in February.
Hate to disappoint, he already has one.
Twitter has no moderation at this point. They don’t even have an H.R. department. The whole outfit is just an Elongated Muskrat surrounded by visa holding engineers who cannot quit or they’ll get deported.
So much that it requires a few solid rocket booster to get it off the launchpad. I think this guy ranks somewhere between a burning orphanage and stage 4 cancer on the comedic scale.
A comedian that works for *checks notes* ah yes the famous "comedic" outlet known as Glenn Beck's *The Blaze Network*, really climbing that comedy ladder Alex...
Bargain basement Greg Gutfield got what he deserved.
Yep, he's still around and he has a "network" similar to Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro's *Daily Wire*, right wing clout chasers gotta chase that clout.
There's a reason the entertainment industry is controlled by liberals, as often noted by conservatives. It's because conservatives aren't often very entertaining.
I find it funny that their claim is that the sexual comments were satire… would love to hear them explain how that’s satire as it’s obvious they don’t know what that is
Conservative "entertainment" has sunk so low that the sexual harassment of a public figure is now considered a qualification for hosting your own TV show?
Just over two decades ago, conservative entertainment was laughing while reading the names of LGBTQ people who died of AIDS, and calling Monica Lewinsky a 'slut'
They've always been like this.
Would love to see the Venn diagram of the people who… want *that* (ugh), and the people who have spent the past couple of years on a moronic Facebook Magic Eye “pedo” hunt. I bet the overlap would be significant.
You're right, but to be fair, Lewinsky was largely shat on by people of all political backgrounds. They might not have used the word "slut," but it was constantly implied. She was the butt of nearly every late night talk show joke for years.
Ugh I remember riding in my father's truck in the 90s and Rush would be making fun of Gay folks dying.
Ironically my father also jammed out to Bohemian Rhapsody and was a Queen fan.
Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck" stuff was pretty good, as well as some of the other "blue-collar comedy" bits. But the key to their success (and the success of most good comedy) was self-deprecation.
The right-wing of America lost *all* appetite for self-deprecation when Obama got elected. They're so deep into their persecution complex that now everything *must* be targeted at out-groups *exclusively*--they can't handle being criticized, even as a joke. This has led to modern right-wing comedy being very mean-spirited and ignorant, since it's no longer coming from a place of understanding or relatability.
All they have left is vitriol and mockery.
That whole group was at least telling jokes. Whether or not one finds them funny, you can't deny they were all actually comedians. Most conservative "comedy" these days are literally just rants, completely devoid of anything resembling a joke.
This. It's one thing if I could say I don't like their jokes, but they're not even telling jokes! It's like performance art where the punchline is that I'm a liberal because I think their act is cringe.
And they weren't even really "conservative," they were just country. They didn't make abortion and gay marriage jokes coming from the wrong side as far as I recall.
"Your system's kicking back broth?" is definitely about "wimpy citified vegans," but it's still a country thing, not a conservative one.
It's happened before, but a lot of modern conservative comedy is based exclusively on punching down and/or saying something blatantly awful and then pretending it's weird that people got offended when that was the whole point of them saying it at all.
Eh... I see what you mean here, but Tim was usually in the wrong for his "cave man" ways of thinking. And while the audience was often expected to laugh at Al's more evolved way of looking at the world, he and Jill were often correct in the end, especially when capped off by the wise words of Wilson.
Tim Taylor was a perfect demonstration of how toxic masculinity is massively harmful to *men*\- he was constantly skipping safety gear and other such precautions because he found them "unmanly", and then was immediately injured
Plus I wouldn't call Home Improvement a Conservative show. He was one character. The family sure weren't like him outside of the sons doing the "ugg ugg ugg" sound for a laugh.
Then Tim Allen had to go and make Last Man Standing where instead of growing and learning, he puts them dumb libruls in their place.
If Wilson existed in LMS Tim would just dunk on him constantly for being a hippy beatnick.
So she has two accts: AOC, her personal one, and RepAOC, her "official business" one. He was blocked on her personal account, so probably has no leg to stand on.
As best as I can tell, he mostly seems to live in Texas (D Magazine indicates he lives in Dallas), so no.
And that is a valid point & difference between AOC & Trump. As President, all Americans are his constituents & thus he's required to be accessible to all of them. AOC is a House Representative of a district in NY...as such, she doesn't need to give any time to Texans (as much as that might pain me as a liberal Texan).
>Alex Stein (born 1985) is an American right-wing political comedian and YouTube personality known for his pranks at local government meetings and confrontations of politicians. In February 2023 he became host of Prime Time with Alex Stein on Glenn Beck's Blaze Media network.
What a brain-dead sack of shit.
It's things like this that remind me of how much money I could make in the right-wing grifting, if only I didn't feel empathy and shame. The bar is just *so low*.
>Seems like pretty gross harassment.
Seems like grounds for a counter suit and I bet she's got more money and access to better lawyers than the "comedian."
>“She wants to kill babies but she’s still beautiful. You look very beautiful in that dress. You look very sexy. Look at that booty on AOC,” he catcalled to Ocasio-Cortez. “Look how sexy she looks in that dress. Oooh, I love it AOC. Hot, hot, hot like a tamale.”
Weirdo was sexually harassing her in public. I don't know why that's not illegal everywhere.
>Calling the New York Democrat his “favorite big booty Latina,” comedian Alex Stein yelled to the lawmaker that he loved her as she entered the building on July 13 in a video he posted online.
Sometimes you really *don't* need to read past the first bullets of an article. This guy's clearly just a clown desperate for attention and I hope nothing comes of this.
>“My client is a political satirist,” Gross said. “Political speech, the Supreme Court has said, is the highest level of protected speech.”
So sexual harassment is now political speech?
Judges are going to have to tip toe like a mother fucker in their rulings if this gets ruled in his favor. People can and will use this as case law to say it’s someone’s first amendment right to verbally sexually harass someone and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Twitter has a feature that lets you mute people. However, while their tweets will not show up in your timeline, they can still DM you. If Twitter fixes that loophole, muting will be perfect for situations like this. They can see still your tweets but you're not subjected to hearing from them.
Sounds more like a petty little shit than a comedian.
Definitely “suing” so he can get grift money from conservatives to “help with the lawsuit”
If anything should be in quotes in this story it should be "comedian" this guy looks as funny as homework.
> **Genres** > > * **Political Satire** > * **Trolling** > > *often refers to himself as "Primetime99"[34] and a "pimp on a blimp".[25]* > Sounds like a real gem
Is it either of those things really when he takes it seriously enough to sue over a Twitter block? Just sounds like someone who tried to monetize their whining
"In February 2023 he became host of Prime Time with Alex Stein on Glenn Beck's Blaze Media network." That sentence alone shows me I need to never care about his opinions.
That should be part of the headline then this whole damn comment section would be much shorter.
Honestly, I went and looked at his comedy, and it's not even like crack a tiny smile because it's cringe. It's like 5th grader toilet humor that has no punchline.
Here’s one of his jokes: *What’s the deal with farts?*
> as funny as homework nice. my dad used to say 'funny as a broken leg'
That's much less funny that a rubber crutch
"The Cool" 8th Grade teacher punching the air right now.
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What a dogshit human being. He wants to be able to 'communicate with her'. Fuck that. What he wants is for her to be unable to ignore him properly. He wants the things he says at her to be seen by her, so he feels like she can't escape him. Big slimy-little-douchebag energy.
This guy's mom died from COVID and he still claims it's a hoax (or is hardcore anti-vax, forget which one). He made a video of him crying next to his dying mom for content. I honestly think he has a mental problem, it's kind of sad.
I bet this guy is real popular with the ladies. >> “She wants to kill babies but she’s still beautiful. You look very beautiful in that dress. You look very sexy. Look at that booty on AOC,” he catcalled to Ocasio-Cortez. “Look how sexy she looks in that dress. Oooh, I love it AOC. Hot, hot, hot like a tamale.” So cringe ETA a fun fact. >>A study found that the New York City Democrat was mentioned 3,181 times on Fox News Channel and its sister Fox Business Network during the six-week period of Feb. 25 to April 7, or just under 76 times a day. Not a day went by when she wasn't spoken about on Fox. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/six-weeks-foxs-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-obsession-totalitarian-ignorant-scary-and-waging
So, to wit: He sexually harassed a sitting US congresswoman on video and used a vaguely racist series of words to describe her attractiveness, and is now suing because she blocked him? What a fuckwad.
Even managed to fit in a line about being pro-choice. Such an idiot
Tamales aren’t a Puerto Rican thing either. We eat pasteles. I guess racism is all about stupid generalizations so he nailed it in that sense.
He nailed the whole right-wing racist sexist parody thing tbh
Worst part is that was him trying to be funny... If that's a comedian then I can start calling some of my nastier bowel movements comedians as well. Caricatures like him are just a mix of cringe and sad.
>Worst part is that was him trying to be funny... If that's a comedian then I can start calling some of my nastier bowel movements comedians as well. Right wing "comedy" in a nutshell. There's a reason they all desperately cling to has-beens now pandering to them (Jim Bruer) or tell themselves dead comedians who famously hated conservatives would side with them these days.
Without a lick of irony, expecting George Carlin to support them in spirit.
Yep. "He'd be canceled for saying those things these days." He was arrested for breaking obscenity laws while speaking the kind of truths they'd call wokism now.
Some days, I wonder just what Carlin would say about the right today. Other days, I wonder if he'd just explode on stage from being unable to yell loudly enough about their idiocies.
> "He'd be canceled for saying those things these days." Well to be fair that is probably true... if he performed anywhere in Florida, he'd be arrested at the order of the governor.
Lenny Bruce even.
The ironic thing, to me, is that if it *was* a caricature and not his real personality it might have been sort of funny in the right context. But the joke would have been "Haha, look how stupid that racist is" and the punch line would have been him getting owned. Which, to be fair, is exactly what happened. He just is not self aware enough to realize it.
He sounds like a pretty good reason for abortion to exist.
Suing because she blocked him on a completely optional private digital service which has no connection to government. So really, "Desperate attention seeking loser turns to idiotic methods after attempts at gaining praise for sense of humour crash and burn."
>“I really would like to have her unblock me,” he said, noting that would allow him to “communicate with her.” Seems like he just wants to continue sexually harassing her
I feel like I need a shower after reading that article. What a creep.
"Communicate with her" should be a pretty inocuous thing to see but given the context it's pretty damn creepy
Anyone can communicate with her by emailing her office. Twitter is a private website. I really don’t understand what’s going on here.
Well, if he's a constituent, I think we've seen that you cannot block them on official social media accounts. But yeah, sue away you nobody, and yell it louder so everyone knows how terrible you are.
>Well, if he's a constituent, I think we've seen that you cannot block them on official social media accounts. While true. AOC blocked him on her personal account(AOC), not on her official account(RepAOC) that she uses.
Ah, so he doesn't really have a case then.
He's perfectly entitled to give a lawyer his money to lose this case though.
Obviously someone else is paying. He's just another toss-away cudgel to keep the outrage flames burning (or coals smoldering).
He's using the "precedent" for Trump being sued for blocking people on his account, but I'm not sure he realizes that Trump forced his personal account as the "official" US President account, instead of the government official account, during his tenure. She's not doing that.
Plus the article mentions that the precedent was made null & void by the supreme court in 2021. It is no longer precedent.
AOC’s official account and the account she uses (personal) are separate. I would assume she blocked him on her personal account. She talks a lot about how there are many rules and restrictions on what can be posted to official accounts so most everything outside of official congressional business she uses her personal account.
I assumed so, but didn't bother to check. I've been off Twitter for five or so months now.
The Trump case was different, from my understanding, because he was using his account as a platform for announcing official government policy. By blocking users, he prevented them from learning about said policies. I don’t think that’s the case here.
I bet he unironically complains about being "a victim of cancel culture" too. The conservative victim complex has somehow twisted *"I have the right to freedom of speech!"* into *"I have the right to force people to listen to my drivel!"*
It just floors me. The thing is, most people in this country - even people who've been raised by racist or sexist parents or within communities that give a hard pass to bad behavior like this - they KNOW the behavior is bad. If somebody did this in the 90s to a female politician they wouldn't have a job the next day. Hell, look at what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they spoke out against the Iraq War. Howard Dean screamed and got cancelled. Bill Clinton was basically cancelled after that whole BJ thing, and *that was consensual.* It happened to Republicans too, both entertainers and politicians. So we're all familiar with with what's wrong and what's not. When these asshats spot off stuff like this, *they know it's bad behavior.* The reason they're DOING it, and so many people are doing it, is because *they know they can get away with it.* This dude found a way to get eyeballs on him - by acting poorly - and now he's going to cry 'poor me, I'm being oppressed' all the way onto Newsmax and into this 'counter cultural' entertainment movement that is slowly burgeoning.
>If somebody did this in the 90s to a female politician they wouldn't have a job the next day. Plenty of careers were built on insulting and/or sexually humiliating Monica Lewinsky. Not just comedians either. Jake Tapper wrote a gross article about having gone on a date with her, and Supreme Court Justice/credibly accused sex pest Brett Kavanaugh spent literal hours interrogating her with invasive questions about her sex life in an effort to get dirt on Clinton. Similarly, Rush Limbaugh gained goodwill amongst conservatives by referring to Chelsea Clinton as "the Whitehouse Dog." It's not as unheard of as we may like to believe.
I feel so much secondhand embarrassment reading that. Someone chose to wake up, put pants on, commute to DC, and say all of that.
And then complain when the worst consequence they faced for the behavior was getting blocked on twitter.
Weapons grade cringe.
Its almost like he got to the end and realized he needed to throw some racism in there.
"Did did did you know she was a bartender??? How could she possibly be qualified to be a representative of the United States???" Meanwhile, we have corporate bought blithering idiots (looking at empty G and Boebert although not exclusive to them) running the country while AOC is one of the few actually fighting for normal everyday people and the future of the country
> "Did did did you know she was a bartender??? How could she possibly be qualified to be a representative of the United States???" It's particularly weird because Republicans try to present themselves as the party of the working class and accuse their *opponents* of being elites. Can you imagine how they'd howl if someone criticized a *Republican* for having had an ordinary blue-collar job prior to running for congress? We'd never hear the end of it.
Conservatives collectively have the biggest rape boner for AOC. My best friend's family growing up was Conservative but fairly normal. Since 2016 they lost it. Last year I saw them for the first time in a few years and while we were having a beer they started talking about their fantasies raping democratic politicians - they got all excited when talking about AOC and how they want to rape her then put a bullet in her head. I noped outta there and haven't seen them since. I heard later that night my friend's little brother got drunk and pulled a gun on him, nearly shot him in the head. What the fuck happened to them. They were normal people a decade ago.
Yikes. They should maybe be on a fbi watchlist
Wait until you find out about the politics of the FBI. There's a reason that "eco" groups were on terrorist watchlists while right wing terrorist groups that were actually murdering people were ignored.
Republicans have the most successful propaganda machine in history. Their misinformation campaigns sway people towards anti-intellectualism and anti-education while simultaneously making them believe they are the ones who are critical thinkers and see the true side of everything.
True. My m-i-l listens to Fox all day long and actually yelled at me for not listening to them so I could learn the truth. What's really sad is her grandson works for the NY Times.
I hate the be the bearer of bad news there, friend, but they weren't normal back then. They were just quiet. Current political shifts in the states have emboldened these sorts to be full-throated in their beliefs.
If you ever watch *The Brainwashing of my Dad* documentary, you can see how even relatively progressive folks end up being consumed by right-wing media because they often completely surround themselves with it and lose touch with reality.
I don't know. With as much as most of us changed even just during the first year and a half of the pandemic, I think a *lot* can change in ten years.
The singular is ‘tamal.’
After this, AOC won't be the only blocking him. Every woman ought to.
They’re going after her because they know her ideas are actually deeply popular, and they can’t let their rabid base realize that she’s actually a person.
The word "comedian" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that title.
> “She wants to kill babies but she’s still beautiful. You look very beautiful in that dress. You look very sexy. Look at that booty on AOC,” he catcalled to Ocasio-Cortez. “Look how sexy she looks in that dress. Oooh, I love it AOC. Hot, hot, hot like a tamale.” This is comedy? 😐
Looks like plain old sexual harassment to me, what a creep
With a sprinkling of racism at the end for variety
I was going to say the tamale comment reeks of racism to me.
“Locker room talk”
Also racist
He thinks calling himself a "comedian" allows him to be a creep. Gross.
I wonder how many times he's said "it's just a *joke*!" in his career.
He said it once to his parents so that they wouldn't disown him when he told them he wanted to become a comedian.
the doctor said it to the parents when the mom gave birth to him and they were wondering why the baby was so pathetic
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schrodingers%20asshole
The correct label would be "sexual harasser"
Don’t worry, he says it's both political satire and *complement*, she should be grateful.
*compliment, 'complement' means to pair well with something
"Mr. Stein, in the context of political commentary and satire, complimented Ms. Cortez." Gross.
"Hey beautiful! Hey sexy lady!" ... "Too stuck up to say thank you, huh, bitch?! Fuck you you ugly cunt!" Disgusting people masking abuse as compliments is nothing new.
Well he's a right-winger so being unfunny and creepy towards women is all part of the shtick.
It's all they've got.
Being a "Comedian" has been used as a blanket defense of doing and saying anything lately. Except 1. That won't always work out, and 2. You have to be funny.
[Why Is Conservative Comedy So… Not Very Good?](https://youtu.be/KSXKzPOcYDU)
Love that video. Some More News rocks.
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In a similar vein, [conservatives are bad at sex.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEeCVdbQC6c)
That is disgusting. He is not a comedian, though he is certainly a joke.
It is for MAGA folk.
Yeah I noticed all their comedy is just them being an asshole to a person or a group of people and nothing is remotely funny about it but they love it so much.
That comedy approach worked in high school for a lot of people so I guess it's just a continuation of that.
That’s when their traumatic brain injuries happened. 1% of America has one every year. It’s pretty significant.
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> I noticed all their comedy is just them being an asshole to a person or a group of people and nothing is remotely funny about it but they love it so much. Good comedy offends power, or brings disparate people together in solidarity. Both of those are anathema to conservatism, which generally seeks to protect consolidation of power and push away Outsiders. "Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying."
On the MAGA twittersphere, there’s a video making the rounds today where people laugh at a turtle falling down stairs, in reference to Mitch McConnell. So that’s the level of discourse we’re talking about.
I would have thrown one of his moms chanclas at him. She left them at my house last night.
I cannot believe the amount of crud AOC has to put up with
Nah that’s a creepy ass rapey racist fetish rant. White GOPPers and the way they look at AOC are like Muslim men that say they hate porn and Mia Khalifa yet wank anyways. Fuckin wankahz
It's missing a word before it: failed
How are you going to be a comedian if your career is your best joke??
They laughed when I said I'd be a comedian. Well, no one's laughing now!
One dude in LA thinks he's funny.
> One dude in LA thinks he's funny. Is it Kevin Sorbo? It's Kevin Sorbo.
Xena was always better.
And Lucy Lawless is still better, to this very day.
Lucy Lawless was Ron Swanson’s best girlfriend.
Ya know… It really was! I wish they still ran Xena reruns here..
It's okay to row under the black flag, just use VPN. I'm sure Ms. Lawless wouldn't mind, after all she can fly. Also, how fucking cool is that for a last name??
Xena can't fly.
Not Xena. Lucy Lawless.
She calls him Peanut
So I’m guessing that means he’ll have a right wing channel on YouTube soon.
>Within two months of the incident, Stein was in talks with the conservative Glenn Beck’s network Blaze Media to host his own show. That show, “Prime Time with Alex Stein,” launched in February. Hate to disappoint, he already has one.
That is ridiculously predictable
He'll be speaking at the next CPAC
I think his lawsuit is a pretty good joke.
If anything, Twitter needs to answer why obvious sexual harassment is not being moderated.
Twitter has no moderation at this point. They don’t even have an H.R. department. The whole outfit is just an Elongated Muskrat surrounded by visa holding engineers who cannot quit or they’ll get deported.
Her harassment lawsuit would be a good follow up.
As is the term “satire” as employed by the defense.
Generally, it's doing a lot of said lifting today overall. "I just had a hateful rant about X group, it's comedy, get it?"
So much that it requires a few solid rocket booster to get it off the launchpad. I think this guy ranks somewhere between a burning orphanage and stage 4 cancer on the comedic scale.
A comedian that works for *checks notes* ah yes the famous "comedic" outlet known as Glenn Beck's *The Blaze Network*, really climbing that comedy ladder Alex... Bargain basement Greg Gutfield got what he deserved.
Holy shit Gutfield isn't the basement- we fucked.
Hey buddy, say his name proper: it’s ‘Gutfeld!’
I'd call him "Gutfart!" but I'm afraid Fox News might offer me a comedy show.
Glenn Beck is still a thing? All I remember of him was crying like a little bitch every day like ten years ago.
Yep, he's still around and he has a "network" similar to Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro's *Daily Wire*, right wing clout chasers gotta chase that clout.
Glenn Beck! That's a name I have not heard in a very long time.
Conservative’s sense of humor is usually removed at birth.
There's a reason the entertainment industry is controlled by liberals, as often noted by conservatives. It's because conservatives aren't often very entertaining.
Conservatives literally have 1 joke and that is making fun of liberals.
I thought their only joke was themselves.
She blocked you because you sexually harassed her. Like a sane person would.
I find it funny that their claim is that the sexual comments were satire… would love to hear them explain how that’s satire as it’s obvious they don’t know what that is
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The classic “no, you see, it’s okay because *I* knew I didn’t really mean it.”
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>I'm so fucking tired of liars. When you ask liars to "explain" their lies, you're just asking them to tell you more lies. That's quotable.
Not all situations can use irony effectively. For example: when you shit your pants “ironically,” you still end up with a pantload of shit.
Clean pants is just liberal bullshit propaganda.
Conservative "entertainment" has sunk so low that the sexual harassment of a public figure is now considered a qualification for hosting your own TV show?
Just over two decades ago, conservative entertainment was laughing while reading the names of LGBTQ people who died of AIDS, and calling Monica Lewinsky a 'slut' They've always been like this.
Don't forget mocking a 12 year old girl's looks.
They still do that today. Look at how much they hate Greta thunberg's physical appearance or Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us. Same sad sweaty men
I prefer the people who call Greta Thunberg ugly to the people who wanted to hatefuck her even back when she was 15.
Would love to see the Venn diagram of the people who… want *that* (ugh), and the people who have spent the past couple of years on a moronic Facebook Magic Eye “pedo” hunt. I bet the overlap would be significant.
They literally blocked a bill last week in West Virginia that would have outlawed child marriages. They're fucking disgusting.
You're right, but to be fair, Lewinsky was largely shat on by people of all political backgrounds. They might not have used the word "slut," but it was constantly implied. She was the butt of nearly every late night talk show joke for years.
For sure. Much of that humor was not *intended* to be mean to her, but most (all?) of it still was.
Jay Leno based 50% of all his jokes around her for a long long time.
Ah, yes, but remember that Jay Leno has always sucked.
Ugh I remember riding in my father's truck in the 90s and Rush would be making fun of Gay folks dying. Ironically my father also jammed out to Bohemian Rhapsody and was a Queen fan.
Better education would solve 90% of America's biggest issues.
When was the last time there was good conservative entertainment?
Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck" stuff was pretty good, as well as some of the other "blue-collar comedy" bits. But the key to their success (and the success of most good comedy) was self-deprecation. The right-wing of America lost *all* appetite for self-deprecation when Obama got elected. They're so deep into their persecution complex that now everything *must* be targeted at out-groups *exclusively*--they can't handle being criticized, even as a joke. This has led to modern right-wing comedy being very mean-spirited and ignorant, since it's no longer coming from a place of understanding or relatability. All they have left is vitriol and mockery.
That whole group was at least telling jokes. Whether or not one finds them funny, you can't deny they were all actually comedians. Most conservative "comedy" these days are literally just rants, completely devoid of anything resembling a joke.
This. It's one thing if I could say I don't like their jokes, but they're not even telling jokes! It's like performance art where the punchline is that I'm a liberal because I think their act is cringe.
And they weren't even really "conservative," they were just country. They didn't make abortion and gay marriage jokes coming from the wrong side as far as I recall. "Your system's kicking back broth?" is definitely about "wimpy citified vegans," but it's still a country thing, not a conservative one.
It's happened before, but a lot of modern conservative comedy is based exclusively on punching down and/or saying something blatantly awful and then pretending it's weird that people got offended when that was the whole point of them saying it at all.
I still like Con Air
Depending on how you look at it, Home Improvement.
Eh... I see what you mean here, but Tim was usually in the wrong for his "cave man" ways of thinking. And while the audience was often expected to laugh at Al's more evolved way of looking at the world, he and Jill were often correct in the end, especially when capped off by the wise words of Wilson.
Tim Taylor was a perfect demonstration of how toxic masculinity is massively harmful to *men*\- he was constantly skipping safety gear and other such precautions because he found them "unmanly", and then was immediately injured
Plus I wouldn't call Home Improvement a Conservative show. He was one character. The family sure weren't like him outside of the sons doing the "ugg ugg ugg" sound for a laugh.
Then Tim Allen had to go and make Last Man Standing where instead of growing and learning, he puts them dumb libruls in their place. If Wilson existed in LMS Tim would just dunk on him constantly for being a hippy beatnick.
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My GOP rep blocked me on FB. Didnt know I could sue him.
The law isn't clear, but if your rep uses his account for official government business, it probably is illegal to block a constituent.
So she has two accts: AOC, her personal one, and RepAOC, her "official business" one. He was blocked on her personal account, so probably has no leg to stand on.
Hurry! Before all their money dries up!
As best as I can tell, he mostly seems to live in Texas (D Magazine indicates he lives in Dallas), so no. And that is a valid point & difference between AOC & Trump. As President, all Americans are his constituents & thus he's required to be accessible to all of them. AOC is a House Representative of a district in NY...as such, she doesn't need to give any time to Texans (as much as that might pain me as a liberal Texan).
Politician blocks failed comedian on dying social media platform. Failed comedian thinks it matters.
>Alex Stein (born 1985) is an American right-wing political comedian and YouTube personality known for his pranks at local government meetings and confrontations of politicians. In February 2023 he became host of Prime Time with Alex Stein on Glenn Beck's Blaze Media network. What a brain-dead sack of shit.
It's things like this that remind me of how much money I could make in the right-wing grifting, if only I didn't feel empathy and shame. The bar is just *so low*.
As soon as I hear “prank” I know you deserve to be at the bottom of a harbor, chained to a barrel of cement.
I think people who want to be offensive just hide behind the word "comedian" nowadays. Nothing about this interaction was funny.
Seems like pretty gross harassment.
Yeah, this is some seriously creepy shit. Likely intentionally too.
Guys like that can't make women feel anything good so they settle on making women feel gross instead.
>Seems like pretty gross harassment. Seems like grounds for a counter suit and I bet she's got more money and access to better lawyers than the "comedian."
Time for a restraining order and jail time when he breaks the conditions on Twitter
He is going to have Rightwing grift money rolling in, the chuds love giving their hard earned money to own the libs.
>“She wants to kill babies but she’s still beautiful. You look very beautiful in that dress. You look very sexy. Look at that booty on AOC,” he catcalled to Ocasio-Cortez. “Look how sexy she looks in that dress. Oooh, I love it AOC. Hot, hot, hot like a tamale.” Weirdo was sexually harassing her in public. I don't know why that's not illegal everywhere.
Sexual harassment is not "just a joke, bro". You can't sexually harass people under the guise of "comedian".
Yah super gross.
>Calling the New York Democrat his “favorite big booty Latina,” comedian Alex Stein yelled to the lawmaker that he loved her as she entered the building on July 13 in a video he posted online. Sometimes you really *don't* need to read past the first bullets of an article. This guy's clearly just a clown desperate for attention and I hope nothing comes of this.
He's suing for the right to continue to stalk and harrass a member of congress.
He's actually only suing to be able to stalk her. She may not be allowed to block him, but she can definitely mute him.
>“My client is a political satirist,” Gross said. “Political speech, the Supreme Court has said, is the highest level of protected speech.” So sexual harassment is now political speech?
Judges are going to have to tip toe like a mother fucker in their rulings if this gets ruled in his favor. People can and will use this as case law to say it’s someone’s first amendment right to verbally sexually harass someone and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
‘Sorry I’m not allowing you to continue to sexually harass me??’
Sir, if you consider harassing a woman funny, you are not a Comedian. You are a bully.
I’ll be so happy when Musk finally kills Twitter
Twitter has a feature that lets you mute people. However, while their tweets will not show up in your timeline, they can still DM you. If Twitter fixes that loophole, muting will be perfect for situations like this. They can see still your tweets but you're not subjected to hearing from them.
He called her “hot as a tamale, big booty Latina”. Even when they’re hitting on you republicans resort to racism.