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    Meant to post this when the Scott Adams/Dilbert story broke

    Who are far right celebrities that you are aware of?

    I think Jon Voight is probably the granddaddy of them all with James Woods not far behind

    There's Ted Nugent for sure

    Hercules' Kevin Sorbo and Lois & Clark's Dean Cain

    Scott Baio had his moment at the RNC, I haven't heard anything from him since

    I'd add Kanye West but he more seems to be just losing his mind

    I'm pretty sure that Drew Carey, Tim Allen and Kelsey Grammer are conservative Republicans (which is fine) but as far as I know none of them went off the deep end

    Roseanne Barr seemed to go full far right

    Growing Pains Kirk Cameron is super religious, but I've never heard him comment on anything other than religion (it would just be an assumption that someone that religious is far right)

    The pandemic opened the doors to some anti-vax, conspiracy minded celebs which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with politics

    Those would include:

    Person of Interest's Jim Caviezel
    Black Panther Letitia Wright
    Lost's Evangeline Lilly

    Think of anyone else?
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Should Jerry Seinfeld be added to this list?

    He’s made some eyebrow raising statements recently but still seems different than others in this thread
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    There are few things certain in life except death, taxes and the knowledge that every single gosh darned day you can look at the news and find a rich man complaining about how feminism and wokeness have ruined the world.

    Today’s edition of Bigotry Is Acceptable Again comes via Jerry Seinfeld, who appears to be on a mission to make sure people don’t associate him with a much-loved sitcom from the 1990s but with being a boring reactionary obsessed with shaking his fist at progress.

    Seinfeld’s lurch to the right hasn’t come out of nowhere: the billionaire comedian was never exactly woke. He famously dated a 17-year-old high school student when he was 38 and definitely not a high school student.

    Several years ago, he also took his family to a so-called Anti-terror Fantasy Camp in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank accused of “gamifying” apartheid, where they could shoot guns and pretend to be soldiers.

    But while Seinfeld has never been a bleeding-heart liberal, it feels like he’s never been quite so vocally anti-progressive as he is now.

    Ever since 7 October, Seinfeld has advocated loudly for Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians, demonized pro-Palestinian protesters, and joked about suffering children in Gaza. “Save the children of Gaza,” he said in a mocking voice after getting heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters at a show.

    Along with cheerleading what the United Nations human rights council has described as genocidal violence, he has also apparently decided that a great tactic for publicizing his much-panned movie about Pop-Tarts is by complaining about the left.

    In April, for example, Seinfeld told the New Yorker’s Radio Hour that comedy was dying because of the “result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people”. (Really hilarious comedy, my friends, is joking about dead Palestinian children.)

    Then this week, Seinfeld decided to get nostalgic about “real men” on the conservative agitator Bari Weiss’s podcast. “I miss a dominant masculinity,” Seinfeld said. “Yeah, I get the toxic thing … But still, I like a real man.”

    The pair also talked about Israel and managed to display so little regard for the suffering in Gaza that an Israeli journalist wrote a disgusted column about it.

    “The amount of empathy it would have taken for Bari Weiss and Seinfeld to stop and think that perhaps ‘the mob,’ as they referred to the pro-Palestinian movement … is also in pain is so miniscule, I am still astounded neither of them could muster it up,” Rachel Fink wrote in the Israeli paper Haaretz……..

    www.theguardian.com

    Jerry Seinfeld’s lurch to the right now includes mourning ‘dominant masculinity’ | Arwa Mahdawi

    The comedian’s remarks on a podcast join his cheerleading of genocidal violence and jokes about suffering children in Gaza
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    Jerry Seinfeld has backtracked on comments he made earlier this year blaming the “extreme left and PC crap” for negatively affecting comedy, saying he now believes “it is not true”.

    The 70-year-old comedian told the New Yorker in April that he believed television comedy was suffering because “people [are] worrying so much about offending other people”.

    “Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it,” he said. “It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what – where is it?

    “This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people … When you write a script, and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups – ‘Here’s our thought about this joke’ – well, that’s the end of your comedy.”


    Seinfeld’s remarks provoked a storm of discussion among comedians, with even his former co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushing back, saying: “When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness – and I understand why people might push back on it – but to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else. I believe being aware of certain sensitivities is not a bad thing. I don’t know how else to say it.”

    On Wednesday, while appearing on comedian Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast, Seinfeld said his comments were “wrong” and that he “regretted” saying it.

    “I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not true,” he said. “It’s not true. If you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re going to make the gate. That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is, ‘where is the gate, how do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I want to?’”

    “Does culture change? And are there things that I used to say that I can’t say because people are always moving [the gate]? Yes, but that’s the biggest, easiest target,” he added. “You can’t say certain words, whatever they are, about groups. So what? The accuracy of your observation has to be 100 times finer than that, to just be a comedian … so I don’t think, as I said, the ‘extreme left’ has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I’m taking that back now, officially. They have not.”

    “It is not my business to like or not like where the culture is at,” he added. “It is my business to make the gate, to stay with my skiing analogy.”……….


    www.theguardian.com

    Jerry Seinfeld says he was ‘wrong’ to blame ‘extreme left’ for killing comedy

    Seventy-year-old comedian walks back contentious comments about ‘PC crap’, saying: ‘You can’t say certain words about groups. So what?’
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    I figured he was in the same boat since he's a huge McMahon supporter even during his sexual support civil trial, but Mark Sands is truly dead to me as well...

     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    I figured he was in the same boat since he's a huge McMahon supporter even during his sexual support civil trial, but Mark Sands is truly dead to me as well...

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    I have a feeling Bautista might be able to grind the undertaker into itty bitty pieces.
     

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