Author: Lou Starski

Recently, a digital Ideological sparring partner and I were going back and forth on the Great Mask Debate and I shared something with him that I felt was based. He immediately replied with what is now a standardized refrain: oh that’s from so and so he believes such and such. It was 8 minutes of an informed opinion on the matter, with public sources to verify facts for his rationale. Decent video, nothing special, just concise information that hammers home the point I was making. So, when he replied how he did and so quickly, I was struck with a crystalized realization: All of our messengers are flawed on purpose.

You see, I don’t know who the so and so is…and honestly I dont care. I grew up in the prosperity of the Clinton administration, only to see something strange happen in 2000 that didn’t make sense. Why would Bush jr. win if we just kicked out his globalist dad, who just plunged us into war to protect international interest? After just one term, no less. No more freaky Genesis puppet videos. No more New World Order puppet in charge, and our lives did seemingly get better during the Clinton years. I went into 2000 eyes wide open, discovering knowledge everywhere, soaking it up like a sponge. And from that, came the understanding that something was severely wrong with American elections. Almost as if they were under attack by corporations and the “B” word. I thought; what is up with ATM makers, Diebold, making the electronic voting machine with proprietary code and tech? So I say that to say that FOX News was my mortal enemy. But in an ironic twist, guess where im finding the truth being spoken about the virus? On fucking FOX News. Guess what I do? I fucking share it. So what ever opinion this man has about the shape of the earth does not diminish his skepticism against wannabe tyrants and an obviously corrupt body politic. The wannabe tyrants have found a way to control information through this insidious programmed behavior to invalidate something not by its merits, but simply by who says it. We will leave what Epstein means to all of this out.. that’s not 101.. but I’ll continue my story…

I was in my 3rd year at Georgia Tech by 2000. Coding and the internet at large had taken over my interest. So I was fully aware of the power of the code. For the 4 years that followed, those I considered to be the best and the brightest, and all my main stream sources at MSNBC and Air America, showed me how broken the election was and specifically the DieBold election machines. By the night of the election I was fully invested. John Kerry vs Dubya. Good vs. Evil. An honorable military guy vs the draft dodger. Unfortunately they were also two skull and Crossbones members, as we found out on Tim Russert’s Meet the Press, which I watched religiously, along with the Daily Show. You can say I was a bit of a liberal savant. I was already a Bernie Sanders guy by then, but thought Kerry was “the right man for the job.”

As Dubya’s 1st term reached high gear, I was fresh out of college. I had started 2 businesses that were doing well, was about to embark on a 3rd, and I seriously considered Dubya an existential threat to the American Ideals and freedoms that were instilled in me. So when, on election night, Dubya won his 2nd term, I wept. And through the tears of idealism, I was now convinced something nefarious on grand scale was afoot.
Now here we are, 20 years later and the political cycle is all but apparent. The party leaders work together in unison to trick the citizens as they actually do the bidding of corporations and bankers. The dance that the two party system operates under has calcified into a full on information war, equipped with ever deafening echo chambers and flawed leaders.

The loser of that 2000 election was Al Gore, who is now a billionaire and the face of the globalist climate change vehicle. The 2004 loser, John Kerry, as a diplomat and other various high ranking positions, has carried out more of the NeoCon mission than anything he had originally campaigned on. He is a Skull and Bones member; a globalist…but I digress. That’s it…that is it in a nutshell.
Everybody providing conversation in public has a message to tell. And it is the job of the CIA to pick these messengers so flawed that they become hard to believe after a 1 or 2 political cycles. More importantly, during these 12 year political cycles, where the parties take turns ruining the country, the lying party switches every other cycle so when the active political generation comes of age, they already trust one side of the narrative over the other and simply dismiss anything and everything from the other side. This is obviously bad for a democracy or a republic, but it is great for wannabe tyrants who have a history of using “Divide and Conquer” to ensure the peasants don’t unify and revolt.

So I leave you with this:

We are so caught up in the messenger. We fixate on the messenger and not the message. This is on purpose, I now formally believe. This insidious thinking amongst the American public happens to be the legacy of Operation Mockingbird, where in closed senate hearings, the CIA was caught crafting propaganda, and planting stories, and utilizing people in high levels of media. The CIA director William Casey said these ominous words: “We will know the disinformation program is complete when every thing the American public believes is false.”
This is where we are 40 years later, since the Church Committee warned of this burgeoning mission to control the narrative, by bombarding us with a disinformation campaign perfectly tailored to our weaknesses. Social Media has only accelerated this operation.

Trust but verify. Believe but investigate. It is easy to fall a victim to a narrative when the tools are as pervasive and ubiquitous as Facebook/LifeLog, and cellular phones. But we cannot be lazy. Do the work for yourself. The world just may depend on your diligence in this Information War.

Oxymoron’s have a long and illustrious position in the American Lexicon, and in the hearts of Americans alike. It’s a verbal hypocrisy for the American soul that matches the political hypocrisy in our media.

So when you think about it, our love and use of oxymorons makes sense and is “seriously funny” and “terribly good”. But here is the “Brutal Truth”; There is one Oxymoron that threatens the entire fabric of our society… It not only threatens the sacredness of our 1st Amendment, but has a chilling effect on the long standing concept of the presumption of innocence, which was codified by law in America, through the 5th and 14th amendment. Of Course, I am talking about Cancel Culture.

To cancel is to decide, or announce, that a planned event will not take place. Culture is the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. In other words, it is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement, regarded collectively.

As infuriating as it is for a child of the 70’s to not see the Bush’s, or Clintons, or bank bailout buffoons get “cancelled” in the 90s and ‘00s, it is in the glow of this bitterness that we illuminate this clash of freedom of expression, and the moronic trend sweeping the dark alleys of the internets as cancel culture attempts the fool hearted quest to stop the world from being offended.

Tony Hinchcliffe is a comedian. He’s had a long-lasting career that has spanned from 2007 until now….and how long it lasts from here depends of how effectively our society can cancel culture. Comedy itself has a hallowed history, has been redefined in the test bed of post world war America, and has become an American gift to the world. It is the forum of using humor, deep thought, and critiques as a way to speak truth to power.
From the days of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin to Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle, modern comedians have had a tendency to piss off the establishment. They have wielded their thoughts as weapons; empowering many audience members in the process. But with this latest descent into cancel culture, these thoughts may soon, in turn, slay these truth “warriors”.

One such moment is upon Mr. Hinchcliffe. He is currently in the headlines for making comments that were in “poor taste” when taken out of context ,and given little to validate a trait or even an opinion held by Mr. Hinchcliffe… When the comments were spoken, he was on stage as a comedian; not in an interview, fomenting hate against our Asian brothers and sisters. But to me, poor taste is turning your back on not only your profession, but also, your colleagues as well.

In the game of comedy, it is a grind; one that most of us are too scared to ever consider engaging, let alone sympathizing with. To put yourself in front of a diverse crowd of people and to be as vulnerable as a human can get, knowing you will be judged, and the only joy comes from making others involuntarily laugh, is daunting to say the least. That spontaneous laughter is the only guiding light for these wayward shamans.

It is not only the grind, but there is a strong sense of seniority, and an appreciation for the older comics by the younger comics. The earned respect, vice versa, is mutual and usually expressed by the line up. It is the 1st form of validation for a young comic when a headliner invites you on the lineup. You have openers, middles, and features who close the show. So when a feature/closer asks a young comic to open, it’s a big deal. So, when speaking of poor taste, Peng Dang oozes with it; which brings us back to May 11th, 2021 in Austin TX.

After a brief set, in which Dang plays to all the low hanging Asian Stereotypes, as well as common digs at Muslims, and our fair skinned brothers and sisters in America, he brings up the feature: Tony Hinchcliffe.

As mentioned before, Tony is an established comic, which usually means he has carved out his audience. They have a relationship. No middleman…Just Artist and fans.
As a young comic you get to perform to their audience. Win win for everybody… But Peng decided to become a victim merchant, A victim marketer. He understood the attempt at humor on that comedy stage, and instead of allowing for artistic freedom, he choose to virtue signal… and that is in poor taste.

You see, all jokes…bad and good…come from the same birth. While Tony’s riff of a joke wasn’t the best example of wit and skill… it was an obvious joke that dealt with a burgeoning narrative (TM) topic: Asian Hate in America.

Because I am familiar with Mr. Tony Hinchcliffe, I took the joke as a statement on that and kept it moving, but when pressed to condemn as poor taste, I am reminded…Funny or not, the comedian was being courageous; which is what I demand from comedians.
As our society evolves, this one trend, that started as the punishment for #metoo perpetrators, now threatens to allow the powers that be the ability to cancel any divergent thought, and eliminate some fundamental law concepts that span almost 200 years; all for the promise of not being offended.

In a world where just a few philanthropists could end world hunger for just a small fraction of their wealth, when we gaze at our phones fully understanding the lives of the kids that labor to make that product, and as we march towards global fascism, it may be time to realize being offended is still allowed….and welcomed as it usually is, a rock covering up some deep seeded insecurities and misunderstanding of what tolerance actually means