Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, where they write satire for a living. You’d think that would be easy in today’s absurd world, but in reality, it’s just the opposite. Seth explains why this endangers the very concept of free speech and the open exchange of ideas.
Script: “The world has become too absurd to be satirized.” The great English writer, G.K. Chesterton, said that way back in 1911, long before math was considered racist and biological men were allowed to compete against women in sports. One can only imagine what he would say if he were alive today. At The Babylon Bee, where we write satire for a living, we’re feeling Chesterton’s pain in a big way. Just look at these headlines that were satirical at the time we wrote them… On May 9, 2017, we ran this headline: ‘2+2=4,’ Insists Closed-Minded Bigot That was a joke, of course. But on August 10, 2020, the Washington Examiner published this story: Math professor claims equation 2+2=4 ‘reeks of white supremacist patriarchy’ On August 13, 2020, we ran this headline: BLM Rioters Awarded Nobel Peace Prize At the time we thought this was obvious satire, but on January 29, 2021, this story was published in The Guardian: Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel Peace Prize On March 25, 2020, we ran this headline: Pants Sales Plummet As Everyone Working From Home The very next day, this story appeared in Yahoo! Finance: Amid coronavirus, Walmart says it’s seeing increased sales of tops—but not bottoms I could go on. Our satirical headlines are proving to be prophetic with astonishing regularity. So what does this mean for humor and satire? Well, for one thing, it makes our job much more difficult. You might be surprised to hear that. The crazier reality is, the easier it is to make fun of, right? Actually, it’s the opposite. Satire exaggerates the truth to make a point. But when reality is this absurd, and extreme views and behavior are commonplace, how do you go a step beyond it? Almost anything we publish now ends up being believable. And much of it ends up actually coming true, as you’ve just seen. This is exactly what Chesterton was talking about. It’s one of the ways the left is killing satire: by turning reality into a parody of itself. There’s another, more intentional and insidious way the left is killing satire, and that’s through censorship. We published an article a couple of years ago with this over-the-top headline: CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication Believe it or not, Snopes fact-checked this story. I mean, come on…a washing machine? To spin the news? That’s an obvious joke. But Snopes fact-checked it and rated it “false”—as if we had written a serious story. It used to be that jokes were either funny or not—they made you laugh, or they didn’t—but now, in the fact-checking age, we’re giving them a truth rating. Jokes are no longer funny—they’re false. And false information is dangerous. In response to the Snopes fact check, Facebook warned us that we’d be demonetized and de-platformed if we continued publishing “fake news.” It should go without saying that there’s a big difference between fake news—which is meant to deceive—and satire, which is meant to entertain and inform through mockery, humor, and irony. But the left benefits by blurring this distinction. If they can successfully lump us in with fake news, then they can shut us down. It’s that simple. These fact checks—which often smear us by suggesting we’re purposefully misleading people—are nothing more than a creative, conniving way of justifying censorship. But why would anyone want to censor satire? Why is Facebook paying USA Today to write lengthy refutations of our jokes? (Yes, they actually do that.) Because humor is ultimately a vehicle for truth delivery, and the truth can be offensive. Think about all the things you’re not allowed to say anymore—not because they’re false, but because they make people uncomfortable. Satire cuts right through the pretense and political correctness to expose uncomfortable truths, and it does so more ruthlessly and effectively than anything else. For the complete transcript visit https://www.prageru.com/video/killing…
On Friday, May 7, 2021 @ 10:34 AM MST (Arizona time), Daniel Wood went live on his Facebook account speaking outside the Supreme Court House in Phoenix, Arizona as a witness on behalf of Arizona citizens. He read out loud the Official Quo Warranto press release, which is as follows:
“Quo Warranto Filed in the Arizona Supreme Court by We the people of Arizona potentially unseating all state elected officials
As average citizens of Arizona, from all walks of life, we have discovered that our past elections in 2018 thru 2020 are out of compliance per the U.S. Election Assistance Commission [EAC]. The Help America Vote Act [HAVA] of 2002 established the EAC and our State of Arizona takes a strict view on this Federal Election Law. Our State of Arizona went out of compliance in February of 2017 (or possibly sooner) and was only recently purported to be re-certified in January 2021. There are multiple problems with the documentation regarding contractor laboratories that invalidate any machine certification. A certification can only last for a maximum of two years, and there are very important reasons for this. This will either unseat every state level politician in Arizona or declare every Federal Law applied to Arizona as unlawful.
The violation of Federal law is due to No Certification of the Voting System Machine, which includes all aspects of machine from hardware to software to add-ons by the Voting System Test Laboratories. The VSTL is accredited and overseen by the EAC per the HAVA act and is critical to the compliance and standards set forth by Law. This accreditation must be thoroughly vetted every two years.
Arizona takes a strict view of Federal Elections Law Per A.R.S. §16-442(B): “Machines or devices used at any election for federal, state or county offices may only be certified for use in this state and may only be used in this state if they comply with the help America vote act of 2002 and if those machines or devices have been tested and approved by a laboratory that is accredited pursuant to the Help America Vote Act of 2002.”
Back on November 30, 2020, Maricopa County elections witness Jan Bryant testified before the Arizona legislature. Jan has a strong project management background. She could not believe what she witnessed during the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Jan said back on November 30, 2020, that Maricopa County officials DID NOT RUN THE ELECTION! Dominion employees John and Bruce did.
Millions of people in the US choose not to vote? People who don’t are maligned for it, but is there any real choice between the two political parties? Journalist Glenn Greenwald explains the evidence of a Deep State. Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. *not a euphemism Listen to my Luminary Original podcast, Under The Skin, to hear from guests including Edward Snowden, Jonathan Haidt, Jordan Peterson, Naomi Klein, Kehinde Andrews, Adam Curtis and Vandana Shiva. Subscribe to Luminary at http://luminary.link/russell My NEW weekly meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is available now only on Luminary. My Audible Original, ‘Revelation’, is out NOW! US: http://adbl.co/revelation UK: http://adbl.co/revelationuk AU: http://adbl.co/revelationau CA: http://adbl.co/revelationca For meditation and breath work, subscribe to my side-channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWi… Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets Produced by Gareth Roy
A major public health announcement issued today at alternative websites across the worldwide web about a natural remedy for Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne infectious disease that plagues millions of people living in equatorial countries, is not being issued by major public health agencies. Instead, a groundbreaking study (see press release below) was privately funded by a small research team of dedicated researchers in Reno, Nevada. In the aforementioned study, albeit a small pilot human clinical trial, 97% of study subjects experienced a profound and rapid clinical effect, not just a statistical improvement, that would be anticipated to make a demonstrable … Continue reading →
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