Note the audience's response. Not laughter, which is involuntary. Applause. Cheers. He's signaling to his tribe that he belongs, and they respond by celebrating their shared hatred of the out-group. Whatever else it is, it ain't comedy.

This is the moment Jeff Daniels peaked.

Really interesting interview with Jeff Daniels here, I maybe don’t agree with a lot of his points but there’s no questioning that this topic means a lot to him and he’s really letting it all out

Y’ know, I’m starting to think that the left doesn’t know what “fascism” means.

How about this: You're a pretty crappy person if you took joy in Biden's cancer diagnosis OR Hulk Hogan passing?

It's Monday! Monday Morning Meme Madness twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/202…

This is how you deal with the woke mob.

LOL. McDonald’s was never a frugal decision.

So it wasn’t actually brought to you by viewers like you?

If people try to hate us, hoo-boy, do I have some news for them.

Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸🍌 We're probably the only generation with built-in immunity to coercion. "People will think poorly of you if you do/don't do this" "So?"

Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸🍌 We don’t cave to the mobs. That’s because we held a flashlight for our father.

Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸🍌 McDonald's was always a matter of convenience, and you paid for that convenience. If it was cheap, my mother, who was denied foodstamps because of her two jobs to pay for college, would've taken my brother and I there three times a day.

I have to add that I have some hope for a portion of GenZ/Alpha. Their non-politically-correct humor is the closest thing I’ve seen to how we grew up in the 80’s and 90’s. I don’t know how common it is, but I see it in my kids and their friends.

So we’re to the point of denying that genetics result in physical traits that are often considered desirable? There’s a reason I’ll never be in the NBA or NFL.

People don’t realize Hitler could have been stopped if Ensure had been invented before 1933.

“OMG! Look what Trump did to the Rose Garden! The history! The tradition!!!” “Of course penises should be allowed in your daughter’s locker room!” Same people.

Displaying a photo of yourself with a President and First Lady is virtually unheard of.