It’s been awhile since I checked in with my friend the Canadian Commie, and when I watched him again I remembered why.
I was curious about what’s going on with the Canadian truckers, thousands of them revolting against ‘conditions’ and vax mandates in particular. I was hoping to hear good news–was this the thing that might kick off a real worker’s revolution?
And I find his reasoning to be depressingly convincing.
It was much the same with his take on the Ukraine story.
This man feels right to me on more or less everything, but he’s not up to a thousand subs yet, and therefore his channel hasn’t even been monetized. Getting the last 87 that he needs is not going to be any kind of guarantee either, not with ‘capitalist death cult’ in so many of his titles.
Compare this with a characteristically jaunty Jon Stewart take on Qanon, in conversation with a similarly wired rogue of a BBC reporter. They’re thoughtful and mostly right about everything they say too. But the main difference isn’t one of tone, or Jon’s way with humor.
The main difference is that their cuts are skin deep, and they’re speaking first to entertain, and only incidentally to truly inform.
They have good fun with Qanon’s scatterbrained take on Hillary Clinton and Pizzagate, where she was supposedly keeping child sex slaves underneath a pizza parlor. (Spoiler alert: She wasn’t.) And, to their credit, they even briefly entertain the notion that Pizzagate was a parable of sorts.
But it stops there, with the recognition that the funny crazy people might have some kind of point …
And there’s no mention of the fact that the point is not just a parable. There are facts to support it, not just wrong guesses.
Bill Clinton was very, very close with Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s not just Epstein’s visits to Bill, though. It’s Bill’s flights to Epstein’s island on the Lolita Express plane.
What was he doing there, all those times?
If Q’s idea that the rich and powerful are running pedophile sex cults is so baseless and wacky … seriously, what was Clinton doing there?
It’s not the kind of question you’ll ever hear from the Jon Stewarts of the world. It’s not the kind of question you want to be asking if you want to remain a hero to average Democrats, or get your YouTube channel up over 300K in subs.
There’s some very fine line to be walked here, between truth-telling and making people feel good about themselves and their world. A line between naked fact and some reason to hope.
Between being honest and being successful.