Seattle comedian uninvited by progressive club predicts anger against cancel culture may affect 2024 election https://t.co/4qXascGna7

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Fox News on Friday implied in a headline that a conservative comedian says his canceled booking will affect the 2024 election because something something regular Americans will turn out to reject such blatant examples of cancel culture. “Jim Florentine, one of the four comedians who was canceled by a Seattle comedy club for being out of alignment with ‘progressive values,’ said that the country is moving away from cancel culture in a trend that may have an impact on the 2024 election,” they wrote in the lead to instill a sense of foreboding in left-leaning readers.

The actual quote from Florentine, a grown man who is apparently a fan of weird early-2000s heavy metal band Slipknot: “You really had to lie and couldn’t tell people who you were voting for. You’re not going to be called a racist if you don’t like the current administration. I really feel like people are having those conversations, whereas before you had to keep your mouth shut on who you were going to vote for. I don’t know what’s going to happen with the election, but I really feel like people are more open about talking about [politics],” he said in response to a question on “the effect that the declining power of cancel culture would have on the 2024 election,” whatever that means.

The article itself was devoid of any jokes or humor, which might have been more of a feature than a bug. Like if Florentine’s political bit is of a “Joe Biden’s so old he keeps talking about how sad he is that his pet dinosaur bit too many Secret Service agents!” caliber then maybe it wasn’t because the jokes are “right wing.” If it’s more of a “So I took her home and then I saw the package under her skirt and I’m like ‘Whoa!’ that was not in your Match.com profile!’ and then he went bananas and screamed ‘YOU’RE A TRANSPHOBE!’ and I’m like ‘WHAT? SERIOUSLY?!? YOU’RE OFFENDED?'” type of bit then well… Yeah he probably wouldn’t be welcome in the “CHAZ” part of Seattle.