Whitney Cummings desires us to know she has not been red-pilled.
The comedienne made that official on her newest podcast episode, the primary since she roasted key Democrats on CNN’s New 12 months’s Eve protection.
She doesn’t label her political opinions, however she additionally agrees with the Democratic Celebration’s core tenets, as she describes them.
- Racism? Unhealthy
- Respect girls? Good
- Free speech? Sure, please
What she didn’t formally say however implied repeatedly? The fashionable Democratic Celebration not lives as much as that branding.
“If you happen to love your celebration, you have got to have the ability to criticize it. I don’t actually take sides … I at all times considered myself as a reasonably liberal particular person. I don’t suppose the Left is as liberal because it was once. The Left turned the celebration of censorship. ‘My physique, my selection,’ however you need to take this vaccine. And, ‘my physique, my selection,’ the pro-choice celebration, however you don’t have a selection in your candidate,” she stated, repeating a line from her CNN roast.
“I’m not an skilled on politics … however I’m an skilled on hypocrisy. I used to be raised by hypocrites. I’ve dated hypocrites. I do know hypocrisy after I see it,” she stated about her CNN section. “So for me, I didn’t suppose I used to be being political. I used to be simply mentioning hypocrisies throughout the board.”
Why not roast Donald Trump throughout her CNN look? That will be “hacky.”
“That’s home-court benefit,” she cracked about CNN’s liberal bias. “There’s nothing dangerous or harmful about that. It bothers me when comics say stuff that’s self-righteous and so they get applause once they’re being fake-brave,” she added. “If I used to be gonna roast Trump, I’d have to do this on Fox Information.”
“And I already roasted Trump,” she stated, alluding to the 2011 Trump roast on Comedy Central. (warning: Grownup language)
She stated the standard political sides not matter as they as soon as did.
“It’s now, to me, simply Loopy vs. Sane,” she stated.
Cummings circled again to the Democratic Celebration, ticking off values with which she agreed.
“That is the celebration of the artist, the courageous folks, the comedians, the thinkers. That’s what the Democrats had been. I’m proud that I fell for that,” she stated.
She segued to Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign towards Donald Trump. Right here, Cummings took off the gloves.
“[Harris] couldn’t work out easy methods to say one thing that I may perceive,” she stated, laughing. “After I watched Kamala speak … I don’t know what she believes.”
“Maintain on, this person who makes completely no sense, overlook gender, and has such low approval rankings and isn’t efficient or highly effective, and she will be able to’t even be good at being a puppet,” she stated.
“It’s so embarrassing on so many ranges. Are you gonna inform me you guys are gonna push for a black lady, the bottom rated VP … to be the president, so our worst president is gonna be a black lady? How is that good for ladies or black folks?” she requested, ignoring those that stated Harris ran a “flawless” marketing campaign.
Later, Cummings shared how she made a crucial remark about then-Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz’s frequent China journeys on social media earlier than taking it down.
“I don’t need controversy. I don’t prefer it. I don’t like not realizing if persons are mad at me or if I’m improper,” she stated of the feedback. The suggestions? Sure, Walz’s ties to China had been, certainly, bizarre.
That woke her up. It additionally could clarify why she stated what she stated on CNN.
“The one factor worse than censorship is self censorship,” “For comics to complain about censorship, myself included, after which to self censor? Whoa, dude. I’m such a hypocrite. That is wild. I can’t do that anymore, as a result of persons are going to exit of their approach to deliberately misunderstand and deliberately be offended, and people persons are not my folks. And that’s fantastic.”