Bro, those New Yorkers don't fuck around, man. If you start bombing a little bit, they smell blood.

Like, it would be more alienating for them to live the comedy version of what it is they think they want. Yes. Than it would be for them to just suck.

It doesn't matter how good you are at getting people to see it in a different way. The problem is they just don't want to see it like that, man.

But it wasn't funny. The audience didn't laugh at it.

And that people would cheer for that is even more fucked up.

There's a deep division in this comment section, and it feels like this could be heading in one of two directions, and neither, I think, look good for Alex. One possibility is that Alex keeps Nick around and lets him have his channel on the website. Nick's clearly already testing the waters to see what he can get away with, and if this video is any indication, then he should probably feel no trepidation about pushing even further. If things go this way, it seems like there's a contingent of listeners who won't support that, and it could lead to them questioning why Alex would distribute this kind of content, particularly given how Nick and Alex disagree on the very basis of the conspiracy they're fighting, with Nick rejecting the China Democrat Socialism big boogeyman that Alex uses to scare the audience. Down the other road, you have the option of Alex kicking Nick off the channel, which will only serve to alienate the more extreme elements of Alex's audience. This is a dangerous game that you get into when you make so much of your political identity about how your viewpoints are secretly presented.

I think that Alex might be keenly aware that his audience is full of Assad fans. That seems like what we're talking about! And I think that he knew that he would get corrected on that by people who were listening. Like, that didn't... What are you talking about? It does seem like this is something that he thinks people will catch. Yes. Yeah. I think that's more the issue. I think that there's fans of Assad in his audience, and he's aware of that.

In fact, I'm getting criticism that... A, this is a staged government event, and I should just out of hand say it staged. And B, no, Chris Dorner is a hero.

The reason I'm bringing this up, and thankfully I didn't run into any ends in there, but like the reason I'm doing that, and I want to bring that really into focus, is that this is the response that people have to that narrative that we just laughed about for a good hour and a half. And it's absurd. There's no critical thinking skills being employed by the people who are listening to the show. Their immediate response is vitriol, anti-Semitism, and hatred against blacks.