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Hello! Thank you for subscribing to Humorism. I’m writing to let you know that for the next few days, I’m offering a 33% discount on paid subscriptions. Click the button below to get one year for a cool 40 bucks:

I couldn’t write Humorism without reader support. Your subscription will help me cover various costs involved in the production of this newsletter—web hosting, platform fees, transcription fees, liability insurance, etc—and more importantly allow me to turn down some of the (many) other gigs it takes to cobble together an income as a freelance writer, most of which are even more grueling work than listening to Tim Dillon and Whitney Cummings. 

On a broader level, your support will help produce a resource that simply doesn’t exist elsewhere. To my enduring frustration, most news publications just don’t seem to have the resources or will to cover this important culture industry, even as it’s grown more and more entwined with political life. As I often point out, pretty much every day a famous comedian says something that only five or six years ago would have been a national news cycle and career-threatening scandal. The difference today isn’t only that the Overton window has shifted in their favor, but that they have the ear of powerful figures in government and media, to whom they often lease their platforms directly.

Perhaps it is no longer shocking that someone like Tim Dillon might go on Joe Rogan’s podcast and accuse Muslim immigrants of trying to replace white people; or that Whitney Cummings might accuse China of manufacturing Covid to force Americans to stay home and have a bunch of kids for whom they then have to buy Chinese toys; or that Theo Von might, in between hanging out with fascists like Candace Owens and JD Vance and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., proclaim his belief that Frederick Douglass was secretly gay and used the Underground Railroad to meet men; or that Shane Gillis might whine about anti-white racism in Sinners, call for trade war with China, complain about Haitian immigrants in Ohio, and hang out with Holocaust deniers and outright neo-Nazis; or that Andrew Schulz might make racist jokes about Zohran Mamdani, enthuse over Trump’s El Salvador concentration camp, describe the Jews as a successful and insular people, defend sex traffickers, support ICE raids, and explicitly make a case for dictatorship; or that Joe Rogan might say Jews have control over the diamond trade and that Hitler doesn't actually sound so radical if you listen to his speeches; or that Tom Segura might embrace neo-Nazi Candace Owens and sex trafficker Andrew Tate, celebrate his right to use homophobic and ableist slurs, openly and explicitly complain about gay people and trans people, and fawn over Hungarian dictator Viktor Orbán’s anti-LGBT policies; or that dozens of the industry’s most famous people would gladly take a six- or seven-figure paycheck from Saudi Arabia. No, I suppose this is all just normal now.

But nothing lasts forever. The reason I keep writing this newsletter is that I believe one day Trump will die, his movement will fall, and the pendulum will swing far, far away from the norms Trumpism brought with it. And when that future comes, I believe—I hope, I have faith—there will be some value in a record of the people who helped create and maintain the world we live in now. 

So I invite you to help me build that record. If you can’t swing a subscription but still want to help out, please recommend this newsletter to anyone you think might be into it. You can also use the tip jar button below and at the bottom every post. (I read last week that tips to “digital content creators” will be included in the new no-tax-on-tips rule, so “readers of means” are especially encouraged to use that option.) Thank you as always for reading, and I wish you all the best.

~Seth