The Wokelash Has Just Begun with Daily Wire’s “Lady Ballers” and John Twain’s “No Hell Below Us”
The woke movement has become omnipresent in American society because it has been aggressively pushed by powerful people in academia, entertainment, media, and business. Normal people recoil at the absurdities of wokeism, but they either lack a platform to make their critiques heard, or they are afraid of the repercussions for daring to challenge the preferred worldview of the elites.
But people are tired of not being able to laugh at the the most ridiculous ideas ever pushed on a population: that the way to resolve racism is by being racist, that men and women are interchangeable and transformable, that the solution to some people being poor is to make all people poor by implementing Marxist economic plans, that humans should impoverish themselves (well, not the elites who fly across the Earth on private jets and live in mansions, but the regular masses) to achieve some ultimately perfect constant annual average temperature of the Earth.
Enough. People have had enough.
Enter The Daily Wire and author John Twain with art that lampoons the excesses of the left and the woke movement.
This Friday, December 1st, DailyWire+ premieres its new comedy, Lady Ballers. With cameos by The Daily Wire’s dream team of Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, and Candace Owens, and staring Daily Wire Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing, Lady Ballers promises to bring back the slapstick comedy that has been effectively banned in the faux-outrage dominated woke era. Lady Ballers also features master impressionist and hilarious comedian Tyler Fischer. Check out the trailer here:
The world of literature is producing powerful critiques of wokeism, too. Enter No Hell Below Us: A Political Tour de Farce by John Twain, a book that has resonated particularly well with conservatives who find the modern collapse of Western Civilization to be quite disheartening, to say the least. With savage wit, Twain takes aim at the left’s trinity of divisiveness—race, class, and gender—by asking the question: What if RACE, INEQUITY, and GENDER disappeared? Surely humanity would achieve utopia, right (at least a secular utopia as described in the left’s anthem, “Imagine”)? Guess again—for the Devil’s in the details.
As if we don’t already live in ridiculous times, Twain cranks the absurdity to eleven, exposing critical race theory, intentional class warfare, and gender theory for the mockery of goodness that they are. Elites scramble as one by one their precious means of dividing and conquering disappear in Twain’s surrealistic world. Because they already control media, academia, the government, and the deep state of corrupt bureaucracies, the woke left have an edge, even as race, inequity, and gender disappear, but there is a divinely-organized resistance operating below the radar that they do not count on.
Hijinx ensues as a wild cast of characters emerge from the pages of this timely farce. Though any resemblance to real people is “purely coincidental” *wink wink*, some would say Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Steven Crowder, Andrew Klavan, and Elon Musk are inspiration for key players in the story, as are some of the inglorious woke agents of our day.
If you crack up at the satirical humor of The Babylon Bee and JP Sears and Lady Ballers, you will love the comedic justice served up in No Hell Below Us.
And, though satire provides cathartic relief from the loss of control conservatives feel in a society dominated at every level by elites of the left, satire can make a real difference in the national conversation—it can even awaken the woke!
So, invite comedy back into your life this week with Daily Wire’s Lady Ballers and John Twain’s No Hell Below Us. Buckle up for some gut-busting laughs, have fun deflating the dangerous yet pompous belief system called wokeism, and tell a friend—restoring sanity to Western Civilization is going to be a team effort.
The wokelash has just begun.
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