One left-wing comedian learned a tough lesson last weekend from the Department of Homeland Security about why making “jokes” about killing government officials tends to be a really bad idea.
Brooklyn comedian Jake Flores’ troubles began last Saturday, when he posted a series of jokes encouraging white people to atone for their Cinco de Mayo “cultural appropriation” by killing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents:
Ok here’s how Cinco de Mayo works in 2018. White people are allowed to culturally appropriate on the condition that you help to destroy ICE. You kill 1 ICE agent and you get to wear a sombrero. 2 kills and you can wear a pancho.
— Jake Flores (@feraljokes) May 5, 2018
3rd kill you can draw a mustache on your face in sharpie. 5 kills and you can do skull paint. It goes on and on like this up to 100.
— Jake Flores (@feraljokes) May 5, 2018
After you kill 100 ICE agents you area allowed to be full on racist and no one can give you shit about it. Drive a lowrider, call people wetbacks, get a weird tattoo of a chola that’s also a clown for some reason. No one can stop you. You earned it.
— Jake Flores (@feraljokes) May 5, 2018
This apparently is what counts as humor over on the far-left. Not funny. […]
“The kind of language expressed in the tweets, even in an allegedly joking manner, is reckless and irresponsible. It potentially puts at risk those who have taken an oath to uphold the law and protect public safety,” ICE press secretary Jennifer Elzea said afterward in a statement to Splinter News.
Flores likewise described the confrontation to Splinter, describing how the DHS officials who raided his home took photos of his apartment and spoke with him about his tweets.
“So we have this conversation and they kind of just make it clear that nothing’s going to happen, [but] we’re going to keep an eye on you, which is alarming and annoying, and maybe they’re listening to this phone call right now,” he said.
No, what’s annoying is Flores’ lack of gratitude. DHS could have possibly arrested him and thrown him in jail for posting threats. Instead they let him off the hook, even after he lectured them about the alleged evils of deporting illegal immigrants.
“But at the end of it, the weird part is, we start to just get into a conversation about why I don’t like ICE. … So I explained this to him, and said the difference between the police and ICE is that the police have a statement mission that, on some level, is good, and then still mess it up,” he said to Splinter.
“But with ICE, their stated mission is what we disagree with. I don’t believe there should be a modern day Gestapo. I believe this is motivated by a lot of sinister things.”
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