Today In Labor History March 27, 1918: The Cheka (Soviet secret police) tried to arrest the clown duo Bim-Bom for satirizing the Communist regime. The audience initially thought it was part of the act until they heard live shots being fired at the clowns as they fled. The clowns were later questioned, but released. And afterward, refrained from satirizing the government. They had been active since 1891 and continued up until World War II. They used unusual objects as musical instruments, like frying pans, brooms, saws. Prior to the Communist Revolution, they routinely satirized the Czar. For this, they were often censored or banned from events. They also performed throughout Europe, in Berlin, Budapest, Paris and Prague. In one of their satires of the Bolsheviks, Bim brought out framed portraits of Trotsky and Lenin. Bom asked what he was going to do with them. He replied, “I’ll hang one, and put the other against the wall.”

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MURRAY FOOTE: The week the wheels fell off Reform’s Scottish clown car
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/5459000/murray-foote-reform/

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sixtus/116288515059611000

Eigentlich wundere ich mich schon gar nicht mehr über die #clowns in der #SPD.

And everybody is so happy for you Kash..../s

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Pete Hegseth either has no idea what a pocket square is and/or what it's for, or he uses the American flag as tissue.

You might point this out to any flag patriots who still worship the shitstain and his minions.

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Clowning Around?

Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns, but no word for fear of comedians?

AREN’T WE SCARY ENOUGH FOR YOU?