>>6821457 (several breads ago)
Followup to the Brody Stevens Hwood comedian death story:
To set the scene for what follows, I have to non-dox dox myself by saying that I am an insider into the world of Hwood stand-up comedy. I know them all, and they know me. What they don't know, and never suspected, is that I am, and have been for a long time, their polar opposite when it comes to politics. Their mortal enemy. I hid it well, and my association with them (pre-Trump/storm/Q/awakening) was mostly pragmatic, about money. You don't shit where you eat, so I never brought politics into the picture, no matter how mislead and deranged I thought so many of them were. Of course, now having been awakened about the reality behind so many things post 911, count me among the mislead for having been such a strong supporter of GWB. As a vet, I felt it my obligation to support the president at a time of war. Still, I wasn't really all that far from those lib comics when it came to being manipulated. At least I knew not to vote D, is now the only good thing I can say about myself during those years.
Comedian Brody Stevens, who took his life earlier this year, and I go way back. He was a true comedian's comedian, and fan favorite. It was his mission in life to bring positive energy to everything he did, with everyone he met. In hindsight, knowing his mental health history, that was also therapy, a decided life tactic to beat down demons and negativity in his own head.
As a teen star baseball player, then pitching starter for the Arizona State University team, he knew well the pressures of that position, the extreme highs and lows, to win and lose by narrow margins. For those of us who knew him in the years before his death, it seemed as though he finally had a handle on his demons. It was very shocking when his death story hit, and in the weeks that followed, the comedy scene in Los Angeles was one long wake, part mourning, part celebration. Story after story was told about Brody, and everyone had one, including me.
What I knew, and what some of his closest friends knew, was that he was not a loony liberal. Exactly what he was on the conservative political scale is not known, but it definitely was not what everyone else was around him. I'm sure he knew I was conservative, and through the years he would acknowledge it in subtle ways. On Twitter I allowed no comedians to follow me except Brody. For years on Twitter (pre-Q) I was all about two things: my interest in a specific sport (in which I am active for fitness), and the conservative side of common sense political issues. He would regularly "like" both. To balance things out, he would also like his loony friends' diatribes too. He called politics theater, and respected the art of putting together a good rant. In Hwood, tossing the word respect around makes for good cover.
In 2011, Brody had a public meltdown on Twitter, then began threatening people in public, culminating with him being hauled out of his house (pulled naked from his shower) by the police, then sent to a psych ward for "17" days. What most don't mention in their version of Brody's Twitter meltdown, was his point blank blasting tweets against Hollywood and liberalism, including comments in support of conservative radio show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. I read them at the time, and was stunned! Not surprising, it was both Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman, two ultra-liberal, Democrat party bootlicking friends of his, who were responsible for setting up the intervention and having him committed to the psych ward.
My version of what happened to Brody is that he had become too aware of his surroundings, that he was among spiritual vipers. Whether they said it to him or not, they probably harbored and directed negativity toward him because of his political beliefs. I don't doubt many were resentful of his growing success and influence among the comedy world, which was a political threat. I think he knew about Q and the GA. He was always on the internet checking out the latest Twitter and Reddit trends. Absolutely he checked out all things Q, and that's when it probably hit him. Working, living among, and supporting Hwood was spiritual death. He had nowhere else to go. He was alone in the world, no one to turn to. His every waking moment was an act, hobnobbing with, and supporting all those liberal vipers. The emptiness and guilt must have been crushing. Time to exit stage right. There may yet be a sinister side to his death, that it wasn't a suicide, but I haven't heard anything specific.
The accompanying images are from the below linked articles of comedians reflecting on the death of Brody.
https://thecomicscomic.com/2019/03/12/zach-galifianakis-remembers-brody-stevens/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/inside-comedian-brody-stevens-tragic-death-1219210