A city council meeting in Plano, Texas went a little awry as a comedian gave a performance worthy of a cringy viral video.
The rap parody was about the war in Ukraine and insisting Russian President Vladimir Putin had to be stopped with the most extreme measures.
The whole bizarre incident was shared online by the comedian himself.
Prayers for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/EeQMb0Jok9— Alex Stein #99 (@Alex Stein #99) 1647391488
Alex Stein, a comedian and self-described professional troll, has started making scenes like this at city council meetings. He’s found that so long as you aren’t vulgar or combative, the council has to give him time to speak.
Still, few could have been prepared as a man in a suit and tie approached the podium, turned on a boombox, and started a four minute rap about the situation in Ukraine.
This included direct calls to kill Putin.
“Go insane, for Ukraine, a bullet in Putin's brain!”
Stein also expressed admiration for Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Zelenskyy! Is a VIP! Ukraine and I go insane.”
The whole video got a chuckle out of the internet.
This happened in Plano Texas yesterday \n\nVideo of man rapping about killing Putin at town council meeting viewed 6m timeshttps://www.indy100.com/viral/putin-rap-texas-town-council-meeting\u00a0\u2026— Pixi Vaxxed (@Pixi Vaxxed) 1647632939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYJR_4lMYaw\u00a0\u2026\n\nI hate this so much lmao— CEO of catfishing \u2728 (@CEO of catfishing \u2728) 1647788898
This right here is goldpic.twitter.com/y48To7jlBG— Brent Charmain (@Brent Charmain) 1647544358
Oh to be a fly on the wall when Brian Wellington had to follow Alex Stein\u2019s Anti-Putin Pro-Vaccine rap that went down in Plano-town— Heyoka-A Dillion Pickle Stan Account (@Heyoka-A Dillion Pickle Stan Account) 1647681060
The rap, delivered to a stony faced board of council members was a surreal experience. Stein kept hyping up a non-existent crowd and doing a strange dance, removing his jacket and screaming into the microphone.
Never one to be pegged in a box, however, Stein has expressed that the rap about killing Putin was a satirical jab at Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Graham had called for someone to kill Putin, saying the world needed a “Brutus” to take out the Russian President.
Stein told Insider:
"I don't really want to kill Putin. I'm a vegetarian.”
“And you got guys like Lindsey Graham that are on the right, going on national TV, Fox News, talking about killing world powerful leaders... So I was just trying to expose him for that because that's ridiculous.”
The whole thing went viral, as Stein had wanted. The comedian seems to do or say anything that will bring attention.
Recently, Stein appeared on InfoWars, a radio show hosted by Alex Jones the perpetuates far-right conspiracy theories.
The two shared discredited conspiracies on the COVID repsonse, doctors killing patients for money and the supposed suppression of Ivermectin as a treatment. Stein even referred to Jones as his “hero.”
This had many write off the comedian, or at least be very confused.
Alright so basically every few months now a guy named Alex Stein who lives in a rich enclave of Dallas called Highland Park goes to some city meeting and does something outrageous, which then goes viral. But what doesn't go viral is his transphobic posts or Covid conspiracies. 1/— steven monacelli (@steven monacelli) 1647464131
MFW witnessing the decadent, late-stage decline and its accompanying absurdities of everyday life in pic.twitter.com/XeMpgQF8oc— Counter-revolutionary Jacob \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Counter-revolutionary Jacob \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1647494716
Yes Putin is repugnant ... but this guy (no matter his good intentions) is some kind of special moron— John Dunn (@John Dunn) 1647560282
Okay okay, there are quite a few cringe videos. But to watch this is to want to eat your own feet and slowly work up your body like an Ouroboros, forever doomed to live an eternal life of cringe - no longer alive, not dead, just cringehttps://www.indy100.com/viral/putin-rap-texas-town-council-meeting\u00a0\u2026— You cannot kill ideas (@You cannot kill ideas) 1647683276
Clout Chaser Alex Stein Trolls Texas City Council Meeting, Raps 'Put A Bullet In Putin's Brain', Good Job Moron, you got your internet points for the day.https://paulprosise.com/2022/03/17/clout-chaser-alex-stein-trolls-texas-city-council-meeting/\u00a0\u2026— Paul Prosise (@Paul Prosise) 1647520287
If this guy\u2019s a racist, transphobic, COVID conspiracy theorist, then I think these raps are actually sarcastic.He said in this article that he disagrees with L. Graham saying we should kill Putin, so that part of his rap is sarcastic. https://www.insider.com/comedian-viral-ukraine-war-rap-texas-city-council-meeting-2022-3?amp\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/BpdFtFtdE3— Mary K. Castelli \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf39 (@Mary K. Castelli \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf39) 1647579103
Alex Stein of viral rap video fame this week in Plano, TX went on Alex Jones tonight to tell him, \u201cYou are my personal hero,\u201d and said that he used to listen to people like Howard Stern, until Alex \u201cwoke me up\u201d to the truth about things like Pizzagate.pic.twitter.com/rGfby8BQ2R— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1647650191
This is a recurring theme for Stein, who has made it his goal to be as controversial and strange as possible to avoid these the possibility these councils could ignore him.
Earlier this year, he performed a satirical rap at a Dallas city council meeting while pretending to be a nurse, about the COVID-19 vaccines. At the time, he said he wasn’t on the right or left, and wanted to keep people guessing.
The following month, he put on a puppet and continued his strange brand of attention getting humor.
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