“I’m a fiscally conservative and an emotionally liberal guy,” he says.
“I want people taken care of on the social side.
I think most people are like that.
If you think the government can handle stuff, just look at the rollout of this vaccine.”
“Why didn’t the powers-that-be go [to the Capitol]?”
No, no, no, no.'
Maybe they don’t allow that."
Say, ‘Come on out, people…
I never said any of this.
That was not in that speech.
I never said, Go storm the Capitol,’ or whatever."
(Before the attack, Trumptold his supportersat his rally speech, “Our country has had enough.
We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about.
We’re going to walk down… You have to show strength, and you have to be strong… “I’ve been there before and it’s impossible to get in that building,” Allen says.
“I couldn’t get in, and I had credentials.
They wouldn’t let us in.
So who opened the door?
They were going, ‘Oh look, they’re letting us in.’
There were 120,000 people outside that had no idea this was going on.
[Ashli E. Babbitt]who was shotwas not a radical, she was an Air Force veteran.
Why was she shot?
It’s so sad anybody got hurt over this.”
Babbitt was one of five people who died during the attack.
She was shot by an officer as she attempted to enter a broken-in window inside the Capitol.
“Let’s bring journalism back,” Allen adds.
“I want the guys with the pencil behind their ear and go out and get the story.
Go look at local news.
If they say there’s a fire in Burbank, that’s news.
“It’s an embarrassment for anybody who just didn’t like [the Democratic Party].
So there’s nothing to say.
But I don’t think that’s going to happen.”
The actor also tackles the subject of social media, something he feels increasingly ambivalent about.
“I’ve never quite understood what [social media] was about,” Allen says.
I just had this conversation with somebody about my Twitter account.
I asked, ‘What am I actually doing with Twitter?’
This has been really weird for comedy because of this virus.
“I think they’re reacting to gossip,” he adds.
“And really, is gossip doing anything?
Is social media really doing anything?
I’m an old philosophy major.
The car is still not driving, you’ve just talked about it.
Social media is like putting your car in neutral and just revving it.
It seems like you’re doing somethingthe car is making noisebut you’re not going anywhere.”
