I’m with you. The very first thing that jumped out at me is that a guy from Empire is claiming he was recognized on the street well past midnight in Chicago by MAGA rednecks who just so happened to have everything they could possibly need to attack him in a very racially specific way. Jeb and Cletus (avid fans of both…

As someone open to the possibility of a MAGA-fueled lynch mob, but also as someone skeptical as to what an actor with 3rd billing on a show MAGA-types aren’t watching could possibly have said to enrage people out onto the streets post-midnight in sub-freezing weather hoping to catch this particular actor taking an…

(Note the scare-quotes because these terms exclude trans and non-binary people.)