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ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing
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So they've now gotten rid of Colbert and Kimmel, 2 of the most brutally honest guys going after trump. Interesting.
Video of monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk
free speech absolutists
More hate speech absolutists
And all the cocksuckers in the comment section saying "fwee speech has conseqwences uwu" deserve to be duct taped into a porta potty and set ablaze.
Y'all should have known better than to say something so trite and fascism adjacent.
That you're surprised it's being weaponized against you in turn is goddamn laughable, but you wanted your dumb little slogan that tried to explain a complex topic as stupidly as possible.
Like just think for one goddamn second about how fascists are going to use the literal fucking meaning of your phrase.
What is "my phrase" of which you speak?
Think
For
One
Goddamn
Second
Before
You
Talk
Not gonna clarify. Copy.
Maybe you should try fucking thinking about the context of this conversation.
Or, and this is obviously a deep ask here, you could explain what the fuck you're on about.
Explain yourself, or fuck off.
Read your original comment to see what phrase I could possibly be referring to.
It's not that hard.
Gonna come in hot with accusations and mud slinging, then when called in it, you just downvote and slink away.
Stay classy, SlugTypeMollusk
No. I failed Mind Reading at Hogwarts; I'm not picking thru anything in an attempt to interpret whatever your issue was. Come on out like a big kid. Explain your issue. I shall engage further if you can explain where you're coming from.
What.
The.
Fuck.
Are.
You.
On.
About?!
Sooo... I'm guessing the complaints are coming from people who didn't watch it? Because I can't put my finger on anything that was horrible or false or anything.
I'm confident they were just looking for a reason after Colbert. Seth Meyers better use his last few weeks before he gets pinched to come up with a contingency plan, cus this is a fucking crackdown.
My guess is that the right wing propaganda machine to hide the epstein connections, doesn't want it shown that trump takes kirk lightly and doesn't give a shit about his death. It's hard to keep it going if dear leader doesn't even care.
But the trucks...
Both Taco and his cult are whiny little bitches.
his mocking of Trump's grieving of that dude's death was low and distasteful regardless, to say the least.
Edit (and keep downvoting me if you want):
Trump is a narcissistic psycopath who is incapbable of symapthy that's why he is expressing his grief through emotionless shock. This is the way all psycopaths sincerely express their condolences. It does not mean you make fun of them or make fun of death of someone who is already dead.
Charlie Kirk is meeting up with god in front of all the maimed kids of Gaza which he advocated for their slaughter and genocide. He deserves that and it's ironic how he was killed and the world is better without him.
I want to say a million thing but I can't bring myself to make fun of his death or make fun of the grieving of his supporters or family. That is not in me regardless of how much I disagree, hate and wish harm upon these people.
You mean lack of grieving or you didn't watch it.
Fuck you.
trump is the lowest and most distasteful form of subhuman life on this entire fucking planet.
Citation needed, home slice
Trump isn't grieving Trump didn't know who the fuck he was. His team is using it for political reasons. In what religion would Charlie be in Heaven? Ah yes the American Christian religion which doesn't listen to anything in the Bible.
(Believe this may have been sarcasm?)
But I mean, he didn't even compare Kirk's neck to fountain of Kool Aid, or make fun of the look on his face, mention how he was just about to lie yet again about gun violence before he died by gun violence, or anything.
And it's clear you didn't even watch this anyway if you mention Trump grieving.
July 2025 Paramount/CBS agreed to pay $16 million to trump over a 60 Minutes lawsuit, then announced The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is being cancelled.
July 2025 PBS and NPR were federally defunded in a Congressional tribute to trump.
December 2024 Disney/ABC agreed to pay $15 million to trump over a defamation lawsuit, then in September 2025 cancelled Jimmy Kimmel Live.
September 2025 New York Times, Penguin Books, several authors are now being sued by trump for $15 billion because, still, that 60 Minutes segment.
Just a reminder: No Kings
Hey do you mind if we try an alternate timeline for a few days
Or, you know, however long humanity has left?
I've been saying that the billionaires and oligarchs — who own the majority of the S&P500 and political class — WANT fascism for the last 2 decades. They are behind it's political resurgence, globally; most have already publicly stated things that prove they are authoritarian sociopaths (Musk, Thiel, the Koch's, Ellison, Zuck, etc).
This explains why Trump has never seen the invite or a prison cell, despite 100 clear as day felonies, why the Dem establishment has never done more than performative resistance, etc.
They always do. When capitalism starts to falter and the public opinion starts to turn on the system the ownership class goes right to fascism to crush the population.
I'd argue that for at least half of them, capitalism is just a stepping stone to their true goals. They didn't opportunistically become fascist; they've always been that way
This is why they got rid of him. WTF there was nothing bad I guess making daddy Trump look bad is against the law.