What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

[Ultra Magnus13]

So he goes from far right to far left in the span of three days?

All officially released stuff always pointed to the left. Twitter just had people on both sides desperately scrambling for the bad guy to belong to the other side.

 

[Deathy G1]

Jimmy Kimmel Live was just pulled from ABC indefinitely due to Kimmel insinuating that MAGA was using Kirk as a martyr.

Freedom of speech is dead.

 

[Wheelimus]

Watch Colbert instead in protest as long as you can.

 

[Deathy G1]

Watch Colbert instead in protest as long as you can.

I don’t have much hope that he will remain on the air for the remainder of his contract.

 

[Wheelimus]

I don’t have much hope that he will remain on the air for the remainder of his contract.

Hence why "while you can" was a key word. After that we'll all rally with the Tonight Show. Not like there will be anything else to watch.

 

[Generator]

Hence why "while you can" was a key word. After that we'll all rally with the Tonight Show. Not like there will be anything else to watch.

Eh, it'd be better to do that with Late Night with Seth Meyers. Fallon would bend the knee a lot sooner.

 

[Axaday]

Is that really meant as humor? I didn't read all the way down, but the reaction I was feeling wasn't funny.

 

[Pocket]

Didn't Fallon already bend the knee a long time ago? I seem to recall one of two late-night Jimmys being raked over the coals during Trump's first term for being too uncritical.

Also Colbert needs to freaking run for office the second his show is off the air. We need a new Al Franken already.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Kimmel needs to sue ABC over this, and refuse the settlement. Make them say in open court WHY they canceled him.

 

[Corvus]

So, where are all those Republican free-speech advocates? I'm sure they'll be up in arms any minute now.

Aaaaany minute now...

 

[abates]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

bsky.app

 

[Corvus]

 

[Pocket]

Wait, so it's Nexstar that owns Jimmy Kimmel Live, not Disney?

 

[Ungnome]

Nextar owns a LOT of tv stations across the country, I'd imagine that includes quite a few ABC affiliates. Just more proof we've allowed too much centralization in our media.

 

[Ironbite4]

So, where are all those Republican free-speech advocates? I'm sure they'll be up in arms any minute now.

Aaaaany minute now...

Ask and ye shall recieve.

Dima (@dima7b.bsky.social)

But wait, there’s more

bsky.app

Ironbite-when Tucker Carlson is calling this move too much....

 

[Rhinox]

Tucker is very well aware that while the targets of the moment are on the left side, his particular brand of bullshit would be first on the chopping block should situations reverse.

This is a big step in fascism and curtailing the rights of citizens. Many are rightfully scared of this and what comes next.
As a nation, we continue to slide downward. All of this may be due to Trump's special brand of corruption, but we need to remember that these steps have been built for decades. Trump is just speed walking.

 

[Corvus]

To quote the shadow-POTUS, Stephen Miller, from 3 days ago:

The last message that Charlie sent me was -- I think it was just the day before we lost him -- is that we need to have an organized strategy to go after the left-wing organizations that are promoting violence in this country.

I will write those words onto my heart and I will carry them out.

People ask me what emotions I'm feeling right now, it's just something people say, I mean, you kind of know the answer. There's incredible sadness, with this incredible anger.

The thing about anger is that unfocused anger or blind rage is not a productive emotion, but focused anger, righteous anger directed for a just cause, is one of the most important agents of change in human history.

And we are going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks.

So let me explain what that means... The organized doxxing campaigns, the organized riots, the organized street violence, the organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting people's addresses, combining that with messaging that's designed to trigger and incite viol,ence and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence. It is a vast domestic terror movement.

With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people.

It will happen and we will do it in Charlie's name.

And here we go:

Now, as most of you no doubt know, ANTIFA isn't an actual organization. The administration knows that too, whether Trump himself knows that or not, and they've been screaming about it since Trump's first term. But regardless this is what the regime's FBI and DOJ will use as a buzzword when they start going after certain groups and certain individuals.