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He didn't even say anything other than the truth and played videos of the president himself ignoring the death and talking about his stupid ballroom that he was bribed with.

I refuse to deal with republicans who ignore these blatant fascist moves the adminstration makes. We would have had a normal country, but no. Project 2025 and the heritage foundation couldn't have that, so they bought donald the presidency and got elon to fund the campaign.

It's only a matter of time till people are arrested for talking out against donald trump and the fact he is a POS who ignores all law and order.

But many of us would rather be locked up than bow down to a pedophile.

[–] violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone 272 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

the offensive comments:

We had some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,

full monologue

[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 135 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can't risk offending the boy king now can we?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

i fully expect him to start wandering around the white house naked just to see if he can get away with a real life "emperor's new clothes"

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The king who went golfing instead of attending Jesus 2’s vigil-a-go-go?

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That’s offensive? I guess pointing out the obvious is just to much for them to handle.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Truth has a well known liberal bias.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Reality has a liberal bias

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

That’s just the actual events of record!

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It’s funny how absolutely true this statement is too. I’ve seen so many headlines over the past week about what political affiliations he might have. And we really still don’t know.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Didn’t you know that having a queer friend magically turns all your right wing extremist indoctrination, hate, and bloodthirst leftist! Queer people can turn you trans-political, now.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Jimmy should run for office now. I don't think Jimmy Kimmel is some kind of saint but they put him in a place of power by pulling his show.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Jon, Jimmy, and Stephen would be wasted upon the presidency. They should join forces and start an independent media organization.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could you imagine an entire administration run by talk show hosts.

Kimmel, Colbert, John Stewart.

I'm not sure they'd do a good job or that they'd even side with the public with issues or avoid bribes, but they'd be charistmatic AF.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Despite them being good people it would defacto be a step closer to Idiocracy.

We want leaders who've built a career doing things.

Speaking truth to power is an entirely different skillset.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I fully agree in concept, but i fear our career politicians (even the best ones) are corrupted or at least working complicately in a fully corrupt system.

I don't think that talk show hosts are the answer. Although, Stewart at least is 100% up to speed on political matters which is more than I can say about some presidents.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

Doing things doesn't necessarily mean politics. Could mean education, or administration, or front line work. Real life experience that qualifies someone to be in charge of things.

[–] Hector@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Colbert is the one well placed, to dust off his satire schtick after a maga conversion on his own channel.

He should quit the network early and start, the colbert reported.

Kimmel idk, but these networks will find conservatives have no sense of humor and cannot drive ratings. If they censor things the right cries about no one will subscribe to their dogshit streaming platforms.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The satire schtick won't get Colbert elected. Kimmel is charismatic and likeable with his own personality. No point in chasing conservative votes; just get liberals excited and showing up.

[–] Hector@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I'm not saying for Colbert to run for office, I just want him to dust off his satire bit, I think he has way more effective at that than he has been as a establishment Democrat cheerleader.

But since we are on the subject, I do want to see Jon Stewart as the Presidential nominee in 2028, at the head of a host of Reform minded candidates be there Progressive or other flavor of candidate matching their constituencies, that do not think people should be as fucked by the super rich without their consent.

Because that is almost everybody electorally. Red State and blue. And the only way to win here now is with a massive electoral Landslide and even then it might be hard to overcome the Party Machine fixing the elections every way they can.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

tHe PaRtY oF fReE sPeEcH

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 114 points 1 day ago

Mocking Donald Trump as well, Kimmel said on his show Monday: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

That is so tame. And accurate.

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

This must be this famed "free speech" that JD Vance lectured the Germans about when he visited Munich.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 65 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well I mean what do you expect? it's a fascist country, that's what facists do.

you think Nazi Germany allowed anti-party rhetoric or even anything that they could consider remotely offensive to them? no. they got rid of those people.

Americans, please don't allow yourselves to become more Nazi than you already are.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Americans, please don’t allow yourselves to become more Nazi than you already are.

It's too late. Just nuke us.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do hope some reality tv stars speak out. It's a win/win either some networks grow a backbone or we get some trash off tv.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 day ago (10 children)

John Oliver's gonna have one hell of a field day on sunday

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[–] chisel@piefed.social 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Extra crazy because he didn't even speak poorly of Charlie or say any distasteful comments. He didn't even really make a statement about the situation at all. He just said MAGA is trying to categorize the shooter as not them and played some clips of Trump being 100000x more interested in the new Whitehouse ballroom than the public assassination of his dear friend.

You can't cancel someone over comments they didn't make. This is pandering, plain as day. Same reason Colbert got canceled.

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[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This isn't even cancel culture at this point. It's a violation of our rights to free speech.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Direct threat from the administration:

“Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Whoa, that’s fucked up

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 31 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Lmao, I don't like him, but that's pretty fucked. I don't see how anyone could view this as anything but harassment and intimidation. They really want a new civil war don't they? Accelerationists are eating great lately. That should scare the shit out of everyone, left and right included.

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 29 points 1 day ago
[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't this that Cancel Culture™ that MAGA's always talking about?

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

It's worse. It's state controlled media. Cancel Culture is about the population shunning individuals they dislike. In this instance it's authoritarian government.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

America will no longer exist by 2026 at this rate.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

You only get in trouble for telling the truth.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

9/10/2025 the death of ~~charlie kirk~~ making fun of nazis.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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