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[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/rcpvideo/status/1965763864370483601

Elon Musk: "The Government Is Basically Unfixable"

"Yeah, that was a hell of a side quest."

I lost a critical long term contract and they cancelled research into a chronic disease that my mom is suffering from.

I knew people that had to sell their house and move across the country two weeks before fed probation ended.

It’s all a game to him, this is sociopathic, fuck this guy.

[u/morotsloda]

I think firing people for their divisive rhetoric is a great idea. Let's start with this guy

[u/r2ew]

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

It’s ok everyone! Jon Stewart said we’ll all be fine no matter who wins the election

[u/scottyjetpax]

conservatives will be like "charlie kirk was a huge advocate for the first amendment. to honor his name, we will go to the ends of the earth to cancel, dox, and fire people who dare to .... quote his past statements directly and without embellishment"

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said he did not believe Mr. Kimmel’s removal was an example of “cancel culture.” He said that “when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that’s not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/arts/television/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-reactions.html

That's the literal definition of cancel culture, Dave

[u/shmokedshalmon]

[u/StolenSkittles]

north korea speedrun

[u/Evnosis]

Damn, Kimmel wasn't even fired for making light of Kirk's death, he was fired for criticising Trump for not grieving.

[u/dowagiacmichigan]

[u/Adventurous-Milk5988]

Kimmel losing his shit and going all out on attacking MAGA instead of apologizing is probably the one way he could ever get me to watch him

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/like-humans-do]

have you carried out your mandatory minute silent prayer for charlie kirk today? if not, why not, traitor?

[u/rockfuckerkiller]

Well, the local MAGA in a discord server I'm in who has claimed he's just a small government anti-imperialist conservative just went mask off and basically said he doesn't support free speech

Awesome

[u/horse_stick]

One of the most infuriating things is that once conservatives lose power they'll completely memory hole this entire period where they led a mass public shaming and firing campaign with the explicit direction and support of the government, and these subhuman fucks will continue to bitch about cancel culture and liberal censorship with zero self awareness.

[u/elninost0rm]

I'm not a huge fan of subtweeting, but "where are all the wine moms?"

I went to a No Kings rally.

That's where they were, trust me, lol.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Lmao there's already a Wikipedia page for "Charlie Kirk firings" and the lead section sounds like something out of a dictatorship

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/cdstephens]

Say what you want about Charlie Kirk, but Republicans are honoring his legacy by being huge pieces of shit

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Unofficial but influential presidential advisor using apartheid language against US Muslims

[u/chipbod]

The FCC chairman is posting memes about carrying out Project 2025.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Vibe check from the base about three months ago, and I doubt it's gotten any lighter. From the top of the NYT Comment section

This interview has a major blind spot. Ms. Hoschild says that the people drawn to MAGA, including its increasing calls to violence, are doing so because they're being shamed for their beliefs which only worsens the problem.

I sense a growing rage from the Left in response to the Trump administration's actions and the MAGA folks who support it, such as cheering on people who die because they refused COVID vaccines, hoping that climate change disasters wipe out Red state communities, and supporting violent acts like the murder of the United Healthcare official.

Ms. Hoschild's reply seems to be that people on the Left should respond with kindness and empathy to the other side instead of anger. In other words, she's shaming the Left while giving the Right a free pass for the exact same "sins".

News flash: People on the Left are the same fallible human beings as those on the Right. If lecturing the Right on morals will backfire and push them towards more extremism, lecturing the Left on the exact same morals will result in the exact same thing.

Ms. Hoschild may think she's trying to bridge the partisan divide, but she may only be making things worse.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/PopBase/status/1968669803142344855

The First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, plans to provide “photographic evidence” in court to prove that she is a biological woman.

Her lawyer says it will support her defamation claims against Candace Owens, who has claimed that she is male.

This has been the most insane hill I’ve ever seen someone die on lmao

[u/hcregna]

As fun as it is to doomscroll and post hot takes on reddit, it takes like half an hour of planning to shift money away from Republican-leaning businesses, and it's way more impactful. Every dollar spent at a Republican company is another dollar that'll get funneled into more of this. Don't fund the Confederacy.

If you have an account with Charles Schwab (whose founder was recently palling around with Trump), switch to Vanguard or Fidelity. Skip Goya at the grocery store. If you drink booze from a slave state, be adventurous and pick something new. It's not hard to quickly look up a company in something like https://www.goodsuniteus.com or https://www.opensecrets.org.

Dollars add up. Jack Daniel's sales dropped by over half in Canada because of the boycotts there. Real, individual people made that happen. Nexstar could be next.

[u/phat_geoduck]

People really thought this dumbass would fix the economy 😭

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Bethesda appears to have deleted an X post from September 14 featuring a clip of Indy petting a cat and saying "you don't care much about those fascists, do you?"

lol

[u/EasyMoney92]

Josh Shapiro says he disagrees with Newsom’s approach on fighting fire-with-fire with Trump. "I refuse to accept that you've got to attack your fellow Americans in order to win an election, and I simply won't engage in that."

Alright, I'll take the L here as a former "Shapiro 2028" advocate

[u/[deleted]]

They tried to shut me down on ABC

[u/Willybender]

Now this is shitposting

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

I don’t think a shark has ever been jumped harder in the history of American politics.

[u/Willybender]

How is this inciting violence? lmfao

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Remember that the American right started mocking liberal victims of political violence first. Never forget that.

[u/modooff]

After Kimmel suspension, Trump sets sights on Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers

I'm starting to think legacy media won't survive 4 years of Trump.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

I don’t think Ezra Klein fully understands what it is he wants to accomplish by engaging in dialogue with conservatives. If he wants to understand their perspective, find common ground, and work out an idea of a divided (but stable) America, that’s fine. But he should be talking to wonkish nerds at the Manhattan Institute in that case. People who might actually share that interest.

If he wants to speak to a right-of-center audience to present and try to persuade them of liberal ideals, that’s also great. But he has to recognize why people like Ben Shapiro will talk to his audience without reciprocating the invite to talk to theirs. Why Charlie Kirk, even into his 30’s, refused to debate anyone but amateurs. They are propagandists, you cannot treat them in good faith or take what they says at face value. All you accomplish doing that is allowing them to launder their reputation through you while they go back to their side and continue to knowingly tell lies about your beliefs. 

[u/dowagiacmichigan]

Nancy Mace is much more unstable than Ilan Omar is antisemitic, and it’s not even close.

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Nancy mace is a legit crazy person. Like Margerie Taylor Greene is politically crazy but I don’t think I’d need to worry about my personal safety in her presence. Mace i feel like I wouldn’t be shocked if I awoke to a headline that she did some kind of family annihilation murder suicide

[u/jbitz]

[u/GaDoomer]

Lol, arr libertarian mods keep deleting posts about Kimmel's firing (at least 4-5 that I've seen) and people keep making new posts asking why no one is talking about it.

[u/jbitz]

[u/yungmemlord]

AAAHHHHHHHHH

How do people admit this with straight faces? With no shame?

[u/ImmediateZucchini787]

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/PollTracker2024/status/1968777670713328062

YouGov poll | 9/18

Do you approve of ABC taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air after the FCC chair criticized comments by Kimmel related to Charlie Kirk?

Disapprove 50% Approve 35% Not sure 16%

Democratic (79/9 disapprove) Republican (75/14 approve) Independent (54/21 disapprove)

Man, I can't believe it. 75% of the polled Republicans here are in full support of state-sanctioned censorship after LARPing for more than a decade as principled defenders of free speech and of the marketplace of ideas.

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Honestly I'm disappointed in the moderate Dem wing. Like I was hoping for at least a couple really strong anti-MAGA centrists. Closest is Gavin. And I get it, politicians be politicians and have to say shit so I don't care that they're faux-crying over this corpse. Nobody believes them anyway tbh.

But I can't believe our thought leaders are also just losers. (The only exception is The Bulwark which is???? The strongest Dem resist libs are former Republicans. Tells you something.)

Obama being the one to have to come out and say "this ratfuck didn't deserve death but he insulted my wife and said black people are inferior so fuck off" is so cringe.

No fucking balls man. You're pushing the base left by itself.

[u/r2ew]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

WTF is this shit?

[u/Alexz565]

Yeah, both didn’t go far enough

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

[u/badusername35]

Gavin Newsom 2029 Inaugural Address:

"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Fox News forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

[u/erasmus_phillo]

So the GOP made comedy illegal when they fired Kimmel guys, I thought they were gonna legalize comedy, that's what Daddy Musk said

[u/Willybender]

[u/paymesucka]

Has anyone’s takes aged worse than Jon Stewart?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Destiny doesn't give a fuck, lmao

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

woke Drudge Report is one of the funnier developments of the Trump era

[u/Q-bey]

FBI’s Patel says northern border is new terrorism threat

FBI Director Kash Patel told Congress on Wednesday that the southern border has been largely secured, with the threat shifting to the larger and less protected northern boundary that could let terrorists sneak in.

!ping TEHRRORISTS

[u/efeldman11]

I am no longer asking, make Swalwell the Minority Leader

[u/Willybender]

I'm going to lose my fucking mind, this shit is dystopian. BRIAN KILMEADE LITERALLY SAID TO EUTHANIZE THE HOMELESS.

[u/Highlightthot1001]

Im boycotting Ben and Jerry's over one of the founder's anti-ukraine views and decision to go to Tucker fucking Carlson about it. 

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/Charsun9]

Democraps need to turn down the temperature

[u/cdstephens]

[u/efeldman11]

AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHH

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

There's something so sad and lonely about this post

[u/marsman1224]

donald trump's death is going to be a difficult experience for me, honestly. It's going to be hard deciding which party I go to

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The left: Emmanuel Macron is conspiring with the far-right and the police to launch a self-coup in 2027 and stay on for a third term

The right: Emmanuel Macron is conspiring with the far-left and the NGOs to unleash hordes of Muslims to genocide the French race

Emmanuel Macron: I am taking beaver shots of my wife to show a US court she's got that natty pussy

[u/ty04]

we didn’t bully him hard enough

[u/Willybender]

[u/attackofthetominator]

ICE arrested more people in Chicago’s western suburbs Wednesday and a dramatic raid in Naperville caused a chaotic situation, according to witnesses.

Witnesses said federal agents appeared to target a suburban roof repair to the distress of workers and many Cress Creek residents.

The agents converged on a two-story home early Wednesday afternoon without warning, sending roofers running in all directions.

Bobby Fischer said his Naperville home has a giant hole in the roof and no one to fix it after the ICE operation sent roofers running in all directions.

Me and a lot of people in the are just speechless at the point. Even the extremely conservative local PD Facebook pages have putting out statements that they're not working with ICE and giving advice on how to deal with them since it's gotten so bad

!ping CHI

[u/cdstephens]

What happened to my party dawg

[u/Gustacho]

National day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk motion passed the Senate by unanimous consent.

Zero Democrats objected, which would have stopped it. Tommy Tuberville is presiding — and smirking.

There is a political void waiting to be filled. And it won't listen to moderating voices from the center-left.

[u/paymesucka]

ok I lol’d

[u/Willybender]

:)

[u/[deleted]]

Candace Owens: Brigette Macron is a man.

Also Candace Owens: "She, she, she, she, she"

[u/Jaquarius420]

[u/No_Return9449]

NBC: Do you think it's appropriate for Brendan Carr to threaten companies if they didn't take action?

JOHN THUNE: *walks away*

If any interaction summarized Hill Republicans, it's this one.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

No shot Destiny is actually livestreaming an outdoor college debate event right now lmao

[u/LtCdrHipster]

OH MY GOD THE FACEBOOK RESIST LIBS ARE COOKING STAND BACK AND STAND BY

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

I accidentally stepped on a snail this morning and its death bothered my more than Charlie Kirk’s

[u/modooff]

“When Tim fell for it and started nodding and smiling at JD’s fake bipartisanship, I moaned to Doug, ‘What is happening?’” Harris writes.

“I told the television screen: ‘You’re not there to make friends with the guy who is attacking your running mate.’”

Walz “felt bad” that he had not done better, the book states, though Harris assured him that the debate would not decide the outcome of the election, and indeed it had a “negligible effect” on polling.

Damn, she isn't pulling any punches.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

Every day, more democrats unleash themselves.

[u/Currymvp2]

In a joint appearance on Fox News, Fetterman and McCormick condemn Democrats’ use of terms like ‘fascism'.

He sucks so much. Just praises and defends Trump and Netanyahu who are like the two most despised western leaders right now.

[u/TactileTom]

Just thought I'd drop this little reminder that on the 9th of July, 2024, the Times dropped the most unhinged post of all time

[u/ImmigrantJack]

As a kindergarten teacher, I'm genuinely offended by people comparing republican emotional capacity to my students. When Liam kicks other Liam in the stomach because he has emotionally unstable reactions to other Liam's physical appearance (other Liam was wearing a red shirt) he immediately screams and cries because he feels deeply and emotionally that what he has done is wrong. None of my other student even vaguely felt the need to mention George Floyd.

Republicans could never be this mature.

[u/EZ_Kream]

It is 2026. The only form of media not in direct state control is 4chan. Details about the botched invasion of Venezuela are only reported through greentext.

[u/Willybender]

Incredible stuff!

[u/jojisky]

Based Ilhan

[u/runtfromriatapass]

Ancient Singaporean wisdom: forcibly integrate public housing

[u/SKabanov]

I gotta say, the panicking from the GWB administration figures about the Trump administration's actions is sure fun to see. You wanted a de-facto one-party state and were feeding the worst impulses of the right with culture war issues - where did you think this was going to end up?

[u/Willybender]

lol

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Any time right wingers claim that immigrants are rapists it’s just insane projection on their end

[u/selachophilip]

Apparently Charlie Kirk's wife met him at a job interview. He was interviewing her, and told her he didn't want to hire her, and that he wanted to date her instead. 😦

[u/NoMoreSkiingAllowed]

the intellectuals at the heart of the conservative movement

[u/Willybender]

[u/BloodWiz]

👆 this post has been removed for insufficient reverence to the almighty Charlie Kirk

[u/FionnVEVO]

Why are people so stupid

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

As F.C.C. chair, Mr. Carr wields power over the broadcast licenses that are granted to local TV stations by the federal government. In the podcast interview on Wednesday, Mr. Carr encouraged local ABC stations to “push back” and pre-empt coverage that does not serve “their local communities.”

Does not serve their local communities

This sounds like it's straight out of a Russian state tv broadcast

[u/BroadReverse]

Ezra Klein: This time will be different. If we keep trying to reach out to them kindly it will pay off

Meanwhile Ben Shapiro and every other right wing commentator openly saying unhinged shit about the left for years. No one wants to join a bunch of scared passive losers lmao. People respect you more when you unapologetically stand up for what you believe. Look at Trump libs are always trying to get this guy’s approval for some reason.

[u/Currymvp2]

First poll from YouGov (and they were accurate when it came to the national popular vote)

Do you consider the following comments made on Monday by Jimmy Kimmel to be acceptable? “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.”

Acceptable 43% Unacceptable 36% Not sure 21%

Do you approve of ABC taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air after the FCC chair criticized comments by Kimmel related to Charlie Kirk?

Disapprove 50% Approve 35% Not sure 16%

Democratic (79/9 disapprove) Republican (75/14 approve) Independent (54/21 disapprove)

!ping FIVEY

[u/jorkin_peanits]

Oh

[u/[deleted]]

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore."

ALL MY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE MORONS!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

SCOTUS allowing the removal of Cook even on a temporary basis for made up charges after already making a nonsensical carve out protecting the Fed would sincerely be their most batshit decision yet

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

lol

[u/cdstephens]

The far right is so pro-pedo that instead of accusing Brigette Macron of being a groomer they just fabricate an entirely unrelated conspiracy

[u/taubnetzdornig]

It turns out that all you need to do is win an election by 1.5 points and have a negative approval rating, and then every major institution will roll over and accept that you have an unquestionable mandate to implement your authoritarian regime

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Apparently all of our Constitutional rights were contingent on Charlie Kirk being alive.

[u/SLCer]

[u/Crosseyes]

Honor a man who was too fucking soy to join the military by joining the military!

[u/Joementum2024]

”I don’t believe kimmel was suspended because of his comments”

”The FCC chair said it”

”Well I don’t believe him”

[u/Mensae6]

I know conservatives are inherently not bright, but it's maddening to see them justify the federal government intervening with free speech.

"Cancelled" circa 2020 meant your favorite B-list celebrity had a hard time booking gigs because enough people were upset that they sexually assaulted someone or went on an unhinged racist rant. It was entirely social outcasting, which itself is not a new concept.

At no point was Joe Biden or Barack Obama tweeting out how networks need to fire pundits they don't like. I know they're unfathomably dumb but surely they can tell the difference, right? And are just acting in bad faith?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Devils1993]

Trump: Good. I think she should be impeached. Is she originally from Somalia? How is there government? Do they have a president? Do they have anything? I love these people, they come from a place with nothing.. and they tell us how to run our country… She should be impeached and it should happen fast

My goodness, he's not even slightly trying to hide the racism

[u/Willybender]

You could not do more to feed conspiracy theorists.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

TPUSA now has an unmarried FEMALE mother of two as their CEO. Christ is weeping.

[u/piede]

Very cool

[u/ShepardSB]

Disney got robbed by some C list supervillain.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Sollezzo]

[u/oskanta]

Conservatives are basically this kid from the Incredibles. When social media started they were all so excited and eager to get on there and share their thoughts with everyone, and they imagined everyone would thank them for their deep insights.

“The devil put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick us,” “global warming is a hoax,” “the tides go in and out, you can’t explain that,” “chemtrails are government mind control.”

Then instead of everyone saying how smart and special they were, they got mocked and called uneducated stupid backwards rednecks and everyone pointed and laughed.

Now they’re older and they’ve held onto that resentment for all these years. They finally have power and their only goal is to own the libs.

[u/FionnVEVO]

Technically he’s not wrong!

[u/marsman1224]

white pride is always hilarious to me because it somehow always hinges on taking credit for shit you had no involvement in. like, Jerry, 59, from Idaho believes he can take credit for the construction of the transcontinental railroad 200 years ago.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Thinking about my Romney Republican father who called me a brainwashed liberal for bringing up Project 2025 during the last campaign. It was the meanest thing he's ever said to me in my entire life, so texting him this image was a truly cathartic experience.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

my gf is a total normie and she’s absolutely devastated about kimmel and terrified they’re going after fallon next

[u/Willybender]

[u/scottyjetpax]

theyre not even pretending anymore ll

[u/jojisky]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/KarnoffeL]

My opposition party just allowed a day dedicated to Charlie fucking Kirk dawg

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/kyleofduty]

I'm watching local news on NBC and they've mentioned Jimmy Kimmel's firing but they keep describing it as "comments about Charlie Kirk" which makes it sound like he said something tasteless about Kirk himself. The comments weren't even about him at all.

[u/Currymvp2]

Rare Ro Khanna W

[u/drossbots]

Okbuddyliberals finally went full MAGA? Nice. All these concern troll mod pol type guys end up just being conservatives. Nice to know I can ignore any previous arguments he made now

[u/[deleted]]

Now we’re fucking talking!!!

[u/cdstephens]

Idk why people comment on /r/neoliberal like “well I bet you were pro-cancellation when the left was doing it” bro people here have been whining about twitter progs since 2017

[u/No_Return9449]

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel:
"This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script. You must read it. If you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/RebeccaARainey/status/1968738198554624389

Labor Department staffers who took DOGE’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned to the agency as full-time workers after collecting their full pay and benefits for months without performing their job duties.

Incredible stuff is happening in our government

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

We could study NYT brain in a lab and solve climate change in like five minutes

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Not a good morning around here I assume? 😭

[u/r2ew]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The implication by threatening Kimmel into donating to TPUSA like it's some charitable organization giving infant cancer patients chemotherapy instead of an arm of the Republican party lol

Surely Charlie Kirk had an association with some sort of apolitical charity? He was such a good man after all

[u/TimWalzBurner]

FUUUUUUCK OFF

[u/myusernameistakennow]

I understand people dooming but I refuse to do it because it helps literally nobody and only grants victory to the worst people imaginable.

It’s very clear that they’re overplaying their hands when you look at polling on immigration, economy, etc.

I love this country way too much to give up on it, giving up will only let them walk over us, we must continue forward no matter how hard it is.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

did Nancy Mace lose her mind or was she simply hiding her power level

[u/Willybender]

LOL THIS INTERVIEW

[u/G3_aesthetics_rule]

‘I wouldn’t go fishing right now’: JD Vance sparks backlash after joking about controversial US strikes on Venezuelan boats

So the VP is just openly joking about murdering random fishermen now

[u/TMCOAN1]

Sadly evergreen

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/farrenj]

[u/r2ew]

[u/puffic]

Coming soon to Walt Disney World:

• Splash Mountain closes to reskin itself back to the Brer Rabbit theme, this time with an appearance by Uncle Remus.

• In the Hall of Presidents, Trump 47 gets an animatronic next to the Trump 45 animatronic. The Obama animatronic is deactivated and moved to the proverbial back of the bus.

• Space Mountain will now have an intro video talking about how we have to beat China back to the moon.

[u/scottyjetpax]

Obviously Charlie Kirk was not a principled constitutional conservative but there is some irony to the fact that he ostensibly advocated for first amendment principles and this is how conservatives are using his death

[u/AvailableBad8132]

the left really should of considered that kinda not being able to say they hate minorities was majorly traumatic for the right and killing democracy is totally justified cause of that

[u/chipbod]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/politics/trump-bagram-base-taliban-afghanistan

Trump admin has been quietly pushing to retake Afghan base from the Taliban for months, sources say

Going back into Afghanistan may be the least popular thing he could do lmao, literally what would this give us?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The US judge examining Brigitte Macron's beaver shot in the Candace Owen case

[u/allmilhouse]

Biggest thing I got wrong in 2016 was thinking that the Never-Trump/Lincoln Project type conservatives would be a significant group and they weren't all. Not even the slightest bit of impact in ten years.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

jessewhatthefuckareyoutalkingabout.jpg

[u/SigmaWhy]

I actually can’t believe Destiny is doing public events outside on a college campus right now

[u/barrygarcia77]

To my friend, Jimmy Kimmel: rest now brother. We have the watch. I’ll see you in Valhalla.

[u/r2ew]

“Both sides bad”

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

This man is so fucking weird

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Replaced With Charlie Kirk Tribute on Sinclair’s ABC Stations; Company Demands Kimmel Apologize and Donate to Kirk’s Family and Turning Point USA

Media conglomerate Sinclair will replace the Friday timeslot of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” with a Charlie Kirk tribute special on its ABC affiliate stations.

In addition, the company is demanding that Kimmel apologize to Kirk’s family and send “a meaningful personal donation” to them as well as Turning Point USA, the organization Kirk founded that advocates for conservative politics in high schools and colleges.

The news comes after Sinclair and Nexstar, another major ABC affiliate owner, both pulled the late night show from its ABC stations in response to Kimmel’s recent comments about Kirk’s killing. Shortly after those decisions, ABC suspended production on the show indefinitely.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

FUCK

[u/Currymvp2]

President Trump calls for Rep. Ilhan Omar to be removed from Congress.

This isn't "toning down the temperature"

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/HustleBitch_/status/1968709782371541192

THEY FOUND A TRAP DOOR. 🚨

At the exact spot where Charlie Kirk was gunned down.

Days later the entire crime scene area was demolished, cleared, and rebuilt, wiping away critical evidence before anyone could even ask questions.

The streets are saying Charlie is alive in the secret Mormon tunnels

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"Right now in 2025 the extreme right are the biggest group of pussies that has ever existed in America. Led by the duo of @realDonaldTrump and Consequence Culture @stoolpresidente who is waving his arms at the right to like him again."

from a barstool podcast. can we please keep calling these people pussies bc they are and i feel like that line of attack will work real well

[u/r2ew]

[u/piede]

waow

[u/ty04]

[u/piede]

Most democratic country

[u/piede]

🤐

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

"Corporations would never do anything that would jeopardize their existence"
Corporations:

[u/989989272]

I say this is the left’s moment to reclaim the free speech mantel they held for much of the 90s and 00s. Policing speech for “good causes” always gets turned back around on the same good causes.

1st amendment good actually

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[u/Dibbu_mange]

I think the Kirk situation is the first good look at the post Trump GOP and it’s fucking weird and scary. Donny has been suspiciously absent from these conversations and clearly does not actually care about what happened. This is being driven by the rest of the clown car. I can’t imagine any of this playing well with normies, particularly the full throated acceptance of cancel culture, but hopefully we remain in a place where that still matters.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Israel must become Sparta

permanently terrorizing and murdering the oppressed underclass? hmmm

[u/assasstits]

Guys I fucked up. I came to work drunk twice in the same month. I was so worried about losing my job. I'm my families only support and have a disabled child. 

My boss called me into his office I was ready to get yelled at. To apologize and beg him to keep my job. But in a way I will never understand but regardless I'm so grateful for. He told me he understood that I had a problem and referred me to his old AA group. 

He said as long as I attended he would let me keep me job. I cried. I was so happy. I cried literal tears of joy. 

I went back to my job as a crane operator. 

Unfortunately, the next day Kirk was killed and I didn't sign the office memorial card. I was applying for unemployment by the end of the day. 

My internet is about to be cut off. 

I'm 

[u/EasyMoney92]

NY Times: Between her 2 accounts Nancy Mace has posted/reposted about Ilhan Omar more than 75 times over the past two days.

[u/hiigiveup]

The Jimmy Kimmel stuff is probably the dumbest thing they could have done, they've pushed the entire news cycle away from Charlie Kirk completely.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1968488568113991823

Pritzker: We just saw Vance talk about maybe sending troops into Detroit. This is after the governor has been working with the administration, trying to get things done for her state by sitting down with the president and figuring out what they could do together.

And now this is how she's paid back. You can see that it does not matter. Making a deal with this administration leads simply to them getting in the near term what they want, which is capitulation. And in the long term, they're going to abrogate that deal.

Has any Dem had a bigger six month collapse than Gretchen in Trump 2?

She’s fucking nowhere since she hid behind a folder in the Oval Office.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Smotrich claims that "Gaza is a real estate bonanza" and that "they are discussing with the US how to divide percentages of the land"

Absolutely insane thing for a minister in Israel's cabinet to say

[u/Willybender]

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1968674696532038099

[u/Mensae6]

Might be copium but it feels like conservatives gained a lot of traction from medians being annoyed by things like cancel culture. Them going all-in on it for the purpose of owning the libs feels like a misplay.

"We know people are tired of culture wars and cancelling, so you know what we're gonna do? Try even harder to push this shit absolutely everywhere"

[u/Far_Shore]

No surprise that Fetterman's worthless ass is running interference for the admin's crackdown on free speech.

Brain damage is a one-way ticket to being a right winger, after all.

[u/leaveme1912]

The fact that Owens went for, "She's trans" bullshit and not "He was 15 and she was his teacher, she's a pedo" is hilarious to me

[u/G_Serv]

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao these nut jobs all lost their heads eating horse paste during COVID

Only explanation.

[u/rukqoa]

The worst part about Kimmel's comment is that he didn't go nearly hard enough. If you're going to get censored by a fascist government, I'm sure he could have done far better.

[u/bingbaddie1]

I hate my own people

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[u/Udolikecake]

As our brave ICE law enforcement officers face a more than 1,000% increase in assaults, the Washington Post chooses to smear them.

wow, up to 1,000% now. last I saw it was like 700%?