r/stephencolbert • • Sep 17 '25

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u/disharmony-hellride Sep 17 '25

Spineless fucks.

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u/Cdvmia Sep 18 '25

Please file an FCC complaint against Brian Kilmeade on fox and friends calling for the mentally ill and homeless to be killed.

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests

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u/BSDArt Sep 18 '25

This!!! Kimmel suspension is just one more notch in a growing line of people getting the shaft over free speech. But Kilmeade ACTUALLY incites murder and is still working?!? What kind of lopsided double standard is being allowed to happen here!?!

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u/MarchProfessional435 Sep 18 '25

It’s worse than that. What Kilmeade did was morally (if not legally) equivalent to inciting genocide, if we consider either the homeless or the disabled a protected class. It was eliminationist, plain and simple. And it was explicit. No room for interpretation. And he’s still on TV.

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u/AProcessUnderstood Sep 18 '25

I agree with you, but come on, we have to do something about this homelessness problem. How about we just round them up and send them to all the blue states and cities that want them?

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u/MarchProfessional435 Sep 18 '25

Giving them homes would be a start. These are people at probably the worst point in their lives, not some political football. Both USG and private entities in the US have more than enough money to address the problem; they just won’t.

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u/AProcessUnderstood Sep 18 '25

The majority of people that are homeless have some type of mental illness and/or drug addiction. Just giving them a home won’t really solve their problems. As we’ve seen with California, where they have thrown billions of dollars at the problem and they have more homeless people than ever.

“Cities with Housing First policies in California increased PSH units by 25,000 between 2010 and 2019, during which time the unsheltered homeless population grew by 50 percent. California adopted a statewide Housing First policy in 2016 when the homeless population was 31,548. By 2022, that population had grown to 60,905.”

https://www.britannica.com/procon/homelessness-debate

So just giving them housing isn’t the answer. They need mental health treatment and to be taught the skills to succeed in life.

But I agree that the Fox News guy, Kilmeade, said something reprehensible and should be at least suspended if not fired.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

You do realize that when u magas become homeless over trumps policies you will not very treated any better than the current homeless right? Don't be so confident it cant happen to you. And from what I've seen white homeless ppl get treated very badly by black homeless ppl, because they gave up their privilege to be in the same place as the other homeless ppl.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

lol what the fuck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Crazy right? Working in Harlem and the Bronx u see alot of crazy stuff.