ABC executives took Jimmy Kimmel off the air after MAGA threatened to yank its license. Kimmel didn't say anything wrong or out of the scope of free speech. Kimmel said on air:
1. 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.2. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.
3. After showing Trump discussing White House ballroom construction when asked about coping with Kirk's death: Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief: construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.
No threats, no fomenting of insurrection. Just comedy and opinions.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, extremist MAGA operative with lots of power, criticized Kimmel's comments and threatened that he could revoke broadcast licenses. He commented: We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
One can easily envision Carr saying, Go ahead punk, make my day. That's how MAGA thug politics works.
This is how free speech rights die in under kleptocratic dictatorship in a corrupt capitalist economic system where money talks and democracy and freedoms walk.
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