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Sept. 19, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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Free Speech: Trump, FCC & the Rise of the Federal Censorship Committee
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Well, as um Jimmy Kimmel Live is now Jimmy Kimmel dead air uh because he's been taken off of the air indefinitely.
Interestingly enough, they've done it in a way, I guess, to appease Trump because they uh have not uh fired him.
He still has his contract with them.
I guess they're still paying him.
He wants to get out of his contract so he can do something else.
They're not gonna put him on air, they're just gonna put him on the shelf, which is another kind of death uh to be uh uh have that done to you and try to make you disappear.
So uh we're gonna play for you what he said, and of course, uh we go back a long, long time digging up quotes from Jimmy Kimmel that are outrageous, untrue, malicious, and partisan.
Uh but um uh he does not deserve to be uh uh fired by intimidation of the FCC.
I mean, I could understand that uh if his ratings were bad, he's in second place.
His ratings are not as horrible as uh Trump wants to pretend that they were.
But um his uh I I guess uh all these late night shows are losing money, but uh because they're not funny anymore.
This is not Jay Leno, this is certainly not Johnny Carson.
And so uh Trump doubles down, takes credit for it, and wants the rest of the shows shut down as well.
Have we considered moving our time slot to the late night?
There's this it's open now, yeah.
We should do that.
That's a good point.
I thought about that.
We're actually late-night people.
This has really been grating against us uh to do a morning show.
Well, I guess.
I'm just saying, there's a slot.
Yeah, it was uh again, you know, you got Brian Kilmead was the reason uh to blame for me going into the morning slot because um I'll never forgive Brian Killmead.
Yeah, I had a choice at InfoWars when we started because I was mine was the first show that uh that we did, but um uh I had heard Brian Kilmead on the way in on the radio, and I just thought he was just the worst commentator in terms of not understanding anything and just being this mindless cheerleader for the government.
And of course, he recently came out, took a lot of flack because he said I think we ought to just give lethal injections to the homeless.
It's like I thought you already did that in 2020.
Didn't you uh cheerlead for the Trump shot?
That's a lethal injection.
Careful, Brian, with takes like that, you may be one of them, fairly so.
Yeah.
So yeah, he just Brian killed me.
It's amazing anyway.
So in the meetings that the ABC executives had after this, because immediately it got pushback, of course.
In those meetings, multiple executives backed Kimmel before ABC ultimately decided to cut late-night host's show, sources said, adding that senior executives ultimately feared retaliation from Trump.
The report says multiple executives felt Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line.
Well, I think what he said was over the line, but I think that it's a bad joke, and you can make bad jokes.
Uh it's funny to me that uh the other things that he said in the past were not considered to be over the line.
Anyway, um Jimmy Kimmel why was pulled on Wednesday after FCC chair Brendan Carr had threatened to withdraw ABC's broadcast licenses.
An interview with YouTuber Benny Johnson.
How repugnant is that?
It's just beyond belief to think that this could happen, and to think that the conservatives would not be up in arms about this.
As I said yesterday, uh, and I've said many times, when Obama tried this kind of stuff, he used the FCC.
Uh he wanted to have the have news organizations, he was gonna send people from the FCC and uh have the news organizations explain how they put the news together.
And it's like it's none of your business.
I don't want you reviewing my content.
You should not be reviewing content.
And uh, of course, there's the prohibition is Congress shall make no law.
But we're not ruled by Congress anymore.
We're ruled by corporations and we're ruled by bureaucracies.
And so the bureaucracies or the president uh is I guess the founders never figured that The corporation that we would have businesses that would be so tied to a corrupt government that all you would have to do is say, Well, we're gonna make it difficult for you to uh have a uh to get money from the government because they hand out money to everybody as a bribery.
That's the way they control everybody and everything.
That's what I was saying through all of 2020.
You know, they hold the purse strings to education, so they can punish you in one administration if you don't put the trainees in the girls' bathroom, and then they can punish you in the next administration if you don't pull them out.
So it's just as arbitrary.
That's the strings of control, of course, is the money.
And uh that is the uh wager they've got over them, of course, also privilege licenses, and that's what uh Carr was saying at the FCC.
He said, uh these licenses are a privilege, and they are, they're not a right.
They are a privilege, and they're weaponizing that uh against the First Amendment, which I think is a crime.
That is a bit as bad as making a law.
But they always say that there's a difference between the bureaucratic rules and the laws.
And when they say that, they say you don't have any due process or constitutional protection against bureaucratic rules.
That's even worse.
Because you don't elect the people who run these bureaucracies.
You elect the congressmen in theory.
Uh, we know how the gerrymandering works.
But uh the theory is that the people are going to make the laws are accountable to the voters.
There is no way that the bureaucracies are accountable to the voters.
And yet, when they say that this is not a law, this is a rule, we don't have to give you due processes, which is the argument that they make with civil asset forfeiture and other things that they do.
And that's where we are now with free speech.
So now they don't have to make a law to kill free speech.
They can just do it with government regulation.
So uh he said, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
He said in the interview, he's publicly saying this.
These people are mafia figures.
They are I'm just wondering show sleeps with the fishes.
I'm just wondering if uh these ABC executives, if any of them woke up the next day with a horse head in their bed.
Uh this is this is the kind of tactics.
Uh Don the Godfather.
He knows that well because he operated in New York for a very long time.
It's just a mafia White House.
And uh so he said, we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way.
And so the ABC executives caved on this.
Uh ABC pulled him off the air after FCC pressure.
The abrupt decision by the network owned by Walt Disney came hours after the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, assailed Kimmel, suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of remarks the host had made on the Monday telecast.
Uh the comments at the center of the week's firestorm came during his opening monologue on Monday night.
I'll get right to those uh he actually, this is the second joke he told.
What I thought was uh interesting was the very first joke he told was uh how I opened my show on Monday, which was looking at uh Trump's comments about the Sissy NFL.
And he's kind of I don't like this rule that they just put in.
How do these guys get to make up these rules like this and just put them in without anybody having a say?
And it's like, well, that's a private organization, and they can do whatever they want.
You, on the other hand, Trump have taken this on yourself, whether it's tariffs or something else, to do this, and that is against the major rule, the Constitution.
And so I thought that was pretty ironic.
I don't know really where he was going with it.
I just thought that was funny that he had that as the uh the first joke.
So here's the comment, the offending comment.
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.
In between the finger pointing, there was uh 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.
I condoles on the law to your friend Charlie Kirk.
May I ask, sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir?
I think very good.
And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks.
They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's gonna be a beauty.
Yes.
He's at the fourth stage of grief, construction.
Democratic construction.
This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody called a friend.
This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, okay?
And that was uh Lance had mentioned that the other day, but uh I had not seen the clip.
Uh isn't that amazing?
Yeah, I'm thinking it pretty well.
Uh by the way, do you notice my great new thing that I'm building here?
It's like I thought that was funny.
It is all against Trump.
Uh, and of course, uh, you know, I'm a critic of Trump as well, but um uh he has in the past come out and said things he basically, Jimmy Kimmel did not get any flack when he wanted to kill those of us who were not vaxxed.
Remember this?
Hospitals get any more overcrowded, they're gonna have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bet.
Uh that choice doesn't seem so tough to me.
Vaccinated person having a heart attack, yes, come right on in.
We'll take care of you.
Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo, rest in peace, wheezy.
You're that's yeah, yeah.
So there you go.
You know, if you play the game and if you uh inject the poison of his sponsors, uh, we'll give you some hospital treatment if you got a heart attack.
Otherwise, we'll let you die.
Funny that the example was a heart attack, given what we know about the vaccine now.
Yeah, oh, the irony, right?
Vaccinated person having a heart attack, and yes, there will be quite a lot of those.
Yeah, so uh Carr, the FCC uh said it's this is uh part of a concerted effort to lie to the American people.
And the FCC was going to have remedies that we can look at.
We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way, as I said before, he told uh Benny Johnson.
These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel.
Or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.
Look, this is the same kind of stuff that was happening behind closed doors.
It's now been proven.
We knew it was happening for social media companies, and it's now been proven with the documents that Elon Musk released.
By the way, Elon Musk is now out there, the great defender of free speech is out there saying there should be prison terms for some of the people who are criticizing or making fun or light of the um uh the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
So much for free speech, right?
And we knew these people were doing this with social media.
They are just like the Republicans now are just like Hillary, for example.
If the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter X or uh Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate uh and monitor the content, uh we lose total control, and it's not just the social and psychological effects, it's real hard.
Yeah, there you go.
And we see the same thing from AOC.
I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up Uh media literacy because that is a part of what happened here.
Um we're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation.
It's one thing to have differing opinions, but um entirely to just say things that are false.
Um and so that's something that we're looking into.
Yeah, well, you know, the problem is is that uh people have honest disagreements of opinion as to what true and false are.
That's why we have debates and discussions.
That's why Charlie Kirk did what he did.
But now the right has become exactly the same as Hillary Clinton, AOC, the squad, all the rest of these people.
And uh we were told that they weren't going to do that, right?
They've been canceling conservatives for the longest time.
And uh J.D. Vance, at the beginning of the administration, remember he went to Munich, Germany, the conference.
And he got the Europeans very upset because of course the Europeans are doing this as well.
It doesn't matter whether the people are conservatives or liberals.
Uh it really doesn't matter.
They could be communists or non-communists.
They're all doing the same thing.
It's just like the pandemic.
Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth.
So I come here today, not just with an observation, but with an offer.
And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite, and I hope that we can work together on that.
In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town.
And under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.
Yeah.
That has an age.
Well, look at this.
These people and I clap it, they don't like that.
Yeah.
We're not going to let you say that in the public.
This is the this is where we are, folks.
The open hostility that you saw there in the EU.
And I've played the clip of uh Ursula Fond of lying, and how she said that's number one thing that we're facing here disinformation, misinformation.
And uh, of course, disinformation and misinformation is anything that they disagree with, anything that exposes their lies.
And uh so they do not want to have any debate, any free speech, and so now that's where we are right now.
We have all the political parties, both sides want to shut the other side down.
Uh there's no tolerance for free speech.
This summer, CARS FCC approved a major merger involving CBS's owner, Paramount, days after CBS agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the president.
And this is yet another example of this.
Trump filed this lawsuit on a personal basis.
This is a personal lawsuit.
This is not a lawsuit that was filed by the federal government or the attorney general.
This is for him personally.
You damaged me.
You know, you made La La Harris look good, and it's like, well, you won.
They should have fought, but they didn't.
Instead, they settled with him and gave him 16 million dollars.
So think about this.
Trump used the threat of people like Carr and the FCC to pull their license so that he could profit 16 million dollars.
Is that not in your face corruption?
I I just I can't believe it, Travis.
This is just the most corrupt administration I've ever seen in my life.
And uh it's only going to get worse from here.
This is just the beginning of it.
And he's getting his way.
He's only being emboldened because you cannot appease tyrants, whether it's Hitler or Trump.
A tyrant is only going to be emboldened when you uh give up like this.
And uh again, to use the power of his office to threaten somebody so that he can personally gain from this.
Just amazing.
And uh what they were saying was, of course, there's no nothing that they can do really against the network, but it's against the affiliates who have a broadcasting license for a particular frequency.
And that was the reason given for why they set up the FCC was that they were going to have an auction to sell off the frequencies to people, and then they were going to make sure and police it so that somebody didn't infringe on their frequencies in a particular area.
So they have uh rules about how powerful the broadcast can be.
And um got a lot of uh AM radio stations who don't have a lot of power.
We had one in the Raleigh area that was a 50,000 watt station.
And with AM radio on it with right weather conditions, could bounce it off the atmosphere, and uh you could pick them up down in the Caribbean somewhere sometimes.
That was very, very powerful.
You get them a very long way if you had the right kind of weather conditions, it's just the way AM works.
And um, but they don't give out those kind of licenses anymore.
That was grandfathered in for that station.
And uh so they've got these um uh the this frequency spectrum, they can use that to bully people.
And of course, Sinclair, um, which is a network of um stations.
If you remember, we've played the clip in the past, many people have played it, where Sinclair was giving talking points to their news presenters.
Now they say that they're coming from the conservative side uh establishment Republican, so to speak.
So they had uh, and we've played that where they start reading the script, and uh they're all reading it in unison.
You start with one uh uh anchor reading it, and then you go to another station where somebody else is reading exactly the same script.
Uh, we played that many times to show just how scripted the media is and how it is centrally controlled when it is a large corporation like Sinclair.
So what Sinclair is going to do is on their stations tonight in uh Jimmy Kimmel's airspace that's now void, they are going to broadcast a tribute to Charlie Kirk.
This is getting kind of crazy.
Look, it bothered me a great deal to uh see that assassination, and um and I feel for his family.
But I gotta say, we gotta stop with this hero worship.
It is just going too far, and they're using it to destroy everything that he worked for in his life.
Uh he worked for free speech, he worked for debate, he worked for people being able to have discussions and disagreements with each other.
He worked against the cancel culture, and so they're destroying it now uh in order to honor him, so to speak.
So um Kimmel said he was going to address the backlash on the Wednesday telecast, but Disney executives decided that they would uh not allow his show to be taped yet again.
So as FCC chair, Mr. Carr wheels power over the broadcast licenses granted to local TV stations by the federal government.
Carr encouraged local ABC stations to push back and to preempt coverage that does not serve their local communities.
There you go.
And he will tell you what serves the local communities.
This is what we feared from Obama is being done now by Trump.
And what it has done is it's allowed Obama to get on a pedestal and pontificate about how wonderful free speech is.
He doesn't mean that.
He doesn't mean it any more than J. Devance meant it.
These people are just hypocrites and liars.
Uh he wanted to do the same thing, but it didn't happen.
Why?
Because there was massive pushback.
There was pushback from the media against it, there was pushback from conservatives against it.
These people are not pushing back when Trump does it.
You know, I played Hillary Clinton.
And I said, um, you know, when Hill or if Hillary Clinton wanted to shut down speech and use the FCC to threaten to shut down stations, everybody would have pushed back against that.
But see, when Trump does this kind of stuff, and I said this about the pandemic.
If Hillary Clinton had been there, the the system needed to have Donald Trump, because the people who would have been most likely to push back against this would be mesmerized by Trump.
They would have definitely pushed back against the lockdowns, the vaccines if they had been done by Hillary.
And we saw the uh the the left pushing back against the vaccines when they were done by Trump, but then as soon as Biden got in, it was okay.
They were saying vaccines.
But uh now that Biden is president, we can take the vaccines.
Couldn't take them if it was Trump.
This is the insanity that uh these these people are operating under.
Uh so Carr said, frankly, I think it's just really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, Listen, we're going to preempt, we're not going to write Kimmel anymore unless you straighten this out.
Well, of course, they could make that decision if they thought it was in their best interest.
They don't need Carr to tell them that.
They carried it because they thought it was in their best interest.
Now uh that the government is wiping out the free market's input.
Uh it's in their best interest to censor this because Carr is threatening them.
Shortly after Carr's remarks, Next Star, an owner of affiliate uh ABC affiliates around the country, said it would preempt Mr. Kimmel's program, quote, for the foreseeable future.
Uh late Wednesday, Sinclair, this is the one I talked about, said that they will uh make a meaningful donation to Mr. Kirk's family and the uh organization that he had, Turning Point USA, and then later on they said that they're going to air a tribute to him in Kimmel's former time slot.
Trump and his allies seem to want to shut down speech that they don't like to hear.
That's Chucky Schumer.
Do we really want to hand do we really want to uh give a softball uh pitch to people like Schumer and Obama?
These people don't like free speech.
Why let them uh pretend that they do?
But of course, the right was pretending that they did all along as well.
He said, This is what autocracies do.
And for the first time in his life, Chucky Schumer is right.
It doesn't matter whether you agree with Kimmel or not, he has a right to free speech.
That's right.
Except now we know that this is just a partisan thing.
Free speech depends on who is in power.
Truth depends on who is in power, doesn't it?
This is truly Orwellian.
We change our enemies as we change administrations.
So then he goes on to say, Well, we're not done yet.
Even after Kimmel was suspended by ABC.
And so there's a lot of different ways that you can interpret this.
Is he going to, as Trump tweeted out, wanting to say, well, the next guys, come on, NBC, you got to get rid of these next guys that are still there.
And is that what he means?
Or does he mean that there is he seemed to imply that there's going to be uh punishment for ABC, nevertheless.
Because again, if you're going to allow these people to operate as dictators against free speech, you can't appease dictators.
Uh so just like Bondi, uh, this guy Carr is a lawless partisan thug.
His loyalty is to Trump, not to the Constitution that he swore to.
Uh Carr believes Kimmel's comments about the murder of Charlie Kirk were misleading and could warrant action against ABC.
Uh it was appearing to directly mislead the American public about a significant fact that probably one of the most significant political events we've had in a long time, for the most significant political assassination we've seen in a long time, he said.
And again, that was the uh uh the nonsense which a lot of people are questioning a lot of aspects about the assassination.
The official story, however, is that the guy was in a relationship with a tranny, that he had left and uh uh fought with his conservative family, and yet the left wanted to portray him as if he was a right winger, someone to portray him as a follower of Nick Fuentes and the Grupers and whatever.
But again, th this is that doesn't even fit in the official story, and we must not say anything other than the official story.
So are they gonna go out and hammer people like Candace Owen, who is saying that it is uh Israel that killed him?
Because I mean that's both anti-Semitic and against the official narrative.
That's two strikes against her right there.
Um again, I don't uh I yeah, I think we need to um I don't think we can really make a conclusion yet whether the um any of these stories are true, including the official narrative.
Uh but uh to shut down any discussion of this, this is exactly the same stuff that was being done in 2020.
Uh I asked earlier about Fallon and Seth Myers.
But is the president's view that they should be taken off the air?
Uh shared by the FCC, asked the interviewer.
Carr said, Well, I don't speak for the president.
In other words, he tells me what to say.
He tells me what to do.
We don't know.
This is um this is all up in the air because we don't have any principles here.
We don't have the principle of the First Amendment.
That's gone.
So it's all up to the whims of the president.
I don't speak for the president, and the president doesn't follow the Constitution.
So we really don't know what he's going to do.
We can try to read the tea leaves and the garbage that he spews on social media.
What does it mean when you say that you're not done yet?
He was asked in another interview with David Farber, uh CNBC.
Uh then I mean, will you only be pleased when none of these comedians have a show on broadcast TV?
Carr said, No, it's not any particular show or any particular person.
It's just that we're in the midst of a very disruptive moment right now, and I just frankly expect that we're going to continue to see changes in the media ecosystem.
Um that's a good way to put it.
It's actually ecosystem.
But guess that's a Freudian slip.
It is a echo system.
And you will echo what the official story is about whatever the crisis of the day is, right?
When the crisis of the day was the pandemic, you can't say there's not a pandemic.
When they are pushing uh Rim Dezevir and ventilators, you can't tell people about Ivermectin or HCQ.
And when they're pushing the genetic code injection, you can't warn people as you see people dropping dead on the Vay's uh database run by the government.
So it's whatever the issue of the day is.
That's by anchor Jim Kramer, yes.
It's also uh this assassination, we don't know what happened yet, but uh if you set the precedent of once there's a assassination, then you can't say anything bad about the one that was assassinated.
Uh then even in cases where it's a clear false flag in the future, uh or are they going to extend that protection to anyone questioning the official story?
Wouldn't they have liked to have had that back at the JFK assassination?
I mean, they're the only feeble attempt that they could do was to coin the term conspiracy theorist.
If you didn't believe the uh the official story, that was the best they could do at the time.
Now what you can do is you can shut down any and all media, you can ban people off of social media, maybe even put us in jail uh if um if Musk gets his way.
It's just insane.
Their techniques have gotten a lot more uh sinister and authoritarian.
Yeah, true also effective.
Yeah.
So speaking in England on Thursday, Trump said Kimmel said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk, and Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person.
Well, actually, he said nothing about Charlie Kirk.
What he was saying was he was criticizing MAGA, saying that the uh government alleged assassin was part of MAGA, and uh that is not true.
And he also ripped Trump every opportunity that he got.
What he did was he showed what a horrible person Trump is.
Uh but anyway, he said he had very bad ratings.
They should have fired him a long time ago.
So, you know, you can call that free speech or not.
He was fired for lack of talent.
But he wasn't fired.
They still have him under contract.
Uh they're putting him on the shelf trying to silence them.
This is for him worse than being fired.
And and that's the other thing about it that bothers me.
It's not just making a hero out of Obama and out of Chuck Schumer, letting them stand on the side of the Constitution and write uh and being on the right side of the issue verbally about this, even though they have pushed deep platforming and censorship heavily themselves in the past.
It's that they're making a hero and a martyr out of somebody as vile and disgusting as Jimmy Kimmel.
Um again, Carr continues to make these threats about taking licenses from people.
And we're at a moment right now where he's going to create an echo chamber for the government.
House Democrat leaders on Thursday call for Carr's resignation, alleging that he had engaged, quote, in the corrupt abuse of power, as they did a few a couple of years ago.
Uh it's not to say then that he gets a pass.
I want to see all these people uh taken out, going to jail, exact exa etc.
So um there's just no pushback from either side now on this.
Kimmel's cancellation proves that right wingers are the real snowflakes, writes uh the Metro and the UK.
The hypocrisy of those who claim to champion free speech, but are quick to silence dissenting voices.
And uh that gives them an opportunity in the UK to come after Trump uh because it was uh J.D. Vance that was lecturing the British over their outrageous censorship.
So now it's like nah na nah, you know, this is the the uh uh the childish aspects of this.
Uh you don't need to be a civil liberties lawyer to feel the chill.
What happened to the absolutist free speech that the right used to love so much?
Well, they don't love any principle.
They love Trump.
Or Charlie, I guess.
But actually that's not I I just don't see how they can think that they are honoring Charlie Kirk to do exactly the opposite of what the man always said and always stood for.
I just don't get that.
I mean, I understand Trump never made any glowing recommendations about free speech.
He never stood for free speech.
We're getting purged during the Trump administration.
The big purge in InfoWars was midterm for Trump.
It was just before the midterms.
It was in 2018.
And it wasn't just InfoWars.
That happened the beginning of August, and then when we got to October, right before the election, there were 800 sites that got purged on social media by the Democrats.
And uh on Democrat orders that had a list that they put together, and uh they sent that around to the different social media companies who did their bidding, just like this.
That's the way it's done.
And uh so you don't need to be a civil liberties lawyer to understand what's going on with this.
And um uh the right who used to hate cancel culture now loves it.
It truly is Orwellian, you know.
Um so Trump is now setting his sights on Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers.
Uh he said uh in his tweet, he said, uh that leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers on fake news NBC.
Their ratings are also horrible.
Do it, MBC.
So you know, you need to fire them, or we will do something to you as well.
Uh Kimmel show, as I said before, was in second place among viewers overall in late night, but it was first place amongst the 18 to 49 age group, which is a key demographic that advertisers are looking for.
You know, if you get past 49, you're not so susceptible to buying the latest fad thing like those glasses from uh Zuckerberg, you know.
So uh they want they want to give the people between eighteen and forty-nine, they've got some money, but uh maybe not enough experience to see through the glasses that he's putting out.
They don't have that much money, but they've got even less common sense.
But they are the key target.
The generation that will, you know, finance a pizza or something on DoorDash, so that's right.
So it's as long as they get it, they don't care if they can afford it or not.
We hit some new lows over the weekend with a MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize the kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.
That was the thing that they're saying that this is about.
Now, is that a criticism of Charlie Kirk?
No.
That's a criticism of MOG, as I said, it's a criticism of uh Trump.
He really made Trump look absurd and ridiculous.
And I thought that was quite funny.
Anyway, Jimmy Fallon drops out of an event at the last minute, following Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.
So already it seems to be having an effect.
Maybe MBC is going to fire him.
He's already disappeared from an event.
An ex-Biden advisor says that the Trump crackdown is disrespectful to Charlie Kirk's memory.
Well, we all know it is.
It's not just me and the Democrats who are saying this.
Babylon B pointed that out as well in terms of an irony, so they they said they're doing exactly the opposite of Charlie Kirk.
Uh former senior Biden aide Andrew Bates said the perceived uh Trump-led crackdown on speech is disrespectful to the memory of slain activist Charlie Kirk.
In a substack interview before Kimmel's suspension, Bates brought up the efforts to punish speech around the Kirk killing as well as Trump's idea to use racketeering laws, that's a Rico statutes, against protesters who called him Hitler in a restaurant.
Again, the RICO statutes arose from the drug war issues, and that was really the thing that uh Rudy Giuliani used to make his career, his career as a prosecutor, then he became mayor.
That was all based on the RICO statutes.
And then the RICO statutes continued to evolve uh as they were able to dispense with due process and a conviction.
They could take uh people's property before they tried them.
That was what the Rico statute was about.
That continued to evolve into civil asset forfeiture.
And this is one of the horrific s knock-on effects of the war on drugs.
It hasn't stopped anybody from taking drugs, not a single person, as we can see.
And it hasn't stopped them, actually it's encouraged them to make more virulent forms of drugs.
But the other thing it has done is it's destroyed due process, it's corrupted the judiciary, law enforcement, and the government in general.
Andrew Bates said, I think what you're seeing a lot of the time is a lack of decency.
Or say the fact that after you had this terrible murder of Charlie Kirk, we uh and now this week we have Vance and Trump trying to take away First Amendment rights of people who disagree with them, which is disrespectful to Kirk's memory and to the memory of everybody who has been harmed by political violence.
I don't think that that is the kind of thing the American people want from their leaders at all.
I I'm afraid that it is.
I think the people on both the left and the right want this.
That's why we're getting it from the uh people, the politicians on the left and right.
Certainly the radical left likes it, and the MAGA right likes it as well.
I think they I think they want to be brought together.
I don't think that we want this.
Railing against unity, which is literally, literally, all this week.
And then the interviewer said uh Kirk was a free speech warrior.
I've heard few people say that he would not approve.
If Charlie Kirk could materialize before our eyes, would he be speaking out against uh what would he be speaking out that Trump and these guys have been doing?
And Jubate says, Well, what I know is that it is not respectful to people's intelligence on the one hand, to talk about someone as a champion of First Amendment rights, and then the same breath try to take away First Amendment rights from the people who disagree with you.
I can't speculate on what he would say.
I w and I respect that his family is going through a loss, something that we sh should never ever happen.
Something that is the opposite of what we need to be as a country.
But what distresses me, and what I think is especially offensive, is this attempted political weaponization of what happened to try and scare people out of saying that they disagree with their government, which is a sacred American right.
Uh that's the sacred American right that the Biden administration did not support on January the sixth.
But again, the hypocrisy is rife on both sides.
As a matter of fact, Kimmel was suspended for calling Charlie Kirk shooter MAGA.
But Don Trump Jr. did exactly the same thing after the Minnesota shootings.
This is from Mediaite, which is a left-wing publication.
Said MAGA supporters have done the same thing they've accused Kimmel of doing.
In June, Minnesota House Speaker, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, were shot and killed in their home by a man pretending to be a police officer.
The same man also shot John Hoffman and his wife.
But they survived the attack.
The suspected gunman was later identified as Vance Luther Belter.
Those who knew him claimed that he was a conservative and a supporter of Trump.
Belter previously worked on the governor's workforce development board in Minnesota.
In 2019, Governor Tim Waltz reappointed him to the nonpartisan board, leading the right to claim that Belter was a fellow Democrat.
So countless MAGA figures pushed this theory.
As a matter of fact, that the guy is mentally unbalanced.
I don't know.
Um when you want to say that he belongs to one team or the other, you're basically accusing uh both the teams of being mentally unbalanced, which at this point is probably true.
But uh again, he was appointed by Tim Waltz.
It was a nonpartisan board or whatever.
Uh he eventually came out and said that uh uh he was ordered by Tim Waltz to assassinate people.
So I think that uh this is something some of the people on the right picked up and believed that claim.
I think the guy the guy is uh a little cooker.
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
Anyway, Trump Jr. told News Nation the suspect seems to be leftist and a Democrat.
And he referenced Laura Loomer, which you know we always go to for the most accurate information, right?
Trusted source.
How are those tires?
Who called for Waltz to be detained by the FBI and interrogated.
Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson was quoted saying Belter was a Tim Waltz associate.
Senator Mike Lee famously came under fire for a series of unhinged tweets mocking Waltz for the shooting, and one of them, Lee included a photo of the suspect and said, This is what happens when Marxists don't get their way.
Lee later deleted the tweets after being confronted about it by a fellow member of Congress.
He was also grilled by a reporter over the tweets, but simply walked away without saying a word.
So again, this is the same type of thing.
There was uh not a lot of evidence to show that he was a lefty shooting other lefties.
Uh and um uh and yet they played the same game exactly.
And how many times have people, both political figures and media figures fallen for the meme of Sam Hyde was the shooter for whatever uh assassination or atrocity has gone on.
I got blocked by Jake Ty uh Jake Tapper when he fell for that and I called him out on it.
He blocked me on Twitter, but uh that was years ago.
So do they all need to be fired now?
Uh yeah, I guess so.
What was that reference about the tires?
Oh uh at one point Laura Loomer started a griff saying that people had slashed her tires and posted pictures of it, but it was really obvious she had just left her car sitting so long her tires had rotted and deflated.
So she's gone full Jesse Smollett.
Yeah, this was many years ago, but it's something that lives eternally in my mind, just the fact that either one, she's so utterly shameless that she'll try to grift off some obviously, you know, just old bad tires, or she's so dumb she can't tell the difference between a rotted tire and a tire that has been slashed maliciously.
So either way, it's just slash by Father Time.
So Hannity claims no conservative wanted Kimmel fired, really.
Uh completely ignoring Trump doing that.
Uh Sean Handy actually said on his show, he had uh Fox News contributor Joe Concha.
Uh he said, I would argue that Kimmel did this to himself.
But of course, people want to blame conservatives for this happening, said Sean Hannity.
Uh he said, uh, can you name one prominent conservative that said I want Jimmy Kimmel fired because I can't, said uh Hannity.
Concha said, uh can't find it.
Don't see it online.
Quite frankly, it doesn't exist.
And so uh that kind of leaves out one prominent conservative who seems to be the only conservative who matters now.
It's whatever Trump says, that is what the Conservative Party believes.
Well, it's what the Republican Party believes, are they admitting now that Donald Trump isn't a conservative?
Yeah, no, they're not admitting that, although we know that he never has been.
Trump himself has explicitly called for ABC to fire uh the uh Kimmel, as well as many other people, and he was calling for other people to be fired as well.
Uh he had attacked Kimmel as talentless at one point, demanding that ABC get rid of Kimmel and replace him with George Stephanophilis during an Oscar hosting gig.
After Stephen Kobert's ouster earlier this year, Trump even leaned into a mob boss flourish by suggesting that Kimmel would be the next to go.
Brendan Carr said plainly that ABC should suspend Kimmel and suggested affiliates could refuse to air his program, and that if they didn't, he would take their license.
We can do this the easy way or the hard way, he said.
In short, the claim that no prominent conservative ever called for Kimmel's ouster Strange credulity.
Well, that's putting it mildly.
It's a bold faced lie.
Trump has done so explicitly, Carr has done so in his official capacity as a regulator.
And Fox News contributors have repeatedly taken aim at Kimmel's continued employment at ABC.
And so the Atlantic, and I won't go into details of what they have to say because it's pretty redundant.
Uh, but they do call it an escalation in every way.
Kimmel's suspension from late night is a chilling precedent that could have deep consequences if it isn't swiftly undone.
But that's what Trump is there for.
He is there for precedence.
He is precedent Trump, and he is there to keep us fighting with each other.
I mean, just go back and look.
Whatever happened, all the stuff about Greenland and about Canada and Fentanyl coming from Canada.
He's made one idiotic baseless claim after the other, all designed to get people fighting with each other.
It's just pure professional wrestling.
Uh so you got John Nolty at Breitbart says that Jimmy Kimmel is unrepentant and livid.
Well, of course he is.
Um, but uh he's gonna be uh put in the hall of fame.
He's now going to be a uh hero forever to the left.
Yeah, we've got uh yeah, play the well, no, we won't play the Greenland song.
Um we did that.
That was uh Don Jr. and um uh Charlie Kirk up there in Greenland.
So uh this is what John Nolty is saying on Breitbart.
He says, this is blood libel.
What utter nonsense to say that the shooter was one of the MAGA people.
That was a false claim that's circulating early on, and it didn't fit the uh the allegations that they made, if you believe the allegations that they made.
But this is blood libel.
So next he's going to say that it's racism and anti-Semitism.
And uh this is not uh this is not certainly an argument.
This is a uh garbage coming from John Nolte, who, by the way, was wrong about every single thing about the fake pandemic throughout its entirety.
And when he would put up these articles on Breitbart, he would get ratioed by the commentators that were there.
They absolutely they knew what was going on, and he was lying to his own audience about it, but he's still there.
He says Kimmel Kimmel's joke was not a tasteless joke.
His was an ethical breach.
He lied.
He can lie on Substack, but not on our airways.
And so now Knowlte is cheering for the FCC to be a uh federal censorship uh uh organization instead of communications, right?
And so it'll be the federal censorship committee instead of the federal communications committee.
And then of course, how long before they say, well, why should they be allowed to lie on Substack if they aren't allowed to lie on the air?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, uh Breitbart needs to be careful just like the rest of these so-called conservatives who are not trying to conserve anything, especially free speech.
Uh they're not trying to conserve our culture, they're trying to get political gain out of this and money.
And shame on them for that.
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B. L. Houghton, indeed, F B I equals FIB.
That's right.
They're fibbing, they be fibbing.
The real Octo spook.
Trump has destroyed his credibility with Epstein evil, and he continues full tilt, and it's not slowing down.
Francine, freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences to what you say.
That's right.
But the consequences don't need to be determined by the government.
That's the key.
The market is fully capable, as we saw with Cracker Barrel, right?
Somebody does something that people don't like, and we saw that with a Bud Light where they're pushing trainee stuff.
But if uh people the public doesn't like what you're doing, we've seen it also with NASCAR.
NASCAR decided that they would go full tilt against the values of their audience.
So the marketplace should be making that decision, and you should be able to boycott uh anybody that you uh disagree with.
And uh uh but that's not something that we want the government telling people what to do.
That's been my position as well.
It's just yeah, as an individual, as a you know, group of individuals, you know, make your voices heard, make it known if you know these people are out there and they're celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
They're someone like a teacher.
You cannot leave that person in place.
They're going to uh harass your children, they're going to treat them differently.
A doctor, anyone in a position where they are supposed to be giving care cannot be trusted to give care equally, and as such, they are not entitled to that job, in my opinion.
They cannot be trusted and need to be removed.
But we don't want the government in there telling people, oh, well, maybe if you don't remove this, we're gonna, you know, we'll make life difficult for you.
I don't want the government involved in this.
That's right.
And and like um uh Surpico said, Frank Sopico.
Frank Stopall.
Yeah.
He said uh that uh when you're you're always gonna have bad people, and the test of the organization is if they're gonna get rid of those bad people.
If they don't, the organization itself is contaminated and bad.
And that applies to any of these institutions, whether they're public or private that are out there.
But uh we don't want to see the government making it illegal to run boycotts of people either.
And um that's one of the uh allegations of what's going on with the uh movement of the uh for uh uh the pro-Israel groups that they're putting pressure on Johnson and others, as Johnson is meeting in secret with these people and pledging that he will do everything that he can that they want.
Uh There are indications that they want to stop down stop the boycotting and diversification movement of people not investing in Israeli companies and things like that.
That is also your right to do a boycott.
So we'll know if that's true.
Israel has already jumped in as an enemy of free speech.
And that's one of the things that has emboldened Trump.
And it began with that.
It began with censorship.
That's why when John Nolte said this is blood libel, it's like, come on.
You know, have you been bought to?
It's just amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've got Yonah Aniwodi, free speech includes false speech and hate speech.
Freedom is scary.
Bite your fingernails or something.
Yeah.
As a matter of fact, a lot of people are putting up the quote, and I haven't read it yet.
The quote from uh Charlie Kirk himself back in May, and I I'm just um paraphrasing it here.
They said there's no such thing as hate speech.
There's vile speech, there's ugly speech, there's false speech or whatever, but there is no such thing as hate speech, and we just need to get over it.
Right?
And that's exactly what he was doing when he was on campus.
We have the real no, we've got Doug De 007.
Misinformation is whatever the government declares is misinformation.
That's right.
Yeah.
They get to decide you're not gonna have a say in it.
And Torinator, thank you very much.
We appreciate that.
Says happy Friday, everyone.
I highly recommend playing this video that contrasts what Charlie said about hate speech versus what Bondy is saying.
Well, if you want to play that, yeah, you can if you want to pull that up.
Sure, I'll do that.
Go ahead and keep reading the comments while you're we've got Shelley A, never let a good crisis go to waste.
And this is a very good crisis.
Yeah.
B. L. Houghton, they've been fundraising on Charlie's death, too.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Defy Tyrant 1776.
Jimmy Kimmel said nothing that should have got him fired.
That's right.
Over the years, he said some very unfunny things are low enough.
Far worse than that, actually.
You know, I mean, just that that clip that I played where he he said, you know, you need to uh euthanize people if they don't get the vaccine.
I mean, it's just or deny medical treatment to them.
And we saw that was happening, as a matter of fact, and he made a joke of it.
That's absolutely reprehensible.
But um, you know, just to say that, yeah, this guy was a MAGA guy, that's what they're focusing on.
He he showed what Trump did, which was reprehensible and funny at the same time.
It was uh Trump did that to himself.
He didn't even need to make the joke.
He just showed what a joke Trump is.
Yeah.
Uh we've got the real Octo Spook.
Government has no lands, no radio frequencies, nothing.
They are selling ours.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Selling off public lands, the only last refuge of wildlife, recreation, hiking, exploring, jeeping, etc., selling out public radio frequencies with none allocated for home broadcasters.
Government are only the government only gets worse and more destructive.
Yeah.
Do you have the clip?
Yes.
Okay, let's play that clip that was suggested by Tornader.
Bad people are allowed to speak.
There's free speech, and then there's hate speech.
And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie in our society.
Um is that even hate speech should be completely and totally allowed in our country.
The most disgusting speech should absolutely be protected.
And it's not a viewpoint that is held by the left.
The ACLU used to hold this viewpoint.
The American Civil Liberties Union, they used they sued so that legitimate Nazis could march through downtown Skokie.
You remember this?
Back in the 80s and 90s.
Now, why would the ACLU do this?
Because they said as soon as you were use the word hate, that is a very subjective term.
Because then all of a sudden it is in the eyes or the it is in the implementation of whomever has the power.
Do you see more law enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech and putting cuffs on people so we show them that some action is better than no action?
We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything, and that's across the aisle.
I think That in a civil society, the best ideals will win as long as you have that marketplace.
And here's the real issue.
As soon as you shut up hate speech, those people only get more powerful.
And this is the unintended consequence of censorship.
You give more credence to the silenced person the moment you shut them up.
Because then they can play the victim and they say they're trying to shut me up because I have something that everyone else wants and I'm a threat to them.
No, you're not, you're just a fool, and those people have too much power.
And so the minute that you start to enforce speech laws like they do in Europe, based on specific political opinions, regardless of how reprehensible they are, then you actually give credence them.
This is why in Germany, where they do not allow swastikas, they do not allow Nazi paraphernalia, their white nationalist awful movement is actually gaining traction because it has like a rebellious underbelly.
No, no, no.
Let me be very clear.
Bring your bad ideas publicly so decent people can cross-examine you so we can see who you are, we can talk to you and convince the public otherwise.
There's free speech, and then there's hate speech.
And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie in our society.
This is a hard argument for some young people to hear, because they're like, it's so hateful, it's so awful, it's it deteriorates our country.
No, no, no.
Those ideas, if they spread, deteriorate our country.
But good people will speak in opposition to them.
And that's why I'm a big believer.
I'm a free speech absolutist through and through.
And I I think that the utility of speech is what makes human beings different than any other type of being on the planet.
Aristotle said we are the speaking beings.
That our capacity to communicate is who we are.
And I actually think it creates an act of citizenry when bad people are allowed to speak.
When really bad people are given a permit, all of a sudden the entire population's like, that's disgusting.
Let's go get our yard signs, go make them, and we're gonna go speak out against them.
They're kind of on their toes, they're looking out for things.
We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything, and that's across the aisle.
All of a sudden, if the if the government becomes the speech police and they start calling the shots, like oh, the government will get rid of the bad guys for me.
And they kind of become complacent.
They become less active, they become less responsible for the country around them.
And so I don't draw a line.
That's me.
Well, that's good.
Whoever did that video.
That's um Pam Bondi is nothing other than Donald Trump and Drag.
It's disgusting to watch the two of them.
She's uh the video of uh Rudy Giuliani and Drag.
I try not to think about that.
But uh, yeah, that's when I see Pam Bondi, I see Trump and Drag because uh she embodies his hate of uh freedom of the Constitution.
And good for Charlie Kirk doing that, and um, it is exactly the opposite of what he believed.
If you believe him.
Yeah.
And I do.
I believe that he was sincere with that.
I think so too.
I don't think he would have dedicated that much time going around debating with people if he wasn't the common man.
They created common core to dumb down our children.
They created common past to track and control us.
Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity.
Created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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