And then there is Newton N. Minow [then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission] who declares: “There is censorship by ratings, by advertisers, by networks, by affiliates which reject programming offered to their areas.” It is the same Mr. Minow who threatens to revoke the license of any station that does not comply with his views on programming—and who claims that that is not censorship . . . .
-Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
LEGALIZE COMEDY!
-Elon Musk, at CPAC 2025
Wednesday September 17, Viceroy Trump’s occupation government looked over Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on ABC Monday and Brendan Carr (Project 2025 mastermind and incidental head of the FCC) told ABC and its affiliates that they had better play ball and get rid of the guy, telling a podcaster “we can do this the easy way or the hard way.” And so, allegedly at the behest of Nexstar affiliates that were going to black out the show, ABC obeyed. Jimmy Kimmel’s late night broadcast has been taken off the air “indefinitely.” Immediately. They didn’t even let his contract play out like CBS did with Stephen Colbert.
Expect Guillermo to get arrested by ICE any day now.
Ostensibly this was because Kimmel had made light of Charlie Kirk’s killing, but if you see the tape, Kimmel was not disparaging Kirk or his family, but “this MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it”.
(Watch the link before it gets yanked!)
This is of a piece with Matthew Dowd, the most milquetoast of liberal pundits, getting kicked off MSNBC (the second most milquetoast basic-cable news after CNN) simply for pointing out that Kirk’s opinions were divisive.
Folks, let’s get real: If Charlie Kirk were a teenager shot to death in a high school, the Republican Party would not care. We know this because we have more examples than we can count.
I am frankly not sure why Our Lord and Savior has not solved the problem by using his holy touch to resurrect Charlie Kirk from the dead. Is he not the Son of Man? Is he not one with the Father? Has he not conquered death, and conquered sin, for our sake?
Prove to me you’re really cool! Walk across my swimming pool!
But then, a day or so after the murder, reporters caught Trump attending a Yankees game and asked him how he was holding up after the loss of a close friend. Trump responded by bragging about the work they’re putting in at the White House to build his great new ballroom. And then he did his jerking-off-two-men-at-once dance. In his seat, and with no “YMCA” accompaniment. So I guess he had other priorities. Like when somebody shot at him and only killed an an audience member in the stands behind him. That guy never got to lie in state at the Capitol.
Liberals have charged that the Trump regime has been trying to not only martyr Kirk but make his death a combination Horst Wessel/Reichstag Fire. Given that the accused came from a right-wing Utah Mormon family, it seems unlikely that “this kid who killed Charlie Kirk (is) anything other than one of them”. But now Kash Patel’s FBI (Fumbling Bumbling Incompetence) has released transcripts of the suspect sending texts to his roommate, who he refers to as “my love.” So allegedly this is all because the roommate is transitioning to female and this goes along with the Trump (and Kirk) campaign to demonize trans people as violent killers. The suspect also explained, “I had enough of (Kirk’s) hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” And apparently in the text, he confirmed the location of the weapon, the type of weapon, that it was a family weapon, confirms he engraved a bullet with ‘owo bulges’, while also using police terms like ‘squad car’ and ‘drop point.’ As several people online put it, this is history’s first murder confession written on ChatGPT.
Presumably the authorities can back all this up by confirming the ballistics of the round that killed Kirk with the weapon in custody. Presumably. I haven’t heard them announce that yet.
But that is a separate issue. Because again, people in this country get shot every day. What doesn’t happen every day is that the government directly orders a network and its affiliates to cancel a program because they don’t like what it says about them. And it’s even more rare for a target to cave so quickly and completely.
In the case of Colbert, one could say that however popular he was in a certain demographic, the show was still losing money overall and CBS had been penny pinching in other areas. But in retrospect, that was simply plausible deniability. In the CBS case, the parent company wanted to merge with the Skydance company run by the pro-Trump Ellison family, and that was a lot more important than the fact that CBS’ “nothing personal” declaration meant that the network would no longer get any money at all from the time slot. Here both the Nexstar and Sinclair media companies that hold ABC affiliates decided they were going to independently cancel Kimmel, having already decided to go along with the program that Charlie Kirk must not only be mourned but canonized. More to the point, Nexstar is in the midst of a corporate merger with the smaller media company Tegna. This is of course subject to final approval by the FCC, meaning Brandon Carr. And as with CBS, it may not be so much that the capitalists were victims of fear and extortion and more that they were just cooperating to get the goals they wanted anyway.
Unless the regime mandates Nineteen Eighty-Four style surveillance equipment on our phones, radios and TV sets, we as individuals still have a right to free speech, in the privacy of our own homes. But maybe not in the workplace. And certainly not in the media sphere. Where corporate media are concerned, the problem isn’t that speech is free, it’s that speech is bought.
Is it not yet clear that Trump IS a dictator and that he intends to create a totalitarian state? Do you really think he and his pet political party would be making all these changes, on this scale, so radically and so fast, and would be allowing him and his cronies to profit from such titanic levels of bribery and grift, if they were willing to risk losing it all in next year’s midterms, let alone the next presidential election?
And for all the people who say “our country is better than this” – NO WE’RE NOT. Cause we can see what is happening, we see where it is leading and we aren’t doing a damn thing about it. Cause if it’s not Trump destroying the Constitution, it’s his pet Supreme Court, and if it’s not them, it’s these co-opted megacorps that go along and tell us everything is wonderful and everything is normal, and this is how it’s supposed to be and we have to put up with this because the man whose arterial fat is increasing in inverse proportion to his brain activity is appointed by God to reign over us forever and ever.
The Old Republic is not coming back. The institutions that supported it have been eviscerated and co-opted. And addressing what needs to be done will likely attract a lot more attention than asking why Charlie Kirk gets to lie in state at the Capitol when he was never in government.
At the command of our divine and immortal sovereign, Donald Trump, who causes the oceans to part with his imperious glare, who is the only reason the grass continues to grow, and the birds continue to sing, and the Sun continues to revolve around the Earth.
All I can say is that this proves one thing:
Whatever’s in the Epstein Files must be REALLY, REAALLY BAD!!!